Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer de Latinoamerica y el Caribe...
The Latin American and Caribbean Women's News Service has long provided a space for women in the media.
Paraguay’s Silent War
GM soya arrived later in Paraguay than in Brazil and Argentina. But the violence it has provoked has been more intense, as producers and campesinos battle for control over the land. Claudia Pompa reports.
The Gender Equity Index 2012
Overall, women still have little access to economic or political power.
The death of Domitila – an extraordinary leader
With remarkable courage, Domitila repeatedly defied Bolivia's dictatorships in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. LAB carries some of the tributes that have been paid to her.
ARGENTINA: NEW EVIDENCE OF US SUPPORT FOR THE GENERALS DURING THE...
New documents released after 30 years by the US National Archive confirm just how much Henry Kissinger and US officials knew about human rights violations by the Argentine military regimes, and how much encouragement they gave them.
Protests in Southern Chile Spread to Other Remote Regions
Widespread protests about government neglect have broken out in Arica and Calama in the north of Chile, mirroring those staged in Aysen in the south earlier in the year.
PARAGUAY: GIRLS IN THE FOREST: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayú Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Chilean politics: the art of the possible
LAB's Nick Caistor reviews the autobiography of the former Chilean President, Ricardo Lagos, and is underwhelmed.
Brazil: pressure for agrarian reform
A broad range of social movements are calling for a more ambitious programme of agrarian reform. LAB's Francis McDonagh reports from Sao Paulo.
ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean
The Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), an organisation promoted by Venezuela for promoting closer regional trade, has been expanding in the Caribbeam. A report by Kevin Edwards of NACLA.