Colombia: the dark side of peace in Tumaco
Where demobilisation of the FARC may leave a dangerous vacuum and increased violence
FEMICIDE IN MEXICO: THE COTTON FIELD CASE AND ITS SEQUELS
Government action is failing lamentably to protect Mexican women from a wave of violence and femicide.
Chile’s water crisis
Chilean
politics are marked by several long-running and highly divisive controversies,
many deriving from the most consistently neoliberal economic policies and
property arrangements in the world. One
of...
BRAZIL’S BLIND SPOT: RACISM AND RACIAL INEQUALITY
Despite its multicultural image, Brazil fails to address racial inequality. Today, racial democracy is a dangerous illusion.
Colombia: what does peace mean in Comuna 13?
24 January. With the new year in Colombia came a new sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, holding the state responsible for...
El Sueño existe 2017: focus on Ecuador
Bienvenido! Festival 2017
Bienvenido! El Sueño Existe Festival of Latin American music and politics will take place in Machynlleth, 28, 29 and 30 July 2017....
Latin America’s migration problems
The Americas were shaped by migration, mostly from Europe. Now Asians and Africans are arriving, and there is desperate intra-continental movement in...
Ellen Page confronts Jair Bolsonaro about homophobia, in Rio de Janeiro
In 2016, when he was still just a Congressman, Jair Bolsonaro was interviewed by US actor Ellen Page (star of Juno). Bolsonaro says he...
EL SALVADOR: TRUCE FOR THE GANGS, NO TRUCE FOR WOMEN
A dramatic fall in gang-initiated killings masks ongoing violence against women.
Bolivia’s lithium coup
Almost 85 per cent of the world’s lithium reserves are concentrated in the Lithium Triangle along the borderlands of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. Bolivia’s resources remain largely unexploited. Will Bolivia be able to industrialise Lithium production on its own terms?