US helping Brazilian police kill
Brazil’s highly militarized policing disproportionately impacts poor and racialized communities. By providing funding and training, the United States has helped exacerbate the crisis.
Brazil: soldiers acquitted of Rio ‘execution’
A military court acquitted 8 soldiers of the 2019 assassination in Rio de Janeiro of musician Evaldo Rosa, together with a refuse collector who went to his aide. The only woman judge condemned the verdict and spoke of institutional racism and racial profiling.
Inside: prison poems from Argentina
A book of poetry by Argentine political prisoners from 1975-81, the period of the 'Dirty War'.
Peru: historic divisions and the National Police
Peru’s complicated history is mirrored in the controversies affecting the Peruvian National Police (PNP). The violent treatment of Indigenous anti-government demonstrators illustrates the prevalence of racialised discrimination in Peru’s society, whilst recent revelations about the PNP’s disciplinary crisis provide an insight into the nation’s internal divisions.
Chile: Victims of eye trauma tell their stories
Ojos: Memoria de un estallido is a book put together as a memorial for victims of eye trauma suffered as a result of the...
El Salvador: a cure more harmful than the disease?
A state of emergency and ruthless action by the authorities has dramatically curtailed the activity of gangs which previously ruled vast swathes of El Salvador. But there are many innocent victims and the underlying poverty, inequality and injustice remain untouched.
Accusations of human rights violations ripple through Peru
Red Muqui shine a light on police repression and the violation of human rights in the context of recent social unrest in Peru, and dig deeper into the tensions underpinning the protests and the violent state response.
Immigration and the US criminal justice system
Through retelling the life of a young Mexican immigrant serving life in prison for murder, Rodrigo Reyes’ striking docu-drama ‘Sansón and Me’ seeks to restore the humanity of young men of colour who are swallowed up by the United States criminal justice system.
Brazil: not only bad, but mad
Jair Bolsonaro has launched a frontal assault on the same electoral system which brought him to the presidency. This is part of a three-pronged strategy to discredit Brazil's democracy and refuse to accept any outcome other than his own victory
Brazil: orphan mothers
Anti-Black violence by the Police targets young men in Brazil's favelas and makes their mothers 'orphans'. Their trauma and spectacular resistance are highlighted in this new film, reviwed for LAB by Jessica Pandian