Cardboard creativity: cartonera books
Cartonera books – cheap
books with cardboard covers and photocopied texts – were originally a
by-product of the Cartonero movement in Argentina, when people from the...
El Salvador’s Bukele – populist and authoritarian?
Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which...
Robert White: A US ambassador who fought against CIA policy in...
US Ambassador to Paraguay and El Salvador, Robert White, who has died aged 88, was sacked by the Reagan administration.
Brazil: the poor must serve their sentence while the rich can...
Vitória lives in a small two-room house with her baby son Lucas and mother Laura in Jardim Guarani, on the northern periphery of São...
Brazil: Police beat, threaten and rape sex workers
When a prostitute in Brazil denounces police violence she is beaten up and threatened --by the police.
Argentina: The Welsh in Patagonia & Trelew
Historian Alun Burge examines the role of the extraordinary Welsh community and its support for the Trelew prisoners -- and calls for more research.
K – the story of a search
Bernardo Kucinski's searing memoir 'K' tells the story of the agonised search by a father for his disappeared daughter, kidnapped and eventually murdered by...
El Salvador: Unhappy Anniversary?
In 1992 the United Nations-backed Chapultepec peace accords brought decades of civil war in El Salvador to an end.
Now, 25 years after the peace...
Brazil’s prisons: Covid-19 massacre imminent
Open and poorly treated
wounds, food waste on the cell floor, rat faeces, little ventilation, water
rationing, insects everywhere. While some inmates do not even get...
Gendered quarantine leaves trans people vulnerable
Gender-based movement restrictions came into effect in Bogotá this Monday (13 April), permitting men and women to go out for essential trips on...