Tapajos under attack 10: All crime and no punishment — Amazon...
Land grabbing and illegal ranching (even on public lands) has long been, and still is, big business in the Brazilian Amazon. Last year...
Brazil: the angora cat, the saint and the end of the...
São Paulo 11 Dec 2016. Another turbulent week in Brazilian politics. As Brazil lurches from crisis to crisis, it seems more like a country...
Rio: Temer plays with fire
Since 16 February an army general has been in charge of policing and security in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This is the...
“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.
Indigenous groups control large reserves in the Amazon and have the constitutional right to more, but agribusiness and land thieves are working with...
How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad
This report by Nasim Chatha for Truthout was first published on July 22 2017. You can read the original here.
The new federal penitentiary in...
Brazil: no prayers for the dead
President Bolsonaro is beginning to discover fear -- as deaths mount, protests multiply and his old adversary Lula emerges onto the political scene as a credible threat in next year's elections. However, those elections might spark a coup spearheaded by the Bolsonaro-loyal Policia Militar.
Brazil: Favela pacification at the heart of new violence
Why the much-praised UPP programme seems to be stumbling amid signs of a new spiral of violence.
Idalina Tatter – a powerful voice against transnational state terror
Paraguayan Idalina Tatter campaigned tirelessly, in search of her husband Federico Jorge Tatter, arrested in Argentina and rendered back to Paraguay by agents of Operación Condor. Her life and work is documented in the CAMeNA archive in Mexico
Argentina: Forty years of the ‘Mad Mothers’
By the end of April 1977 the military dictatorship that called itself the ‘Process of National Re-organization’ had been in power in Argentina for...
Guatemala: Judicial system in desperate need of reform
Suspension of the retrial of Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt has dashed hopes of justice and underlined the need for a radical shake-up of the judiciary.