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Police & Prisons

Guatemala: presidential hopefuls inspire little confidence

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Written by Nathalie Mercier, Christian Aid’s Programme Officer in Guatemala Decision day is fast approaching for Guatemalans awaiting the result of the country’s presidential elections. Neither...

Cardboard creativity: cartonera books

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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...

Brazil: the PT lion roars again

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São Paulo, November 10 2019. Following a controversial Supreme Court ruling, Lula has been temporarily freed after 580 days in prison on a corruption...

Chile’s long, hot summer of discontent

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It’s 11 January 2020, and I am sitting on a hot and unforgiving cement esplanade, at the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Chile’s...

Chile: what next?

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When students jumped the turnstiles at the Baquedano metro station in Santiago on 18 October 2019 in protest at the 30-peso fare hike, nobody could have...

Brazil’s prisons: Covid-19 massacre imminent

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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

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Gender-based movement restrictions came into effect in Bogotá this Monday (13 April), permitting men and women to go out for essential trips on...

El Salvador’s Bukele – populist and authoritarian?

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Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which...

El Salvador: Demons in black, demons in white

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This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here. El Salvador ranked 142nd out of 163...

The FBI, the Fusion Center, and the Far Right: US creep...

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In an important new investigation, journalist Natalia Viana of Agência Pública has revealed how, during Sergio Moro’s 15 month tenure as Justice and Security...

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