El Salvador – a violent democracy
Book review
The Violence of Democracy - Political Life in Postwar El Salvador
By: Ainhoa Montoya
Published: 2018, Palgrave Macmillan, 303 pp, £17.99 paperback, £13.99 e-book....
“An act of political vandalism”
Christian Aid responds to prospect of DFID losing its independence
LAB adds: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced to parliament on 16 June that DFID,...
Colombia: land inequality and historic memory
Main image: Aerial photo of agricultural land near Ipiales, Colombia. Photo by Luis Eduardo Bernal M. 2009.
In February 2019, Darío Acevedo was appointed president...
Fondo: the IMF’s recipe for disaster
Fondo, directed by Alejandro Bercovich, Argentina, 2019
The complete film can be viewed from this link.
Alejandro Bercovich’s documentary-critique Fondo starts with what looks like a...
Samichay, in Search of Happiness – film review
A collaborative effort between Quechua Films and Quinta Production Films, Samichay, en Busca de la Felicidad is a remarkable work which simultaneously grapples with the specificities of the Peruvian Andean experience whilst exposing its viewers to universal feelings of loss, isolation, and grief.
Central America awaits second hurricane
Nicaragua and Honduras brace themselves, as Christian Aid continues its response to the ongoing emergency
The category 5 Hurricane Iota is due to make landfall...
Martinique: The Poisoning of Paradise
Slavery was abolished in Martinique in 1848. But today the islanders are victims of a toxic pesticide called chlordecone, that’s poisoned the soil and water and been linked by scientists to unusually high rates of prostate cancer.
Haitians revolt against president’s ‘state terrorism’
Haiti is not unfamiliar with violent uprisings. However, since the US-backed installation of Jovenel Moïse in 2004, unrest has been relentless, with violence and repression reaching a bloody crescendo in recent weeks.
Lupita: justice for Acteal
Scarred by a brutal massacre which took place in December of 1997 and left 45 dead, the residents of Acteal, in the highlands of Chiapas, continue to remind the world never to forget. One woman is at the forefront.
The fight for land rights in Brazil’s northeast
Itamar Vieira Júnior's multi award-winning novel gives a voice to silenced Black, Indigenous and Quilombola communities who have fought for their land rights for hundreds of years.