Freedom has no borders
A moving short photo-video from Francisco Elías Prada and Ángela Rodríguez Torres of LAB partner Ojos Ilegales, Venezuela. The photos convey haunting images of...
Salvadorean refugees repatriate to Nueva Esperanza
In 1991 a group of 325 Salvadorean refugees returned to their country after 10 years of exile in Nicaragua. They faced great difficulties in...
Short films from indigenous Latin American filmmakers at Native Spirit Festival
There’s still time to catch a number of short films from indigenous Latin American filmmakers at Native Spirit Festival: the UK’s first and only annual independent festival to promote indigenous filmmakers, media and artists.
Uruguay: Welcome offered to Guantanamo detainees
President Mujica has accepted a US proposal to accept Guantanamo detainees as refugees.
Brazil: Pressure over water puts pulp industry in the spotlight
Brazil is the world's largest producer of eucalyptus-derived pulp and the state of Espírito Santo is one of its biggest production centers.
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Walk with us – the migrant crisis in Central America
Film by Judy Jackson, 2019
The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya. It started when...
Colombia: the biggest conversation in the world
Real efforts are being made to promote not just dialogue, but real conversation among all actors in Colombia's peace process, at local as much as at national level
Brazil: The courageous work of Clamor
Jan Rocha, author of LAB's widely-read Brazil blogs, has just published a new history of Clamor, the group which took in refugees from the...
Colombia: Victims show the way to lasting peace
Victims of Colombia's conflict delivered an uncompromising message to peace negotiators in Havana.
Covid-19 reaches Costa Rica: hopes and fears
‘Coronavirus will
never hit Costa Rica. There are no direct flights between China and here’.
These are the words that an acquaintance confidently shared just 7...