Towards a Living Amazon: Rios de Encontro European tour
Rios de Encontro presents the origins and eco-cultural vision of the AfroRaiz Collective of young afro-indigenous performance-educators from...
Voices at El Sueño Existe, 2019
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had...
Lula speaks from prison
In a subtitled interview, above, the political prisoner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks of strategic errors made by the PT, BRICS, and...
Chileans demand the right to live in dignity
'No son $30'
On Friday 18 October, Chilean president
Sebastian Piñera announced a state of emergency in the country’s capital
Santiago. As protests spread throughout the country...
Chile: why didn’t this happen before?
LAB received this report from a long-term friend and supporter in Chile.
Santiago, 1 November
Dear friends at LAB, our country received so much help from...
Chile: students in Talca explain why they back the protests
On the 18th of October 2019, mass
fare dodging in Santiago de Chile expanded into city-wide protests and
violence. Initially in response to a transport price...
Amazon at Risk: it affects us all
‘Amazon at Risk – it affects us all’ This was the theme of an event held in Belém, in
the Brazilian Amazon, which started on...
Bolivia: interim government here to stay?
This article was published by Bolivia Information Forum as BIF Bulletin No.47, 20 January 2020.
Weblinks to BIF Bulletins are also available through the BIF...
Brazil: local activists fill the information vacuum on Covid-19
This article was researched and written by José Cícero da Silva for Agência Pública, LAB’s São Paulo partner
Translated for LAB by Tom Gatehouse. You...
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have
been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some
experts say this is an underestimate....