Action for Argentina UK
We are a politically pluralist collective of journalists, academics, trade unionists, students, activists, workers and others living in the UK who are concerned about...
Brazil: on the eve of elections, Haddad up, Bolsonaro down
São Paulo, October 23. On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, armed police and officials from electoral tribunals invaded at...
Are Brazilians sleepwalking into disaster?
São Paulo,12 October. Are we heading for a repeat of the fiasco which followed previous elections of so-called salvadores da pátria - messianic figures...
Brazil: Bolsonaro is “the backwardness no country deserves”
He is the backwardness no country deserves to have. And we are the women who will not let him win
Women in Brazil have become...
Senators’ New Clothes
Argentina’s Senate voted 38 to 31 to reject the law to decriminalise abortion in the early hours of August 9. Outside the Congress building, two million people gathered in the streets to remind Senators that public opinion has already been won over to the state taking responsibility for the deaths of women caused by illegal and unsafe abortions.
#NiUnaMenos: ‘Now that you see us’
A sea of green washed up in Congress square in central Buenos Aires on the evening of June 4th. The high tide of three...
The four bullets that killed Marielle
22 March 2018. Marielle Franco was executed with four bullets. One each for racism, misogyny, homophobia and impunity.
By killing Marielle, the assassins eliminated not...
Marielle: she inspired all of us
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Video: The intercept
The murder on 14 March of Marielle Franco, a young black city councillor and human rights campaigner, has deeply traumatized Rio de...
Violence in Rio escalates with murder of city councillor
Little did she know that she would be the next victim when Marielle Franco, a left-wing city councillor, penned her last twitter post, denouncing...
Costa Rica: religious extremism in the ascendant
Costa Ricans went to the voting booths on February 4 to confirm what most polls had predicted: the victory of evangelical singer Fabricio Alvarado...