Voices of Latin America

Slow-seeing journalism is a different way of experiencing, writing about and reporting on the world. Marcos Colón, author of LAB book The Amazon in...

At London Climate Action Week, Indigenous women, especially from Latin America, featured prominently as leaders of their communities and territories

A million Mexican supporters gathered to cheer their national team as it progressed to the knock-out stage of the World Cup, due to play England on 5 July. The country's 130,000 disappeared people will not be present. Yet the tide of hope aroused by football offers a way to defeat violence and despair.

30 years since the massacre by military police of landless workers at Eldorado do Carajás, in Pará, Brazil, life remains precarious and dangerous. Pará state has seen over 1,000 murdered in the last 45 years. Impunity still reigns.

As Belém prepared for COP30, urban redevelopment projects deepened long-standing inequalities between the city centre and the baixadas, where rivers continue to disappear beneath concrete channels. Written before COP30 all the issues remain valid today for Belém and other cities hosting major international events.

Former Sandinista student leader Irving Larios Sánchez was arrested by the Ortega-Murillo government in 2021 and spend 507 days in prison. Interviewed for LAB by Julie Cupples, he regards the Sandinista project as betrayed, replaced by a reign of terror.

Indigenous leader Auricélia Arapiun describes the occupation of the Cargill terminal, in Pará, which forced the government to concede after 33 days, repealing the controversial decree 12.600, which provided concessions to developers hoping to turn the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins tributaries of the Amazon into waterways for the export of soya and the other fruits of extraction.

Venezuelan poets in exile tell Piotr Kozak about their experiences of leaving their home country, their conflicted feelings towards it, and the promise and sadness of their lives abroad.

In an impassioned article, LAB author Marcos Colón denounces the double-standards afflicting the mainstream press in Brazil, prompt to condemn those who defend the Amazon, its rivers and people as radicals and vandals, while they hail the confidence, predictability and business-friendly character of projects to dredge rivers and construct massive ports for exporting soya.

Brazil's National Museum of Indigenous Peoples is struggling. Its funding has been cut to below 2015 levels; it is dependent on FUNAI; and institutional wrangling has left it unable to fulfill its mission. The crumbling museum building is closed to the public and important exhibits are left in limbo. Who will come to its rescue?