Guatemala: the echo of pain
Documentary film by Ana Lucía Cuevas centres on a filmmaker's search for answers about what happened to her brother, his wife and child, all abducted during the Guatemalan Civil War.
Bolsonaro’s people: the Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen Ricardo Salles as Brazil’s environment minister. The former São Paulo state government environment secretary is under investigation for...
Brazil: gunmen attack indigenous community in Porto Alegre
It is not only in the Amazon and remote rural areas that indigenous lands are coming under increased pressure as the new Bolsonaro government...
The first family, the generals, the oranges and the Cheshire cat
25 February. It’s less than two months since Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as president, but so much has happened that it seems like...
Marielle and Monica: the LGBT activists resisting Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Marielle Franco, Brazilian LGBT and human rights activist, was killed in March 2018. Her widow, Monica Benicio, continued her fight for better ...
Massacre en Tlatelolco, 2 October 1968
Shows footage of the infamous massacre of scores, probably hundreds of students in Mexico City, who were protesting at extravagant government spending on the...
La Noche de los Lapices (The Night of the Pencils)
Argentine film (1hr 35mins) directed by Hector Olivera. Showing events in September 1976, in La Plata, Argentina, when a number of secondary school students,...
Colombia: chocolate of peace
A film by Gwen Burnyeat and Pablo Mejía Trujillo about the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó.
Chocolate of Peace depicts the Peace Community...
Brazil: indigenous reserves to be opened up to mining
New Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced on 4 March that he plans to permit mining on indigenous lands...
Mexico: more than 800 socio-environmental conflicts since 2006
A project called 'Talking to Goliath' has mapped social and environmental conflicts across the length and breadth of Mexico, caused by the development, expansion...