Brazil’s prisons: Covid-19 massacre imminent
Open and poorly treated
wounds, food waste on the cell floor, rat faeces, little ventilation, water
rationing, insects everywhere. While some inmates do not even get...
The Peace Agreement three years on – Afro-Colombian and Indigenous perspectives
Three years ago, the Colombian government and its armed
opponents of fifty years signed a peace agreement that offered a framework for
ending violent conflict and...
Bolsonaro the grave-digger
April 23 2020. I'm not a gravedigger’ said President Jair Bolsonaro scornfully, when a reporter tried to question him about the number of coronavirus...
‘Santiago Rising’
“I wanted to capture what was happening in Chile and to pay homage to the strength and commitment of the Chilean people. They are taking on neo-liberalism and a militarised state with stones and trumpets. This is a lesson for the rest of the world, we can learn so much from them."
Chile’s long, hot summer of discontent
It’s 11 January 2020, and I am sitting on a hot and unforgiving cement esplanade, at the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Chile’s...
Metamorphosis in Colombia: Guerrillas In Search Of Peace
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In 2016 one of the world’s oldest, largest and best known guerrilla armies,...
I’m here to stay
The reality confronting migrants who manage to cross the Rio Bravo, in pursuit of the famous American dream, but finding themselves, instead, engulfed in...
Colombian artists reflect on rural violence and memory in short film
The short film is intended as an expression of solidarity with the current strike and its title, Desolvido, translates as ‘unforgetting’; evoking a desire not to forget past moments of beauty even in the face of a violent present.
Brazil: orphan mothers
Anti-Black violence by the Police targets young men in Brazil's favelas and makes their mothers 'orphans'. Their trauma and spectacular resistance are highlighted in this new film, reviwed for LAB by Jessica Pandian
‘Argentina, 1985’
Argentina, 1985 (dir. Santiago Mitre, 2022) recreates the most significant court case in Argentine history – the Trial of the Juntas – which aimed to bring Argentina’s military dictatorship to justice following the country’s return to democracy in 1983.