Friday, March 29, 2024

Chapter 8 - State violence, policing and paramilitaries

Brazil: “We’re on a precipice”

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For the university professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Bolsonaro and his followers are defined by a revanchist and revisionist vision of Brazilian history....

Colombia: land inequality and historic memory

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Main image: Aerial photo of agricultural land near Ipiales, Colombia. Photo by Luis Eduardo Bernal M. 2009. In February 2019, Darío Acevedo was appointed president...

Chile’s protesters: no impunity for oppression

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This is the second of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements. The first can be read here. See also our January article 'Chile's...

El Salvador: Demons in black, demons in white

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This article was originally published on the the author's own website. You can see the original here. El Salvador ranked 142nd out of 163...

El Salvador’s Bukele – populist and authoritarian?

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Between the 24 and 27 April 2020, 76 gang-related murders were reported in El Salvador - a significant hike from the 65 murders which...

Salvadorean refugees repatriate to Nueva Esperanza

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In 1991 a group of 325 Salvadorean refugees returned to their country after 10 years of exile in Nicaragua. They faced great difficulties in...

Bolsonaro the grave-digger

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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...

Ten Years: an NGO adapts to peace-building in Colombia

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Written by Christian Aid’s Kate Newman and Karen Brock, based on conversations with Pedro Lazaro, Thomas Mortensen and Alejandra Albizu. For more than two decades,...

Ten Years: adapting for peace-building in Colombia

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For more than two decades, Christian Aid and its partners, including the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP), have been working to tackle...

Brazil: how the generals placed the captain in check

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Veteran journalist Luis Nassif explains the Military’s silent and gradual seizure of power from President Bolsonaro in five acts. This is an edited version of the article published...

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