Argentina: toxic waste from fracking in Patagonia
19 December 2018. A major indigenous group in Argentina has filed a criminal complaint against BP subsidiary Pan American Energy for illegally dumping toxic...
Structural violence and displacement in Central America and Colombia
This article was prepared for Christian Aid by Nathalie Mercier (Guatemala), Maria Useche (Colombia), Tania Grande (El Salvador) and Javier SanVicente (Honduras)
Main image: migrant...
Guatemala: the void left by empty classrooms
Sunset over Guatemala City marks another day of widening inequality and increasing despair as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. With the country’s informal economy...
Listening to Women Resisting Violence
On International Women's Day, LAB and King’s College London release a bonus episode of our podcast, Women Resisting Violence, discussing the power of podcasting for social change with leading audio producers from Latin America and representatives from the fearless women’s organisations featured in the podcast.
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: stairway storytellers in Medellín
Sulay Pino is waiting for us at the main entrance to the San Javier metro station wearing a bright green t-shirt that reads ‘Stairway...
Learning K’iche’: “Guatemala, utz awech?”
Learning a language always opens
our eyes. Communicating in another language does not mean just translating
word-by-word ideas and concepts, but rather this journey forces us...
Colombia: street art and social justice in Bogotá
A virtual dialogue was organised to discuss Alba Griffin's new chapter in Pedagogías de la disidencia en América Latina, titled ‘No Somos Falsos Somos Positivos: teorías vernáculas sobre la violencia política y cotidiana en el puente del grafitero’.
Chile: Killing of Mapuche activist provokes large protests
By: Rodrigo Acuña. Source: LAB
The recent death of the 24-year-old Mapuche activist and leader Camilo Catrillanca has sparked widespread condemnation and protests throughout Chile.
On...
PODCAST: what is happening to migrant children at the US border
A podcast from The Guardian. Published in the 'Today In Focus' series, 11 July 2019. To download or listen, click here.
Elora Mukherjee is a...