Brazil: local activists fill the information vacuum on Covid-19
This article was researched and written by José Cícero da Silva for Agência Pública, LAB’s São Paulo partner
Translated for LAB by Tom Gatehouse. You...
Ten Years: adapting for peace-building in Colombia
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: Indigenous people in the Amazon brace for coronavirus
This article is available on Deutsche Welle's English website. You can read the original Portuguese article here.
Main image: Dr Erik Jennings (left) has been...
Brazil: how the generals placed the captain in check
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...
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...
Ten Years in Colombia: how do you study change?
Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years ago,...
Brazilian Amazon: first Covid-19 case among indigenous people
A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous
woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus,
according to the federal government’s body in charge of health...
Ecuador and Covid-19
This report was prepared for LAB by Linda Etchart, author of the chapter on Indigenous People's in LAB's Voices of Latin America. Linda ...
Renewing the Five Bows: indigenous resistance in Bahía, Brazil
Dan Baron Cohen and Manoela Souza first collaborated with the Pataxó People in Coroa Vermelha, Porto Seguro, South-East Bahia, in 2000, to build a...
Record – a poem from the Amazon
Record
The youth stares at his imprisoned canoe
a bleached skeleton in the cracked earth.
Intuitively, he plants his feet on the arrowhead of earth
where the Rivers...