The final offensive against Brazil’s indigenous people
The anthropologist
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses indigenous resistance in the Amazon, the
indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, and his pessimism about the climate crisis
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Guatemala: violence against women
8 March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in Guatemala for the past three years, the day has been a painful reminder of the long road towards gender equity, and the potentially lethal consequences of continuing misogynistic and violent attitudes towards women.
Redes sociales: blessing or curse?
Social media outlets, such as Twitter and WhatsApp, played a major role in the protests that spread across the Americas in 2019. In Chile,...
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...
The Condor and the Eagle
The Condor and the Eagle (2019) is a prize-winning documentary film directed by Sophie and Clément Guerra, about the collective struggle of ...
Brumadinho – one year on
LAB's Tom Gatehouse talks to those affected by recent tailings dams disasters in Brazil
On 25 January last year, a massive tailings dam collapsed at...
Illegal mining poisons the Amazon
A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.
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...
The indigenous midwives of the Amazon
In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work
according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after
generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state.
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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...