Colombia: I resist, therefore I exist
‘Resisto, luego existo’, the new exhibition at Bogota’s Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliacion opens to the public with documentaries about centres of resistance around the country.
Protest at the Mines & Money Conference, London
Documentary by Zoe Broughton for London Mining Network, detailing the protests at the annual industry conference on mining. Frontline defenders from Global Majority, including...
Peru: Women of Influence
Indigenous women from the Junín area of the Peruvian Amazon made their own short films, depicting their lives and the challenges they face.
Colombia faces a second deadly threat
Crop eradication in Colombia is negating the crop substitution programme, causing violence and undermining the peace process, warns Christian Aid.
Covid-19 threat to Quilombos near mine
This article was first published by The Intercept on 18 March. It was translated for LAB by Chris Whitehouse. You can read the original...
Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
The ancestral home of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous group is the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, an officially demarcated, heavily forested region covering 780,000 hectares...
Peru: new threat to Amazon reserves
Legislation being proposed in the Peruvian Congress would remove central government and environmental controls over indigenous lands and reserves. Indigenous organizations are vigorously opposing the change
Mining victims denounce ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Residents of traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon municipality of Barcarena, near the mouth of the Amazon River, say that their subsistence and commercial livelihoods, and their health, have been destroyed by an invasion of mining companies which began in the mid-1980’s. This story is the fifth in a series.
The Global Terrain of Argentine State Terror
Argentinian terror extended beyond national territory. This has implications for histories of the global Cold War; it reveals the expansive logic of state terror in Latin America and the ways in which ideological violence and terror reached across borders and over continents