LAB interviews Bernardo Kucinski, author of ‘The Past Is An Imperfect...
For LAB's online book launch event, Sue Branford and Tom Gatehouse, interview Bernardo Kucinski about his recent novel 'The Past Is An Imperfect Tense' and read extracts from the book, published by Practical Action Publishing.
The gay rights movement has swept Latin America
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have legalised same-sex marriage. What explains the advance of gay rights in Latin America, and how far will ...
Maristella Svampa: recent political and social changes in Latin America
The distinguished Argentine sociologist and researcher visits the Universidad del Cuyo to speak about political and social changes taking place in Latin America today.
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Brazil: Remembering the Eldorado massacre
Telling the story of a collective act of creativity -- to create a monument in memory of the 19 landless farmers killed on 17...
Environmental Activism
Human Rights Weekend 2018: As the world urbanizes and industrializes, and as effects of climate change intensify, environmental crises will increasingly devastate the lives,...
El Salvador: the world’s worst place to have an abortion
Ben Zand investigates the controversial case of Evelyn Hernandez, a Salvadoran teenager raped by a gang member and then jailed for 30 years...
The Femicide Crisis in the State of Mexico
Honduras: Yorleni’s story
A wave of homicides targeting female victims — labeled as femicides — has been sweeping the State of Mexico, the sprawl of...
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...
Raul Sohr: the new politics in Chile
Raul Sohr interviewed about his book Alejandro Guillier de Cara al País, about the presidential candidate for the Nueva Mayoría coalition, who came second...
The Battle of Belo Monte
On 12 January 2014, TV Folha broadcast a special programme 'The Battle of Belo Monte' a live reporting of the largest and most controversial...