Maristella Svampa: the extractivist paradigm

EmpoderArte, a Peruvian-based NGO which offers a decentralised film education to women, Karoline organises and runs workshops up and down Peru, mobilising hundreds of women to discover and embrace the emancipatory power of storytelling.

The month of November has seen a procession of three presidents in the national palace in Lima. But Peru’s institutional instability...

Today, LAB is proud to launch a crowdfunding campaign for a brand new and very important LAB project: The Heart of...

Across Latin America, mining has expanded massively in recent decades. Vast landscapes have been stripped to feed the factories of Europe, North...

24 November 2020 Today LAB is launching a Crowdfunding appeal for £10,000 to enable us to continue our major...

LAB is delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding from the Society of Latin America Studies (SLAS). The grant will...

Camila Freitas’ documentary Landless (Chão, 2019) follows the struggle of the MST – the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil ­– as they strive for reform and access to land.

For LAB's online book launch event, Journalist Sue Branford and writer and translator, Tom Gatehouse, interview Bernardo Kucinski about his recent novel 'The Past Is An Imperfect Tense' and read extracts from the book, translated into English by Tom Gatehouse and published by Practical Action Publishing.