Zócalo Public Square asked ‘What places are stepping up to replace Washington when it comes to international trade, diplomacy, advancing democracy, climate, and global health?’ LAB Author Marcos Colón asks what it would be like for the Amazon to become a new capital of global climate policy.
This ambitious new book co-authored by Jenny Pearce and Juan David Velasco Montoya, offers the most comprehensive analysis of the history of Colombian elites since 1886, the date of a Constitution that sought to put an end to the civil wars of the 19th century. Relying on an extensive database of Colombian elites, interviews with hard-to-access elites, and a broad review of secondary sources this 750-page monograph offers a sophisticated theoretical framework for understanding the consolidation of a socio-economic, political and cultural infrastructure that perpetuates inequality and violence alongside the rule of law and free-market capitalism in Colombia. In light of what they call “Colombia’s singularity”, the book also analyses the progress toward change and pitfalls made by Colombia’s first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro (2022–2026).
In the last of three articles, Eva Newton explains how impunity is still operating for those responsible for the illegal kidnap, torture and disappearance of political opponents of Uruguay’s military regime in the 1970s.
Folk-singer Victor Jara, murdered by Pinochet’s troops in 1973, had planned to record an album, telling the story of the 1934 massacre of peasants and Indigenous Mapuche and Pehuenche at Ránquil. He never completed the project and in the following decades repression has claimed new victims whenever the interests of large landowners were threatened.
In the second of three articles, Eva Newton explains how impunity is still operating for those responsible for the illegal kidnap, torture and disappearance of political opponents of Uruguay’s military regime in the 1970s.
Apparitions can be read as many things: a tribute to women’s sexual emancipation; a cautionary tale of the disintegration of patriarchal family structures; even a meditation on the brutality of the Catholic Church and its frenzied devotees.
LAB author and film-maker Marcos Colón travelled to Temuco to speak about listening to Indigenous knowledge. The conference listened. But Wallmapu asked whether listening is enough, whether reporting is extraction, whether audiences and their institutions are changed, and where commitment and responsibilities should lie. This is a shortened version of a longer article. I arrived […]
In her the fourth post of the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the mounting evidence that the extent of deforestation matters: where it is greater it disrupts the natural water cycle, reducing rainfall and increasing the resulting dieback of trees.
In this three-part series, Eva Newton explains the continuing importance of political disappearances in Uruguay, a country where impunity is still operating for those responsible for the illegal kidnap, torture and disappearance of political opponents of the military regime in the 1970s.
A new wave of sanctions and escalated threats against the beleaguered people suggest that Trump will not be satisfied until the existing Cuban government is dismantled. A Venezuela-style 'take-over' looks impossible.
