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.
Cuba has weathered a series of crises since 1960, periods of siege followed by adaptation and survival, with the ever-debilitating effects of draconian US trade sanctions.. But the present crisis seems more grave, with Donald Trump seemingly intent on regime change.
In her third blog in the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the sharpening political divisions which threaten the efforts of relatively progressive governments in recent years in Colombia, Peru and Brazil to prioritize nature, halt extraction of oil and minerals and save the Amazon. The survival of […]
Slow-seeing journalism is a different way of experiencing, writing about and reporting on the world. Marcos Colón, author of LAB book The Amazon in Times of War, celebrates this way of immersing oneself in a subject. Other outlets for news on the Amazon share this perspective: Amazônia Real, Sumaúma and Colón’s own Amazônia Latitude. It […]
LAB partner Latino Life, is 25 years old this year (and its . A Latina-run organization, festival and website, it is a wonderful resource for the UK's thriving Latin American communities, and the rapidly growing and ever more diverse audiences who are inspired by the liveliness and optimism of Latin American culture, especially its music. Latino Life founder Amaranta Wright describes the growth of this phenomenon, since a chance meeting in a salsa club in 2001.
