A writer navigating her mother's death while falling into a new love affair. Sara Torres's autofiction questions how we mourn and love.
Mónica Feria Tinta is a specialist in public international law and international arbitration, based at Twenty Essex Chambers in London. She has defended Indigenous communities from the extractive industries in Latin America and around the world, winning numerous awards in the UK for her legal work, including that of ‘Woman of the Year’ at the […]
Peruvian lawyer and UK barrister Monica Feria Tinta talks to LAB's Linda Etchart about environmental protection and the Rights of Nature
When Flávio Bolsonaro proclaims 'The Amazon is Ours', he threatens, if elected in Brazil's 4 October presidental election (or the likely run-off) to condemn Brazil, The Amazon and the world to the continuity of an inheritance from his father Jair's presidency, heredofascism, which threatens the forest, the country and the planet.
As far-right governments ramp up denialist narrative, film directors in Argentina, Chile and Brazil often set their stories in the period of the dictatorships
What does it truly mean to be a feminist? La Lucha is more than just a recounting of suffering at the hands of misogyny. It is a pledge to fight, an act of struggle in the long and varied feminist canon that continues to flourish across the world and that is so often under attack.
The patron saint, the swindler and the supreme court: these are the key ingredients of Brazil’s turbulent, nailbiting presidential election on 4 October, writes Jan Rocha.
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.
