Marcos Colón reviews the Cannes and Golen Globe award-winning Brazilian film The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura. The film engages questions of state censorship, political repression, and surveillance not by following a reporter chasing a story, but, this time, by following a man hunted by a system terrified of memory.
Grace Livingstone, author of America’s Backyard, analyses the Chavista revolution, what went wrong, the different factions in Venezuela today and the long history of US intervention in the country. She explains why the US did not attempt immediate regime change and discusses Trump’s plans for the country.
LAB's Sue Branford witnessed the failure of successive Venezuelan governments to use the country's resource wealth wisely to invest in skills and diversify from dependency on a single commodity -- oil.
Following its action in removing Maduro, who will the Trump administration attack next? Colombia, Mexico, Cuba? US actions now follow the course outlined in its new National Security Strategy, crudely dubbed 'The Donroe Doctrine' by the man himself. Latin America risks being left isolated.
There is absolutely no justification, says LAB, for the unilateral US military action against the sovereign state of Venezuela, leading to the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and their rendition to New York where they have been charged with a number of offences including drug trafficking.
‘Indigenous Peoples, poor countries – those who contributed least to the crisis are the ones who show real ability to confront it,’ writes Jelson Oliveira, professor of philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) and founding-director of the Hans Jonas Professorship.
Carlos Beas of UCIZONI on the impact of the Interoceanic Corridor and the future of Indigenous Rights in Mexico The headquarters of the Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (UCIZONI– Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Isthmus Region) lies at the edge of the industrial municipality of Matías Romero, Oaxaca, […]
Colombia is at a crucial point as major projects led by Gustavo Petro’s government have hinged the country’s future on the promises of the energy transition. But this transition will not benefit people in Colombia by default. We hear from environmental defenders working across the coal corridor to protect their territories and ensure no one is left behind as mines close and renewable energy projects begin.
Noboa’s government must now prosecute a war on drugs without additional powers ‘The government tried to manipulate the Ecuadorian people by claiming that the presence of “Rambos,” “Robocops,” and “gringos” would help combat crime. It was political theatre.’ Gary Espinoza, President of the Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, Indígenas y Negras (FENOCIN – National Confederation […]
The issue of enforced disappearances in Mexico has been represented in cinema, on stage, in music, in performance, and in literature. Through various means of artistic expression, a demand for truth and justice is made, inviting society to feel compassion and empathy. It is a call to give a face, a life story, to the numbers, to the digits of violence in Mexico. It is a call against revictimisation.
