Brazil’s indigenous cultures: fragile or flexible?
Film: Ex-Pajé (Ex-shaman) (80 minutes)
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi, 2018
With Perpera Suruí, Kabena Cinta Larga, Ubiratan Suruí and Agamenon Suruí… as themselves.
Films about Indians deep...
Brazil: Geisel authorized targeted killings
In the last two weeks the Brazilian scholar Matias Spektor of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas has brought to light documents which take us back...
Brazil: Lula imprisoned
The imprisonment of former president Lula takes place against a background which is complicated at best and murky at worst.
The case against him is...
Chile: Cabros de Mierda
Film Review: Cabros de Mierda
English title: “The Young Shepherd’
(Gonzalo Justiniano, Chile, 2017) with Nathalie Aragonese, Daniel Contessa Aguirre and Elias Collado Moya.
‘Cabros de Mierda’...
Argentina: don’t shoot the messenger
Film Review: El Mensajero. Jayson McNamara (2016)
English title: “Messenger on a White Horse’
During the murderous years 1976-83, from the Argentine coup to the Falklands...
Chilean Play: Mad Man, Sad Woman
‘Mad Man Sad Woman’, by Juan Radigan, is on at The Place, 269 Westferry Road, London E14 3RS, until 8 July. Tickets from www.space.org.uk
Translated...
Brazil 1964: Never again!
March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.
Hora Chilena: Chilean refugees in Cambridge in a Britain at ease...
A documentary film about Chilean Refugees in Cambridge, England, prompts wider questions about a time when the words 'refugee' and 'asylum' prompted sympathy rather than fear.
Chile: Memoria, 40 years on
LAB Council member David Lehmann, after a visit to Santiago's Museo de La Memoria, is perplexed to find that support for the violence perpetrated by the Pinochet dictatorship is still acceptable and tolerated.
Brazil: The remarkable expansion of the Evangelical Churches Part Two
David Lehmann continues with his reflections on the evangélicos, looking now at how the old stereotypes have become obsolete. The second of two blogs.