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United Migrations?

Walk around London and it’s hard to avoid the Spanish vowels swirling around the air. The recent influx of Spaniards and Latin Americans arriving through Spain adds yet another layer to the original Spanish speaking communities.…

Colombia – Two Sisters, the FARC and the Peace Process

A tale of two sisters who grew up apart, their past shaped by the FARC, their future hopes for peace and social justice

Richard Gott on Argentina's Bi-Centenary Celebrations

Renowned for his critical-thinking 'people's histories' of Latin America, the UK's most authoritative Latin Americanist - author of 'Land Without Evil' and 'Cuba: A New History' - explores…

Human Rights, Politics

Santos proposes peace as framework for investment, but trade must be accompanied by human rights

Attending a formal banquet with President Santos’ as part of his official State visit to the UK, leading Colombian human rights lawyer Reinaldo Villalba highlights the importance of human rights protection in light of President…

An Amazon view of Brussels

Elisa Dias, 22, a drummer from the AfroRaiz Collective, Marabá, coordinator of the Salus project for Rios de Encontro. made trip to Europe as a trainee international project coordinator, accompanying Dan Baron Cohen, to plan the…

Politics

For As Long As It Takes

The story of the men who have been camped on Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo for two and a half years

Politics

Colombia: the double edged sword of peace in Tumaco

As the referendum nears, asking the public to take a leap of faith in Peace, the residents in Tumaco know that it will come at a price and move forward under no ilusions, as Niamh Ni Bhriain explores

This Latino Week

Copper Price Surges, Colombian Night March Against Army Abuse, Bank of England blocking release of Venezuelan gold, Argentina and Brazil crops threatened by locust, Adebayor leaves Paraguayan club and The Wasp Network now on…

Society

Latinos in London Part 2-The Liberation of being Latin in London

Lazy, violent and corrupt?…it’s sometimes tiring countering the contantly reinforced stereotypes of Latin America in the British media, but if we don’t do it who will? In the second part of our Latin London identity series we…

Politics

Are Brazilians sleepwalking into disaster?

Jan Rocha assesses the potential scenario of a Bolsonero government as the run-off between Bolsonaro and Haddad on 28 October will provide the answer

This Latino Week

Peru tops 200,000 Covid-19 cases, Brazil resumes publishing Corona data, Chile's women's minister resigns, Brazil Police's latest victim, Uruguay's Pablo Albarenga wins Sony World Photography Awards, Amanda…

Film, Human Rights

Venezuela: Trochas de la Información

Produced by Circuito Gran Cine, a collective of film makers based in Venezuela, this film is one of a series about the difficulties Venezuelans have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from water shortages to the lack of…

At Last Reflecting Everyone's Culture

Richard Gott, author of 'Land without Evil' and 'Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution' explains why Chavez' cultural policy is doing exactly what it should be in a social revolution.

Environment

Indigenous Peoples: Why it Matters if they Catch Coronavirus

500 years after Europeans decimated the American indigenous populations with the common flu, indigenous communities again face imminent catastrophe. As the defenders of nature, land and biodiversity, it is essential we don't…

Confessions of a Coolhunter

Amaranta Wright was hired by Levi's to travel through Latin America, befriending teenagers and reporting their ideas, hopes and aspirations. As time passed, the more sinister and divisive aspects of what she was being asked…

Politics

Brazil: Bolsonaro – The Lone Wolf Dreams of Glory

Brazilian nationalist demagogue Jair Bolsonaro is bidding to run for President. His views are truly frightening, reveals Lucas Farrez

Human Rights

Guatemala: Indigenous Women take on Canada’s Mining Industry

Elena Choc Quib, a unilingual Q’eqchi’ speaker from a remote village in rural Guatemala, never imagined travelling outside her country, let alone boarding a plane to Toronto. But everything changed when she and 10 other women…

This Latino Week

Impeachment against Bolsonaro, Covid-19 in Brazil, Key Workers in Mexico under threat, Contaminated Cruise docks in Uruguay, Spain stockpiling PPE and Bad Bunny surprise new album is released.

Allende’s Children

40 years after the coup that changed Chile, Pinochet’s exiles around the world have inspired a new generation in the fight for justice and equality. There is no better example than the Navarrete family who came to the UK…

Human Rights

Brazil: the Cardinal who stood up to the military

A moving tribute to Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns on his 95th birthday

Society

Argentina finds a New Kind of Meat to Export

They're on the television all the time, they're in the magazines, they're on the arms of footballers, politicians and businessmen in all the smart restaurants and nightspots of Buenos Aires.........they are the new…

Human Rights

Gay Marriage Legalized in Argentina Despite Huge Opposition From Church

On Thursday the 15th of July, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage, granting to gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights and benefits that heterosexual couples have traditionally…

Society

Colombia: Students Tell Amazing Stories

In my first term teaching political anthropology to first year political science undergraduates at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, I decided to give the students the chance to design their own essay topic. The…

Uruguayan Elections 2014: Mujica's farewell

As Brazilian elections continue to dominate the Latin American press, another presidential race is taking place over the border in Uruguay. With Jose Mujica unable to run for this term, he leaves behind a political landscape…

And will God look favourably this time?

Having withstood years of international criticism, Chavez may need a bit of divine favour in his closest election battle yet.

Environment

Haiti: Hope as it Braces itself for another Hurricane

As Hurricane Irma head for the Island, Prospéry Raymond, Christian Aid’s country manager for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, reflects on how Haiti has been moving on from one disaster and preparing for another

This Latino Week

Covid-19 Death toll slowly rises in Latin America, Trouble in Colombian and Brazilian Prisons, J Balvin Releases New Album

Politics

Uruguay’s paradox: will the pandemic accelerate neo-liberal policies?

As the new government basks in public approval, ollas populares are back to feed the many. To many citizens’ dismay, Uruguay’s exemplary handling of the pandemic could help pave the way for the Lacalle Pou administration to pass…

Politics

Bolivia: will new elections heal the rift?

With Morales moving to Argentina and still no date for new elections, the outlook remains obscure.

Haitian Thinking Girls in Search of School

A group of Haitian nuns are launching a revolutionary post-disaster reconstruction project

Politics

Mexico: AMLO’s first hundred days

The new president claims to have carried out 62 out of 100 campaign promises

Health, Society

COVID STORIES: Learning to Exhale

Priscilla Ferreira set up Circular Maternar UK, a group to support Brazilian women in the UK overcome their fears of natural (vaginal) birth. Brazil has the highest rate of caesarean births in the world - 85 percent in private…

Politics

Venezuela: the politicians need to listen

As Venezuela’s economic crisis deepens, Grace Livingstone has been out to the Venezuelan countryside, gauging the effects of the crisis there.

This Latino Week

Avianca files for bankruptcy, Chile creates Corona smell test, Bolivian protests, Venezuelan mercenaries arrested, Mexican sanitising tunnels and Aventura steals the Bud Light show.