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Illustraion of a woman reading in the dark in a park

2 May 2022 3 minute read

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Letter from Buenos Aires: the big blackout

Being forced to go without electricity sparks thoughts about living differently for Virginia Tognola.

6 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Racism’s deadly cycle

Leonardo Sakamoto on his country's lethal pattern of racism.

29 Mar 2022 1 minute read

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‘Our culture is vanishing’

In the Amazon rainforest, remote communities descended from enslaved African people, are taking on the palm oil production...

28 Mar 2022 5 minute read

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Could the Left take power in Colombia?

With the South American country closer than ever to electing a leftwing government, Nick MacWilliam...

17 Mar 2022 3 minute read

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Hall of infamy

Jair Bolsonaro: viciousness and vulgarity in Brazil.

12 Mar 2022 1 minute read

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Who will protect the land?

Hazel Sheffield explores how the history of failed land reform in Colombia threatens both people and planet...

8 Mar 2022 2 minute read

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Reversing Pinochet’s legacy will be an uphill battle

Carole Concha Bell on Chile’s unfinished revolution.

23 Feb 2022 3 minute read

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Introducing...Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento

Could social reformer Iris Xiomara Castro overturn Honduras’ reputation for authoritarian governance and...

22 Feb 2022 3 minute read

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Taking back the streets

A message to the powers that be in Buenos Aires – with a song and a dance. Virginia Tognola joins in.

16 Feb 2022 3 minute read

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The gathering storm

Leo Sakamoto laments the dawn of the climate era – and worries for the fate of the most vulnerable.

Isabel Allende stands with her arms folded in front of shelves of books and photos

27 Dec 2021 4 minute read

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The interview: Isabel Allende

Graeme Green speaks to the Chilean author about her inspiration and the power of fiction as a useful...

15 Dec 2021 3 minute read

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Letter from Buenos Aires

Everyday corruption is a shock to the system for Virginia Tognola.

The Brazilian president's pandemic policies ranged from discouraging social distancing to opposing the use of masks and promoting drugs like chloroquine which are useless in treating the disease. Palácio do Planalto/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

7 Dec 2021 3 minute read

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Hunger in the world’s breadbasket

Leonardo Sakamoto tracks the scandalous rise of hunger in Brazil.

10 Nov 2021 5 minute read

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The interview: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Leo Sakamoto speaks to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president and favourite to...

25 Oct 2021 8 minute read

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‘Think about what is to come, for all generations’

Faced with Covid restrictions and visa backlogs, many activists from the Global South might not get to the COP26 climate...

Colombian anti-drug policemen and a dog stand guard at a coca plantation in Tumaco, Colombia February 26, 2020. Picture taken February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

12 Oct 2021 5 minute read

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An uneasy peace for Colombia’s coca farmers

Five years on from the peace agreement, rural violence continues and coca production is on the rise. Joe Ballesteros...

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