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27 Jun 2022 6 minute read

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‘Stop the poison’

Peruvian women call on Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore, investors and UK and EU parliamentarians to take action on toxic...

Banners wave at the opening ceremony of the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth near Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010. The People’s Agreement signed at the conference called for the Global North to repay a ‘climate debt’ to the Majority World. AIZAR RALDES/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

20 Jun 2022 6 minute read

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A global just transition

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement...

A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

16 Jun 2022 5 minute read

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Standing firm against fracking

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

4 May 2022 3 minute read

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Spotlight: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pushes back against the stereotypes associated with Latin American culture. By Graeme...

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

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.

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