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Spending time away from Marabá, Dan Baron Cohen discovers unexpected solidarity with the Amazon in a country mired in violence and despair.

13 Dec 2018 3 minute read

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Letter from Marabá: touched by the future

Dan Baron Cohen discovers unexpected solidarity with the Amazon in a country mired in violence and despair...

A forced disappearance victim from Guadalajara

6 Dec 2019 7 minute read

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Bringing Mexico’s missing out of the shadows

More than 37,000 people in Mexico are currently declared missing – seen as neither dead nor alive. Carlos Heras...

23 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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Colombia’s peace deal, two years on: ‘We can’t stop now’

Women fought hard for recognition in their country’s peace agreement. Now they must defend it from a deadly backlash....

6 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Did Brazil’s evangelicals put Jair Bolsonaro into office?

Bolsonaro, whose middle name is ‘Messiah’, was the perfect bait for Christians, says Pamela Machado.

Extreme-right leader Jair Bolsonaro at the polls in Rio di Janero

29 Oct 2018 6 minute read

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Brazil just elected a fascist. Now what?

A Brazilian extreme-right leader wants to typify landless and homeless workers' movements as terrorists. He just won the...

22 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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The cost of mining in Latin America

Global justice campaigners Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz explain why...

7 Oct 2018 3 minute read

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Is Brazil about to elect a ‘fascist’ as President?

The Left faces an uphill task in Brazil, Jan Rocha reports.

The road to peace in Colombia: the funeral in April 2017 of indigenous leader Gerson Acosta, among the hundreds killed since the peace deal of 2016.

31 Aug 2018 6 minute read

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The slow and bloody road to justice

Colombia’s peace deal promised the return of stolen lands. But it isn’t so easy to achieve, Mira Galanova...

1 Oct 2018 3 minute read

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Letter from Marabá: The university of good living

In Marabá , Dan Baron Cohen finds himself immersed in spontaneous conversation about culture,...

3 Oct 2018 2 minute read

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Mixed media: Film

Tehran Taboo written and directed by Ali Soozandeh;
The Heiresses (Las Herederas) written and...

31 Jul 2018 13 minute read

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How Nicaragua’s good guys turned bad

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the FSLN, from socialist liberators to the increasingly brutal rule of...

22 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?

Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter...

3 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Costa Rica: Country Profile

Gustavo Fuchs takes a look at this country, nicknamed the ‘Central American Switzerland’.

27 Jun 2018 3 minute read

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Letter from Marabá: Democracy in prison

Dan Baron Cohen writes from Cabelo Seco, where news of former president Lula’s sentencing has stirred waves...

Protesters carry a banner: ‘Humanity doesn’t require a green card’

26 Jun 2018 4 minute read

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The new frontier spirit

The inhumanity of child separation was no accident. Rachel Curtis reports from El Paso.

Feminist students have occupied universities across Chile.

25 Jun 2018 6 minute read

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Occupying against the patriarchy

Chilean feminists have taken over university buildings until inequality is tackled. Giulia Dessi reports....

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