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1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Meet Anabela Carlón Flores

Nick Dowson speaks with the indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.

19 Mar 2018 4 minute read

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They’ve killed Marielle Franco – for doing good

She was a young, black, city councillor – and a beacon of hope in her Rio favela and for Brazil. Vanessa Baird...

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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A Fantastic Woman

‘Transcendent and deeply moving from the first to the last’: our March film reviews.

1 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Farewell to the big village

Amy Booth bids farewell to Cochabamba and shares what the ‘big village’ has revealed to her.

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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Young indigenous women block violence in Brazil

Young people in Brazil reconnect with their African roots, by Amy Hall.

22 Feb 2018 3 minute read

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Why make women suffer twice?

Don’t cut Oxfam’s support – we need it to root out abuse, says Colombian feminist Gloria Sanchez.

21 Feb 2018 1 minute read

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Latin American governments should serve the people

Human rights activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel highlights the failure of democracy in Argentina, Brazil and across the region...

9 Feb 2018 7 minute read

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Is Costa Rica on the path to evangelical theocracy?

Costa Ricans have declared far-right candidate Fabricio Alvarado winner of the first round, Gustavo Fuchs...

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships

Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.

Former president Lula on his Caravan of Hope tour around Brazil, ahead of this year’s elections.

4 Jan 2018 7 minute read

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Brazil’s rich weaponize law to stop Lula campaign

‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.

Illicit crops are still the only option for farmers like Arnulfo Perdomo.

1 Jan 2018 2 minute read

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War on coca farmers continues

Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia. Bram Ebus reports.

1 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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The weighted scales of justice

Amy Booth visits a Bolivian prison and meets those let down by patchy law enforcement.

18 Dec 2017 4 minute read

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What we learned from Argentina’s WTO alternative

Buenos Aires welcomed the WTO with a week of action. By Paula Serafini and Martín Vainstein...

Chile elections: Beatriz Sanchez, leader of the insurgent leftwing coalition, Broad Front.

15 Dec 2017 3 minute read

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Chilean politics on a knife edge

Does this presidential run-off mark a new dawn for Chile? Luis Hernán Vargas Faulbaum asks.

Environmentalists killings: Indigenous and other activists gather in front of the Honduran embassy in London in response to the murder of anti-dam campaigner Berta Cáceres in 2016.

1 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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Defame, criminalize, murder

How environment defenders are being stopped in the Global South. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman...

ELN interview: Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín

27 Nov 2017 7 minute read

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Guerrillas gamble for peace

‘Each person must say we won’t do this again.’ Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to ...

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