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Reviews | Human Rights
'Women Resisting Violence: Voices and Experiences from Latin America' by the WRV Collective

'Women Resisting Violence' draws on a range of case studies from Nicaragua, Brazil, the UK, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala, to paint a contemporary landscape of feminist struggle. Together,…

Reviews | Society
LatinoLife 22 Confirms its Place as 'the UK's Most Inclusive Festival'

The only UK festival to be chosen for 'The Inclusive Festival Guide' compiled by European research project Fest Space, LatinoLife's 7th edition delivered the UK's biggest Latin music Festival. London’s only…

Reviews | Literature, Politics
Retracing Galeano’s Open Veins

‘Gold, Oil and Avocados, A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities’ by Andy Robinson is an account of export extractivism in Latin America. Robinson argues that to understand the major political upheavals in Latin…

Reviews | Film, Human Rights
Río Turbio: women marginalised by the mine

Filmmaker and archivist Tatiana Mazú González sheds light on the role of women in the Río Turbio miner’s struggle

Reviews | 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…

Reviews | History, Literature
'Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile' by Grace Livingstone

Ask anyone active in the British left during the 1970s and 1980s and they are likely to remember stories about Chile: Hawker Hunter jets bombing the presidential palace, the murderous Pinochet regime (1973-1990), Chilean refugees…

Reviews | Film, History
Messenger on a White horse (2019) El Mensajero

‘Messenger on a White Horse’ is a moving documentary that portrays the courage of Robert (Bob) Cox, Editor in Chief of THE BUENOS AIRES HERALD who dared to publish information exposing the human rights abuses carried out by the…

Reviews | Human Rights, Literature, Politics
'The Third Bank of the River' by Chris Feliciano Arnold (Picador)

A book which tells the story of the Amazon and its ports-towns near the frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru

Reviews | Society
White Flowers - When Santos met London's Colombian Community

For the UK’s Colombian community, one of the world’s largest Colombian diasporas, President Juan Manuel Santos’ state visit was a historic event. Following the international media spotlight on Colombia, the recent rejection of…

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