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Not So ‘Pura Vida’

Sun and sea yes, but sex tourism, in Costa Rica? Behind the image of the Caribbean’s cleanest and most civilised tourist hotspot, lies a murky world, fed by foreign sex tourists, of exploitation and poverty.

Society
COLOMBIA: Bogotá’s Recyclers Fight for Inclusion

As the city rises up the development index, Bogotá’s waste services are undergoing structural transformation. Rachel Simon learns how Colombia’s informal waste-picking recicladores are organizing and fighting to play their part…

Health
Shake It Off!

As we head towards the easing of lockdown we all feel a little relieved. But the carnage that the pandemic has wreaked on our mental health has yet to be unveiled. Rafael Santandreu, one of the world’s leading psychologists,…

Society
Colombia: Starbucks Meets its Match

Starbucks's most recent expansion plan has taken them to Bogota, Colombia. How has the arrival of the coffee giant affected the market?

Human Rights
Colombia: Commemorating the Mulatos Massacre

On 21st February 2005, paramilitaries and Colombian soldiers massacred eight people from two hamlets of the San Jose Peace Community, in Apartadó, Colombia. Despite assassinations and forced displacement since the Peace Community…

Aécio Neves: The Underdog in Brazil's General Election

Aécio Neves is the presidential candidate for PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) but from the start never showed much promise to beat the current president Dilma, who is hoping for re-election. Despite his success in…

LATIN LONDONER #5 Katya Torres de la Rocha - Entrepreneur

Mexican born Katya Torres de la Rocha, is the CEO of www.mexgrocer.co.uk. which sells authentic Mexican food groceries and at 40 years old was voted Business Personality of the Year by both the public and the judges. Here is her…

Society
Marielle: She Inspired Us All

Black Lives Matter in Brazil too, where of the thousands that die every year at the hands of police, 75% are black. Marielle Franco defended those who had no voice, she gave voice to the hopes of favela dwellers, black people,…

History, Human Rights, Politics
Chronicle of a Repression Foretold

In 1975, one-year-old Carole Concha Bell and her family journeyed into exile. They fled Chile as refugees during the Pinochet dictatorship, after her grandfather, a government official for the democratically elected Socialist…

Culture
Surrogate Latino #1 Ian Mursell – Founder of Mexicolore with Graciela Sanchez

LAYING DOWN THE LORE – For 30 years Ian Mursell, development education specialist and his wife Graciela Sánchez, a dancer with the world famous Ballet Folklórico de México, and have worked with 2,000 primary schools and a wealth…

Environment
Oriximiná: Quilombolas vs The Mines

In Oriximiná, a municipality in the northern state of Pará, traditional people see their lands being invaded by mining, under the conniving gaze of the authorities

The death of Fidel Castro, what his legacy to Cuba has been, and how he should be remembered.

Richard Gott, historian, journalist and one of the few foreigners who met both Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, recounts his impressions of the 20th century revolutionary icon.

Politics
Brazil: the parallel universe of Messias Bolsonaro

The implosion of a government as the pandemic rages

Politics
The FBI, the Fusion Center, and the Far Right in Brazil

In an important new investigation, journalist Natalia Viana reveals how, during Sergio Moro’s 15 month tenure as Justice and Security Minister, the government of Jair Bolsonaro is rapidly enabling the US Federal Bureau of…

Society
Let’s Talk About Religion: Interview with directors Maya Cueva and Leah Galant

On the Divide premiers March 17th as part of the “Human Rights Watch Film Festival”. The feature-length documentary follows the life stories of Mercedes, Denisse and Rey in McAllen, Texas, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley,…

Environment, Politics
Latin America Criminalises Mining Protest

All over Latin America mining protest is being criminalised by government legislation. Protestors in Andalgalá, Argentina are arrested and beaten, while in Brazil the Munduruku are fighting Anglo American, financed by US…

Society
LATIN LONDONER #50: LISA LUGO, SVP Marketing & Creative Solutions Live Nation UK

Born and bred a true Nuyorican, after working at Live Nation in the US, Lisa Lugo moved to the UK in 2015 where she oversees a team responsible for developing programmes for brand partners across Live Nation’s festivals and…

Culture, Society
Sembrando Cultura: This is How We do It!

Maria Luna, a Dominican American residing in London, speaks to four Latinas in the United States, Scotland and England to find out what it means to be a Latina and how a Latina maintains or compromises her culture when she starts…

Fuerza London, Health
COVID STORIES: The Grief of the Marmolejo Family

Los Marmolejos, a family at the very heart of London’s Latin Community, who lost their beloved husband, father and grandfather, Hector, to COVID in March. In the most honest way, Julian, Hector Jr, Kike, Jorge, Sandra and Maria…

Human Rights, Politics
Colombia: What does Peace Mean in Comuna 13?

Gwen Burnyeat visits Comuna 13, the Medellín community blighted by guerrilla, militia and state violence during Colombia's civil war and finds that graffiti and urban escalators have achieved a sense of pride and…

Human Rights, Politics
Bolivia: the mysterious death of Orlando Gutiérrez

Miners' leader and prominent MAS figure killed after frequent death threats on social media and from sections of the state apparatus.

Politics
Does Economic Reality Jeopodise Latin America's Second Pink Tide?

In an impressive switch, Latin America's right-wing presidents have lost almost all the presidential elections. The region has, once again, been painted in pink and red, even more than during Chavez and Correa´s times.…

Human Rights
Latin American Activists: More in Danger than Ever

While Venezuela dominates the headlines in terms of Latin America's human rights news, Tom Gatehouse reminds us of the grave situation of many activists all over Latin America, including in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and…

Politics
¿Viva la Revolución? What happened to Mexico’s Zapatista Movement...

“Excuse the inconvenience, but this is a revolution,” proclaimed Subcomandante Marcos on the 1st January 1994. But in 2010, is it just a mild inconvenience that the government and media readily ignore, or is the Zapatista…

Politics
Things That Matter to ...Aleida Guevara

Aleida Guevara was the first born of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s seven children. The Argentine-born revolutionary fought in Cuba and the Congo before dying in Bolivia in 1967 at the age of 39. Aleida has grown up with an iconic…

Human Rights, Society
Signs of Hope for the Munduruku

Two important advances for the Munduruku Indians in the Brazilian Amazon in recent days suggest that they could pull off an extraordinary victory.

Environment
Argentina: Toxic Waste from Fracking in Patagonia

A BP subsidiary is being sued by indigenous groups for criminal dumping of toxic waste

Human Rights, Mexican
Same-Sex Marriage Becomes Legal in Mexico

On 26 October, Tamaulipas became the last of Mexico’s 32 states to legalise same-sex marriage. Legislators approved the measure to reform the state’s civil code - which previously only recognised marriage as the unity between a…

History
Los Niños Vascos and The English Lord

In 1937, as Bilbao was being bombarded, 4,000 Basque children arrived in Southamption, thanks to some extraordinary individuals who defied the British government's official policy of appeasement (which ultimately contributed…

Culture, Society
Las Cosas por su Nombre

Confused when someone tells you to "Stand my balls up", "arm a patch and throw out the wagon" or "take out my stone by making a show"? You'll need Candela’s guide to authentic Colombian Spanish…

Human Rights
Colombia: London Mural Honours Lucas Villa

London graffiti artist Kapo pays tribute to the demonstrator assassinated during Colombia’s national strike in 2021 in Stockwell’s ‘Hall of Fame’

Politics
An unknown path for Argentina as far-right libertarian Javier Milei wins election

Amidst one of the worst economic crises in Argentina’s history, Javier Milei staged one of the biggest upsets in its political history by beating Sergio Massa, the current economy minister and Peronist candidate, in the…

Film, Health
COVID STORIES: Fabian, a London Survivor

Fabian Cataño is a London surviver. In 2005 Fabian was badly injured in the 7/7 bombings, but came back from 2 years of rehabilitation to build his cafe in Seven Sisters indoor market. In March 2020 Fabian spent 30 days in ICU…

Environment
BRAZIL: Tapajós industrial waterway -- a potential environmental disaster

In early August, the Brazilian government unexpectedly cancelled the São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric power station, the largest of a series of major dams planned along the Tapajós River and its tributaries. Indigenous groups…

History
Sarmiento: The Forging of a Racist Ideologue (part 2)

In this second part of our article on the Argentine national hero, we travel with Sarmiento to Africa where he took notes on how the French waged war on the natives to promote white immigration and settlement. The lessons he…

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