Mexico’s recent election violence can’t be blamed on organized crime gangs alone
Up to 150 people were killed during the politically polarized campaign, with candidates, local officials, journalists and activists targeted
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureFive lessons from Argentina’s feminist movements’ fight for legal abortionsThe country’s ‘Green Tide’ of feminist activists succeeded despite all the challenges of COVID-19, thanks to their...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureMemory and forgetting in Guatemala: Catholic Church sets the war record straightThe beatification of ten Catholics killed by the Guatemalan Army and local militias several decades ago is a...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy Colombia has erupted in protestThe economic impact of the pandemic has exacerbated conditions many already found intolerable. As state repression...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: Opinion#BLM beyond the US: Anti-racist struggles in Latin AmericaOne year after the assassination of George Floyd, people are starting to acknowledge the systemic racism that runs...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureThe women of the Amazon who dream the resistanceIn Ecuador, indigenous women lead a march to the capital, to demand an end to the pillaging of their land
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: AnalysisAttacks against women justice defenders threaten rule of law in GuatemalaWomen judges and prosecutors trying to combat political corruption and impunity face harassment and persecution from on high
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisJair Bolsonaro is betting on chaos in BrazilMore than 100 impeachment requests, a corrupt government, and a fatally mismanaged health crisis. Yet the president...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs AMLO undermining democracy in Mexico?Some say the president is breathing new life into the country’s ossified institutions, but there are good reasons to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia burns amid authorities’ bloody crackdown on tax protestorsInternational human rights organizations denounce violence yet President Duque fails to act as crisis escalates Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militiaIn Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and evangelical churches have united to fight a ‘holy...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiners out, COVID out: Brazil’s Yanomami fight backThe Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionA triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian AmazonA year on from a devastating oil spill, many Indigenous communities are still without clean water, and contaminated...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too lateAs NGOs, UN agencies and the governments of less affluent states call for the suspension of patents, the stakes...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow I took the Munduruku fight to save the Amazon to the world stageThe Munduruku Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon faces many threats, but we know that we must unite to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionOil exploitation is threatening the Ecuadorian rainforest – and the planet‘No to Block 28!’ Indigenous and peasant communities are fighting to protect nature and their way of life in a...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureEmbedded in the Amazon: new ways of narrating indigenous storiesThe Gabo Prize-winning series ‘Rainforest Defenders’ shows that deep empathy married with visual innovation can...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Bolsonaro’s politics of hate wants to destroy all that Marielle represents’Monica Benicio, the former partner of human rights activist Marielle Franco, murdered in 2018, explains how she is...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFlares from the AmazonDocumentary series collects the voices of indigenous communities in the Colombian, Brazilian, and Ecuatorian Amazon,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionLegal flat-earthers and the rule of law in BrazilCriticism of the Supreme Court’s decision to annul ex-president Lula’s corruption convictions reveals how polarised...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisBolsonaro falters as his COVID disaster becomes impossible to ignoreLosing allies at home and abroad, could this be the beginning of the end for Brazil’s authoritarian president?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationHow oil, cocaine and armed conflict threaten the survival of the Awá people'In our territories, the entry of different people and companies exploiting resources is advancing'
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationTucupi, a spicy sauce to stop Amazon deforestationIn the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous women are planting chillies to end their communities' reliance on the cattle...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land, we are resisting more than just COVIDWe depend on the forest and the river to survive, and will protect it from exploitation, says Pho Yre, an inhabitant...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhat’s behind the proclaimed success of Chile’s vaccination strategy?The country has vaccinated nearly a quarter of its population – but there are still questions to be answered
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeaturePatagonia is burning: the politics of fireIn Argentina, suspected arson is destroying land that Indigenous communities have long protected from miners and developers
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