Platform cooperativism represents more than just an alternative employment model: it also offers a vision of hope for building a more equitable and participatory world of work in the digital age.Read the full article
The global digital and energy transition is increasing the demand for minerals. At the same time, resistance against projects is rising, support networks are being woven and initiatives to guarantee the rights of communities and decent working conditions are being [...]Read the full article
The electrification of transport in Latin America is seeking to impact positively on the environment, equality and inclusiveness, but it also entails losses for workers, especially informal transport workers. The changes and the impact in terms of awareness are already being [...]Read the full article
Despite medical breakthroughs, the stigma attached to HIV remains firmly entrenched in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the impact on those affected is devastating. Structural and economic inequalities are also hindering access to effective [...]Read the full article
In Argentina and throughout the region, the fight against corruption shows signs of systematic bias against left-wing leaders. Their political opponents have weaponised the media and the justice system and resisted the progressive will of [...]Read the full article
Why are evangelical churches in Latin America increasingly influencing the region’s political, social and economic agenda? Argentine sociologist Ariel Goldstein provides some insight into the phenomenon.Read the full article
The conflict in southern Chile and Argentina, involving political radicalisation and violence, shines a spotlight on an existential problem in Latin America – what is the place of the millions of historically invisibilised Indigenous [...]Read the full article
From the Amazon rainforests to Central America, young, Indigenous artists are reclaiming their ancient heritage through music, mixing ancestral rituals and instruments with rap, electronica and reggaeton to fight racial discrimination and historical [...]Read the full article
The worst dictatorship in the world could never even dream of having a mechanism that would allow it to get into people’s subconscious, and what’s worse is that it’s in the hands of private companies that sell their services.Read the full article
Before now, the hegemonic discourse had made the many ways in which women and feminised groups participate in the management of daily life invisible. The rise of different forms of feminism has come to revolutionise not only the content, but the way in which politics is [...]Read the full article
Observers of the situation in Latin America fear that permanent militarisation will become the new normal, and that, in the absence of adequate civilian institutions, many governments will use their armed forces to provide basic services and to clamp down on their critics at the same [...]Read the full article
Despite the often small amount of individual transactions, remittances from migrant workers aggregate into enormous amounts that go directly to some of the developing world’s most vulnerable families.Read the full article
Sixty-one per cent of the global workforce has neither a fixed employment contract nor a safety net to deal with lockdown measures. Organisations that represent informal workers are demanding a say in designing public policy on economic recovery and [...]Read the full article
The sheer scale of the fires consuming the Amazon rainforest during 2019 has brought the idea of the Amazon being collectively managed by the international community back to the fore. But the notion of ‘internationalising’ this region is by no means [...]Read the full article
The debut feature film by Marcelo Martinessi gives centre stage to a sexagenarian female couple who face up to the loss of their social status and their relationship in Paraguay, a country where the LGTBI population live in the [...]Read the full article
All the components of a global crisis are present in Venezuela: the international community is involved or feels it has to take sides, and some observers are speaking of a return to the Cold War. To what extent is the current situation driven by a struggle for control over Venezuela’s [...]Read the full article
What do this year’s elections mean for regional integration in Latin America?
Carlos Malamud:
The various election results have affected and will continue to affect regional and sub-regional integration processes in Latin America, from ALBA to Mercosur. At the same time, the region is not immune to the protectionist winds arriving from the United [...]Read the full article
Carlos Malamud:
The various election results have affected and will continue to affect regional and sub-regional integration processes in Latin America, from ALBA to Mercosur. At the same time, the region is not immune to the protectionist winds arriving from the United [...]Read the full article
Why does a country that approves and leads climate action promote, in parallel, development based on extractivism - an option that undermines the rights of the people?Read the full article
“When you speak to donors about supporting access to healthcare, for example, it needs to be framed in terms of general access that benefits migrants and local communities alike,” to help minimise any xenophobic sentiment and to promote development and [...]Read the full article
Social movements are faced with heightened repression under the governments of Temer in Brazil and Macri in Argentina. More than repression, social organisations in Colombia and Mexico talk of a war orchestrated by the elites against the people, to preserve their control over the [...]Read the full article
The Ayoreo people from Paraguay are the Guardians of the Gran Chaco, the second largest forest in south America. They live in a country where the main national income accounts for the deforestation of the land to export wood and charcoal, to breed 14 million cows per year and to seed soy [...]Read the full article
“There are so many Venezuelans here that are engineers or architects, and they’re selling donuts or empanadas. I don’t want to be doing this. I want to work in a company like I was at home.”Read the full article
Gold rich regions of Colombia are at the centre of a new gold rush, giving rise to violence and displacements. Whilst the miners who inherited this trade from their ancestors are declared illegal by the government, multinationals and armed mafias compete for control of the [...]Read the full article
The campaign for the recognition of sex work raises a human rights dilemma: the right to work versus the fight for gender equality.Read the full article
