Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
The former Argentinian president, along with two associates, has been formally charged with corruption. BristoLatino’s Joe Brandon reports. Charges were brought yesterday against the ex-president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner relating to illicit association and fraudulent administration. The case focuses on public works funding allocated to the Santa Cruz region, and involves former planning minister […]
BristoLatino Art editor Helen Brown talks us through José Sokoloff’s TED talk about his Christmas advertising strategies that convinced FARC guerrillas to demobilise. ‘Prisoners of their own organisation’ In Colombia, armed conflict with the FARC has claimed 220,000 lives and displaced 5,700,000 people. The FARC have financed the war through kidnappings, forced ‘taxes’ for those […]
Following on from Flora Hastings‘ focus piece on the miners of Potosí, originally written for UCLU Amnesty International journal, here you can read more about the mining families of Cerro Rico. Intervention A cloaked Incan stands at the base of the carmine-coloured mountain, talking to a hatted Spaniard. The Virgin Mary’s disembodied hands frame the […]
Galeano coined Potosí “the city which has given most to the world and has the least”. Originally for the UCLU Amnesty International journal, Flora Hastings brings to BristoLatino photographs and stories of the current miners of Cerro Rico. Clashing conceptions of progression within Bolivia Papa Francisco sweats with altitude sickness. He has little time to […]
Tom Webb reveals why recent advances in Latin American Gay Rights laws hardly scratch the surface of a long standing problem. A 2012 mass procession in remembrance of murdered Chilean, Daniel Zamudio When you think of Latin America, what comes to mind? Is it Argentine steaks, the Tango, Brazilian Carnivals? Or maybe it’s football, the drug trade or possibly even […]
Bristolatino joint editor-in-chief Rosanna West, while working as a reporter at Colombian national newspaper El Espectador on her year abroad, interviewed one Colombian and two Argentine experts about the foreign acquisition of land in their countries. This is a translation of an article that first appeared in El Espectador discussing whether government efforts to limit […]