Let's talk Latin America
Let's talk Latin America
An insight into the capital of Colombia: a vibrant and energetic city surrounded by the Andes mountains with much more to offer than it seems. 3rd Year Bristol Student Emily Cohen tells us more. Whilst travelling around beautiful Colombia and speaking to other tourists, I discovered that most had only visited Bogotá for a few hours, whilst […]
As homicide rates are on the rise, Features Editor Grace Brown looks at Rio de Janeiro’s deteriorating security crisis. On Monday 10th October, a shootout between gang members and Rio’s Pacific Police Unit (UPP) spilled onto the streets of Ipanema and Copacabana neighbourhoods. Just a month before, they had been filled with tourists in town for […]
In El Abrazo de la Serpiente, Colombian director Ciro Guerra takes us on a journey into the Colombian Amazon, revealing the sublimity of nature and unearthing a part of the country’s history long forgotten. Isabel Rudgley Principally, the interest surrounding El Abrazo de la Serpiente has arisen from its being the first Colombian film to be nominated for […]
Rebecca Wilson attended a Bristol University seminar run by Cath Collins, who has been conducting research on Transitional Justice in Latin America. Latin America is marred by impunity, turbulent politics and fragile rule of law, yet it’s the region that has done the most to address the legacy of past political violence. Countries around the world have […]
In 1990s Peru, hundreds of thousands of the country’s inhabitants were forcibly sterilised and their outcry silenced. Features editor Georgina Turner tells us about an innovative project addressing this historical injustice. On the 10th December 2015 Dr Matthew Brown and Dr Karen Tucker of the University of Bristol officially launched a project, in association with London’s Chaka Studio, that they […]
The death-toll of Mexican journalists continues to rise as Mexico’s corrupt State actors silence their critics. Section editor Rebecca Wilson reports. Informar no es un crimen, no se mata la verdad matando periodistas (Reporting is not a crime- the truth can’t be killed by killing journalists) – Amnesty international The Mexican state of Veracruz is one of the […]
BristoLatino editor-in-chief Rosanna West interviewed prize-winning Colombian journalist Diana Carolina Durán about her new role as Judicial Editor of El Espectador, and what made her want to follow in the footsteps of her legendary predecessors, who have long made the daily national a highly-respected newspaper. When hit US Netflix series Narcos hit our laptop screens this summer, many […]
BristoLatino editor-in-chief Phoebe Hopson shares her photo essay on Quibdó. Phoebe captured these images whilst working for La Familia Ayara, a Hip hop NGO based in Bogotá. Quibdó, the capital of El Chocó, is oppressively humid. Dirty and sometimes dangerous, it is a place forgotten by most Colombians and certainly missed off the tourist routes. Surrounded […]
Bomba Estéreo have exploded (pardon the pun) in the past few years, one of the only contemporary Colombian acts to reach such international acclaim. Rebecca Wilson charts their rise to success, and delves into their personal passions and influences. A colonial church and misty mountains. A brunette in a gold jacket enters the frame and descends the […]