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Brazil’s presidential election: all you need to know

As Brazil heads into the final stages of an election that has been characterised by violence, fake news and corruption, BristoLatino’s politics editor Alfred Davies gives you an overview of all the key details ahead of the 28 October second-round runoff between Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad.   CORRUPTION AND CONTROVERSY The controversy that has […]

The Other Solos is anti-brexit Shakespeare

Bristolatino’s Art editor Helen Brown talks to Paula Rodriguez, director and producer of The Other Solos, about combatting anti-migration sentiment through Shakespeare. The Other Solos is a series of six Shakespeare monologues, released on Youtube, tackling issues of migration, exile and identity, performed by accented actors whose second language is English. These performances use Shakespeare, traditionally emblematic of […]

Revolution through hip hop in Venezuela

This year’s Semana Cultural saw BristoLatino and UoB’s HiPLA department team up with Pablo Navarrete of Alborada Films in a screening of his documentary Hip Hop Revolución. Latin America in Bristol editor Zara Huband reviews the documentary’s message. In a country like Venezuela it is almost impossible to separate music and politics. Pablo Navarrete’s documentary explores the […]

Music and Politics from London to Bogotá

BristoLatino Music Editor, Rebecca Wilson, sat down with DJ Cal Jader in Bogotá, Colombia, to discuss Movimientos Records – a fusion of music and politics DJ Cal Jader, a.k.a. Callum Simpson of Movimientos Records, returns to Bogotá after 10 years delving into Colombian rhythms and collaborating with Colombian acts. A decade prior, he was here on a delegation of […]

Digital Storytelling for Anyone’s Child

BristoLatino politics editor Cleo Robbie reports on the launch of a new UOB Brigstow Institute project that involves cross-continental digital storytelling about the human costs of the global drugs war in Mexico. Should we legalise all drugs? (And by legalise, I mean legalise the production, transport and consumption of drugs). This was the question I was left […]