Category: Dispatches
June 17, 2020 > Zeb Larson
Dominican Sugar Company Challenged in Florida Court
A lawsuit filed in January against the Fanjul Corporation in the Florida Southern District Court seeks to redress the loss of property that 60 families suffered in January 2016. That […] Read More >
June 16, 2020 > Jennifer Pribble
Uruguay Quietly Beats Coronavirus, Distinguishing Itself from its South American Neighbors
This article is re-published from The Conversation. Latin America is the world’s new coronavirus epicenter, but Uruguay – a small South American nation of 3.5 million people – has so […] Read More >
June 12, 2020 > Lucia Cholakian Herrera
Survivors Recount Sexual Violence During Paraguay Dictatorship
This story was originally published by VICE en Español, and is translated to English for the first time on Latin Dispatch. Trigger warning: This article includes references to sexual violence […] Read More >
June 9, 2020 > Sue Branford
Deaths of Elders to COVID-19 Cause Irreparable Loss in Amazon Communities
This article is re-published from Mongabay under Creative Commons. Alessandra Korap’s voice breaks when she lists five Munduruku indigenous elders living along the Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon. […] Read More >
June 5, 2020 > Wilfredo Miranda Aburto
Indigenous Territories in Nicaragua Face Violent Attacks
Photographs by Carlos Herrera. MANAGUA—The town bell rang out at 3 a.m. on Friday, February 28, in Santa Clara, a Miskito community in the northern Caribbean region of Nicaragua. As […] Read More >
June 3, 2020 > Hilary Goodfriend
For Murdered Honduran Organizer Berta Cáceres, “Any Injustice Was Her Battle”
This interview is republished from the North American Congress on Latin America. The March 2, 2016 assassination of venerated Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres sent shockwaves around the world. […] Read More >
June 2, 2020 > Andressa Santa Cruz
Indigenous Land Rights at Stake in Brazil Supreme Court Case
INDIGENOUS TERRITORY LAKLÃNÕ AND SÃO PAULO– A court judgment that will shape the future of Indigenous land demarcations across Brazil has become a battleground between defenders of native communities and […] Read More >
May 29, 2020 > Benjamin Dangl
State Violence in Áñez’s Bolivia: Interview with Human Rights Lawyer David Inca Apaza
This interview is republished from the North America Conference on Latin America (NACLA). Pigeons flew around the sunny Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia as I walked toward human rights […] Read More >
May 27, 2020 > Susanne Schweitzer
In Costa Rica, Defending Indigenous Territory Comes at a Price
Across Latin America, Indigenous territories are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. In Costa Rica, public health measures have largely prevented infections among the Indigenous population. But for Indigenous territories like […] Read More >
May 26, 2020 > Staff
Corona Hits the Cocaine Supply Chain
By Linda Farthing and Thomas Grisaffi Among the many myths about the coronavirus, one of the strangest circulated on Twitter is the belief that snorting cocaine could ward off the […] Read More >