Category: Dispatches
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 >
May 19, 2020 > Martha Pskowski
The Next Deadly Virus Could Start in the Amazon, Brazilian Scientists Warn
How is an infectious disease born? That is the question that set Joel Henrique Ellwanger on the path of studying emerging diseases in his home country of Brazil. As Ellwanger […] Read More >
May 15, 2020 > Maria Paula Rubiano
Destruction of the Colombian Amazon Continues During Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has reached the Colombian Amazon, which only has two hospitals, with 68 beds and eight ventilators. The virus has already infected 903 people in the region. There […] Read More >