Can the Favelas be Heard?
Ben-Hur Nogueira, a 24-year-old Afro-Brazilian documentarian, presents a different view of the favelas and the resilience of its people ...
Impunity and the Permanent Coup in Peru
A massacre in a peripheral area of Peru highlights how the state has built a system that perpetuates impunity ...
Postcolonial Rhythms in the Andes
A.Chal’s new track “Pituko” is a creative disruption of postcolonial geographies across Peru, and a blend of old and new ...
Weaving Solidarities Across Abya Yala and Palestine
In Latin America, Palestine not only represents the struggle of a people refusing to submit to subjugation and dispossession, but ...
A Permanent State of Mal Gobierno: Analyzing Peruvian State Violence on its Own Terms
Violence against protesters, anti-LGBTQ policies, and a submission to the International Criminal Court accusing President Dina Boluarte of human rights ...
Peruvian Indigenous Communities Continue to Seek Justice a Year On
A year after the Juliaca massacre killed 19 protesters, no official has been charged with the crimes. In Lima, corruption ...
Walking Alongside an Andean Radical in Times of Revolt in Peru
The life of the renowned campesino activist Hugo Blanco helps us see through the limitations of state reform and better ...
Recent Paro in Cusco is Latest Expression of Political Agency in Peru
Indigenous and campesino communities turn to strikes, road blockages, and other confrontational tactics to reclaim their political agency ...
Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body
An interview with Lourdes Huanca of the National Federation of Female Peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Native and Salaried Workers of Peru ...