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This article is republished with permission from Amnesty International UK’s website. Berta Cáceres, tenacious environmental and human rights activist, was shot dead in her own home in Honduras in March 2016. Having campaigned tirelessly to protect indigenous communities... Read Article
The month of August is Women in Translation Month: an initiative created in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski to celebrate translated fiction written by women. Translated literature accounted for 5.63% of literature published in English in 2019,... Read Article
Yuri Herrera is an acclaimed Mexican author, best-known for the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World which was chosen as one of the Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and won the 2016 Best... Read Article
On March 10, 1920, a fire tore through the El Bordo mine in Pachuca, Mexico. After an evacuation, managers working for the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company sealed the mine, declaring that ‘no more than ten’... Read Article
Alia Trabucco Zerán’s Man Booker International Prize-nominated novel, The Remainder, is a disconcerting road trip with a twist, which shifts between different time frames, voices and countries. Iquela and Felipe are the joint narrators. Felipe sees dead bodies... Read Article
Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River and Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How it Ends bring us closer to the reality of the US-Mexico border and the children and adults who cross it. We are all familiar with... Read Article
“Really there’s no cause for concern, we have the best and the brightest tracking down whatever this is, and of course we have hospitals too, but, just in case, you know, best to stay home and not kiss... Read Article
Juan Pablo Villalobos, born in 1973 in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently living in Barcelona, is the author of two published books in English. Down the Rabbit Hole, a story told by the son of a Mexican drug baron,... Read Article
Every October the Snape Maltings arts complex in Suffolk, England, transforms itself into a piece of Latin America. FlipSide festival, now in its third year, is known for bringing together a mixture of big names in literature and... Read Article
“Poetry, music and painting can’t save the world. But they can save a moment.” These were the words of the Portuguese poet Matilde Campilho, whose collection Joquei was the best-selling book at this year’s Paraty International Literary Festival,... Read Article
There can’t be many popular musical genres which feature the triangle, drum and accordion as three staple instruments. Forró, pronounced foh-ho, is one of them. It’s a lively, addictive music that has its origins in Northeast Brazil and... Read Article
Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera, one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, is an unconventional crime novel. After his father’s suicide, the nameless protagonist, a depressed and aimless PE teacher, arrives in the sleepy beach town of Garopaba... Read Article
