Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Latin American Films on the Line-Up
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which for the past 30 years has screened films about human rights abuses throughout... Read Article
Shining Path
It’s Not Cultural, It’s Political: An Interview With Storm In The Andes’ Mikael Wiström and Josefin Ekermann
Swedish film-maker Mikael Wiström’s documentary Storm in the Andes juxtaposes the drastically different yet interconnected stories of Flor Gonzales and... Read Article
REVIEW Storm In The Andes
Storm In The Andes (Tempestad En Los Andes) marks the final instalment of director Mikael Wiström’s “Peruvian trilogy”. The documentary... Read Article
Human Rights Watch Film Festival comes to London from 16th – 27th March
A young woman seeks to uncover the truth about her aunt, a guerrilla leader in the violent insurrection which rocked... Read Article
The Best Books on Revolutionary Movements in Latin America
The concept of revolution is entwined with the history of Latin America to such an extent that the Spanish word... Read Article
Transitional Justice in Peru
Rebecca K. Root’s Transitional Justice in Peru is a thoughtful account of the human rights abuses which arose from the... Read Article
REVIEW Bad Intentions
Set against the background of 1980s Communist guerilla attacks from the Shining Path group, Rosario Garcia-Montero’s Bad Intentions follows the... Read Article
Caution, Left Turn Only: Peruvian Elections
I once heard a Sociologist at UC Berkeley say that the left is always the right way. Latin America seems... Read Article