Organised by the Mapuche of Southern Chile, self-representation is the theme of the sixth edition of the Mapuche Film and Indigenous Arts Festival, taking place between January 25 and 29, and broadcast from Temuco, Wallmapu ancestral territory of... Read Article
The Coronavirus pandemic has left the Kuikuro Indigenous community vulnerable and under threat to losing elder leaders and others within their community. Brazil has one of the highest death rates of Coronavirus in the world, with almost 2... Read Article
A new short animation is paying tribute to the land struggles of the Mapuche indigenous peoples of Southern Chile and Argentina. Choyün, Shoots of the Earth tells the story of a young Mapuche woman returning from the capital... Read Article
A new documentary is drawing attention to the COVID-19 situation for indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, a place rich in heritage and the birthplace of psychedelic cumbia legends such as Los Wembler’s, Juaneco and Pax de Iquitos.... Read Article
This story originally appeared in aljazeera.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Quito, Ecuador – Nemonte Nenquimo, an Indigenous Waorani leader from Ecuador’s... Read Article
Carlos Martínez Sarasola taught, gave talks and conducted his radio program until the end of his life, passing on the knowledge he had collected to new audiences. He died on May 29th, at the age of 69, a... Read Article
Whilst spending several weeks in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as part of an exciting research project exploring the socio-political effects of coca cultivation and cocaine production, I was privileged to meet the son of... Read Article
The former Argentinean ambassador in Liberia and Perón’s doctor, Hipólito Barreiro, is preparing for the reissue of his book Juan Sosa, the Indian who Changed History (Spanish Title: Juancito Sosa, el Indio Que Cambio la Historia). “In Argentina we... Read Article
Independent Art Advisor and Curator, Sandra Higgins is back in London after living the last seven months in Colombia. She has organised an exhibition to highlight a variety of the contemporary art and culture of Colombia she discovered.... Read Article
Tent of Gypsy Passage (Tenda Caminho Cigano) is located in the working class town of Nilópolis, one and a half hours by public transport from Rio de Janeiro. I arrive there with my Brazilian friends who are used... Read Article
In the 1990s, more than 270,000 women and 22,000 men were sterilised in Peru as part of a massive family planning campaign launched by the President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori. Twenty years later, these people are still trying... Read Article
Meet Santa Mala, an up and coming all female Bolivian hip hop group based in São Paulo, Brazil. Having a chola-esque feel to their rapping and fashion style, this group is crossing all kinds of borders. Three sisters from... Read Article
