Miguel Lawner, an architect and civil servant under Salvador Allende’s government, was arrested following the 1973 coup and confined on Dawson Island. There, together with other prisoners, he restored an abandoned church before going into exile and then returning to Chile in 1985. Carmen Esquivel In that area […]
Latin America
Guatemala’s deep educational lag
The OECD’s PISA assessment ranked the country among the lowest-performing participants in Latin America and the Caribbean. The decline was particularly striking in reading, where scores fell by 37 points compared with 2022, while experts are calling for greater investment and reforms to strengthen secondary education and develop students’ skills. […]
Searching for justice in contemporary Colombia
In light of the changes in the Colombian political panorama, representatives from the legal and human rights spheres are meeting in London on 14th October to discuss peace building, transitional justice with a gender perspective, indigenous rights and the impact of judicial decisions. Pablo Muñoz The recent change […]
On the bodies of the defeated and the normalisation of barbarism
Human dignity does not disappear with death. In Colombia, a history scarred by violence is once again raising questions about the boundaries that the State must respect, even with regards to a fallen enemy, to avoid the risk of converting corpses into symbols of victory, effectiveness or power, and reestablishing […]
Guardians of the Amazon in the crosshairs
Protectors of Indigenous territories in the Peruvian Amazon face threats from drug traffickers, loggers, illegal miners and others seeking to exploit their resources. Since 2013, several defenders have been murdered, and dozens remain under threat of death. At least 43 Amazonian Indigenous leaders appear to be lined up on […]
















