Elections will be held in Brazil in October this year and, according to polls, if the vote were held today, Lula would win outright with 53% of the valid votes. There would then be no second round. Bolsonaro’s unpopularity is a fact and perhaps there are grounds for this. The […]
Latin America
Espinar: death and destruction of territory
The lives of the inhabitants of this Peruvian region could be put in danger when they protest, but they know that if they do not say anything today, the diseases they suffer as a result of the mining operations will mean that tomorrow they die silenced. They have witnessed the destruction of their land.
Latin America in a post-Covid world: The economic damage, a depressing picture
While the region implemented some of the toughest lockdowns in the world, its economies were the world’s most significantly impacted in the first two years of the pandemic. With covid an on-going concern, poverty and extreme poverty now affecting 287 million people and hunger at its highest level in twenty years social progress has suffered […]
Mines and indigenous peoples in Peru: A slow and silent death
The mining business is growing but the quality of life of the communities has worsened considerably. They have denounced abuses of their human rights and the destruction of their territories for over forty years now. Every day they face consuming contaminated water and diseases caused by the presence of toxic metals in their blood.
Latin America in a post-Covid world: Assessing the damage from the pandemic
As prospects of a fifth wave have intensified in various part of the world, The Prisma launches a new series on the legacy of the first two yearsof the pandemic for the people and the economies of the region. The pandemic brought with it three distinct, yet related crises that kept […]
















