The ideas of masculinity, discrimination and homophobia within El Salvador’s gangs are at the heart of “Unforgivable,” a documentary which explores how these under-reported topics affect gang violence. BARRIO 18 / Victoria Dittma The short film unfolds inside the overcrowded prison of San Francisco Gotera, in El Salvador’s […]
Latin America
Peruvian gold: the price of innocent flesh
A mining town at 5,000 metres for decades has been a centre of exploitation of poor workers, trying to jump-start their lives. Prostitution is rife often involving underage girls. Human body is a commodity whose value and hence its exploitation, oscillates with the price of gold, and inversely with the fortunes of stock markets.
The Cuban ‘boat boy’
It is been 21 years sincere Elian Gonzalez Brotons returned turned to Cuba, having been detained for several months in Miami. He was just 6 years old at the time, and his image was spread across the globe. Relations with the United States remained strained, and the island was headlining […]
Invisible and victims of the worst crimes
Women in Honduras endure everything: violent deaths of women, rape or rape, injuries, attempted murder, disappearances, commercial sexual exploitation, incest and kidnappings. The data provided by the Observatorio de Violencias contra las Mujeres 2021 (Observatory of Violence against Women 2021) put on the table a tangible reality that the […]
A pact betrayed, a process failed
Evidently the signature to the Peace Agreement of the former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos did not commit the dominant class that he, supposedly, represented when agreeing peace with part of the Colombian guerrilla movement. Juan Diego Garcia This is probably the main reason why the balance that […]
















