Latin America & the Caribbean

  • The film Uribe doesn't want you to see

    In response to the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's call to his ambassadors to ban the screening of Insurgency of the 21st Century, Australian activist groups have started promoting the documentary.

  • Online Forum: Making sense of Venezuela's presidential election

    • Online

    The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has been a huge inspiration over the past two decades for leftist and progressives around the world. However, in recent years, the advances of an earlier period have stalled in the face of brutal US sanction and deep economic crisis. The July 28 presidential election saw the national electoral authority (CNE) declare President Nicolas…

  • 50 Years since the coup d'etat, 50 Years of Memory

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Exhibition++ at NSW Parliament
    Sydney joins other world events marking 50 Years of Memory, struggle and solidarity, since the coup d'état in Chile on 11 September 1973. We will remember the peaceful revolution proposed by our martyred President, Dr Salvador Allende and strengthen our collective memory of those events.

  • Film & Forum: Chile 1973-2023: 50 years of memory, solidarity and resistance

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    September 11th 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest chapter in the history of Latin America.
    We will reflect on the power of audio-visual media language and collective memory, through the screening of Crossing the Pacific – Chilean Voices in Australia (2023, by Milena Ben David) and La memoria Obstinada (Patricio Guzmán 1997), both with English subtitles. After the screenings, there will be a round table discussion with Milena Ben David (Recapture Productions), Dr Alejandra Canales (Head of Research, AFTRS), and Professor Juan Francisco Salazar (University of Western Sydney, followed by a Q&A and light refreshments.

  • 50 Years Allende lives

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Film screenings of La Bestia and 1976 along with an art exhibition about Salvador Allende and his legacy.

  • Chile - 50 years since the coup

    • Western Australia
    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    We invite you to commemorate 50 years since the brutal military coup d’état in Chile, 1973 What to expect: Speeches/ Testimonials Photo memorial Live music & DJ Raffle prize This a non-for-profit family friendly event. No entry fee and strictly BYO food & drinks.  Bring your flag or banners.

  • Save Waterloo: Love, Art, Revolution Film and Feast

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Alongside Saturday’s famous free Waterloo sausage sizzle, we will show 90 minutes of short films about battles for green spaces and the environment, gender and social justice short films. Highlights shared from the first Love, Art and Revolution Film Festival, which was held in Gadi/Sydney in April 2023.

  • Oral stories of Solidarity with Latin America

    • Gadigal Country/Sydney

    Launch of Inner Latin America, an oral history project supported by the Inner West Council Community History grant. A history talk and audio-visual display will highlight a new collection of interviews with Latin American refugees and Australian solidarity activists at the Inner West Library Oral History holdings, timed with the 50-year commemoration of the 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d’état.