Natalia’s story (38) reflects a complex reality that goes beyond addiction: it is the testimony of a life marked by loneliness, lack of affection, and a profound existential void. For more than 15 years, she has been a user of cocaine paste, trapped in a cycle she has been unable to break, largely due to…
In 2017, while reporting her son’s disappearance at the investigative police station, Irma Arellanes Hernández met other mothers who were going through the same heartbreaking situation. United by their shared pain, they decided to organize and start searching on their own. Since then, through their collective Tesoros Perdidos (Lost Treasures), they have discovered approximately 190…
PIATSAW documents the resistance of the Indigenous nations of the Ecuadorian Amazon protecting their ancestral territories from extractivism. For decades, Ecuador’s rainforest has been devastated by some of the worst environmental disasters in the Amazon due to oil spills and industrial malpractice. Legal and illegal mining has left lunar landscapes steeped with mercury and toxic…
For generations, mistreatment of the Mapuche people—who number around 1.9 million and represent approximately 10% of Chile’s population—has marred the country’s development. The Araucanía region, home to a significant portion of these communities, is one of the poorest in Chile: of its 957,224 inhabitants, 17.2% live below the poverty line. For decades, the Mapuche have…
Between December 2022 and March 2023, the crackdown on protests against the government of Dina Boluarte—which erupted after the removal of Pedro Castillo, who attempted a coup—left at least 50 dead and more than 1,200 injured in Peru. Most of the victims were rural and indigenous workers from the south; some were not even participating…
The Guaraní Mbyá indigenous community preserves its spirituality in Brazil’s smallest indigenous territory, nestled in the heart of the largest megalopolis in the Americas. In 1500, during the Portuguese invasion, the Guaraní people inhabited a vast territory stretching from the Brazilian coast to the Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. Their lands were…
