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Metropolitan Police: Operating Off-Protocol

Metropolitan Police: Operating Off-Protocol

The repression at Borda Hospital last month is the latest in a string of incidents that have put the Metropolitan police’s violent ways under the spotlight. George Nelson analyses the police’s behaviour.

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Food For Thought: Garden Therapy at Borda Hospital

Food For Thought: Garden Therapy at Borda Hospital

A garden, deep within the grounds of the Borda hospital, is speeding the recovery of mentally ill patients who can engage in therapeutic work away from the confines of the building. George Nelson reports.

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Guatemala Genocide Trial: Beating the Odds at Trying an Ex-Dictator

Guatemala Genocide Trial: Beating the Odds at Trying an Ex-Dictator

In a world first, former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt is being tried for genocide in a domestic court in Guatemala. However, the trial has been marked by scandals and controversies. Avery Kelly reports.

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Breaking the Wall of Impunity in Uruguay

Breaking the Wall of Impunity in Uruguay

Uruguayan judges and prosecutors are beginning to defy the Supreme Court of Justice’s closure of human rights investigations. Francesca Lessa and Pierre-Louis Le Goff analyse the situation.

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Project of the Week: Comedor Infantil con Computación

Project of the Week: Comedor Infantil con Computación

IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Comedor Infantil con Computación.

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Awá: Saving Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe

Awá: Saving Earth’s Most Threatened Tribe

Brandon Foster tells the story of the Awá people from Brazil, whose existence is currently under threat due to the invasion of their land in the Amazon by loggers, settlers, and ranchers.

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In Search of Their Roots: The Mapuche and Modern Society

In Search of Their Roots: The Mapuche and Modern Society

Aigul Safiullina visits the Santa Rosa community six years after they reclaimed their ancestral territory in Leleque, Patagonia, now a symbol of the Mapuche struggle for land and identity in Argentina.

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Flooding in Argentina: Cities Designed for Disaster

Flooding in Argentina: Cities Designed for Disaster

Floods like the ones that affected BA and La Plata are increasingly common, and if the necessary infrastructure works are not carried out, their consequences will only get worse. Kari Paul reports.

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Project of the Week: ACCT

Project of the Week: ACCT

IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Acciones Coordinadas Contra la Trata de Personas (ACCT).

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Money for La Plata

Money for La Plata

The Indy is organising a fundraising event at The Clubhouse this Saturday for victims of the flooding in La Plata. Includes stand up in English, live music, and a raffle with great prizes. Come along!

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