Jokes for Justice in Latin America
![A Las Reinas Chulas comedy performance of "Les Miserables" in Mexico City on August 25, 2017. Photo credit: © Jose Jorge Carreon/Notimex/Newscom Actors on a stage dressed in period costumes](https://opensocietyfoundations.imgix.net/uploads/f74608dd-f820-4d8b-8046-cf9725a46eee/20190328-carreon-mexico-comedy-3000.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=430&q=80&rect=0%2C250%2C3000%2C1688&w=760)
What’s the role of humor in an open society? And can comedy be an effective tool for increasing tolerance, changing attitudes, and promoting social justice?
In this video, Open Society Foundations colleagues, partners, and grantees talk about how activists, civil society organizations, comedians, humorists, and journalists from throughout Latin America are using comedy to tear down prejudice, expose corruption, and offer a vision of a better world.