On the 5th March 2009, the ex-paramilitary commander of United Self-Defence Unit of Colombia (AUC in Spanish), José Éver Veloza, alias H.H, was extradited to the US in order to account for his dealings in narco-trafficking crimes. The Prisma’s Memoirs. April 2011. Juan Galbete Up until the day […]
Author: The Prisma
Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador: “It’s very difficult to achieve the revolutionary conscience”
While he crossed the Heart of the city in his boat over the river Thames, the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, had completed what was the first visit made by the aforementioned leader to the United Kingdom. The Prisma’s Memoirs. January 2011. Helen Yaffe* It happened at the […]
Genetic modification and reparations for slavery
Knowledge makes people responsible, with the need to apply knowledge rightly; the perpetrators and the cultures that benefited are accountable. Nigel Pocock Genetic modification and reparations for slavery might seem on first appearances to be somewhat distant companions. How should we define ‘GM’? If we limit the definition […]
Another language of postmodernism
You have to relate the graffiti to the world of art and remove anything crude… The same could have been said about graffiti during the eighties. Armando Orozco Tovar It was the time when “street artists” made an appearance, their closest predecessors being the “jucos”, communist activists, or […]
Liberal pluralism: a revival of Roman emperor worship?
Hopefully noxii (doomed convicts, people noxious to society) are no longer being thrown to the lions as a means of both social control and entertainment. Nigel Pocock But, alas, both are still with us… The tabloids provide the entertainment, while the ideas with subtlety convey the Emperor’s ideals – […]