Raped in the fields, in the bushes or in their own homes. Many of them getting pregnant by the soldiers. The armed conflict has allowed the systematic abuse of almost 5,000 rural women in Peru. But they lost their fear to relive and recount their painful experiences.
Author: ThePrisma
Immigrants and activists: We must not be silent
Yonatan Mosquera was an activist in his home country, Colombia, from where he fled in his early twenties. Today, whilst receiving xenophobia from British police, he campaigns for Iraq, Cuba, Palestine, the working class but mainly Colombia. And he tries to educate new and future activists. Elle McHale […]
Migrant children in the jungle
In the last four years the number of children and adolescents who crossed the Darien jungle, in the border province of Panama, multiplied by more than 15. According to the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), since 2017, the number […]
Europe, in search of a political alternative
A different Europe should adopt a policy of peace and neutrality. For the moment, demands like this arise as the dispersed expression of very diverse groups and citizen initiatives but they are gaining ever more ground among wide sections of the population. Juan Diego Garcia Public awareness is […]
The pensioner who opened her home to children
Having retired from the education sector, Marina now provides childcare from her home, which she has converted into a playhouse known as “Las Marinitas”. Today, it is a symbol and an example for the city of Manzanillo, in Cuba’s eastern Granma Province. Eliexer Peláez Pacheco It was a […]