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Latin America in a post-Covid world: The cost of inequalities
Inequalities are staggering high in Latin America, impacting groups of the population very differently when faced with a shock of the magnitude of Covid. With the pandemic here to stay, not only is it causing a worsening of inequalities, but also have pre-existing inequalities made the impact of the first waves far worse for the most vulnerable segments of the population.
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Espinar: death and destruction of territory
The lives of the inhabitants of this Peruvian region could be put in danger when they protest, but they know that if they do not say anything today, the diseases they suffer as a result of the mining operations will mean that tomorrow they die silenced. They have witnessed the destruction of their land.
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Mines and indigenous peoples in Peru: A slow and silent death
The mining business is growing but the quality of life of the communities has worsened considerably. They have denounced abuses of their human rights and the destruction of their territories for over forty years now. Every day they face consuming contaminated water and diseases caused by the presence of toxic metals in their blood.
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The cold war in modern times
To military coups, dictatorships and other direct forms of waging this cold war can be added new forms of interventionism, of modern warfare, which (without ignoring Washington’s repeated direct military intervention in the region) have centred on economic sabotage, the media war and terrorism. Terrorism is financed and directed by specialised agencies of the United States, which have started to be joined by European countries and Israel.
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Immigration, homosexuality and cultural identity
Censorship, hostility or repression against the homosexual community or immigrants are realities that exist in British and Spanish society. Talking about it is not always easy, but with art, many things are possible and more effective.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
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- 4 days agoIt is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And
- 4 days agoExtrajudicial executions carried out by members of the Armed Forces formed part of the dark history of
- 4 days agoWhat seemed to be the typical immigrant dream coming true, turned into a nightmare with the pandemic. Jessica
- 4 days agoThe diverse flow of immigrants that enter the Central American country through the border with Colombia tends
Multiculture
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José Vieira and the pains of being an immigrant
15/08/2022Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of [...] -
Experiencing Covid away from home
15/08/2022What seemed to be the typical immigrant dream coming true, turned into a nightmare with the pandemic. Jessica contracted the [...] -
This is a country made up of migrants
08/08/2022All of them have contributed to building a diverse and multi-national identity. Many public services such as public health, [...]
- Training, refugee and migrant crises
- Transculturalism, bias and social justice
- Multiculturalism, from a binary concept to a plural one
Latin America
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Drawing attention to the truth of ‘false positives’
15/08/2022Extrajudicial executions carried out by members of the Armed Forces formed part of the dark history of Colombia. They were [...] -
Migrants and their inhospitable journey
15/08/2022The diverse flow of immigrants that enter the Central American country through the border with Colombia tends to continue and [...] -
Latin America in a post-Covid world: The cost of inequalities
15/08/2022Inequalities are staggering high in Latin America, impacting groups of the population very differently when faced with a shock of [...]
- Latin America in a post-Covid world: Work during the pandemic
- A new developmentalism for Colombia
- Jair Bolsonaro and the end of days
Culture
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Bosch
15/08/2022Of all the great paintings in Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, the one that possibly attracts the most visitors is Hieronymus [...] -
John Donne: staying awake
08/08/2022The title of a new biography of an English poet, “Super-infinite”, points to the multi-faceted life of a 16th-century poet [...] -
Chaplin’s silence
08/08/2022On stage for the first time at five years old standing in for his mother when she was ill. From this experience, he discovered [...]
Workers
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Global solidarity and movement building
20/06/2022Facing the climate crisis, the global pandemic and the wars requires a global movement. For Selma James, the international [...] -
All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
13/06/2022This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and [...] -
Selma James: “We get nothing unless we struggle”
06/06/2022There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of [...]
United Kingdom
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José Vieira and the pains of being an immigrant
15/08/2022Fleeing the Portuguese dictatorship with his family in 1965 shaped his desire to investigate the interior and exterior reality of [...] -
Climate change in Malawi increases risk of sexual violence
15/08/2022It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with [...] -
Drawing attention to the truth of ‘false positives’
15/08/2022Extrajudicial executions carried out by members of the Armed Forces formed part of the dark history of Colombia. They were [...]
- Experiencing Covid away from home
- Migrants and their inhospitable journey
- Latin America in a post-Covid world: Work during the pandemic
Lifestyle
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Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...] -
The virus cannot kill education
10/08/2020The most important thing for the Mexican secretary of education is not only to save lives in the pandemic which has already taken [...] -
Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
10/08/2020The Covid-19 pandemic changed many routines at a global level from various orders, and life within households also had its [...]
Strugles
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Global solidarity and movement building
20/06/2022Facing the climate crisis, the global pandemic and the wars requires a global movement. For Selma James, the international [...] -
All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
13/06/2022This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and [...] -
Selma James: “We get nothing unless we struggle”
06/06/2022There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of [...]
- Wages for house work, decades of Struggle
- British bank asked to unblock Cuba
- A social explosion to commemorate and not to forget
World
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Russia, Ukraine and Europe’s suicidal decision making
25/07/2022Despite its economic risk forecasts already predicting average inflation of over eight points this year in the European Union, [...] -
The cold war in modern times
25/07/2022To military coups, dictatorships and other direct forms of waging this cold war can be added new forms of interventionism, of [...] -
The silent death of the Himalayas
18/07/2022In Northern India, in Himachal Pradesh, the state where a part of this mountain range lies which also hugs the borders of China [...]
- Kurdish radical women journalists will not be silenced in the face of Turkish repression
- The ‘media lynching’, the message of fear
- A truth in the shadows: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Sports
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Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]