In an open public lecture, University College London professor, Claire Lindsey, will speak o n the impact of ‘women travellers’ in Latin American history, and how the experience of these women hold rich potential for new feminist movements. Harry Allen It is often said that Latin American feminism […]
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Jorge Glas’s unlawful and random arrest
Last week, intellectuals, artists and politicians from several countries released a letter calling for the immediate release of Ecuador’s former vice-president, Jorge Glas, who has been imprisoned for more than a month after being forcibly removed from the Mexican embassy in Ecuador. The invasion of Mexican territory was aimed […]
Jacobo Belilty: revealing the invisible Latino community in the UK
He is one of those immigrants who advocate for the identity of Latin Americans to be recognised and made visible at the public policy level and beyond. He is Venezuelan, has lived in the UK for more than a decade and is the coordinator of a coalition that has been […]
The meeting point for the wretched
According to Lucas Fernández Piedrahita, “Bogotá was awarded city status on July 27th, 1540. And, in his article “My people”, Alberto Lleras writes “Who knows why everything that is ours was on the side of San Victorino…” Armando Orozco Tovar He adds: “On the corner where San Victorino […]
Tragedy with a capital ‘T’ transforms into cry
This is the title Francis Fergusson gives the summary of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King”, which according to Umberto Eco is the maximum condensation, that allows you to know something about a novel that’s not more than a two hundred page essay. Armando Orozco Tovar But going back […]