The persistent health crisis in Latin America will spill over into the social and health dimension and increase poverty and extreme poverty, inequality, unemployment and lack of access to education and care, which still show no signs of recovery. One of the most important expressions of inequality today is […]
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A pact of hope begins for Chileans
A new social pact will make this possible, and Chile’s new president will have to promote it in order to solve the most urgent problems the country has experienced since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Alain Valdes Sierra There are several challenges that Gabriel Boric will have […]
Dreams and nightmares
The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise. Sean Sheehan No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]
Bartolomé de Las Casas: slaver or pioneer of human rights?
Bishop de Las Casas (1484-1566) is both labeled the founder of the Spanish transatlantic slave trade, and the initiator of the fight for human rights, a paradoxical and seemingly contradictory position. Yet both are true. Nigel Pocock It was unfortunate indeed that de Las Casas suggested that Africans […]
Fluid sexuality and sexual identity
“Nothing is what it seems”. So goes the Zen Buddhist saying. Karl Marx echoed it with his famous statement: “Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on […]