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Batista and the survivors

It happened in March 1957, after three in the afternoon. The Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista was drinking coffee in his office when several screams and gunfire shots shook the then Presidential Palace.   Isaura Diez Millan   50 young men under the command of Carlos Gutierrez Menoyo entered the headquarters […]

Human Rights Latin America Politics

Daniel Mendoza and his counter-power journalism

Persecuted, threatened with death and exiled in France, the author of the documentary series “Matarife”, talks about what millions of Colombians keep silent out of fear and what few media outlets reveal. He talks about how there can be no democracy where there is no real journalism and where the media are biased in favour of the government and dedicate themselves to applauding it and sponsoring its crimes.

Globe United Kingdom

Brexit, England and isolationism

However strongly political winds blow, they can’t change geography. When the UK voted to leave the EU in June of 2016, it was due in part to a culmination of decades of anti-EU sentiment and an increasing desire within the UK to return to a time of supremacy, of “independence”. […]