One fate befalls them all: Xi Jimping, Vladimir Putin, you, me, all of us. “We take good chance, and tie it to our strength’, as the poet John Donne wrote. Or, hopefully, we do. Nigel Pocock Probably much of the time, not. Much depends, also, on very different meanings of […]
Author: ThePrisma
Panama’s economy: Slow and uncertain recovery
In a process inversely proportional to the Covid-19 pandemic, the economy in Panama begins to re-open slowly with results that are hardly visible to the majority. Osvaldo Rodríguez Martínez The commercial movement has already begun, but the merchants have given up complaining about lifting the quarantines or the mandatory […]
The need for an integrated Latin America
A United States of Latin America or a European Union in the region. Regional integration is a political question that depends on nationalist and progressive governments jointly seeking to take a united approach to the formation of a region of truly independent, prosperous and happy nations.
Immigrants and activists: My fire comes from my family’s pain
Her familys struggles, their stories of violence and environmental damage motivated Alejandra Piazzolla to study Conservation Biology and Ecology and utilise this knowledge in her role as joint coordinator at Extinction Rebellion, internationalist solidarity network where she fights for social justice, anti-racism and anti-oppression.
Afghanistan, the no man’s land others left
The objective of colonial powers has never been to bring civilisation, development and peace to the nations they invade. What history shows is quite the opposite. Juan Diego García The balance of the Christian West’s expansion across the planet leaves a panorama of desolation, plundering and destruction that […]