The current coronavirus pandemic can be coped with much better if there is a system of meaning ‘from above’, rather than merely ‘from below’. Nigel Pocock The ultimate expression of men and women, is their minds. The paradox is that we have to play the role of God […]
Author: ThePrisma
Laughter: the infallible remedy
I am – badly – plagiarizing this formidable title from the magazine ‘Selecciones’ from the Readers Digest that I read during my childhood. . Armando Orozco Tovar . I am killing myself laughing right now at remembering the practice of covering these magazines in leather and hiding them; at what […]
“Bajo fuego”, a chronicle of failure foretold in Colombia
Five years on, broken promises are the main feature of the peace agreement signed between the government and the FARC guerrillas. President Ivan Duques party are doing all they can to de-legitimize it. Money disappears, and useless bureaucracy flourishes in what many say is a mafia state.
Mutations could render current Covid vaccines ineffective
New survey from People’s Vaccine Alliance shows urgency of vaccinating all countries. Failure to tackle global vaccine inequality heightens the risk of further mutations. Global supplies are being artificially rationed and a handful of companies decide who lives and who dies. Epidemiologists, from some of the world’s leading […]
The pandemic has enhanced the decline of Latin America
The negative impact of Covid-19 in this region highlights and intensifies the great structural disparities that exist in these countries, ravaged by unemployment, poverty and inequality. Teyuné Díaz Díaz An estimated number of 209 million people fell into poverty in 2020 due to the critical health situation, 22 […]