After the Russian takeover of the Crimea but before the invasion of Ukraine, the astute Perry Anderson described Zelensky’s state as “a client regime mentored by US proconsuls in Kiev”. Sean Sheehan Neoliberalism has certainly been the order of Kiev’s day: privatization, de-regulation, de-unionization. Zelensky, as evidenced by […]
In Focus
In Focus
The difficulty of saving democracy
Let’s hope that Colombia does not have a Pinochet and that Biden does not have another Henry Kissinger to do the dirty work. The Colombian political system operates in the midst of an atmosphere of endemic violence and its institutions (in particular the ones related to parliament and justice) are […]
Lesbophobia victim becomes an activist
Higui was 42 years old then. The men surrounded her. “I’m going to make you feel like a woman, you big dyke,” one of them told her. Ronald Angel An Argentine court acquitted Eva Analia Higui de Jesús, a lesbian woman who in 2016 suffered an attempted gang […]
Kidnapping and impunity in Mexico
From 2016 to 2021, only 63 out of 210 cases were solved under the new accusatory and oral criminal justice system. Anaid Pinas 43.51% of kidnappings in Puebla in the last six years were not solved, since of the 458 investigation files initiated for this crime, only 248 […]
Resisting assimilation
It is a bit of a truism to say that good science fiction offers more insight into our present state than some future, imaginary one. Sean Sheehan The claim can be put to the test when reading “A desolation called peace”, a tale as intriguing as its author, […]
















