After a career of over twenty years, he is now considered one of the most important actors of Spain. Roles that have given him greater glory have been mostly villains: psychopaths, offenders or prison leaders, among others. However, he says that they are much easier to play than characters that […]
In Focus
In Focus
A child of the war in Africa
José Manuel Valdermar Prata spent the first years of his life in his birthplace Benguela, a coastal city west of Angola. At the age of nine, he was already aware that the country had been immersed into a civil war, one which at times seemed to be resolved by peace, […]
Mansour: Capitalism lacks heart and long-term vision
Mansour Mohammadian is the founder of Economics of the Third Way, a model which proposes a replacement to the current economic system after the financial collapse. The theory is based on forgotten principles for regulating the economy, such as solidarity and trust. Miriam Valero In the 1980s Mansour […]
Prostitution in the UK (I): Poverty, the driving force
It has become the only option for many women, but discrimination and prosecution are the only ‘solutions’ thrown at this problem of poverty and gender. The Prisma’s Memoirs. July 2012_ César Amaya Sandino In the United Kingdom around 70% of women in prostitution are single mothers who do […]
The last slaves’ bunkhouse…the last link
It is the only thing to endure in Latin America. It exists in Trinidad, the southern Cuban city, where the Manaca-Iznaga estate rises together with the famous tower of the same name. Mayra Pardillo Gómez These days, restoration specialists and constructors carry out painstaking work to preserve these […]