A candidate for the Presidency, the head of the electoral tribunal and professors of communication condemned the use of fake news and other excesses that tend to intensify during the ongoing electoral process in Peru. The subject was approached from different angles and in different circumstances by the progressive […]
In Focus
In Focus
Bolivia: Coup leaders deserve exile
In Bolivia, when the justice system serves indigenous victims, their white executioners cry revenge! The de facto government mobilised and financed state-sanctioned armed groups, such as the JRC in Cochabamba and the UJC in Santa Cruz, who attacked and humiliated elected public officials of the ousted former government. […]
Public opinion, identity atomised
One deceitful and yet successful strategy used by mass media to spread truths that don’t exist is by putting words in the mouths of millions, whether these be words of demand, rejection, support or condemnation. Today this strategy is employed by ideologies that seek to encroach on liberties. But this has always been the case.
Constant change with Covid
Slavoj Žižek has written that a frustrating aspect of the pandemic is that it continues without end, with no conclusion. It’s an ongoing emergency, which proceeds non-teleologically in different stages. Steve Latham As we are learning, with the virus a permanent presence in our world, the implications of […]
Coping with life and death: the Westerns of Budd Boetticher
As a child, Budd Boetticher (pronounced ‘bettiker’) was assured by his mother that she was taking him to the circus but brought him instead to the dentist. Sean Sheehan Arriving there, he asked “Where are the elephants?” –the question became the title of his second, unpublished autobiography– and, […]
















