Legalising marijuana is the right thing to do. It is safer than currently legal drugs, it is popular amongst a large section of the public, it would impede crime and it has medical benefits. It is time for lawmakers to end this self-righteous crusade against a relatively harmless drug in […]
In Focus
In Focus
The shadow of the hurricane
Since the devastating hurricane Ian hit Pinar del Río, the westernmost province of Cuba, the lives of the people of the small rural communities in this region of the island have changed. Since then, efforts to restore normality have not ceased. Martin Hacthoun With an effort that few […]
Delayed justice for a cold-blooded murder
On 17 March 1982, four journalists were killed by a patrol that ambushed them on their way to a guerrilla-controlled area during their coverage for IKON TV. It happened in El Salvador. After four decades of impunity, the culprits have finally been punished. This was made possible by María […]
South Korea’s cultural explosion
Some temporal periods of history become so characterised by their new cultural forms that it identifies them per se. Sean Sheehan In this way, the Renaissance serves as a label for two centuries of western European artistic and scientific development; modernism comes to define what radically changed in […]
Rebuilding memory to find the truth
This is a collective and anonymous testimony of former political prisoners detained in Coronda, Santa Fe, one of the maximum-security prisons in Argentina during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). Sergio Ferrari It was first published in 2003 under the title “Del otro lado de la mirilla” (“On the […]