When Cassius Clay, a descendant of a slave, became heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1964 he rejected his slave name (‘I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it’) and, before becoming Muhammad Ali, referred to himself as Cassius X. Another Black American, Malcolm Little, also rejected his […]
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21st century children’s dungeons
The privatisation of shelters for vulnerable children in Panama is potentially the main reason of state neglect, the consequence of that being the allegations of child abuse. Osvaldo Rodriguez Martinez The social crisis created by the dramatic situation of the abuse children and teenagers receive in the shelters […]
The wings of the cabinetmaker
Memories of the national strike, 2021. The son of a poor family, 26-year-old Brahian joined two lists of victims of violence during the National Strike in Colombia: the list of those who have disappeared (now almost 500) and the list of those who have been killed, which is close to […]
Breaking the narrative
Caesura (pronounced sez-ura) is a literary term, referring to a break between words in a line of poetry, and “The saving line” is a study of the ways Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno identify narrative caesuras in the work of other writers as signifying markers of interruptions. Sean Sheehan […]
What the left must do to beat the right
The Latin American and Caribbean left’s social and political struggle has a much wider scope, but undoubtedly the aim of attaining control of the state is one of the main objectives, at least as a condition for subsequent progress. Juan Diego Garcia This struggle seems to be subject […]
















