This week the United States decides its future. Trump and Biden are playing a difficult game and the opinion polls seem not to favour the current president. But surprises should not be ruled out. According to the statistics website FiveThirtyEight, the president has barely a 13 per cent […]
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Almagro in his labyrinth
Luis Almagro missed the opportunity to stay silent when he congratulated online Bolivia’s new president Luis Arce on his election, confirming the OAS was complicit in the 2019 coup. Manuel Robles Sosa “The people of Bolivia have expressed themselves at the ballots. We congratulate Luis Arce and David […]
Reading therapy
The best books for sharing aloud with children too young to read are charged with therapeutic value for readers and listeners alike. Sean Sheehan It is not about building vocabulary, trying to accelerate the child’s developmental pace and prime the posture of their mind in order to give […]
Despite Covid, Cuba is leader in nickel production
Cuba is the fifth global metal reserve, the ninth nickel-producing country in the world and, despite the pandemic, will exceed 50,000 tons of metal extraction in 2020. Teyuné Díaz Díaz Juan Ruiz, the general director of Mining of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), said in an […]
Live, live, live
“Live; live; live”, the latest novel from Jonathan Buckley, plays eloquent witness to a liminal space, the boundary between the limits of rational thinking and the beginnings of occult mystification. Sean Sheehan It’s an intriguing borderland, one which does not make complete sense, lying as it does is […]















