Although the United Nations Human Rights Council must ensure objectivity, universality, and non-selectivity in the treatment of human rights, Western countries use this to assault or belittle countries willing to defend their own path. A previous complaint against Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Belarus, Cuba, Nicaragua, Russia and China was heard […]
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Colombia, a country in crisis
With the exception of the government’s apologists, who insist that everything is going perfectly, the truth is that the country seems to be engulfed in chaos with no obvious way out. Authoritarianism, violations of human rights, massacres, daily murders…a reality that many know cannot continue.
Pandemic, passivity, and the end of politics
When we watch disaster movies, the hero (and it is usually a male) does daring deeds, playing a leading role in overcoming the threat. Steve Latham Even if he begins the film as a relative nobody, he somehow ends up in the centre of the action. In real […]
Fables with a punch
Fables tend to convey a moral, often anodyne, sometimes downright objectionable. Enlightened writers have seen that children need fables with a ring of social truth, not sanctimonious ones that avoid confronting unpleasant realities. Sean Sheehan The libertarian William Godwin (1756-1836) took to writing under an assumed name because of […]
Cuban doctors nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
British academic, Helen Yaffe, has nominated Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Contingent to receive the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for their contribution to tackling COVID-19 in 39 countries around the world. “Having researched the development of Cuba’s public healthcare system and its ‘medical internationalism’, I appeal to the Nobel […]















