“Tiredness kills” is a motorway sign warning drivers to take regular breaks in order to avoid accidents. Steve Latham It also describes our cultural moment, as Covid-19 continues to sap our energy, and we approach a state of societal enervation. For example, I noticed, among my colleagues, as […]
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Killings, protests and political violence
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic that has caused more than 20,000 deaths and has infected more than 700,000 people, the situation in Colombia is deeply worrying; abuse of power, repression, vandalism and a government failing to act. The most recent demonstrations in Colombia in respect of the […]
Saving lives in the “Covid zone”
The desire to heal and save lives has prevailed since that day in April when the first person with a positive diagnostic test, María Nancy Ángel Rivas, aged 32, was admitted. Since then the team of physicians has deeply felt the imminent challenge from the always-present danger of infection. […]
Nothingness in a refugee shelter
The bureaucratic impersonality of ‘H8’ as the name for a refugee shelter sums up the anonymity of the place and the state of nothingness that its residents are reduced to. Sean Sheehan When it finally closed at the end of 2018, H8 had been in operation for more […]
Julian Assange, journalism under trial
On Monday, September 7, the extradition hearing of the founder of Wikileaks, a political prisoner in the United Kingdom resumed. The trial keeps the world in suspense on what is clearly not a fair trial. Nathan Raia As time is passing by, it is becoming clear that this […]















