Theoretically, modern journalism has five objectives: informing, interpreting, entertaining, educating and giving opinions. Nevertheless, in reality, their objectives are: manipulating, lying, distorting, persecuting and generating business for those who are able to pay for their services. Patricio Mery Bell* Journalism generates feelings far removed from reality, for example, […]
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My daughter explains things to me
Finally, the shoe is on the other foot, as a generational shift takes place. Instead of me taking time to teach my daughter, she is assuming the role of teacher. Steve Latham It’s a reversal of Rebecca Solnit’s ironic essay, “Men explain things to me”, exposing men’s practice […]
The current state of identity
You could think that the question of identity has lost relevance in an ever more globalised and interconnected world. Indeed, it is not difficult to state that identities have become more fluid, ephemeral and unpredicta.
Multiculturalism has allowed ethnic minorities and immigrants not to be absorbed by dominant discourses. The struggle for recognition as has gained new forms.
The challenges: How to build a new country
Any political project that involves overcoming the underdevelopment, current dependencies and poverty of the social majorities in Latin America and the Caribbean, also means facing enormous challenges that go beyond any simply reformist project. Juan Diego García It is not enough that a political project aims only to […]
Fascism
Some things going on at the moment would justify the idea of a return of fascism in many parts of the world. We are facing a considerable decline in the so-called “rule of law”, that is, the abandonment of democratic forms of rule by the wealthy (the “democratic dictatorship of the wealthy classes”) and the establishment in its place of forms of rule that in many ways mirror classic forms of fascism.
















