For popular movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, achieving high levels of political awareness and organisation is not enough whilst the ruling classes, in one way or another, maintain control of the armed forces.
Latin America
The Press has allowed atrocities and corruption
For Chilean journalist Patricio Mery Bell, the press is an “accomplice to the return of neo-fascism” and has allowed the greatest violations of human rights. Highlighting European “hypocrisy”, he says that the left wing should re-establish its principles and that Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Rafael Correa have a lot […]
War, the human condition, the animal condition
Recreation is part of the day to day of war, especially when it is boys and girls who are there in the line of fire. A group of teenagers in the face of a military conflict. Santiago Zapata is the producer of “Monos”, film selected as a candidate to represent […]
“Roots 2”: Waves of migration reach Santiago
In recent years, attention in Europe on migration issues has been focussed on the wave of refugees heading towards their frontiers, forgetting that this phenomenon is also occurring on other continents on a large scale.
Marcos Zimmermann: Diversity enriches, monochrome doesn’t
An example of this is in the Patagonian province of Chabut, where the Mapuche and Tehuelche continue to exchange culture with the Welsh. These British descendants “feel Argentinean and continue to respect the Welsh traditions.” The Prisma’s Memoirs. September 2015 Juanjo Andres Cuervo “Since their arrival, the Welsh […]