No Colombian institution remains free of a situation of severe crisis. Corruption, nepotism and well-known public links with drug trafficking mafias affect a significant number of politicians and civil servants in every sphere.
Latin America
Venezuelan migrants, COVID and the truth
After years of manipulating the Venezuelan migration crisis phenomenon to attack the Bolivarian Revolution and thus reap the financial rewards, the scourge of the new coronavirus pandemic was enough to topple the deception. Yadira Cruz Valera The COVID-19 pandemic had barely reached Latin America when thousands of Venezuelans […]
Children in Uruguay: Sexual exploitation and power relations
On the basis that it is recognised that there is a close link between the powerful and children subjected to sexual exploitation, the justice system in Uruguay is trying to prevent it being normalised by prosecuting a network of high-profile abusers. Hugo Rius Even though this behaviour was […]
The scope of solidarity and preventative medicine
When talking recently about the pandemic that has hit the world, my daughter remembered a health scare that she experienced where medicine for the soul as opposed to for the money made all the difference to a speedy recovery. Nubia Piqueras Grosso Deeply troubled by the disturbing images […]
Fighting the pandemic: Cuban doctors on Venezuelan soil
Faced with an influx of thousands of migrants returning from Brazil, a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals from the Cuban Medical Mission in Venezuela is on the front line in containing the Covid-19 pandemic at the border. Dailyn Ruano Martínez The 21 specialists of the first brigade of […]
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