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 […]
Latin America
“Monos”: 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 this film, which has been selected as a […]
Affonso Uchoa: the power of fiction to transform experience
He talks about his fears for Brazil under the extreme right-wing government of Bolsonaro, especially the abuse of minority groups. His film about the arrest and violent abuse of a young man by the Brazilian police is also an interesting experiment in combining documentary and fiction.
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.
















