With a pile of evidence collated, the Federal Police (FP) has accused the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in an investigation into an alleged network illegally trading the jewellery given by foreign authorities during his time in government (2019-2022). He could go to prison. Osvaldo Cardosa In […]
Latin America
When the press is no guardian of democracy
Media observatories and analysts will be able to record in their studies that the coming to power of Colombia’s first leftist president and the private concentration of ownership of media companies ended up leading the media and several of its most renowned journalists to an undeniable crisis of social legitimacy […]
Bolivia: foreign hands in coup plot
After the failed military attempt on 26 June and the intention of the traditional right and radical sectors of the left to position the narrative of a “self-coup”, a new threat emerged last week from Washington. “We continue to monitor the situation in Bolivia. We understand and note the […]
Rebuilding Colombia, purging the establishment
The Colombian Establishment is in dire need of self-purification if its most visible members are to regain the Casa de Nariño in 2026. German Ayala Osorio* Regardless of whether the government of President Gustavo Petro pushes through the social reforms proposed in his electoral campaign, a narrative is […]
‘Para-justice’ or vigilante justice in Colombia
The citizens’ weariness with street thieves naturalised revenge and punishment as instruments of a kind of dangerously vindictive “para-justice”. German Ayala Osorio* Every day, videos are posted on social media showing citizens, particularly men, subjecting thieves to violent punishments they call “paloterapia” (lynching), cognitive recalibration, therapeutic massages (punching […]
















