His ability to teach history to the student in such an enjoyable way through the use of fine irony, humor and profuse anecdotes were some of the features that defined the character of the Guatemalan intellectual. Randy Saborit Mora He was baptized as The Voice of the Guatemalan […]
Latin America
Immigrants do favour host countries
Around 22.1 million displaced people remain across the Latin America continent as of the middle of 2023. This figure in Latin America and the Caribbean represented approximately a third of all the new individual asylum applications in the world. This is revealed by new studies from the United Nations […]
New condemnation of the Colombian State for HR violations
On 18 March, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the Colombian state for the political, institutional and ideological persecution carried out by members of the DAS against the Colectivo de Abogados Jorge Alvear Restrepo (Cajar). Germán Ayala Osorio* The ruling states that the state “violated, to […]
Salvadoran immigrants in the US: In a tight spot
The uncertainty about what their future will be in the North American country makes Salvadorans, who support more than a million of their compatriots with remittances, tremble. If they are expelled by Trump, if he wins, they will create an insoluble problem in El Salvador and will further complicate Bukele’s efforts to revamp the economy.
Forgiveness for a heinous crime against independent journalism
In the midst of the commemoration of Journalists’ Day, the Colombian state belatedly apologised to the country, to the journalists of El Espectador and to the victim’s family for the assassination on 17 December 1986 of Mr Guillermo Cano Izasa, editor of the prestigious and combative liberal newspaper. Germán […]















