By constitutional design, it falls to the President of the Republic to present the Supreme Court of Justice with a shortlist of three candidates from which the nation’s new attorney general will emerge. Germán Ayala Osorio Due to the bitter personal, institutional and political confrontations between President Gustavo […]
Latin America
The unconscionable violence that surrounds feminicide
In the Dominican Republic there is deep-rooted machismo and women are assigned a role of submission and dependence. Impunity surrounds these crimes and according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in 2022 only 16% of feminicide cases were brought to justice and only 5% of […]
Choosing the extreme right, risking democracy
The culture of hate and resentment, spread so successfully by the extreme right. The necropolitics bolstered by digital networks, which tend to isolate people and exacerbate violence. Only social policies that reduce social inequality can do away with such a bleak outlook. Frei Betto There is something that […]
Hundreds of immigrants’ stories in one film
The journey of three teenagers riding “the Beast”, the train that leads to the desired future in the United States, is full of risks and is destroying innocence, hope and grand dreams, metre by metre. Noelia Ceballos Terrén From his first steps behind a camera 30 years later […]
Indigenous people remain the most vulnerable communities
Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru have some of the people most affected by the industries that extract natural resources in Latin America. On the continent there are 43 million natives made up of over 500 different peoples, supposedly 7.6% of the total population of the region. . Benjamin Serra . […]
















