With forced displacement it is not just material goods that are lost but identity, a way of life. This is what has happened to several peasant families from the municipality of Coyuca de Catalán in Mexico. But although they have no support and violent groups expelled them, they prefer to […]
Latin America
Guantanamo, executioner in a foreign land
In international public opinion, Guantanamo is an inoperative base due to humanitarian matters connected with the prison. It also symbolises colonialism, reaffirms the distorted vision of Cuba as a backyard and it is the only country with which the United States has no diplomatic links. Danay Galletti Hernandez Authorities, […]
US’s interest in its “backyard” could increase
After the attacks in the United States 20 years ago, Latin America remained an area of interest for Washington, but following the failure in Afghanistan experts warn that its influence in the area will worsen. Adriana Robreño After the attacks on 11 September 2001, the White House focused on […]
Progressivism and left-wing policies would enable integration
The crisis in the region surpasses just the economic sectors and extends to trade, environment, institutions and governance, society and geopolitics. Changing that reality requires political change. Teyuné Díaz Díaz If governments put the resources of Latin America at the service of the people, surely these problems could be […]
Who am I?
One fate befalls them all: Xi Jimping, Vladimir Putin, you, me, all of us. “We take good chance, and tie it to our strength’, as the poet John Donne wrote. Or, hopefully, we do. Nigel Pocock Probably much of the time, not. Much depends, also, on very different meanings of […]