Rubbish is a serious problem when the population generates more than 4,500 tonnes of waste per day, which affects the drainage system during the rainy season. This is the case in El Salvador, and it is the fault of both the government and the inhabitants.   Luis Beatón   There […]

When he returned to Urabá in 1977, Luis Asdrúbal Jiménez Vaca found a region that was prosperous but in the grip of terror, whose inhabitants were beginning to resist the loss of their lands. Above all they were resisting being exploited and silenced by national and foreign companies, which were […]

The times of a certain ultra-conservative hegemony represented major setbacks for Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of the fight against poverty, inequality and climate change.   Pierre Lebret   Repression and human rights violations were the common denominator of these governments’ “response” to social movements and actors who […]

The rejection of the constitutional proposal in Chile was overwhelming, but this does not imply that Chileans (at least 80%) want Pinochet’s Constitution. The victims of this result are the Chilean people, who will see the possibility of better education, decent pensions, guaranteed access to health care and a social […]