Tensions are increasing in Chile. Since October 2019, something that many had been waiting 30 years for became possible thanks to the power of the people: the possibility to change a constitution handed down from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). Pierre Lebret* Gustavo Gatica, a young student that lost […]
Latin America
Popular struggle, dialogue and state violence
The protests in Colombia have triggered a huge and surprising popular reaction: protest movements in big cities and small villages, roads and tracks, squares and streets and even in homes where people protest daily, in their own way and according to their means, banging saucepans, flying flags and chanting slogans.
Why truth and justice matter in Colombia
This online webinar, to be held on 12 May, will examine the intersectionality between gender and ethnic discrimination and conflict sexual violence in Colombia. It will do so while discussing the role of transitional justice, as well as the international community, in supporting those working on issues of human […]
Panama: tension points in the working class
Although the macroeconomic figures were showing a healthy country in 2019, the slowdown has since left its mark on employment and household income which inequality made more visible in the economic sectors and geographical areas where poverty predominates. The Covid-19 pandemic rushed the downturn. Osvaldo Rodríguez Martínez Reports […]
US blockade against Cuba: immoral and criminal
The negative impact caused by the economic blockade enforced by the United States against Cuba increased with Covid-19. Details released by the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) point out that this US policy denies the largest country in the Antilles the right to acquire technology, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic […]