Amada Silva fled the political situation in her native country and moved to the UK with her family. Over the past four decades she has lived and worked in this country, helping numerous people in difficult situations. Benjamin Serra “Forget your name, from now on, you are refugees […]
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A revolution foretold
Five years after the death of Fidel Castro, Stephen Wilkinson explains his role during the Cuban Revolution, the influence of Jose Marti, the suicide of Eduardo Chibas as a catalyst for social change and the coup d’etat led by Fulgencio Batista. Juanjo Andres Cuervo “Fidel Castro was motivated […]
The chimera of destiny
In “Maritza la fugitiva”, Eliécer Pardo enters into a time and place that raise a generous and open staging and scene so that the question of Fate is almost an enormous paradox from which pain and cruelty have not managed to remove the mystery that contains all destiny, all life. […]
Sandra Beltrán: disappearance, impunity and revictimisation
There have been eight governments since the taking and retaking of the Palace of Justice in Colombia. All possible doors to justice have been tried but the perpetrators are still at large. And yet, the stigmatisation continues, and the families remain in a permanent state of internal mourning.
When migration is also work
A 4000 Km journey between Lisbon and Senegal several times a year in an old Peugeot 504 demands many practical and social skills as well as courage and determination. A journey across cultures through multiple racisms by a 62-year old Senegalese man which challenges Western stereotypes about migrants. Graham […]