At the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was honoured with the Special Jury Award for his film “The seed of the sacred fig”. In his acceptance speech, Rasoulof highlighted the plight of his fellow actors who were unable to attend the festival due to the regime in […]
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Triggers of the worrying exodus of Latin American emigrants
The United States’ excessive exploitation of Latin America’s resources, and the unequal relationship between them, turned the region into a provider of commodities and cheap labour, creating a “time bomb”: immigration. This time bomb exploded massively and now has the strength of an earthquake that scares Washington policymakers. Luis […]
The void in the heart of the city, a political question
Some neighbourhoods in our cities are labelled ‘void’, or ‘empty space’. They are treated as ‘nothing’. Steve Latham The journal ‘City’, which analyses urban trends, has used a Spanish word, to characterise these spaces as ‘nada’. It isn’t that there is nothing there. There are derelict, unoccupied, […]
A secret pact to tackle Bolivia’s elections
Washington was the location for a meeting between opponents Carlos Alarcón (Civic Community, CC, led by Carlos Mesa), Zvonko Matkovic (representing Creemos, led by Luis Fernando Camacho), and the businessman Samuel Doria Medina (leader of the National Unity Front, UN). Jorge Petinaud Martínez The goal, with nuances that […]
Chile’s right wing seeks to re-establish military tribunals
The country’s opposition has put forward a bill to reinstate military justice for members of the army or police who commit crimes against civilians. Carmen Esquivel On 27 April, 19-year-old Franco Vargas, a young man doing his military service, died while on a training march in the commune […]
















