The petition the governments of Chile and Colombia have just lodged with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH, to use the Spanish abbreviation) on the subject of the climate crisis and human rights opens the way for the high court and other international justice organisations to take note of […]
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Human rights are violated in the war against gangs
Justice and truth are wanted. There have been many reported incidents and most involve cases of young people who have been detained without a credible accusation, according to family members. Many El Salvadorean families deplore the arrest of their loved ones by the authorities for allegedly belonging to or collaborating […]
In three decades Latin America will be a place of elderly people
In the last 50 years this region has aged at a similar pace to Europe over two centuries. There are two crucial factors in its age-related transformation: the fall in the birth rate and increased life expectancy at birth. Covid-19 has also had an effect on life expectancy.
Neoliberalism, a model that is difficult to finish off
Capitalism’s economic crisis, so closely bound to its own nature, had its most recent manifestation in the crisis of 2008 which, apparently, has still not been overcome as the official voices of capital and its administrators, the affected governments, claimed. Juan Diego García The pandemic and especially the […]
Immigrants in the jungle: in between life and death
From January to August this year, 70,376 foreigners irregularly entered Panama through the Darién National Park, with monthly increases that set a record of 25,361 last August, more than a third of all the arrivals to this region at this time. “I am in despair”, is the first phrase […]
















