In the last four years the number of children and adolescents who crossed the Darien jungle, in the border province of Panama, multiplied by more than 15. According to the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), since 2017, the number […]
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Europe, in search of a political alternative
A different Europe should adopt a policy of peace and neutrality. For the moment, demands like this arise as the dispersed expression of very diverse groups and citizen initiatives but they are gaining ever more ground among wide sections of the population. Juan Diego Garcia Public awareness is […]
The pensioner who opened her home to children
Having retired from the education sector, Marina now provides childcare from her home, which she has converted into a playhouse known as “Las Marinitas”. Today, it is a symbol and an example for the city of Manzanillo, in Cuba’s eastern Granma Province. Eliexer Peláez Pacheco It was a […]
Surviving in the gang underworld
The ideas of masculinity, discrimination and homophobia within El Salvador’s gangs are at the heart of “Unforgivable,” a documentary which explores how these under-reported topics affect gang violence. BARRIO 18 / Victoria Dittma The short film unfolds inside the overcrowded prison of San Francisco Gotera, in El Salvador’s […]
Peruvian gold: the price of innocent flesh
A mining town at 5,000 metres for decades has been a centre of exploitation of poor workers, trying to jump-start their lives. Prostitution is rife often involving underage girls. Human body is a commodity whose value and hence its exploitation, oscillates with the price of gold, and inversely with the fortunes of stock markets.
















