Cuba has sent some fifty emergency medicine specialists to join the battle for life in one of the Caracas (Venezuela) hospitals dedicated to caring for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. Dailyn Ruano Martínez The group of doctors from the eighth brigade of the Ernesto Guevara contingent […]
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Women’s rights or Islamophobia?
Women’s rights issues have become a conflict of loyalties for Muslims when they can be used as an excuse for repression by a government in these polarized times. Blanket generalisations about patriarchy are not helpful when many cultural and economic issues are entwined.
Immigrants in Covid times: “No one helped me”
What seemed to be the typical immigrant dream coming true, turned into a nightmare with the pandemic. Jessica contracted the Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, did not receive help from the NHS, suffered everything in solitude and almost died in her room. The virus stayed in her body for almost […]
Covid in Brazil: unemployment in addition to death
The Latin American country registered 12.8 million unemployed in the second quarter of the year, a rise of 13.3% and the highest level since May 2017. The above figures have been reported by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to IBGE, unemployment increased in this period […]
Uribe and the weakening of the far-right
The arrest in Colombia of the former president could be the beginning of the end of two decades of corruption, violence and fear, and the start of the move towards deep solutions that the country needs. Juan Diego García The decision to place the former leader and current […]
















