She left Brazil for love, spent a year in Mexico and twelve in Spain, where she gained citizenship. The crisis shattered her stability and led her to England. There she found her home in Bristol: a son, a second family and the conviction that life is one’s surroundings. Sonia […]
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Mother and migrant: a new life far from Buenos Aires
When she left her native Argentina for Covender in 2015, she never imagined that five months without work or command of the language would test her confidence. Today, while studying English and raising Astor, she seeks to belong without losing who she was. Sonia Gumiel She is a […]
Barbarism never left, it just took a pause
Media companies remain silent and the opposition clings to digital platforms while completely abandoning community work. In this vacuum, through networks of solidarity, complaints and an Erasmian spirit, citizens must face stigmatisation, blacklists of inconvenient people and extrajudicial executions Germán Ayala Osorio* The regime that was recently installed […]
Architecture between exile, prison and memory
Miguel Lawner, an architect and civil servant under Salvador Allende’s government, was arrested following the 1973 coup and confined on Dawson Island. There, together with other prisoners, he restored an abandoned church before going into exile and then returning to Chile in 1985. Carmen Esquivel In that area […]
Guatemala’s deep educational lag
The OECD’s PISA assessment ranked the country among the lowest-performing participants in Latin America and the Caribbean. The decline was particularly striking in reading, where scores fell by 37 points compared with 2022, while experts are calling for greater investment and reforms to strengthen secondary education and develop students’ skills. […]
















