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 […]
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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. […]
Latino cinema opens its soul in London
From the Lumière brothers to “Secret in Their Eyes”, cinema has shown itself to be a cultural asset that explains the human soul in the most eloquent way. At the beginning of October the London Latino Film Festival opens, its purpose to show through film the essence of a diverse […]
Three countries, three starts, a return still to write
From Palmira to Madrid and then London, a life shaped by work, adaptation and the need to start again. Today, while her daughter and granddaughter also live in the British capital, she works seven days a week and considers starting over once more in Colombia Marcos Ortiz F. […]
Searching for justice in contemporary Colombia
In light of the changes in the Colombian political panorama, representatives from the legal and human rights spheres are meeting in London on 14th October to discuss peace building, transitional justice with a gender perspective, indigenous rights and the impact of judicial decisions. Pablo Muñoz The recent change […]
















