Using the motif of seven haircuts, a new film gives voice to Afro-Brazilian migrant stories and the similar inequalities in the two continents. The background is neo-colonialist exploitation by multinational companies, and privatizing Petrobras was also on that agenda. Like Europe, Brazil is racist, “but we don’t lock up refugees”. […]
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Bitter fruit: labour exploitation in Andalusia
Every year, thousands of Moroccan women move across the sea to Huelva in Andalusia, Spain for the soft fruit picking season. Often selected because they are widows or divorcees, the women arrive to find exploitative conditions including poor pay and accommodation. Ethical Consumer The city of Huelva is […]
Truss’s fate was sealed
On Thursday, Liz Truss became Downing Street’s shortest-serving resident. Seven weeks after replacing outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson, Truss followed in her predecessor’s footsteps thanks to the chaos unleashed by her erratic economic policy. Néstor Marín Following the failure of her controversial tax cuts, which she had hoped […]
Violence in Ecuador: there is no government and there is no State
At the beginning of Lenin Moreno’s government in 2017, the murder rate was 5.6 per 100,000 inhabitants. Four years later, the figure rose to 14.4. Today, with Lasso’s government, 2022 will end with a rate of 21 or 22. Ecuador would be above the average of the countries in the […]
A pensioner’s patio becomes a playhouse
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 […]
















