Until now, Benin has not been a prime target of frequent terrorist aggression in neighbouring West African states, mainly in the semi-desert Sahel strip, although it shares their defensive ideals. Julio Morejon Tartabull However, on 6 February, security forces killed a suspected terrorist during a siege against a […]
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Seeking a less unequal and unfair capitalism
Deciding that a raw material as strategic as lithium will be subject to the majority will of the population rather than the mean interests of rich countries and local oligarchies represents a positive step forward which hopefully will be maintained and built on in the policies of the American continent’s […]
Any hope for change rests with the left
As the extreme right extends its reach across the continent, there is an urgent need to entrench a political structure to function as a traditional vanguard, recognizing and summarizing the most urgent needs of social majorities and advancing a future social order that, in its very essence, differs from the present order. The key is to hinder the progress of a right that stubbornly insists on maintaining and strengthening the neoliberal model and international relations that are grossly reliant on metropolitan capitalism.
“Matarife”: subversive creativity from exile
A third season of the series “Matarife” will be presented soon. It will once again expose the intricacies of power and its relations with drug traffickers, paramilitaries and corrupt politicians in Colombia. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris Its author, Daniel Mendoza Leal, now exiled in France, has […]
Total impunity in violence against journalists
According to reports by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Colombia ranks a dismal 134th on the scale of countries that rates respect for press freedom in the world, rising several places every year. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris The reputable international NGO denounces a harmful environment for journalism […]