In northern Uganda, volunteers from a London-based charity fighting poverty are bringing parents, teachers, students, and community leaders together, in projects that have drastically improved education here. Deborah Torr Photos by Peter Caton Some say it takes a village to raise a child. This is certainly true in […]
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Covid and cultural inadequacy
The U.S. failure to handle the current pandemic shows that the way we view a crisis may be more important than how we plan to confront it. Darrin Burgess That all-important holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving, arrived late last November, with the second wave of coronavirus infections already […]
Losing the plot
In Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud, critics are seeing conspiracy in another one of the President’s conspiracy theories. Darrin Burgess You could say that Donald Trump’s road to the White House began with a conspiracy, or the theory of one, at least. He first garnered attention as […]
Economic crisis because of Covid, there is a lot to tackle
The announcement that one of the vaccines in development against Covid-19 is effective, stimulated the markets a few days ago, although the experts predict a slow, unstable and uneven economic recovery. The heads of three central banks remained cautious, despite the optimism for the drug from the US company […]
US ploys divide Venezuelan opposition
Washington strengthens its support at a time when forces at odds with the Venezuelan government face their greatest ever crisis of fragmentation and loss of popular support. Maurice García Menéndez The consulting sessions increased in number following Trump’s statements in Florida in July, during which he admitted that […]