For Robert Menéndez, chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the cases of Cuba and Iran are sacrosanct. His hatred for the Cuban revolution and, therefore, the people whose ideas do not mirror his own, goes back a long way. The Cuban American senator has been in […]
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People all over the world should have access to vaccines
Covid-19 has recorded almost 2.6 million deaths so far, and almost 117 million people have been infected. However, healthcare is used as a business instead of saving lives. Requests to provide universal access to the immunizing agents have been made since last December when the vaccine started being administered […]
Riding a wild-West market
Look no further than the Texas power crisis last month to see the consequences of a decades-long obsession in the United States with “deregulation”. Darrin Burguess No other country seems to believe so fervently that laws of natural selection in an unregulated market will do what laws of […]
War crimes in Mozambique’s forgotten Cape
Hundreds of civilians in Mozambique have been unlawfully killed by the armed group known locally as Al-Shabaab, government security forces and a private military company hired by the government. Amnesty International UK said this on 2 March, as recorded in its new report on the ongoing conflict in Cabo […]
Reducing, reusing and recycling in the time of Covid
The so-called circular economy presents a viable path to tackling the impact of this profound global health and economic crisis; and what is more, it does so in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. It is more than an alternative – it is a necessity. Lourdes Pérez Navarro […]
















