Seventy-five years have passed since the nuclear catastrophe. And now is the time to revisit history and its tragedy: between 6th and 9th August 1945, the United States launched its most devastating device on two Japanese islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The debacle left more than 135,000 dead, 40,000 injured and […]
Politics
Paul Oquist, equilibrium, politics and climate change
“It is very significant that the new coronavirus now shows us how little prepared we are to confront high risk and how little we have invested politically and economically to avoid it.” Néstor Marín This is what the economist and advisor to the Nicaraguan government, Paul Oquist thinks, […]
Account of a crime against humanity
That has been the United States’ economic war against Venezuela, implemented through the blockade of assets and unilateral coercive measures. And they have even maintained it during the pandemic. William Urquijo Pascual This war has been organised in complicity with a radical sector of the opposition and seeks […]
Return the gold to Venezuela
On July 2nd 2020 British Judge Nigel Teare, with regard to a Central Bank of Venezuela litigation for 31 tons of gold entrusted to the Bank of England to be returned to the Venezuelan state, issued a verdict in favour of ‘interim president” Juan Guaidó. Francisco Dominguez* The […]
Coronavirus: women at the highest level of vulnerability
Despite the fact that the vast pay and labour-related inequalities that exist between men and women were not caused by Covid-19, the pandemic has exacerbated this gap to further women’s disadvantage. Ivette Fernández Women are currently facing a serious threat to their livelihood, an increase in domestic labour, […]
















