It is the country that receives the most immigrants in Latin America, but also the one with the most obsolete immigration laws. Arrival in the country is full of uncertainties, and the reason why people choose it as the location for a new life is a question that often goes […]
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The crime of Barbados
In 1976, Cubana de Aviación flight 455 exploded in flight over Barbadian waters. None of the 73 passengers survived. Decades on, memories of these events have not faded. Danay Galletti Hernandez The passengers included all 24 members of the national fencing team, who were returning to Cuba having […]
Lesbophobia victim becomes an activist
Higui was 42 years old then. The men surrounded her. “I’m going to make you feel like a woman, you big dyke,” one of them told her. Ronald Angel An Argentine court acquitted Eva Analia Higui de Jesús, a lesbian woman who in 2016 suffered an attempted gang […]
Immigrants in Covid times: our most human fears
When death is near, we have two options: succumb to the pain or cling to what we have left. On the day my parents and my grandmother tested positive for Covid 19, I opted for the latter. For weeks they had headaches, vomiting and fevers. Today some have aftereffects. […]
Women as spoils of war
Raped in the fields, in the bushes or in their own homes. Many of them getting pregnant by the soldiers. The armed conflict has allowed the systematic abuse of almost 5,000 rural women in Peru. But they lost their fear to relive and recount their painful experiences.