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Guns won’t stop feminicides

Violence and murder against women is accompanied by other related problems such as rape. According to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, in El Salvador this is a problem that is often neglected, especially sexual violence against children and adolescents.   Luis Beatón   A week in February ended with […]

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The paradox of the immaterial

Is the mind, and all that it beholds, an illusion, as some materialists hold? And thus, all the concepts of physics, such as time, a necessary illusion―chance, causality, and much more?   Nigel Pocock   This writer is an unashamed dualist, seeing the mind as an emergent reality, a product […]

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Peru, a broken society

The people feed off symbolism. That is why the image of a woman emerging from the mud, or a child saved by a humble rescuer, lingers in the mind’s eye. They symbolise a broken society, fractured by a social regime that is currently in decline throughout the world.   Gustavo […]

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Lasso and the circumstances of a tragedy

Can the handling of the crisis unleashed by the recent earthquake in Ecuador change Guillermo Lasso’s image in the midst of the widespread rejection of his administration, and while the National Assembly processes a possible political trial against him for crimes against public administration?   The earthquake on 18th March […]