In Guatemala, as in most Latin American countries, for a variety of reasons, many young women from all social strata become pregnant as a result of rape. Marcelo Colussi These rapes occur in a high proportion of cases (around 80 per cent) within the family, with a close […]
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Suffering in Syria
Syria has been in a state of war for ten years and President Bashar-al Assad is still in charge of the country. The increasing evidence of his military victory has come at a devastating price: over 400,000 Syrians killed and a refugee crisis named by the UN as the largest […]
Recovering the Sacred in art: Kai Althoff
In the time between times, between lockdowns, I went to an art exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, of work by Kai Althoff. Steve Latham A German-born artist from Cologne, now resident in the US, Althoff’s paintings are largely figurative. This is appropriate, given the Whitechapel’s championing of a revival […]
Voice and support for Latin American immigrants
In the United Kingdom there are several organizations that work with and for this community. Their purpose is to ensure that the diaspora has a dignified and productive life, where their rights are respected and where living in and adapting to a new country is as painless as possible. Some have become indispensable arenas of support for migrants.
Away with them all! But leave us hope
The heartrending cry reverberated on the streets of Lima on the night of the Peruvian elites’ ‘pre-paid’ coup carried out in Lima, capital of the most unstable of the Andean countries, subjected as never before to the shock of the tectonic plates of fascist polarisation. Miguel Ángel Ferris […]
















