Golpe in Peru: Castillo under arrest, people demand a constituent assembly. It finally occurred. On December 7th 2022 Peru’s ruling parliamentary dictatorship managed to bring to fruition their top priority, to oust democratically elected president Pedro Castillo Terrones. Francisco Dominguez Castillo, a rural primary teacher, elected to Peru’s highest […]
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War declared on the ‘maras’
El Salvador has become one of the least dangerous countries in the world after several years at the top of the list for the opposite reasons. President Nayib Bukele is the one who, in the midst of severe criticism, has made this possible. Gang members, or maras as they […]
The expression of all horrors
The murder of four journalists from the Netherlands on 17 March 1982, the murder of the Jesuit priests on 16 November 1989, were brutal acts committed by a US-trained army. They took place in El Salvador. Forty-one years later, silence is still the main accomplice of impunity. According to […]
Women, free from all forms of violence
The latest National Demographic and Health Survey of the National Institute of Statistics of Honduras reports that 20 per cent of women aged 15-49 in Honduras have been beaten or abused at some time since the age of 15. The study adds that 16% of Honduran women have experienced […]
Chris Killip: opposing history
Exhibitions like the one currently on show at The Photographers Gallery in London are becoming precious at a time when art photography is increasingly devoted to personal projects of meagre public interest or so concept-driven as to risk disappearing up its own fundament. Sean Sheehan Chris Killip, in […]
















