Mexico buys an estimated 15 million tonnes of genetically modified maize from the US. Even so, its production is minor compared to the other varieties present in Mexico’s rich and varied diet. It is the other way around in the United States: it is the most exported and almost […]
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From the mpox virus to the old cholera
It was detected for the first time in 1970, in a nine-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where the virus had been eradicated in 1968. Since then, the majority of cases have been found in rural regions of tropical forests in the Congo River basin, […]
Progressivism in power: playing political chess
The social and political forces of the Latin American and Caribbean left have enormous challenges ahead of them, but also positive elements to progress along the path of social emancipation and national independence. Juan Diego García It is a matter of democratising ownership and forms of political participation […]
The USA’s ambiguous double dealing against Cuba
Since his arrival in the White House in January 2021, current president Joe Biden has driven a similar policy for the island to that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, with a few minor adjustments. He has also kept unchanged the 243 measures imposed by that government. Danay Galletti […]
Detainees III – Makni: “I haven’t murdered or robbed anyone”
“I just wanted to flee my country,” said Makni Tecli a 30 years old Eritrean asylum seeker who has spent 8 months in detention. He fled his country to Sudan in 2001 because he was a draft evader. The Prisma’s memoirs. Joanna Gilbert-Shcrute “The prison sentence in Eritrea […]
















