A year after the first cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Cuba, many children had to deal with being confined at home, between online classes, virtual reunions with family members and friends, or other forms of entertainment. During those months in 2020, this group was thought to be less […]
The Prisma News
Conversion therapy and religious faith
The Prisma recently featured an interview with Jayne Ozanne, a leading progressive Christian in the United Kingdom. Steve Latham Herself a lesbian, she is seeking to enable legislation in Parliament, outlawing conversion therapy (CT). CT refers to supposedly psychological attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation, from LGBTQ to […]
Other people’s emotional pain
“The discomfort of evening” is a story set in the Dutch countryside where a ten-year old child, Jas, is struggling to cope with the crisis that has engulfed her family. Sean Sheehan After the death of a brother in a skating accident, the grief has left her parents, […]
The return of progressive governments
The annulment of all sentences against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is a sign of what is happening in Latin America. The ultra-conservative right-wingers in power in recent years have fallen one after another. Pierre Lebret * After heir victories, boosted by “law-fare” against opposition leaders, they resumed […]
“Soldier’s woman”: the body 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.















