As I started to write this text to inform the public about the threats that the Diário do Centro do Mundo (DCM), has been receiving, our website’s lawyer called me with worrying news. Joaquim de Carvalho, Editor in Chief of DCM A far-right politician, linked to Brazilian President […]
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Assange against the avenging furies
Assange is wanted dead. The United Nations, through Nils Melzer, a specialist in torture and ill-treatment, has declared that Assange’s life is at risk. The dilemma offered to him by the Power is not acquittal or conviction; freedom or captivity; the United States or England. It is one of three forms of death: death penalty, forced suicide or burial alive.
Reparations and genetics: Have they anything to say to each other?
Genetic modification and reparations for slavery might seem on first appearances to be somewhat distant companions. Nigel Pocock How should we define ‘GM’? If we limit the definition to a laboratory, deliberately excluding the social context, then we are unlikely to make a connection between reparations and GM. […]
Forced disappearance in Colombia: with hands tied
In Colombia 80,000 people have disappeared, although the true figures may be much higher. The majority of these disappearances have been perpetrated by the State, paramilitaries and guerillas. Their victims: social leaders, indigenous people, political opponents, peasants and just ordinary people.
Social movements, developmentalism and crisis of capitalism
The reforms of the so-called “developmentalism” that have allowed basically rural societies in Latin America and the Caribbean to partially access modernity have focused on promoting limited industrialisation. In this way, they have overcome the traditional barrier that reduced them to being simple producers of mining and agricultural raw materials. […]
















