The arrival of Covid19 in the country brings with it the deployment of the entire scientific community and other institutions, to contain it. So they urgently needed tools to test and trace the virus. Current advances are very important. Ana Laura Arbesú The search for new cases of […]
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Immigrants in Covid times: “I thought I would die”
Carlos Corredor contracted the coronavirus after travelling on public transport in London. When the fever passed 40 degrees, he thought he was going to die alone, in a foreign country and without the opportunity to say goodbye to his family. Now he is scared of contracting the virus a second time.
Carmina, patriarchy and seduction
Luis Rabago’s short film is an audacious experiment in direct cinema. A young woman recently free of familial restrictions meets an older man in a bar, who is looking for company. Is he wise and kind or just a manipulator, and what does their meeting reveal about patriarchal dynamics? […]
Immigrants in Covid-19 times: with the enemy at home
The current global pandemic didn’t stop Bolivian activist Amancay Colque from denouncing the repression of the self-appointed transitional government, which repressed ordinary people, with military force, in order to stay in power. But she has also faced the anguish of seeing her son infected by the coronavirus. Nathan Raia […]
Paul Oquist, equilibrium, politics and climate change
“It is very significant that the new coronavirus now shows us how little prepared we are to confront high risk and how little we have invested politically and economically to avoid it.” Néstor Marín This is what the economist and advisor to the Nicaraguan government, Paul Oquist thinks, […]
















