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.
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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, […]
Account of a crime against humanity
That has been the United States’ economic war against Venezuela, implemented through the blockade of assets and unilateral coercive measures. And they have even maintained it during the pandemic. William Urquijo Pascual This war has been organised in complicity with a radical sector of the opposition and seeks […]
















