The Covid-19 pandemic imposed several challenges on humanity, from the ability of human beings to make medicine a better weapon; to maintaining jobs from home. Claudia Dupeirón In the face of the economic crisis generated by the Sars-Cov-2 virus worldwide, the large-scale use of teleworking, videoconferences, educational talks […]
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The murals of Havana and the child painter
This city is his gallery and the mistreated and discoloured walls are brought back to life by the faces of children, the protagonists of this Cuban city’s past and the guarantee of its future. Liz Arianna Bobadilla León The painter Maisel López invites us, in his more than […]
The end of globalisation
Despite its wars (Bosnia, Rwanda), the 1990s seem, in retrospect, to have been a time of optimism and hope. Steve Latham As the new millennium dawned, it seemed that liberal, and neo-liberal, dreams of a one-world, globalised and democratic system, might spread throughout the planet. How far away […]
Discovering Korean Cinema
In time to come, the success of “Parasite” (2019) may be seen as the game changer that cemented South Korea’s eminence in world cinema. Yet sixteen years earlier, “Oldboy” helped make familiar the term New Korean Cinema to cineasts whose interests stretched beyond Western films. Sean Sheehan What […]
Trauma and redemption
The first thing that strikes even the most casual visitor (to Antigua) who has any awareness, is the huge disparity between the nouveau riches with their ostentatious and garish houses, surrounded by security measures, and the shacks (often colourfully decorated) of the poor, much like beach huts in the United […]
















