How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments made Jael Deyssy De la Luz endure. A hunger strike and a continuous and tireless fight made a reunion possible. Virginia Moreno Molina “When […]
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Latin Americans who work as cleaners and are invisible
Their work starts before sunrise when the classrooms are still empty. Whilst universities teach about values and rights these workers come and go unseen shrouded under a cloak of invisibility born of the stigma businesses and institutions attribute to the word ‘cleaners’ who for their part are generally exploited and […]
National character’: reality or nonsense?
In a western world premised on a culture of denial of differences, is a concept of ‘national character’ meaningful? Or a basis for harmful stereotyping? Can we learn anything constructive about differences, if, indeed, they exist? . Nigel Pocock . Studies of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis (the life-long generation of new […]
The other, the same
I woke up this morning wondering what the best way to die would be. I’d been reading about it in Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and Che himself had read about it in Jack London’s To Build a Fire. I’d discovered London’s book a while back being […]
José Barahona… In Lisbon I remembered you
What is it like for a Latino man with few resources to look for a new life in a different continent? Even a common language plays tricks. And when things are hard, do you stop calling your family? These are the issues in this new film between fiction and documentary.
















