A new study by Florencia San Martin looks at the work of Alfredo Jaar and the political valency of his visual, mostly installation, art. Sean Sheehan Jaar’s work challenges political indifference with images and gestures that solicit more than passive spectatorship. Five years after moving to New York […]
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Barbarism never left, it just took a pause
Media companies remain silent and the opposition clings to digital platforms while completely abandoning community work. In this vacuum, through networks of solidarity, complaints and an Erasmian spirit, citizens must face stigmatisation, blacklists of inconvenient people and extrajudicial executions Germán Ayala Osorio* The regime that was recently installed […]
Architecture between exile, prison and memory
Miguel Lawner, an architect and civil servant under Salvador Allende’s government, was arrested following the 1973 coup and confined on Dawson Island. There, together with other prisoners, he restored an abandoned church before going into exile and then returning to Chile in 1985. Carmen Esquivel In that area […]
Guatemala’s deep educational lag
The OECD’s PISA assessment ranked the country among the lowest-performing participants in Latin America and the Caribbean. The decline was particularly striking in reading, where scores fell by 37 points compared with 2022, while experts are calling for greater investment and reforms to strengthen secondary education and develop students’ skills. […]
Living in parallel: community and tension
Thousands came to Boston for work, but behind the headlines about immigration lies a quieter story of people building lives together. As families settled, the town became a place where belonging was negotiated every day. “The Prisma Series: Lincolnshire transformed by migrants”.
















