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Can Donald Lu’s Bangladesh visit restore his credibility in South Asia?

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in…

51 years of Myanmar-Bangladesh ties

January 13, 2023, marked 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was…

Organised local power needs to rescue municipalities from corrupt clutches in Chile

Part of the dynamic of Chilean municipal politics is that every time a councillor loses his or her subsequent re-election, we learn of pronounced deficits in the municipal coffers. Thus, we have emblematic cases of Virginia Reginato in Viña del…

I worked at Centro Arte Alameda during the Chilean social upheaval

For more than 70 days, every time I was about to leave my house on my way to work, my stomach started to hurt, and I felt a strong pressure in my chest that didn’t let me breathe. I was…

Rome: garrison at Pantheon against sending arms to Ukraine

Tuesday, Jan. 10 at the same time as the debate in the Senate chamber on the conversion into law of Decree 185 of Dec. 2, 2022, which authorizes the transfer of arms to Ukraine through 2023, a committee launched by…

Balamos: An experiential and photographic journey

Balamos in the Roma dialect is defined as anyone who is not a gypsy. This was what they called me when I started to approach and photograph these people, I was a balamos or in other words, a stranger to…

A dose of magical realism

Anchored in the face of uncertainty, doubts and scepticism, I search for fantasy. Immersed in a hustle and bustle from which we cannot escape and of which we are, in a way, voluntary hostages, we live under a succession of…

Brazilian civilization against Bolsonaro

By Urariano Mota * I retrieve the post-scripted chapter that I published in the American edition of the novel “Never-Ending Youth”, in the last pages of Peter Lownds” translation, “Never-Ending Youth”, I added these lines: Posters have taken over the…

Citizen criticism of processes: school and university admissions 2023 in Chile

With regard to the results of the PAES (university admission) and the chaotic admission process for the different establishments throughout the country, we must focus on this reality from the perspective of the right to education, foreseeing a chronic neglect…

Libya: National reconciliation conference back on the horizon

Under the auspices of the African Union, a preparatory meeting for a possible national reconciliation conference in Libya took place in Tripoli this January 8. The conclave, of a technical nature, laid the groundwork for an agreement to bring the…

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