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Chronicle from Beijing

Last Thursday I had to get up very early. I had to be at the Hongqiao train station in Shanghai at 6:30 in the morning to travel to Beijing. A light breakfast of wanton soup (Chinese ravioli) in a small…

Parque Toledo New Humanism Summer School: “Igniting the spark for a future without violence”.

With the slogan “Igniting the spark of a future without violence“, the first days of the Summer School of Universalist Humanism of the Toledo Park of Study and Reflection have been convened. They will take place on 25, 26 and…

BRICS countries prepare a meeting in South Africa to strengthen dialogue, consultation, solidarity, and cooperation

Representatives of the BRICS countries held a meeting last week to prepare for their next meeting to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, exchanging views on current challenges in strategic areas such as food and water security, energy security, counter-terrorism,…

Democracy, the one that doesn’t run flies in Chile upside down, 50 years of bad practices.

We are in times of recounting our history, five decades in which the call to the viveza chilensis has been manifesting itself in the ambit of power, unleashing that characteristic that homogenises the Chilean political elite and makes them sing…

The invisibility of the peoples

It is not only in our continent, that the people have never been more ignored. The constant abuses of the great corporate powers, with the open complicity of a neoliberal system disguised as development, have transformed international politics into a…

Latin America and the future of memory

Under the slogan “40 years of Democracy. 40 years of Participation”, humanist activists celebrated four decades of unwavering commitment to humanization in Santa Rosa, the capital of the Argentinean province of La Pampa. After an introductory speech by Humanist Party…

The Most Dangerous Person on Earth

A Living Synthesis Victoria Nuland, who is the current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, is a living synthesis of everything that has gone horribly wrong with US foreign policy over the course of the…

Ten years without Abuna Paolo

It seems like yesterday and yet ten years, 120 months, 40 seasons have passed since our last messages… mine and those of Abuna Paolo (Father Paolo Dall’Oglio). July 2013, I was in Trieste, worried about the health of Edvino (Ugolini,…

Elizabeth Subercaseaux’s Reflection on the 1973 Coup d’état

In order to minimise their own responsibility for the 1973 coup d’état, the right wing says (in the words of Marcela Cubillos) “as long as the left does not admit its responsibility for the collapse of democracy that preceded the…

Forest Fires in Kabylia: A Surge of Solidarity is organized

The forest fires that have ravaged Kabylia and some regions of Greece are extremely violent, touching people in their flesh and claiming many victims. A human and environmental drama that the international community must intensify its mobilization. A surge of…

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