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Introduction I realize that some of the articles I’ve been writing over the course of the last year and a half have been challenging for some folks to take in. I get it. I understand. Writing these articles has been…

The organisers of “Democracia Viva”, members of Revolución Democrática (RD) committed a grave sin in their attempt to take advantage of state funds for political or personal gain. This is corruption and is unacceptable for those who ethically and politically…

In Chile, there is a high level of social entrepreneurs (foundations, corporations, and other NGOs) as well as business entrepreneurs (SMEs). Each of these sectors has approximately 235,000 institutions. All face major obstacles and problems; few survive the first two…

Attempted technical coup d’état The elections in Guatemala on 25 June ratified the image of a country institutionally in ‘checkmate’, prisoner of a deeply corrupt political-institutional system and a predatory neoliberal extractivist economic model, which have forced millions of Guatemalans…

Taunting a summer clinging to its fiery sun a thunderstorm explodes one after the other on a tin roof and I am caught between rolling the blanket early and making a pot of tea. Tea wins as I am then,…

State neglect of eye trauma victims 2019. Re-victimisation and consequences of trauma In the face of the distressing news about the fourth suicide of eye trauma victims of the social outburst, the human rights issue is once again placed in…

Every July 12, we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest poets of all time: Pablo Neruda. Born on 12 July 1904 under very precarious conditions in the town of Parral, Chile, Neruda left a literary…

Hayao Miyazaki’s last movie How Do You Live? Open first in Japanese theatres on July 14th of 2023, after a resounding promotional silence that entailed the absence of a trailer, a voice cast list, or any other form of traditional…

“Day X”, the fateful day in the Assange saga, is fast approaching. Incarcerating Julian Assange gives governments the power to imprison any journalist, Stella Moris Assange told a packed room at the Swiss Press Club in Geneva last Monday (2023-07-10).…

The most beautiful mountains I have seen in Latin America are those of north-western Argentina. It is a landscape tinged with the voices of Atahualpa Yupanqui and Mercedes Sosa, with its rugged and monumental geography of the lyrics of their…