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Palestinians in Gaza are being decimated. Over 20 000 have been killed, mostly women and children. Three times more have been wounded. Some experts qualify it as genocide, others as massacre. Two million people have been displaced, many more than…

Side by side at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, this exhibition is a forceful reminder of why Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas were of such revolutionary significance. Manet was the father of modern art according to Clement Greenberg – the Immanuel…

President Gabriel Boric himself took it upon himself to inform his country of the agreement reached between Codelco, Chile’s most important state mining company, and Soquimich (SQM), the private company that has been operating in the rich Atacama salt flats…

All religions collect substances from the mundane reality and manifest those in their scriptures and narratives. But considering this process very insignificant, labeling it anthropomorphic will be imprudent. The religions mainly deal with the Anthropon (Greek term; singular Anthropos) or…

Latin American feminisms and transfeminisms are characterised by their heterogeneity, as they have been shaped by each country’s different political, economic, social, and cultural realities. Although there are certain common elements in most of our countries, such as the fight…

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today marks one year since his return to power and also Brazil’s return to the world, as he promised in his election campaign, to improve the lives of workers. During 2023, the South American…

With the beginning of a new year and the ending of another COP, it is important to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and what we missed this year. COP28, which ended two weeks ago was filled with criticism and packed…

Corruption unleashed The knowledge of the corruption scheme of public institutions, embodied by the most powerful and prestigious lawyer of the Chilean elite, Luis Hermosilla (“Here we are doing something that is a crime… that is a crime. And it…

The Mapuche people need to live in their territory to exist. This is how it is for the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu. However, and despite being an enshrined right, according to National Parks, judges and prosecutors functional to economic power,…

Political situation The cold numbers of an election, in this case a constitutional plebiscite, throw up different readings, some more histrionic than others, with the eagerness to steal the limelight and appear for a second more on the screen, like…