South America

By Maxine Lowy Along the north shore of the Biobío River, in the Chilean southcentral city of Concepción, illegal waste dumps and overgrown bushes proliferated. A short distance from there were modest neighborhoods where families crowded in flimsy houses. Rodents,…

“On the campaign trail, she [María Corina Machado] was received almost as a religious figure, often wearing white, promising to restore democracy and reunite families torn apart by an economic crisis and mass migration. ‘María!’ her followers shouted, before falling…

The Venezuelan Question is a black-and-white issue: one either supports Lula and Biden’s regime change efforts in Venezuela, with each advancing this in their own but still coordinated way, or they support Maduro and Putin’s defense of Venezuela’s independence and…

During his stay in Kazan, the Venezuelan president met with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, and said he feels “very proud of the friendship” with Moscow. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gave a speech at the plenary sessions in the BRICS+/Outreach…

Brazil, as rotating president of the G20, today called for greater consensus and collaboration among the countries of the bloc to achieve more rights for women and greater inclusion of women in global agendas. At a meeting of the Working…

From a young age, Nara was the guardian of the history of the Serra community, just as, in another time, her great-grandfather Antonio was the guardian of the warehouse. Between these two times, the world experienced a transition from material…

By Maxine Lowy Only six meters separated the two curbs of Dioszegi Street near downtown Miskolc, a city in northeastern Hungary. But in April 1944, one month after the German invasion of that country, it was a nearly insurmountable distance…

On August 26, the First Humanist Congress was held in the prisons of Buenos Aires, organized by the Juan Miguel Scatolini University Center, belonging to ward 11 of penitentiary number 31 in the town of Florencio Varela. This event was…

On August 31, 2006, at the Book Fair in the Argentine city of Rosario, Silo presented his work Apuntes de Psicología (Psychology Notes). The material, as the author comments its composition, “is a compilation of four notes taken on dates…

The real threats In the world we live in, waves of pessimism about the future of humanity are growing. On the one hand, climate change is looming, hitting various parts of the planet with increasing severity, while at the same…