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NATO in the Amazon: Petro Plays with Fire

NATO recently expanded to Sweden and Finland, has been de facto incorporated in Ukraine, and may extend to Georgia. Now, NATO’s entry into the Amazon is in the works under the aegis of newly elected President Gustavo Petro of Colombia.…

The strength of nonviolence will transform the world!

With this and other slogans such as Violence can be learned, nonviolence too! the campaign: Let’s organise peace and active nonviolence Now! closed on Sunday 23 October in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection. From the moment we arrived…

Humanising work in the age of “digital slavery”.

One of the subjects I have been researching as a sociologist is work in the current post-modern era and information technologies. Remote” work also imposes its own conditions, and we are witnessing a kind of new industrial revolution, where oppression…

The little wooden horse

The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…

Argentina: Court unconstitutionally conditioned the other branches of government

The highest court as a “counter-majoritarian” power that has not been elected by the people should not condition what “constitutionally the democratic powers” -legislative and executive- decide, says the author of this article. He points out that both the president…

Education: Putting lessons learned in pandemics into practice

There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…

The Humanist Party of Chile regains its legality

The board of directors, elected officials and humanist militants arrived at the Electoral Service to hand over the more than 1600 affiliations that allow the party to become legal again. None of the 300 militants who withdrew from the party…

3 years after the revolt, Chile returns to the dirty hands of its elite

The popular revolt 2019 People in different ambits, talk about their experiences, expectations, fears in these days in which the third anniversary of the social outbreak in the cities of the country is commemorated: “I remember as if it were…

We are not indifferent. We are people who cultivate good living: voting for Lula makes a difference!

More than an option, voting for Lula is becoming a historical necessity. By Adriana Doyle Portugal and Eduardo Alves Gramsci, a man committed to life and to the best conditions for human existence, once said that he “hated the indifferent”.…

Realising human rights is the basis of democracy

Chile was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council; this election unleashes mixed feelings in a large part of the population. The incorporation of Chile, obtaining the first majority, requires the government to comply with what it…

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