Politics

Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets? By Sonali Kolhatkar The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington…

After the right-wing coup in Peru and the waves of protests against Castillo’s ousting, the question remains as to why Pedro Castillo was so inconvenient to Western elites. Certainly there are many answers, but we can identify turning points in…

In 2005, Bolivia underwent a profound shift in its political power relations. The MAS-IPSP, created by a broad group of popular organisations, won the elections in a resounding manner. In the face of this, the profoundly racist Bolivian oligarchy, particularly…

Suppressing the terrorism of the extreme right is the new task that adds to the numerous challenges facing the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after the invasion of the headquarters of the three branches of government in…

With the slogan, “2023 and Public Health without Solution, this Sunday 15th of January, the 97 Marea Blanca (97th White Tide) took place, called by the Mesa en Defensa de la Sanidad Pública de Madrid (MESAP)-Marea Blanca to denounce the…

31 years after the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords, hundreds of Salvadorans took to the streets to commemorate the date. Far from being a mere act of remembrance, those mobilised expressed their firm rejection of the Regime of Exception…

On this show, we speak with Eduardo Gonzalez-Cueva, about the current political and social situation in Peru after President, Pedro Castillo, was removed from office on Dec 7, 2022. Mr. Gonzalez-Cueva is a Peruvian sociologist. Human rights consultant and professor,…

The vote count for the first ballot for the direct election of the president of the Czech Republic, the third since 2013, has just been completed. As expected, none of the candidates reached the necessary threshold of 50% of the…

LATIN AMERICA SUSTAINING A DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A FIX From the premise of dreaming of a Latin America far removed from amateurism where solid leadership reigns, the Latin American and Caribbean region idealises, from civil society, a concrete direction that distances…

The cholera case reported by the district hospital in Malawi’s southern region on 3 March 2022 was the first of the 2021-2022 season, and a warning of what was to come: the worst cholera outbreak recorded in the African country…