POEM     by Erlie Lopez I catch the sky pale pink and blue on a late afternoon I walk around the block. Such fitting canopy on a nearly empty street where hopes hang on frozen air. The scrawny man…

The United States has long branded itself as a safe haven for refugees fleeing war and persecution abroad. The current U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is actually a testament to that, with well over 100,000 people evacuated by the U.S. since…

According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, no continent is spared the ravages of severe drought, except for Antarctica. This is happening at a global temperature of 1.2°C above baseline, not 1.5°C above baseline which climate scientists agree is locked in.…

Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought back have led a large number of Afghans to flee, or fear…

The Chilean Senate passed into law the Draft International Agreement approving the “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, which was adopted in New York in July 2017. The treaty notes the “concern about the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences…

Social networks have become a very necessary tool in our daily coexistence, I think that for most people there is no doubt about it. By Hugo Rodriguez Ghiara Little by little they have entered our lives as a simple way…

Anita Peña Saavedra, researcher at the Diego Portales University and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic equity at LSE, lesbo-feminist activist and former executive director of Miles, Alondra Castillo, feminist and academic at the University of Valparaiso, Magdalena Rodríguez, feminist…

by Sol Castagnino, Forus* With the death toll close to 2,100 people and thousands more injured after a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, the hard-hit nation now also faced the threat and consequences of Tropical Storm Grace. In the Amazon,…

The ethics commission of the Constitutional Convention was right to stipulate denialism as an expression of cruelty and hatred towards the victims of crimes against humanity and their relatives. As in several European countries that suffered from policies of extermination…

One in four young people in Chile is unemployed. The fourth country with the highest youth unemployment among OECD countries. It is not that there are no job opportunities, but that young people do not have the socio-emotional skills to…