Claudia Aranda

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an international team led by Yichao Zhang used an ultrahigh‑resolution electron microscope to…

While the world averts its gaze with empty promises of peace, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that over the past 48 hours at least six Palestinians have been killed by direct Israeli attacks, adding to 13 more deaths from hypothermia…

Amid electoral polarization, the most reactionary sectors of the traditional right and the far right accuse the government of Gabriel Boric of having “robbed blatantly,” leaving the country on the brink of bankruptcy due to irresponsible use of sovereign bonds,…

The world is not entering a grey zone of international law. It is leaving it. What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” nor an exception justified by geopolitical circumstances: it is the normalization of…

From the “end of history” to the beginning of a new contradiction. Or how a Pinochet supporter managed to captivate an electorate he does not represent. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in…

Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate mining camps erected a system of total domination that went far beyond ordinary labor exploitation. Thousands of workers—Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Croatians, Italians—lived…

In the shadowed streets of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Israeli police stormed the UNRWA headquarters on December 8, 2025, lowered the blue United Nations flag, and hoisted the Israeli one—seizing property and cutting off communications. This was no mere raid:…

There is a historical parable, sometimes attributed to accounts of slavery on plantations, that reveals a dark core of social psychology. An enslaved man sees another enslaved man from a neighboring estate, happy, riding a horse his master has given…

On a cold, sunny winter day in Quebec, with sunlight filtering through scattered clouds and an icy wind stinging the cheeks, around 50,000 souls merged today into a human river of union flags and vibrant chants, weaving a tapestry of…

In a country that combines state-driven modernization with deeply rooted tribal structures, descent-based slavery remains a living institution. This study examines the endurance of a biracial caste system that interweaves lineage, religious prestige, colonial legacies and community-level coercion, showing how…