Gustavo Figueroa

Exclusion in Argentina: the case of Ezequiel Curaba Once, before entering the José León Suarez prison (in Buenos Aires) to give a workshop, I was able to see how two children, almost teenagers, were burning a bunch of wires they…

Dehumanization, through the media, as state policy, for foreign (and local) extractive interests. When I told my friend Matías, a computer teacher and social communicator, he couldn’t believe it. His first response was to laugh. “You didn’t even know how…

A communicational and decolonial analysis of Javier Milei’s first speech as president Javier Milei repeated the phrase “the adjustment is inevitable” four times in his first speech as president. He also quoted Roca, Sarmiento and Benegas Lynch (h). He invoked…

An investigation that exposes the double standards of extractivism, the visual plot that underlies it and the incidence of a “service company” created to erase the criminal traces (ecocidal) that are produced against all forms of life that inhabit nature.…

President Alberto Fernández presenting the new Frontier, a pickup truck model similar to the RAM, valued at 8 million pesos, at the Nissan car plant. (TVP image, screen capture) The pirouette of life: increasing consumerism even if thousands of people…

The statement of the accused: three accidental shots, the Mapuche were like a “pack of dogs”, only one of the accused fired, there was a black lump that looked like a gun and the 22 carbine “kills cats”. Today, during…

Portrait of Elías Garay at the humanitarian encampment (Image by Roxana Sposaro) What role did the National State, the provincial government and the legal power of Río Negro, the extractive capital, the police institution and the media (local and national)…

Portrait of Nicolás Hernández Huala in Bariloche. (Image by Gustavo Figueroa) The “La Trochita” case: while the murders of Rafael Nahuel and Santiago Maldonado go unpunished, six defendants are on trial for exercising their right to recover usurped territory. The…