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The transnational plunder of Chilean copper

The study, “New estimates of the wealth given away to large private copper mining companies: Chile 2005-2015”, addressed the economic rent obtained by the 10 largest mining companies in Chile. Using official World Bank (WB) data for the period 2005-2014…

Genital mutilation: remnants of a past that cannot continue to exist in the present and (much less!) in the future

Genital mutilation is a practice that is still carried out in approximately 30 countries around the world. Most of these countries are in Africa and the Middle East, but the custom is also found in some countries in Asia and…

A strategy against divisiveness and disillusionment

“Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away and the horizon runs ten steps further. So, what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for, it’s for walking. This famous phrase, popularised by Eduardo Galeano,…

Victorina’s way

When Victorina agreed, she was already perched on a tyre tube crossing the waters of the Rio Grande. The shouts of the other migrants brought her to her senses. What time was it? Maybe it was 1 or 2 a.m.,…

Diwata*

A TALE          Once upon a time in a not so distant past, there was a girl named Nora. She was your typical little girl who loved to play in the garden, climb trees and read books…

Pivots

POEM     by Agnes Prieto   We are in a time of transforming Of new songs we have not yet known… Life, asking to the new–   Be not afraid, thrilled, intertwined with the strange, But pivots that lead…

Oleg Yasinsky: “The conflict between Ukraine and Russia does not exist”.

With the informality that our long and deep friendship grants us, we were able to have a sincere conversation in which the Ukrainian journalist Oleg Yasinsky -current Pressenza correspondent from Moscow- provides us with the necessary context to understand what…

World Peace Initiative Foundation hosted Meditation for Health and Wellbeing Summit -2022

Can the question– Have you meditated today?– be integrated into our daily conversation in the future? Why not? I mean, unlike other exercises and habits, meditation can be practiced within the 24 hours/7 days of our lives. That much is…

Women’s march in Bolivia against justice after the release of femicides and rapists

On Monday 31 January, a massive “Women’s March against sexist violence and corruption in the justice system” took place from the Ballivian area of El Alto, through the city of La Paz and ended in front of the departmental court…

Marilén Cabrera, humanist, nominated as Undersecretary of National Assets for Boric’s government

Twenty men and nineteen women make up the cabinet of Undersecretaries that will form part of Gabriel Boric’s government from 11 March. The team of Undersecretaries is made up of eleven independents, eight members of Revolución Democrática, six of the…

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