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Lula da Silva has narrowly won the runoff election for Brazilian president against Jair Bolsonaro. The incumbent president has not yet accepted his defeat, stoking fears of violent confrontations. Enormous challenges await the new President, Lula. He must fight poverty…

The word “Love” has lost much of its authenticity, it seems, in recent years. It’s much like the difference between a warm bowl of homemade garden vegetable soup—hand-peeled onions, chopped through tears, diced potatoes and carrots, garden greens, beans, vine-ripened…

India, the world’s largest sugar producer, has extended its ban on sugar exports for another year until October 2023, Reuters reports. According to the country’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), the measure is extended from 31 October 2022 to…

The condition of origin In Chile, democracy and its political system is based, beyond any minimally logical foundation, on a model of political parties, which has no basis for its functioning, evaluation and necessary improvement in a changing world. This…

The way in which the value of the Argentine peso is fixed today “is unconstitutional” and it is up to Congress to act urgently to determine, in accordance with the Constitution, how to establish the Argentine currency on the basis…

National mobilisation in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and the victims of all wars. On 5 November a national mobilisation for peace will take place in Rome, Italy, with the slogans “immediate ceasefire, negotiation for peace”, “ban all nuclear weapons”,…

We call upon you in the name of the Agora of the earth’s inhabitants, in the name of your electors who have chosen you to defend life in its multiplicity, the life of despoiled humans, the life of uprooted forests,…

Pressenza was one of the media invited to the press conference held by the Chinese Embassy in Chile this morning. Ambassador Niu Qingbao read Xi Yinping’s report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held this…

How we characterize the injuries sustained by veterans in war is crucial both to our understanding of the war experience and to the healing process. I have argued elsewhere that to ignore, trivialize or subsume the whole of the veterans’…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the world faces the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of World War II while insisting that the war in Ukraine is continuing as planned. During a four-hour speech at a…