South America

Between March 19 and 21, Pressenza participated in the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America, hosted by CIESPAL in Quito, Ecuador — a regional forum for reflection and exchange on community, grassroots, and alternative communication, understood as a…

Talk presented as part of Pressenza’s panel titled “Nuclear Weapons, Existential Threats, and Journalism: Looking to the Future” during the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America CIESPAL, in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Nuclear weapons have…

By Maxine Lowy Lessons from the Trials of Nazi Criminals for the Chilean Debate on Leniency for Convicted Human Rights Violators Teun de Groot was a bicycle mechanic from Voorschoten, a small town in the western region of the Netherlands.…

As wars escalate and nuclear rhetoric resurfaces—including threats related to potential conflict with Iran—nuclear weapons have returned to the center of the global agenda. In this context, Pressenza International Press Agency is hosting two roundtable discussions on the existential threat…

“No war is worth a child’s life.” For centuries, human history has been told as a succession of wars, conquests, and conflicts, as if violence were the natural language of our species. Empires rising and falling, decisive battles, and rivalries…

I have just finished reading the interview with Guido Zappacosta, and I am still moved by “hearing” his words. He answers with a kind of unguarded naturalness, as if each question opened a different door to memory, humor, or reflection.…

Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos…

On 28 March, at 11 a.m. Brasília time, Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) invites you to a meeting that reinforces multipolarity and mobilises multiple intelligences. In the presence of guests from the BRIC countries and returning to the essentials of…

On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting the historic role played by Latin American women in the fight against imperialism. By Medea Benjamin and Michelle…

In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty in the era of global private infrastructures. More than a personal conflict with Elon Musk,…