South America

9 January 2024, El Espectador It will be a real new year when the world announces that the dictators have gone back to their caves, that hunger has been satiated, and that there are no more rivers silvered by mercury,…

In 1987, a well digging for water in Bourakébougou, a town north of Bamako, the capital of Mali, turned up a strange deposit. It was a dry well, but it emitted a gas. An unsuspecting worker peered into the borehole…

Latin American leaders, dismayed by the wave of violence by armed groups, express solidarity with President Daniel Noboa. By Lizzette Vela The convulsive situation in Ecuador has provoked a cascade of reactions globally. Latin American governments, dismayed by the wave…

Surrounded by the expectations, not only of Argentina but of half the world, the ultra-right Javier Milei started 2024 with a series of setbacks and, despite the promoted intentions of the self-styled “forces of heaven” to remove the state from…

Three Kings Day has passed, the day children wait all year to receive a present. But in this year 2024 too many Argentine children were left without presents: in the last 30 days sales in toy shops and related stores…

We interviewed actress Paulina Hunt, a Chilean playwright and teacher of theatre and television, about the new play she is about to present. Here we transcribe the full conversation: Pressenza: You are about to premiere a new play of your…

In his first speech as the new National President of the Chilean Teachers’ Association, Mario Aguilar called on the government to fulfill its commitments to education. The union leader denounced that “once again the Government has failed in its commitment…

The cessation of funding from the National Administration of Social Security (ANSES) was published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette. Javier Milei’s government in Argentina has suspended access to loans for pensioners and retirees granted through the National Social Security…

After forty days and forty nights on the ark, crammed among a large family and animals of all species, the waters began to recede, and Noah saw an extraordinary seven-colored bow of light in the sky. Noah and his descendants…

Despite the judicial fair and the government’s political pushes, the National Chamber of Labour issued a precautionary measure requested by the CGT that put on hold the labor legislation reform intended within the framework of the Decree of Necessity and…