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The word of the women – we demand progress at the Dialogue Table

Puel Mapu 29/03/23 Pu zomo taiñ zungun Since the emergence of the Argentinean people, our Machi have been persecuted and imprisoned. Today the country is at the forefront of human rights, but their practice of dispossession and criminalisation has not…

Falklands

The Malvinas Islands Question, understood as the sovereignty dispute over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, originated on 3 January 1833 when the United Kingdom, breaking Argentina’s territorial integrity, illegally occupied the islands…

Ecuador: water is not for sale and the páramo is defending itself

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) presented the National Assembly with the “Draft Organic Intercultural Law for Integral Water Management”. At the event held in Quito on Tuesday 28 March 2023, Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE Ecuador, was…

Humanising functional rediscrimination

Most people are typical, they have a typical behaviour and some have a different behaviour which makes them atypical. Atypical because they feel, think and act differently from the majority. On the National Autism and Asperger Awareness Day, which is…

Congress approves “trigger-happy” Chile

Over the last 30 years, Latin America has progressively become one of the most dangerous regions in the world in terms of citizen security. According to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), year 2022, of…

Not giving up

” She doesn’t give up as long as she has a heart. She doesn’t give up as long as she has a reason”. One hour and 25 minutes of reflections, voices that cry, that evoke, that spill out and get…

(Chile) The populist show

The world seems to be immersed in a right-wing populist wave. We have examples to throw out of the window. In Chile, my namesake Rodolfo Carter, mayor of the populous commune of La Florida in the capital Santiago, seems to…

Thanks to Daniel Milani

After this prolonged “pause”, after the last episode that sent him back to hospital, Daniel has moved on to immaterial spaces, leaving us with tremendous gratitude. Because it is precisely in the face of the possibility of the imminent passage…

Argentina – Memory, coups… and intellectuals

It was 47 years since the bloodthirsty coup d’état in Argentina, which left more than 30,000 people missing and which few intellectuals confronted. Let’s make things clear, said Osvaldo Bayer: Neither Hitler was an occupational accident, nor the dictatorships of…

Owners of the Argentine dictatorship, owners of the country

Walking through the little streets of Buenos Aires “that have that I don’t know why” is beautiful. Even after the neoliberal gale and the pandemic, which took away businesses and factories and families… Buenos Aires is attractive and captivating and,…

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