South America

“From January 1, 2023, I will govern for the 215 million Brazilians, not just for those who voted for me,” he promised, knowing that it will not be easy to do so with a Congress in the hands of the…

The last throes of 2022 have evaporated, as an unbalanced, unstable and contradictory expression of the relations of power between the interests of the ruling classes and the broad and heterogeneous movement of the struggles of the workers and the…

The crisis that public education is living today is the logical consequence of the plan implemented by Jaime Guzmán, that is, the dismantling of public education as a possible engine of social change and limiting it to a role of…

Normally people tend to gain power. Whether it is any office worker aspiring to become a boss or ideally a CEO, to make more and more complex decisions. The civil servant seeks to be Head of Division, Secretary of State…

In the past year, in electoral terms, the highlights have been the triumphs of the progressive forces in Colombia and Brazil, bringing Gustavo Petro to the presidency and, for the third time, Lula da Silva, after the fierce judicial persecution…

2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US the unilateral authority to intervene in the affairs of sovereign states in the Western Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from meddling in…

The main political news of the year was twofold. One, the resounding rejection of the constitutional proposal presented by the convention on 4 September; and two, the agreement recently reached to initiate a new process leading to a new constitution.…

By Maxine Lowy An abandoned house and the story contained within its few standing walls are the driving force that propels a group of young people to create a new site of memory in north Santiago, in an era when…

The documentary “Ausencia del Agua” is now available for free viewing on the Atacama Records website. This audiovisual creation exposes the abandonment of nature and the disaffection of Chilean society towards its natural resources. Through a landscape of desolation, music…

In the summer of 1927, where there is the bluest sea in the world, Simone Veil was born. Her love for her family and for justice, and that air of freedom she breathed as a child in the Mediterranean [region]…