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Claudia Aranda

Chilean journalist specializing in Semiotics and Political Analysis. As an international analyst, she focuses on prospective analysis of social processes. Based in Montreal, Quebec, she covers news for Pressenza and explores contemporary philosophical debates within the context of current events. Her work emphasizes human rights, geopolitics, armed conflict, the environment, and technological development. She is a humanist and an activist for social justice causes.

Experiment in the Chinese space station reveals secrets of lithium batteries in microgravity

China’s Tiangong space station has been the setting for an innovative experiment on lithium-ion batteries, conducted by the three astronauts of the Shenzhou-21 mission, according to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This study…

Street Art Cities 2025: The global dance of colors on the world’s walls

In the pulsating veins of sleeping cities, where concrete whispers forgotten stories, Street Art Cities emerges as a beacon of creative rebellion. Launched in 2019 by a collective of “urban hunters”—passionate explorers who travel the planet documenting murals—this annual contest…

Guardians of balance: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine and hope against autoimmune diseases

In a world where the immune system can be both hero and villain, three scientists have illuminated the path to taming its excesses. On October 6, 2025, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced that Mary E. Brunkow, PhD;…

The RELE-CIDH 2025 Report: A Mirror of Freedom of Expression in Chile from the Voice of a Repressed Journalist

The recent Special Report on the Situation of Freedom of Expression in Chile, published by the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression (RELE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in October 2025, is not just an institutional diagnosis:…

After Venezuela: Six plausible scenarios on the new Game of Thrones board

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela marks a political turning point that goes far beyond the Venezuelan case itself. It is not merely a concrete operation, but an operational precedent: the decision to act de facto outside the…

The prince unmasked: declining hegemony, structural blackmail, and the geopolitics of systemic chokepoints

Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term…

Bombings in Venezuela: Another Nail in the Coffin of International Law

The early hours of January 3, 2026, are marking a dangerous turning point in the International Order. Explosions in Caracas and other regions of Venezuela, accompanied by aircraft overflights and attacks against military and strategic installations, have been denounced by…

An imprisoned doctor, a wounded humanity: an urgent call for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

More than a year after his detention without charges, without trial, and without minimum guarantees of due process, the Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya remains imprisoned by Israel under conditions denounced as inhuman by international human rights organizations. Director…

The universe does not advance in a straight line: The discovery of an “impossible” galaxy and the roughness of cosmic time

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the traditional cosmological narrative and invites us to think of the Universe not as a neat succession of closed stages, but…

Neocoherence: when order does not collapse, but is negotiated

For decades, physics has explained the transition from the quantum world to the classical world as a loss: coherence dissipates, superposition collapses, and reality “decides.” The notion of neocoherence proposes another reading: not the disappearance of quantum order, but its…

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