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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.

The war that legitimizes the bomb

Far from curbing nuclear proliferation, the offensive against Iran and the strategic impunity of armed powers are consolidating a brutal conclusion for the rest of the world: those who do not possess extreme deterrent power are exposed to coercion, punishment…

A Nobel Prize Winner and 600 Israeli Academics Break Their Silence: Israeli Settler Violence in the West Bank Is State Terrorism

What will it take for the world to call things by their name? How many houses were demolished? How many schools shut down? How many Palestinians have been killed with no one held to account? How many villages emptied into…

The world that has already changed and the institutions that do not exist

Technological acceleration has fractured historical time between regions of the world. While the East integrates, executes and organizes, the West debates, regulates and arrives late. In that vacuum, new international structures are beginning to emerge that no longer respond to…

Surveilling and punishing childhood: life imprisonment approved for children and adolescents in El Salvador

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has approved a legal framework enabling the imposition of life sentences on children and adolescents starting from the age of 12. This is not a technical adjustment within the penal system. It is a…

Strong UN warning that puts Kast in the dock over possible pardons for human rights violators

The United Nations system warned Chile about the international illegality of pardoning state agents convicted of human rights violations. Far from being a technical debate, the proposal opens an ethical, legal, and human fracture that repositions political power in front…

The ‘bankrupt state’: how Chile used a global crisis to abandon 36 years of responsible fuel management

Chile has a fiscal buffer designed precisely to absorb external shocks. However, in the face of rising fuel prices, the government not only chooses not to use it, but also pushes for its structural redefinition in Congress. The episode escalates…

Lula and Sheinbaum: An Oil Alliance on the Horizon of the Gulf of Mexico

In a world where energy defines geopolitical alliances, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva extended his hand to his Mexican counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum on March 9, 2026. During a phone call, the seed of a bold proposal emerged: unite…

Trump extends his ultimatum amid the struggle for control of the narrative: five days for Iran to negotiate or burn

The U.S. president announced today that he is suspending, for a few days, attacks on Iran’s energy facilities, stating that there have been “productive” conversations with Tehran. Iran denies it. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz —through which nearly a fifth…

Lebanon on the brink: Médecins Sans Frontières warns of an extreme humanitarian crisis hours before an imminent Israeli invasion

There is no possible ambiguity. What is happening in Lebanon is not the result of internal weakness or a spontaneous crisis. It is the direct consequence of sustained military pressure, progressive bombardments, and evacuation orders imposed by Israel on sovereign…

Record 129 journalists killed in 2025: the year reporting from conflict zones became a death sentence

A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization based in New York, reveals that 2025 was the deadliest year for the press in more than three decades. Two-thirds of the deaths occurred in Gaza. The figures…

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