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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.

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…

Legal sovereignty in the face of orbital power

In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty in the era of global private infrastructures. More than a personal conflict with Elon Musk,…

The Impunity of Musk to Defame Claudia Sheinbaum

“She’s just saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.” (She is only saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.) “Let’s just say that their punishment for disobedience is a little worse than a ‘performance improvement plan’.”…

More than a third of the United States fleet positioned around Iran: open war imminent

An unprecedented deployment The United States has concentrated between 30 and 40 percent of its operational naval fleet in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, in a maneuver reminiscent of the preparations prior to the invasion…

The Pentagon v. Anthropic: AI between the sword and ethics

This Friday, February 27, 2026, marks the deadline set by the United States Department of Defense for Anthropic to remove the ethical restrictions from its Claude model within the framework of its military contract. The ultimatum was communicated only days…

The family of Francesca Albanese sued the Trump administration over the sanctions imposed

On the morning of February 26, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., Francesca Albanese’s husband, acting on behalf of their minor daughter —a U.S. citizen— filed a lawsuit against President Donald…

Sudan under drones: when a medical communiqué reveals the anatomy of a permitted war

In just two weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières reported that 167 people were treated for severe injuries caused by drone attacks in civilian areas of Sudan. Penetrating chest wounds, fractured skulls, amputations of children. What the medical report describes in clinical…

China: reconverting taxi drivers in the era of the robotaxi

China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an…

Memory as norm and structural debt: the African initiative before the international economic order

At the most recent African Union summit held in Addis Ababa, Ghana secured the inclusion on the agenda of an initiative calling on the United Nations General Assembly to formally recognize the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the racialized enslavement of…

For crimes against humanity in Gaza: Israeli sniper accused in Chile

On February 16, 2026, a criminal complaint was filed before the 8th Guarantee Court of Santiago against Rom Kovtun, an Israeli-Ukrainian citizen, for his alleged participation in crimes committed during the 2024 military offensive in Gaza. The legal action, brought…

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