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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.

Tunisia, the Mediterranean as a mass grave, and the externalization of Europe’s border: another major human rights crisis

In January 2026, following a series of shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean that left nearly one thousand people dead or missing, the situation of migrants in Tunisia entered a new and more severe phase. These deaths did not occur in…

Situation of LGBTIQ+ people in Mali following the legal change

The recent reform of the Penal Code in Mali marks a critical turning point for human rights in the country and, in particular, for the situation of LGBTIQ+ people. By explicitly criminalizing same-sex relationships, the State has not merely introduced…

Windows (Live): función, riesgo y memoria en el último lenguaje de Chick Corea

El 1 de febrero de 2026, en la 68ª edición de los Premios Grammy, la interpretación “Windows (Live)” obtuvo el Grammy a Mejor Interpretación de Jazz. Registrada en 2020 y publicada póstumamente en el ciclo Trilogy, la distinción concedida cinco…

The Convergence of Epstein and Chomsky

“Men are more inclined to choose evil than good when they are free to choose.” Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy, Book I. “Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant; and whoever…

Alberta: When separatism becomes a weapon, Do trump’s tentacles operate in Western Canada?

For decades, Canada was presented as a calm antidote to U.S. political radicalization: stable federalism, formal recognition of Indigenous peoples, and a sober institutional culture. That image has now cracked in Alberta, where an apparently provincial political crisis is beginning…

Grammys 2026: Billie Eilish and music stars attack ICE and Trump’s mass deportation

“Fuck ICE. No one is illegal on stolen land”. With these words, Billie Eilish opened fire upon receiving the Grammy for Song of the Year for “Wildflower” at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, held last night at the Crypto.com Arena…

Michelle Bachelet and the defense of international civility in times of global order demolition

Chile, junto a Brasil y México, impulsa la candidatura de Michelle Bachelet a la Secretaría General de Naciones Unidas en uno de los momentos más críticos del multilateralismo desde la posguerra. No es solo una postulación política: es una apuesta…

Contemporary slavery: structure, power, and the production of exploitable lives in the current global order

This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal criminal deviation, or an isolated humanitarian problem. Drawing on a critical review of the literature in political…

Mariano Barbacid: when science advances generously and in silence while noise occupies the world

There are news stories that do not arrive wrapped in epic narratives, nor in strident promises, nor in headlines designed to excite hope. They arrive in silence, as important things usually do. While the public space becomes saturated with shouting,…

The genocide in Gaza has not stopped: pain advances at times drop by drop and at others like an unstoppable tsunami

There are days when death in Gaza seems to advance in silence, one life today, another tomorrow, as if horror were administered in small doses so as not to disturb the world’s conscience too much. And there are other days…

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