Mastodon

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.

Gaza after the ceasefire: when administrative obstacles threaten to dismantle the humanitarian response in 2026

The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza did not end with the ceasefire. The civilian population continues to die not only from direct violence, but also from the systematic destruction of all basic infrastructure, the sustained blockade of vital aid, and the…

Seeing Heat: How We Learned to Photograph the Hidden Vibrations of Atoms in 2D Materials

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an international team led by Yichao Zhang used an ultrahigh‑resolution electron microscope to…

In the shadows of the broken ceasefire: Gaza cries out for justice as Israel perpetuates Palestinian suffering

While the world averts its gaze with empty promises of peace, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that over the past 48 hours at least six Palestinians have been killed by direct Israeli attacks, adding to 13 more deaths from hypothermia…

The financial handover of Boric to the next government of Chile: Debunking myths of “Blatant Theft” and Bankruptcy through sovereign bonds

Amid electoral polarization, the most reactionary sectors of the traditional right and the far right accuse the government of Gabriel Boric of having “robbed blatantly,” leaving the country on the brink of bankruptcy due to irresponsible use of sovereign bonds,…

Towards Piracy 2.0

The world is not entering a grey zone of international law. It is leaving it. What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” nor an exception justified by geopolitical circumstances: it is the normalization of…

The Post–Cold War Era and the Rise of the Illiberal Order: An Essay on Hegemonic Decline and Democratic Erosion

From the “end of history” to the beginning of a new contradiction. Or how a Pinochet supporter managed to captivate an electorate he does not represent. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in…

Gen Z and the bankruptcy of “Company-Store Democracy”*: From nitrate tokens to a generational verdict

Across the arid pampas of Tarapacá and Antofagasta, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chilean nitrate mining camps erected a system of total domination that went far beyond ordinary labor exploitation. Thousands of workers—Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, Croatians, Italians—lived…

The Assault on UNRWA: A Dagger to the Heart of the United Nations

In the shadowed streets of Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, Israeli police stormed the UNRWA headquarters on December 8, 2025, lowered the blue United Nations flag, and hoisted the Israeli one—seizing property and cutting off communications. This was no mere raid:…

The rage of the emerging privileged: Horizontal resentment as a mechanism of power in neoliberal Chile

There is a historical parable, sometimes attributed to accounts of slavery on plantations, that reveals a dark core of social psychology. An enslaved man sees another enslaved man from a neighboring estate, happy, riding a horse his master has given…

In the Streets of Montreal: Quebec’s Solidary Heart Beats with Libertarian Strength

On a cold, sunny winter day in Quebec, with sunlight filtering through scattered clouds and an icy wind stinging the cheeks, around 50,000 souls merged today into a human river of union flags and vibrant chants, weaving a tapestry of…

1 5 6 7 8 9 17