Claudia Aranda

I ADDRESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT: While Brazil steps forward with decisive sanctions, President Boric’s ever-classic “let’s be cautious” reveals itself as inaction that condemns Chile to the role of a mere spectator in the historic passage of a genocide. This…

Throughout the 20th century, intelligence quotient (IQ) scores experienced a sustained increase—known as the Flynn Effect—which has been revised over the past two decades by new studies documenting a reversal in industrialized countries. This phenomenon, confirmed by longitudinal research and…

Some wars are being justified by maps, others by dogmas, and others by oil. But the most dangerous are fueled by symbols. And there is no symbol more flammable than an ancestral temple disputed by two wounded peoples. In the…

The image of a ten-year-old child weighing only 4.2 kilograms is not up for debate. It is not an opinion. It is not a symbol. It is evidence. Evidence so brutal, so simple, so definitive, that it exposes every word…

When a trade agreement becomes an ecological warning The recent submission of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Chile and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Chilean Chamber of Deputies has been celebrated by political and business sectors as…

Language, decolonization, and sovereignty in the Age of Machines Much has been said about “thinking from the South” as if it were a label of resistance or a guaranteed place of enunciation. But living in the South is not the…

Long before we invented the clock, the calendar, or the telescope, we had the sky. An immutable tapestry of lights spinning above our heads, dictating the passage of the seasons, the arrival of harvests, and the tide of life. From…

A metaphysical exercise with an artificial intelligence SEED QUESTIONS: THE ORIGIN OF THE DIALOGUE This essay was born from a series of questions I asked my artificial intelligence. They weren’t complex questions. There was no context, no theory, no framework.…

The decision by Donald Trump’s administration to sanction Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is not only an unprecedented political reprisal against an international official. It is also a direct attempt to delegitimize a…

Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights marks a legal milestone in the evolution of international environmental law, integrating climate change into the corpus iuris of human rights. However—and I regret having to burst the bubble—from…