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Javier Tolcachier

Javier Tolcachier is a researcher from the World Centre of Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement. Mail: javiertolcachier@disroot.org Twitter: @jtolcachier

Humanising the Earth: The legacy of the Sage of the Andes

“… it is almost certain that one fine day a man of titanic soul will be born here – titans are the children of the mountains – who will write sovereign verses and will properly be the Ande that versifies.”…

30 years after the Oslo Accords: Is hope for peace revived between Palestinians and Israelis?

On 13 September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat sealed in Washington the Oslo Peace Accords, which had been negotiated for months in the Norwegian capital. The accords maintained Israeli jurisdiction over foreign…

Latin American peoples between obscurantism, nostalgia and new utopias

In October, Argentines and Ecuadorians are once again called to the polls. In the case of Ecuador, a second round of voting will determine who will occupy the presidential seat of the ousted banker-president Lasso in a shortened mandate for…

Death and rebirth of democracy

The King is dead! Long live the King! is the well-known phrase used in France at the death of a monarch to announce the enthronement of his successor. The motto, used since 1422 on the occasion of the death of…

BRICS is growing – What is growing with BRICS?

At its recent XV Summit in Johannesburg, the economic bloc made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, announced the invitation to join as full members to six new countries: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia…

Argentina’s primary elections: If the right-wing advances, freedom retreats

What do you see? What do you see when you see me? When the lie is the truth Divided On August 13, primary elections will take place in Argentina, in which the final candidates of the different forces in contention…

Women’s World Cup 2023: New impetus towards the unstoppable emancipation of women

The ninth edition of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand kicked off on 20 July in Auckland with the home side’s historic one-nil win over Norway. Under the official slogan “Greatness without limits”, thirty-two teams from five…

New protests in Israel against Netanyahu government’s judicial reforms

Thousands of demonstrators staged a new “Day of Resistance” in opposition to the judicial reform promoted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government. The street protests, which blocked several roads and spread throughout the country’s nerve centres, were backed by the…

Steles, existential footprint and aspiration for eternity

A few months before the end of the 18th century, more precisely on 15 July 1799, the French captain Pierre Bouchard discovered a piece of carved rock near the Egyptian town of Rashid, which would later be known as the…

Happy In(ter)dependence Day!

What do Argentina and South Sudan have in common? At first glance, nothing. While one has a vast territory – it is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world – the African nation could fit in the territory of two…

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