Claudia Ciobanu

Claudia Ciobanu is a Romanian freelance reporter, contributing regularly to global news agency Inter Press Service.

CIA prison will haunt Poland

Poland's role in hosting a CIA "black site" is now certain. Whether the government will voluntarily admit it is another matter.

By Claudia Ciobanu

/ 10 Apr 2013

After the elections, an alarming audit of Romanian democracy

A motley alliance of socialists, liberals and conservatives won the 9 December Romanian parliamentary elections. What they clearly share is profound dislike for the country's once-powerful president, Traian Basescu, whose five-year mandate continues into 2014. What is less obvious is how they will

By Claudia Ciobanu

/ 17 Dec 2012

Latin America in a post-development era: an interview with Arturo Escobar

Colombian-American anthropologist Arturo Escobar is one of Latin America's leading voices on post-development theory and political ecology. In this interview, he outlines development paths for the continent to follow, somewhere between modernisation, decolonisation and economic growth.

By Arturo Escobar and Claudia Ciobanu

/ 6 Nov 2012