Arturo Desimone is an Aruban-Argentinean writer and visual artist, currently doing an artist residency in Athens, Greece. His essays on politics have previously appeared in Informed Comment, openDemocracy, and elsewhere.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil’s failed war on drugs revisitedBolsonaro campaigned on promises “to kill at least 30.000 people” to make Brazil safe for his followers and, to this...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDestino Valparaíso: el arca de NerudaEl Winnipeg fue el arca de Pablo Neruda para los refugiados de guerra. Se echan en falta hoy esos grandes gestos. English
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Published in: HomeValparaíso-bound: Neruda’s arkSS Winnipeg was Pablo Neruda’s Winged Fugitive Ark for war-refugees. Where are such grand gestures today? Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaRepública del excremento: amor, violencia y patriotismo en El SalvadorLos poemas de Miroslava Rosales desgarran la plasticidad posmoderna del orden neoliberal, la necrópolis de platino y...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Excrement Republic: violence, patriotism, martyrdom and romance in El SalvadorMiroslava Rosales’s poems tear through the postmodern plasticity of the violent neoliberal order, the platinum and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaLate night in Buenos Aires"Although with poetry we cannot take power, we cannot make the revolution, poetry itself is a great warrior against...