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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSocial and political earthquake in Ecuador
Ecuador lives through another major earthquake. But this time it is not a seismic movement, but a violently...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaOpen stage in Argentina: Disillusionment in Macri and fear of the ghost of Kirchnerism
If Peronism/ Kirchnerism win, we will witness how this space will be reinvented, surely it will be different from...
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Published in: ourEconomyPuerto Rico’s economic future remains clouded by the debt restructuring plan
The recent debt restructuring plan is just the latest installment in Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBolsonaro legalizes the deforestation of the Amazon
The Brazilian president fired the head of INCRA for being against the government's plan to facilitate the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaJesus Abad Colorado: portraying pain and hope during the Colombian conflict
War is represented by the media in a banal way that turns human life into statistics. What I do is take picture,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPress freedom should not be up for debate in Brazil
Many groups defending human rights have been targeted by Brazil’s outspoken president and his followers, and the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhy do algorithms replicate inequalities in gender and race?
We are at a turning point in history. The number of automated decision-making systems is unprecedented, and they are...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSexual violence, torture and Chile’s struggle for historical memory
Activists are battling the possible demolition of a notorious clandestine detention centre, hoping to transform it...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMariátegui: a Peruvian Marxist for our time
In the 20s of the last century, Mariátegui strove to start building a revolution. Today his ideas remain more valid...
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy we must reform the IMF – before it’s too late
The fund’s legacy of austerity must be replaced by a new social contract based on shared prosperity and a just...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDoes the Colombian government violate press freedom?
International Women’s Media Foundation denounces that one of its fellows was denied entry into Colombia to report....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFrom left to right: a crisis of civilization and the neoliberal model
Neither an emerging new right nor an old left in retreat seem to have responses to a crisis rooted in a neoliberal...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPiketty 2: ideology and property
The great liberal story revolves around the idea of "meritocracy" and its most modern version: "equal...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaAyotzinapa: 1,826 days later, and still no justice
“We know that everything was orchestrated, but they never told us the truth. That’s why we keep and we will keep...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEl Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Venezuela’s dark money
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is at the center of a complex web of financial transactions, which show he...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDeath of a double agent: British torture and betrayal in 1980s Belize
To stop communism in one of the UK’s last colonies, one man was handed over to a death squad and another was...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaRacial cleansing in Brazil: a 21st century genocide?
The indiscriminate killing of blacks and the poor is a historical and institutionalized event in Brazil. What we are...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaGreta and the climate crisis: we need a plan
We are at the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSo the Amazon is Burning? So are the trees in my city, in a biomass sham
The use of biomass fuels in UK electric plants shadows an environmental travesty that harms disadvantaged rural...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaTrump, Bolsonaro, Modi: anti-migration, ecocide, and conflict escalation: The agenda of the global right
The Indian nationalism of Narendra Modi, the conservative populism of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro’s right wing...