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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFake News Pandemic has skyrocketed: Latin America under a FakecracyThe use of fake news in the electoral campaign is the root of misinformation and explains the critical reality that...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe survival of the Amazon is at stakeAdvised by policymakers, CEOs, cultural icons and elected Indigenous leaders, research panel led by Carlos Nobre,...
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Published in: ourEconomyOur hour with Michael BrooksThis week the US and international left lost a vital voice.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico's Tragic Chain: 133 journalists' lives lost
The following article features 10 obituaries of journalists killed in Mexico in 2019. They are some of the 133...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil feels the consequences of pandemic populismBrazil has the public, private and nonprofit capability to contain and control the virus. It desperately lacks the...
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Published in: HomeIn Amazonia, libraries are being set alightThe death of elders leads to irreplaceable loss of knowledge in the Amazon. Indigenous lives – and heritage – matter.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationJournalism in Mexico: Report for a living, get killed for reporting
Since 2000, 133 journalists have been murdered in Mexico. 10 of them in 2019. Meanwhile, impunity wins in 99% of cases.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaG20 bets on fossil fuels for post-Covid-19 economy recovery plansG20 governments have allocated at least US$151 billion to fossil fuels since the pandemic started, largely...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationThe dismantling of the oil industry in Venezuela and the defense of the public sphereThe subsidized price of fuels and the systematic looting of PDVSA have led Venezuela to an unusual situation: being...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Help us track this globallySince the pandemic started, we've been documenting cases of abuse and mistreatment of women in labour around the...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationWomen across Latin America ‘under pressure’ to have C-sections during COVID-19Women are facing an ‘obstetric violence’ crisis made worse by the pandemic, despite laws against mistreatment and...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationVenezuelan women give birth in ‘hell’ amid COVID-19 and economic collapseGiving birth in Venezuela was already ‘Dantesque’, say experts. But with COVID-19 it’s even getting worse. This is...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationTop doctors and lawyers condemn ‘shocking’ treatment of women in childbirth during COVID-19Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘traumatic’ incidents defying WHO guidelines in 45 countries – as...
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Published in: 50.50: Investigation'No woman should be treated how I was in childbirth'
How has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Watch this 3-minute film.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersWhat fate for the Venezuelan migrants stranded in Peru?Peru and other countries of destination, have a moral duty towards vulnerable migrants and refugees.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBrazil: The undoing of a country known for its innovative health policiesHow did a country that successfully managed past health crises be making headlines for its spiraling Covid-19 chaos?...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThese 13 bodies said they would counter the pandemic in Latin America - have they?Thirteen Inter-American and international institutions, coordinated by the OAS, agreed on a series of actions to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19 in Brazilian prisons: Pandemic or a necropolitical project?The prison crisis can be interpreted as the continuation of Bolsonaro's campaign platform: one rooted in the belief...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe bookbinder and the exorcist: the future of digitalisation in education (and everything else besides)In education, as elsewhere, we should not oscillate between anachronistic technophobia and the blind faith which...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaInstitutional violence in Venezuela: What are militias and colectivos?In Venezuela, violence is organized by the state through militias and collectivos. What are they? What status do...
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