The collapse of the Mediterranean neighbourhood, once Europe’s success story, is the casualty of both terror and the financial crisis. It threatens to transform mare nostrum into a moat.
The current Brazilian left, opposed both to the government and to the offensive from the right, needs to break the pernicious dualism in which it has been been locked. Español Português
We will witness a new attempt at rapprochement between the Colombian public institutions and certain regions of the country. It is extremely important to consider the expectations and the resources of these regions. Español Português
Human smugglers are widely portrayed as marketeers, yet the smuggler-migrant relationship is often coloured by moral, social, and even religious obligations. Heightened border policing has the potential to undermine all that.
Migrants travelling north from Central America employ guides and coyotes to facilitate their journey, but their time together is characterised by continuous re-negotiation. Español
Once mainly a sending-country of migrants to the US, Ecuador has become a transit zone migrants from all over the world as they seek to reach new destinations. Español
Just how democratic are the former Yugoslav countries today?
Demonisation is used by the right to prevent the left actually opposing the war on terror with more than platitudes; criminalisation is used by the state against those against its crimes.
How did a tiny, inconsequential bit of local news in Amsterdam get picked up and made a major discussion topic in Italy's media?
The great shortcoming of the messianic leaders was their failure to understand the root of their so Latin American stance: cycles exhaust themselves inevitably. Español Português
A new documentary tells the story of three Nepali women using the skills they acquired after being ‘sold’ into the circus to keep others from making the same mistake.
Gathering in Cuba Raúl Castro and Obama, and Kerry and the FARC, and having Mick Jagger jump up and down, is a way to bury the revolution in a revolutionary way. Español Português
