Over a year after the Venezuelan leader's death, the Chavez narrative is still up for grabs. From openDemocracy.
Protecting personal data is high on the EU agenda, and Snowden’s revelations undoubtedly triggered reactions and actions in Europe and across EU Member States, the significance of which should not be underestimated.
Illegal drug trafficking is deeply embedded in Mexico. Collusion between the state and ‘self-defence’ groups is not, however, the answer to it.
In both Mexico and the UK political apathy seems to be on the increase, on general trends at least. If citizens see little tangible connection between their vote, their wishes and public policy, voting comes to be seen as a waste of time.
Former Swedish deputy foreign minister and UN ambassador Pierre Schori remembers circumstances and characters, including the late prime minister Olof Palme, that linked him to Gabriel García Márquez, in the work they did on Latin America.
Casualty recording has redefined efforts to protect civilians in conflict, and provide aid and accountability to victims of violence. But with an absence of political will to respond to conflict, what good are the numbers?
Venezuela is politically polarised and so is much of the coverage of it. But just as the violence is now kaleidoscopic the international response must become more complex.
The Santos regime finally (and illegally) removed one of the few honest politicians in Colombia—the democratically elected, socialist Mayor Gustavo Petro—from office last Thursday, after only two years of a full four-year term of office.
