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Published in: democraciaAbiertaState of emergency, control and complete silence in Venezuela
Even if we reject the violent options the evidence of the government’s position is there to be seen. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico’s everyday war: Guerrero and the trials of peace
Crime rates are climbing across Mexico, as cartels splinter into smaller groups competing ferociously for turf. Just...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 hits an economically weak and deeply unequal Latin America
Will Latin American economies returning to “normal” or build for a more equitable future after the pandemic? Español...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe story of a shipwrecked sailor named Sergio Moro
On the rise and fall (for now) of Operation Car Wash’s patron in Brazil, former judge and now former Bolsonaro...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo save lives and restore growth, creditors should accept Argentina's offer
Trying to squeeze more out of Argentina during a pandemic will backfire by costing lives and undermining future growth.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCoronavirus as a dispositive
Coronavirus has become the ultimate global biopolitical dispositive. Once the pandemic is overcome in health terms,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionAfter the pandemic, will we return to business as usual?
After the catastrophe of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can seriously ask if the “new normal” will be business as usual...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe War on Drugs has failed. But a profit-driven legal market is not the answer
With big business eyeing up cannabis as a future market, it is essential that legalisation supports racial and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19 crisis: Attacks on environmental defenders continue in Latin America
Communities protect ecosystems that provide fundamental services and prevent the transmission of zoonotic viruses....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBolsonaro's maneuvers amid a pandemic: strategy or desperation?
Days after dismissing his level-headed Minister of Health amid the pandemic, the president forces the resignation of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 and the injustice of life in the favelas and urban peripheries in Rio de Janeiro
“Once more, the population of the slums and urban peripheries are subjected to intersecting types of violence that,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationCOVID-19 sweeping through US immigrant farmworker and meatpacker ranks
“We work shoulder to shoulder. We’re very close to each other…. I’ve had a fever and flu symptoms, but I take...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Cuban lesson for happiness
If Cubans had left happiness to chance, then the difficulties and dilapidation around them would leave happiness to...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaNicaragua: two years of impunity
The civic and social demonstrations that began in April 2018 were intensely repressed, causing multiple human rights...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationMexico: Human rights defenders at the forefront of the COVID19 crisis
Human rights defenders in Mexico are simultaneously faced with two emergencies: health and human rights. Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe danger of being transgender in Latin America in times of quarantine
The measures implemented in Panama, Peru and Colombia have subjected LGBTI people to harassment. Also, they do not...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow a communist mayor is defeating privatisation in Chile
The municipality of Recoleta has created an open university, public housing projects and popular pharmacies.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCOVID-19: Brazil implements basic income policy following massive civil society campaign
Tens of millions of Brazilians have begun receiving basic income payments aimed at addressing the economic impact of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaPandemic and the Brazilian dialectics of barbarity
In Brazil, barbarism is represented by reactionism, neo-Pentecostal fanaticism, anti-scientism, necropolitics and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMigrants' return to Venezuela becomes a nightmare
Migrants who have been forced to return to Venezuela because of the COVID-19 crisis risk human rights abuses as the...