MEXICO: TEN YEARS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF RAFAEL ESPINOSA GUTIERREZ «We don’t know why, or who it was»

That early morning of August 15, 2013, his wife witnessed from the window of their house in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, how two men and a woman perpetrated the disappearance of Rafael Espinosa Gutiérrez, who worked as study and account secretary in the Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary of the State of Veracruz. Continúa leyendo MEXICO: TEN YEARS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF RAFAEL ESPINOSA GUTIERREZ «We don’t know why, or who it was»

ESCRITORES DE BOLIVIA NO LOGRARON UNIFICARSE CON DEMOCRACIA

In an interview with writer Jackeline Barriga Nava, organizer of the 1st Congress of Writers in Literature of Bolivia and former vice president of the Writers Society of Bolivia (SODESBO), she expressed a bitter feeling about the conclusion of this event, which we have been following. According to her, they were unable to unify democratically «as I mentioned in a previous interview, if we fail to achieve the unity of writers, it will be due to the small-mindedness of the writers themselves, and that’s what happened.» Continúa leyendo ESCRITORES DE BOLIVIA NO LOGRARON UNIFICARSE CON DEMOCRACIA

EDITORIAL: DOLORES DE FRANCIA

One death, 1,300 arrests, cities on fire, 45,000 police officers on the streets. Acts and rallies of all kinds are cancelled, a concert at the Stade de France is cancelled, all public demonstrations are prohibited in the prefectures of Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux, in Grenoble, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Montpellier. An impressive balance, almost a catastrophe. Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: DOLORES DE FRANCIA

COLOMBIA: AL NOBEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ TRIBUTO ESPECIAL DIA TRADICIONAL DEL PERIODISTA

To the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, received on December 10, 1982, after four decades, there are many tributes he deserves; Continúa leyendo COLOMBIA: AL NOBEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ TRIBUTO ESPECIAL DIA TRADICIONAL DEL PERIODISTA

EL PENSADOR: DISUASIÓN «Falta sin Aviso»

What’s wrong with Minister Heber? Tiredness, anemia? No no. In any case, the opposite: excitement. It has plunged headlong into the center of a disorderly and highly politicized debate on security, which includes figures for the reduction in crime, questioning the construction of those figures, contradictions, abrupt and even absurd comparisons with previous administrations and a string of plans to improve police services and their effectiveness, in the midst of complaints of internal corruption in the Headquarters and projects -in some cases delusional- on the rehabilitation of both prisoners and those released after serving their sentences. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DISUASIÓN «Falta sin Aviso»

DD.HH.: ASÍ ES LA COLOMBIA OLVIDADA. HACIA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PAZ «De La Violencia a la Convivencia»

Al iniciar el año 2023, en el primer día del mes de enero, en un grato compartir con la comunidad del barrio Altos de Cazuca, sector deprimido, carente de todos los servicios públicos (agua, luz, alcantarillado y aseo), sus habitantes se mantienen alertas por estar sus viviendas en alto riesgo de desbordamiento, se encuentran en área limítrofe entre la capital de la República de Colombia, Bogotá, al sur, y el municipio de Soacha, al norte, en el departamento de Cundinamarca; por tal situación geográfica, hay quienes se sienten bogotanos, capitalinos, ante quienes dicen ser soachunos. Continúa leyendo DD.HH.: ASÍ ES LA COLOMBIA OLVIDADA. HACIA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE PAZ «De La Violencia a la Convivencia»