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Protests In Peru Persist

People are protesting Rightist government moves ousting President Pedro Castillo. By Countercurrents Collective Tweeting from jail on Tuesday, Castillo said history will remember Peruvians “murdered for defending the country from the coup dictatorship,” and that...

Wikipedia: An impressive demonstration effect of Good Knowledge

Around this time in January 2001, the idea of enabling the collaborative edition of the encyclopedia that would end up being created under the name of Wikipedia a few days later was launched. The immediate predecessor of Wikipedia was Nupedia, founded by Jimmy Wales,...

Benin: A reality difficult to be grasped

There are places where the interweaving of times and spaces makes understanding difficult. Phenomena emerge from different tectonic layers of existence, mutating into apparitions that dissuade the simple, linear and superficial narrative. To penetrate this complex...

Libya: National reconciliation conference back on the horizon

Under the auspices of the African Union, a preparatory meeting for a possible national reconciliation conference in Libya took place in Tripoli this January 8. The conclave, of a technical nature, laid the groundwork for an agreement to bring the actors at the same...

Brazilian civilization against Bolsonaro

By Urariano Mota * I retrieve the post-scripted chapter that I published in the American edition of the novel “Never-Ending Youth”, in the last pages of Peter Lownds” translation, “Never-Ending Youth”, I added these lines: Posters have taken over the city in recent...

More than 2,500 migrants arrive in Italy

In the first eight days of 2023, more than 2,500 migrants from North Africa landed on Italian shores, compared to 370 in the same period last year, the Ministry of the Interior said today. According to a report published by the newspaper La Repubblica, a meeting will...

A dose of magical realism

Anchored in the face of uncertainty, doubts and scepticism, I search for fantasy. Immersed in a hustle and bustle from which we cannot escape and of which we are, in a way, voluntary hostages, we live under a succession of true or false information that has gradually...

Balamos: An experiential and photographic journey

Balamos: An experiential and photographic journey

Balamos in the Roma dialect is defined as anyone who is not a gypsy. This was what they called me when I started to approach and photograph these people, I was a balamos or in other words, a stranger to them. In April 2022 I started visiting the Roma settlements of...