The government of Gustavo Petro is seeking to resume peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Havana, Cuba. The first rapprochement took place last Thursday, 11 August. Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva announced that he met with ELN representatives in the...
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The “unbearable lightness” of politics
High altitudes are characterised by a marked lack of oxygen. The world is upside down. Not only as a product of the events provoked by climate change or the absurd and irresponsible way of destroying what has been placed in our care. Simply because of the loss of...
A gift to humanity from Rapa Nui, UMANGA
The responses of the past open solutions to the present and the future; Tapu and Umanga: Tapu is an absolute obedience to the laws and rules, to live together in self-care. Umanga: I help you, you help me, and between the two of us we help others, without thinking...
Are the US and the UK authoritarian regimes? Julian Assange’s supporters think so
A young Italian woman is the latest “street installation” activist to protest the media’s silence regarding the inhumane treatment of Julian Assange by the UK and the U.S. Her installation in a square in Como lambastes the two self-styled democracies for acting...
Revaluing Peruvian women: beyond advertising clichés
From sociology and communication, inserted in the recent history of Peru, a subject of analysis is how the use of stereotypes about women in advertising has changed. Today it is already possible to see advertisements where Peruvian women are vindicated as the main...
Singularity: Representation (3rd part)
“Exponential growth is sometimes difficult to imagine, because human beings, generally speaking, think linearly”, Michio Kaku. Javier E Belda – IHPS How can we approach the meanings of something apparently unrepresentable, immersed as we are in the co-presence of...
Peace, force and joy
This is a simple and cheerful album that invites optimism and addresses the child in all of us; that is why… it is a book that has no age. By Enrique Collado It brings and shares values such as empathy, joy, resilience, multiculturalism, learning without limits… It is...
Boric, the promise to re-found Carabineros and the support that ended up being carte blanche for police violence
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, during his campaign promised to reform the country’s uniformed police. This promise was well received by the citizenry, as a response to the discrediting of the institution, not only the historical one, due to its role during the...
Editorial: Getting Out of the Upside Down
As the second week of NPT Review Conference concludes and the nuclear-armed states start to flex their “we can’t accept any commitments because of the international security environment” muscles, a metaphor for our present condition comes to mind: we are stuck in the...
“Limited regional” nuclear war would trigger a global climate catastrophe according to new study
It’s long been known a major nuclear war could destroy modern civilization and kill most of humanity. But what about a “limited” nuclear war—a conflict confined to one region, say, or involving just a tiny fraction of the world’s arsenals? “Nuclear Famine,” a new...
For a World Pact, Now!for a Common and Universal Future of Justice and Peace!
On the global war that is now exploding in Ukraine. A vision of the South and of people who are victims of colonial wars We, united as inhabitants and citizens of the Earth, work for the peaceful and brotherly collaboration of all peoples. We believe in the...
Plebiscite: Government inaugurates “Kiosko Chile vota informado” (Chile votes informed) in Constitution Square
Installed in the Plaza de la Constitución, in front of the Palacio de La Moneda, the government inaugurated the “Kiosko Chile vota informado” (Chile votes informed), as part of its campaign to inform the population about the proposed new Magna Carta. With the presence...