Coca-Cola is bad for you. It should be written on it, as one does on cigarettes, but we are far from such a possibility. Those who drink too much of it get sick[1] . As in Chiapas: half a century has passed since Mexico’s ‘sad face of
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In the world there are conflicts overshadowed by too many vested interests. Conflicts that turn the lives of tens of thousands of defenceless people upside down, but which no one tells about, because there are no good guys, only bad guys, everywhere. That of Cabinda is
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The chubby cheeks, the round, high forehead, the thick eyebrows painted black. Her neck, wrists and hands encircled by gleaming gold chains. The sound of her name evokes the scorching sun over there, beyond the sea that surrounds her islands. Cesária Évora. Her being, in all its
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She performs in a black dress, the shawl over her shoulders, mourning in her heart. The head bent backwards, the tragic face of a Greek mask. The motions of the body, an aura that exudes charisma and commands respect. Gloomy, fatalistic lyrics, sung in an intense, passionate
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Only 9 months after choosing Gabriel Boric as the country’s new leader[1], Chilean voters overwhelmingly rejected the new constitution proposed by the Assembly[2], which was supposed to replace the one drafted under the military government of General Augusto Pinochet in 1980. Despite the fact that Chileans have
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If you are unfamiliar with the tragic events of post-war Argentina and the last fifty years of civil and cultural history of the Latin American country that is the home of the tango, you can help by immersing yourself in the songs of Mercedes Sosa. Spokesperson for
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If you want to fight to change the world, you have to use unconventional weapons, such as music and poetry. So did Violeta Parra, pencil and guitar, at war with life that spares no one, but punishes some more than others. The life of a woman, who
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There are ferocious and endless conflicts that no one cares about anymore, as the Ukrainian crisis focuses the attention of the entire world. But people are still dying there, every minute: a seemingly endless trail of blood – as on the island of Haiti. It has been
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Tens of thousands of migrants marching, on foot, coming from all over Central America, and especially from El Salvador, and wanting to enter the United States to attend the great Summit organised by Joe Biden: not as diplomatic guests, but as a desperate mass in search of
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In these hours, the Filipino people are electing a new president. According to all the polls, the winner should be Bongbong Marcos – son of the bloodthirsty dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, who died of old age in 1989, three years after the revolution that restored democracy. He
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