Mexico is a lush nation, rich in subsoil – and yet it is a very poor nation: a state continually overwhelmed by riots, massacres by criminal gangs and rebel armies, with a weak and corrupt central government, which settles contentious issues by shooting at crowds. What unites
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If you ask around, they will tell you that Madeira is one of the many tourist destinations in the Atlantic Ocean, full of sea, sun, tourists and beer. But they are wrong. Despite being in the age of global and mass tourism, Funchal and its island have
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Almost 50 years have passed. Chile, symbol of the freedom of my generation, born with the election of Salvador Allende to the presidency, is crushed by a military coup d’état, desired and organised by the United States, which costs the lives of tens of thousands of decent
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A little over 30 years ago, on 30 June 1991, the South African parliament repealed the inhuman Apartheid laws: until that day, blacks were denied the right to vote and political participation, education, access to the most lucrative jobs, and property – all of which forced them
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On the night of 6 to 7 July 2021, an armed commando broke into the home of President Jovenel Moïse and shot him dead with 16 bullets, seriously wounding his wife. Prime Minister Claude Joseph said the men spoke English and Spanish and were disguised as Drug
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Welcome to Lake Uru Uru, Cordillera de los Andes, Bolivia – one of the largest and most beautiful lakes in South America, deep blue, full of fish and home to thousands of flamingos – until just five years ago. Now, as you can see, it is an
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War is not absolutely necessary to destroy a people. In a globalized world where trade lays the foundations for the fight against hunger and poverty everywhere, economic sanctions are an exceptional tool to condemn a people to poverty: to prevent a country from selling the products it
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It is a country that is a third the width of the city of London or Rome, half of Berlin. It has just over 60,000 inhabitants, a gross domestic product comparable to that of Burundi and Sierra Leone – and, moreover, it hides it in the safes
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