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Earthquake: 3 months on, Venezuelans left to fend for themselves
Three months after the disaster that struck the country, the situation remains alarming. In Caribe (La Guaira), residents deplore the late and inadequate response of the state, which is nonetheless omnipresent through its police and military posts. At the same time, the epic solidarity of the first weeks is gradually running out of steam.
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“Right now we have no guarantees, no rights. We are all on provisional release.”
The monumental electoral fraud of 28 July 2024, which secured Nicolás Maduro’s re-election for a third term, sparked major social protests that…
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The deeply political trial of the young front-line protesters
A year after the 2021 paro nacional and just days before the election of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro, some forty young people…
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Colombia seen from the port: the Buenaventura question
Colombia’s main Pacific port, Buenaventura, a predominantly Afro-descendant city, sees colossal wealth pass through every day without reaping the benefits: two-thirds of…
Interviews
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Lithium: a former minister condemns the slide back to a raw-materials economy
Former Minister of Science and Technology under President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023), Roberto Salvarezza also chaired the state-owned companies tasked with industrialising Argentina’s lithium. He looks back on the pressure exerted by foreign mining companies,…
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Milagro Sala: “They see my release as a danger to the province’s economic interests”
While social struggle has resurfaced in the province of Jujuy, home to a large Indigenous population, the activist who embodied it for years, Milagro Sala, remains under house arrest.
Investigations
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Colombia seen from the port: the Buenaventura question
Colombia’s main Pacific port, Buenaventura, a predominantly Afro-descendant city, sees colossal wealth pass through every day without reaping the benefits: two-thirds of its residents live below the poverty line and under the control of illegal armed groups.
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