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SADR: The Country lost in the middle of the desert

A Colombian journalist travels to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to meet the embattled people struggling against a 50-year displacement from their homeland...

Lamine Yamal on and off the pitch

An anachronous highlights reel of the young Spanish footballer, told through six scenes. Panenka, a Spanish football culture publication with a strong cultural and realpolitik bent, guest spots in Gatopardo, a...

How did Spain introduce a policy to provide IVF for all women – regardless of their marital status or sexuality?

The 2016 policy is being replicated across the country, and provides valuable lessons for reproductive healthcare globally A decade ago, the Health Minister of the Catalan government Toni Comín announced...

Is it possible to be trans and not suffer so much?

An Argentinian documentary follows a teenager’s transition to answer this question. The documentary Tristán y los días por venir (Tristán and the days to come) was filmed over seven years, documenting Tristán’s adolescence...

From silence, into the light

Over the last year and a half, the Colombian media outlet Casa Macondo has run a series of articles on accusations of sexual abuse in the Catholic church – and the ways...

This side of the bridge

Venezuelan women cross into Colombia for abortions they cannot legally have at home, only to find that this “right” is not always easy to reach In Venezuela, abortion remains a...

Ashes to ashes

Read how the discovery of 17 tombs from the Iron Age has sparked the curiosity of archaeologists in a small village of rural Navarre We are used to thinking of...

Mothers for hire

How Colombia has turned into a “paradise for reproductive tourism” We are used to discussing surrogacy in fairly abstract terms. If the neoliberal idea of us being nothing but self-interested...

Brick by brick

How mutual-aid construction has helped thousands of working-class families secure homes while limiting real-estate speculation in Uruguay Published in El País’s América Futura section and reported by Noor Mahtani, this article explores...

The desert city holding back a war

In Mauritania’s far southeast, a refugee camp of nearly 300,000 people has become both sanctuary and buffer zone between Mali’s collapse and Europe’s borders Reporting from the edge of the...

A manifesto for Latino America

How a Colombian newspaper reported Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl performance Last Sunday, Bad Bunny performed at the Super Bowl. In a country pushed to the limit with the persecution...

Where stars are made

How decorative star-shaped piñatas sustain livelihoods and ritual life in Mexico In this reported piece for Contralínea, journalist Fernanda Monroy takes us into the family workshops and neighbourhood markets of Mexico...

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