Camila Sosa Villada’s latest film reimagines trans identity beyond pain, poverty, or even death In Thesis on a Domestication, Camila Sosa Villada turns the tired trope of trans suffering on its...
In Spain, women are challenging the traditionally gendered norms of rural life. Since time immemorial, life in the countryside has depended on sharply defined gender roles. The gruelling labour of...
What recent pension clashes reveal about Javier Milei’s political project – and Argentina When Argentina is discussed in international news, it’s often as an economic basket case. (To what extent...
Why the election of Donald Trump in the United States has turned into an existential crisis for independent media in Latin America How do democracies die? Quickly, or slowly? In...
While LA burned this January, fires at the other end of the Americas have fed a long-running political battle in Patagonia In January 2025, the Anglosphere was transfixed by the...
Community radio is a lifeline for Q’eqchi speakers in Guatemala – and a target for the powerful In most parts of the world, the hegemonic role of radio as the...
A Spanish review of a French documentary about Colombia In the early 2000s, l’affaire Íngrid Betancourt —the hostage-taking of a Colombian French dual national presidential candidate at the height of the 2002...
An Ecuadorian perspective on Pacific geopolitics in the Trump era The Peruvian airbase of ‘El Pato’ sits just inland from the Pacific Ocean, a few kilometres north of the remote...
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