The Americas

The People vs. Javier Milei

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...

The Literary Voice of Vodou

An exploration of Vodou as a system of thought and a means of understanding the world through Haitian poetry and literature Vodou, at its core, is a religion of oral...

Epistolary Exiles

Uncovering long lost letters written during Brazil’s military dictatorship Journalism’s dirty secret isn’t always nepotism. Sometimes, it’s luck! This couldn’t hold any more true for the Lisbon-based journalist, researcher and...

Dollars and Sense

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...

Lou Reed in Brazil

Black and white photographs in a Brazilian market send a writer down a rabbit hole into music legend The Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas...

The fires we don’t see

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...

The Voice of the Mountains

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...

Norm war

A French perspective on the performative power games of Donald Trump The beginnings of Trump’s second term as President of the United States have been eventful. A brutally disruptive tariff...

L’affaire Íngrid Betancourt

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...

Islands of Power

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...

Clean Girl only for whites?

Brazil’s Revista AzMina takes on the popular lifestyle aesthetic. From pristine centre-partings to no-makeup looks, the clean girl aesthetic epitomises a sense of impeccable, natural elegance. Think of 1990’s American icon Carolyn...

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