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Prohibition-Inspired Violence Against Women

Day by day we see news bulletins about women accused of drug-related crimes. Underneath these crimes is a problematic of large proportions…

The statements of the Chilean president contrast with the silence from Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

People who defend the existing model are screaming bloody murder saying cutting its budget will mean dropping the level of education.

The right thing would be to condemn every form of violence, both from the State when this is the case, as well as from society as a whole.

I thank Gabriel Boric for not remaining silent. Evo: Enough of justifying the atrocities against freedom & justice committed by Daniel Ortega!

Initiating a new process seems blocked by the right’s complete denial of what occurred in Chile in October 2019.

“An electoral process held without freedom or reliable safeguards, and with opposition leaders imprisoned or banished, isn’t democracy…”

The contemporary Chilean-composed song “El violador eres Tu” (“The rapist is you”) reflects a scream stifled for decades (or maybe centuries).

This is especially so for those who believe in the urgent need of a change of direction in the way we’ve traditionally understood sociology.

Questions are being raised about the environmental impact of turning this area into the world’s leading producer of green hydrogen.