Issue Apr 15-21 2026: The problems besetting Chile are well-known and have been analyzed extensively, from the public’s eroded trust in institutions to the abyss separating those in power from average citizens. However, that such issues are evident does not mean that political leadership in the country has risen to the challenge of ameliorating them.

Issue Apr 15-21 2026: In retrospect, it is clear that the ethno-Marxist debate in Mexico was enriched in its early phase by the discourse in Vietnam following the American defeat there, as well as by the work of Antonio Gramsci, Palmiro Togliatti, and José Carlos Mariátegui.

Issue Apr 15-21 2026: In academic discourse—or in common parlance—it was “modern architecture,” which supposedly turned inside out everything a city was to be.

Issue Apr 15-21 2026: Losing control of the digital discourse for President Javier Milei is akin to losing the streets for a traditional Peronist politician of the 21st-century.

Issue Apr 08-14 2026: Following the election of President José Antonio Kast, concerns have grown about the weakness of Chile’s political opposition and its ability to present a viable alternative.

Issue Apr 08-14 2026: A new book by Pety Guerrero, a tireless promoter of Paulo Freire’s “Southern Pedagogy,” focuses on the Indigenous Rarámuri and Ódame communities in Tarahumara, Mexico. Entitled Where There Were Forests of Colossal Pine Trees, the book documents the dispossession of these communities from their ancestral lands and forms of resistance they

Issue Apr 08-14 2026: Corruption and an economy that refuses to recover form a lethal combination.

Issue Apr 08-14 2026: Since Donald Trump’s first term, the traits of a fascistized society have been clearly observable.

Issue Apr 01-07 2026: A growing number of young adults preparing to vote for the first time lack even basic knowledge about the country’s political system, raising concerns about democratic participation. This gap is not accidental, but rather the result of longstanding educational and structural shortcomings.

Issue Apr 01-07 2026: The situation in El Salvador has become serious. The International Group of Experts for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations under the State of Exception in El Salvador (GIPES) has concluded that state authorities there have committed crimes against humanity and are requesting that the International Criminal Court look into the