MONTHLY EDITORIAL
Voting is not an act of hope. That is the first lie to dismantle. Hope is an emotion, and emotions are manipulable, exhaustible, reversible. Those who want you not to vote are counting on your exhaustion. They are counting on…
Every time an election approaches in Colombia, the name Cuba surfaces in right-wing speeches with near-mechanical regularity, not as analysis but as warning, not as a description of a country but as a code word for possible catastrophe. “If the left wins, Colombia will become like Cuba.” The phrase works because very few people actually …
On Sunday 31 May 2026, nearly 24 million Colombians voted in the presidential first round. Abelardo de la Espriella obtained 43.74% of votes cast; Iván Cepeda, of the Pacto Histórico, came second with 40.90%. That same evening, President Petro alleged the illicit addition of 885,400 voter IDs to the electoral register, modification of the electoral …
On Sunday, 31 May 2026, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz published on his social media accounts a photograph of Israeli troops raising their flag over Beaufort fortress in southern Lebanon. The same fortress Israel had occupied for eighteen years, from 1982 to the year 2000. The same fortress to which UNESCO had granted enhanced protection …
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G.S.
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Geneva is home to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the tribunals that…
The question that opens this series is not why the guerrilla arose in Colombia.…
On 29 May 2026, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres published the annual report on…
Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely,…
On 31 May, more than 41 million Colombians are called upon to choose between…
In February 2010, L’Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold at…
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