Before voting on 21 June, know that Bukele, Milei and Trump used exactly the same discourse De la Espriella uses today
By Gabriel Schwarb On Saturday 23 May, a boat sailed along the Magdalena river…
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18,677 Reasons to Choose Peace Again: Anatomy of a Kidnapped Figure
The number 18,677 took more than a decade to come into existence and barely…
Thirty-seven times on the brink of a deal with Iran and never once on the brink of peace
There exists a modest, almost clerical branch of journalism that consists of counting. CNN…
While He Turned His Body Into a Spectacle, They Knew With Surgical Precision the Name of What They Would Lose
On May 31, 2026, Abelardo de la Espriella obtained 43.7% of the votes in…
An ordinary love would have ended in forgetting, but ordinary loves do not need a museum to prove they existed
Some novels begin as one thing and end up being another. They present themselves…
The Seventh Invasion of Lebanon, Beaufort and the Order That Sustains Impunity
On Sunday, 31 May 2026, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz published on his social…
Your capacity to not be alone was the first natural resource Silicon Valley learned to extract
Nearly one in four people aged over fifteen reports feeling quite or very lonely,…
Three Government Programmes, Three Promises and a Bill Nobody Wants to Calculate
On 31 May, more than 41 million Colombians are called upon to choose between…
Giacometti and the factory of the armoured man: identity, fear and power in Latin America
In February 2010, L’Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold at…
Ben Gvir Filmed the Humiliation, Netanyahu Signed the Silence That Made It Possible
On 20 May 2026, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video…
AcidReport runs on their servers. We chose Infomaniak before it was a political statement. Boris Siegenthaler just made it one
On May 13, 2026, Boris Siegenthaler signed a document. He did not give a…
Learning Every Day as an Act of Resistance in a System That Doesn’t Need You to Be Stupid, Just Distracted
There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and…