When Cuba is the argument: extraterritorial blockade, electoral fear and the omission that makes the comparison possible
Every time an election approaches in Colombia, the name Cuba surfaces in right-wing speeches…
INVESTIGATIONS
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Investigations
Investigative journalism: data, verified sources and structures of power laid bare.
Fraud Doesn’t Need to Be Proven to Work: How Colombia Turned Unverifiability Into a System of Government
On Sunday 31 May 2026, nearly 24 million Colombians voted in the presidential first…
How Swiss Public Money Ended Up Funding the ICE List of Twenty Million Targets
Geneva is home to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the tribunals that…
Israel on the UN Blacklist for Sexual Crimes in War: the State That Blocked Its Own Investigation to Avoid Being Investigated
On 29 May 2026, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres published the annual report on…
Honduras Is Not a Victim: It Is the Price Agreed Between Trump, Netanyahu and the Silicon Valley Billionaires
On 28 November 2025, two days before the Honduran presidential election, Donald Trump announced…
The perfect business: private funds invest workers’ savings abroad while the Colombian state pays pensions
There is a figure that Colombia’s private pension funds prefer to keep out of…
The Stadium as a Machine of Power. From the Cali Cartel to Saudi Arabia, One Logic
There is a liturgy repeated every week in almost every country in the world,…
The Consent Nobody Asks For
Latin America is the continent where the rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples are…
One Week in Colombia: 7,837 Deaths, a Confession, a Minister
Colombia has a singular capacity to absorb horror without disturbing the order of things.…
The Republic as Inheritance. Colombia’s Patrimonial Oligarchy
What Colombia calls corruption is not a system anomaly. It is the system’s operating…
The Narco Gospel, or How Organised Crime Infiltrated Evangelical Churches Across Latin America
The mechanism is old, but the architecture has improved. Across Latin America, evangelical congregations…
Palantir’s technological republic: a contract dressed up as philosophy
On 18 April 2026, Palantir Technologies’ official account on X published a thread of…