YEAR II  ·  No. 558  ·  SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2026

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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, with no distinction between capitalists and socialists, between dictatorships and democracies, between rich and poor. Millions of people suspend their lives and their political opinions to spend two hours watching twenty-two men run after a ball. It is not an accident. … CONTINUE READING →

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 and sectors of rural Catholicism have become nodes in three distinct networks that share the same infrastructure: the network of illicit money seeking legitimation, the network of votes seeking mobilisation, and the network of the faithful seeking salvation. All three converge … CONTINUE READING →