The “revival of the Taliban” is a fact. And Pakistan is the new centre of developments in Central Asia, for it is from its grounds that the new waves of fighters with the black turbans, […]
In December 2001, in Buenos Aires, great crowds of people are heading towards the historic square Plaza de Mayo. Argentina, once amongst the richest economies in the world, has gone bankrupt. The government has resigned […]
In the virgin tropical forests of the Amazon, the region with the richest biodiversity in the world, an unspeakable crime has been and is still being committed against humankind. Texaco is accused of dumping 18.5 […]
When the Spanish conquistadors reached Colombia in the 16th century, they thought they had found the mythical El Dorado. In amazement, they watched a ritual at Lake Guatavita, near modern day Bogota, in which the […]
Today, stem cells are virtually presented as a panache, a “miraculous” biological material of the human body which can cure a great number of diseases, from leukemia to Alzheimer’s disease. Big enterprises in most countries […]
For almost two decades, Ireland had been a global model of neoliberal development. A test lab to legitimize its application, with the country’s cheap and specialized labor force as the guinea pig. The government, banks […]
In 2008, Iceland was confronted with an unprecedented economic disaster. The country’s three banks collapsed, dragging with them to ruin the country’s whole social, economic and political life. Four years later, in 2012, Iceland has […]
Tijuana is a Mexican city on the U.S. border and a district controlled by the cartel Arellano Félix (CAF), one of the most powerful cartels in the world. In 2006, president Felipe Calderon declared war […]
Scientists consider Bangladesh to be the point zero of climate change. As the ice melts, the sea level is rising and this South Asian coastal country is sinking. It is estimated that, by the year […]
The I.M.F. has been present in Guatemala since 1984. During the past seven years, the country has displayed an impressive economic growth that many developed countries would envy. Average growth is almost as high as […]
A crazy manhunt has broken out in peaceful Tanzania. Bounty hunters murder and mutilate Albinos so that they can take their limbs. According to the paranoid superstition streak that has been initiated by 161.000 Tanzanian […]