The Hell of La Palma
On September 19th, the volcano Cumbre Vieja erupted, situated on the island of La Palma, an integrant of the Canary Islands. After waking up in a numb state that lasted half a century, Cumbre Vieja…
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The world from october 18 to october 24
Erdogan announces expulsion of ambassadors of ten Western countries This Saturday the president of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, said he had ordered his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to expel the ambassadors of ten Western countries for…
The world from october 11 to october 17
British Conservative MP dies after being stabbed The Conservative MP, Sir David Amess, was killed on Friday (15) after being stabbed several times in Essex. According to the police, a 25-year-old man was arrested as…
Living in the darkness: the persecution and oppression of the LGBTQ+ community in Afghanistan
Afghanistan now lives in a period stricken by fear and radicalization of laws, instituted by the Taliban, that place a retreat on the rights and freedoms that many Afghans were able to reach in the…
Uyghurs and the humanitarian crisis
Xinjiang, Uyghurs and China The Uyghurs are a Muslim ethnic group of which most individuals live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in China – being recognized as natives to the region, having around…
Memories of Saigon: How the north-American foreign policy has repeated the same mistakes of 50 years ago
“Every man for himself!”In these last weeks the political and military situation in Afghanistan has been receiving enormous attention from the media. So enormous that it could be considered as the most broadcasted international event…
Plato, Bacon and Tocqueville – Orthodoxy and The Noble Lie in a Time of Pandemic
. Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is…
Between the Rock and a Hard Place: the history of the diplomatic relations of Venezuela with Washington and Moscow
The economic and political situation in Venezuela has been receiving more media attention in the last few years. Many political scientists and analysts have been describing this Latin-American country as an authentic “powder keg” ready…
The Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflicts: hostility in the heart of the Middle East
The Israeli-Palestinian is one of the most violent and complex conflicts in the Middle East, in which its analysis, either in its historical and current context, requires special attention. In fact, the conflictual nature of…
Invisible Countries: Turkmenistan
In The Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes 55 cities explored by Marco Polo. He describes how Maurilia, for example, is a metropolis where visitors look at postcards and billboards that illustrate it as when it…