Hours before the start of the midterm elections on 3 November, US society is going through a moment of maximum tension. President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after winning the 2024 elections with the promise of a new era of prosperity and bonanza for the United States, now faces a scenario in which his approval ratings are collapsing and his own party is beginning to show cracks. What was meant to be a referendum on his presidential … Read more

France is currently experiencing a month of mass protests that are putting Macron’s government under pressure. Faced with calls for a new protest this Saturday, 24 October, the government has responded with an increasingly authoritarian crackdown: police repression, curfews, attempts to ban the use of social media, and the suspension of the right to demonstrate, with the sole exception of authorised trade union rallies. It all began with student blockades at secondary schools in Mayotte and French Guiana, two French … Read more

Mafalda turns 62 in 2026 while political humour dissolves into algorithms. In September 1964, the Argentine magazine “Primera Plana” published the first strip of a six-year-old girl who hated soup and asked uncomfortable questions. Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, known as Quino, born in Mendoza in 1932, had spent years selling drawings without much success. That character became one of the most influential critical voices in Latin American culture. The strip was born in a context of military dictatorships, the Cold … Read more

Imperialism is not a univocal phenomenon. From its economic dimension to its cultural imprint, the theories that analyze it offer an indispensable map for understanding how global domination is perpetuated. The classical economic tradition situates imperialism as a structural necessity of capitalism. Karl Marx pointed out in volume III of Capital that the falling tendency of the rate of profit pushes capital to expand beyond national borders: colonization thus becomes an escape valve for a system that needs markets and … Read more