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The storm Filomena has unexpectedly brought the lowest temperatures that the Iberian Peninsula has known, with lows of 30°C below zero in some places1 and entire cities buried in snow2. It has also evidenced the situation of energy poverty of 15% of the Spanish population, about 6.8 million people and 2.6 million households, according to data from the Funcas Foundation and the Chair of Energy and Poverty3, while the electricity price skyrockets. In a situation like this, many families have … Read more

On January 6, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump, after a demonstration in support of the president, marched through Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. and entered the Capitol building1, trying to avoid the formalization of the electoral victory of Joe Biden. For a few hours they occupied, vandalized and looted parts of the building2. These events have been described as treason, insurrection or terrorism by the US media. However, a video shows how the attitude of the security forces was … Read more

On 2nd October India and South Africa proposed to the World Trade Organization (WTO the release of patents for drugs and vaccines against covid-191. The objective of this measure is rapid access to affordable medical products to combat the pandemic in all countries of the world due to a global solution is required. The idea of universalizing the vaccine has the support of 99 of the 164 countries of the WTO2. Among the countries blocking this measure are some of … Read more

On 28th August of 2020 Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno announced on his Twitter account “a technical agreement with the IMF to access 6.5 billion dollars for social protection and reactivation”. After passing an anti-corruption law required by the agency, they have already reached an agreement for the disbursement of the first 2 billion, which the president rushed to celebrate on the networks. It is a new loan from the IMF in addition to the one for 200 million dollars and that … Read more

Nonviolent resistance, also called active nonviolence, became popular in the early twentieth century when Ghandi1, based on the ideology of Tolstoy and Thoreau made use of a series of disobedience and non collaboration tactics that resulted in the independence of India and Pakistan from the British Empire2. This form of activism continued to be common throughout the twentieth century and would be the preferred form of operation of the anti-globalization movement to this day. By the end of the twentieth … Read more

On 15th September the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced his intention to hold a popular consultation on the possible prosecution of former presidents who ruled Mexico from 1988 to 20181. To do so, he sent a formal request to the Senate of the Republic. Obrador suggested that the consultation take place on 6th June 2021 or on the date established in article 35 of the Constitution2. At the same time a national popular campaign to collect signatures took … Read more

In many authoritarian governments around the world, appealing to a glorious past of the collective imagination is a common political tool. We see it in Mongolia, with the constant memory of the figure of Genghis Khan1, or in the nostalgic memories of the British imperial past by the conservative politicians of that country2. In few places, however, does it take on the appearance of such a warmongering political ideology as with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Neo-Ottomanism: the dream of … Read more

For three weeks tens of thousands of farmers have been blocking the entrances to the city of New Delhi in protest at the new reform of the agricultural markets promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi1. At the same time the mobilizations spread throughout the country. While the prime minister reasoned that the reform will make the agrarian sector richer, the labor unions argue that the reforms will make them vulnerable to exploitation by large corporations and erode their negotiation power. … Read more

Last Tuesday, December 8, water began to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The futures contracts linked to the spot price (cash price) of water have begun to be the result of speculation in the Wall Street market1. Thereby, it will be traded in a similar way to gold and oil. At the moment, this stock index, NQH20, only trades the water of five areas of California2. Although there are already other antecedents of water rights speculation3, the fact … Read more

On September 8, the German government commissioner for Africa, Günter Nooke, announced in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung his country’s intention to source “green” hydrogen from the Democratic Republic of the Congo1. For this, a new large dam on the Congo River, the Inga 3, would have to be built. In its construction there are Chinese and European interests2,3. The Congo is a country that suffered harsh colonization4, which continues to be the victim of extensive plunder by foreign nations and … Read more