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On November 3, the fifty-ninth presidential elections took place in the United States. The standoff was between the Republican candidate and outgoing president, Donald Trump, against the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, among others. The latter won, with 51% of the votes, compared to 47.1% for Trump1 (data as of 11/24/20). Trump’ presidency, in power since January 2017, was disastrous when it came to human rights. Some of his decisions, or consequences of these, were: Policies of separation of migrant children … Read more

The International Monetary Fund, which was born in 1944 in the Bretton Woods agreements, has been one of the main forces that imposed the neoliberal agenda on the entire planet1, since the 1970s, conditioning its loans on austerity measures. And the current health crisis has not meant any change in this regard. An analysis carried out by OXFAM of 91 loans made by the IMF to countries during the pandemic2 reveals that at least 76 of them were conditioned to … Read more

Repression has always been one of the ways in which governments, or any group that holds power, have acted against those who challenge existing power relations. It has been defined as the employment or threat of coercion by the powerful on those who oppose it in order to weaken resistance to their will1. In short, repression is any institutional activity that tends to inhibit collective behaviors. Repression is not the only mechanism for collective control. Talcott Parsons, in “The Nature … Read more

The people of Chile chose this October 25 to end the Constitution that governed the country since 1980 (approved by a questionable plebiscite1), with 78’27% of the affirmative votes2. Likewise, 78.99% of the citizens voted in favor of the new Constitution being drawn up by a Constitutional Convention3, formed in equal parts by popularly elected members and parliamentarians in office. The turnout was 51%4. However, this is just the beginning of a journey that is estimated to end in 2022. … Read more

The Movement to Socialism (MAS) won, with 55.1% of the votes, the general elections that took place this October 18 in Bolivia1,2. The president will be Luis Arce, who was Evo Morales’ economy minister throughout his term. The elections were mostly peaceful3  and its  results have been recognized internationally4,5. The holding of these elections was the consequence of the challenge of those in the year 2019 (to which Evo Morales was presented as president)6, due to the complaint of fraud … Read more

“Every person has the right to a comfortable standard of living that ensures, as well as his/her family, health and well-being, and especially food, clothing, housing, […]”1. This is how the United Nations defined, in 1948, the right of every human being to housing, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, this statement was not binding. On the other hand, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights2 was, signed and subsequently ratified by most of the countries of … Read more

New US tariffs on certain EU products entered into force on October 181 —especially from France, United Kingdom, Germany and Spain—, as a result of a demand that the US made before the World Trade Organization in 2004. Illegal EU subsidies to the aircraft manufacturer Airbus are officially the reason for this demand. These tariffs will record European aircraft with 10% and the other series of products not related to aeronautics with 25%. However, negotiations between the EU and the … Read more

During the week of September 20-27, people from all parts of the world mobilized to demand the powers of the different states decisive actions against the climate crisis that threatens the life of the planet. The Global Climate Strike is a mobilization originally promoted by Fridays For Future and that each of the communities will develop through different organizations and structures (2020 Climate Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion…)1,2. The key demands of the mobilizations are 33: That politicians tell the truth about … Read more

The right of self-determination establishes that each people has the right to freely choose their political status and to provide their economic, social and cultural development. This is a right enjoyed by all the peoples of the world1. The right of self-determination is part of the ius cogens of international law, since it is considered to be a regulation that is above any state legislation and, therefore, no State can deny or violate it. Thus, in the Scottish case, the … Read more

The peace agreement between the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army), signed on 11/24/2016, is partly broken. The former head of the FARC-EP negotiator of the peace process, Iván Márquez, announced the return to arms of a part of the guerrillas1. Despite this, Timochenko and the bulk of former FARC-EP guerrillas remain faithful to the peace agreement. The peace process, culminated in the signing of the Final Agreement for the End of Conflict and the … Read more