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Peruvian Democracy in Crisis - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Peru has been trapped in uncertainty since 7 December, when left-wing president Pedro Castillo addressed the nation on the eve of his third impeachment vote in Congress, accused Congress of staging a coup, ordered its dissolution, and called for new elections and a new constitution.

This was not the first time a Peruvian president had executed such a move. Alberto Fujimori did the same in 1992 with overwhelming popular support and, more importantly, the backing of the armed forces. This was not

In Panama, Workers Blocked the Roads to Force Price Cuts — and It Worked

In early July, the People’s Alliance for Life, a coalition of Panamanian workers, students, and indigenous peoples, blocked the Pan-American Highway, the country’s main artery for personal and commercial transport. They demanded to negotiate with the government and find solutions to the high prices of gas, food, and medicine. Motor traffic was brought to a standstill.

Traffic jams are a regular grievance in Panama, a product of the deficient public-transport system, an overabundance of cars, an

Camila Vallejo: Chile’s Left Needs to Be as Class-Conscious as the Right Is

When Camila Vallejo announced in 2012 that she intended to run for the Chilean Congress, many on the Left accused her of being a “sellout.” The previous year she had become one of the most visible faces of student protests demanding free and quality education, as spokeswoman for the Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH). Indeed, there was so much international media attention around her that in October 2011, Guardian readers chose her as person of the year. But for many in Chile, her bid f
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Una población invisible: la realidad LGBTI en Venezuela

La hiperinflación que precariza la vida de todos los venezolanos golpea doblemente en las poblaciones más vulnerables

A ntes de Chile, Argentina y Uruguay, fue Venezuela el primer país en América Latina en reconocer la identidad de las personas transgénero. En 1977, el juez Alirio Abreu Burelli emitió una sentencia que permitiría este reconocimiento por vía judicial. Este mismo jurista sería más tarde magistrado de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, desde 1995 hasta 2006.

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Mapuche Filmmaker Claudia Huaiquimilla on Indigenous Identity and Filming from the Trenches, PopMatters

Little Claudia Huaiquimilla didn’t expect to be paraded class by class like a museum exhibit in her first national holidays at an all girls Catholic school. Unlike her other classmates, who were dressed in the traditional Chilean criollo dress, Cladiua had come in her ancestral garments: As a Mapuche.

Usually afraid of exposure, 33-year-old Huaiquimilla remembers to have been particularly calm that day. Unlike the shy Cheo, protagonist of her 2017 hit film

Mala Junta (Bad Influence), recently
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Chile: Sebastián Piñera, Posterboy des grünen Kapitalismus

Die Oase steht in Flammen. In den letzten Wochen erlebte Chile die größten Proteste seit der Rückkehr zur Demokratie. Der erfolgreiche Milliardär, als der Präsident Sebastián Piñera der internationalen Gemeinschaft bislang erschien, ist abgestürzt, jeden Tag erreicht seine Regierung einen neuen Tiefpunkt: Der Einsatz des Militärs gegen das eigene Volk, eine sogenannte Sozialagenda mit lahmen Maßnahmen wie einer Erhöhung um gerade mal 70 Dollar auf die unzureichenden 400 US-Dollar Mindestlohn, ei
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Horas extra no pagadas, trabajo sin contrato y despidos masivos: el lado oscuro de la industria de videojuegos

Irse del proyecto, sin embargo, arriesgaba que no fueses incluido en los créditos, algo que fue admitido incluso por Jennifer Kolbe, directora del Área de Publicación: "Siempre hemos sentido que queremos que el equipo llegue a la línea de meta, por lo que hace mucho tiempo decidimos que si no llegabas a terminar el juego, no aparecerás en los créditos".

Emily Grace Buck, ex diseñadora narrativa del difunto Telltale Games (detrás de los juegos de The Walking Dead, Batman y Game of Thrones) comen