Three leaders’ strong words on the Trump administration’s threat to civilised norms and values in the international arena has attracted blowback from the right
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US imperialism
The country’s case at the World Court exposes Israel’s apartheid actions of creeping dispossession of land, segregation and discrimination, as well as military actions to destroy Palestinians and slow deaths through starvation
A World Bank study has found that the pandemic put a strain on healthcare workers, which affected the health system
South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures
Social cohesion and reconciliation cannot be signed into being with new Constitutions but need to be worked on
Seven right-wing governments have been defeated, while Brazil is set to join the wave of liberation next month
Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications around the world
A recent spate of killings has reignited the conversation about firearm control. What does the evidence say about the kind of policies that work to prevent gun violence?
Amazon plans to move into South Africa in 2023 and the world’s biggest online marketplace might give local companies a run for their money
With 2.2 million inhabitants, Medellin is today the city with the highest drug consumption – 15.5% – in Colombia
A new study shows the past 20 years of forest regeneration and reforestation efforts globally have contributed to the restoration of carbon sinks
The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen shortages before the pandemic
Colombia’s general anti-tax strike has turned into a mass protest movement
and become violent, writes Laura Brown
The Colombian government’s violent repression of political dissent is dangerous
Now these important policy developments must be implemented
Growth has slowed, which will increase poverty and fuel further social unrest, which in turn will push leaders to the political centre
Citizens have taken to the streets as the country’s transition away from a 70-year civil war gives them opportunity to find their voices
The new tax, the first of its type in Africa, was cautiously introduced last month in the first of several gradual step
Venezuela’s government says it has derailed a coup bid, claiming the US, Colombia and Chile colluded in a plot to assassinate President Maduro
The Constitutional Court said same-sex marriage had been approved in a five-to-four vote of its nine judges in a closed door hearing
The disclosures come at a time when women’s football is experiencing a worldwide surge in popularity ahead of this year’s World Cup
Deforestation, climate change and disease threaten 60% of coffee species with extinction
‘There is sufficient evidence of the participation of the outgoing Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos’ — Maduro
In a tournament full of surprises, Gareth Southgate’s young England team are the only former champions left in the lower half of the draw
Colombia beat Senegal 1-0 to top Group H on Thursday as Japan also qualified for the last 16 despite being beaten by a single goal by Poland.
Many football players arrive on the pitch with weird, wonderful and wacky superstitions
Yuya Osako exacted sweet revenge for Japan on Tuesday as the Blue Samurai beat Colombia 2-1
The crash involving a plane carrying the Brazilian football team marked the latest in a long line of such incidents that have struck the sport.
Undoing what decades of structural violence does to a society takes more than ostentatious political moves
Washington’s envoy will have to straddle a tightrope in the delicate process to end civil war.