Photo: Diane Picchiottino on UnsplashLuis Rubio“The future is already here, wrote the novelist William Gibson; it’s just not evenly distributed.” The change that the world is experiencing is unstoppable and taking place on all fronts, some benign and others exceedingly...
Photo: Brett Jordan on PexelsThe end of the first half of 2022 marked one of the most complex times worldwide, from the war in Ukraine, global inflation, product shortages, and the apparent beginning of a worldwide recession period.Image: ShutterstockUsually,...
Image: Ruben Garcia R on UnsplashLuis RubioMexico’s president thinks his penny-pinching has kept the peso afloat, but the real support has come from across the border. MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s president is obsessed with the peso-dollar exchange rate. Looking back...
https://youtu.be/ZtFVaJ8Mfg4Few have done as much to right the world’s wrongs as Irwin Cotler. As an international human rights lawyer, Irwin counselled political prisoners and activists, including anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela and Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky. He served the Canadian people...
To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above.Bureau of Economic AnalysisReal gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the...
Image: happyphoton on iStockJuan VilloroI met Uruguayan sociologist Gabriel Gatti in the fall of 2019 at Stanford University. It was my first contact with someone who, interestingly enough, is dedicated to studying the disappearance of people. We tuned in...
Photo: Joanne Adela Low on PexelsAntonio NavalónThe newly elected President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has once again demonstrated an undeniable fact about the reality of the American continent. Colombia is the country in America where not only - in...