Superheroes with an iron fist
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and other populist rulers of this century sell an image of infallibility and invulnerability that is typically found in comic books
Brave real world
The dystopias narrated in the classic by Orwell and Huxley, or more recently, in Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song,’ can become everyday realities. It’s not just something that we fear might happen. It’s already happening
The other Guatemala stands up for democracy
Indigenous people are rallying to defend the country’s constitution and uphold the election of Bernardo Arévalo as president
The hidden folds of the delicate waist of America
Today, bananas have lost their capacity for extortion in favor of agroindustries and open-pit mining concessions, but above all drug trafficking
Artificial crime
AI, without any sense of responsibility, is rapidly paving the way for a new era of delinquency. Meanwhile, laws designed solely for human beings have become obsolete
Donald Duck vs the Nazis
Swastika-waving Americans are lashing out at the Disney corporation for questioning their straight white world