Amelia Rayno
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Independent journalist who doesn't sit still well. Currently living in Buenos Aires. I write about homelessness/housing and U.S. imperialism.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
progressive.org | Amelia Rayno
In early January, wildfires erupted on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California, and, fueled by especially dry conditions, a diminished fire department, and rapacious Santa Ana winds, quickly spread into out-of-control blazes that would burn more than 40,000 acres and rank among the fires in the state’s history.
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Feb 14, 2024 |
progressive.org | Amelia Rayno |"Dark Legacy
Under the searing sun of the Argentine Puna, or high desert plateau, Eufemio Alancay raises a pickax and slices into the upper crust of the Salinas Grandes salt flat. Beneath, in a freshly exposed pool, is the “white gold” of his ancestors: salt. Alancay lifts a shovelful, the saturated crystals gleaming like heavy snow. The abundant commodity, hand-washed atop this eighty-square-mile porcelain-like desert, will later be bagged and sold around the region.
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Oct 17, 2023 |
progressive.org | Amelia Rayno |"Dark Legacy
A young woman pushing a stroller squinted at the beef cuts on display at Victor Aguilar’s butcher shop. “How much is the rump roast?” she asked before frowning at the price and walking away. Aguilar, who owns this shop in Villa 31, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, shook his head. He doesn’t bother to post prices anymore, with inflation—now over 120 percent—growing daily. “It’s like that,” he tells The Progressive. “People don’t come in ready to buy anymore.
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Aug 12, 2023 |
portside.org | Amelia Rayno
Argentina’s Slow Crawl to Justice Published August 12, 2023 Outside of Argentina’s highest criminal court in June 2022, Iris Pereyra de Avellaneda prepared for her latest battle. She adjusted her long, black scarf, grabbed a banner emblazoned with a drawing of her young son’s face, and joined dozens of other activists gathered on the sidewalk. “El Negrito vive,” their signs read. “Cárcel a los genocidas.” “El Negrito lives.
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Aug 7, 2023 |
progressive.org | Amelia Rayno
Outside of Argentina’s highest criminal court in June 2022, Iris Pereyra de Avellaneda prepared for her latest battle. She adjusted her long, black scarf, grabbed a banner emblazoned with a drawing of her young son’s face, and joined dozens of other activists gathered on the sidewalk. “El Negrito vive,” their signs read. “Cárcel a los genocidas.” “El Negrito lives. Imprison the perpetrators of genocide.” It’s been Avellaneda’s battle cry for nearly half a century.
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As car-centric nations race for lithium access & local govs scramble to take advantage, the Indigenous villages of nor. Argentina have become the front lines of complications & conflicts related to the mineral's extraction. My story for @theprogressive https://t.co/4BJVHDYCPs
New Argentine president Javier Milei’s rhetoric may be distinct, but his economic dogma, originally conceived in and spread by the U.S., has a long history of diverting resources from the many to the few. Final chapter of Dark Legacy: https://t.co/ztrTMcme3f
Before I leave 2023 behind, let me remember… https://t.co/rf3ikgMrV8