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Jan 11, 2025 | 
herculesdiario.es | Guillermo Arellano |Carlos Burgos
El morbo que suscita el secretismo de la Iglesia Católica ha producido el éxito de exitosas películas como Ángeles y Demonios (2009) o la reciente Cónclave (2024), dos obras mediocres y controvertidas que, a pesar de su dudosa calidad cinematográfica, beben de una tragedia real: 28 de septiembre de 1978 el Papa Juan Pablo I, llamado Albino Luciani, murió después de 33 días de pontificado. ¿Fue realmente envenenado?
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
blogs.worldbank.org | Carlos Burgos |Ana Aguilera |Diana J. Arango |Lorena Lévano |Manuel Contreras-Urbina |Giselle Marie Bello
For those migrating or being displaced across Central America, violence in transit often has a woman's face. At least two in five women have witnessed some form of gender-based violence along the journey
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
latinxproject.nyu.edu | Carlos Burgos
Gender. Colonialism. Santería. Artist Gerardo Castro listed these three elements as fundamental to his work at the opening of his exhibition Santo Gerardo at Ethan Cohen Gallery. A fourth element—racialization—is equally relevant since the artist ensures every text written about his work mentions his Afro-Caribbean heritage.
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Dec 31, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
Ecuador closes 2023 in an unprecedented economic, institutional, and psychosocial crisis, governed by economic elites under a catastrophic neoliberal model and surrounded by drug trafficking. It was the country’s “most violent year in history”, with more than 7,500 violent deaths, according to the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organised Crime (OECO), suffering a metamorphosis that now places it as one of the most violent countries in Latin America.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
fundssociety.com | Carlos Burgos |Magdalena Martinez
La gestora alemana DJE, cuyos fondos distribuye en España Altment Capital Partners, cumple 50 años. Fundada en 1974 por el Dr. Jens Ehrhardt, DJE es una empresa familiar que celebrará sus 50 años de experiencia en unos pocos meses y uno de los mayores proveedores de servicios financieros independiente en la región de habla alemana.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
I want to live without fear, that’s why I build Nonviolence! This was the message that resounded for a month in multiple activities of the Nonviolent October, promoted in its twelfth year by the humanist collective “Espacio No Violento” and by various public institutions, social organizations, educational centers, and universities.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
We take with us “understanding”, “peace”, “respect”, “knowledge”, and “change us first”. With these expressions, the workers of Grupo Salud y Vida and the educators of the Child Development Centres, who attended the warm and festive meeting-workshop for the Inauguration of Nonviolent October 2023 in Ecuador, held on 30 September in the city of Machachi, near the capital, said goodbye.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
Ecuador is living days of shock and confusion after the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in the capital on 9 August, just half a week before the general elections called by President Guillermo Lasso, who will leave office two years before the end of his term.
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Aug 6, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
With only two weeks to go before the Popular Consultation and the early national elections, last week Ecuador experienced a new escalation of criminal violence, led by gangs linked to drug trafficking and extortion, at a time when the credibility of the outgoing neo-liberal government is dropping below 10%.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
pressenza.com | Carlos Burgos
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) presented the National Assembly with the “Draft Organic Intercultural Law for Integral Water Management”. At the event held in Quito on Tuesday 28 March 2023, Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE Ecuador, was accompanied by leaders of the regional organisations Ecuarunari, CONFENIAE, CONAICE and some three thousand delegates from the federations belonging to the indigenous movement of the Sierra, Coast and Amazon.
