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Furia Marica - The Meaning Of 'Faggot' And LGBT Rights In Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — In a country like Colombia, which has somehow taught itself to use the word gonorrhea as a term of endearment, it is not surprising that the word marica (or...
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Korean Comfort Women To U.S. Slavery, A Rising Call For Reparations
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Politics, in some way, is always a reaction to history. Today the question of how to process the ugliest historical events is increasingly a topic of debate. More...
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Argentina: Another "Cracked" Democracy?
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — In the 1980s, Italian political analyst Leonardo Morlino summarized the nature of the third wave of democratization in the title of his article, From...
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Switzerland's 'Contract Children' - Abused, Exploited, Forgotten
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG In Switzerland, well into the 1970s, children of unmarried mothers or from poor families were taken away from their parents and sent to live with new ones. They...
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Watch: OneShot — Marco Gualazzini''s Almajiri Boy
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Italian photojournalist Marco Gualazzini of the Contrasto agency was awarded the 2019 World Press Photo award for environment, stories, for his reportage on the humanitarian...
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Mexico And The Problem Of 'Privilege Violence'
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- MEXICO CITY — Violence ends up destroying or at the very least transforming civilizations. So what can be done to stop it? For governance analyst Rachel...
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How Can Saving Notre Dame Come Before Saving The Planet?
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — Would people pay more attention to the species that are disappearing if they burned to death in the heart of Paris instead of becoming extinct without...
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García Márquez's Grandson Quietly Enters Literary World
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Mateo García Elizondo is the grandson of two great figures of 20th century Latin American literature: the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and...
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Interview With Bolsonaro: Free-Trade's Unlikely New Champion?
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BRASILIA — In an exclusive interview with the Argentine daily Clarín, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, spoke of Brazil's judicial system, the state of Latin American...
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RoboJudge: When Laws Are Transformed Into Computer Code
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- MUNICH — Anyone who wants to know how law and legal reality diverge must read the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, which was approved by the United...
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Watch: Oneshot — A Closer Look At Iconic Man On The Moon Photo
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Along with all the hardware to get to the moon and back, the Apollo 11 mission also brought along three Hasselblad 500EL cameras. With video and audio equipment to beam sound...
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A French Look At Male Consent And Male Libido In The #MeToo Era
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — It's a cliché that's constantly repeated: men are always ready for sex, no matter how or with whom. This aroused state as impulsive as breathing: a physical,...
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Skyscrapers, Turbines And The Problem Of 'Horizon Pollution'
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BREMEN — The horizon is the final frontier, what separates the sky from the earth. Below the horizontal line live people, and above it are the gods and the ether, the...
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Hezbollah And Latin America: A Scar That Won't Heal 25 Years On
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN The bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 remains the worst terrorist attack on Argentine soil, and is still causing repercussions today. This month,...
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More Than A Witness: Revisiting Primo Levi 100 Years Since His Birth
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA TURIN — Primo Levi is currently the most widely read and translated Italian author in the world. The Complete Works of Primo Levi, edited in the U.S., has significantly...
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Dry As A Sardinian Sculpture
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH These wrinkly clay busts were sitting in the backyard of a Sardinian sculptor's workshop. With the sun on their grimacing faces, this felt like the right image to share...
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On India's Space Success And Big Tech Talent Poaching
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Analysis- NEW DELHI — The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has done it once again. On July 15, it scrubbed its launch of the Chandrayaan 2 lunar mission even...
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In An Age Of Roaring Internet Trolls, Silence Is Golden
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Essay- BOGOTÁ — The distinguished Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa spoke in a recent interview about the problem of what he calls "message pollution" in today's world....
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Egypt: Costs And Benefits Of Working In The Informal Economy
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Some people prefer working in the shadows. Egypt's vast informal economy has drawn the focus of government officials in recent years. Authorities have been looking...
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Five Argentine Design Firms Join Up to "Export Together"
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — An ambitious plan for an innovative idea. Five Argentinian design firms have agreed to boost each other and export their products without competing among...
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