April Archives

Publications in April
CECILIA VALDEZ At least 570 Yanomami children have died in the last four years "due to mercury contamination, malnutrition and hunger," according to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. After visiting the Amazon state of Roraima, the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, declared a health emergency for the Yanomami Indigenous Land, inhabited by some 28 indigenous people. Lula maintained that what he had seen was more than a humanitarian crisis, it was a genocide, a premeditated crime.
EUGENIO GARCÍA GASCÓN The war that broke out on April 15, due to a conflict of egos, could be complicated if the generals leading the two sides, Abdel Fattah al Burhan, supreme commander of the army, and Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti, chief of the Armed Forces, Apoyo Rápido (FAR) - a powerful paramilitary formation not integrated into the army - gather the support they are looking for in other countries in the area and what until now is a local conflict becomes another of a regional nature.
MIGUEL MOLLEDA The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria would show us another new and terrible reality of our days: Syrians do not exist. For the well-thinking and humanitarian international community, the Syrians did not perish under the ruins of their battered homes, shaken to death by the unleashed telluric forces and urgently needed our sympathy and help, however, if it was offered and taken to the southern Turkey.