CHILE: Forest Trauma, Trade and Trump
“Volunteers here come from all social strata,” Diego, a fireman in the southern city of Temuco, explains, “We have rich businessmen, students and labourers working side by side… when we…
Articles by Jack Hanington
OP-ED: CUBA / US: The Red State and The Orange Man
As Trump stood in front of the Washington monument, declaring that “protection will lead to great prosperity and strength”, the first legal trade cargo in 55 years passed from Cuba…
CUBA: Madiba, Fidel and a New Political Era
When I was in Cuba in 2013, on a Brigade of International Solidarity, surrounded by the state’s paradisiacal vision of the communist island, news broke on 5th December that Nelson…
CUBA: Sharing Connectivity in Castro’s Old Plazas
Once it was only the colonial wrought iron street lamps that kept Cuba’s plazas alit, now the blue tint of mobile phone and laptop screens illuminate city centres around the…
CUBA: Matthew Expelled from the School of the Carribean
Baracoa’s main beach was already chaotic. A jumble of sandcastle makers, futbolistas and free divers who would run from afar and plunge into the Caribbean Sea. On Tuesday night that…
CUBA: Takes Its Unsettled History with Taxes to the Next Stage
Government officials announced this month that more Cuban state industries will start paying income tax. In an effort to ease the transition into a reformed welfare system, the change will…
CHILE: Bachelet Responds to Mass Protest over AFP
After weeks of unrest across Chile over the protracted issue of the role of the Association of Administrative Pension Funds of Chile (AFP), President Bachelet has responded with new proposals…