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  • What’s the Deal, Bibi?

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    Israeli government ministers have taken a remarkably hard-line stance on the recent interim agreement with Iran. But the deal is nowhere near as bad for Israel as Netanyahu claims, and he knows it. The Israeli prime minister’s public opinion on the Iran deal is no secret; according to him, despite […]

  • La banalidad de la violencia

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    Abstract: the amount of people murdered in El Salvador from 1992 until 2013 has long surpassed the number of civilians killed during the Civil War (1981-1992) and the political repression era (1975-1980). Even more so, both public indifference and our whole media consumption are designed to profit from violence: tabloid-like […]

  • Areas where the Shining Path was active in Peru.

    The resurgence of terrorism in Peru

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    During the 1980s and 90′, Peru was plagued by terrorism, mainly by the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) groups, but also – and to an extent never clearly determined – by human rights violations in which the various governments dealing with terrorism were complicit. In 1992, […]