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Drums are thumping, catching up to my beating heart. A group of lads are bouncing arm-in-arm, rattling the concrete stand. Army FC have just gone three up against Ministry of the Interior FC (no, they’re not actually soldiers and bureaucrats).
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María Amalia Matamoros found herself in a difficult position in late June 2024, when she got a message from her friend Marcos, asking if it was possible to sell an organ for as much as $200,000.
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Speaking to me on his mobile phone via Zoom, Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU) recalled his experience during the countrywide 2013-14 protests. “Because more people joined, the government became scared and led a very strong crackdown on workers. More than twenty-eight people were in jail – including me – and five people were killed and many left missing.”
Peru’s complicated history is mirrored in the controversies affecting the Peruvian National Police (PNP).
The waves of violence and instability that have troubled the Andes for decades may have finally flooded Ecuador’s ‘island of peace.’
Racism fuelled the Shining Path guerrilla group and is still be evoked to demonise Indigenous demonstrators.
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Optimistic voters would be forgiven for hoping that, even as British politics rapidly loses its credibility, the London elections would retain some integrity. When the official ‘London Elects’ leaflet lands at your doorstep containing phrases like ‘Third World cesspit’ and ‘Stand Up to Woke’ I fear said hope is misplaced.
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Emma Coronel, the wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, amid a tumultuous period for the Sinaloa Cartel, debuting on the social media network TikTok and featuring in a music video that plays to the gendered tropes of narco culture.