María del Rosario Chindoy had never heard of the mining concession FJT-141. Like many Kamëntsá women in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, she only realized something was changing when helicopters began flying over the mountains surrounding her territory. Seeking answers, the Women’s Council organized meetings and began asking local authorities what company was operating there. They found…
The resignation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Representative raises new questions about stability in the Balkans. Amid constitutional disputes, energy interests, and shifts in U.S. foreign policy, the fragile balance established after Dayton is once again under threat.
By: Andrés Gómez. Photography: Manuel Ortiz. Terra360 She had learned to work the land since she was a child. She was strong and brave, say those who knew her. She dreamed of owning a small piece of land and seeing it flourish alongside her daughter. That is why, when Carmen Velasco Tombé remembers Flor Alba,…
The Hungarian parliamentary elections on Sunday, 12 April, were closely watched around the world, despite the normally limited geopolitical significance of this landlocked country of fewer than 10 million inhabitants. The reason was Viktor Orbán, the incumbent who ultimately lost: long celebrated by far-right populists worldwide, he had become notorious as the leader who first…
President Trump, in an address to the United States on April 1, claimed that he had achieved a victory over Iran in his war of choice. He is profoundly wrong. The United States has not only lost this conflict, but Trump has also vastly underestimated Iranian resistance. There is no doubt that the current Iranian…
American Community Media. Terra 360. Supporters of the far right Identitarian Bloc march in Paris in 2017. (Wikimedia Commons) From Brexit and the Great Replacement to Unite the Right, the past decade has seen a growing embrace of far-right movements on both sides of the Atlantic, one defined by a shared commitment to reversing decades…
The blackened skylines of Tehran and the smoldering ruins of Beirut are more than just the markers of a new Middle Eastern war; they are the smoke signals of a dying American democracy. As “Operation Epic Fury” accelerates, we are witnessing a terrifying historical first: a major regional conflict launched without a coherent rationale, sustained…
Photos Manuel Ortiz Escámez In the Black territories of Colombia’s Caribbean region, democracy is not lived — it is pursued. It appears distant, fragile, at times like a rumor drifting in from the large cities, especially when its possibility is crossed by access — historically denied and contested — to land. Here, democracy is not…
Democracy Action Lab, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University It is premature to make any specific prediction about the impact of El Mencho’s death on the succession within the leadership of the CJNG, possible clashes among internal factions, or the strategic calculations of opportunistic rivals who will likely attempt to…