Belen Fernandez

And I nev­er should have been.

A short vis­it to the aus­pi­cious­ly named San Sal­vador neigh­bour­hood, ’10 de Oc­tubre’.

The whole US sys­tem of pa­tri­ar­chal cap­i­tal­ism must in­deed be abort­ed.

The US state de­part­ment wants trav­el­ling Amer­i­cans to be wary of the ‘dan­ger­ous’ world their coun­try helped cre­ate.

Mask-less­ness is be­com­ing con­ta­gious and nor­malised in a world that is far from “nor­mal”.

Forty years af­ter the 1982 in­va­sion of Lebanon, Is­rael per­sists with its lu­natic urges to kill in Pales­tine and be­yond.

In its ef­forts to en­sure no crime is tol­er­at­ed in El Sal­vador, the Bukele regime it­self is com­mit­ting one big crime.

School shoot­ings have be­come as Amer­i­can as ap­ple pie. 

The ef­fec­tive an­ni­hi­la­tion of a na­tion is hard­ly a laugh­ing mat­ter.

Bukele’s for­ev­er-emer­gency is mor­ph­ing into a peren­ni­al war on peo­ple, hu­man rights, jour­nal­ism, and re­al­i­ty it­self.