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When Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, chose not to invite King Felipe VI to her inauguration, Spain could have reacted differently. It could have taken the opportunity to evaluate its colonial past and apologize to the native peoples of the Americas. But imperial nostalgia and a conflictual relationship with diversity are leaving Spain in the past.
In the short term, a fall in consumption of material objects would be an economic and social catastrophe. In the long term, it is necessary.
A truth and reconciliation commission is investigating crimes committed during Nepal’s decade-long internal conflict (1996-2006) between state security forces and Maoist rebels.
A Brazilian Justice Ministry committee has officially apologized and offered reparations to the Aikewara, decimated in the early 1970s by army soldiers. But one more step is still needed.
BOGOTA — The LGBTI community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual/Transgender and Intersexual) in Colombia has suffered disappearances, forced migrations, mutilations, humiliation and abuse. The phrase “damaged bodies, silent crimes’ has come to be used by this community to describe their suffering often made even worse by the civil war that has torn Colombia apart over the […]