Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland), Isle of the Dead, 1880. What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
Kael Abello (Venezuela), 1848, 2023. In December 1998, Fidel Castro addressed the 7th Congress of the Young Communist League in Havana, Cuba, a year after the catastrophic ‘market failure’ in Asia, when global finance exited the region and left behind economic deserts stretching from Korea to Malaysia. ‘The world is rapidly being globalised’, Castro told
"From January 1, 2023, I will govern for the 215 million Brazilians, not just for those who voted for me," he promised, knowing that it will not be easy
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL - A few weeks ago, I visited the Luiza Gama occupation in downtown Rio. More than 70 families had taken over a building in downtown Rio that had been empty for more than ten.