Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
By Claudia Polanco Yermanos Americas Desk, Apr 30 (EFE).- Latin American penitentiaries built on the panopticon plan – allowing a single guard to observe all inmates – were abandoned decades ago as part of prison reform, but many have found a new lease on life as cultural venues. The concept, put forward in 1791 by …