Antonio Castillo, PhDLula, four years to save BrazilLast June in Tabatinga, deep in the Amazon, an Indigenous Ticuna healer told me he had a vision of “Lula floating toward the Planalto” —…4 min read·Jan 10, 2023----
Antonio Castillo, PhDNicaragua’s Catholic Church: A Nuanced ConflictThe Catholic priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal was a moral figure of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, FLSN, the left-wing political…4 min read·Sep 2, 2022----
Antonio Castillo, PhDThe first millennial left-wing president, Chile’s Gabriel BoricA pragmatic proponent of “radical democracy”, Boric ties to international change with careful statements at home.4 min read·May 21, 2021----
Antonio Castillo, PhDHong Kong not in the mood for loveIn 2012 I speculated that the election of Leung Chun-Ying as chief executive on 25 March that year ‘went down as the day Beijing put…4 min read·Apr 20, 2021----
Antonio Castillo, PhDSlave Labour in Hong KongWhen Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th-century Spanish chronicler, saw the abuses suffered by Native American slaves, he is said to have…4 min read·Mar 16, 2021----
Antonio Castillo, PhDChina in Latin AmericaLatin America and the Caribbean are the next stop in China’s global expansion. The first-ever Chinese white paper for this region…7 min read·Mar 16, 2021----
Antonio Castillo, PhDCOVID 19 deepens the human tragedy of Latin American informal workersFrom street vendors to domestic workers, the Latin American economy is largely informal. In the midst of the devastating pandemic, the…10 min read·Mar 1, 2021----
Antonio Castillo, PhDIn Latin America, the pandemic is killing indigenous storytellersFor indigenous communities in Latin America, COVID-19 is having an immeasurable impact on the bastions of traditional knowledge.1 min read·Aug 6, 2020----
Antonio Castillo, PhDCovid-19: A threat to lives and culture in Latin AmericaWhen the iconic indigenous Brazilian leader Paulinho Paiakan died from Covid-19 in June, aged sixty-six, the pandemic was already having a…5 min read·Aug 5, 2020----
