Antonio Castillo, PhD·Jan 10, 2023Lula, 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” —…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Sep 2, 2022Nicaragua’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…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·May 21, 2021The first millennial left-wing president, Chile’s Gabriel BoricA pragmatic proponent of “radical democracy”, Boric ties to international change with careful statements at home.
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Apr 20, 2021Hong 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…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Mar 16, 2021Slave 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…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Mar 16, 2021China 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…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Mar 1, 2021COVID 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…
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Aug 6, 2020In 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.
Antonio Castillo, PhD·Aug 5, 2020Covid-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…
