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Nobel Prize: Machado “keeps the flame of democracy burning”

By Richard Emblin - October 10, 2025

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday, recognizing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” and her “struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” Machado, 58, is the first Venezuelan to receive […]

Chinese spy balloons: How they work and what they see

By The Conversation - February 6, 2023

The downing of a Chinese spy balloon off the South Carolina coast, was preceded by a confirmation that a second spy balloon was crossing South American airspace.

The impossibility of burial doubles the pain of coronavirus in Guayaquil

By EFE - April 1, 2020

As coronavirus ravages Ecuador, residents of the country’s coastal city Guayaquil don’t have where to bury their dead. The government has launched a body recollection task force.

Love and time travel at the International Music Festival of Cartagena

By Richard Emblin - January 15, 2019

The 13th edition of the International Music Festival of Cartagena ended with a stellar performance of Mozart’s opera buffa Cosi Fan Tutte and Gustav Holst’s The Planets.