Peter Kornbluh is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive and director of the Archive’s Cuba and Chile documentation projects, having previously served as director of the Iran-Contra and Nicaragua projects. He has written several books, i...
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Peter Kornbluh is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive and director of the Archive’s Cuba and Chile documentation projects, having previously served as director of the Iran-Contra and Nicaragua projects. He has written several books, i...
Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from being displayed. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, cites its content filtering system, Moderation endpoint, as part...
Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from being displayed. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, cites its content filtering system, Moderation endpoint, as part...
On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over the National Guard until 2028. Not only is the amendment corrupt by giving the executive branch unchecked power, bu...
On September 8, 2022, Mexican deputies voted to pass a constitutional amendment granting the Ministry of National Defense control over the National Guard until 2028. Not only is the amendment corrupt by giving the executive branch unchecked power, bu...
In Buenos Aires, a crowd of protestors dressed in green gathered in the Plaza de Mayo to patiently await the decision of the Argentinian government. They stood packed together, nervous with anticipation and ready to celebrate. And that evening, they ...
In Buenos Aires, a crowd of protestors dressed in green gathered in the Plaza de Mayo to patiently await the decision of the Argentinian government. They stood packed together, nervous with anticipation and ready to celebrate. And that evening, they ...
Chilean pro-democracy activists once used the slogan “La alegria ya viene” [“Happiness is coming”] to protest against the brutal dictator Augosto Pinochet, who left office in 1990. Thirty years later, some say that happiness has come—but mo...
Chilean pro-democracy activists once used the slogan “La alegria ya viene” [“Happiness is coming”] to protest against the brutal dictator Augosto Pinochet, who left office in 1990. Thirty years later, some say that happiness has come—but mo...
Nine months after the novel coronavirus was announced in China, it has spread to nearly every inch of the globe. Even the most isolated communities are not protected from it, as the virus itself and its secondary socioeconomic effects ripple through ...
Nine months after the novel coronavirus was announced in China, it has spread to nearly every inch of the globe. Even the most isolated communities are not protected from it, as the virus itself and its secondary socioeconomic effects ripple through ...
In 2020, 300 families were forced to flee the rural town of Totumito, Colombia after the massacre of eight civilians, permanently abandoning their homes. They sought safety from the violence that has proliferated throughout the country since the 2016...
In 2020, 300 families were forced to flee the rural town of Totumito, Colombia after the massacre of eight civilians, permanently abandoning their homes. They sought safety from the violence that has proliferated throughout the country since the 2016...
Laden with bundles of belongings, a mass of Venezuelan migrants cautiously pick their way across a frothing river. Grandmothers, pregnant women, toddlers: They clutch at each other’s hands for stability, their “bridge” just a collection of sand...
Laden with bundles of belongings, a mass of Venezuelan migrants cautiously pick their way across a frothing river. Grandmothers, pregnant women, toddlers: They clutch at each other’s hands for stability, their “bridge” just a collection of sand...
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal facility in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey and within an hour, a confrontation between two rival prison gangs tu...
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal facility in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey and within an hour, a confrontation between two rival prison gangs tu...
As March is Women’s History Month, it marks a time for reflection on the state of human rights of women worldwide, especially those living in areas of entrenched violence. This topic is of particular relevance to what the United Nations has describ...
As March is Women’s History Month, it marks a time for reflection on the state of human rights of women worldwide, especially those living in areas of entrenched violence. This topic is of particular relevance to what the United Nations has describ...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
SOMA, a bastion of contemporary, didactic art and subversive film, is an independent art gallery, coined ‘residencia,’ in the artistically inclined neighborhoods of Mexico City’s Federal District. A few hundred miles south of SOMA, in Managua, ...
On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped, “I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means.” This sense of gallows humor is no doubt one that strikes a nerve with Argentines everywhere as the country slips into default for the secon...
On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped, “I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means.” This sense of gallows humor is no doubt one that strikes a nerve with Argentines everywhere as the country slips into default for the secon...