Author name: GUILLERMO SILVA GRUCCI

The case of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva highlights the persistence of restrictions on criticism and press freedom.

Recruited by Russian intelligence, they lived in Buenos Aires under false identities, moved to Ljubljana, and returned to Russia after the 2024 prisoner exchange.

From the KGB legacy to Putin’s SVR, the continuity of Russian espionage reveals how much of the old Soviet apparatus survived the collapse of the USSR.

África de las Heras, known as Comrade Patria, turned Montevideo into a base for Soviet intelligence operations across South America.

From Nepos and Quevedo to Pandora, Eve, and Cuba, a reflection on the enduring human impulse to shift responsibility for failure onto others.

Two episodes involving football supporters and diverted city buses raise a deeper question about rules, coercion and the State’s capacity to respond.

From the 1990 electoral defeat to the co-presidency with Rosario Murillo, Sandinismo turned pacts, reforms, and institutional control into permanent power.

A scene from the 1983 film provides a starting point for examining how Sandinismo went from fighting a dictatorship to building a regime that closes the electoral path.

Seventy years after Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury challenges us to confront censorship, information overload, and happiness turned into an instrument of control.

José Pedro Varela’s critique of state paternalism resonates a century and a half later in Uruguay’s debate over pensions, AFAP funds, and financial crisis.