MONTHLY EDITORIAL
The first website lasted a year. It was functional, in the way that windowless offices are functional. They serve their purpose, no one complains too much, and you learn not to think about what might be otherwise. I built it…
The Autumn of the Patriarch, published in 1975, does not narrate a dictatorship. It constructs its anatomy. Gabriel García Márquez conceived a figure without a name, without a precise country, without a delimited historical period, and produced a model of personal power applicable to any regime where the law yields before caprice and fear replaces … CONTINUE READING →
Varlam Shalamov spent fourteen years in the camps of Kolyma, in the far north-east of Siberia, between 1937 and 1951. From that time he brought back neither a moral lesson nor a call to resistance. He brought back a more uncomfortable conviction. The Soviet camp system was not a historical accident or a distortion of … CONTINUE READING →
In 1927, Fritz Lang filmed a city divided into two halves that do not recognise each other. Above, an elite that plans from illuminated towers. Below, an invisible working class that sustains the system without participating in it. At the intermediate level, the great machine that drives everything. The film, written by Thea von Harbou … CONTINUE READING →
WHAT IS ACIDREPORT?
In a world saturated with prefabricated narratives and biased reporting, AcidReport cuts through the complacency of traditional media. Facts are dissected, rhetoric subjected to scrutiny and hidden agendas exposed. We do not pursue consensus, we reject predigested thinking.
Colombia arrives at the consultation without having made an appointment. That already says something.…
The anglicisms saturating Colombian Spanish, metropolitan French and corporate Italian are neither accidents of…
, the Catholic Church operated in Latin America not as a spiritual institution but…
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes · In most service companies around the world, labour…
, no mass musical genre has emerged with the same cultural density as jazz,…
, Federico García Lorca delivered a lecture in Buenos Aires on the duende —…
In 1961, DuPont’s internal laboratories confirmed that Teflon coating caused liver damage in rats…
, the United States has known no peace. It has fought in Grenada, Panama,…