News of chaos

STRIKE ACTION

Transport chaos: Five-hour train strike leaves 500,000 stranded

01-11-2019 09:16 All overground train lines – Mitre, San Martín, Sarmiento, Roca, Belgrano Sur, Tren de la Costa and long distance lines – shut down from 4am to 9am this Friday morning as union members hold assemblies.

Literature

The laboratory of now: how literature deals with disaster

09-10-2019 15:00 Distinguished authors Jonathan Lethem and M. John Harrison discuss contemporary life and literature at FILBA literature festival, sparking debate over the creation of fiction among chaos.

by Sara Gierc

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Centrist voters left orphaned as polarised Brazil chooses its next president

27-10-2018 09:11 Jair Bolsonaro boasts that opponent Fernando Haddad could only beat him by ‘fraud’ in Sunday’s decisive election run-off, with polls indicating the far-right frontrunner has a seemingly unbeatable lead.