The land of opportunities to die

La tierra de las oportunidades de morir

The land of opportunities to die. Cartoon of 26/01/2025 in CTXT The names of the two ICE agents deployed in Minneapolis who on 24 January fired ten shots in less than five seconds at 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a US citizen, are now known. ProPublica has revealed their identities. They are Border Patrol

Roots, a comic about violent radicalisation

Raíces, cómic

Raíces is a 32-page comic book in Spanish with drawings by José Pablo García and script by Coral Sánchez Becerra published in 2021 by Cideal with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and framed in the Shabab Moutasamih ("Tolerant Youth") programme. I came across the comic on the

El Tiempo newspaper fires "Matador" over gender violence case

El Tiempo newspaper fires "Matador" over gender violence case

Everything about this story, which provoked heated debate in Colombia last week, is nonsensical in its trigger, its evolution and some surreal episodes. On 29 March, the Colombian daily El Tiempo fired its cartoonist Julio César González, "Matador" (Pereira, 1969), but not for anything related to his cartoons. The reason was an incident

Weapons

Weapons

The cartoon has no translation because it is a play on words by adding "scabrous" and "American" Guns, cartoon of 08/01/2023 in CTXT A six-year-old boy went on a shooting rampage at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, seriously wounding his teacher. Local police say the incident was "not an accidental shooting"

Black December

Black December

Male violence. Black December. Cartoon of 31/12/2022 in CTXT The media have called it black December, but they could have called it bad or a shit December and it would have been just as correct. A woman murdered every three days. The 29th was especially "black" in terms of male murders. But the