Neoliberalism, an economic doctrine quite alien to Adam Smith's classical liberalism, used Chile as an experimental laboratory. Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état enjoyed the political and military sponsorship of the United States, but in terms of ideology, discounting the typical soldierly and curial mantras, it drew almost exclusively from the so-called Chicago School. That is, from the doctrine formulated by economists such as Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman: the State is a mafia gang, taxes are theft, there is no freedom other than that of the market, solidarity hinders the system, and so on.

Patricia Evangelista defines herself as a "trauma journalist," who has learned to investigate violent deaths while trying not to contribute to the trauma of the victims' families. As a journalist Rappler, the online media outlet founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria RessaEvangelista investigated dozens of murders committed during the war on drugs. of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, which left at least 6,000 dead, according to official data. Someone must kill them (Comanegra), full of brutal and meticulously contrasted stories, could be presented as damning evidence in the trial against Duterte, which is Detained in The Hague, accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC)The first translation offer for her book (originally in English) she received anywhere in the world was from Comanegra, who wanted to publish it in Catalan. Evangelista is now in Barcelona as the CCCB's fourth international resident, a project carried out in collaboration with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and the Mir-Puig Private Foundation.

These are not good times for democracy. Two facts from 2024 exemplify this: autocracies made the overtaking in democracies last year (this hadn't happened since 2002) and now there are 88 compared to 91; this means that 72% of the world's population lives in non-democratic regimes. This is indicated by the 2025 Varieties of Democracies (V-Dem) report, entitled Democracy Report: 25 years of autocratization-Democracy Trumped?, one of the most prestigious studies of this area to measure the level of democracy in the world and prepared by the Swedish University of Gothenburg.