Sebastião Martins

Sebastião Martins is an MPhil student at the University of Cambridge and a journalist for www.pulsamerica.co.uk, www.irlandeses.org and The Cambridge Student.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:15 - 2 Comments

Special Report | Portuguese strike and march against austerity plan

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports exclusively from Lisbon on yesterday's general strike and popular marches against austerity measures, and the heavy crackdown by riot police that left protesters and journalists injured.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, March 16, 2012 22:11 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Bloody Sunday in Afghanistan

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports on the events and aftermath of Sunday's deadly attack by a US soldier that resulted in the death of sixteen Afghan civilians.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment

Special Report | ‘A shadow CIA’ – WikiLeaks, Lulzsec and the Stratfor emails

Last week's umveiling of the Stratfor/CIA emails by Wikileaks has been followed up almost immediately by the arrest of alleged hackers and claims Lulzsec's leader was an FBI informant. Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:31 - 2 Comments

Politics | El Salvador: 30 Years after El Mozote

Thirty years ago this week, almost 400 men, women and children from the El Salvador town of El Mozote were brutally tortured, raped and killed by US-trained governmental units who then burned their bodies and houses. As the country unites in remembrance, Sebastião Martins reflects on the historical legacy of the event.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, November 14, 2011 23:02 - 1 Comment

Analysis | Guatemala: Return of the Iron Fist?

Last week, Otto Pérez Molina became the first military officer to rise to the Guatemalan presidency since the country’s brutal civil war. Ceasefire’s Sebastião Martins argues we could be witnessing a return to the hardline authoritarianism of the past.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, November 1, 2011 16:01 - 0 Comments

Analysis | Unveil and Conquer: Beyond the Melting Pot

In the second of his two-part essay on the relationship between feminism and imperialism, Sebastião Martins argues that Afghani women, far from being the much-vaunted beneficiaries of NATO's occupation of their country, are in fact its main victims.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, October 17, 2011 16:37 - 0 Comments

Politics | The End of Impunity? On the US ‘Nazi’ experiments in Guatemala

In 2010, documents were uncovered that proved a US governmental research programme had deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with STDs, leading to the deaths of hundreds. In a new essay, Ceasefire’s Sebastião Martins investigates the horrific background and details of the case, and argues the era of US impunity is over.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, October 6, 2011 12:00 - 1 Comment

Analysis | Unveil and Conquer: war, occupation, and women’s rights

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins analyses the way in which the movement for women's rights in Afghanistan has been increasingly co-opted by Washington - as other colonial powers had done in the past - to justify a foreign occupation.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, September 24, 2011 14:33 - 3 Comments

Analysis | Palestine’s “bad peace”

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins looks at the curious attempt, notably by Israel and the US, to label the Palestinian UN Statehood bid as a 'Bad Peace'. A look at the facts, he argues, shows the only peace they will ever consider "good" is one that keeps the Palestinians in their shackles.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, September 19, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments

Politics | The ‘other’ 9/11

As the US marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Chileans commemorated their own similarly-dated tragedy: Pinochet's CIA-assisted 1973 coup against president Salvador Allende. Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reflects on the meaning of the 'other' 9/11.

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