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Ramona Wadi is a freelance journalist, feature writer, political analyst, book reviewer and blogger. She specialises in Palestine, Chile and Latin America in general, writing about diverse subjects such as the Nakba, Palestinian anti-colonial struggle, the Palestinian right of return, historical and collective memory, the ramifications of the Chilean dictatorship, human rights violations, the disappeared (desaparecidos), humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, foreign intervention, indigenous struggle, the Chilean New Song movement, refugee trajectories and displacement.
She conducted interviews with activists, legal experts and academics across Palestine, Chile, Argentina and Cuba. Through her work she has also spoken with, and interviewed torture survivors and relatives of the disappeared in Chile, Mapuche activists and poets, pioneers of the Chilean New Song movement and the Cuban Nueva Trova.
Her work is published in Middle East Monitor, The New Arab, Eureka Street, The Seattle Globalist and The Muslim Vibe. Other bylines include Mint Press News, TRT World, NACLA, The Region, Middle East Eye, The Arab Weekly, TeleSUR English, Upside Down World, Toward Freedom, the Journal for Palestinian Refugee Studies, Gramsci Oggi, Latino America, The Palestine Chronicle, Al Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultation, AH Tribune, Truthout, Global Comment.and others, including translations in several languages.
Ramona is also a freelance artist working in watercolour, charcoal and soft pastel. Her art may be found at Paintings and Metaphors.
SHARE Sunday, December 6, 2020 Renewed Efforts at Normalising Global Violence
As President-Elect Joe Biden is set to take office in January 2020, reports about Trump refraining from foreign intervention are forming the foundations of a contrast with Biden's politics - the latter having expressed himself favourable to foreign intervention on several occasions.
SHARE Friday, November 27, 2020 Kissinger's Influence Over the U.S.-Backed Military Coup to Overthrow Socialism in Chile
New details are emerging of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) involvement in Chile against Salvador Allende. "We have to do everything we can to hurt [Allende] and bring him down," U.S. Secretary of Defence Melvin Laird stated in a meeting for a select group of officials after the socialist win in Chile.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 14, 2020 The Correlation Between U.S. Democracy and CIA-Sponsored Terror in Cuba's Case
Fidel Castro had chartered a course for Cuba to ensure the island's complete liberation from U.S. colonial influence and interference. Participating at the UN's Sixth Committee during a debate on "Ways to Eliminate International Terrorism", Cuban Ambassador to the UN Ana Rodriguez reminded that the island has been a target for U.S. terror.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 8, 2019 The UN is failing Palestine's Schoolchildren
The targeting of Gaza's civilian infrastructure, including school premises, is a violation of international law in which Israel indulges routinely. Only this time, the international community is not even attempting to feign the usual concern.
SHARE Monday, July 8, 2019 Haley's UN Legacy Adds to the International Conspiracy Against the Palestinians
Nikki Haley has told Israel Hayom that, "I really didn't know that much about Israel," an admission which did nothing to hinder her stint as US Ambassador to the UN from becoming an opportunity to be the colonial state's main cheerleader.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 30, 2019 The International Community Makes a Mockery of Human Rights
While Palestinians commemorated their ongoing Nakba and perpetual trauma inflicted by Zionist settler-colonialism, the US and Israel lauded each other on the 1st anniversary of Donald Trump's unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the US Embassy relocation from Tel Aviv.