The world of art resale has long been associated with the shadow of fraud. Against this backdrop, two researchers from the University of Córdoba in Spain decided five years ago to tackle the problem head-on. Building upon the company DigitArt, they created Pukkart, a technology platform specializing in the physical and digital certification of artworks and other goods.
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On the morning of April 25, the Nicaraguan writer and poet Gioconda Belli received an alert from Managua: customs officials had banned the entry of her latest novel, Un silencio lleno de murmullos (A Silence Full of Murmurs), into the country from which she is in exile. The book joins other titles by Nicaraguan authors whose sales have recently been blocked by the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-president, Rosario Murillo. “The dictatorial power fears the truths that literature illuminates. That is why they expel us, exile us, and imprison us. This happens and has happened to writers throughout history,” Belli reacted. The censorship of her work is the latest chapter in a systematic offensive that has outlawed 81 cultural institutions in the country, confiscated festivals, and replaced independent creative work with an official offering controlled by the presidential family.
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On February 9, 2023, the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship released 222 political prisoners who had been subjected to torture and solitary confinement for several years at El Chipote and La Modelo prisons in Nicaragua, and sent them into exile in the United States. Among them there were the seven opposition presidential candidates, imprisoned five months before the November 2021 elections, and dozens of activists and civic leaders who supported the April 2018 uprising and participated in the national dialogue with the government, which was crushed by state repression and the police state.
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