Source: The Intercept (Para ler a versão desse artigo em Português, clique aqui.) BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE of Congress on Sunday voted to impeach the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, sending the removal process to the Senate. In […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited Maxima Acuña de Chaupe has won a major environmental prize for defending her land from the biggest gold-mining project in South America Environmental activism may not have been what Maxima Acuña […]
Source: Toward Freedom Fidel Castro, in an address to the Cuban Communist Party congress yesterday, spoke of his own mortality, mentioning that soon he will be 90, “but the ideas of Cuban communism will endure.” […]
Source: The Intercept Leer en español. GUSTAVO CASTRO was the sole witness to the murder on March 3 of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, the co-founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Movements of […]
Source: The Nation Support for coup regimes, militarization, and privatization; trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism. There’s been too little discussion of Latin American through the Democratic primary, including at […]
Source: Democracy Now! As Hillary Clinton seeks to defend her role in the 2009 Honduras coup, we speak with Dana Frank, an expert on human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras. “This is breathtaking that […]
Source: Democracy Now! The Puerto Rican Senate and the House of Representatives have both passed an emergency declaration authorizing the governor to suspend payments on $72 billion in public debt—setting up a dramatic showdown between […]
Source: Roar Magazine The non-hierarchical education of the Zapatistas cries dignity and suggests that the suffering of the neoliberal university can be withstood and overcome. The story of the Zapatistas is one of dignity, outrage, […]
Source: The Nation You wouldn’t know it from reading the media, but huge numbers have turned out to preserve the rule of law and the gains of social democracy. There is one small bit of […]
Source: BBC News Chile’s lower house of Congress has approved a proposal that lifts a ban on abortion in cases of rape, when there is health risk for the mother, or when the foetus is […]
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