Brazil’s Poor Pay World Cup Penalty
Source: The Progressive Magazine On June 15, the opening day of the Confederations Cup in Brazil — a warmup to the World Cup — thousands protested across the country against the amount of money being […]
News Briefs
Activists Demand Justice for Victims of Clerical Sex Abuse in Mexico
(IPS) – Human rights groups are calling for the Committee on the Rights of the Child to bring the Mexican state to account, as it has done in other countries, for failing to investigate widespread […]
Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Leap Backward
Source: James Petras’ Website Brazil has witnessed one of the world’s most striking socio-economic reversals in modern history: from a dynamic nationalist industrializing to a primary export economy. Between the mid 1930’s to the mid […]
An Open Letter to the Media on the ‘Irony’ of Snowden’s Request for Asylum in Venezuela and Ecuador
Source: Common Dreams The supposed “irony” of whistle-blower Edward Snowden seeking asylum in countries such as Ecuador and Venezuela has become a media meme. Numerous articles, op-eds, reports and editorials in outlets such as the […]
Protests and Political Reform in Brazil
During this past month of June, Brazilians were divided between cheering on their national soccer team in a test tournament for the 2014 World Cup and following the great political manifestations that swept the country. […]
Brazil Wide Open to Cyber Invasion
(IPS) – Brazil, reportedly one of the main targets of U.S. signals spying, is attempting to untangle a web of hi-tech espionage with low-tech equipment reminiscent of a novel by British author John le Carré. […]
U.S. Shelters Bolivia Ex-President From Genocide Charges As Evo Morales Offers Snowden Asylum
Source: Huffington Post It was a moment worthy of a sitcom. The world’s most infamous information technology specialist, Edward Snowden, had been holed up in a Moscow airport for three weeks, with no apparent escape […]
Guatemala: Indigenous Organizations Denounce Proposed Mining Moratorium
Source: NISGUA In a televised program broadcast from outside Tahoe Resources’ conflictive Escobal mine project, President Otto Pérez Molina announced a proposed two-year moratorium on the granting of new mineral mining licenses. A similar moratorium […]
The Detention of Evo Morales: A Defining Moment For Latin America?
Source: NACLA As the international uproar continues over last week’s grounding of Bolivian President Evo Morales’s plane in Europe, after U.S. officials apparently suspected whistle-blower Edward Snowden of being on board, many questions remain unanswered […]
New Cooperatives Form Part of Cuba’s Reforms
(IPS) – More than 100 non-farming cooperatives this month joined the independent sector of the Cuban economy, which includes self-employed workers and farmers granted public land to work, as part of the policy outlined by […]