Brazil on strike: truckers and oil workers refuse to cooperate
- Vijay Prashad
Truck drivers and oil workers are not on the job. The former have been on a ten-day strike, while the latter are on a 72-hour strike.
Brazilian truck drivers blocked the BR-116 highway with their trucks during a strike in Curitiba, Brazil, ...
Indigenous peoples recover native languages in Mexico
- Daniela Pastrana
GUELATAO, México, May 18 2018 (IPS) - Ángel Santiago is a Mexican teenager who speaks one of the variations of the Zapotec language that exists in the state of Oaxaca, in the southwest of Mexico. Standing next to the presidential candidate ...
Venezuela: I do not want to be a victim of media disinformation
Sign the petition!
- Various Authors - مؤلفين مختلفين - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
On May 20, 2018, Venezuelans will be called to a new electoral process. Four opponents will try to displace the current president, Nicolas Maduro, in an election that will be overseen by 2,000 observers from five continents, along with organizations ...
Legal abortion in Argentina? A long shot is suddenly within reach
- Daniel Politi
BUENOS AIRES — Lucía Bulat, a 19-year-old medical student, was dancing on the steps of the congressional palace in Buenos Aires as she looked out on a crowd of abortion rights demonstrators who had gathered in Argentina’s capital. ...
Open letter in support of mediation in Venezuela, not sanctions
- Various Authors - مؤلفين مختلفين - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
Sanctions added by the Trump and Trudeau administrations to Obama era sanctions against Venezuela impose new burdens on ordinary Venezuelans who are just trying to live their lives. Unilateral sanctions are illegal under international law. Over 150 prominent ...
Marielle Franco – For our dead, not a minute of silence, but rather a whole life of struggle!
- MMF WMW MMM
The World March of Women expresses its sadness and deep indignation at the murder of Marielle Franco, a feminist militant and city councillor of PSOL - Partido Socialismo e Liberdade in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was shot dead inside ...
We condemn the murder of feminist Marielle Franco in Brazil
- DAWN
DAWN expresses condemnation against the assassination of the black feminist Marielle Franco, councilor from Rio de Janeiro, who had denounced police brutality in the favelas of Rio in the face of the growing militarization of the city. We demand truth ...
The Venezuelan “Petro” – Towards a New World Reserve Currency?
- Peter Koenig
As this article goes to print, Globovision TV quotes Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announcing the launch of a new cryptocurrency, the “Petro Oro”. It will be backed by precious metals. The launch of the new cryptomoney is scheduled ...
China’s ‘New Silk Roads’ reach Latin America
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Beijing is turbo-charging its infrastructure connectivity across the region and the Caribbean
A sharp, geoeconomic shift took place last month in Santiago, Chile at the second ministerial meeting of a forum grouping China and the 33-member Community ...
The peace process in Colombia heavily threatened: a call
- Various Authors - مؤلفين مختلفين - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
The signatories hereto, human rights campaigners, intellectuals, academics and cultural professionals from different parts of the world, from different disciplines and political orientations, express our support for the peace process in Colombia.
One ...
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