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Copa America: Brazil’s Supreme Court Allows Staging of Tournament Under Covid-19 Cloud
11 Jun 2021
The Supreme Court ruled that ‘authorization of the games is a decision made by officials in the state where they will be played’. Brazil is now set to host the opener on Sunday at the Mané Garrincha…
The Associated Press
National Security Law Being Used to Target Critics of Brazil’s President Bolosonaro
20 Mar 2021
The law, which dates from 1983, near the end of military dictatorship, makes it a crime to harm the heads of three branches of government.
Peoples Dispatch
Bolivian Coup Leader Jeanine Áñez Arrested
14 Mar 2021
Áñez was the leader of the coup regime that was responsible for countless human rights violations including massacres and political persecution, and a crackdown on civil liberties.
Vijay Prashad, Pilar Troya Fernández
Will Andrés Arauz be the Next President of Ecuador?
18 Feb 2021
Uncertainty looms over the electoral process in Ecuador as it has still not been made clear who will face off against front-runner Andrés Arauz in the second round and whether the process will go…
Yanis Iqbal
USA’s Game Plan in Venezuela: Strangulation through Sanctions
21 Jan 2021
‘Perhaps the irony of all ironies is that the sanctions were meant to ‘save or liberate’ Venezuela from some supposed tyranny. The method for US-styled liberation is peculiar. When a country is in…
Peoples Dispatch
Argentina Starts Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccinations
30 Dec 2020
On December 24, the South American nation received the first 300,000 doses out of a total order of over 10 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. In the first round it has prioritized the…
Leslie Xavier
The Poetry of Diego Maradona, and Hateful Truth in It
27 Nov 2020
Diego Maradona’s football has been described recently as poetry, and in his death poetry has been extinguished in the game. Except, just as difficult as it is to understand and appreciate poetry in…
Tanya Wadhwa
Chileans Approve Drafting a New Constitution
27 Oct 2020
Following the announcement of the preliminary results, tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of the “approve” and “constitutional convention” options.
Peoples Dispatch
We have Regained Hope, Says Luis Arce as Estimates Show MAS Victory in Bolivian Presidential Polls
19 Oct 2020
The Unitel-Ciesmori estimate showed the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca ticket of the MAS winning over 52% of the vote. Shortly after, the president of the coup regime, Jeanine Añez, acknowledged the…
Brasil de Fato
Brazilian Parliamentarians Denounce Gov’t Absence in Combating Wildfires in the Pantanal Region
22 Sep 2020
If the Jair Bolsonaro government doesn’t act, “we will have to see if the rain puts out the fires,” says lawmaker