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Nick Estes
Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
18 Sep 2021
Recent indigenous mobilisation, the largest in history, broke a spell of inviolability surrounding the institutions of power that have for centuries excluded indigenous people or sought their demise.
Tanya Wadhwa
Vaccine Access Gap Widens in Latin America and the Caribbean
25 Aug 2021
After Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean is the region that has the lowest vaccination coverage. Amid global vaccine inequity, the region is facing additional disparity due to various others…
Manolo De Los Santos, Vijay Prashad
Let Cuba Live—The Movement Standing Up to Biden’s Maximum Pressure Campaign
28 Jul 2021
Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad on the failed attempt by the Biden administration to push for regime change in Cuba as the US-blockade worsens socioeconomic conditions on the island
Sandip Chakraborty
Kolkata Remembers Cuban Revolution as It Observes Moncada Day
27 Jul 2021
With the city’s decades-long socialist past, the tradition of marking the Moncada Day of 1953 as the start of a revolutionary struggle against imperialism still continues.
Newsclick Production
Mapping Faultlines: Jair Bolsonaro in Trouble; Winds of Change in Latin America
17 Jul 2021
In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the mounting challenges to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro due to his mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peoples Dispatch
Cuba Calls for Defense of the Revolution and an End to the Blockade
13 Jul 2021
In the face of an ongoing destabilization attempt against Cuba, numerous political and social leaders and organizations have expressed their solidarity with the Cuban government and Cuban Revolution.
Newsclick Sports
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…