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Peoples Dispatch
MAS Begins Campaign for General Elections in Bolivia
08 Sep 2020
The MAS presidential ticket, Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca, vowed to restore democracy, dignity, employment, hope and stability in Bolivia.
Peoples Dispatch
Paraguayan Students and Peasants Demand Greater Budget for Public Education
26 Aug 2020
The National Federation of Secondary Students denounced that Paraguay is one of the Latin American countries that invests the least in the education sector.
Vijay Prashad
Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
25 Aug 2020
Amid continued attacks on Cuban doctors who are on the front-lines of battling COVID-19 across the world, Vijay Prashad makes a case for why they deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Vijay Prashad, Zoe PC
The Tragic Killing of Colombia’s Sports Hero, Patrón
20 Aug 2020
The murder killing is part of an assault on the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities in Northwestern Colombia and the Left, particularly against those who resists the power of narco-traffickers.
Vijay Prashad, Manuel Bertoldi
Will There Ever Be Elections Again in Bolivia?
19 Aug 2020
All the polls suggest that the MAS will win the first round of the election; if the far right and center-right do not coalesce after the first round, and if the left is able to unite, then the MAS…
Peoples Dispatch
10-year-old Rape Victim in Brazil Safely Aborts After Feminists Expel Religious Extremists
18 Aug 2020
Religious fundamentalists attempted to invade a health center in the city of Recife in a bid to prevent the procedure. The child earlier had to travel over 1,800 km after she was denied her legal…
Peoples Dispatch
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad Denounce Eviction of Families from Quilombo Campo Grande
17 Aug 2020
Dozens of movements and organizations across the world have denounced the eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande and manifested their solidarity with the MST.
Brasil de Fato
After 60 Hours of Resistance, MST Camp is Violently Evicted
15 Aug 2020
Police destroyed 20-year-old homes and agroecological crops during the violent eviction.
Tanya Wadhwa
Peru Hit Hard by Second Wave of COVID-19
13 Aug 2020
Peru is reporting more than 7,000 new cases every day and has the highest per capita death toll in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Zoe PC
Two Years of Duque’s Colombia: Deepening Neoliberalism, Increased Violence and a Public Health Crisis
12 Aug 2020
Colombian social leader Milena Ochoa analyses the past two years of Iván Duque’s government and explains how its functioning has been completely in favor of big business, landowners, paramilitaries…