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Ruhi Bhasin
Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil
14 May 2021
During the second week of May, India recorded more than 400,000 daily infections and more than 4,000 deaths, surpassing earlier records, and has overtaken Brazil as having the second-largest number…
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Return of the ‘Pink Tide’ in Brazil
12 Mar 2021
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s on Wednesday excoriated the far-right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro’s “moronic” and bungling response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Newsclick Report
Brazil: With His Convictions Quashed, Ex-Prez Lula May Challenge Bolsonaro in 2022 Elections
09 Mar 2021
A Supreme Court justice’s decision to annul the sentences of Brazil’s ex-President ‘Lula’ has enabled him to run for office next year against Jair Bolsonaro.
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…
Vijay Prashad, John Ross
China Is Working to Expand Its Ties to Latin America
11 Nov 2020
China has developed three distinct pillars toward Latin America: purchases of Latin American goods, Chinese investment in Latin America, and Chinese political solidarity with key Latin American…
Lautaro Rivara
Haiti has a Long History of Being Assaulted by its Latin American Neighbors
23 Oct 2020
A 15-year peacekeeping mission by the UN in Haiti that ended one year ago still has unanswered questions about how Latin American nations came to participate in the occupation against a small,…
Newsclick Team
Is India Actually Doing Better than Others in the Fight Against Coronavirus?
01 Sep 2020
It is repeatedly being said that India is doing better than most other countries in the fight against Coronavirus.
Newsclick Team
Will India Overtake US in COVID-19 Cases ?
03 Aug 2020
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha looks at the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India and where it stands among other countries in terms of the spread of the disease.
Newsclick Sports
Brazil Sets Up Olympic Camp in Portugal as Pandemic Rages At Home
28 Jul 2020
A constant rise of coronavirus cases in the country has meant sporting venues remain shut therefore putting athletes at a disadvantage. The country’s Olympic committee has, in coordination with the…
Subodh Varma
Big 5 of COVID: Guess What is Common to These Top Affected Countries?
11 Jun 2020
Yes, they have larger than life leaders, but the pandemic has exposed their flaws, at great cost.