Brazil
Brazil: Electoral Authorities Ban Lula From Presidential Race
31 August 2018
The electoral tribunal opted to ignore the UN's legally binding demand that Lula's political rights be respected and he be allowed to...
Brazilian Indigenous Leader, Guardian of the Amazon Murdered
16 August 2018
The leader of the Indigenous Guajajara people in the Brazilian Amazon is believed to have been murdered by illegal loggers.
Brazilian environmental and...
The global implications of the Turkish lira crisis
16 August 2018
As the tenth anniversary of the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis approaches, the ongoing turmoil engulfing the Turkish lira sounds...
La voix dissonante du Forum de São Paulo
Par Maurice Lemoine
27 juillet 2018
La 24e édition du Forum de São Paulo (FSP), rencontre qui rassemble les partis et mouvements progressistes de l’Amérique latine...
Washington, FMI, patronat, travailleurs, retraités… même combat ?
Par Maurice Lemoine
14 mai 2018
C’est dans une déclaration datée du 16 avril que le président de l’Institut nicaraguayen de sécurité sociale (INSS) Roberto López...
Brazil: Social programs suffer cuts up to 94.9% under Temer
Recipients of housing and education programs that suffered cuts talk about how they were crucial to improve their lives
By Juliana Gonçalves
Source: Brasil de Fato/ The...
BRICS and the Fiction of “De-Dollarization”
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
July 24, 2018
This week, leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will be meeting in Johannesburg amidst...
Bernie Sanders, 28 Other US Lawmakers Want Lula Free
26 July 2018
The letter read that the “fight against corruption should not be used to justify the persecution of political opponents.”
A group of 29...
Brazil: Lula Kept in Jail by Regional Court
The president of the Federal Regional Court (TRF-4), Thompson Flores, has decided to keep Lula in prison.
In an apparent turn in events judge Thompson Flores...
Brésil : quand la police mitraille les alentours d’une école publique
par Glauber Sezerino
29 juin 2018
Le 20 juin, dans un quartier populaire de Rio de Janeiro, un hélicoptère de la police a mitraillé les alentours...