Tag Archive: South America/Brazil

Why Cuban Doctors Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

Released for Syndication: 08/24/2020

Five years ago, I read the story of Dr. Félix Báez, a Cuban doctor who had worked in West Africa to stop the spread...

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Will There Ever Be Elections Again in Bolivia?

Released for Syndication: 08/18/2020

On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a...

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Why a Growing Force in Brazil Is Charging That President Jair Bolsonaro Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity

Released for Syndication: 08/11/2020

Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job...

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How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 08/04/2020

Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of...

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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 07/31/2020

Gutting the WHO, the only instrument of global cooperation during a pandemic, is a road to disaster.

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‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want’: Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia

Released for Syndication: 07/28/2020

On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of...

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Venezuela’s Borderlands Have Been Assaulted by COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 07/01/2020

Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to...

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Billions of Children Are Being Punished by the Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 06/22/2020

The Great Lockdown lingers month upon month. The virus continues its march across the world; the disease continues to infect people and take lives....

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Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize in a Time of Pandemic?

Released for Syndication: 06/15/2020

A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that...

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As Amazonian Wildfire Season Approaches, We Must Protect the Vulnerable Forest

Released for Syndication: 06/09/2020

Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet.

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