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In the favelas and peripheries of Brazil, arbitrary arrests—lacking proof and motivated by race, community territory and social class—happen every day.
A case...
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For more than a century, Venezuela and Guyana have been arguing about where their border should be — or at least Venezuela has.
Last week, that long-running...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In 2019, Blacks accounted for 77% of homicide victims in Brazil, at a rate of 29.2 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Among non-Blacks, the rate...
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Bank robbers armed with explosives and high-powered rifles have plunged a Brazilian city into terror early Monday, taking civilians hostage and even putting some on their...
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The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings, that once again warns that we are...
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Argentina’s president has sparked a diplomatic incident and been heavily criticised for claiming that Brazilians “came from the jungle.”
Alberto Fernandez made...
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Argentina has long taken pride in its European heritage. The mass migration of 7 million Europeans, mostly Spanish and Italian, between 1850 and 1950, created a...
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated the Government and People of Guyana on the country’s Fifty-fifth Anniversary of Independence.
CARICOM...
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Brazil can be rescued after being turned into a Covid-stricken global outcast by its “psychopath” president Jair Bolsonaro, the politician best placed to defeat him...
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Anti-government, anti-police repression protests have rocked the South American nation of Columbia for the past two weeks.
With tears in her eyes my South...
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Shakira has come out in support of Colombian protestors, who are telling stories of disappearances, unlawful imprisonment, sexual assault, and death at the hands of Colombian...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released the following statement on the state killings of Colombian protestors and the hundreds more injured in recent demonstrations against...
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After a mass strike and mass mobilizations that began on April 28th due to a proposed tax reform, the Colombian government has lashed out with a military styled repression...
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The racial disparities that Black Brazilians face because of institutional racism is being more fully exposed by the COVID-19 crisis, as is the case in America among African-...
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Brazil reported a 24-hour tally of COVID-19 deaths exceeding 4,000 for the first time Tuesday, becoming the third nation to go above that daily threshold.
Many...
Milton, are you denying or finding it insignificant that the TPLF attacked a federal army base...
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