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After Victory, What Will Lula’s Foreign Policy Look Like?

The tenure of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is defined by the deforestation of the Amazon, the return of 33 million Brazilians to hunger, and the terrible governance of the country during the pandemic. By Pedro Marin But it also…

The women fighting against the ayatollahs from the Kurdish mountains

By Karlos Zurutuza for Inter Press Service. It usually takes hours of driving in a 4X4 before heading out on foot through a dense forest. There, protected under a sea of beech trees from the view of the drones, it…

Winds of integration are blowing from the peoples: Plurinational Assembly of RUNASUR in Buenos Aires

This 5 and 6 November, the Plurinational Assembly will take place in Buenos Aires to constitute Runasur, the Unasur of the Peoples, under the guidelines of the defence of life, cultural identity and sovereignty from an anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist vision.…

Chile on Halloween, the living, the dying, the dead and the resurrected

The “living” are appropriating pension funds While we listened to President Boric speaking to us from La Moneda about his bill to eliminate the disastrous AFP, and we were beginning to rejoice, he then insulted us by maintaining the language…

Petro and Maduro: Historic meeting in Caracas

The Miraflores Palace, the seat of government in Caracas, was the scene of a long-awaited meeting between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. By Marcos Salgado In a two-hour private meeting, the presidents even agreed to re-establish…

Political prisoner Leila M. de Lima: “Promote critical thinking”

Political prisoner Leila de Lima—former senator, justice secretary, and chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights—analyzes the Filipinos’ political culture during her interview with Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas. She ended up behind bars after earning the ire of former president Rodrigo…

US again Isolated on UN Vote against its Cuba Blockade: The Heaviness of Imperialist Sanctions and the Lightness of the Liberal’s Lament

For the 30th consecutive United Nations vote, the US again lost. A landslide margin of 185 to 2 condemned its blockade of Cuba on November 3. Only the apartheid state of Israel voted with the US, while Brazil and Ukraine…

Illegal decree – Italy announces to push back protection seekers on board Humanity 1

After more than two weeks of waiting and 21 requests to the relevant authorities 179 people rescued from distress at sea on board the civil rescue ship Humanity 1 are still waiting for a place of safety. Due to a…

US elections: Ralph Nader urges Democrats to “crush” the Republican Party

Ralph Nader, the legendary consumer rights activist and former Green Party US presidential candidate, has urged Democrats to “crush the Republican Party in 2022”. Nader believes that the authoritarianism embraced by the Republican Party poses an existential challenge to American…

Boric announces mixed pension system: “The AFPs, in this reform, are finished”.

On national television, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, announced the pension reform to be introduced by his government, detailing that the project includes a mixed system, individual accounts and the end of the PFAs. The president began by…

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