Politics

LATIN AMERICA SUSTAINING A DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A FIX From the premise of dreaming of a Latin America far removed from amateurism where solid leadership reigns, the Latin American and Caribbean region idealises, from civil society, a concrete direction that distances…

The cholera case reported by the district hospital in Malawi’s southern region on 3 March 2022 was the first of the 2021-2022 season, and a warning of what was to come: the worst cholera outbreak recorded in the African country…

All the key players in the current conflict spent years kidding themselves, and peace will only come when they accept reality By Sergey Poletaev The Russian military offensive in Ukraine has set in motion a chain of events that has…

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in…

January 13, 2023, marked 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was…

Part of the dynamic of Chilean municipal politics is that every time a councillor loses his or her subsequent re-election, we learn of pronounced deficits in the municipal coffers. Thus, we have emblematic cases of Virginia Reginato in Viña del…

For helping refugees, they are on trial in Greece: a highly controversial trial of 24 sea rescuers begins in Lesbos on Tuesday (January 10, 2023). Amnesty International calls on the Greek authorities to drop the charges. By Moritz Ettlinger “If…

People are protesting Rightist government moves ousting President Pedro Castillo. By Countercurrents Collective Tweeting from jail on Tuesday, Castillo said history will remember Peruvians “murdered for defending the country from the coup dictatorship,” and that “terror is the last bullet of…

Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fled the county just before his term of office ended on January 1, apparently fearing legal prosecution for multiple wrong-doings once he lost presidential immunity. By Roger D. Harris Bolsonaro had long predicted that if…

The Japanese government recently announced plans to double the size of its military budget, which is already the 8th largest in the world. It also issued three new military doctrines which vastly increase its war fighting commits in the Asia-Pacific…