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No Street, no Planalto

In Brazil, those who won in the first round of the elections are the ones who are most preoccupied with the uncertainty of the second round in three weeks’ time, which will determine whether former president Luiz Inacio Lula da…

“Father, did you not realize that to oppose the banana companies is subversion!”

Here is the sequel to Priestly solidarity with the poor. Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas interviewed Edward M. Gerlock about his life as a priest when martial law was declared in the Philippines on September 23, 1972.  Edward Gerlock sent Pressenza a…

Who will be the next President of Brazil (issues to think about in times of elections)

It does not matter who assumes the Presidency on 1 January 2023. Once again, the Brazilian bourgeoisie will have won the elections. I am not referring only to the results it achieved in terms of the composition of the National…

Argentina. The government once again represses the Mapuche people

In the early hours of this morning (4), by order of the Ministry of National Security, a “unified command” made up of federal forces of prefecture, gendarmerie and federal police with the collaboration of the provincial police of Río Negro,…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s moving speech at the United Nations

It may not have been the best speech, because the topics he addressed were limited, but it is the one that brought tears to many people’s eyes. The whole speech was very emotional, courageous and beautiful. Of course, because of…

Advances of the far-right and the social-democratic responsibility not assumed

The voices of the European Union, which have been imposing a model of society for decades, are today warning about the growth of far-right parties, as in Italy, Sweden, Spain, Poland and Orbán’s Hungary, and say that the phenomenon has…

Peru’s presidents and corruption 1995-2022 (I)

Peru is perhaps the only country in the world in which more than five former presidents have been or are immersed in criminal proceedings for various crimes. The cases of Francisco Morales Bermúdez (sentenced to life imprisonment and deceased in…

The impacts of mining on women affected by dams

Reports included conditions from skin diseases, anxiety, and depression to the loss of the will to live. Who are these women victims of mining, and how has the activity altered their ways of life and existence? By Jacqueline Melo e…

New York and the Italian Contradiction

On September 25, the same day New Yorkers finished celebrating the 10-day San Gennaro Festival in the city’s Little Italy, the Italians, elected the country’s farthest-right government since the fall of Mussolini. For the past 96 years, the festival, which attracts over a million people each year, has…

Elections Brazil 2022: clear bet on Lula’s victory in first round

We are all expectant about what is going to happen in Brazil. This Sunday there are presidential elections. It remains to be seen whether it will be the end of the cycle of Jair Bolsonaro at the head of this…

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