Global South

Voters in Mexico opted for change in electing Andrés Manuel López Obrador president on Sunday. Candidates from López Obrador's National Regeneration Movement party are also projected to…
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Mexico's National Electoral Institute declared Andrés Manuel López Obrador the country's new president with a total vote count of between 53 and 53.8 percent. Official results will be…
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While some corporate media outlets have portrayed the violent protest movement gripping Nicaragua as a progressive grassroots upswell, the country's own student leaders have suggested…
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A contract granted by PREPA awarding $700 million to Miami-based MasTec raised the island's Federal Fiscal Control Board flags. It was given without providing details on the magnitude…
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In its newest proposed fiscal plan (released May 30), Puerto Rico’s fiscal oversight and management board appears set to use disaster relief funding to finance debt, while proceeding…
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Although now it is more complicated to resort to the invasions, occupations and military dictatorships of yesteryear, the hard line prevails in the North American strategy towards the…
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Hundreds of Puerto Rican protesters continue to march through the streets of San Juan following massive May Day protests against austerity measures; they're also demanding the repeal of…
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The Lava Jato operation is being referred to by some as a 21st century prelude to the great symphony of destruction of Brazilian sovereignty. It is a theory supported by a Wikileaks…
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Mass-media has become the main opposition to the progressive governments of the region. In its heyday in 2009, out of ten Latin American countries in South America, eight had leftist…
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Puerto Rico lacks the right to declare bankruptcy for a fair process to restructure its debt. Instead, an undemocratic Control Board stocked with conservative ideologues was created by…
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