Global South

The world was struck dumb by the news that the Colombians had rejected the peace accord reached between the government and the FARC-EP guerrillas. But the truly transcendental fact is…
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On several occasions, during the weeks prior to the plebiscite, Colombian President Santos said that he didn't have a Plan B in case voters said "No" to the peace accord, so great was…
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The Obama administration has been declassifying state secrets and sharing them with selected Latin American governments, The Washington Post disclosed Sunday. The purpose, says the…
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Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Tuesday that he does not fear the U.S. Department of State’s condemnation based on the yearly White House report claiming Bolivia does not do…
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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, lied about the border wall during the meeting both held in Mexico City on August…
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Mexicans across the board were really, really mad because their president, Enrique Peña Nieto, stood by silently, impassive, neither denouncing the idea of a wall nor demanding an…
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Former Uruguayan President José Mujica said that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, elected in 2014, was deposed because she resisted the pressure to protect politicians accused of…
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Dilma Rousseff entrenched herself as soon as she received confirmation that she had been dismissed from the presidency of Brazil on Wednesday. With a 61 to 20 vote count against her,…
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A "soft coup," as radical changes to the right are called nowadays, has just been staged in Brazil with the ouster of elected President Dilma Rousseff. What has just happened is…
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Many Brazilians consider the whole process involving the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff a coup d'état — and not just against a president, but against democracy itself.
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