Latin America

Is it the end of the Worker’s Party in Brazil?

A political party -like the Worker’s party- that does not even try to save its own leader is a dead political party. In the speech with which she tried to avoid impeachment in the Brazilian Senate, Dilma Rousseff pleased her supporters but showed no strength to change their fate. 81 senators are expected to Impeach the President, who can not stand for election in eight years. His vice-president, Michel ...Read full article...

Rousseff defends herself before the Brazilian Senate

Monday, Dilma Rousseff will cross the blue room at the Brazilian Federal Senate. There, she will face her 81 judges; 81 senators. It will be the first time in more than 270 days of the impeachment process that the president, who has been away for all this time, will defend herself personally of the charges and, at the same time, try to convince the senators who are still undecided ...Read full article...

Nicolas Maduro threatens opposition with a Purge worse than in Turkey

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has vowed that if the Venezuelan opposition dares cross “the limits of a coup”, the power of the State will launch a counteroffensive organized that will make the Turkish purge launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, like a “walk in the park”. “You saw what happened in Turkey? Erdorgan’s purge is going to look like walk in the park, compared to the Bolivarian ...Read full article...

Dilma Rousseff’s Empty Promises before Judgement Day

The current impeachment process on the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff is bogus. The reason for this is that the crimes that she is being accused of committing are peanuts in comparison with other, more serious issues that her government did not address over her two terms. Now, when she is just days away from being impeached by the Brazilian Senate, she has come out to promise early elections, should ...Read full article...

Dilma Rousseff will face Impeachment in Congress

With many of the world’s eyes set on the Olympic Games in Rio, Dilma Rousseff began the morning of Wednesday on a melancholic countdown to leave her position for which she was reelected in 2014. This morning, the Brazilian Senate accepted the complaint against her for serious tax offenses and officially charged Rousseff for the commission of those offenses. The Senate approved the report that recommends replacing the president ...Read full article...

Chevron avoids paying Ecuador for Environmental Damage

The not surprising decision by a US appeals court that Ecuador had illegally charged Chevron makes it impossible for the country to obtain payment in US territory. In March 2014, a New York judge ruled that the sentence of an Ecuadorian court condemning Chevron to pay more than $9 billion to Ecuador had been issued fraudulently, since it considered proven that the American lawyer who promoted the demand, Steven ...Read full article...

Caracas is the Homicide Capital of Venezuela

The spiral of violence that shakes Caracas intensifies. During the month of July, 535 corpses, victims of violent deaths, arrived at the headquarters of the Forensics Laboratory of Caracas, according to data provided by anonymous sources to Venezuelan journalists. The release of such information was made anonymously after the government condemned the publication of official homicide figures in 2005. The statistics show that July is the most violent month in ...Read full article...

Nicaragua descends into Tyranny

The country is now controlled by one single party after president Daniel Ortega stripped opposing parliamentarians from their status. The Electoral Tribunal of Nicaragua delivered Friday total control of Parliament to President Daniel Ortega, as it stripped the opposition MPs of their seats. The Nicaraguan president consolidates all power in his figure, with increasingly authoritarian shades, and now imposes a hegemonic party regime in the Central American country. The court ...Read full article...

Brazilian Government Raises the Stakes in Terrorism Fear-mongering

PORTO ALEGRE — Let’s be clear: Brazil is in no threat of being attacked by Islamic terrorists. However, the mainstream media and the government have been orchestrating a country-wide campaign to legitimize what they say is proof that ISIS is preparing to attack the country during the Olympic games. Agents of the counterterrorism division of the Brazilian police arrested a group of ten Brazilian suspects who allegedly belong to ...Read full article...

Brazil is a Heaven for Cybercriminals

The countdown for thousands of tourists and athletes from around the world to arrive in Brazil has begun. Brazil is a week and a half away from hosting the biggest sporting event of the year: the Olympic Games in Rio. Brazil is going through one of its worst moments and it seems that there is mood for parties. There is the political crisis, state of calamity, fear of zika, ...Read full article...

Brazil gets ready for a False-flag Attack during the Olympics

Rumor has it in Brazil that there is now a group in the country whose members are ISIS followers. PORTO ALEGRE — The Olympic Games will begin on August 5th in Rio de Janeiro. The event is being prepared with utmost rigor by the Brazilian authorities. They have left millions of Brazilians behind, denying them basic services such as healthcare, housing and food in order to organize the games ...Read full article...

Venezuela sells its gold to pay the Bills

Venezuela has gone in a few months from being one of the major oil exporters in the world, to becoming the leading seller of gold on the planet. With a virtually collapsed economy, the Latin American country has decided to sell a third of its gold reserves in the last six months in order to pay for expenses related to public spending and pay off part of its huge ...Read full article...

Brazil’s Senate Report Exonerates Dilma Rousseff

A report prepared by experts of the Brazilian Senate notes that there is no evidence that the suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, participated in the fiscal maneuvers which resulted in the opening of destituyente trial is pending against it in the Senate, said Monday official sources. According to the 223-page report prepared at the request of Rousseff’s defence, the ruling was responsible for issuing a series of decrees that altered ...Read full article...

Amazon Mercury Mining kills Men, Women and Children

More than ten indigenous groups are being threatened by a wave of mercury contamination in the Amazon. The situation jeopardizes the lives of children and pregnant women from these communities, who suffer from diseases such as acute respiratory deficiencies, among others. The death of an indigenous child brought the situation to the mainstream. The child failed to survive after being diagnosed by doctors in the Ucayali Hospital, East of ...Read full article...

Brazilian Economy in Freefall

Economists warn that the country’s economy is the worst in 25 years. According to cooked up government numbers, the unemployment rate in Brazil has now reached 10%. In reality, judging by what I see on the street and when visiting businesses, that number is more like 20-25%. In addition to high unemployment, Brazilians also have to deal with the steady increase in prices. A week’s worth of groceries that ...Read full article...