Venezuela

Alice Driver | Longreads | December 2019 | 7 minutes (1,783 words) We are hungry but we arent afraid Young and rebellious And the disappeared? The revolution will educate your children Graffiti scrawled on buildings lining the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogo…

(Bloomberg) -- Emerging markets are about to end a turbulent year in which U.S.-China trade tensions dominated headlines and central banks around the world came to rescue the global economy from falling into a recession. Stocks, currencies and local-currency…

(Bloomberg) -- Emerging markets are about to end a turbulent year in which U.S.-China trade tensions dominated headlines and central banks around the world came to rescue the global economy from falling into a recession.Stocks, currencies and local-currency s…

Chesa Boudin, 39, is set to be sworn in as San Francisco’s new district attorney in just a few weeks’ time, NBC News reported Monday. He is the son of Weather Underground radicals who were convicted of murder in a bank heist gone wron…

Popular discontent is fuelling protest and paralysis across Latin America. If East Asia isn't careful, it could be next. In Ecuador, protests against anti-austerity measures, including the reduction of fuel subsidies, forced President Lenín Moreno to declare…

Popular discontent is fuelling protest and paralysis across Latin America. If East Asia isn't careful, it could be next. In Ecuador, protests against anti-austerity measures, including the reduction of fuel subsidies, forced President Lenín Moreno to declare…

With the crazy news cycle nowadays, it’s easy to miss images that fly under the radar. We’ve got you covered. Here we’re highlighting exceptional photos from around the world for the week of Dec. 7 to 13. Check them out. ABOVE: A diver dressed in a Santa Cl…

It took me a few days to RSVP to the screening of the documentary, “After Parkland.” It wasnt that I didnt want to see this important film; it was that the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., held a personal tie. My sons…

After the coup détat, repression is advancing by leaps and bounds in Bolivia. The dictatorship persecutes the narco-traffickers, vandals and terrorists, that is to say: the social movements, former members of the government, peasants and indigenous people who…

When protesters use social media to attract attention and unify, people in power may respond with tweeting tactics designed to distract and confuse, according to a team of political scientists. In a study of Twitter interactions during Venezuelas 2014 protes…