Venezuela

It’s Wednesday afternoon and hundreds of thousands have taken over Plaza Italia, the heart of Santiago and epicenter of any public protest in the city. They carry signs that ask for major improvements in public health, pensions, and income inequality. Among t…

LA PAZ - Bolivians blocked streets in La Paz on Friday demanding an audit of a controversial election count that handed President Evo Morales a outright win and with it a fourth consecutive term that would extend his rule to nearly two decades. Morales, 59, …

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivians blocked streets in La Paz on Friday demanding an audit of a controversial election count that handed President Evo Morales a outright win and with it a fourth consecutive term that would extend his rule to nearly two decades. Mo…

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Vijay Prashad, the Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and the author of several books including most recently Arab…

Over 12 days at the start of October 2019 eight people were killed, more than 1,300 injured and nearly 1,200 arrested after demonstrations became violent in Ecuador. The demonstrations focused on reversing the ending of fuel subsidies, which had been brought …

Deaths from violent unrest are set to spike in the coming years, according to researchers who have produced a 'Chaos Map' which lays bare the fallout of devastating famines and droughts.  The team from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, plotted more than 1…

People have been trying to predict conflict for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. But its hard, largely because scientists cant agree on its nature or how it arises. The critical factor could be something as apparently innocuous as a booming population or…

Only a week after the huge mobilizations in Ecuador that successfully toppled the controversial paquetazo, the financial plan imposed on the South American nation by the International Monetary Fund, another Latin American country has risen up against the econ…

Universities are oblivious to the racial harassment occurring at an alarmingly high rate on their campuses, a new report has warned.      An inquiry from the equality watchdog has found that nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of ethnic minority students had expe…

Posted October 23, 2019 15:49:59 Chile is in the midst of one of its worst crises since the end of Augusto Pinochet's brutal military dictatorship in 1990. Key points: A 3 per cent transport fare hike spiralled into generalised dissent over ineq…