Venezuela

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…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The world increasingly finds itself under protest. As 2019 enters its final quarter, there have been large and often violent demonstrations in Lebanon, Chile, Spain, Haiti, Iraq, Sudan, Russia, Egypt, Uganda, Indonesia, Ukraine, Peru, H…

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on at Rosneft President Igor Sechin. Venezuelan media is ... reporting the sale of its state owned oil company to Rosneft. Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Getty Images Russia looks set to be buying Venezuelas…

It’s getting hard not to notice that U.S. corporate media is covering pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong far more than pro-democracy forces in the Caribbean. It can be challenging to catch up on significant events in a place that’s a mere two-hour flight fro…

Thousands of people marched through downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike that included 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, while a counter-protest made its way from Red Deer in support of Alberta oil and gas. Orga…

This was originally published as the October 18 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Sign up here to receive it every weekday morning. (CNN)Now and again in President Donald Trump's Washington, it's ha…

This week in Catalonia the harsh sentences bestowed on the organizers of a 2017 referendum have sparked a wave of protests, breathing new life into the regions independence movement. The new scenario might also open a space for the leftist independentist grou…