Venezuela

Internet outages and communication shutdowns are not a new phenomenon. This year alone, countries like Venezuela and Sudan have suffered their consequences. “Governments do this to control information, to control the ability of individuals in a particular ar…

Fires have been raging in Brazil for the past month.  Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images The Amazon rainforest has been on fire for the past month, with Brazil declaring a state of emergency in the region. The fires are destroying the homes of indigenous trib…

Haiti’s foreign affairs minister says the Caribbean island nation is in talks with Russia to remove the current visa requirement for Haitian citizens looking to travel to country. According to the Atlanta Black Star, Haitian Foreign Minister Edmond Bocchit c…

A Chinese student carrying a bulletproof vest was reportedly denied entry to the United States earlier this week, sparking a backlash online from social media users who noted the rise of mass shootings targeting US schools. The student was going through secu…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- At the beginning of Donald Trumps presidency, there was a running debate among the few right-leaning pundits, scholars and politicians who still opposed him. Is it better, they asked, to mitigate Trumps policies from the inside, or to h…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- At the beginning of Donald Trumps presidency, there was a running debate among the few right-leaning pundits, scholars and politicians who still opposed him. Is it better, they asked, to mitigate Trumps policies from the inside, or to h…

The anti-immigrant right in the United States focuses almost entirely on the southern border with Mexico. If only there were an impassable wall along the border, they believe, or harsher conditions for detained refugees, or more roaming vigilantes, the United…

Moacir Cordeiro, who works in a local cattle farm, looks on after digging grooves with a tractor in an attempt to stave off fires in the Alvorada da Amazonia region in Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on Sunday. Leo Correa/AP Leaders who attended the G-7…

The primary vote in Argentina last August 11 indicated quite a strong rejection of neoliberal policies in a region that has seen a wave of right-wing governments coming to power in the last ten years. The current neoliberal president Mauricio Macri lagged 15 …

By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. Presid…