-Alberto Fernández’s first phone call with US president-elect Joe Biden was a bumpy one.
The call per se went normally, with Biden’s transition’s team saying afterwards that the leaders talked about COVID, “economic prosperity, combating climate change, strengthening democracy and …
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Brazil’s latest unemployment figures, released …
Brazil’s political crisis is escalating at neck-breaking pace amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership was already being questioned by governors, cabinet members, its own military and a growing portion of citizens, including a share of his former voters.
The …
“You don’t repress the people,” Bolivian General Williams Kaliman told President Evo Morales. “This is what you taught us.” Evo’s excessive thirst for power had become toxic. After his third electoral mischief, he had to go. Alberto Fernández came …
The coronavirus crisis is proving critical across the globe, with mandatory lockdowns in most major countries and a cascade of public health, social and economic problems unfolding as a consequence. But in Brazil, something else is also brewing: a political …
