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Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...
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Chicago joins list of U.S. cities denouncing Cuba blockade
March 9, 2021For 60 years, the United States has done everything within its power to destroy socialist Cuba. More U.S. cities are disagreeing with their government's campaign.
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For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
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Communist Party unveils ‘Emergency Relief Unity Program’ to confront crisis
March 9, 2021“The pandemic and the crisis…have revealed that the status quo is not sustainable,” the CPUSA says in its new emergency relief unity program.
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Women take the lead in fight to impeach Bolsonaro in Brazil
March 8, 2021SAO PAULO—Today in Brazil, women are facing the advancement of predatory neoliberalism, imperialism, an anti-democratic state, the politics of death, and the extermination of the people, which has been escalating with the coronavirus pandemic. In 2016,...
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