Brazil
60,000 liters of oil spills from pipeline into Brazilian bay
December 10, 2018"It was a leak of significant proportions, with an impact on the mangroves."
Read moreCuban doctors to leave Brazil courtesy of Jair Bolsonaro
November 21, 2018Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health announced Nov. 14 that some 8,000 Cuban doctors providing health care in Brazil will be returning to Cuba. The action was in response to Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s harsh criticism of...
Read moreBrazil’s new president to put privatization advocate in charge of state oil company
November 19, 2018Bolsonaro is putting a mining executive who wants to privatize public property in charge of the state oil company.
Read moreBrazilian Communists rally to defend democracy after Bolsonaro win
October 31, 2018The party says the 46 million votes received by the joint Workers Party-Communist Party ticket laid the foundations for a “vigorous opposition that must begin now.”
Read moreBrazil shifts right; Bolsonaro pledges to eliminate “the reds”
October 30, 2018According to the new president, the only problem with repression under the old military dictatorship was that it did not kill enough people.
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