Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Ultra-right makes worrisome advances in French regional elections
December 8, 2015In France, as in other European countries, the most common interpretation of the right's surge is hostility toward immigrants, refugees and foreigners in general.
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Latin Americans celebrate putting brakes on neo-liberal agenda
November 30, 2015The Bolivarian countries have made great advances in fighting poverty, inequality and racial and gender discrimination as well as improving schools, health care and housing for their people.
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Argentina Elections: Right wins presidency, struggle goes on
November 25, 2015In a blow to the left, right wing candidate, Mauricio Macri, beat Daniel Scioli, the candidate of the ruling leftist Front, by 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent.
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Portugal: Socialist government takes power with Left support
November 24, 2015Antonio Luis Santos da Costa of the Socialist Party, forms a government with the support of the Communist, Ecologist (Green) and Left Bloc deputies in the national parliament.
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Shameless anti-refugee bill passed by GOP-run House
November 20, 2015The Republican Party and the right have descended to a new level of repulsive shamelessness that many thought was not possible even for them.
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Socialist coalition hands right-wing Portuguese government defeat
November 13, 2015The unity in Portugal has been made possible by a very evident left turn on the part of the Socialist Party.
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Argentina’s closer than expected presidential vote means a runoff
November 2, 2015It's important what's going to happen between now and the runoff election.
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Guatemala: Comedian Jimmy Morales is elected president
October 26, 2015What this means politically is very much up in the air, but one thing that is certain is that Guatemala's political nightmares are not over.
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