Amid the unprecedented recent wave of protests that has swept the world, nowhere has experienced more widespread turmoil than the South American sub-continent. Recent months have witnessed a general strike and uprising in Colombia; demonstrations throughout Chile and Brazil including well over a million in Santiago and a million in Sao Paolo; in Bolivia the return to power of the Movement For … [Read more...]
People on the streets: Bolsonaro out, Covid out!
An article by Silvana Harte Suddenly Brazil explodes with people on the streets of the cities and demands for the Health Minister to go. The crisis of Bolonsaro’s regime runs deep as suddenly the astronomic Covid figures of infection and death rise and register a political impact from the towns to the countryside. There’s a long history to the collapsing health system; the hospitals were … [Read more...]
BRAZIL: THE FIGHT AGAINST BOLSONARO AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
Among the most ferocious regimes of recent times is that of Bolsonaro in Brazil. And now, at its first electoral test since he won the presidency in 2018, his party has suffered a humiliating defeat in local elections. In Sao Paolo and in Recife, it came fourth; in Manaus, fifth; and in Belo Horizonte, it won less than10% of the vote. This is against a background where Brazil’s currency has … [Read more...]
AMAZON: THE FIRE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
By David Hemson Pictures of black tree lines outlined by the red background of a fire, of thousands of blazing fires mapped along the Amazon, have commanded the attention of every thinking person. As in a horror movie, our planet appears to turn to flame and burn to ash as runaway fires stream across the TV screen. Astonishingly, the firing of the Amazon is not the only incendiary tragedy of … [Read more...]