Tag: South America
INDIA: Advocate Manjeet Kaur Matani has emerged as a social and legal activist in Maharashtra whose work has focused on issues involving vulnerable communities, women's rights, rehabilitation and access to employment. Her journey from a farming...
INDIA: A recent BRICS roundtable on digital assets and tokenisation examined how emerging financial technologies could reshape cross-border payments, settlement and capital markets. Among the central themes was a question that extends beyond the development of...
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Interim President Merino Resigns After Only 5 Days In Office
PERU. Lima: After a week of escalating nationwide protests that resulted in the deaths of at last two people, provisional President Manuel Merino resigned...
Peruvians Speak Out In The Wake of Vizcarra’s Impeachment
PERU. Lima: On Monday, parliament voted in favor of impeaching President Martín Vizcarra on grounds of "moral incompetence." This was met with shock and widespread...
President Of Peru Dismissed From Office Due To “Moral Incompetence”
PERU. Lima: In a move that shocked the international community, the nation's parliament voted to remove President Martín Vizcarra from office. The measure passed with...
Chileans Vote For A New Constitution, Abolishing Pinochet’s Legacy
CHILE. Santiago: Residents voted in favor of changing their nation´s constitution on 25 Oct., which was inherited from the former military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
A landslide...
Bolivia Chooses Socialism And Luis Arce For President
BOLIVIA. La Paz. After a tense election that took place on 18 Oct., it was announced Sunday evening that Luis Arce, presidential candidate for the...
Going The Distance: Rediscovering The World’s First Ultra-Marathon Runners
SOUTH AMERICA. Most people associate the origin of distance running with the Ancient Greeks, from whom we get the word marathon. Back in 490 BCE,...
The Austere Grandeur of Latin American Cinema
I recently watched a very unique Latin American film called Bacurau, co-directed by Brazilian filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. The film, a...
Pandemic Doctors Protest Not Being Allowed To Work
BOLIVIA. Sucre, Chuquisaca. The square of 25 de Mayo was brought to life by the voices of angry doctors fighting their government so they may...
Brazilians Say COVID-19 Highlights Existing Problems In Their Country
BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. There has been little in the way of uplifting information coming out of Brazil in recent months. As their coronavirus...
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