Brazil

Masses battle rightist regimes in Colombia, Brazil, Chile

Ongoing struggles in three South American countries show the general uprising that began in 2019 is still challenging right-wing ruling…

June 2, 2021

Brazilians tell police: ‘Stop killing us!’

The police invaded the Jacarezinho favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at dawn May 6, armed to the teeth…

May 13, 2021

Brazil’s Trump: Bolsonaro is the ‘biggest threat’ to COVID response

On May 9, The Lancet medical journal, in assessing the COVID crisis in Brazil, wrote that “perhaps the biggest threat…

June 3, 2020

Amidst global protests, Amazon rainforest threatened by capitalist neglect

Worldwide protests have denounced the unprecedented number of fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, enabled by the policies of Brazil’s…

August 27, 2019

Why Cuba is withdrawing its medical brigade from Brazil

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health has issued a statement explaining the circumstances under which it is withdrawing the Cuban…

November 19, 2018

Cuba no continuará participando en el Programa Más Médicos en Brasil

El Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba emitió un comunicado en el que explica las circunstancias bajo las cuales retira…

November 19, 2018

Massive general strike in Brazil displays people power

Brazilian workers held a general strike on April 28. Business as usual could not possibly proceed as 35 to 40…

May 5, 2017

¿Qué nos enseña la crisis brasileña?

Olmedo Beluche es un sociólogo panameño. Una crisis política enorme se cierne sobre ese gigante que es Brasil. Una investigación…

March 29, 2016

Solidarity with the people of Ecuador & Brazil

U.S. imperialism attempts to undermine any government in Latin America that exhibits independence from Washington’s dictates. In the past weeks…

August 27, 2015

My reunion with Brazil

By Miguel Urbano Rodrigues The author is a Portuguese writer, editor and Communist activist, who was exiled in Brazil from…

December 6, 2014