International – Page 188

Puerto Rican teachers strike to oppose attack on pensions

January 16, 2014 By Emile Schepers

Thousands of elementary and secondary school teachers in Puerto Rico carried out a two day strike to protest a raid on their pension plans.

“GroKo” Politics – No real change for Germany

January 15, 2014 By Victor Grossman

Some have suggested the German "Word of the Year" should be "whistleblower" - in the escalating Denglish language here breezily called "Neu-Deutsch" ("New German").

Political jailings, killings mount in Colombia

January 15, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Already assassins had killed activist rapper Gerson Martínez, community leader Giovanny Leiton, Leiton's life partner, and unionist Ever Luis Marin Rolong.

New left-wing party forms in Mexico

January 15, 2014 By Tim Pelzer

A new left-wing party led by former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will soon appear on the ballot in Mexico.

Snowden and our civil liberties

January 13, 2014 By PW Editorial

We add our voice to the many calling for clemency for Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower who exposed the National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program.