Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Brazilian Left pushing hard for referendum to stop rightward slide
June 20, 2016The referendum would authorize new elections for October, but this depends on first defeating the efforts of the right to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office.
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U.S.
New push underway to get Congress to end the Cuba blockade
June 14, 2016The blockade continues to hurt the interests of ordinary people in Cuba by the strain it puts on the Cuban economy.
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U.S.
Undocumented pay more in state and local taxes
June 13, 2016Who would really benefit from legalizing all undocumented immigrants? Everyone.
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Opinion
Corey Stewart, Trump’s man in Virginia, promises hell for undocumented immigrants
June 8, 2016The xenophobic bloviator has already done some damage in Prince William County. Now he wants to be governor.
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World
Peruvian presidential runoff: A squeaker
June 8, 2016A broad left coalition in the Andean nation asked supporters to help defeat a right-wing extremist.
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World
Arrests in murder of Berta Caceres, but the struggle is not over
June 3, 2016U.S. continues to fund regional security forces in Honduras despite their complicity in murder of environmental activist Berta Caceres.
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World
The Bolivarian crisis: Is Latin America’s “pink tide” receding?
June 3, 2016Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar decreed slavery's end, the modern-day leftist movement named for him appears to be stalling across Latin America.
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World
Ex-dictator, others sentenced in Argentina for “Operation Condor” crimes
May 31, 2016A court in Buenos Aires convicted General Reynaldo Bignone and 14 other officers of crimes against humanity committed during the "Dirty War" of 1976-83.
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