Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Environment
Bolsonaro: I’ll save Amazon rainforest by giving it to corporations
August 26, 2019Since taking office, Bolsonaro said from the outset he intends to open up areas reserved for Brazil’s 900,000 Amazonian indigenous communities to agricultural and mining interests.
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World
Guatemala’s runoff election: Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
August 14, 2019Like its neighbor Honduras, Guatemala , a country with 17.2 million people, has been the site of very large anti-corruption protests for several years.
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World
Honduras president implicated in narcotics-related corruption
August 7, 2019The details released so far indicate a profoundly disturbing pattern of involvement of right-wing, U.S.-supported Honduran governments with the international drug trade.
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World
U.S. and Guatemala reach refugee deal but all Hell breaks loose
July 29, 2019Trump announced the “third safe country agreement,” meaning that people fleeing El Salvador and Honduras would have to stay in Guatemala and ask for asylum from there.
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World
Trump proposes dumping migrants into Guatemala, a supposedly “safe third country”
July 3, 2019When it comes to human rights, Guatemala may be one of the worst places you could send people.
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Politics
Latest voter suppression effort: Trump wants citizenship question on 2020 census
April 26, 2019If immigrant-heavy Democratic states get undercounted, their number of congressional seats could drop.
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World
Fifty social justice organizations demand Trump stop aggression against Venezuela
April 9, 2019The Venezuela situation remains dangerous and volatile, but opposition to the Trump administration’s bullying “regime change” efforts in that country may be growing.
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Politics
Immigration Myths vs. Facts: CPUSA battles misinformation as new legislation is filed
March 22, 2019Communists are challenging Trump's anti-immigrant misinformation campaign.
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