Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Brazil’s election brings far right to threshold of power
October 9, 2018The stakes for the second round could not be higher, not only for Brazil but for the whole of Latin America and beyond.
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World
Massive “Not Him” demonstrations in Brazil a week before elections
October 2, 2018What will Trump do if the fifth biggest country on earth elects a socialist president and a communist vice president?
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U.S.
Four GOP Virginia congressional reps could go down to defeat
September 18, 2018There may be as many as four of Virginia’s Republican-held federal House of Representatives seats in play in this November’s midterm congressional elections.
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World
Violence and threats of more: Brazil’s electoral drama gets more bizarre
September 13, 2018After a far-right candidate is stabbed, his VP running mate threatens to bring out the military. Meanwhile, with Lula in jail, the left has to bring in a substitute candidate of its own.
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World
Cornered Guatemalan government lashes out against corruption accusers
September 6, 2018Morales is terminating the country’s cooperative relationship with a UN-sponsored body that has been working with Guatemalan prosecutors to root out corruption in this impoverished country of 17 million.
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World
Brazil: Setback for Lula’s presidential candidacy
September 4, 2018The Supreme Electoral Tribunal voted six to one that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is barred from running.
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U.S.
Rough and tumble in Virginia midterm elections
August 28, 2018As the Nov. 6 midterm elections approach, Virginia, with its eleven congressional seats, is seeing some interesting and important battles.
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World
Colombia and U.S. implicated in plot to kill Venezuelan president
August 21, 2018From Bogota to Miami, more names are popping up in the list of accomplices in the Maduro assassination attempt.
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