Emile Schepers

Born in South Africa, Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University. He is active in the struggle for immigrant rights, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, and several other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

World

GOP-dominated House votes to defund Organization of American States
July 25, 2011 By Emile Schepers
In another fit of lunacy, the Republican House Committee on Foreign Relations voted to cancel the payment of dues to the Organization of American States.
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World

Amidst violence, Guatemala heads for Sept. elections
July 22, 2011 By Emile Schepers
Guatemala is the second most violent country in the Western Hemisphere (after Colombia) and the election campaign is shaping up to be violent also. Iit is not clear to what degree poor and working class Guatemalans,...
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World

Planned gas pipeline in Puerto Rico brings criticism
July 21, 2011 By Emile Schepers
The project would cut diagonally through sensitive mountain forest regions, the largest on the island, home to much of Puerto Rico's biodiversity.
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World

Chile’s right-wing president on the ropes
July 20, 2011 By Emile Schepers
Right-wing President Sebastian Piñera's popularity rate is at 31 percent, down from 63 percent approval months earlier.
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World

Obama threatens veto of tighter curbs on Cuba travel
July 18, 2011 By Emile Schepers
President Obama has threatened a veto of a House bill if it includes tightened restrictions on Cuban-American travel and aid to Cuba.
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U.S.

Texas violates treaty, executes Mexican citizen
July 8, 2011 By Emile Schepers
Rick Perry allowed the Thursday evening execution of a Mexican national, even though the action violated U.S. treaty obligations.
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U.S.

Furious reaction to U.S. gun exporting scheme
July 7, 2011 By Emile Schepers
Public opinion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is reacting angrily to a program called Operation Fast and Furious, through which the ATF deliberately allowed thousands of automatic weapons to be smuggled into Mexico
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World

Amidst massive strikes, Greek Parliament votes for austerity
June 30, 2011 By Emile Schepers
Much of Greece was shut down Tuesday and Wednesday by a general strike by all major union federations, but parliament approved the general terms of a crushing austerity program.
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