Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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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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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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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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Brazil’s ex-President Lula in jail; Workers Party nominates him anyway
August 7, 2018If the former president is unable to run, the replacement ticket will include a member of the Communist Party as the VP nominee.
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Attempted assassination targets Venezuelan President Maduro
August 6, 2018One government body said it was the work of the "fascist right" to "achieve by violence what it has not been able to achieve by democratic means.”
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Nelson Mandela: 100 years since his birth
July 16, 2018Celebrating the centennial of a hero of South African liberation.
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Former Brazilian President Lula remains in prison amid ‘Battle of the Judges’
July 12, 2018With minutes to go until the ex-president’s release, another judge countermanded the order, leading to a bizarre war of dueling judges.
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Brazil: Right-wing government hits workers, workers hit back
July 2, 2018In Brazil, the far-right-wing government of President Michel Temer had a victory over the country’s workers and unions last week, but the fighting spirit of the Brazilian working class seems to be undaunted.
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