Emile Schepers

Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. Born in South Africa, 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 a number of other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

World

Brother of Honduras president arrested for drug dealing, U.S. implicated
November 28, 2018 By Emile Schepers
During the last several days, the Central American country of Honduras, population 9,300,000, has loomed large in news reports.
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U.S.

Big advances for Democrats in Virginia
November 8, 2018 By Emile Schepers
One of the states where the Democratic Party did best on November 6 was Virginia, which, each year, is turning from being a “purple” state to a “blue” one.
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World

Brazil shifts right; Bolsonaro pledges to eliminate “the reds”
October 30, 2018 By Emile Schepers
According to the new president, the only problem with repression under the old military dictatorship was that it did not kill enough people.
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Politics

Will even more GOP-held districts flip in Virginia?
October 25, 2018 By Emile Schepers
A surge in absentee voting and new polling data suggest Democrats might oust as many as 4 of the GOP’s current 7 members of Congress.
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U.S.

Trump blasts caravan that poses no danger to the U.S.
October 24, 2018 By Emile Schepers And John Wojcik
Stokes fear to draw attention away from real threat: If GOP retains control of Congress Americans could lose all their healthcare.
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World

Brazil’s election brings far right to threshold of power
October 9, 2018 By Emile Schepers
The 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, 2018 By Emile Schepers
What 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, 2018 By Emile Schepers
There 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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