Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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World
Left advances in Brazil, runoff elections scheduled
October 6, 2010Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff racked up the largest vote total in Sunday's presidential election in Brazil, though she barely missed the 50 percent mark necessary to avoid a runoff
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World
Ecuador coup fails, president rescued
October 1, 2010A coup attempt against Ecuador's left-wing president, Rafael Correa, failed when elite troops rescued the president from rioting policemen.
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World
Colombian senator under investigation for relations with FARC
September 30, 2010Senator Piedad Cordoba Ruiz has been declared guilty of "relations with the FARC," threatening national unity and treason.
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Opinion
The fruits of corporate globalization: a review of “El Traspatio”
September 23, 2010This film is a searing and realistic depiction of what international monopoly capital does to the lives of ordinary working men and women.
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Opinion
Why is Virginia governor going after immigrant drivers?
September 22, 2010Could it be about the November elections?
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Opinion
Looking at Cuba in a regional context
September 21, 2010The corporate media and especially the right in the U.S. are trying to "prove" that socialism has only brought poverty to Cuba, but a look at the region shows this is not remotely true.
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World
With layoffs come opportunities in Cuba
September 17, 2010Cuba announced a half million lay-offs this week. International affairs writer Emile Schepers gives some context and history to the announcement.
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World
Saint Vincent PM: U.S. business seek to topple government
September 15, 2010The prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph E. Gonsalves, has accused U.S. and other foreign interests of meddling in his country's internal affair.
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