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Dilma Rousseff

'An Extraordinary Day': Brazilian Leftist Leader Lula Freed From Prison

A supporter of the former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva holds a flag during a national strike protest called by unions and students against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's pension reform in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 2019.

'Embarrassing Nepotism': Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Appoints Son as Ambassador to US

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Bolsonaros and Trump

One critic said that it's "only a matter of time now before the son of Brazil's wannabe despot has an official meeting with the daughter of America's wannabe despot."

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Mexico's 'Bernie Sanders' Wins in a Huge Historic Landslide With Mandate to Reshape the Nation

Common Dreams staff

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives to cast his vote during the Mexico 2018 Presidential Election on July 1, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico.

AMLO is definitely the Bernie Sanders of Mexico.

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'Assault on Democracy': Brazil's Supreme Court Rules Presidential Favorite Lula Must Serve Jail Time

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Lula has been subjected to a political prosecution and conviction, ignoring...

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Marielle Franco

Former Brazilian President Lula: It's Clear Marielle Franco's Assassination Was Premeditated

Brazil: Nationwide Strike Rebuffs "Disastrous" Austerity Measures

Likely Leftist Victory in Ecuador Election Rejects "Oligarch's Candidate"

Brazilians Revolt as Post-Coup Govt. Pushes 'Deliberately Retrogressive' Austerity Package

Safe with 'Oligarchs and Imperialists' in US, Brazil's New President Admits Coup Plot

Repression Rains Down on Pro-Democracy Demonstrators in Brazil

Brazil Fallout Begins as Leftist Leaders Denounce 'Coup Against Latin America'

Completing Democratic Overthrow, Brazil's Right-Wing Senate Ousts Rousseff

Rousseff Warns of Threat to Brazil's Democracy as "Coup" Nears End

Venezuela's Maduro Accuses US of "Imperialist Attack" Against Latin America

Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky

Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Others Condemn 'Coup' in Brazil

'Not a Good Day for Democracy': Senate Approves Impeachment Trial for Brazil's Rousseff

Newswire

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Sending Brazil’s Former President Lula to Prison an “Assault on Democracy,” CEPR Co-Director Says

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)

Coup in Brazil?

Amazon Watch

Massive Corruption Scandal Implicates Brazil’s Amazon Dam Builders

Government Accountability Project

Statement by Edward Snowden on Being Honored as a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine

Conservation Groups

Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam Faces Renewed Protest in Europe

Greenpeace

Greenpeace International Bail Appeals Refused as Brazil President Speaks Out

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John Feffer

Don Fitz

Dammed Good Questions About the Green New Deal

Brian Mier

As Lula Emerges From Prison, US Media Ignore How Washington Helped Put Him There

Celso Amorim

Five Hundred Days of Injustice: On the Imprisonment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brian Mier

As Brazil Burns, Northern Media Deploy a Strategy of Deflection

Brian Mier

Media Blackout on Brazil's Anti-Bolsonaro Protests

Adolph Reed Jr.

Vietnam to Venezuela: US Interventionism and the Failure of the Left

Nomi Prins

A World That Is the Property of the 1%: Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens

Rick Salutin

I’m With Progressives Against Impeachment

Francesc Badia i Dalmases

Brazil: the Day After