Peru's US-backed coup regime appears to be setting the stage to hand unelected presidential power to right-wing congressman José Williams, the former top military commander
He has been linked to drug cartels and covered up a military massacre of civilians
https://t.co/RqWtCJh504
@davidrkadler @TomasDaub The greatest crime was always intentional: using GDP as a single, causal proxy for overall human development.
Not only does it obscure inequality by using an avg, it gave the #intdev field the theoretical justification for pursuing GDP growth as a primary goal: neocolonialism.
Defeated Jair Bolsonaro will not hand the sash to nemesis Lula da Silva at his inauguration, UOL reports.
The fascist will instead depart for a two month stay at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Lula has promised that secrecy orders protecting Bolsonaro will end on Jan 1.
Bolsonaro is terrified that Lula is going to fulfill his promise to lift his "100 years of secrecy" decrees issued to protect his corrupt family on Jan. 1 so he's going to go hide in Florida in the tradition of so many other corrupt South American politicians and drug kingpins.
Brazil's Congressional Budgetary Committee finally approved the Dilma Rousseff government's 2014-2015 budget, officially recognizing there was no "fiscal peddling." This supports what Roussseff has said since 2016: impeachment without a crime is a coup."
Did you know that Cuba trains American doctors for free at its world-class medical college and sends them back to the US to serve in underprivileged communities?
I spoke to US medical students training in Havana for this @MintPressNews report.
https://t.co/IeLqfoSHsl