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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEU stands firm with Big Pharma against COVID vaccine patent waiversNew research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisMexico’s recent election violence can’t be blamed on organized crime gangs aloneUp to 150 people were killed during the politically polarized campaign, with candidates, local officials,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureFive lessons from Argentina’s feminist movements’ fight for legal abortionsThe country’s ‘Green Tide’ of feminist activists succeeded despite all the challenges of COVID-19, thanks to their...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureMemory and forgetting in Guatemala: Catholic Church sets the war record straightThe beatification of ten Catholics killed by the Guatemalan Army and local militias several decades ago is a...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy Colombia has erupted in protestThe economic impact of the pandemic has exacerbated conditions many already found intolerable. As state repression...
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerExplainer: What is ‘abortion pill reversal’?The unproven, potentially dangerous use of progesterone to ‘reverse’ a medical abortion is spreading globally,...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Opinion#BLM beyond the US: Anti-racist struggles in Latin AmericaOne year after the assassination of George Floyd, people are starting to acknowledge the systemic racism that runs...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisAttacks against women justice defenders threaten rule of law in GuatemalaWomen judges and prosecutors trying to combat political corruption and impunity face harassment and persecution from on high
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureThe women of the Amazon who dream the resistanceIn Ecuador, indigenous women lead a march to the capital, to demand an end to the pillaging of their land
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThere’s no way to vote for women’s rights in Peru’s presidential electionsThe country infamous for forced sterilisations will face the choice of two ‘anti-gender’ candidates in run-off...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisJair Bolsonaro is betting on chaos in BrazilMore than 100 impeachment requests, a corrupt government, and a fatally mismanaged health crisis. Yet the president...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs AMLO undermining democracy in Mexico?Some say the president is breathing new life into the country’s ossified institutions, but there are good reasons to...
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Published in: Rethinking Populism: InterviewSituating populism beyond the deformation of Eurocentric and post-democratic narrativesSpyros Sofos talks to Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia about their book ‘Seven Essays on Populism’ and...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia burns amid authorities’ bloody crackdown on tax protestorsInternational human rights organizations denounce violence yet President Duque fails to act as crisis escalates Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militiaIn Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and evangelical churches have united to fight a ‘holy...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiners out, COVID out: Brazil’s Yanomami fight backThe Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionA triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian AmazonA year on from a devastating oil spill, many Indigenous communities are still without clean water, and contaminated...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too lateAs NGOs, UN agencies and the governments of less affluent states call for the suspension of patents, the stakes...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow I took the Munduruku fight to save the Amazon to the world stageThe Munduruku Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon faces many threats, but we know that we must unite to...
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