ALAI this week - 26/11/2021
Brazilian senate recommends charging Bolsonaro for mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic
Opposition lawmakers in Brazil voted in favor of charging the president with crimes against humanity for downplaying and mishandling the pandemic.
J. Luis Rodríguez
Cuba: Five years after Fidel
Fidel stood against foolishness and arrogance, facing it with humor or with actions that sharply contrast with the caricature that his detractors make of him.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
US legal observers report 'balanced and transparent' election process in Venezuela
The federal government's "consistently false narrative of elections in Venezuela is formulated to legitimize the continuation of U.S. sanctions, which are violations of international law and amount to economic warfare," said the head of the National Lawyers Guild.
Jessica Corbett
The complexity of post-lockdown inflation
Policymakers face the dilemma to raise interest rates under the inflation targeting model, even if this means limiting investment, consumption and growth.The alternative is inflationary growth.
Bertin Acosta, OBELA
Violence and intimidation leave bloody imprint on Honduran elections
Ahead of Sunday’s elections in Honduras, Olivia Zúniga Cáceres, congresswoman of the Libre Party, talks about the violence, hate and intimidation suffered by candidates and members of the opposition
Zoe Alexandra
To end the dilemma of hunger: Food sovereignty and peasants' rights
Food sovereignty demands a structural, economic, social and political transformation that prioritizes the universal right to food over private ownership of land and the means of production and trade.
Diego Montón
Climate injustice at Glasgow cop-out
Authoritative projections suggest that if all COP26 long-term pledges and targets are met, the planet will still warm by 2.1℃ by 2100.
Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Leonard Peltier is America’s longest-serving political prisoner
The FBI put the Native American activist behind bars 44 years ago based on lies, threats and no proof he committed a crime. Why is he still there?
Jennifer Bendery
Frustration and anger after Glasgow climate summit
The good news is that a consensus has been reached and agreements have been made to meet every year. The big losers are the countries of the South. They bear the least responsibility for global warming, but take the heaviest blows.
Marc Vandepitte
Whither the global economy?
There seems to be no evidence to justify the claim by some mainstream optimists that the advanced capitalist world is about to experience a roaring 2020s as the US briefly did in 1920s.
Michael Roberts