Written by Laura Vidal Numerous protests have taken place in cities home to some of Venezuela’s most important public universities and after various discussions, a general strike has been declared. The focal point of the struggle is given by the wages of university professors who, despite training and experience, occupy yet another position in the […]
Angola Shocked Over Video Showing Brutal Beating
By Vania Negrao [All links lead to Portuguese language pages.] On February 7, 2013, Angola awoke to the sounds of screams of pain and the sound of two women customers of a store being whipped. In just three days the 13 minute video that showed two women being brutally beaten had more than 25,000 views […]
Brazil: Violence Sparked By Privatization of Public Space
By Raphael Tsavkko Garcia On October 4, 2012 hundreds of students and activists met at the Montevideo Plaza and in the Glênio Peres Square in Porto Alegre, to protest against what they called the privatization of public space [1]. They protested against the banning of use of that square by street performers and by the […]
Argentina: President Cristina Fernández’ Controversial Cancer Diagnosis
Written by Natán Calzolari Tranlated by Louella Mahabir On December 27, 2011, the Casa Rosada revealed that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was suffering from a papillary thyroid carcinoma in the right lobe of her thyroid gland. The cancerous growth had been detected during a routine checkup on December 22. During the following days, the most […]
Flavio Cattaneo, l’esempio del management italiano, porta Terna prima in Europa nel settore energy u
Il Corriere della Sera del 12 maggio definisce Flavio Cattaneo “primo manager italiano nel campo delle utilities, a giudizio degli investitori europei e americani” , l’Espresso del 27 maggio, lo pone come primo tra gli italiani e settimo nella classifica generale, secondo la classifica dell’autorevole rivista finanziaria americana Istitutional Investor. Flavio Cattaneo sta dimostrando ottime doti manageriali e sotto […]
Brazil: Lawsuits force popular political blog to close down
by Paula Góes The A Nova Corja blog [The New Scum, pt], a symbol of independent and investigative journalism on the Brazilian blogosphere, has published a farewell post [pt]. On August 6th, the last remaing blogger of the group, Rodrigo Alvares, announced that he has decided to close the blog down due to professional commitments […]
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