TRADE WAR
Trade war: Russia has risks and opportunities with Trump tariffs
Oil price worries Russian economy, but trade turbulence threatens US hegemony
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Month: April 2025
Police violence
Senegalese community in São Paulo protests over street vendor’s murder: ‘It wasn’t an accident’
At the end of the demonstration, parliamentarians were prevented from meeting the deputy mayor of the state of São Paulo
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REPRESSION
Protesters denounce ‘abduction’ of another Palestinian student activist by US immigration
The day after student Mohsen Mahdawi was taken by ICE, protesters rallied in NYC
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TRUMP'S TARIFFS
During Xi’s trip, China strengthens economic ties in Asia in trade war with US
"China will work with Malaysia... to combat the undercurrents of geopolitical and camp-based confrontation", wrote Xi
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Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty and other logic of production: the MST begins agroforestry work in South Venezuela
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement' project aims to expand the production to supply the Latin American country
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ELECTION IN ECUADOR
Ecuador’s inconclusive election: victory for Noboa or grotesque electoral fraud?
Noboa triumphed comfortably in a surprising second electoral round; Correa’s supporters demand a recount of the votes
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AGROECOLOGY
Mandala: the technique used by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Venezuela to produce faster and in smaller spaces
The Mandala model is a circular space used for planting different foods; at the center, protein production
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Dilemmas of Humanity
‘Economy is too important to be discussed only by economists,’ says MST leader at Dilemmas of Humanity
João Pedro Stedile, one of the founders of Brazil’s Landless Workers' Movement, participated at the closing event
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ELECTIONS IN ECUADOR
Ecuador’s far-right Noboa wins presidential run-off: ‘We are under an authoritarian regime disguised as legality’
Diego Borja, former vice-presidential candidate, accused the National Electoral Council of run-off’s irregularities
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ALTERNATIVES
Can the Global South get out of the US-dominated financial system?
At Dilemmas of Humanity, economists discussed different proposals for creating a new financial architecture
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