Julian Cola is a translator (Brazilian-Portuguese to English). A former staff writer at the pan-Latin American news outlet, teleSUR, his articles and essays also appear in Africa is a Country, Black Agenda Report, Truthout, Counterpunch and elsewhere.
“在74岁的时候，我的心只有爱的空间，”卢拉在即兴舞台上对一群支持者说，并补充说，作为一个来自贫困、服务不足的东北地区的移民，“没有什么能打败我。”
RIO DE JANEIRO – Former Brazilian president, and frontrunner in the upcoming October 2022 presidential election, Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva is putting four of his one-time accusers of corruption and money laundering in the dock. The initial charges and inquiries — all 25 of them — were completely dismissed earlier this month. Lula’s legal battles
“作为利马集团的积极成员，马克里政府对委内瑞拉表现出干涉主义态度。” ——阿根廷国防部长豪尔赫·塔亚纳
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s Defense Minister Jorge Tayana and his Venezuelan counterpart, Minister of People's Power for Defense Vladimir Padrino López, have agreed to cooperate in pursuing their investigation of Puma, a series of military exercises conducted in Argentina in 2019 with the aim of invading Venezuela and overthrowing the government.
“他们说，在一个安静的夜晚，如果你用心听够久，就可以听到愤怒的黑人在美国各地猛烈地拽着他们的锁链。” ——来自《听着，兄弟！》罗伯特·F·威廉姆斯
Editor's Note | This article was published for a brief time on September 3, 2021. It was temporarily removed after a few individuals raised concerns over the use of the word negro in the article's headline in order to allow the author the opportunity to add context to his use of the word. The author requested the following explanation be shared:
主流媒体和西方媒体的庞然大物告诉我们，谁表达得足够，确实是世俗的，思想的和诚实的，足以满足国际新闻业的要求。
In October 2019, Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno announced a new round of austerity measures. As the cost of gasoline, diesel, transport and food skyrocketed in the wake of his announcement, the national strike quickly transformed into mass protests. I was in the heart of Ecuador’s capital, Quito, as riot police, tanks, untold amounts of tear gas,
西方大众媒体的报道仍在被雾化。它在叮咬中壮成长。耸人听闻。杂音。营养不良，其根源在于约瑟夫·戈培尔（Joseph Goebbels）在纳粹的宣传构造中。
All six children were dressed in pristine, finely pressed white clothes. Their hair was combed and styled. Aged between four and twelve, they had been assembled below by house aides. The stage was now set. Pedigree, ideological sacred cows, convictions as indefensible as the Oder River had set it. With or without cause, all final preparations were
过去，土著人的动员努力在过去被贴上了“野蛮人”的标签，如今与莫雷诺总统的“恐怖主义团体”和“犯罪团体”的工作息息相关。
QUITO, ECUADOR -- “We don’t have a state! We don’t have any state!” The lady’s voice projects through a loudspeaker amid the crowd. She’s not having it. Nor is the groundswell of hundreds, if not thousands who’ve converged at Plaza Grande trolley stop, just meters from Simon Bolivar’s statue at the entrance to Quito’s historic center. They’ve come
The burden of losing four consecutive elections turned Brazil’s elites inside out. They would resort to, as an efficient yet obvious mode of attack, all out lawfare, stirring their already agitated base along the way.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- “I don’t believe Brazil is made for change. Returning to my country, though I’d like to, is something that will take a long time, if it’s ever possible one day.” The date was July 22, 2013. The blighted hope, part of a letter written by Wagner dos Santos, a survivor of the Candelaria Massacre in central Rio de Janeiro. Twenty
