Even without having Portuguese nationality, Geizy Fernandes, originally from Divinópolis (MG), has already voted in several elections in Portugal, in addition to having been a candidate in the official elections twice. If she is chosen in the primaries of her party, she will run in the next municipal elections in Lisbon, scheduled in six months. … Read more
Protesters in balaclavas and black robes clashed with police in Paris on Saturday (1), as thousands joined in traditional May Day protests across France to demand economic and social justice and express their opposition to government plans to change unemployment insurance benefits. Police arrested 46 people in the capital, where garbage cans were set on … Read more
The tension and an exchange of attacks set the tone for the first debate of the presidential runoff in Peru. After disagreements over the rules and location of the event, the two candidates agreed that it would take place in the Plaza de Armas de Chota, a town in the department of Cajamarca which is … Read more
Portugal has decided to extend restrictions on non-essential flights from countries like Brazil with high coronavirus incidence rates until May 16, and added India to the list due to the rapid increase in infections in this country. Read more (01/05/2021 – 5:14 pm)
From April 16 to 19, the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held at the Palace of Conventions in Havana. The quinquennial meeting – not always held – of the island’s most powerful body to review the country’s leadership and elect new members to the Political Bureau and the Party Central … Read more
“So, have you ever received the vaccine?” The question, a friendly greeting to Betty Smith, the pastor’s wife, hung as the four women sat down for their usual Tuesday coffee chat at Ingle Market.Betty hesitated, feeling a cold judgmental tone from a friend who is against the vaccine and who was wearing a mask. She … Read more
In 1871, Buenos Aires experienced a serious health crisis. Struck by yellow fever, the Argentine capital saw the only two cemeteries in the city at the time overflowing at the very start of the epidemic. Faced with death figures rising to 700 a day, authorities saw no other solution than to hastily open a new … Read more
About a month after resigning from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo published on Saturday (1st) in his social network a sequence of posts in a critical tone to the government of President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party). “A popular, daring and visionary government has turned into a technocratic administration without soul … Read more
BBC News Brazil A team of Polish scientists claim to have discovered the only known specimen of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian mummy. The discovery was made by researchers from the Warsaw Mummy Project and published on Thursday (29) in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Launched in 2015, the project uses technology to study artifacts stored … Read more
It is always a pleasure when research succeeds in deconstructing the simple portraits of the evolution of living things that still dominate people’s minds. According to these schematic and incorrect views, it is as if organisms are always “in search of progress”; Every detail of anatomy and behavior would play a clear and specific role … Read more