Mallory.Perillo
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On September 16, 2017 Puerto Rico was hit by Maria, the island’s first Category 4 hurricane in over 80 years. One of the most destructive hurricanes to make...
This September, the trial began for the murder of former Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations in Hondoras (COPHINH) coordinator and 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Berta...
On September 6th, Brazil Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed during a campaign rally in Juiz de Foro. Following the attack, Bolsonaro lost a significant amount of blood and was...
During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly claimed that, if elected, he would end all of the United States’ “bad” trade deals and replace them with better ones. Trump voiced his...
Venezuela is currently fighting one of the worst cases of hyperinflation since the early 1900s and the International Monetary Fund predicts that the situation will only get worse. Due to a...
On August 4th, the Workers’ Party of Brazil nominated Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as their candidate for the country’s upcoming Presidential election. A former two-term President who served from...
For the first time since 1976, the Cuban government is drafting a new constitution. Earlier this year, long-time President Raul Castro stepped down and selected Miguel Díaz Canel to replace him,...
Over a decade ago, Tarana Burke founded the “Me Too” Movement to help provide resources and recovery aids to victims of sexual assault and harassment, particularly low-income women of color. The...
On June 14th, soccer players and representatives from thirty-two countries met in Russia for the 2018 World Cup. Leading up to the major event, concerns over the potential for racism in the host...
On May 21st, truck drivers in Brazil began a nation-wide strike that lasted for ten days. The interruption in shipping routes devastated major industries such as agriculture,...