Is There A Revolution Brewing In Puerto Rico?
"A tropical paradise is racked with bankruptcy then smashed by a killer hurricane. In rides a cavalry of digital evangelists selling hi-tech revolution. Will they save the day?"
Curiously, Cuba substitutes private property for communism in its new constitution
"The current draft omits a clause in the 1976 constitution on the ultimate aim of building a 'communist society', instead simply focusing on socialism. 'This does not mean we are renouncing our ideas,' Esteban Lazo, president of the National Assembly, was quoted as saying by state-run media. Cuba had simply moved into a different era following the fall of the Soviet Union, he added."
Venezuela Surpasses Weimar: Hyperinflation Expected To Hit 1,000,000% By Year End
"The IMF also expects the Venezuelan economy to contract 15% this year, leading to a cumulative GDP decline since 2013 of 50%. Venezuela's collapse, while contained, is so profound it is now holding back the rebound of the entire region: while Latin America is expected to grow 1.9% this year, the number would be 2.5% without Venezuela according to Bloomberg."
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else
"To Venezuelans such wisdom is essential, because when you are coping with hyperinflation, the long term is next week."
Ecuador To Hand Assange Over To U.K. What’s Next?
"Trump officials have vowed to prosecute Assange and destroy WikiLeaks. The central oddity of Assange’s case — that he has been effectively imprisoned for eight years despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime — is virtually certain to be prolonged once Ecuador hands him over to the U.K."
Three Other Presidents Targeted for Befriending Russia
"Being ousted from office by special counsel would really not be so bad given the other methods that the U.S. deep state has employed against presidents who have dared to befriend Russia."
Nicaraguan army overruns neighborhood controlled by protesters
"Protests against cuts to the social security system that began three months ago have since became a broader call for Ortega to leave office. Ortega's government has dismissed opponents as delinquents attempting a coup d'etat."
Captured And Enslaved? U.S. Says You Provide “Material Support” To Terrorists
"This terrible menace to national security 'was kidnapped by guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 and was coerced into undergoing weapons training and performing forced labor in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes.' Previously, the left-wing guerrillas 'forced [her] to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed.'"
At the Texas-Mexico border, her son begged not to be taken; they took him anyway.
"Watching as a U.S. government car pulled away with B in it, Valquiria, an evangelical Christian, did the only thing she could think to do. She looked skyward and asked God to protect her boy."
Amazonian psychedelic ayahuasca may ease severe depression, new study shows
"These two studies, while preliminary, contribute to a growing body of evidence that psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca, LSD and mushrooms can help people with difficult-to-treat depression."
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