Sabrina Fernandes returns to speak with the LMC on the internal fragmentation within the Brazilian Leftist movements that set the stage to last year’s coup against president Dilma Rousseff. You can learn more about her analysis at ppesydney.net/crisis-praxis-brazilian-left/
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Jan 13th 2017: Bolivia’s Water Wars
Does Bolivia’s current drought crisis and lack of accessible water setting the stage for a repeat of the 2000 Water War? Nasya Razavi tells us the latest on the new struggle for the right to water in Bolivia.
Jan 6th 2017: Environmental Rights Struggle In Ecuador
We start the new year by focusing on the struggle for environmental and indigenous rights in Ecuador. Freelance journalist Bryan Miranda speaks with us about the struggle for environmental justice by the indigenous Shuar community of Ecuador as they fight to prevent the development of a mining project on ancestral lands. We’ll also talk about a few similarities this case has with the Standing Rock struggle as well.