"PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: A PUZZLE AT THE HEART OF CHINESE POLITICS" - John Keane

The notion of a globally menacing ‘authoritarian China’ is too simplistic. Dig deeper, and you will find signs of local democratic experiments, thanks to its skittish rulers afraid of losing control

"JAIR BOLSONARO IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL. READ HIS EXTREMIST, FAR-RIGHT POSITIONS IN HIS OWN WORDS." - Andrew Fishman

JAIR BOLSONARO WAS elected president of Brazil on Sunday evening. The far-right candidate received more than 55 percent of valid votes. His opponent, Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party, received less than 45 percent. In a country with compulsory voting, almost 29 percent of adults preferred to annul or not cast their ballot.

"O que prevê para o Brasil professor de Oxford que enxergou força política de Bolsonaro já em 2016"

A jornalista da BBC News Brasil Nathalia Passarinho entrevista o professor de ciência política da Universidade de Oxford, Timothy J. Power, especialista em Brasil e diretor da Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Power estuda o Brasil há mais de 30 anos e é autor de dezenas de livros e artigos sobre o sistema político brasileiro, entre os quais Democratic Brazil Divided (Brasil democrático e dividido) e The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil (A Direita Política no Período Pós-autoritário Brasileiro).

"Dark Times Are Coming for My Country" - Caetano Veloso

In the late 1960s, the military dictatorship in Brazil arrested and imprisoned many artists and intellectuals for their political beliefs. I was one of them. The militarists are back.

"Are we ready to face it? Marielle’s execution and its perverse consequences" - Manoela Miklos and Heloisa Griggs

Today we complete three weeks without Marielle and Anderson. Are we ready to follow the light that Marielle will always represent?

"Nicolás Maduro suma al menos 726 muertos en su balance como dictador" - Antonio José Chinchetru

El dictador venezolano se ha ganado a pulso un lugar entre los autócratas más sanguinarios de América Latina. La represión de Nicolás Maduro se ha cobrado al menos la vida de 726 personas en apenas cinco años. Los siete fallecidos en la masacre de El Junquito, incluyendo el expolicía Óscar Pérez, son las últimas víctimas de un régimen que demuestra a diario que su lema de ‘Socialismo o muerte’ es en realidad ‘Socialismo y muerte’.

Edmundo Pedro - a minha homenagem a um jovem lutador

Tive o privilégio de ser amiga de Edmundo Pedro. Uma amizade tardia que me levou a  conhecê-lo só há cerca de 15 anos. Mas amiga. Porque o Edmundo era amigo. Independentemente das divergências políticas que possam ter havido, o Edmundo era um homem de qualidade. Tinha a mente de um jovem. E era um jovem no verdadeiramente sentido da palavra. E era um democrata que valorizava as ideias dos outros, que partia para o novo como o tal jovem que era. Um lutador.

Vou sentir a sua falta.

"North Korea’s prisons are as bad as Nazi camps, says judge who survived Auschwitz"

North Korea’s political prisons are just as bad as — and perhaps even worse than — the Nazi concentration camps of the Holocaust, a renowned judge and Auschwitz survivor has concluded after hearing from former North Korean prisoners and guards.

11 de setembro de 1973 - O último discurso de Salvador Allende

Liberty in North Korea

North Korea - World report 2017 Human Rights Watch

North Korea remains one of the most repressive authoritarian states in the world, ruled for seven decades by the Kim family and the Worker’s Party of Korea. During his fifth year in power, Kim Jong-Un continued to generate fearful obedience by using public executions, arbitrary detention, and forced labor; tightening travel restrictions to prevent North Koreans from escaping and seeking refuge overseas; and systematically persecuting those with religious contacts inside and outside the country.

"A Life Lived in Truth" - Ma Jian

Novelist Ma Jian, himself barred from returning to his native China, examines the work and legacy of his friend and fellow dissident, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.

For the last eight years of Liu Xiaobo’s life, the Chinese authorities robbed him of his liberty and his dignity. But in the state-enforced silence surrounding Liu’s stage-managed death, the words of his Nobel Prize lecture ring out even louder: “Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.”

"Os pais mataram e torturaram, eles querem sarar"

Na Argentina, onde a ditadura militar dos anos 70 e 80 ainda é tema de amplo debate, um novo grupo levantou a voz. São os filhos de antigos repressores a quebrarem o silêncio para “contribuir com a memória coletiva”. Reunidos sob o nome de “Historias Desobedientes”, eles escaparam também a um inferno pessoal.

Historias desobedientes

"Filipinos Flee Duterte’s Violent Drug Crackdown" - Aurora Almendral

Every morning before dawn, Rosario Perez checks to make sure her sons are still alive. The three brothers, all in their 20s, sleep at the houses of friends and relatives, moving regularly, hoping that whoever may have been assigned to kill them won’t catch up with them.

"Miseria, hambre, abusos y una enorme frustración, el rostro de la crisis en Venezuela" - Daniel Vittar

El salario básico suma 10 dólares. Y se necesitan 19 sueldos cada mes para pagar lo mínimo. Eso tampoco es posible por el desabastecimiento y la hiperinflación.

"Why 2017 is the year Sisi will sink" - Amr Khalifa

Having crushed all his opponents and muzzled the media, Sisi has no one else to blame for the misery he has brought to Egyptians.

"Defectors lift curtain on North Korea’s information blackout"

"Turkey: media purge intensifies in coup attempt’s wake"

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the growing persecution of critical media in the week since the 15 July coup attempt in Turkey. With the government’s response seeming more and more like a witchhunt, journalists have been subjected to arrests, seizures of entire newspaper issues and a menacing state of emergency.

"O verdadeiro golpe de Estado"

...Na madrugada de 16 de julho, os nossos colegas turcos membros de organizações internacionais de magistrados vieram, um por um, despedir-se de nós. Todos recebemos e-mails e mensagens desesperadas com relatos angustiados de quem acabara de deixar os filhos em casa de familiares e aguardava a chegada da polícia a qualquer momento. Um por um foram detidos, levados das suas casas e famílias. Questionaram quem os deteve sobre os motivos da detenção e as respostas obtidas foram acusações vagas e sem qualquer mínimo indício de prova, como a pertença a "organizações terroristas armadas"....

Obrigada à Joana Lopes

A verdade sobre Angola - um vídeo a não perder