Southern Cone
Argentina: peso falls as emerging markets weaken
The Argentine peso had its worst week since the 2001-2002 financial crisis, but analysts are divided on the reasons for the fall.
Tag: crisis of capitalism
Europe
Burgos and Gezi Square: contradiction?
Protesters in Burgos, Spain, defeated a redevelopment plan that included replacing traffic lanes with greenways—a contrast to the struggle to save Istanbul's Gezi Park.
Southeast Asia
Occupy Phnom Penh dispersed
Cambodian military police opened fire on striking garment factory workers, killing four, and then dispersed a protest encampment from a central square in Phnom Penh.
Europe
Ukraine, Thailand, Italy: hope and contradiction
In Ukraine, Thailand and Italy, riot police stood down and ceded control of urban space to protesters—yet the demonstrators in all three countries have problematic politics.
The Amazon
Brazil: teachers, indigenous hold mass protests
June's mass protests have ended, but Brazilians continue to demonstrate for education, decent pay, indigenous rights and an end to police repression.
Afghanistan
Pakistan stock market soars on terror wave
Over the past year of growing violence and chaos in Pakistan, the Karachi Stock Exchange surged more than 44%, placing it among the world’s top-performing stock markets.
Africa
Arab Revolution hits Sudan
Street clashes continued in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for a second day after massive protests broke out over the regime's move to cut fuel subsidies.
Greater Middle East
Did climate change spark Syria crisis?
A jet stream blockage related to climate change caused the Russian wheat crop to fail in 2010, halting exports to Syria and the Arab world, and fueling unrest and revolt.
Greater Middle East
Turkey: protest movement gets another martyr
A young protester was killed by police in Antakya, as demonstrations re-mobilize across Turkey—this time in response to a new highway development in Ankara.
Southern Cone
Brazil: 300 arrested in new round of protests
Thousands of Brazilians took to the street again to demand better schools, hospitals and social services, and to protest the vast sums expended on new sports stadiums.
The Andes
Colombia: strikes halt US coal giant Drummond
Indefinite strikes brought Drummond’s coal mining operations to a halt in Colombia, putting further pressure on the country’s economy amid a growing wave of labor actions.
Southern Cone
Brazil: unions respond to protests with general strike
The union movement held its first big general strike in three decades in a bid to bring labor demands to the spontaneous protest movement that swept Brazil in June.