Photo by Glenn Halog/Flickr The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people last year. In comparison, there were 1,048 shooting fatalities
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Canadian Dimension: Brazil’s Lula remerges in a very different political world
Lula at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. Photo by John Pinel Donoghue. Brazil’s first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the man who held the presidency from 2003 to 2010, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Winning 48 percent of the vote
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Colombia, once a pro-US conservative bastion, turns left
The left wing candidates of the Pacto Histórico coalition ticket celebrate their win in Bogotá. Photo from Twitter. For the first time ever, Colombia has chosen new leadership that is not conservative. Voters in the third-most populous nation in Latin America narrowly elected the former mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro,
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