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Nothing justifies crackdown on protests in Cuba, says FHC – 07/15/2021 – World
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For former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, nothing justifies the Cuban regime’s crackdown on popular acts perpetrated in the country since last weekend. It is also not plausible to “make the Americans feel guilty”, adds the toucan, referring to the representatives of the regime who point the finger at the participation of the United States in the articulation of the protests.
“Just as I have always been against the armed and economic pressures exerted against the Cuban regime, I am against the stifling of popular demonstrations,” FHC said in a statement sent by its foundation. “Democracy demands respect from those who protest, even when they disagree with what they want.”
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GDP per head between 2014 and 2016. Unemployment stayed high and hundreds of factories closed. In January Ford said it was leaving. For 5,000 employees and tens of thousands of indirect workers, including Mr Rabelo, whose firm did safety checks, the job loss was compounded by a sense that social mobility had stopped. The 24-year-old, who has trendy glasses and an Apple Watch, now drives for Uber, “like 800 others who got laid off and had the exact same idea”.
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Teachers union and pseudo-left embrace São Paulo government’s herd immunity policy
With São Paulo and all of Brazil facing the threat of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, right-wing Governor João Doria (PSDB-Brazilian Social Democracy Party) last week announced new measures to lift restrictions on nonessential services. Also planned this week are measures that increase the maximum number of students in classrooms.
Even in the face of this open policy to subordinate human lives to private profits, pseudo-left organizations and the São Paulo state teachers’ union, the APEOESP, have kept a complacent silence about the millionaire governor’s herd immunity policy.