BHP Billiton executives faced dissident shareholders at the company鈥檚 annual general meeting in Brisbane on November 17 over its responsibility for the Samarco tailings dam disaster in Brazil last year.
The protesters want Australia鈥檚 biggest company to compensate the victims. BHP jointly owns the iron ore mine with Brazilian mining giant, Vale.
Brazil鈥檚 constitutional affairs committee in the Senate approved the to create a 20-year ceiling for federal spending on November 9.
The committee voted 19-7 and approved PEC 55, previously called PEC 241, which was proposed by coup-imposed President Michel Temer in a bid to cut Brazil's budget deficit.
Brazilian high school students occupied聽schools across the country 鈥 mostly in the southern state of Parana 鈥 to protest against the聽聽and his administration's assault on public education in a wave of protests launched on October 3, said on October 9.
Riot police cracked down and fired tear gas on thousands of protesters in central Rio de Janeiro on October 17 as marches flooded the streets to reject unelected President Michel Temer鈥檚聽, which聽critics say will spell disaster in the cash-strapped country.
Protests triggered by public transport fare increases in 2013.
Less than two years after Workers鈥 Party (PT) candidate Dilma Rousseff was re-elected as Brazil鈥檚 president, she was removed from office by the Brazilian senate.
The Brazilian right, which controls the senate, carried out a constitutional coup. In the process, they revealed their contempt for democracy.
Oppose the coups in Latin America! Solidarity with the people of Venezuela and Brazil!
We, the undersigned, condemn the destabilisation plan underway in Venezuela against President Nicolas Maduro. We send our solidarity to President Maduro and the Venezuelan people who are resisting attempts by right-wing opposition forces to oust a democratically-elected government by violent means in violation of the democratic vote of the people and the country鈥檚 constitution.
MST leader says Brazilians must rise up
Joao Pedro Stedile is a founder and leader of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST). One of Latin America鈥檚 largest social movements, the MST fights for land reform and the rights of poor farmers.
Below, Stedile calls for resistance to the 鈥渋nstitutional coup鈥 in Brazil, in which elected Workers鈥 Party (PT) president Dilma Rousseff was removed by the Senate and Michel Temer installed on August 31.
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S茫o Paulo, September 7.
Brazil鈥檚 unelected president Michel Temer was greeted with shouts of 鈥淭emer Out鈥 on his first public appearance in Brazil since being installed in office on August 31.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on September 7 in more than a dozen cities for a national day of action dubbed the 鈥淐ry of the Excluded鈥.
Brazil's de facto president Michel Temer was sworn in on August 31, after the country's Senate voted to impeach suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
鈥淚 am absolutely convinced that history will talk of the Rio de Janeiro before the Games and the much better Rio de Janeiro after the Olympic Games,鈥 said Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee.
Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and the rest of the corporate sponsors of the August 5鈥21 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro won't be paying any taxes on the money they earn due to a tax exemption law that is set to cost Brazil hundreds of millions of dollars.