Military dictatorship in Brazil
Disappeared Brazilian MP who investigated the US-funded coup plot is the subject of Oscar-nominated “I’m Still Here”

Killed by the dictatorship, the federal deputy led a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry that investigated US financing.

India faces water shortages, power cuts amid record temperatures and other stories

Today we look at a record-breaking heat wave across India and Pakistan, renewed attacks by Israeli forces on the Al Aqsa mosque, and more

Brazilian liberation theologist Dom Pedro Casaldáliga passes away

Dom Pedro Casaldáliga Plá was renowned for his defense of the rights of indigenous people and the poor

100 years of Florestan Fernandes, a theoretician who served the working class

The sociologist who took his class origins to the pages, saw revolution as essential for the transformation of Brazil

Dilma Rousseff: “Torture is about pain and death. They want you to lose your dignity”

Brazil’s ex-president on memory, camaraderie, resistance, and politics 50 years after her political incarceration