Comparative Politics

Facebook is under tremendous backlash from whistle blower Frances Haugens, especially as the longest global blackout for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp occurs.

Unfortunately, the whistleblower leak confirms what most people already suspected. I know there's been hearings on this subject on Capitol Hill, but I wonder if any policies will result from that. For a comparative politics questions, I wonder what data privacy laws and regulation on the actions of technology companies like Facebook are like.

Country Profiles

For CoPo Climate Round Table

Interview with Joseph Stiglitz, famous and well-respoected economist

By Adewale Maye * May 2019

This has been an ongoing event for Native families across America. Children as little as two have been reported missing. And there's been no further progress into their investigations.

Learned the term Missing White Woman Syndrome years ago, and, as the article mentioned, the contrast between the attention Gabby Petito was given as opposed to the thousands of MMIW is heartbreaking. It's a similar case in Canada, as well, where the Indigenous population is greater. I wonder what it will take for the country to invest more, not only into finding these missing women, but also into Indigenous communities at all. They were also hit hard by the pandemic, as well.

Doesn't Venezuela already have tons of oil?

Venezuela has some of the highest femicide rates in the world. On average a woman is killed every 23 hours in Venezuela. So when a 14 year old girl was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, her story sparked national outrage, and eventually global.

Like Venezuela, Mexico has extremely high femicide rate. In 2020 alone there were nearly 1,000 case reported and none had sought justice.

In the US, Women's Marches have the privilege of being peaceful with limited police presence. It's interesting to see the contrast in other countries, and reminds us that our feminism must be global

The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Oxfam, the Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA), and Cuban Americans for Engagement (CAFE) for a panel discussion about the impact of U.S. sanctions on Cuban women and vulnerable populations in the context of a global pandemic

Read this one first! Why? Because it takes a longer view, pre-1959.

"Cost"

Since Bolsonaro has take charge of Brazil, every aspect of political life has depleted into nothing. And many people comparing him to Donald Trump.

This article discusses how the Brazilian president is similar to Trump in his rejection of other governmental authorities and dictator-like actions, but these trends to authoritarianism began as early as the 1980s as the military gained political influence and far-right groups gained power in other countries.

Many Brazil senators wish to charge Bolsonaro with war crimes due to his lack of care for covid, making Brazil the country with the second highest death rates.

Brazil analysts for the first time estimated that the country's benchmark interest rate will end 2022 in the double digits.