by Peter Speetjens | 23/11/2020 | Brazil
The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending worse than in 2019 — is “surreal” according to the country’s vice-president, Hamilton Mourão, who spoke during a web seminar on 27 August. Not flames and deforestation, but “development” is...
by Peter Speetjens | 23/11/2020 | Middle East, South America
Hezbollah militants backed by Iranian mullahs plotting alongside Venezuelan generals, Colombian revolutionaries and drug lords to first flood the US with cocaine and then launch the next 9/11 attack. It sounds like your typical Hollywood action flick, yet it stems...