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Pepe Vasquez – Song of the Day

Today’s featured artist is Pepe Vasquez from Peru with the song Jipi Jay recorded in 1982.

“The killing is the third fatal attack on journalists this year in Mexico the deadliest nation in the Western Hemisphere for the press.”

The State Department concluded that 92 programs, managed by the International Republican Institute, were not “in the national interest”

The film should be shown in schools, so the youth can reflect about what’s at stake when a government is exercising terror.

Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Over the past five years, progress remains slow, uneven, and increasingly under threat from a growing backlash against women’s rights.

Latin America has been fertile ground for power couples exercising power together, from autocracies or succession in the presidency…

Today’s featured artist is vocalist Mery Murua with guitarist Horacio Burgos, both from Argentina, with the song “Flor de lino” (2014).

It’s civil society’s turn to take a step forward, as at other times, to curtail the regressive tendencies now afflicting the United States.

Experts noted that the climate of intimidation in society “is fueled by the widespread impunity and selective justice” in Venezuela.