100,000 women marched to Brazil's National Congress as part of the 7th Marcha das Margaridas (March of Daisies).

The march took place in Brasilia on August 15 and 16 is organized every 4 years by the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (Contag), and supported by dozens of Brazil's trade unions and social movements.

🇳🇪 Niger’s popular military government, #CNSP, consolidates domestic and regional support, while #ECOWAS, backed by #France & #US, is beset by disunity and domestic opposition after threatening to invade #Niger to restore ousted #Bazoum as the president.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/17/african-union-will-not-back-ecowas-intervention-in-niger/

🇪🇨 Amid Ecuador’s political, institutional, and security crisis, Guillermo Lasso has been attempting to use his power to rule by decree, that he gained by dissolving the parliament and activating the cross-death mechanism in May, to advance laws that would favor business sectors in the country and in some cases threaten hard fought for rights of the people.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/16/for-the-lasso-government-the-economic-interests-of-private-mining-companies-are-above-the-decisions-of-the-constitutional-court/

Don't miss our next episode of Give The People What They Want!

Vijay Prashad, Zoe Alexandra and Prasanth R will bring you the most important developments from the past week.
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🇧🇷 João Pedro Stedile, of the MST's national board, was questioned by right-wing lawmakers for 7 hours on Wednesday August 15. Despite their efforts to catch the leader off guard and tire him out through hours of questioning and accusations, the testimony of Stedile ranged from explanations of Marxism, a defense of the organizational structure and vision of the MST, and a deep criticism not only of capitalism and agribusiness, but also of how the deputies carried out the work of the commission.

He was testifying before a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI), created by right-wing legislators to investigate one of the largest grassroots movements of Latin America.

“Among the organizational principles, everything has to be collective. Everything has to be in the form of a committee because it is the collective that protects [us] from the opportunism of false leaders. Don’t adopt this terminology of ‘president’, ‘treasurer’, ‘secretary’. The organizing principles are universal. They apply to the workers’ movement and they apply to Kim’s movement. I hope he’s taking notes. Any popular social movement has to adopt these principles,” Stedile explained in what many have deemed a master class on popular organization, provoking laughter from the audience.

For many in Brazil the investigative process has come to be known popularly as the “CPI Circus against the MST”.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/17/mst-founder-joao-pedro-stedile-faces-off-against-right-wing-in-congress/

🇦🇷 In this article written by the Editorial Collective of Revista Crisis after the primary elections in Argentina where far-right candidate Javier Milei won.

"The Primaries end up being the opportunity for the deep malaise that accumulates in society to express itself with all its corrosive force and in a surprising way."

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/19/the-people-are-fed-up-with-the-center-post-elections-analysis-from-argentina/

Polls have closed in #Ecuador with about 82.26% participation. The local electoral authorities have announced that official results will start to be released within the hour.

Earlier in the day, Ecuadorians abroad had registered complaints about problems while voting and long waiting times.

Ecuadorians went to the polls today in historic early elections. Preliminary results are being released by the National Electoral Council. Here is the latest update.

With 97.5% of the votes counted, the centrist Cesar Bernardo Arevalo de Leon of the Movimiento Semilla won the elections in Guatemala with 58.7% of the votes. The historic Arevalo win in Guatemala comes after several irregularities in the electoral process.

It's official, Ecuadoreans will have to go to the polls for a second round of elections. People must choose between Daniel Noboa from the National Democratic Alliance and Luisa Gonzalez of the Citizens Revolution movement.