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Major protest of the world

Major protest of the world

Protests in Cuba

CUBA Protests Thousands of people in the small island nation of Cuba took to the streets on Sunday against the country’s communist government collapsing economy and the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and shortage of food and lack of some basic medicines Why’s the economy falling? Cuba's economy is struggling as Tourism, one of the most important sectors has been devastated by the restrictions on travel during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sugar, which is mostly exported, is another key earner for Cuba. However, 2021's harvest has been much worse than expected. The shortfall was to blame on a number of factors, including a lack…

13 July, 2021 Major protest of the world

Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion (XR) was launched in the United Kingdom in 2018, as a response to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that declared, We only have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change and We have entered the 6th mass extinction event. It is a global movement to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. It is a decentralised and politically non-partisan movement that uses, Non-violent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience.

19 February, 2021 Major protest of the world

Return of the socialists: On the victory of Evo Morales’s party in Bolivia

Return of the socialists: On the victory of Evo Morales’s party in Bolivia Context Preliminary results of Sunday’s Presidential election in Bolivia point to an emphatic victory for the former President Evo Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party almost a year after he was ousted by protesters and the military. Background: This is as much a victory for Mr. Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, as it is for Mr. Arce. Mr. Morales left the country, first for Mexico and then for Argentina, after the Generals asked him to stand down in November 2019. Since then, Jeanine Añez, a right-wing conservative…

22 October, 2020 Major protest of the world

Curbs on large gatherings of people and World major protests & Moment

Curbs on large gatherings of people and World major protests & Moment Part of: GS-II- INTERNATIONAL Issue (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST) In India Protest movements in India against the implementation of the CAA and NRC appear to have been temporarily halted, due to the corona outbreak but still many countries the protest seems to reappear.   Hong Kong protest  The Umbrella Movement was a political movement that emerged during the Hong Kong democracy protests of 2014. Its name arose from the use of umbrellas as a tool for passive resistance to the Hong Kong Police’s use of pepper spray to disperse the crowd during a 79-day occupation of the…

03 May, 2020 Major protest of the world

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