BRAZIL: A 9 year-old girl was raped and impregnated by her step-father and got an abortion. Disgusted by the abortion, the Catholic church excommunicated everyone involved except the rapist. However, the case has focused new attention on the sexual abuse of children in Brazil.

This story was barely covered in the US while the case was happening. There is an old Magellan post about it in reference to an El Tempo article. Now the story has made it to the New York Times.

New York Times article: Amid Abuse in Brazil, Abortion Debate Flares

BRAZIL: A Brazilian Archbishop accused the Jews of owning the worlds advertising and said that more Catholics than Jews died in the holocaust. The article is in Spanish, but if you can read it, it is very interesting. The Catholic Church is very powerful in Brazil.

El Tmpo article: Arzobispo brasileño acusa a judíos de ocultar hechos del Holocausto

About 1.7 million Cambodians were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime. Five of the top officials are going on trial after almost thirty years.

About 1/4 of the world’s natural resources are trapped beneath the arctic ice. Russia is laying claim to much of the land on the basis that the Siberian shelf extends beneath much of the Arctic. No one else has a scientific claim, but I think it’s funny when people say they have a scientific claim to land. To my knowledge, very few borders were drawn in the lab.

This video has Kyrgyz people with a variety of opinions on the corrupt government, and Kyrgyz’s hopes for fair upcoming elections.

Cartoon from the Times of India

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