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Chile moves to decriminalize abortion

The BBC reports Chile moves towards legalising abortion in limited cases

Senators voted separately on each of the three cases in which women would be allowed to have an abortion:

  • The vote in favour of allowing abortion in cases in which the mother’s life is at risk was 20 in favour and 14 opposed
  • That of allowing a termination in cases where the foetus is unviable was 18 to 14

  • The closest result was for the vote on whether to allow abortions in cases of rape. Eighteen senators voted in favour and 16 against

According to the report, “Abortion in limited cases was legal in Chile until 1989, when it was completely banned under the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.”

 

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News from our hemisphere gone AWOL

When it comes to Latin America, one can only wish other “journalists” were in the same league as Mary O’Grady. They might even find a Russia Russia Russia angle – and a little China for measure. No wonder The Diplomad is as bored with it all as I am.

Read my post, News from our hemisphere gone AWOL.



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The beginner’s guide to Brazil corruption

The BBC has Brazil corruption scandals: All you need to know. It’s clearly not all you need to know, since not only are entire books being written on the subject, the Beeb forgot to mention that the Federal Police shut down the Lava Jato task force, for instance, and Odebrecht is almost a second thought.

But the article is OK as a beginner’s guide to Brazil corruption, the way comic books used to be an introduction to classic novels like, say, War and Peace.

I’ve been posting on Odebrecht and Lava Jato for years, but the extent of the corruption is such that by now it is safe to say that Brazil’s corruption is second to none.

If you can read Portuguese and have hours to spare, browse through O Globo’s Lava Jato section. It is an object lesson on the corruption big government brings about.

Cross-posted at WoW! Magazine.

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