What happens in Brasil also has a significant geopolitical and world economical consequence. The question is whether the government of Luiz Inacio Silva ("Lula"), who became president in 2002 as the candidate of the leftist Party of Workers will be able to uphold its policies against the neoliberal forces. 

By searching for the reasons behind the African military coups and coup attempts, the author comes to the conclusion that the unsuccessful adaptation to the new world order is the responsibility of both the multinationals and the Africans themselves. The result is poverty and destabilisation. 

Overwhelming majority of the member states of the UN denounces the embargo of the US against Cuba. The arbitrary austerity measures equal to an undeclared war, the economic and social effects of which are unbearable for the people of Cuba.