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Rufo Chacon Describes Life Without Sight After Attack

Two weeks ago, Venezuelan student Rufo Chacon’s life permanently changed for the worse. For the offense of peaceful protest, cops fired 52 rubber bullets in his face, leaving him permanently blind. Now,…

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Disney Refuses to Let Grieving Father Engrave Spider-Man In Son’s Tombstone

Role models play a big part in developing our character, morals, and ethics. For millennia, we’ve idolized superheroes from a young age. Fast-forwarding to the present, the comic book industry…

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3 Reasons Not to Trust Libra, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency

Facebook is currently creating its own cryptocurrency, Libra. But before deciding whether to use it, we should first look at the big picture and think carefully why the Silicon Valley…

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Rufo Chacon, Child Blinded by Maduro’s Army, Now Suicidal

On the afternoon of July 1st, Rufo Chacon, a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy, was participating in a protest against Nicolas Maduro’s dictatorship. He ended up blind after policemen fired rubber bullets that hit…

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Ransomware Attacks Servers in Lake City, Florida

Mayor Stephen Witt will be forced to pay a ransom of $460K after hackers locked Lake City’s servers. Since then, the local community and politicians have been unable to access…

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Pope Francis is Right in Comparing Abortions to Hitmen

Pope Francis has recently come out against the practice of abortion due to the heated debate that has been sparked in the United States. Francis compared the practice to the hiring of…

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California HS Deems George Washington Mural Offensive to Minorities

Students at a San Francisco High School want to remove George Washington paintings from their hallways, claiming that they are cultural vestiges of America’s racist past. According to those in support of…

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Venezuelan Government Accused of Human Rights Violations

On Tuesday, May 14th Amnesty International requested the International Criminal Court to investigate Venezuela’s government for causing a series of “crimes against humanity”. During a report presented in Mexico, Erika Guevara,…

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Venezuelan General Speaks Against Maduro’s Regime

Ramon Rangel, a Venezuelan Air Force General, has asked military officers to “rise up”. In a YouTube video uploaded over the weekend, Rangel expressed his concerns of Venezuela permanently becoming a communist dictatorship controlled by Maduro’s…

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Bolsonaro Accepts Venezuelan Soldiers Fleeing Country

In Venezuela, self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó is failing to ignite a military revolution. As a result, 25 Venezuelan soldiers who side with him fled. They now seek asylum in the Brazilian Embassy in Caracas.…

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