Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Opposition to Boycott December Election The actual title of this article is mistaken (“US Backs Guaido-led Opposition in Election Boycott”) The US does not “back” or “support” Guido’s decisions. The US tells him what to do. The last paragraph makes this plain: “Representatives of Guaido and the Venezuelan government entered into negotiations brokered…
Redfish video: Hugo Chavez Speaks At The World Social Forum US War on Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: After 23 Years of Media Warfare Against Venezuela, the US Says it Will Start a Media War The genocide perpetretor Elliott Abrams (mastermind of massacres and attacks in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) was in charge of delivering this…
PeoplesDispatch: Coronavirus and Economic Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean will deepen in coming monthsThis area is emerging as the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The acceleration is driven by the easing of quarantine measures and the lifting of restrictions on economic activities. The governments have rushed workers to return to work without…
Nicaragua NicaNotes: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare New online book contents: Economic and Social Progress Continues The Amnesty Peace and Reconciliation in Nicaragua Uniting a Country and its People: 32 Years of Autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast The Natural Environment – Conservation, National Development and Climate Change Nicaraguan Women…
Cuba TeleSur: Black Lives Matter in Cuba It is precisely because of Cuba’s anti-racist and pro-worker policies that the U.S. government has labeled the country “a violator of human rights.” The Revolution’s Early Measures Against Racism; Solidarity with African-Americans; Cuba’s Contribution to African Liberation Movements; Socialist Health Care and Revolutionary Doctors. CubanNewsAgency (ACN): US blockade…
Venezuelanalysis: UK Court Denies Venezuela $1.13 billion in Gold, Says Guaido is President The High Court blocked the Venezuelan government’s effort to recover 31 tons of the nation’s gold held by the Bank of England. The court said it “unequivocally recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president,” rejecting the Maduro government’s right to repatriate the…
https://chicagoalbasolidarity.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/venezuela-alba-weekly-6-26-2020-trump-and-biden-on-maduro-boltons-venezuela-chapter-film-wasp-network-cuban-police/ Axios: Trump cold on Guaidó, would consider meeting Maduro Once again Trump showed he can be more sensible than the neo-con national security state ideologues in government. Trump suggested he’s had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with…
Speech by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during online conference of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) June 10: These hard times motivate us to continue working together, with more cooperation and consensus building “Every ship to which ports have been closed; every plane that has not found a landing strip;…
Cuba FAIR (Joe Emersberger): US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’ US government allegations that don’t stand up to minimal scrutiny is the opposite of caring about the working conditions of the doctors. But the sources US journalists usually rely on—the right-wing media in Venezuela, for example—have been doing that for…
PopularResistance: The Federal Charges against Four Embassy Protection Collective Members Dropped After a jury refused to convict them in early February, resulting in a mistrial, the prosecutors offered to drop the federal charge and substitute one of most minor local misdemeanor charges in the DC Code, incommoding, basically causing a disturbance. The protectors were facing…
