December 2021 Archives

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2021-12-31: News Headlines

Staff (2021-12-31). In Remembrance of Chuck Kaufman, Anti-Imperialist, International Solidarity Organizer. orinocotribune.com Tucson, AZ — It is with heavy heart that the news of the passing of longtime anti-imperialist organizer Chuck Kaufman reached communities on December 28. Born in a small Indiana town, Chuck's life saw travels to numerous countries, most notably in the Latin American countries most firmly in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism. | In 1987, as Reagan's illegal Contra War against Nicaragua ravaged the country in an attempt to kill the successful Sandinista Revolution, Chuck answered the call for solidarity. He gave up his advertising business and joined thousands of other U.S. solidarity activists to help in the…

teleSUR (2021-12-31). Central America Celebrates New Year's Eve With Few Restrictions. telesurenglish.net Central America will dismiss the year 2021 without major COVID-19 restrictions, although health authorities have asked the population to maintain biosecurity measures and avoid crowds. | RELATED: | COVID-19 vaccination is advancing in the region, with Costa Rica and Panama leading the way, with 90 percent and 81 percent of the population with the complete scheme, respectively. | Without large mass events and with some capacity restrictions, Costa…

teleSUR (2021-12-31). Bahia Governor Accepts Argentine Aid Rejected By Bolsonaro. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Bahia Governor Rui Costa announced that he will accept Argentina's humanitarian aid in order to respond to the emergency caused by the rains and floods. | RELATED: | In a message posted on social networks, he stressed that his subnational government will accept assistance from any country regardless of what federal diplomacy does or says. | Since the beginning of December, the Brazilian northeast has been ex…

teleSUR (2021-12-31). House Panel Asks Judges To Deny Trump's Bid To Shield Records. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot asked the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump's bid to block the release of his White House's records requested in the ongoing probe. | RELATED: | Lawyers for the select committee in a brief filed with the high court argued against Trump's claim of executive privilege over a trove of records that the panel considered to be…

Fight Back (2021-12-31). 63rd Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution: Socialism is superior to capitalism! fightbacknews.org For over six decades the Cuban people created a system that provides free universal health care, free public education from kindergarten through university, and housing to people at around 10% of their income. That system is socialism. Despite six decades of U.S. invasion attempts, blockades, embargos, assassination attempts, sanctions and demonization, the achievement record of the socialist mode of production in Cuba speaks for itself. As Mao said, "The fundamental cause of the development of a thing is not external but internal." So, we must look at what has been happening inside Cuba to account of the success…

Victorio Paulón (2021-12-31). Argentina — La gran apuesta de Juntos: Dividir el peronismo. globalizacion.ca Por primera vez en mucho tiempo el poder concentrado dominante de nuestro país parece apostar a la democracia y pretende construir una mayoría sólida que le permita gobernar por décadas. La cooptación de algunos dirigentes en el pasado reciente le…

Editor (2021-12-31). China Sends Bolivia 3 Million COVID-19 Vaccines. mronline.org Bolivia has received three million Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines from China, the largest delivery of vaccines to arrive in Bolivia from the Asian superpower.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-31). Venezuelan Parliament Approves Supreme Court's Organic Law Reform. orinocotribune.com With the goal of consolidating the Venezuelan judicial system as an instrument at the service of the people, in its first discussion of the issue the National Assembly approved the partial reform project of the Organic Law of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), a proposal presented on December 22 by the president of the TSJ, Maikel Moreno. | During the session that took place this Thursday, December 30, in the last legislative meeting of 2021, the President of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, led the debate from which the approval by a qualified majority emerged. | In recent weeks, members of the Venezuelan Parliamen…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Afghan Victim of US Airstrikes Demands Justice For His Beloveds. telesurenglish.net "The bodies of men, women and children were lying in blood and the crying of the injured was heard from every corner of the house," said 73-year-old Afghan man Din Mohammad. | RELATED: | Mohammad is recalling the terrible night 10 years ago when the U.S. military launched airstrikes on his hometown of Lakani in Panjwayi district of south Afghanistan's Kandahar province, killing 63 villagers and injuring scores othe…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Biden, Putin Hold Phone Call Amid Rising Tension Over Ukraine. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin via phone on Thursday amid heightened tensions over Ukraine. | RELATED: | Biden urged Russia to "de-escalate tensions with Ukraine" and he made clear that the United States and its allies and partners will "respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine," according to a statement by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the phone call.

_____ (2021-12-30). In Remembrance Of Chuck Kaufman. popularresistance.org Tucson, AZ – It is with heavy heart that the news of the passing of longtime anti-imperialist organizer Chuck Kaufman reached communities on December 28. Born in a small Indiana town, Chuck's life saw travels to numerous countries, most notably in the Latin American countries most firmly in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism. | In 1987, as Reagan's illegal Contra War against Nicaragua ravaged the country in an attempt to kill the successful Sandinista Revolution, Chuck answered the call for solidarity. He gave up his advertising business and joined thousands of other U.S. solidarity activists to help in the coffe…

Staff (2021-12-30). Venezuela Mourns Death of US Activist Chuck Kaufman. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, December 29, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, mourned the death of US activist and organizer Chuck Kaufman, who consistently supported social movements in Latin American countries. Kaufman's involvement in solidarity actions spanned several decades, first focused on Central America and Nicaragua, and later expanded to include activism for Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, and many other Latin American countries. | "We express our deepest sadness at the tragic passing of Chuck Kaufman," wrote Plasencia through his Twitter account, "a US activist, defender of…

WSWS (2021-12-30). Australian medical specialist speaks out about escalating COVID crisis. wsws.org "There's going to be misery and suffering and death that is totally unnecessary. The policies our governments are taking will cause much, much further death."

teleSUR (2021-12-30). AMLO Augurates A Better 2022 For All Mexicans. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) listed his wishes for 2022, expressing his confidence that next year will be better than 2021. | RELATED: | "This year was better for us than the previous one. And next year will be even better. I have faith in the future. And we must not lose hope," he said during his daily conference held at the National Palace. | "I wish the pandemic to end so t…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Rep. MTG Proposes "National Divorce" of Blue and Red States. telesurenglish.net Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Republican Representative in the U.S., called for the separation of the Red and Blues parties via Twitter, calling it a "National Divorce." The states that support the Republican Party are considered Red. The ones who vote for the Democratic Party are called Blue; Tylor-Greene proposes the separation by political affiliation. | RELATED: | Answering a tweet posted by a man moving from Miami from San Francisco Ba…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). China and Russia To Cooperate Against US Domination. telesurenglish.net Beijing's representative in Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, considers that Russia-China cooperation must exist to fight the pressure established by U.S. hegemony. | RELATED: | The U.S. government is imposing pressure on China and Russia at every turn. On Thursday, Beijing's ambassador to Russia declared that the two nations must continue to cooperate to face all the pressure imposed on all fronts. | Hanhui said on Thursday t…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). "Good Progress" in Sanctions Removal Says Iran's Top Negotiator. telesurenglish.net Iran's top negotiator in the Vienna talks on the restoration of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal said on Thursday that negotiations have made "good progress" in the removal of U.S. sanctions over the past few days. | Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2021 shows a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria.

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Bolsonaro Shows Contempt for Human Life: Bahia Governor Says. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro rejected the humanitarian relief offered by Argentina for the cities affected by the rains and floods in the state of Bahia. | RELATED: | Through a press release, the Foreign Affairs Ministry affirmed that the federal government has sufficient resources to address the problems caused by the ongoing natural disaster. | Nevertheless, it also admitted that "in case of an aggravation of the situ…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). China to Defend Fairness and Justice in Multilateral Arena. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi said that China would pull together with most countries to defend fairness and justice and do the right thing for humanity. | RELATED: | He made these remarks when asked to talk about the situation that the United States and its allies are seeking to spread Western values and stoke ideology-driven divisions, and there were lots of encounters between various different fo…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Argentine Government Headquarters on Alert Due to Bomb Threat. telesurenglish.net At noon on Thursday, a phone call alerted about the placing of a bomb at the government headquarters of President Alberto Fernandez. After a thorough review of the Pink House, however, the threat was dismissed. | RELATED: | While the security forces surrounded the building with dogs to detect explosives, the Buenos Aires City Police and the Federal Police conducted the investigations inside the Pink House. | According…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Putin Exchanges Messages to Confirm Cooperation With Al-assad. telesurenglish.net Vladimir Putin, Russia's President and Bashar Al-Assad, Syria's President, held talks exchanging Christmas and New Year greetings. The discussions about bilateral cooperation in numerous fields were on the table, taking into account the fight against terrorism. | RELATED: | On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin sent his congratulations on the occasion of Christmas and New Year to his homolog President Bashar Al-Assad.

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Cuba Remembers Revolutionary Heroine Haydee Santamaria. telesurenglish.net On Dec. 30, Cubans celebrate the birthday of Haydee Santamaria, a woman whose life was marked by episodes of intense revolutionary struggle. Among them is her participation in the assault on the Moncada Barracks, a milestone in the revolutionary war. | RELATED: | Santamaria was born in 1922 in Las Villas province, where she got involved with social causes from her early youth. Besides being editor of the undergrou…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Cuban Friendship Organization Calls for Tweet Campaign for Cuba. telesurenglish.net An essential issue of the campaign will be to continue demanding the end of the U.S. blockade of the Caribbean nation and the return of the territory illegally occupied by the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, in the eastern part of Cuba. | The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) remains committed to the truth, human feelings of friendship and the struggles of the peoples of the world on the path towards the integration of humanity.

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Sudanese Citizens Take to The Streets To Reject Military Rule. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, new mass protests started in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and other cities to demand civilian rule. | RELATED: | According to eyewitnesses, various protests headed to assemble at Sharwani bus station, to march to the Republican Palace. Hundreds of army soldiers have been deployed at the entrances to the bridges linking the three major cities of Khartoum, Omdurman, and Bahri, most parts of which were closed by the au…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Venezuelan Congress To Debate Reform To Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuela's National Assembly will debate a bill to reform the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ). | RELATED: | "In recent days, the TSJ President Maikel Moreno sent to the Commission for Dialogue and National Reconciliation a proposal for the reform of the Supreme Court law," National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said. | During the discussion of this proposal, the Venezuelan lawmakers will evalu…

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Abbas, Putin Discuss Israeli-Palestinian Disputes Over Phone. telesurenglish.net Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Israel's economic and security steps could not be an alternative to a political track. | Demonstrators continue a 'Justice for Palestine' protest, part of the 'Resist G7 Day of Action for International Justice', outside the Israeli Embassy in London, Britain, on June 12, 2021.

teleSUR (2021-12-30). Iran: Sending Rocket to Space While Nuclear Talks Are Held. telesurenglish.net Media reports say that while the talks are being held in Vienna to revive the nuclear deal, Iran launched the Simorgh rocket to space with three research devices. | RELATED: | According to the report, the exact time of the launch is unknown, neither what kind of devices were carried nor if any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth. | Ahmad Hosseini, the Iranian Defense ministry spokesman, stated that the "performance of the space center and th…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-30). Global Migration Indicators report summarizes 2020 for migrants across the world. peoplesdispatch.org The Global Migration Indicators report by the International Organization for Migration is here, with an update on how COVID-19 affected migration around the world. The report says more than 2,300 migrants died while trying to get into Europe or within Europe in 2020. While the pandemic restricted mobility and reduced international migration, still, there were two hundred and eighty-one million international migrants in the middle of 2020. That is close to four per cent of the world's population.

WSWS (2021-12-30). Morenoite Izquierda Diario criticizes lockdowns as COVID-19 surges in Spain. wsws.org The petty-bourgeois Morenoite organisation, affiliated to Argentina's Socialist Workers Party (PTS), is politically implicated in policies that have led to mass death.

Yanis Iqbal (2021-12-30). Left-Wing Victory in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal — Dec 25, 2021 | The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the

Staff (2021-12-30). Venezuela's National Assembly Passed Almost 40 New Laws in 2021. orinocotribune.com A total of 38 laws were passed by the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela since its installation on January 5. At all times, the national parliament acted in compliance with the 7+7 scheme and all biosafety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. | Since its passing of the Interior and Debate Regulations at the beginning of the year, the Legislative Power has gone on to pass numerous laws leading up to the draft law on the Commission for the Guarantee of Justice and Reparation of Victims of Crimes Against Human Rights, passed on December 15. | The laws passed were: | 1) Interior and Debate Regulations of the…

Editor (2021-12-30). Cuba eyes cooperation with China on clean energy. mronline.org Facing the challenges of an aging energy infrastructure, Cuba is looking to new energy sources with help from the Belt and Road Initiative to strengthen its power production capacity and move away from fossil fuels.

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2021-12-30: News Headlines

Yanis Iqbal (2021-12-30). Left-Wing Victory in Chile. orinocotribune.com By Yanis Iqbal — Dec 25, 2021 | The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the

_____ (2021-12-29). Chuck Kaufman: A Pillar Of Solidarity. popularresistance.org Chuck Kaufman, presente! A great comrade and friend to the peoples and just causes of Latin America and the Caribbean has passed on the torch. Chuck Kaufman died on Tuesday, December 28th, and is being remembered for the tremendous impact he made during his decades of anti-imperialist work, organizing to change US-Latin American foreign policy. | Chuck was known for his leadership among North American solidarity organizing with Latin American grassroots movements. It all began when he joined the staff of the Nicaragua Network in 1987, which in 1998 became the Alliance for Global Justice, for which he served as Na…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). A Soft Civic-Military Coup in Argentina? libya360.wordpress.com Germán Gorraiz López The Pacific Alliance was born in 2011 with Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia as founding States, the USA and China as observers and Australia and Canada as future associated States and currently represents 41% of Latin America's GDP and 57% of its foreign trade with a potential market of about 230 million…

Chris Walker (2021-12-29). Federal Judge Rejects Proud Boys' "Free Speech" Defense in January 6 Court Case. truthout.org A federal judge has dismissed an attempt by members of the Proud Boys to dismiss charges relating to their involvement in the breach of the United States Capitol building on January 6. | Four members of the far right organization — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Charles Donohoe —

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). Latin America: The Continent that Never Ceases to Amaze Us. libya360.wordpress.com Hussam AbdelKareem With such leaders that the continent of Marquez produces, the poor would not have to steal in order to feed the children. Latin America never ceases to amaze us. Its ability to "produce" "extraordinary" leaders continues across generations. Guevara and Castro are the most famous in the twentieth century, and before them, Simon…

Staff (2021-12-29). Poet Martín Espada on "Floaters," the Dehumanization of Refugees, Puerto Rico & His Father. democracynow.org Acclaimed poet Martín Espada recently won the National Book Award for Poetry for his anthology "Floaters." He became just the third Latinx poet to win the award. "Floaters" is titled after the photo of the Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande in June 2019 trying to cross into the United States, one that sparked outrage at the humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border. Espada discusses U.S. immigration policy and reads the poem "Letter to My Father: October 2017," which looks back at his father's native Puerto Rico.

Fight Back (2021-12-29). In remembrance of Chuck Kaufman, anti-imperialist, international solidarity organizer. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – It is with heavy heart that the news of the passing of longtime anti-imperialist organizer Chuck Kaufman reached communities on December 28. Born in a small Indiana town, Chuck's life saw travels to numerous countries, most notably in the Latin American countries most firmly in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism. | In 1987, as Reagan's illegal Contra War against Nicaragua ravaged the country in an attempt to kill the successful Sandinista Revolution, Chuck answered the call for solidarity. He gave up his advertising business and joined thousands of other U.S. solidarity activists to help in the coffe…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). Mexico Authorizes Emergency Use of Cuba's Abdala Vaccine. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Cuba's Abdala vaccine has been granted emergency use authorization by Mexico, which joins Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran, Vietnam and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in authorizing the use of Cuban-developed vaccines, produced by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) reports that "specialized personnel…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Mexicans Echo Gabriel Boric's Proposal on Solidarity Pensions. telesurenglish.net The Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric's proposal on the need to dismantle the private pension system found an echo in Mexico, a country whose citizens also suffer the consequences of individual capitalization of social security contributions. | RELATED: | The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Researcher Gustavo Leal explained that his country's Retirement Fund Administrators (AFORE) are very simila…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Mexico Authorizes Use of Cuban Vaccine Abdala Against COVID-19. telesurenglish.net The Cofepris "ruled that the authorization for emergency use of the Abdala vaccine, with the distinctive denomination: recombinant protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus receptor binding domain," the agency stated in a communiqué published on its web page. | RELATED: | It also states that the authorizations issued by this commission "are part of the National Health Regulation Strategy that allows reviewing and providing access…

teleSUR Desk (2021-12-29). Chaos, poverty and hunger — The U.S. legacy in Afghanistan. mronline.org The U.S.-led mission fled the Afghanistan front of their so-called "war on terror," leaving nothing but trash, extreme poverty and universal unemployment.

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Chile: Abortion Rights Enter Into the Constitutional Convention. telesurenglish.net This Wednesday, the popular initiative that establishes the right to free abortion in Chile, drafted by feminist organizations, achieved the necessary signatures to enter the debate in the Constitutional Convention. | The president-elect, Gabriel Boric (i), offers a press conference after his meeting with the president of the Constitutional Convention, Elisa Loncon…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Local Tourism Booms in Zimbabwe Despite COVID-19 Restrictions. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Zimbabwe's Environment, Climate, and Tourism Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu said that domestic tourism is booming in this African country despite restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Many hotels and lodges in the two major cities of Harare and Bulawayo, including some inland resort places, were fully booked with local tourists during this festive season. This will help operators to sustain their…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Switzerland: Sending Help for Food Crisis in Madagascar. telesurenglish.net It is estimated that at least half of all children, from 6 months to 5 years, suffer from the current food crisis in Madagascar. | RELATED: | The World Food Program has received an additional contribution for helping Madagascar with its current crisis. On average, a million people need emergency food assistance. | The troubles faced by the country have been exacerbated by the worst drought in 40 years, the armed conflict,…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Palestinian Prisoner On Hunger Strike Lost Speech And Vision. telesurenglish.net With his health seriously deteriorating, Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash spent 135 days on Wednesday on a hunger strike in protest against the administrative detention imposed by the Israeli authorities without specifying charges against him or allowing him to have a proper trial. | RELATED: | The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that Abu Hawash was transferred to a hospital due to his critical…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Globalink | Why Does Mega Trade Deal RCEP Matter?>. telesurenglish.net Why does the mega trade deal RCEP matter? What will the world's largest free trade deal signed by 15 Asia-Pacific countries bring to the regional and global economy? Find out what experts have to say. | Leaders attend the signing ceremony of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement after the fourth RCEP Summit, which is held via video link, Nov. 15, 2020.

teleSUR (2021-12-29). US CDC Investigates Cruise Ships for COVID-19 Outbreaks. telesurenglish.net A total of 88 vessels are under CDC's investigation or observation for COVID-19 outbreaks. Four other vessels are also being monitored by the CDC, according to the latest data on the CDC website. | RELATED: | CDC will follow up with cruise ships when an investigation is required as ships begin to sail with passengers on simulated or restricted voyages under the CDC's Temporary Extension & Modification of Framework for Conditional Sai…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Bolivia To Use Digital COVID Vaccination Card Starting in 2022. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Bolivia's Health Minister Jeyson Auza presented the new digital COVID-19 vaccination card that will be requested to carry out procedures or access public sites starting next January 1. | RELATED: | Auza indicated that the new certificate is connected to the database of the National Epidemiological Surveillance Registry. Therefore, citizens can generate the card by accessing the Health Ministry web page…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). EU: "Only Winners Can Make Demands" as Warning to Russia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, called the repeated claims of Russia on stopping NATO's eastwards expansion completely unacceptable. | RELATED: | In an interview for Welt, a German newspaper, Josep Borrell refers to the document released earlier this month by Moscow, in which it listed the promises it wants to get from NATO and the U.S. government. The proposal included guarantee…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Heavy Rains Cause Destruction In Northeast Brazil. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Governor of Bahia Rui Costa announced that the death toll due to the rains and floods in his state rose to 21. | RELATED: | The most recent victim is a 19-year-old man who drowned while trying to cross a strong stream in a flooded area of Ilheus City, according to a report from the Civil Defense. So far, some 470,000 people have been affected by the floods. Over 77,000 of them had…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Germany: Cabinet Confirms Moscow-Berlin Talks To Be Held. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Cabinet spokesman, Wolfgang Buechner, confirmed the willingness of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. His advisor Jens Ploetner plans to hold talks with Dmitry Kozak, Russian Deputy Administration head, to help release the tension on the Russia-West conflict. | RELATED: | "There are a number of talks ahead. The first is planned between the US and Russia in Geneva," he exposed, noting that the Russia-NATO Council may be con…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). 122,000 Unaccompanied Minor Migrants Arrived in The US in 2021. telesurenglish.net U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that 122,000 unaccompanied migrant minors arrived in the United States in FY 2021, a record number since 2019 when authorities registered the entry of 69,000 minors traveling without their parents. | RELATED: | This increase in the migratory flow implied an unprecedented challenge according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Department of Health and Human Services (…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Russia's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Ready to Pump Gas to Europe. telesurenglish.net Russia's Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline is ready for operation amid an energy crunch in Europe, Alexei Miller, the CEO of Russia's gas industry giant Gazprom, reported to President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Gazprom has completed filling the second string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with gas, and both strings with sufficient pressure are fully ready for use, Miller said. | "Now, of course, everything depends on our partners, consum…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Colombian Constitutional Court Condemns Expulsion of Migrants. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Plenary Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Colombia concluded that due process was not observed during the expulsion of 59 Venezuelan migrants that took place amid the 2019 national strike. | RELATED: | The sentence will be published in January 2022. In the press release, however, the Court indicates that the Colombian police arbitrarily deprived the migrants of their liberty. Subsequently,…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). MTG Attacks African American Festival Kwanzaa. telesurenglish.net Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on her latest foray into American culture that the African American Festival Kwanzaa was "a fake religion created by a psychopath," attacking the festival and people of a conservative political group who posted about it. | RELATED: | On December 26, the first day of the festival, the College Republicans official Twitter account sent a message for the festival participants: "Wishing you a h…

teleSUR (2021-12-29). Lifting US Sanctions Priority of Vienna Nuke Talks. telesurenglish.net Lifting sanctions should be a priority on the agenda of the ongoing talks over Iran's nuclear program since the Western parties have concluded that psychological operations against Iran are no longer viable, said Mohammad Qaderi, an Iranian international affairs expert. | RELATED: | Negotiators from Iran and the remaining parties to the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reconvened on Monday in A…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). Colombia: Duque's Neo-Nazi Security Law. libya360.wordpress.com Horacio Duque The Colombian Congress, the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of Defense have issued a Law of supposed citizen security. In reality, it is a statute to establish a series of provisions and institutions that reshape the political regime to fully establish a neo-Nazi dictatorship to crush social movements and political organizations…

_____ (2021-12-29). American Gulag: Inside The US' Massive Prison System. popularresistance.org For a supposedly developed, democratic nation, the United States locks up an extraordinary number of its citizens. Close to one quarter of the world's prison population is in the United States. Even on a per capita basis, only El Salvador and Turkmenistan come close to America's preponderance for incarceration. | In a country with a rising population and a falling demand for labor, the government decided to solve this problem by simply locking up millions of its poorest citizens, in the process allowing corporate America to make billions from their suffering. The prison industry is booming: between 1990 and 2005,…

Staff (2021-12-29). Headlines for December 29, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Coronavirus Infections Hit All-Time High, Omicron Drives Record Rates of Infection in Several European Countries, Taliban Fire Warning Shots at Dozens of Women Protesters in Kabul, U.N. Envoy Warns of Civilian Toll as Saudi-Led War on Yemen Escalates, Mahmoud Abbas Meets Israeli Defense Minister, Death Toll from Brazil Flooding Rises to 20, Kodiak, Alaska, Hits 67 ∞F as Climate Emergency Fuels Extreme December Weather, Climate Emergency Cost Global Economy Nearly $200 Billion in 2021, South African Court Halts Shell Oil's Offshore Oil Exploration Plans, Russia Shutters International Memorial, Which Chr…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). Leonardo Boff: "Lula Knows that the Ecological Question is Strategic and Fundamental" libya360.wordpress.com Brasil de Fato In an interview, Leonardo Boff talks about Lula, Bolsonaro, Pope Francis and the direction of society. Photo: Brasil de Fato The Brazilian theologian discusses the direction of society, the need to save the people and the planet, and Pope Francis Debates about the climate will be on the agenda of governments all…

Brasil de Fato (2021-12-29). 21 dead due to severe flooding in Bahia state of Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org The tragic floods in cities across the state of Bahia cost yet another life on Tuesday December 28 bringing the total number of dead to 21. Severe flooding has been registered in several cities in the state in the last few days, with the number of municipalities in a The latest confirmed death is of a 19-year-old girl who tried to cross flood waters in Ilhéus on Monday December 27 and drowned. This is the second death that occ…

Staff (2021-12-29). Chile: Boric Rejects Piñera Invitation to PROSUR Summit in Colombia. orinocotribune.com Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric has emphatically rejected outgoing President Sebastián Piñera's invitation to accompany him to the PROSUR summit to be held in Colombia. | "I have spoken with President Piñera and informed him that I have decided not to attend the summit in Colombia," Boric announced. "Our priorities are in the formation of transition teams here in Chile." | | On Monday, December 27, Boric and Piñera met at the Moneda Palace, the presidential residence. There, Piñera extended an invitation to P…

_____ (2021-12-29). Forced Displacements In Colombia Increase By Over 169% During 2021. popularresistance.org The Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), on December 22, warned of an alarming increase in massive and multiple forced displacement events in Colombia during 2021. The CODHES reported that between January and November, 2021, 82,846 people were forcibly displaced from their homes and territories, a figure that represents an increase of 169.3% as compared to the same period in 2020. The CODHES further reported that a total number of 167 displacement events were recorded in these eleven months, which represents an increase of 65.3% in relation to the same period in 2020. | CODHES also reported tha…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-29). Lima Cartel is Over: Peru Receives President Maduro's Ambassador. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News The so-called Lima Group has been officially buried and Peru has normalized relations with Venezuela. Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oscar Maúrtua de Romaña, received the credentials of Alexander Yánez Deleuze, which accredit him as the new Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Peru. El Ministro de Relaciones…

Staff (2021-12-29). Venezuela Booster Shot Campaign Begins Next Week. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Minister for Health Carlos Alvarado provided details about the National Plan for COVID-19 booster vaccination schedule starting next week, on Monday January 3. He reported that "more than 18 million vaccines are guaranteed." Likewise, he specified that as of the second quarter of the year Venezuela will be producing the Abdala vaccine domestically, via an agreement with Cuba, which "guarantees the booster vaccine in Venezuela for the year 2022." | The statements were issued during a briefing on the vaccination plan and the fight against COVID-19, led by President Nicolás Maduro and broadcast by public…

Staff (2021-12-29). Venezuela's Science and Technology Minister Jiménez: 'Vaccine Geopolitics Has Endangered Life'. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Minister for Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, stated that "if equity in the vaccination process was real, we would have a greater distribution of vaccines amongst the poorest and hence the most vulnerable nations. Vaccine geopolitics has endangered life, and this must not happen. In January we will start vaccinating with boosters to protect our people [from COVID-19]." | The minister made this comment at a COVID-19 vaccination report session led by President Nicolás Maduro. "The virus will continue its evolutionary and mutational course," Jiménez stated during the meeting. "However, there will…

Eva Barlett (2021-12-29). Your $1.7 Billion of Gold is Now Ours, UK Tells Starving Venezuelans. orinocotribune.com By Eva Bartlett — Dec 26, 2021 | In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure. | The recent decision, CNN

Editor (2021-12-29). Cuba seeks more equality and inclusion with the new Code of Families. mronline.org Roxanne Castellano, professor at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Havana, explained that this is a Code based on paradigms of non-discrimination that creates spaces for all, seeks solutions to conflicts, and is consistent with the conception of our socialist state of law and social justice.

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2021-12-29: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-29). American Gulag: Inside The U.S.' Massive Prison System. popularresistance.org Joining Lowkey to discuss how prisons became big business is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Balkans, and the Middle East for The New York Times and currently hosts the show On Contact on RT. His latest book, "Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison," was published in October.

Laura Carlsen (2021-12-29). Honduras: The End of the Nightmare? zcomm.org The election of the leftist Xiomara Castro as Honduras's first female president means a significant rupture with the country's recent right-wing — even fascist — past,…

Nehal Dadhich (2021-12-29). Gabriel Boric: The Face of New Generation Leadership. moderndiplomacy.eu Gabriel Boric's historic win symbolises the culmination of not only broader Chilean aspirations but also of its youth's long withstanding struggle that began in the 1980s, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Chilean student protests that advocated for university democracy during that period were a prelude to far more profound political changes that …

teleSUR (2021-12-28). This Is How Venezuela Celebrates the 'Holy Innocents Day'. telesurenglish.net On Dec. 28, Latin American peoples commemorate the "Holy Innocents Day," which recalls that baby Jesus escaped the massacre of children ordered by Herod I, the King of Judea. | RELATED: | Venezuelans celebrate these holidays by making jokes amid artistic expressions that melt symbols from various cultures. | In Sanare town, in the state of Lara, people say prayers and dance "Las Zaragozas," while musical groups play songs in Tamunangue rythm. In t…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Petroperu Returns to Oil Production After 25 Years. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Peru's President Pedro Castillo announced that Petroperu assumed the exploitation of the Block I field. This allowed this public company to return to producing oil after 25 years, in which it remained limited to fuel refining, distribution, and marketing. | RELATED: | Petroperu took over the operations of Block I for the next 22 months as the Peruvian State concluded a 30-year exploitation contract with…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Saint Vincent & The Grenadines To Use Cuba's Abdala Vaccine. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) became the first country in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to authorize the use of Abdala, a COVID-19 vaccine made in Cuba. | RELATED: | Previously, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves announced that Cuba had donated 300 Abdala doses to his country, which would be used immediately on teachers and other workers who are on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic. | "God and the Cuba…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Russia Will Block NATO's Expansion. telesurenglish.net According to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, for the next diplomatic meeting with Washington, Moscow has as its objective to completely stop any signal of eastwards expansion of the NATO military bloc. | RELATED: } | Sergey Ryabkov said to news agency Interfax that Russia would have a clear agenda for negotiations, making clear that the country would refuse any attempt coming from U.S. diplomats on dissolving…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). IACHR Admits Fernando Lugo's Case Due to Removal From Office. telesurenglish.net The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) declared admissible the case of the former president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo against the State, in the framework of an impeachment trial described as arbitrary and which lasted less than 24 hours in June 2012, after the Curuguaty massacre. | RELATED: | Now, the Commission will begin the analysis of the merits of the proposal made by the former president, who is currently a sen…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Israeli Missile Attack Targets Syrian Seaport. telesurenglish.net A fresh Israeli missile attack targeted the commercial seaport of Syria's coastal city of Latakia early Tuesday, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. | RELATED: | The Israelis fired their missiles from the Mediterranean against the commercial port of Latakia, hitting the container terminal and igniting a fire, SANA quoted a military statement as saying. | Some of the containers hit by Israeli missiles in Latakia port appeared to co…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). France: Ambassador Warns Switzerland About EU Negotiations. telesurenglish.net Frédéric Journès, the ambassador of France in Switzerland, stated in an interview with the Le Temps newspaper on Tuesday that the previous agreement rejected by the country last May would be back on the table for the next six months. | RELATED: | The negotiation was expected to be restored at the World Economic Forum (WEF), postponed for the following summer in 2022, given the fast spread of the Omicron variant…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). US-Backed Opposition Continues to Loot Venezuelan Assets. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Felix Plasencia accused the US-backed opposition of continuing with the looting of resources belonging to the Bolivarian people. | RELATED: | "Unscrupulous politicians, who are divorced from national interests, intend to continue with the shameless plundering of the resources of all Venezuelans. Justice will be imposed sooner rather than later and they will have to render accounts before our people," h…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Haitians Witness a Bloody Attack on Two Minibuses. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Haitian gangs fired at two minibuses, leaving at least five people dead and four citizens injured in Port-au-Prince. | RELATED: | The attack occurred in Martissant, an area from which some 20,000 people were displaced due to clashes between urban gangs. So far the causes of the attack are unknown. | "The minibuses were in Gran Sur and preparing to return to Port-au-Prince. The thugs demanded the drivers to sto…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). PM Mia Mottley Calls Snap Elections in Barbados. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Prime Minister Mia Mottley called for early elections for next January 19, in what will be the first elections of Barbados as a republic after cutting ties with the British monarchy. | RELATED: | In a speech given to the nation, Mottley shared that she had met earlier in the day with President Sandra Mason and had advised that Parliament be dissolved with immediate effect. The Prime Minister added that Mason had also been advised to issue writs for t…

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Iranian FM Says Vienna Talks on "Good Path" telesurenglish.net The Iranian foreign minister said on Tuesday that the talks in Vienna, Austria on the restoration of a 2015 nuclear deal are on a "good path." | The file photo taken on Oct. 27, 2021 shows Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (2nd L) speaking at the Second Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan's Neighboring Countries in Tehran, Iran.

teleSUR (2021-12-28). WHO Warns About the Fast Spreading of Omicron Strain. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the World Health Organization expressed its concern about the Omicron variant leading to a congestion in the healthcare system, as the countries reinforce their anti-COVID measures and France reaches a new record of daily cases. | The WHO express its concern about the fast spreading of the Omicron variant. Dec. 28, 2021.

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Beijing: Asks US To Take Protective Measures for Space Station. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Chinese government called on Washington to take action to protect its space station and taikonauts from the various satellites put into orbit by US defense contractor SpaceX, given the two separate near-collisions earlier this year. | Spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lijian Zhao, ask for Washington to take preventing measures in order to protect its space station. Dec. 28, 2021.

teleSUR (2021-12-28). Venezuela Aims To Be Free of Colombian Irregular Groups by 2022. telesurenglish.net "I set a big goal, but I know that you (the Armed Forces) will make it possible, 2022 must be the year in which Venezuela achieves a territory 100 percent free (…) of Colombian Armed Drug Trafficking Terrorists (Tancol)", said the President in statements to the state channel Venezolana de Televisión. | RELATED: | During the end of the year ceremony of the military forces, the President said that during 2021 the Venezuelan m…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-28). Guatemala: 25 Years of Peace Accords, 25 Years of Neoliberalism. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Mayan peasant women harvesting sesame seeds. OI In the Christmas atmosphere, and the day after the feast of the "Holy Innocents", the groups that took up arms in the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) and the Creole State of Guatemala, after 36 years of "internal war", signed the firm and lasting Peace Agreements….

_____ (2021-12-28). The Radical Legacy Of New York's Winter Rent Strike. popularresistance.org From 26 December 1907 to 9 January 1908, 10,000 tenants, predominantly Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living in New York City's Lower East Side, took part in a historic rent strike. During an economic depression causing mass unemployment and grinding poverty, landlords tried to hike rents by thirty-three percent. With their cry to 'fight the landlord as they had the Czar', the tenants won a partial victory, with rents significantly reduced for 2,000 households. The movement established a tradition of militant working-class housing campaigns that eventually contributed to winning vital rent controls that st…

_____ (2021-12-28). Labor Unions, Environmentalists, And Indigenous People Unite To Defeat Mining Interests In Argentina. popularresistance.org The people of the southern Argentinian province of Chubut are celebrating more than just the holidays this December. After a fierce struggle against a recently enacted zoning law that would have opened the province up to large-scale silver, copper, and lead mining by multinational corporations like Canadian Pan American Silver, the governor was ultimately forced to backtrack. The law in question, which was approved on December 15, was repealed last Tuesday, just five days later.

_____ (2021-12-28). Labor, Environmentalists, And Indigenous Unite To Defeat Mining. popularresistance.org The people of the southern Argentinian province of Chubut are celebrating more than just the holidays this December. After a fierce struggle against a recently enacted zoning law that would have opened the province up to large-scale silver, copper, and lead mining by multinational corporations like Canadian Pan American Silver, the governor was ultimately forced to backtrack. The law in question, which was approved on December 15, was repealed last Tuesday, just five days later. | From the night of the approval until the afternoon of December 21, the movement against the law spread rapidly throughout the province…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-28). Pope Francis urges peace, vaccine access in 2021 Christmas message. peoplesdispatch.org For his Christmas message this year, the progressive-leaning Pope Francis called for peace and dialogue amid an unprecedented global crisis. Once again, the global leader of the Catholic church took advantage of his platform to issue a clarion call to global leaders of all creeds, across all regions of the world. | Pope Francis, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina who initiated the World Meeting of Popular Movements, has made headlines frequently for

Romina Green Rioja (2021-12-28). In Chile, Boric's Win Signals Victory for Social Movements and New Constitution. zcomm.org Elected on the heels of a historic movement against neoliberalism, president-elect Gabriel Boric will face high expectations and social movement pressure to deliver on his campaign promises…

Editor (2021-12-28). A Few Amazing Progressive Wins That Happened in 2021. scheerpost.com Former Chilean student leader Gabriel Boric will be Chile's next left-wing president. [ By It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There's the pandemic that won't end. Rising inflation. Climate disasters. A democracy that looks creakier by the day. | And that was before West Virginia Senat…

Editor2 (2021-12-28). Maduro to Al Mayadeen: We Will Not Abandon Palestine. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says, in an interview for Al Mayadeen, that the Venezuelan people resisted fierce attacks launched by US imperialism and its allies, and discusses relations with some countries, including Iran and Syria. | In an exclusive interview with Al Mayadeen, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro noted that 2021 was the first year in which Venezuela registered economic growth since "the beginning of the criminal imperialist US sanctions," adding that this growth was the result of Venezuela's economy which produces food, goods, products, and services. The country has witnessed growth in i…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-28). María Corina Machado Speaks Out Against 'Interim Government'. orinocotribune.com Faced with the announcement of former deputy Juan Guaidó's clan and the fake National Assembly that Washington uses to provide some legitimacy to its actions, the Vente Venezuela party, led by María Corina Machado, rejected the recent steps to renew the "interim government" and announced that it will not support them in this new stage. | It should be remembered that next January 5 is the date that the US-led extreme opposition politicians consider as the deadline for the renewal of the pseudo-parliament that supports Guaidó, following the directions of the US government —despite countless corruption scandal…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-28). Screwed? Guaidó Extends 'Interim Government' into 2022. orinocotribune.com As 2021 comes to an end, the so-called interim government of Venezuela, appointed by former deputy Juan Guaidó two years ago, also reaches a crossroads. The puppet government, a legal mechanism created by the far-right to destabilize the constitutional government of President Nicolás Maduro and divert funds to Guaidó and his entourage, is continuing to unravel. | In this regard, the pseudo-parliament, which still includes former deputies to Venezuela's National Assembly who had been in office during the 2015-2020 legislative period, has undertaken a new maneuver that, according to them, will enable them to procla…

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2021-12-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-12-28). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Air traffic controllers in Peru struck to demand better work conditions and COVID protections while over 250 workers at Republic Services in Chula Vista, California, walked out over contract issues.

Florian Zollmann (2021-12-27). Russia is reacting to NATO's policy of expansion. indybay.org Russia is accused of calculating power and bellicose behavior. As far as the situation in Ukraine is concerned, however, the political facts speak a different language. Russia is being built as an enemy for peace. With its Ukraine policy, Russia is actually reacting to NATO's expansionist policy.

teleSUR (2021-12-27). The West Might Deliberately Start a War in Ukraine: Lavrov Says. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced that the West might provoke a war in Ukraine to blame Russia and impose economic sanctions on it. | RELATED: | "I do not rule out that there is such a desire to fuel militaristic sentiments [in Ukraine] to stage a 'small war' and then accuse us and impose new sanctions to suppress our competitive advantages," Lavrov said. | The Foreign Minister…

Staff (2021-12-27). Russia not delivering enough gas to Europe is 'a pack of lies' — Gazprom. rt.com Claims that Russia is deliberately causing natural gas shortages in Europe are baseless, according to Sergey Kupriyanov, spokesman for energy major Gazprom. | "All the allegations against Russia and Gazprom relating to delivering an insufficient amount of gas to the European market are absolutely groundless, unacceptable and untrue. In other words, it is a pack of lies," he said in an interview with the Russia-24 TV channel. | Kupriyanov added that Gazprom is ready to deliver additional gas volumes to Europe under the terms of existing contracts, with the costs of these supplies to be lower than spot market pr…

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2021-12-27). Arbolito navideño y tantas otras arboledas de memorias que resisten. indybay.org Arbolito navideño y tantas otras arboledas de memorias que aùn resisten…

Institute of Policy Studies (2021-12-27). Wednesday 1/19: Una Transición Justa para América Latina – justicia de género, étnica y ecológica. indybay.org Evento en línea…

Fight Back (2021-12-27). World Federation of Trade Unions New Year 2022 Message. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). | Dear colleagues, | Another year is coming to an end. Another year is added to the history of the WFTU and the world class-oriented movement. Another year made us cry and laugh, without losing not even for a moment our optimism for the best days to come for our class, thanks to our struggle and our firm political perception. | Making a brief assessment, as is usual at the end of each year, we will see that some things are repeated monotonously, but also new things are born, filling us with optimism f…

Institute of Policy Studies (2021-12-27). Wednesday 1/19: A Just Transition for Latin America: Intersection of Gender, Ethnic & Ecological Justice. indybay.org Online event…

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2021-12-27). Kurdistà n_Abdullah àñcalan: redefiniendo la revolución. indybay.org Kurdistà n y sus pueblos en lucha | El paradigma de Abdullah àñcalan: redefiniendo la revolución…

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (2021-12-27). Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond? truthout.org Chile has become the global capital of resurgent opposition to neoliberalism and resistance to fascism, electing the world's youngest president,

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Maduro's Statements in an Interview for Al Mayadeen. telesurenglish.net President Nicolas Maduro noted the resistance by the Venezuelan people to the sanctions imposed by the United States' administration in an Interview for Al Mayadeen. | RELATED: | President Nicolas Maduro declared in an interview for Al Mayadeen that 2021 was, since "the beginning of the criminal imperialist U.S. sanctions," the first year in showing registered economic growth. He stated that this results from Venez…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Myanmar Christmas Eve Massacre Leaves 35 Civilians Dead. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the United Nations coordinator for United Nations emergency aid, Martin Griffiths, condemned the massacre of at least 35 civilians and the disappearance of two humanitarian workers from the NGO Save The Children that occurred on December 24 in Moso town, in Kayah State, Myanmar. | RELATED: | "Credible reports claim that at least 35 people, including at least one child, were forced to abandon their vehicles, killed a…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Poland States Germany Wants To Turn EU Into 4th Reich. telesurenglish.net Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Poland's ruling party declared on Friday that, Germany as the Europe's most powerful nation today, is trying to turn the European Union into a "German Fourth Reich." | RELATED: | The head of the Law and Justice party (PiS) stated that some countries "are not enthusiastic at the prospect of a German Fourth Reich being built on the basis of the EU." | "If we Poles…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Italy: Economic Paralysis Due to Quarantine Measures. telesurenglish.net On Monday, health experts asked the Italian government to reduce the severity of COVID-19 quarantine measures to avoid economic paralysis. | RELATED: | According to the rules, people who have been in contact with infected ones have to self-isolate for seven days if they are vaccinated already; if not, they must spend ten days in self-isolation. | The head of the Gimbe health foundation, Nino Cartabellotta, explained that every p…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). US: Medical Personnel Mobilized to Help Hospitals. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the U.S president said on a call with the National Governors Association, that Washington would call on medical personnel to help prevent the congestion in hospitals with coronavirus infections by unvaccinated individuals. | RELATED: | "With rising cases, we still have tens of millions of unvaccinated people, and we're seeing hospitalizations rise. It means our hospitals in some places are going to get o…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). US Sanctions Undermine Global Cotton Industry Chain. telesurenglish.net A report about the impact of U.S. Xinjiang-related sanctions on the global cotton industrial chain was released in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Sunday. | RELATED: | The report, titled "Hindering Trade, Increasing Costs and Disrupting the Industrial Chain: Impacts of U.S. Xinjiang-Related Sanctions on Global Cotton Industrial Chain," was issued by the Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance, Jinan Univer…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Trial Of Chilean Officer Who Blinded Senator Campillai Postponed. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Chilean Justice postponed the hearing to prepare for the trial against former Police Officer Patricio Maturana, who is accused of shooting Fabiola Campillai during the 2019 protests. | RELATED: | On March 7, a hearing will be held against the policeman, for whom Campillai's lawyers ask for 15 years in prison for the crimes of "illegitimate coercion resulting in very serious injuries." | The Prosecutor's Office, howev…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Venezuela: 87% Of Vaccinated Against COVID-19. telesurenglish.net Regarding the omicron variant, he indicated that this Monday, two other new cases were detected in people coming from flights coming from the United Kingdom and Panama, both asymptomatic. | RELATED: | He pointed out that while Spain, for example, registers 1,200 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, in Venezuela, 6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants are reported "thanks to the fact that we take care of ourselves collectively, thanks to…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Gabriel Boric Declines Pinera's Invitation to Colombia Summit. telesurenglish.net The president-elect of Chile, Gabriel Boric, declined on Monday the invitation of the current President of the nation, Sebastián Piñera, to attend an international summit that will take place between January 26 and 27, 2022 in Colombia. | RELATED: | The future tenant of La Moneda said that his priority is to put together his team for the future government. However, he asserted that he would make available the…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Venezuelan Economic Recovery Is Underway: President Maduro. telesurenglish.net During an interview with Al Mayadeen on Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro highlighted the gradual recovery of the Venezuelan economy amid the U.S. sanctions against his country. | RELATED: | "2021 has been the year of economic recovery since the economic war began… Despite the U.S. criminal sanctions, the production of food, goods, and services grows. Domestic industries and trade also increase, which has a great i…

teleSUR, SH (2021-12-27). Cancelan casi 8.000 vuelos esta semana por la variante ómicron. telesurtv.net Numerosas compañías aéreas debieron poner en cuarentena a sus tripulaciones que se vieron expuestos a la Covid-19 en la última semana.

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Bolsonaro Won't Vaccinate 11-Year-old Daughter Against COVID-19. telesurenglish.net "I hope there is no interference from the Judiciary (to force the vaccination) because my daughter will not be vaccinated, (I want to) make it very clear, she is 11 years old", said the president in statements to the press, according to the local newspaper O Globo. | RELATED: | The president added that there are "many doubts" about vaccines for children in the world, even though several countries have already started vaccinating this age group.

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Russia Won't Turn Into a Fortress Because of Western Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia would find a way to respond to the West strengthened sanctions, but they will not turn the country into a fortress because of it. | Foreign Minister of Russia declares they won't turn the country into a fortress because of Western sanctions. Dec. 27, 2021.

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Flight Cancellations Continue Amid Omicron Advance. telesurenglish.net A total of 1,033 Monday flights within, into and out of the United States were canceled and 2,982 faced delays as of 1: 20 p.m. East Time, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware, as the recent Omicron-fueled COVID-19 surge has resulted in crew shortages and disrupted the operations of some airlines. | RELATED: | The cancellations on Monday included 264 by SkyWest, 141 by Alaska Airlines, 93 by United an…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). Peru To Compensate Victims' Relatives of 2020 Police Brutality. telesurenglish.net President Pedro Castillo will grant financial compensation to the relatives of the two Peruvian farmers who died as a result of the police brutality deployed in the 2020 protests, which forced the resignation of President Manuel Merino, who spent just five days in office. | RELATED: | The Justice Ministry decree sets a compensation of US$10,000 for the families of those who died in the "Agrarian Strike" which took place in La Libertad and Ica regio…

teleSUR (2021-12-27). US Airlines Call Off More Flights as Omicron Variant Advances. telesurenglish.net Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and American Airlines canceled over 750 flights combined on Christmas Day, and cancellations were set to drag on through Sunday, upending plans during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. | RELATED: | "All four airlines said Omicron cases among staff were driving cancellations," said USA Today on Sunday. A combination of issues, including but not limited to inclement weather…

Ruth Milkman (2021-12-27). How the Hart—Celler Act Changed America. zcomm.org For those eager to advance the cause of immigrant rights, or for anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of the current political landscape, The Walls Within should be required reading…

Staff (2021-12-27). Argentina Responds to Boris Johnson's 'Militaristic Rhetoric' on Malvinas. orinocotribune.com Argentine authorities responded to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his "militaristic rhetoric" on the disputed Malvinas (Falkland) Islands. | Johnson transmitted his traditional end-of-year message on December 23, in which he called Argentina's claim to the Malvinas Islands an "invasion" and boasted of his country's warlike power. | "One thing that remains absolutely unchanged is the UK's commitment to the Malvinas Islands and its people," Johnson said, recalling the 1982 war fought over the territory. "It is as firm a commitment as it was when Major General Moore accepted General Menendez's surrender. A…

Eduardo Aliverti (2021-12-27). Argentina — Una propuesta de balance. globalizacion.ca Resulta ineludible -o uno no quiere eludir- el intento de cierto balance que para esta altura del año es un convencionalismo que no está mal. | El 2021 retomó la vertiginosidad que en 2020 había quedado algo así como en letargo,…

Staff (2021-12-27). Headlines for December 27, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Coronavirus Cases Skyrocket as Omicron Spreads at Unprecedented Pace, China Orders Lockdown for 13 Million in Xi'an; Pope Francis Calls for Universal Access to Vaccines, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Who Battled Apartheid and Championed Human Rights, Dies at 90, Israel Plans to Double Population of Illegal Settlements in Occupied Golan Heights, Burmese Military Accused of Massacring Dozens of Civilians , Iraqi Kurds Hold Funerals for Family Members Who Drowned Crossing English Channel , Dams Burst After Torrential Rains in Brazil; U.S. Records Record High December Temperatures, Sarah Weddington, Who Successfully…

Brasil de Fato (2021-12-27). Amidst the chaos of 2021, movements remember victories that helped the people of Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org The year 2021 was full of bad news for Brazilians. The effects of the global pandemic were made much worse due to the gross negligence of the federal government of Jair Bolsonaro leaving no sector untouched. The country reached the sad milestone of 600,000 deaths by coronavirus, the Bolsonaro administrations's avaricious quest for natural resource wealth coupled with the expansion of agribusiness made the country's forests, green areas, and Indigenous and traditional communities victims of this violent offensive. | Despite this scenario, were there any victories? Brasil de Fato asked this question to four popular…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-27). Forced Displacements in Colombia Increase by Over 169% During 2021. libya360.wordpress.com Tanya Wadhwa The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is one of the many communities that has seen an increase in paramilitary violence and threats. They carried out a march for the right to life on December 23, 2021. Photo: Contagio Radio The Office for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES) condemned that 2021 had…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-12-27). Social Change in Canada Will Come out of Indigenous Resistance Movement — Chavista Chronicles from Caracas Interview with Maria Páez Victor and Nino Pagliccia. orinocotribune.com Caracas, December 25, 2021 ( Maria Páez Victor is a sociologist, born in Caracas, Venezuela where she obtained her first degree. She has an MA from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a PhD from York University, Canada. She lives in Toronto, and travels regularly to Ven…

Staff (2021-12-27). President Maduro: 'In 2022 the Economy will Focus on Boosting Trade'. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, December 26, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro assured that in 2022 the nation will concentrate its economic growth on the promotion of internal trade. The development of its real economy is essential for the country, added the president. | During an exclusive interview for television channel Al Mayadeen, President Maduro described 2021 as a year of economic recovery for Venezuela, despite the pressure of ongoing economic "sanctions" applied by the US and its allies. | "We are witnessing a sustainable recovery process based on work, on the recovery of the productive and real economy, in addition t…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-27). President Maduro Will Travel to Iran to Accelerate Cooperation. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News President Nicolas Maduro has announced upcoming travel Iran "to accelerate the processes of cooperation at all levels and to sign agreements." In an interview for Al Mayadeen, the Venezuelan president said that the Joint Commission between Iran and Venezuela is working on new plans for relations and cooperation. "Very soon I am going…

Yves Engler (2021-12-27). Why the Media Silence About Trudeau's Worst Foreign Policy Failure. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Dec 23, 2021 | Imagine if Nicolás Maduro's vice president quit and called for his government to be disbanded. Or if Venezuela's opposition won a landslide in regional elections or if 90% of member states voted against the government's UN credentials. The Canadian media would have splashed this news on front pages, but the shoe was on "our guy's" foot so they've been silent. | The dominant media has all but ignored the collapse of Canada's unprecedented bid to create an international coalition to support a parallel Venezuelan government. It's quite a turnaround from when the media published <...

Dr. Maulana Karenga (2021-12-27). 2021 Kwanzaa in the Midst of Pandemic. indybay.org Final preparation for our California State Capitol, Matunda Ya Kwanza, Celebration is filled with struggle. We continue to shine the spotlight on the principles and practice of our "California Grown" Global Holiday, with words of the creator of the Nguzo Saba. Essential basic principles for our journey to restore Black Agriculture as the foundation of our culture with healthy solutions in the midst of pandemic.

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2021-12-27: News Headlines

Institute of Policy Studies (2021-12-27). Wednesday 1/19: Una Transición Justa para América Latina – justicia de género, étnica y ecológica. indybay.org Evento en línea…

Institute of Policy Studies (2021-12-27). Wednesday 1/19: A Just Transition for Latin America: Intersection of Gender, Ethnic & Ecological Justice. indybay.org Online event…

Fight Back (2021-12-26). A great read from Mao Zedong on his birthday. fightbacknews.org To mark the 128th anniversary of the birth of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong on December 26, 2021, Fight Back News Service is circulating his famous 1939 article "In memory of Norman Bethune." | Comrade Norman Bethune, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, was around fifty when he was sent by the Communist Parties of Canada and the United States to China; he made light of travelling thousands of miles to help us in our War of Resistance Against Japan. He arrived in Yenan in the spring of last year, went to work in the Wutai Mountains, and to our great sorrow died a martyr at his post. What kind of spirit i…

Stephen Sefton (2021-12-26). Nicaragua — National Reality, Neocolonial Delusion. orinocotribune.com By Stephen Sefton and Jorge Capelan — Dec 22, 2021 | An academic called Jonah Walters has recently published a couple of attacks on the political and economic model being worked out in Nicaragua under the country's Sandinista government led by President Daniel Ortega. One attack published by the North American Congress on Latin America "Ortega's Developmentalism Is Based on the "Popular Economy"—But What Does that Mean?" alleges that the unquestionable economic democratization of Nicaragua's economy is in fact a mirage, in reality reinforcing neoliberal patterns of oligarchic and corporate economic pow…

Victoria Shineman (2021-12-26). California is the world's number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds. nationofchange.org Tracking oil exports in the Amazon identified that the majority of Amazonian oil comes from Ecuador and ends up in the hands of large California-based corporations.

Staff (2021-12-26). Fourth Coffee Export Shipment from Lara State to the United States. orinocotribune.com Nine containers with 210 tons of green coffee were exported to the United States, from Lara state of Venezuela, through the efforts of the Asopras company together with the Lara Foreign Trade Company (EMCOEX). | José Maldonado, director of EMCOEX, reported this Saturday, December 24, that all operations regarding the fourth export shipment of green coffee to the US were carried out from the GD Jacinto Lara dry port intermodal terminal. | Mal…

Staff (2021-12-26). President Maduro Praises Christmas Toy Distribution Campaign. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, December 25, President Nicolás Maduro praised the activities of the Christmas toy distribution campaign, which was carried out as a joint initiative of the Venezuelan government and the social organizations. | In a Christmas message, Maduro wrote on Twitter, "I appreciate the effort and commitment of our leaders who have travelled to every corner of the country to bring smiles to the faces of our boys and girls. We are moved by love for the seedlings of our homeland. Merry Christmas!" | Along with the message, the president posted photos of children receiving their toys in a campaign in Caracas which…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-26). President Nicolas Maduro: "We Will Not Abandon Palestine" libya360.wordpress.com Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said in an interview for Al Mayadeen, that the Venezuelan people resisted fierce attacks launched by US imperialism and its allies, and discusses relations with some countries, including Iran and Syria. In an exclusive interview with Al Mayadeen, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro noted that 2021 was the first year in which…

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2021-12-26: News Headlines

New Atlas (2021-12-25). New US Embargo on Cambodia Over Friendship with China. newatlas.report December 25, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — The United States continues a process of targeting and isolating nations around the globe increasingly choosing to do business with Beijing rather than Washington. The most recent of these is the Southeast Asia nation of Cambodia. For years Cambodia has incrementally pivoted from once serving US foreign …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-25). Cuba and China Sign Cooperation Plan for Joint Promotion of Belt & Road Initiative. libya360.wordpress.com Cuba-China bilateral economic relations have hit an important milestone with the signing of a Cooperation Plan for the joint promotion of the Silk and Road Initiative. The document was signed on Friday, between the governments of Cuba and China, by Cuban Deputy Prime Minister, Ricardo Cabrisas, and President of National Development and Reform Commission, He…

Yanis Iqbal (2021-12-25). Left-wing Victory in Chile. dissidentvoice.org The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points — most presidents had hitherto secured only four or five point leads. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, …

Ariel Dorfman (2021-12-25). The Meaning of Boric's Victory in Chile. zcomm.org The causes he believes in are those youth everywhere have been increasingly fighting for across the globe…

Staff (2021-12-25). Christmas Toy Distribution Campaign Has Reached All Corners of Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The national toy distribution campaign of the Venezuelan government—A Toy for Christmas—reached the states of Trujillo, La Guaira and Mérida on Thursday, December 23. The children in these areas awaited joyfully for presents that would brighten up their Christmas. | PSUV First Combatant for Trujillo, Reyna Pérez de Márquez, informed that a large number of people worked on the toy distribution campaign, which was taken to all 20 municipalities in the state. | "We are currently organizing the toy distribution for our boys and girls in Trujillo," Pérez de Márquez informed. "Our staff have not rested; the…

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-25). Venezuela's Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Evaluates Measures to Deal with Omicron. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's presidential task force for the prevention and control of COVID-19 met this Thursday, December 23, to evaluate mechanisms to deal with the Omicron variant that has recently been detected in the country. | The meeting, chaired by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, was held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade. | Various officials of the government were also present at the meeting, including the Minister for Health, Carlos Alvarado; the Minister for Communication and Information, Freddy àëáñez; and the Minister for Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez…

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2021-12-25: News Headlines

Ariel Dorfman (2021-12-25). The Meaning of Boric's Victory in Chile. zcomm.org The causes he believes in are those youth everywhere have been increasingly fighting for across the globe…

Jay Janson (2021-12-24). No USA Christmas Love for Afghans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Syrians, Iranians, and North Koreans. dissidentvoice.org This Christmas season, as always, CIA controlled mainstream media is filled with unctuous images of the hungry homeless in America being charitably served food by private citizens and institutions. It has long become an American tradition of kindness during the season celebrating the birth of all loving Jesus along with gift giving Santa Claus, and …

Lucrecia Franco (2021-12-24). Fighting hunger in Brazil. america.cgtn.com Nearly 60 million people across Latin America are currently not getting enough to eat, according to a recent United Nations report. In Brazil, the region's largest and most populous country, the number of people enduring hunger is dramatic. Against this backdrop, a Christmas food donation …

_____ (2021-12-24). Peru Ratifies UN Treaty On The Prohibition Of Nuclear Weapons. popularresistance.org Addressing the UN General Assembly this September, the minister of foreign affairs of Peru, àìscar Maúrtua, hailed the TPNW's entry into force as a "great achievement" and "a legal and moral starting point on a long road to achieve nuclear disarmament". | Peru is the 14th country in Latin America to ratify the TPNW, following Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Uruguay, El Salvador, Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Honduras, and Chile. An additional four countries in the region have signed but not yet ratified the treaty: Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. | Gisela Lujá…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). WHO Endorses COVID-19 Vaccine Made by Argentina and Mexico. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) included in its "Emergency Use Listing" the AstraZeneca vaccine jointly produced by Argentina and Mexico. | RELATED: | While the active pharmaceutical ingredient for this recombinant vaccine is manufactured by mAbxience in Argentina, Liomont Lab mixes and finishes the product for its final distribution from Mexico. | "This is an important milestone for Latin America and highlig…

Giancarlo Elia Valori (2021-12-24). Ethical aspects relating to cyberspace: Utilitarianism and deontology. moderndiplomacy.eu Obviously web ethics must primarily be behavioural in nature. Its task is to serve as a tool for making decisions in morally difficult situations. However, as long as web ethics is seen only as one of the mechanisms of the Internet normative self-regulation, based on the spontaneously formed ethos of cyberspace, it will lack the …

Franc Contreras (2021-12-24). Mexico's Poinsettia flower tradition. america.cgtn.com Brightly colored Poinsettias with their characteristic red and green leaves are used as decorations around the world during the December holiday season. Very famous in the U.S., many people don't know where they actually originate from. CGTN's Franc Contreras reports.

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Argentina: President Fernandez Extends Ban On Layoffs. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez decided to extend the "occupational emergency" until June 30, 2022, which implies the prohibition of unjustified dismissals. | RELATED: | Through this urgency decree, Fernandez also established a new compensation scheme in which the compensation surcharge will gradually decrease during the first half of 2022. | In the case of unjustified dismissal, the worker will h…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). 'Bolsonaro Is a Psychopath': Lula Da Silva Says. telesurenglish.net Brazil's former President Lula da Silva promised to repair the country and rid it of the "hate crisis" prompted by President Jair Bolsonaro, whom he described as a "psychopath". | RELATED: | "If we win the elections, we will dedicate every minute, every hour, every week to repairing this country," said the leader of the Workers' Party (PT), in a meeting with homeless people and waste pickers in Sao Paulo. | "Brazil…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Judges Condemn 9 People Involved in Urban Violence in Caracas. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) announced that the Fourth State Court convicted nine members of a paramilitary group involved in the wave of violence generated from a shantytown in Caracas in early July. | RELATED: | The judges imposed penalties of up to five years in prison on the defendants for crimes related to the use of stolen vehicles, association to commit a crime, resistance to authority,…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). WHO Says Omicron in 110 Countries, Cases Double Every 2-3 Days. telesurenglish.net The omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus has now been detected in 110 countries and continues to spread exponentially, with cases doubling in communities where it is transmitted in a matter of two to three days, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today. | The Omicron variant has been reported in at least 110 countires, the WHO announced. Dec 24, 2021.

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Russia Imposes Million Dollar Fines on Google and Meta. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Russian Justice imposed high fines on Google and Meta, which together exceed US$100 million dollars, for non-compliance with local laws. | RELATED: | The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Google US$98.4 million because of "systemic failure to remove prohibited information," agency TASS reported. Another Moscow court also imposed a fine of US$2.7 million on Meta, owner of Facebook. | This is th…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Trump Case on Capitol Hill Events Goes to US Supreme Court. telesurenglish.net Former U.S. President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to prevent the National Archives from handing over to Congress White House documents related to the events of January 6 on Capitol Hill. | Trump asks Supreme Court to docket info to prevent Jan. 6 riot panel from getting White Home information.

teleSUR (2021-12-24). 70 Migrants Die From Drowning off Libyan Coast: UNICEF. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) revealed that at least 70 undocumented migrants died from drowning and 100 others went missing this week off the Libyan coast. | RELATED: | "Children continue to lose their lives amid attempts to cross the Central Mediterranean, one of the most dangerous and deadliest migration routes in the world," said Lana Wreikat, the UNICEF acting special representative in Libya. | "Just this week,…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Gabriel Boric Responds to Jair Bolsonaro's Statements. telesurenglish.net On Friday afternoon after receiving the booster dose against COVID-19 President-elect Gabriel Boric made statements on the greetings by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, referring also to the comments issued by his son, in which he indicates that Boric "will take the country to a situation similar to the one Venezuela reached with Nicolás Maduro." | RELATED: | "I had not seen it, we will analyze it later. I am…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Russia Refutes US Claims About Its Import Substitution Policies. telesurenglish.net On Friday Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoma Maria Zakharova slammed as unfounded and beyond absurd the claims made by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, about Russia's import substitution in the IT sector and its alleged general non-compliance with the principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO). | RELATED: | "We've grown accustomed to the United States' unfounded accusations against us, but this one exceeded all ou…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Omicron Less Likely To Cause Severe Symptoms: UK Scientists Say. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) released an study stating that people with Omicron are significantly less likely to develop severe symptoms. | RELATED: | Early results suggest people are 30-45 percent less likely to go to emergency health services if they are infected with Omicron than with Delta. They are also 50-70 percent less likely to need to be admitted to hospital. However, the UKHSA warned that the ne…

teleSUR (2021-12-24). Honduras Advances Preparations for Xiomara Castro Inauguration. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Presidential Transfer Commission announced details of the inauguration ceremony of President-elect of Honduras Xiomara Castro. | RELATED: | The ceremony will be held at the Tegucigalpa National Stadium on January 27 and is expected to be attended by former presidents Lula da Silva (Brazil), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), and Dilma Rousseff (Brazil). | Other personalities invited…

_____ (2021-12-24). Former Hunger Strikers Reflect On Their Experiences. popularresistance.org The huelga de hambre has been used for thousands of years. It has won many struggles," said Ana Ramirez, 42, who fasted for 24 days this spring to demand that undocumented people and other excluded workers in New York receive stimulus and unemployment money. "Esther the reina won a battle with the hunger strike." | Ramirez is referring to Queen Esther of the Old Testament's Book of Esther. The queen and her supporters fasted for three days in advance of going to ask her husband, Persian King Ahasuerus, for permission to have her enemies — who were trying to wipe out all Jews in the empire — killed. Sh…

Editor2 (2021-12-24). What can we Expect from Boric? (Interview). orinocotribune.com We spoke to Bruno Sommer, founder of I imagine there is still a sense of elation on the streets of Chile now! | Of course, the victory of Boric and his Frente Amplio group is not only a victory for their sector, but for all the social movements that came out to back him. This election was unique, it had the highest rate of participation since the…

Luigino Bracci (2021-12-24). Trains with Flawed Electrical Systems Caused Caracas Subway Explosions. orinocotribune.com Wednesday, December 22, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the Minister of Transportation, Hipólito Abreu, reported that investigations by engineers from the Caracas Metro found the cause of explosions that affected several trains of the public company in previous weeks. They also responded to threats of a lawsuit from by the Spanish Export Credit Insurance Company (CESCE), which is claiming compensation for ‚Ç¨138 million. | "A fault was discovered that caused explosions as a result of the electrical overload," explained President Nicolás Maduro at a ceremony at the Teresa Carreño T…

Yves Engler (2021-12-24). Why the Media Silence about Trudeau's Worst Foreign Policy Failure. dissidentvoice.org Imagine if Nicolás Maduro's vice president quit and called for his government to be disbanded. Or if Venezuela's opposition won a landslide in regional elections or if 90% of member states voted against the government's UN credentials. The Canadian media would have splashed this news on front pages, but the shoe was on "our guy's" …

A Guest Author (2021-12-24). Por qué Cuba no tiene un movimiento antivacunas. workers.org Por Marc Vandepitte y Toon Danhieux Traducido del neerlandés por Sven Magnus. Versión cortada por Mundo Obrero. Cada vez más, amplios sectores de la población europea expresan abiertamente su desconfianza hacia las políticas para combatir en COVID-19. La reacción de la política tradicional es de pánico y se caracteriza por . . . |

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2021-12-24: News Headlines

Yves Engler (2021-12-24). Why the media silence about Trudeau's worst foreign policy failure. dissidentvoice.org Imagine if Nicolás Maduro's vice president quit and called for his government to be disbanded. Or if Venezuela's opposition won a landslide in regional elections or if 90% of member states voted against the government's UN credentials. The Canadian media would have splashed this news on front pages, but the shoe was on "our guy's" …

Editor2 (2021-12-23). àÅlvaro García Linera: The Central Command of the Latin American Right is the US, not Spain. orinocotribune.com The conservative command of the Latin American right is in the United States, not in Spain. Vox is small and clumsy. On the other hand, Washington promotes a series of basic values: market, individuality, institutionality against social convulsions and wealth as the goal of life, affirms àÅlvaro García Linera. | The vice president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia between 2006 and 2019 is one of the most prominent contemporary leftist intellectuals. His extensive and provocative intellectual production is the result of a political commitment that led him to imprisonment for seven years and of a solid th…

_____ (2021-12-23). New US Embargo on Cambodia Over Friendship with China. journal-neo.org The United States continues a process of targeting and isolating nations around the globe increasingly choosing to do business with Beijing rather than Washington. The most recent of these is the Southeast Asia nation of Cambodia. For years Cambodia has incrementally pivoted from once serving US foreign policy objectives in the region, to striking a …

KWORINOCO (2021-12-23). Venezuela Maintains 7 International Air Routes. orinocotribune.com Despite the fact that the state of emergency declared in Venezuela due to the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to be lifted, the president of the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC), Juan Teixeira Díaz, announced that seven international air routes will continue to service the country. | He clarified that commercial flights to Mexico, Turkey, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Russia, Bolivia, and Cuba will remain availa…

_____ (2021-12-23). UK Gold Ruling Based On 'Illegal Interference' In Venezuela. popularresistance.org Mexico City, Mexico, December 20, 2021 — The United Kingdom's highest court issued a ruling on Monday favoring opposition figure Juan Guaidó and his efforts to wrest control of US$1.7 billion worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England (BoE). | The Monday decision is the latest episode in the legal struggle by the democratically-elected Nicolás Maduro government to regain access to the reserves. Following what the court described as the "one voice principle," the court ruled that under the UK's constitutional arrangements political recognition of foreign states falls to the country's executive.

teleSUR (2021-12-23). Nigeria Destroys 1 Million Expired COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Nigerian government destroyed over 1 million COVID-19 vaccines withdrawn from across the country after being identified for having a short shelf life. | RELATED: | The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) monitored the exercise at a dumpsite in a suburb of Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Authorities took the decision to join other African nations which earlier destroyed vaccines for the same reaso…

teleSUR (2021-12-23). Acteal Massacre Victims Demand Justice from The Mexican State. telesurenglish.net Twenty-four years after the killing of 45 Tzotziles Indigenous people carried out by paramilitaries, relatives and survivors of the attack marched to demand jail time for the intellectual and material authors of this tragedy. | RELATED: | With songs, prayers, crosses, incense, and candles, the Acteal Bees (Las Abejas de Acteal), a Christian and anti-neoliberal organization, remembered the dead in a collective tomb where the bodie…

teleSUR (2021-12-23). Palestinian Young Man Killed by Israeli Soldiers in West Bank. telesurenglish.net A Palestinian young man was killed on Wednesday night by Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Ramallah, medics and eyewitnesses said. | RELATED: | Mohammed Abbas, 26, from al-Ama'ri refugee camp near Ramallah, was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the refugee camp, and died shortly after being brought to Ramallah Hospital. | Eyewitnesses said intensive gunfire was heard on the outskirts of the r…

teleSUR (2021-12-23). Venezuela To Vaccinate 90% Of Its Population To Face Omicron. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that the first seven COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant were detected in citizens who traveled abroad and recently returned to the states of Miranda, Lara and Caracas. | RELATED: | "It was inevitable that Omicron would arrive in Venezuela. Therefore, we reiterate the call to reinforce biosecurity measures and vaccination. We continue working to care fo…

teleSUR (2021-12-23). Iranian Nuke Pact Remains Uncertain After Seven Rounds of Talks. telesurenglish.net Following seven rounds of talks held since April this year, Iran and Western parties to the 2015 nuclear deal have yet to find a way to break the impasse on salvaging the pact, which Washington unilaterally quit in 2018. | RELATED: | Although uncertainty is the only certainty right now in Vienna, the host city of the talks, the parties' willingness to continue dialogue still bodes well for future negotiations. | UPS AND DOWNS

KWORINOCO (2021-12-23). Cuba Denounces US Allegations of Human Trafficking. orinocotribune.com Cuba firmly rejected the allegations fabricated by the US accusing the Caribbean island of involvement in human trafficking, and has assured that these claims are simply another way of justifying the aggressive measures which continue to be taken against Havana. | "The declarations made by the US government, regarding human trafficking, terrorism and human rights abuses, have no relation with the reality of out country," responded Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez through his Twitter account. "The US is trying to justify—with lies—the abusive and aggressive measures taken against the Cuban popul…

Luis Chirino (2021-12-23). 2021 Year in Review: Recapping Cuba. america.cgtn.com As the year ends on the island of Cuba, citizens will continue to face challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and a weak economy in the new year. More than eight thousand Cubans have died from COVID-19. In 2021, the pandemic continued to spread while negatively impacting the economy on the island. CGTN's …

Staff (2021-12-23). China and Nicaragua Sign Media Cooperation Agreement. orinocotribune.com The China Media Group (CMG) has inaugurated its bureau in Managua. | Representatives from CMG and Nicaragua's Communications Affairs Council signed a memorandum of cooperation at an inauguration ceremony on December 15th. It marks the first cooperation agreement in the media field since the resumption of China-Nicaragua diplomatic relations. | "Our priority task is co-responsibility. It will be active in cooperation exchanges with the main Nicaraguan media. We will have contacts through mutual exchange and we will promote the exchange and the development process," stated Zhu Boying, China Media Group's Director f…

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-12-23). Panamanians demand justice for the victims of the 1989 US invasion. peoplesdispatch.org According to official data, 516 Panamanians soldiers and civilians were killed during the US invasion, but human rights groups say the real number is much higher, between 1,000 and 3,000…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-23). Chubut governor repeals mining law after days of protest. peoplesdispatch.org After five days of anti-mining protests across Argentina's Chubut province, the provincial governor repealed the law that paved the way for mega-mining in the province, and gave the call for a plebiscite to decide on this matter…

Alborada Online (2021-12-23). Video: Reflections on Chile's presidential election. greenleft.org.au Alborada Online presents an analysis of Chile's December 19 presidential election results and the historic victory of left candidate, Gabriel Boric.

Emir Sader (2021-12-23). Chile — El cielo por asalto de los "cabros" globalizacion.ca Conocí a los nuevos "cabros", como le dicen en Chile a los jóvenes, hace dos años, en Valparaíso. Estaban Jorge Sharp, alcalde de la ciudad —lo cual, por sí solo, ya era una gran novedad- Giorgio Jackson y Gabriel Boric,…

Atilio A. Boron (2021-12-23). Chile — Abriendo las grandes alamedas. globalizacion.ca Pasó casi medio siglo. En el medio una atroz dictadura que torturó, mató, desapareció y exilió a cientos de miles de chilenas y chilenos. Aparte saqueó el país y enriqueció a los jerarcas del régimen, comenzando por el propio Augusto…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-23). UK blocks Venezuela from accessing its international reserves. peoplesdispatch.org Britain's Supreme Court passed a ruling to continue blocking Venezuela from accessing 31 tons of Venezuelan gold valued at USD 2 billion. This gold is deposited at the Bank of England. The case went to court because the Bank has refused to release the gold reserves to the Bolivarian government stating that it recognizes the opposition activist Juan Guaidó as a legitimate authority.

Editor (2021-12-23). Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti. mronline.org Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country's long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

Eshalaxmi Barlingay (2021-12-23). 2021 Year in Review: Haiti in spotlight. america.cgtn.com For the people of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, misery just never seems to end… decade after decade. The economy is in shambles. Natural disasters. Political corruption. Violence. In 2021, the crisis in Haiti only went from bad to worse. In July, …

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2021-12-23: News Headlines

Manuel Perez Rocha (2021-12-23). Democratic Progress in Honduras, Setbacks in El Salvador. zcomm.org The last decade saw democratization in El Salvador and brutal repression in Honduras. Suddenly, those trends appear to have reversed…

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-22). Russia Warns NATO Membership for Ukraine Would Mean WW III. moderndiplomacy.eu Just like when U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's American Government, during the 1962 Cuban Crisis, warned that Soviet missiles in Cuba would mean World War 3, Russia's President Vladimir Putin's Russian Government warned, on 20 December 2021, that if its adjoining nation of Ukraine becomes a NATO member (which would present the danger of U.S. …

Editor (2021-12-22). Chris Hedges on the Persecution of Julian Assange (Video). scheerpost.com In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, immediately found himself a target, accused of hacking, and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face the accusations of assault and then sent to US. In 2019, Assange was handed over to the British police. On the same day, the US demanded his extradition. He faces up to 175 years in prison for…

WSWS (2021-12-22). Quebec's discriminatory Bill 21 causes hijab-clad teacher to be permanently removed from the classroom. wsws.org The decision to remove Fatemeh Anvari from her classroom underscores the reactionary aim of Bill 21, which is to foment hatred and prejudice against immigrants and religious minorities in order to divide the working class.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2021-12-22). US blockade restricts Cuban economic growth. indybay.org Havana, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The intensified economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States constitutes one of the factors that imposes the most restrictions on the development of Cuban economy, experts on the subject agreed here today.

Editor (2021-12-22). Lack of Left-wing culture, weakness of progressivism in Latin America. mronline.org One of the great weaknesses of Latin American progressivism and something that explains its partial defeats is the lack of a leftist, alternative and accessible popular culture, promoting new ways of organizing daily life, affirms àÅlvaro García Linera.

teleSUR -lvm -HIM (2021-12-22). México impulsa donación de vacunas anticovid para América Latina. telesurtv.net La entrega a Ecuador de las dosis anticovid fue valorada por la vicepresidencia de ese país como una demostración de solidaridad.

Especial para Mundo Popular (2021-12-22). øQue ha significado la Cuarta Transformación para el pueblo de México? peoplesworld.org La 4T propone nada menos que una transformación radical y democrática de la sociedad mexicana con medidas concretas y duraderas a favor de los intereses populares. A pesar de la férrea oposición de los elites y privilegiados del viejo régimen, sus medios de comunicación, partidos, jueces, y las asociaciones empresariales que no quieren perder sus …

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Dominican Republic Dismantles Local Human Trafficking Network. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Dominican Republic's attorney general announced the dismantling of the human trafficking network that organized the trip in which 3 out of 6 Dominicans died during a truck accident in Mexico. | RELATED: | Five people detained for this case face 18 months in prison. Their arrests took place in San Pedro de Macoris province and in Bani municipality, where the Dominicans injured in Mexico were from. | Th…

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Mexico Acquires One of the Largest US-Owned Refineries. telesurenglish.net The move will allow Mexico to be self-sufficient in fuels by the end of 2023 and lower prices in gasoline, diesel and other products. | The Mexican government informed that the U.S. authorized the operation for the purchase by Pemex of the Deer Park refinery from Shell, representing an investment of $1.2 billion dollars.

teleSUR, lvm, JL (2021-12-22). ONU alerta sobre situación política en Líbano. telesurtv.net Guterres insistió en que los líderes del país deben trabajar para potenciar medidas que satisfagan las demandas del pueblo.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Cuban Congress Approves Family Code Favorable to Gender Equity. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the National Assembly of Cuba approved the final version of the Family Code that will be submitted to popular consultation in early 2022. | RELATED: | The preliminary versions of this bill were prepared by professionals and experts from various social sectors and institutions between September and October. The Family Code includes a definition of marriage that opens the possibility for people of the s…

teleSUR, jaa, JL (2021-12-22). Presidentes de Rusia y Francia dialogan sobre temas de seguridad. telesurtv.net Ambos presidentes hablaron sobre las tensiones existentes en el conflicto ucraniano.

teleSUR, SH (2021-12-22). Al menos 73 defensores de DD.HH. han sido asesinados en Colombia. telesurtv.net Según la Oficina de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos en Colombia, la mayor cifra de asesinatos se registró en el departamento del Valle del Cauca.

teleSUR -HIM (2021-12-22). OMS: 23 millones de niños quedaron sin vacunas básicas en 2020. telesurtv.net OMS sostuvo que como consecuencia de estos patrones desiguales en la vacunación infantil se registraron 14 millones más de casos de malaria y 47.000 muertes en 2020.

teleSUR, SH (2021-12-22). Parlamento cubano aprueba proyecto de Código de Familias. telesurtv.net La consulta popular sobre el proyecto de Código de Familias se llevará a cabo entre el 1ro de febrero y el 30 de abril del 2022.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Nearly 70,000 People Displaced in Malaysia Due to Floods. telesurenglish.net Selangor state Chief Minister Amirudin Shari confirmed that another nine people have been reported dead, bringing the total deaths due to severe flooding in Malaysia to 17 as of Tuesday. | RELATED: | "At this time, our focus is to ensure search and rescue operations are carried out effectively and that they reach all who need it," he said. | The number of displaced persons due to flooding in Malaysia has risen to over 69,400 in seven…

teleSUR, jm, JCM, JCVM, SH (2021-12-22). øCómo la Revolución Cubana erradicó el analfabetismo del país?>. telesurtv.net La Campaña de Alfabetización lanzada en enero de 1961 es considerada una de las batallas más importantes ganadas por el gobierno y el pueblo cubano.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Ukraine: Extreme Claims That Russia Plans a Nuclear Attack. telesurenglish.net One of Ukraine's top politicians has claimed that there are signals that Moscow might be planning a full-blown nuclear attack in an intervention movement. | RELATED: | "As of 1991, Ukraine had the third-largest nuclear capability in the world," decreed Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, referring to the arsenal of warheads from the collapse of the Soviet Union. | "Kiev voluntarily gave this up to become a…

teleSUR- jaa, JL (2021-12-22). Organizaciones en Chile anuncian toma de Instituto de DD.HH. telesurtv.net Las organizaciones dieron 24 horas para que funcionarios del Instituto recojan documentos e implementos.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-22). Rusia planea negociaciones de seguridad con EE.UU. y OTAN. telesurtv.net Ministro de exteriores ruso cuestiona declaraciones del Secretario General de la OTAN sobre las garantías de seguridad.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Libya Postpones Its Presidential Election. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced a proposal to postpone the upcoming presidential elections to January. | RELATED: | "The Commission proposes, in coordination with the House of Representatives, to postpone the first round of voting in the presidential election to Jan. 24, 2022, provided that the House of Representatives takes the necessary measures to lift the state of force majeure that obstructs the electora…

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Poland: EU To Take Legal Actions for Ignoring the Bloc's Law. telesurenglish.net The European Union is set to take legal actions against Poland for allegedly breaking the bloc's laws and undermining judicial independence, drawing a sharp rebuke from Warsaw. | Polish Prime Minister decreed on Wednesday that the EU's decision projects a "bureaucratic centralist" trend in Brussels that "has to be stopped." Dec. 22, 2021.

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-12-22). Libia aplazará sus elecciones presidenciales para 2022. telesurtv.net Libia vive actualmente una creciente tensión bélica entre bandos internos y con grupos militares.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). WHO: Warns Booster Campaigns Won't End the COVID-19 Pandemic. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the WHO chief noted that the rush by wealthy countries to distribute additional COVID-19 jabs proliferates the inequity in accessing them. The United Nations health agency has warned about the inequalities that accessing Covid vaccines brings to the world, leaving too many people vulnerable in poorer nations. | RELATED: | "Blanket booster programs are likely to prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, rather tha…

teleSUR (2021-12-22). The Chilean State Violated the Rights of 846 Municipal Teachers. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the Chilean State for not complying with due diligence in the payment of a special assignment of 846 teachers from the Chañaral, Chanco, Pelluhue, Parral, Vallenar, and Cauquenes municipalities. | RELATED: | "The processes of execution of the sentences handed down in favor of the 846 teachers who condemned the Municipalities to pay a special allowance, w…

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-12-22). OMS confirma presencia de variante àìmicron en 106 países. telesurtv.net La OMS precisó que la propagación de Ómicron es rápida, a pesar de la transmisión comunitaria.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Cuba Honors Educators on 60th Anniversary of Literacy Campaign. telesurenglish.net Through his Twitter account, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez congratulated Cuba's teachers, who celebrate their day this December 22, in remembrance of the declaration of Cuba as a country free of illiteracy, on the same day, but sixty years ago, in 1961. | Sixty years ago, on December 22, Cubans became a freer people, as they become a more educated people, being declared a "territory free of illiteracy."

teleSUR, SH (2021-12-22). Presidente de Perú rechaza participación en actos irregulares. telesurtv.net Como muestra de transparencia, Pedro Castillo solicitó a la fiscal peruana que se le levantara el secreto bancario, tributario y de llamadas.

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Venezuelans Start Campaign To Elect Barinas State Governor. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Venezuelan political organizations began their campaigns for the election of governor in Barinas, the state where late Commander Hugo Chavez was born. | RELATED: | From Dec. 22 to Jan. 6, candidates will be able to carry out political acts in compliance with the provisions set forth in the Electoral Processes Law and its regulations. | Then, on Sunday, January 9, the people of Barinas will elect th…

teleSUR (2021-12-22). Chile: The Direction of the Boric Government's Foreign Policy. telesurenglish.net One of the questions about the future president-elect of Chile, Gabriel Boric, is what his foreign policy will be, in a context of a greater number of progressive and leftist governments in the continent, at the same time that there is a distance between some of them, and a global dispute that also impacts this part of the world. | In Santiago, hundreds of thousands flocked onto the streets to celebrate Gabriel Boric's victory.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-12-22). China confina a 13 millones de personas en Xi'an por Covid-19. telesurtv.net En fecha reciente se han detectado 149 positivos en la provincia de Shaanxi, de los cuales 143 corresponden a la ciudad de Xi'an.

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2021-12-22: News Headlines

Lauren Smith (2021-12-22). Nicaragua's evidence-based democracy threatens U.S. oppression domestically and abroad. mronline.org Despite Washington's best effort to derail Nicaragua's electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and the reelection of President Daniel Ortega with 75.92% of the votes cast. Nicaragua's non-partisan, independent Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) reported on Monday, November 8th that 65.23% of …

Staff (2021-12-22). Venezuela and Turkey Agree to Strengthen Cooperation Projects. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, December 21, President Nicolás Maduro reported that he had a pleasant phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to consolidate the cooperation agreements that both nations develop in different areas. | "We talked about the great challenges for the coming years and the need to advance in all areas of cooperation for shared development. Venceremos!" says the tweet shared by the president. |

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-21). UK Imperialism Tightens its Grasp on Venezuela's Gold. orinocotribune.com The case of the Venezuelan gold seized by the United Kingdom continues to develop as the UK Supreme Court ruled earlier today that the case should now be referred to the Commercial Court. The UK Supreme Court stated that it could not contradict the decision of the country's Executive, which alarmingly—and in a contradictory fashion—continues to recognize former deputy Juan Guaidó as "interim president." | The UK Supreme Court explained in its ruling that the UK courts cannot contradict the government, which claims to recognize the self-proclaimed president and not the Constitutional President, Nicolás…

Manuel Perez-Rocha (2021-12-21). Democratic Progress in Honduras, Setbacks in El Salvador. fpif.org With the election of Xiomara Castro as their next president, the Honduran people can hope that the state of terror they've lived in since the coup d'état in 2009 is a matter of the past. However, their neighbors in El Salvador are facing a different fate as president Nayib Bukele unleashes his dictatorial ambitions, plunging the country into a nightmare. | The two countries have taken a 180-degree turn and are now immersed in very different political trends. | During the past decade, El Salvador and Honduras went in opposite directions. | With the progressive Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) takin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-21). A New Chile, Integrated in Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Marco Teruggi The expectation of Chileans is that not only things will change in their country, but also the integration with their neighbors and the continent. A progressive agenda abroad. Santiago dawned calm, with blue skies after a long night. Gabriel Boric's presidential victory, quickly acknowledged by his opponent José Antonio Kast, quelled any speculative…

Fight Back (2021-12-21). Today is Stalin's birthday – here's what Mao had to say. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article written by Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong on the 60th birthday of Joseph Stalin. | Stalin, Friend of the Chinese People | On the Twenty-first of December, Comrade Stalin will be sixty years old. We can be sure that his birthday will evoke warm and affectionate congratulations from the hearts of all revolutionary people throughout the world who know of the occasion. | Congratulating Stalin is not a formality. Congratulating Stalin means supporting him and his cause, supporting the victory of socialism, and the way forward for mankind which he points ou…

Victoria Torres (2021-12-21). The End of Neoliberalism in Latin America?: Return of the Left. orinocotribune.com Without seeming like déjà vu, presidential candidates supported by progressive and left-wing parties and movements are regaining power on the Latin American continent. Everything indicates that it may be the end of neoliberalism once again. | The domino effect has reached Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, and more recently Chile, where the people have placed their hopes of progress on the new leftist presidency of Gabriel Boric, despite the hesitation by many on the left towards his statements on foreign policy. | Commander Hugo Chávez, alongside Fidel Castro, managed, at the beginni…

Staff (2021-12-21). Gabriel Boric Win in Chile Is "Huge Victory" for Social Movements That Fought Off Far-Right Threat. democracynow.org Former student activist and leftist Gabriel Boric will become Chile's youngest president after easily defeating the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast with over 55% of the vote. Boric has vowed to fight for progressive social reforms and overhaul the neoliberal economic policies left by the U.S.-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. We speak with Chilean writer Pablo Abufom and feminist activist Javiera Manzi, who say Boric's victory signals an opening for progressive policy in Chile and Latin America more broadly.

Roselena Ramirez (2021-12-21). Colombian Locals Make Rehabilitation of Trafficked Monkeys their Life's Work. america.cgtn.com According to the United Nations, one of the top 5 most profitable illicit businesses on the planet is illegal wildlife trafficking. It ranks 4th after narcotics, weapons, and human trafficking. One Colombian community in the Amazon is making a difference by rehabilitating orphaned monkeys that have …

Roselena Ramirez (2021-12-21). Mexican Cartels Blamed for Increased Violence in Ecuador's Prisons. america.cgtn.com Ecuador was left reeling when at least 120 inmates were killed in a Guayaquil jail. Local gangs linked with Mexican drug cartels were behind the slaughter in what is believed to be a fight over territory. The riot was the worst prison massacre in Ecuador's …

Roselena Ramirez (2021-12-21). Nicaragua Miskito People Facing the Worst of Climate Change. america.cgtn.com In November 2020, brutal back-to-back hurricanes smashed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, knocking down homes and trees and washing away beaches. The ferocity of the storms, and their frequency, scientists say, are signs of climate change. If this is the new normal, then Central America is …

Patricia Ferrer (2021-12-21). President Maduro Congratulates Chile's Next President Gabriel Boric. orinocotribune.com Gabriel Boric was elected as president of Chile by the Apruebo Dignidad coalition. The 35-year old former student leader is the youngest president in the history of the country. In his term as a deputy, and during his campaign, Boric raised the issues of inclusion, decentralization and equal rights as cornerstones of his electoral campaign but questioned Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, repeating a familiar US and European imperialist narrative. | When the results were announced, Boric was immediately congratulated by his counterparts through the region. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the election…

WSWS (2021-12-21). Brazil flying blind in Omicron surge as Bolsonaro attacks child vaccinations. wsws.org Preparing a response to the Omicron variant that will be a full-blown catastrophe, Bolsonaro announced plans to require medical prescriptions for child vaccinations.

Amy Goodman (2021-12-21). Social Movements in Chile Fend Off Far Right Threat With Gabriel Boric's Victory. truthout.org Former student activist and leftist Gabriel Boric will become Chile's youngest president after easily defeating the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast with over 55% of the vote. Boric has vowed to fight for progressive social reforms and overhaul the neoliberal economic policies left by the U.S.-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. We speak with Chilean writer Pablo Abufom and feminist activist Javiera Manzi, who say Boric's victory signals an opening for progressive policy in…

Brian Perez-Canto (2021-12-21). Chilean people reject fascist candidate Kast in presidential election. liberationnews.org Jose Antonio Kast — avowed supporter of the fascist Pinochet regime and son of a Nazi military officer — was defeated by progressive candidate Gabriel Boric in Sunday's runoff election to become the next president of Chile.

WSWS (2021-12-21). Chile's pseudo-left president-elect Gabriel Boric promises to work with far right. wsws.org Boric's government will be modeled in large measure on Spain's Podemos-Spanish Socialist Workers Party PSOE coalition, composed of thoroughly corrupt, pro-capitalist stooges.

Staff (2021-12-21). Venezuela Mourns Earle Herrera, Mentor for Journalists & Remarkable Chavista. orinocotribune.com Through his Twitter account, Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information Freddy àëáñez announced the passing of prominent journalist and remarkable Chavista Earle Herrera. "I am very sorry for the death of Earle Herrera, an institution in journalism, a lucid man and faithful to ideas," wrote àëáñez. "His articles accompanied us with humor and intelligence on sunny and rainy days, and now with his silence he will continue to demand more from us. Until we meet again, maestro." | Born in El Tigrito, Anzoátegui state, on April 23, 1949, Herrera was an outstanding professor at the Central Universit…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-21). Venezuela condemns British Supreme court ruling to maintain blockade on gold. peoplesdispatch.org The Central Bank of Venezuela has been engaged in a legal battle to recover 31 tons of public gold deposited at the Bank of England…

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