2021-12-05: News Headlines

teleSUR, yart, JL (2021-12-05). Detectan en Chile primer caso de la variante àìmicron. telesurtv.net El viajero detectado provenía de Ghana y fue puesto en aislamiento epidemiológico.

TASS (2021-12-05). No migration flows from Russia to Europe – Putin. tass.com The Russian president also called for depoliticizing the situation with migrants at Belarus' borders with European Union countries…

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-12-05). Rusia condena nuevas medidas de presión contra Belarús. telesurtv.net Moscú reitera que las medidas son un ejemplo de injerencia en asuntos internos de Estados soberanos.

Mnar Adley (2021-12-05). Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat "Kidnapped" by US Gov't Talks to MintPress. orinocotribune.com While Washington cannot choose the president of Venezuela, it can make life impossible for officials, such as Alex Saab, who attempt to defy its sanctions regime. | On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the wife of imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. | Saab was on a diplomatic mission to Iran in June 2020, where he was tasked with securing deals for food, medicine and personal protective equipment. His plane stopped off in Cabo Verde — a group of islands off the west coast of Africa — for a routine refueling. | He would never fin…

ecns.cn (2021-12-05). Chinese FM puts forward proposals on China-CELAC cooperation. ecns.cn Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday chaired the third Ministers' Meeting of the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (China-CELAC Forum) and put forward proposals on China-CELAC cooperation.

Staff (2021-12-05). Covid outbreak on cruise ship with over 3,000 passengers. rt.com Ten people have tested positive for Covid on board a Norwegian Cruise Line ship bound for New Orleans, despite the strict rules in place that required that all passengers and crew be vaccinated. | The vessel had departed the same city on November 28, and was scheduled to return there this weekend. On its route, the Norwegian Breakaway called at a number of ports in Belize, Honduras, and Mexico, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. More than 3,200 people are believed to be on board. Officials said in a statement that the cruise line "has been adhering to appropriate quarantine and isolation protocol…

Staff (2021-12-05). Minister Plasencia to Washington: 'You Cannot Torpedo Mexico Talks and Then Urge Its Resumption. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister, Félix Plasencia, responded this Friday, December 3, to the US Undersecretary of State, Victoria Nuland, that it has been the government of President Nicolás Maduro that has repeatedly promoted dialogue with the opposition, even at times of greatest political tension that was fostered by the Venezuelan extreme right supported precisely by Washington. | On Thursday, December 2, in a new interventionist act, Washington urged the administration of Nicolás Maduro to return to the negotiating table in Mexico. "Met yesterday with Venezuela's Unitary Platform to reaffirm US support f…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-12-05). México aplicará vacuna de refuerzo a partir del martes próximo. telesurtv.net El presidente mexicano subrayó que reforzarán la vacunación "porque eso es lo que está demostrado que ayuda".

teleSUR, JL (2021-12-05). Venezuela rechaza intento de magnicidio contra pdte. de Turquía. telesurtv.net "Venezuela manifiesta su solidaridad con el pueblo y Gobierno de Turquía ante estos repudiables hechos", indicó el Gobierno.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-05). Piden a la JEP de Colombia investigar desapariciones forzadas. telesurtv.net Denuncias recogidas en el área de Los Llanos Orientales apuntan a unidades del Ejército y grupos paramilitares como presuntos responsables.

teleSUR, yart, JL (2021-12-05). Frente Amplio llama a rechazar libertad de represores en Uruguay. telesurtv.net La Ley que rechazan las fuerzas políticas otorgaría libertad a los mayores de 65 años.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Talibanes rechazan ejecuciones de exmiembros de fuerzas armadas. telesurtv.net Estados Unidos y sus aliados occidentales acusan a los talibanes de ejecutar a exmiembros de las fuerzas de seguridad.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-05). EE.UU. amenaza a Rusia con nuevas medidas de presión. telesurtv.net Con ello la Casa Blanca busca evitar un presunto ataque de Rusia a Ucrania, tesis difundida por EE.UU. y medios occidentales.

teleSUR, jaa, JL (2021-12-05). Candidatos chilenos inician campaña de cara a segunda vuelta. telesurtv.net Se ha anunciado en Maipú la celebración de un concierto en apoyo al candidato Gabriel Boric.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Francisco pide en Lesbos evitar el naufragio de la civilización. telesurtv.net "¡No dejemos que el mare nostrum se convierta en un desolador mare mortuum", dijo Francisco.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Pdte. de Perú denuncia campaña mediática para sacarlo del poder. telesurtv.net "Saldrán audios, videos y muchos editados, pero lo que no pueden hacer es callarnos y doblegar los esfuerzos" del Gobierno, dijo Castillo.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Putin y Biden sostendrán encuentro virtual este 7 de diciembre. telesurtv.net En la videollamada el próximo 7 de diciembre, los mandatarios de Rusia y EE.UU. buscarán un acuerdo sobre Ucrania.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Río de Janeiro suspende festejos de fin de año por cepa àìmicron. telesurtv.net La falta de medidas contra el coronavirus de parte del Gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro, fue otras de las razones de la cancelación.

teleSUR, yart, JDO, JL (2021-12-05). Mujeres en Brasil lideran movilizaciones contra Jair Bolsonaro. telesurtv.net Durante la jornada, los manifestantes aseveran que con Bolsonaro se aumentó la desigualdad y al mismo tiempo, los decesos por el mal manejo de la pandemia.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-05). Mueren 33 civiles en presunto ataque yihadista en Malí. telesurtv.net Entre las víctimas, todas civiles, había embarazadas y madres con bebés. Ningún grupo armado ha reivindicado el hecho.

teleSUR, yart, JGN (2021-12-05). Conoce el legado social que Nelson Mandela dejó a la Humanidad. telesurtv.net Mandela es considerado uno de los luchadores sociales que más tiempo ha estado tras las rejas, víctima de injusticias.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-12-05). Europa se blinda ante la nueva variante de la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Al mismo tiempoi, aumentan las protestas en varios países europeos contra las medidas antiCovid.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-05). Conaie exige al Gobierno ecuatoriano que responda sus demandas. telesurtv.net Exigen al Ejecutivo congelar los precios de los combustibles y otras medidas para la reactivación económica.

teleSUR, yart, JL (2021-12-05). Comisión de Asamblea de Ecuador investigará escasez de fármacos. telesurtv.net Previamente, los pacientes de enfermedades catastróficas se manifestaron en los hospitales para pedir sus medicamentos.

teleSUR, jaa, JCM (2021-12-05). Gobierno israelí avala asesinato de joven palestino en Jerusalén. telesurtv.net Autoridades palestinas mostraron su rechazo ante el asesinato del joven de 25 años por fuerzas israelíes.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-12-05). Presentan querella contra gobernantes de facto en Bolivia. telesurtv.net La expresidenta de facto, Jeanine Áñez, y su ministro de Gobierno, Arturo Murillo, fueron acusados de torturas y tratos crueles.

Staff (2021-12-05). New US Military Provocation: Colombia Gets US Armored Vehicles. orinocotribune.com Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano, received from the US Ambassador to Colombia, Phillip Goldberg, the keys to 20 armored vehicles of model ASV M1117 Guardian which, the minister assured, will be deployed at Colombia's border with Venezuela. | These 20 vehicles make up the first batch of 145 military vehicles that Washington is donating to the Colombian army. | "This effort allows us to have more equipped troops, soldiers who fulfill their mission to face threats," said Molano at the Buenavista Military Cantonment in La Guajira, about 30 kilometers from the border with Venezuela's Zulia state, in a clear ac…

Staff (2021-12-05). Is this one of the most suspicious goals ever scored? (VIDEO). rt.com Colombian legend Juan Cuadrado has called into question two suspicious late goals which secured promotion for Union Magdalena in what is being called "an embarrassment for Colombian football". | The Colombian soccer players' association are crying foul and calling for an investigation after late goals scored in the 95th and 96th minute in Union Magdalena's fixture with Llaneros FC meant that El Union, who are based in the Santa Marta region of Magdalena in Colombia, confirmed their promotion to next season's Dimayor league. Llaneros were leading 1-0 deep into injury time before the dramatic late twist. | Foota…

Staff (2021-12-05). Ukraine warns EU about 5 million refugees. rt.com Ukraine's defense minister has decided to raise the specter of one of the European Union's major concerns — large scale migration — amid American-driven claims that Russia is planning an invasion of his country. | Alexey Reznikov, who took charge of Kiev's Defense Ministry in November, warns that up to five million of his country men and women could flee to the EU in the event of a full-scale war. A similar number are believed to have already left since 2014, about two million to Russia, and the rest to other European countries. | Writing for pro-NATO lobby group the Atlantic Council, Reznikov said…

sputniknews (2021-12-05). Defiant Tory MPs Slam Govt's Plans to Repel Migrant Boats Crossing Channel, Propose Alternative. sputniknews.com British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Home Secretary Priti Patel have been trying for weeks to quell the surge in illegal border crossing attempts by migrants sailing across the English Channel in small boats. They insist France is not doing enough to deal with an issue that has already led to dozens of deaths at sea.

National Organization of Women (2021-12-05). Tuesday 1/18: Justice at Our Border: Addressing the Hazards of Living as Undocumented Women. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Dakotah Lilly (2021-12-05). The Socialist Leader America Loves to Hate Wins Again. What now? orinocotribune.com By Dakotah Lilly — Nov 26, 2021 | Recent elections in Venezuela saw Nicolás Maduro's leftist ruling party win 20 out of 23 governorships. The US predictably cries foul, but I witnessed voting that was perfectly free and fair. | Western This smear is in direct contradict…

Staff (2021-12-05). Toda la historia está en un palacio que Cuba aprendió a querer (+ Fotos). cubadebate.cu Hace 45 años el yate está allí. Escaleras a ambos lados de la embarcación permiten el acceso para mirarlo más de cerca, a babor y estribor. Nadie entra. Una urna de cristal y hermetizada lo protege. Hay estrictas condiciones de temperatura y humedad para su conservación. El "Granma" forma parte del patrimonio que preserva el Museo de la Revolución, uno de los más importantes de Cuba.

Staff (2021-12-05). Continúan en Europa protestas contra medidas antipandemia. cubadebate.cu Cientos marcharon este domingo en Bruselas contra las medidas del Gobierno belga para combatir el coronavirus, luego de que miles se manifestaran el sábado en Holanda contra las restricciones en medio de niveles casi récord de infección. Más países reportaron la variante ómicron y en Alemania Angela Merkel hizo un nuevo llamado a la vacunación.

Staff (2021-12-05). Cuba reporta 88 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y dos fallecidos. cubadebate.cu Al cierre de este sábado, Cuba reportó 88 nuevos casos de COVID-19, para un acumulado de 963 090 desde marzo de 2020, y dos fallecidos. Actualmente hay 549 casos activos en el país, informó el Ministerio de Salud Pública (Minsap) en su parte diario.

Staff (2021-12-05). Indonesia: Rescatistas buscan sobrevivientes en área afectada por erupción del volcán Semeru y se mantiene la alerta. cubadebate.cu Grupos de rescatistas continuaban este domingo buscando sobrevivientes en un área afectada el sábado por la erupción del Semeru, en la isla de Java. Hasta el momento, se han reportado al menos 14 muertos y decenas de heridos, mientras expertos alertaron que el domo de lava en la cumbre del volcán podría seguir colapsando.

_____ (2021-12-04). 2021: Political Turning Point In Central America And The Caribbean. popularresistance.org With the background noise of migration to the United States and the recent victory of Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Central America and the Caribbean are at a turning point that will play an important role in the years to come in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region comes from processes of civil wars, historical colonization and systematic impoverishment; however, the facts are woven with this historical thread in which democracy and human rights are used in the interest of the hegemonic narrative to intervene and capture geostrategic resources. Three of the multiple processes taking place are described below.

Staff (2021-12-04). Twitter Removes 277 Venezuelan Accounts for Supporting Nicolás Maduro (Social Media Censorship). orinocotribune.com Twitter is back at the center of the global controversy over freedom of expression. On this occasion, the US company undertook the task of censoring thousands of accounts for their supposed security violations and breach of regulations and for an alleged "disclosure of state-linked information." | Hay un dataset de 277 cuentas de Venezuela.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Omicron outbreak in Sydney school as Australian governments reject safety measures. wsws.org Omicron already may be circulating widely in the working-class suburbs of western Sydney, given the known community transmission.

Sharmila Devi (2021-12-04). [World Report] Calls for international solutions to EU—Belarus border crisis. thelancet.com Humanitarian organisations warn that thousands of migrants are stuck, with many unable to access medical care, food, and water. Sharmila Devi reports.

scorinoco (2021-12-04). Peru and the Washington Summit. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo Espinoza Montesinos — Nov 24, 2021 | The White House usually has two attitudes towards elected governments in Latin American countries. When it comes to "friendly governments," that is, the ones genuflecting to the Empire's mandate, it extends its hand, offers them support, and guarantees them permanent assistance. | When, on the contrary, oppositional administrations arise, it rejects and disqualifies them, as is happening right now with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, or Bolivia. In the Peruvian case, a special phenomenon occurred. | It may be remembered here that in November last year, in the elect…

Fight Back (2021-12-04). Presidential victory in Honduras represents another loss for U.S. imperialism. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – In the early hours of June 28, 2009, Honduran soldiers snatched President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya from his home and removed him from power in a coup d'état with tacit support from the U.S. What followed was a brutal dictatorship that murdered, disappeared and oppressed Hondurans. In close collaboration with criminal cartels, the Honduran power elite implemented neoliberal policies, while violence and drugs plagued the country. It should come as no surprise that waves of Hondurans poured out into caravans headed north to seek asylum in the U.S. only to be met by the cruel denial of President Trump and U.S…

Seth Galinsky (2021-12-04). Fidel Castro: How Cuban working people made a socialist revolution. themilitant.com U.S. imperialism will never forgive working people in Cuba for overthrowing the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, replacing capitalist rule with a government of workers and farmers, nationalizing U.S. and Cuban companies and opening the first socialist revolution in the Americas. | That revolution was a product of the operations of capitalism, but it could not have charted a path to victory without the political leadership of Fidel Castro. The U.S. rulers hoped when he died Nov. 25, 2016, the revolution would die with him. But five years later, his ideas and example are looked to by millions in Cuba…

scorinoco (2021-12-04). Xiomara Castro and the Rebirth of Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ilka Oliva Corado — Nov 29, 2021 | The humiliations suffered by undocumented Central American migrants who try to cross Mexico to reach the United States, seeking to save themselves from the institutional violence of the narco-state, in the case of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, have hurt a lot. The famous northern triangle that is so much present here and there in discourses of politicians, in the discourse of transnational corporations that in exchange for a crumb that they throw from the rocking chair where they rock, placid and pompous; they take the entrails of the land that they are drying, be…

_____ (2021-12-04). UK Higher Education Workers Strike For Fair Pay, Working Conditions And Other Stories. popularresistance.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at the 3-day UCU strike by Higher Education workers across 58 universities in the UK to demand fair wages and job security; the re-imposition of the Migrant Protection Protocols by the U.S. and its implications for asylum seekers currently in Mexico and at the border; a report on rising hunger in the Latin America and the Caribbean region during the pandemic; and a Stand Earth report linking major brands like Nike and Adidas to cattle ranching operations fueling large-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

_____ (2021-12-04). UK Higher Education Workers Strike For Fair Pay, Working Conditions. popularresistance.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we look at the 3-day UCU strike by Higher Education workers across 58 universities in the UK to demand fair wages and job security; the re-imposition of the Migrant Protection Protocols by the U.S. and its implications for asylum seekers currently in Mexico and at the border; a report on rising hunger in the Latin America and the Caribbean region during the pandemic; and a Stand Earth report linking major brands like Nike and Adidas to cattle ranching operations fueling large-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-04). Venezuela Supports CELAC-China Cooperation — President Maduro Calls CELAC Vanguard of Patria Grande. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia ratified Venezuela's commitment to strengthening bi-regional cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, to face current post-pandemic challenges. | During his speech at the Third Meeting of Ministers of the CELAC-China Forum this Friday, December 3, Plasencia highlighted the Asian giant's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a promoter of cooperation of China with Latin America and the Caribbean. | The Venezuelan foreign affairs minister stressed that it is essential to translate into concrete projects the special declaration of the Third Minist…

teleSUR, avg, JGN (2021-12-04). Celebran 107 años de la Toma de Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net La Revolución Mexicana fue la primera experiencia revolucionaria en América Latina que llevó a los campesinos al poder en forma temporal.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Biden administration resumes Trump's "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy. wsws.org The White House announced a deal with Mexico to reinstate a former Trump-era policy whereby asylum seekers will be forced to stay in that country until their US immigration court date.

teleSUR, mcs, MER (2021-12-04). Pdte. mexicano agradece apoyo de China en lucha contra Covid-19. telesurtv.net El agradecimiento fue realizado de forma virtual durante la III Reunión Ministerial del Foro Celac – China.

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