(2021-12-13). Assange's Fiancee Accuses US Of Using UK As 'Executioner' In Plot To Kill WikiLeaks Founder. popularresistance.org Earlier this year, reports surfaced detailing alleged plots in 2017 to either kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, when he was five years into his political asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London. At the time, Assange's team hoped the revelation would helped their push to not have the publisher extradited to the US. | Stella Moris, the fiancee of Julian Assange, accused the UK on Sunday of playing the "executioner" in a US "plot" to kill the WikiLeaks publisher.
(2021-12-13). USA successfully appeals Assange case. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In Government of the United States v Julian Assange [2021] EWHC 3313 (Admin), the High Court allowed the appeal of the United States of America against the ruling of Westminster Magistrates' Court, thereby permitting the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder to the US where he faces criminal charges relating to the unlawful obtaining and publication …
(2021-12-13). Honduras' Left-Wing Breakthrough. popularresistance.org What appeared impossible has been achieved: the people of Honduras have broken the perpetuation, through electoral fraud and thuggish violence, of a brutal, illegal, illegitimate, and criminal regime. | By means of sheer resistance, resilience, mobilization, and organization, they have managed to defeat Juan Orlando Hernandez's narco-dictatorship at the ballot box. Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of the left-wing Libre party (the Freedom and Refoundation Party, in its Spanish acronym), obtained a splendid 50+ percent—between 15 to 20 percent more votes than her closest rival candidate, Nasry Asfura,…
(2021-12-13). La férrea determinación de la gente común de construir un mundo extraordinario. globalizacion.ca El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ha convocado a 111 países para que asistan a su Cumbre por la Democracia los días 9 y 10 de diciembre, que finalizará el Día de los Derechos Humanos. "Damos la bienvenida a…
(2021-12-13). Korean Feminists Shout "Ni Una Menos" (Not One Less). peoplesdispatch.org November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The date was first selected in 1981 to honor three sisters who had fought against the dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. In 2000, it was designated an international day by the United Nations. | The Korean government also designated the week for the elimination of violence against women in 1981, but reality hasn't changed a lot since then. That is why the Seoul Women's Association (SWA) and its sister organization the College Feminist Club Association decided to perform "Un violador en tu camino" ("A Rapist in Your Path"). The…
(2021-12-13). Danny Shaw on Honduras & Venezuela Elections + Movements in Haiti. towardfreedom.org Danny Shaw reported back on the Venezuela elections and his latest journey to meet with the movements in Haiti during Toward Freedom's December 2, 2021 webinar.
(2021-12-13). China And Nicaragua To Collab On New Multipolar World. popularresistance.org China and Nicaragua have resumed diplomatic relations in what Nicaragua's Presidential Advisor Laureano Ortega Murillo called "a historic date." The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua announced it had broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan, ceasing to have any contact or official relationship, in a statement by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada before Nicaraguan diplomats and press, on Thursday and effective immediately. Kawsachun News attended the meeting virtually.
(2021-12-13). Argentina — Los imprecisos y siempre espeluznantes efectos del default. globalizacion.ca Pocos periodistas han tenido la honestidad intelectual de plantearse las presuntas consecuencias del impago al FMI. Me imagino que Alejandro Bercovich, el único que conozco que lo hizo en su artículo øY si no le pagamos al fondo?, ha cometido…
(2021-12-13). "You can feel it, Lula president": crowd welcomes former president in Buenos Aires. peoplesdispatch.org The presence of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marked the return to the streets of the Day of Democracy mobilization in Buenos Aires on Friday November 10. The event began at 3pm in the historic Plaza de Mayo, a symbol of the struggle for human rights. With the slogan "Democracy forever", the mobilization gathered thousands of people. | Lula arrived in the country especially for the occasion. On the same stage where former Uruguayan president Pepe Mujica spoke, followed by vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and president Alberto Fernández, Lula listed the achievements of the so-called "deca…
(2021-12-13). Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes. The Che Guevara Commune lies on the fertile hillsides that rise up from the shores of Lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela. Historically this has been a cocoa-growing region but…
(2021-12-13). Venezuela: Why Chavismo Must Win in Barinas. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña Santo Domingo river canyon, in Barinitas, Barinas state (Photo: Archive). From the valley of the Santo Domingo river comes a strong wind called "Barinés" that descends from the Andean mountain range in a west-east direction during the rainy season, against the prevailing trade winds in most of the country. Contrary to what a…
(2021-12-13). Venezuelan Central Bank Latest Figures: Hyperinflation Might be Officially Gone Next Month. orinocotribune.com 
Caracas, December 12, 2021 ( According to the most accepted definition of hyperinflation, a country gets out of this phenomenon aft…
(2021-12-13). Biden vs. Maduro: øCambio de ruta? globalizacion.ca El reconocimiento del gobierno de Nicolás Maduro como representante legítimo de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas y las contradicciones emergentes dentro de los sectores más extremistas del antichavismo, exhiben el fracaso de…
(2021-12-12). November Elections in Latin America Panel: A South to North Perspective. orinocotribune.com Caracas, December 4, 2021 (OrinocoTribune.com)—On November 29, Orinoco Tribune, within the framework of its third anniversary celebration, organized a panel with experts about the very busy electoral schedule in Latin America during the month of November. These included presidential and parliamentary elections held in Nicaragua on November 7, followed by parliamentary elections in Argentina seven days later, and then regional and municipal elections in Venezuela and presidential elections in Chile one week after that, and presidential and regional elections in Honduras on November 28. We added Mexico to the…
(2021-12-12). Chile_Homenaje a Jane Vanini: revolucionaria e internacionalista brasileña. indybay.org Chile_Homenaje a Jane Vanini: internacionalista brasileña, ejemplo de combatiente revolucionaria | Homenaje que es Memoria y Contraimpunidad…
(2021-12-12). Cuba condemns politicization of Beijing Winter Olympics. ecns.cn The Cuban Olympic Committee (COC) on Friday condemned the politicization of the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
(2021-12-12). Muere a los 81 años el cantante mexicano Vicente Fernández. cubadebate.cu El cantante mexicano Vicente Fernández, ídolo popular de las rancheras, ha fallecido este domingo a los 81 años, según lo anunció su familia en un comunicado publicado en la cuenta oficial de Instagram del cantante. | "Lamentamos comunicarles su deceso el día domingo 12 de diciembre a las 6: 15 am", reza el comunicado.
(2021-12-12). Dec. 13 protests to support hunger strike against abuse in Louisiana ICE jails. liberationnews.org 
Protests will be held on Monday, December 13, in two press conference/rallies to call for an end to abusive treatment and denial of basic rights to refugees and migrants in Louisiana ICE detention centers.
(2021-12-12). Another Bloody Day Under the Biden Immigration Regime. strategic-culture.org Sadly, I don't mean "bloody" in the informal British sense. | By Bradley DEVLIN | America's current immigration regime, created and willed into being by our elites, simply manned at the moment by the Biden administration, finds itself morally responsible for yet another tragedy. | A thought that might jump into someone's mind is the conditions in migrant detention facilities have led to an untold number of deaths. Substitute "Biden" for "Trump" in that first sentence, and it sounds exactly like allegations you heard hurled at the Trump administration from 2018 on. (Remember "kids in cages"?) But, while conditions…
(2021-12-12). "We're Not Going to Mass" — How the Nicaraguan People are Punishing Their Coup-Mongering Priests. orinocotribune.com By Becca Mohally Renk — Dec 9, 2021 | "I'm Catholic. I still pray in my house every day. I just don't go to mass anymore." | We're sitting in a swept dirt yard outside of Managua talking with community leaders when the topic veers suddenly to Nicaragua's Catholic priests. | "I didn't hear this from somebody else, I saw it with my own eyes," says Marisol,* a no-nonsense woman in her sixties. The fervor of the words pouring out demonstrates the depth of emotions: her hurt, and her anger. | "I couldn't believe it. But there was my parish priest, standing in the back of a pickup truck with a megaphone, encouragi…
(2021-12-12). "We're Not Going to Mass." — How the Nicaraguan People are Punishing Their Coup-Mongering Priests. orinocotribune.com By Becca Mohally Renk — Dec 9, 2021 | "I'm Catholic. I still pray in my house every day. I just don't go to mass anymore." | We're sitting in a swept dirt yard outside of Managua talking with community leaders when the topic veers suddenly to Nicaragua's Catholic priests. | "I didn't hear this from somebody else, I saw it with my own eyes," says Marisol,* a no-nonsense woman in her sixties. The fervor of the words pouring out demonstrates the depth of emotions: her hurt, and her anger. | "I couldn't believe it. But there was my parish priest, standing in the back of a pickup truck with a megaphone, encouragi…
(2021-12-12). Chile: Exigen reparación integral para las víctimas de violaciones de Derechos Humanos. cubadebate.cu El Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos de Chile (INDH) pidió el sábado al Estado una ley de reparación integral a las víctimas de violaciones de derechos humanos ocurridas durante las manifestaciones de 2019 en el país suramericano. Sergio Micco, director del INDH, hizo la demanda tras lamentar el suicidio del joven Patricio Pardo, de 26 años.
(2021-12-12). Calderon Berti: G4 Cannot Have Monopoly on Power. orinocotribune.com Humberto Calderon Berti, former Venezuelan "ambassador" to Colombia illegally appointed by Juan Guaidó, have made some new and controversial statements in a recent interview, calling for an end to the G4 monopoly, which reveals, among other things, the internal contradictions within the hard right opposition platform. G4 is the group of hard core extreme right political parties of Venezuela that have supported the failed US "Guaido project," and comprises the parties Popular Will, Democratic Action, Un Nuevo Tiempo, and Justice First. | Berti is known for making public the theft of "humanitarian aid" money in 201…
(2021-12-12). Barbados: The Long Road To The Republic. popularresistance.org On November 30, 2021, on the 55th anniversary of its political independence, Barbados will become a republic. It is commonly assumed this was some sudden decision by Mia Mottley's government. The most bizarre suggestion came from British voices, who asserted this had to do with Barbados tilting to China. But the roots of this change go back decades, and are anchored in the politics of the wider Caribbean. | Forbes Burnham's decision in 1970 to proclaim the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, and Eric Williams's push towards the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in 1976, are the key precedents. Both were underpinned by…
(2021-12-12). A Holistic Approach is Needed to Respond to Future Shocks in the Caribbean. moderndiplomacy.eu I started my new job as World Bank Director for the Caribbean this summer and I must say it was baptism by fire. Although, luckily, the 2021 hurricane season in the Caribbean was not that bad, the region saw quite a few serious calamities. In April, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines dealt with a volcano, …
(2021-12-12). Lennon: El recuerdo perenne, el homenaje siempre. cubadebate.cu Hace pocos días se cumplió otro aniversario de la muerte de John Lennon. A propósito le compartimos este fotorreportaje que ilustra la presencia de este símbolo de la música en varios escenarios, desde New York a La Habana. Flores, versos, música, escultura.
(2021-12-12). Cuba reporta 62 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y ninguna persona fallecida. cubadebate.cu Al cierre del día de ayer, 11 de diciembre, se encuentran ingresados 2 mil 778 pacientes, sospechosos 2 mil 185, en vigilancia 262 y confirmados activos 331. Para la COVID-19 se realizaron un total de 18 mil 970 muestras para la vigilancia en el día, resultando positivas 62. El país acumula 11 millones 328 mil 647 muestras realizadas y 963 mil 628 positivas.
(2021-12-12). COVID-19 en el mundo: øCómo se comporta la pandemia? cubadebate.cu Rusia registró hoy 29 mil 929 nuevos casos de Covid-19, la menor cifra desde el pasado 13 de octubre, según el estado mayor nacional para el enfrentamiento al coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Con esta cantidad, suman 10 millones 16 mil 896 los positivos en el país desde el inicio de la pandemia. En este momento, 986 mil 58 rusos continúan bajo tratamiento médico.
(2021-12-12). El Mayor niño en la película El Mayor. cubadebate.cu Alejandro se embulló cuando vio por Cubavisión el spot convocando a menores interesados en interpretar el personaje de Ignacio Agramonte en la película El Mayor. El papá lo recogió en la escuela primaria José Luis Tassende, donde estudiaba y lo invitó a entrar en la sala teatral aledaña, escogida para iniciar el proyecto de selección.
(2021-12-12). El diario perdido de Humboldt llega a Cuba. cubadebate.cu Durante mucho tiempo este tesoro escrito, que contiene el diario de Humboldt en La Habana, se consideró perdido, hasta que reapareció en 2005. Hoy regresa a Cuba mediante una nueva publicación en español. La Colección Ediciones Bachiller, de la Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí, tiene el privilegio y la premier mundial de llevarlo al papel.
(2021-12-12). El Baràßa cede en los minutos finales y empata 2-2 ante el Osasuna. cubadebate.cu El coraje de Gavi, el oportunismo de Nico y el descaro de Abde no le bastaron al Barcelona de Xavi para iniciar la tan anunciada nueva era con una victoria en Pamplona. El Baràßa empató a dos en El Sadar en un típico partido entre equipos de media tabla después de que en los minutos finales del duelo el equipo blaugrana volviera a diluirse ante el empuje del rival.
(2021-12-12). Ciencia, tecnología y propiedad de las empresas: øCuál es el vínculo? cubadebate.cu Construir el socialismo implica construir una base económica que sea propiedad de la sociedad en su conjunto. Con diversas modalidades y actores, y diversas formas de propiedad (como establece nuestra Constitución), pero siempre en función de los intereses de toda la sociedad.