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2021-11-01: News Headlines

Editor (2021-11-01). Cuba-Vietnam: on the road to vaccine self-reliance. mronline.org Unlike the agreements entered into by Western multinational corporations such as Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, the Cuba-Vietnam agreement sets a precedent of solidarity and prioritizes people's health over business profits.

Alexa Pantuck (2021-11-01). Immigrant rights activists in Los Angeles demand: Ignore the Parliamentarian! liberationnews.org The rally was a reminder that organized mass struggle is the key to liberation and that a diverse, multicultural, and internationalist labor movement is essential for working class gains.

Special to People's World (2021-11-01). Historic U.S.- Cuba cultural exchange coming to NYC. peoplesworld.org Chicago's iconic HotHouse announced they are proud to be a producer of the momentous cultural exchange "A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams" / "Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales," an historic and collaborative, multimedia event presented live and via exclusive online broadcasts. The first event of the series will …

teleSUR, JCM, SH (2021-11-01). Accidente en una cueva en Brasil deja nueve bomberos muertos. telesurtv.net Alrededor de 75 bomberos y socorristas trabajaron durante todo el día en las labores de búsqueda y rescate en el lugar de los hechos.

Fight Back (2021-11-01). Spokesperson for New People's Army murdered by Armed Forces of Philippines. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 31 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | Ka Oris (Jorge Madlos), spokesperson of the New People's Army (NPA), was not killed in an armed encounter. He was ambushed on the road between Impasug-ong town proper and the national highway at 8 pm of Oct 29. He and his medical aide were riding a motorcycle on their way to seek medical treatment. This is according to his wife Ka Maria Malaya. | Ka Oris and aide Eighfel Dela Peña (Ka Pika) were both unarmed when ambushed. Whether they were ambushed while moving or were accosted and thereafte…

Editor (2021-11-01). Mexico's AMLO blasts IMF for causing global crisis, after Fund takes aim at his energy policy. mronline.org The IMF caused social and economic decadence in the world; they and other international financial organisations are responsible for the global crisis.

Ann Brown (2021-11-01). Minister Bernice King Goes In On Biden's $450,000 Border Family Proposal: Why Not Consider Reparations For Black America? moguldom.com Unconfirmed reports that President Joe Biden is considering paying $450,000 each to people separated from their families at the southern border over the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy have upset the daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Immigrant families were separated from their children after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. seeking …

teleSUR, JCM (2021-11-01). México ofrece a migrantes la atención de personas vulnerables. telesurtv.net Autoridades mexicanas lamentan que la situación de algunos personas de la caravana de migrantes se use con fines mediáticos.

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Argentina and Bolivia Propose IMF Debt-For-Climate Swap. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez and Bolivian President Luis Arce ratified their joint position for the protection of the environment ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). | RELATED: | "We bring the same voice to this conference. We will fight for the rights of Mother Earth and support each countries' challenges to curb climate change," Arce stated and demanded that developed countrie…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). COP26 Begins As Countries Plan Future Actions On Climate Change. telesurenglish.net The 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26), delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. | RELATED: | "We postponed COP26 by a year. But during that year, climate change did not take time off… And we know that the window to keep 1.5 degrees within reach is closing… We know that our shared planet is changing for the worse. And we can o…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Fuel Pipeline Explosion Leaves 15 Mexicans Injured in Puebla. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, a gas line in Puebla city exploded, killing one person, injuring 15 citizens, and damaging 54 dwellings. This accident was apparently caused by several illegal taps used by the population to steal fuel. | Related | About 80 minutes before the explosion, authorities received warnings of gas smell in the zone. They were able to evacuate near 2,000 residents and created a one-mille perimeter around the leak. Without these actions, the da…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). 67 Percent of the Venezuelans Are Already Vaccinated. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that the Bolivarian government has already vaccinated 67 percent of the country's population and hopes to immunize 80 percent of the eligible citizens by the end of November. | Related | At least seven states have already surpassed 70 percent of vaccinated population: Tachira, Caracas, La Guaira, Miranda, Carabobo, Cojedes and Merida. | Despite the U.S. blockade, this South American nation has been a…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Protests to Escalate in India if Mody Keeps Anti-Farmers Laws. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) warned that Indian farmers will blockade New Delhi city if Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not repeal his pro-corporate land laws by Nov. 26. | RELATED: | "From Nov. 27 onwards, farmers will drive their tractors from villages to protest sites surrounding Delhi. With solid fortifications, they will strengthen the movement," the BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said, as reported by Industan Times.

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Portugal: Subway Workers Go On Strike Amid Lisbon Web Summit. telesurenglish.net Metro workers will carry out a strike in a week in which Portugal receives some 40,000 people for the 2021 Web Summit in Lisbon. | RELATED: | On Tuesday, the subway will only start operating at 10: 15 a.m. instead of the usual time at 6: 30 a.m. Then, there will be no shuttle service from 11: 00 PM on Wednesday to 6: 30 AM on Friday. Besides rejecting the wage freeze, the Federation of Transport and Communication Tra…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Cuba Shares Its Environmental Development Experience at COP26. telesurenglish.net On Oct. 31, Cuba's Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) Secretary Elba Perez arrived in Glasgow to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26). | Related | Besides urging the world's richest countries to transform their economies to contain global warming, she will share some of her nation's experiences in dealing with climate change. | On Wednesday, there will be a panel to examine Cuba's eff…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Gunmen Left Mexican Journalist On Bench After Shooting Him. telesurenglish.net Mexican journalists took to the streets of Acapulco City to demand justice for Alfredo Cardoso, the founder of Two Coasts digital media who died on Sunday in a hospital due to the shots he received on Friday. | RELATED: | "Armed men kidnapped Cardoso from his home and, after shooting him five times, they left him sitting on a bench. This crime cannot go unpunished; violence against journalists must stop in Acapulco City," protesters…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Chile: Presidential Debate to Tackle Climate Crisis. telesurenglish.net On Monday, five Chilean presidential candidates will debate topics such as education, culture, and sustainable development. The event will take place at the University of Chile and is promoted by 20 youth organizations among which are Chile Youth, Escazu Now, and the CON-CIENCIA community. | Related | The "It's the Planet's Turn" event will be attended by canditates Gabriel Boric (Approve Dignity), Yasna Provoste (New Social Pact…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Assange's Isolation In UK Prison Risks His Life: UN Rapporteur. telesurenglish.net In an interview with the outlet Russia Today on Saturday, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer stated that the psychological problems that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces stem from the abuse he suffers in U.K. Belmarsh high-security prison. | RELATED: | Melzer visited Assange at Belmarsh prison in May 2019 with a team of medical experts, all of whom concluded that this acti…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-11-01). Ejército de Nicaragua garantiza seguridad en las elecciones. telesurtv.net El Ejército de Nicaragua desplegará 15 mil efectivos militares durante los comicios generales del 7 de noviembre.

teleSUR (2021-11-01). G20 Summit Ends With Emphasis On Climate, Global Corporate Tax. telesurenglish.net The Group of 20 summit drew to a close on Sunday, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi saying that progress on key issues including climate change, COVID-19 vaccines distribution, and global tax reform made him "profoundly optimistic" about the role multilateralism can play in global affairs. | RELATED: | Leaders from the world's major economies met, virtually or in person, in Rome on Saturday and Sunday to forma…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). President Nicolas Maduro Receives ICC Prosecutor Karim AA Khan. telesurenglish.net At the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Monday morning, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro received the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A.A. Khan QC, to inaugurate the three-day agenda in which it is planned to hold meetings with the authorities and interested parties. | Within the framework of the meeting, President Maduro thanked the Prosecutor for having devoted himself to getting to know the Venezuela case in depth and for his willingness to meet in situ with the national authorities in the spirit of cooperation with the ICC. | This meeting was f…

teleSUR (2021-11-01). Spain Investigates Security Company That Spied Assange In London. telesurenglish.net Spain's Fifth Central Court of Instruction opened five criminal actions against the security company Undercover Global (UC Global) Director David Morales for illegally spying on Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London while the WikiLeaks founder political asylum from 2016 to 2019. | RELATED: | Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) hired this company to ensure the safety of Assange, whom the U.S.

teleSUR, SH (2021-11-01). Exigen justicia en México por el asesinato de otro periodista. telesurtv.net La gobernadora del estado de Guerrero confirmó la muerte del periodista Alfredo Cardoso en la ciudad de Acapulco.

Staff (2021-11-01). Venezuela Reports 794 New COVID-19 Cases on Saturday. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, October 30, Venezuela recorded 794 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, of them, 792 were of community transmission and 2 were imported from Panama with entry through the state of La Guaira. This was reported by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. | Through her Twitter account, Rodríguez, the head of the Presidential Commission for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19, reported that the community cases of the day were registered in 20 states: Carabobo (184), Lara (144), Yaracuy (101), Miranda (84), La Guaira (76), Caracas (64), Zulia (55), Trujillo (22), Sucre (15), Aragua (14), Barinas (…

Steve Ellner (2021-11-01). Venezuela's November elections: Washington's new strategy but same old assumptions. greenleft.org.au United States president Joe Biden's administration is urging the Venezuelan opposition to participate in the state and local elections slated for November 21, writes Steve Ellner. However, Washington's change of tack doesn't mean it won't continue meddling.

MEE staff (2021-11-01). Guantanamo Bay: US military jury condemns detainee's torture. middleeasteye.net Guantanamo Bay: US military jury condemns detainee's torture | A panel of jurors urged clemency for Majid Khan, who last week openly described his torture at CIA black sites | Mon, 11/01/2021 – 16: 44 | The US flag at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 7 August 2013 (AFP) | A jury of

teleSUR, rp, JGN, SH (2021-10-31). Cinco canciones para recordar del cantautor Alí Primera. telesurtv.net Este 31 de octubre se cumplen 80 años del natalicio del cantautor venezolano del Alí Primera, ocasión propicia para rendir homenaje a su legado cultural en América Latina.

ecns.cn (2021-10-31). China, Mexico agree to deepen cooperation. ecns.cn China attaches great importance to its relations with Mexico and is willing to work with Mexico to push for greater development of China-Mexico ties, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Saturday while meeting his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Se suman cada vez más personas a caravana migrante en México. telesurtv.net El Instituto Nacional de Migración ofreció tarjetas humanitarias a alrededor de mil 500 integrantes de grupos vulnerables.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Seis canciones para recordar a Agustín Lara en su natalicio. telesurtv.net El compositor y músico mexicano nació en el estado de Veracruz un 30 de octubre de 1897.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-31). Estado mexicano de Baja California aprueba despenalizar el aborto. telesurtv.net Baja California se unió a Ciudad de México, Oaxaca, Veracruz e Hidalgo como las entidades mexicanas que permiten la interrupción del embarazo.

teleSUR (2021-10-31). Colombia: Massacres Climb to 82 So Far This Year. telesurenglish.net In Colombia, a new massacre was reported in the El Carmen municipality located in the Norte de Santander department, where three men were killed. | RELATED: | The victims were taken from their homes to the border area of the Caracoli and El Carmen, where they were killed by armed men. | The corpses were found on Saturday in a wooded sector. They had been shot in the face and extremities. | The victims have not b…

teleSUR (2021-10-31). Activists March to Glasgow To Urge Solutions for Climate Change. telesurenglish.net Activists gathered in Glasgow to urge world leaders to take action on climate change in the framework of the COP26 Climate Conference. | RELATED: | The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) opened on Sunday as an effort to tackle global warming in the upcoming years. | The goal of limiting global warming to about 1.5 ∫C was established six years ago in the Paris Agreement (COP21). Recent projections est…

teleSUR -HIM, JCM (2021-10-31). Venezuela y Cuba fortalecen solidaridad y cooperación. telesurtv.net A lo largo de 21 años del Convenio Integral de Cooperación se han desarrollado 1.487 proyectos entre ambas naciones.

teleSUR (2021-10-31). ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan Starts a Three-day Visit to Venezuela. telesurenglish.net The ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan arrived Sunday in Venezuela to meet with the Bolivarian government authorities. | RELATED: | The visit responds to a formal invitation extended by the Venezuelan State through the Office of the Attorney General. | Khan will remain for three days in the country where he will learn about progress in the State institutions and cooperation. | In November last year, Venezuelan authorities…

teleSUR (2021-10-31). Japan: Ruling Liberal Democratic Party Won Elections. telesurenglish.net Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its election coalition partner, the Buddhist Komeito party, won the parliamentary elections held on Sunday. | RELATED: | The LDP-Komeito alliance won a parliamentary majority of 290 seats. The main opposition party, Japan's Democratic Constitutional Party (CDP) secured 93 seats. | The election day was marred by a knife attack perpetrated by a 24-year-old man in the Tokyo subw…

teleSUR (2021-10-31). Activists Mark the Day of Solidarity With Cuba Worldwide. telesurenglish.net Car and bicycle caravans rallied Sunday to mark the Day of Solidarity with Cuba in the U.S. and other nations. | RELATED: | San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Albuquerque, and Minnesota joined the initiative promoted by solidarity groups, Cuban residents, and the Bridges of Love project. | Car and bicycle rides in support of the Cuban people were also reported in Ottawa and Vancouver. | Activist…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Nicaragua acreditó a 180 acompañantes electorales. telesurtv.net La vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, informó este viernes que serán 180 los acompañantes electorales.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-31). Irán califica de poco confiable al Gobierno de EE.UU. telesurtv.net Irán afirmó que las presiones de EE.UU. no socavarán la voluntad del pueblo persa para defender la seguridad de la nación.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Bolivia y Perú suscriben decenas de acuerdos en diversas materias. telesurtv.net Los presidentes de Bolivia y Perú encabezaron la VI Reunión del Gabinete Ministerial Binacional.

scorinoco (2021-10-31). Cuban Leader: The US Government is the True Organizer and Promoter of the Provocation Planned for November in Cuba (+Video). orinocotribune.com The program La Mesa Redonda transmitted a special presentation by compañero Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), as part of

Staff (2021-10-31). Bolivia and Peru Strengthen Historic Ties in Binational Cabinet Meeting. orinocotribune.com The President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, visited Bolivia to lead, together with President Luis Arce, a meeting between the ministries of the two countries. They signed 10 agreements, in order to coordinate tasks for the benefit of the peoples on both sides of the border. | The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, arrived in the city of La Paz to lead, together with President Luis Arce, the binational cabinet meeting between the two countries. They signed agreements for the period 2021-2022 on environmental issues, hydrocarbons, culture and also on Lake Titicaca, which both countries share. The meeting was marked by t…

Staff (2021-10-31). Vuelta a la Patria: 94 Venezuelans Return Home from Ecuador for Free. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan government, by virtue of its commitment for the protection of Venezuelans abroad, in coordination with State airline CONVIASA, facilitated the safe return of 94 Venezuelans from the Republic of Ecuador, free of charge, as part of the Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland) program. | Among the repatriated Venezuelans are children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, natives of the states of Zulia, Yaracuy, Trujillo, Táchira, Sucre, Nueva Esparta, Monagas, Miranda, Mérida, Lara, Carabobo and the Capital District, according to a press release. | During their boarding at the José Joaquín Olmedo I…

Editor2 (2021-10-31). Ecuadorians Take the Streets Against President Lasso's Government. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, October 27, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians participated in mobilizations across the country for the second consecutive day against neoliberal economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso. In some cities, protesters blocked the roads. In the capital Quito, officials of the national police force repressed the peacefully demonstrating protesters. The call to continue the mobilizations for a second day was given on the late night of October 26, after various demonstrations in different parts of the country were violently repressed by the police and military forces and over three do…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-31). Workers of Attorney General's Office in Paraguay begins one-month strike. peoplesdispatch.org The workers of the Attorney General's Office are protesting the budget cuts announced in the ministry for 2022. The unions have condemned that the reduction in budget will affect various areas of its competence in addition to its daily functioning…

Ana Perdigón (2021-10-31). Conviasa to Reactivate its Caracas-Madrid Air Route. orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 29, the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services (Conviasa) announced the reopening of its Caracas-Madrid air route, as several international airlines that had closed operations due to the pandemic have been gradually reactivating their flight schedules. | This information was provided by the deputy minister of air transport and president of Venezuela's national airline, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, in an interview with Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). | However, Velásquez Araguayán pointed out that the reopening depends on the Presidential Commission for the Prevention…

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2021-10-31: News Headlines

teleSUR, rp, JGN, SH (2021-10-31). Cinco canciones para recordar del cantautor Alí Primera. telesurtv.net Este 31 de octubre se cumplen 80 años del natalicio del cantautor venezolano del Alí Primera, ocasión propicia para rendir homenaje a su legado cultural en América Latina.

ecns.cn (2021-10-31). China, Mexico agree to deepen cooperation. ecns.cn China attaches great importance to its relations with Mexico and is willing to work with Mexico to push for greater development of China-Mexico ties, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Saturday while meeting his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Seis canciones para recordar a Agustín Lara en su natalicio. telesurtv.net El compositor y músico mexicano nació en el estado de Veracruz un 30 de octubre de 1897.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Se suman cada vez más personas a caravana migrante en México. telesurtv.net El Instituto Nacional de Migración ofreció tarjetas humanitarias a alrededor de mil 500 integrantes de grupos vulnerables.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-31). Estado mexicano de Baja California aprueba despenalizar el aborto. telesurtv.net Baja California se unió a Ciudad de México, Oaxaca, Veracruz e Hidalgo como las entidades mexicanas que permiten la interrupción del embarazo.

teleSUR -HIM, JCM (2021-10-31). Venezuela y Cuba fortalecen solidaridad y cooperación. telesurtv.net A lo largo de 21 años del Convenio Integral de Cooperación se han desarrollado 1.487 proyectos entre ambas naciones.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Bolivia y Perú suscriben decenas de acuerdos en diversas materias. telesurtv.net Los presidentes de Bolivia y Perú encabezaron la VI Reunión del Gabinete Ministerial Binacional.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-31). Nicaragua acreditó a 180 acompañantes electorales. telesurtv.net La vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, informó este viernes que serán 180 los acompañantes electorales.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-31). Irán califica de poco confiable al Gobierno de EE.UU. telesurtv.net Irán afirmó que las presiones de EE.UU. no socavarán la voluntad del pueblo persa para defender la seguridad de la nación.

Staff (2021-10-31). Bolivia and Peru Strengthen Historic Ties in Binational Cabinet Meeting. orinocotribune.com The President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, visited Bolivia to lead, together with President Luis Arce, a meeting between the ministries of the two countries. They signed 10 agreements, in order to coordinate tasks for the benefit of the peoples on both sides of the border. | The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, arrived in the city of La Paz to lead, together with President Luis Arce, the binational cabinet meeting between the two countries. They signed agreements for the period 2021-2022 on environmental issues, hydrocarbons, culture and also on Lake Titicaca, which both countries share. The meeting was marked by t…

Editor2 (2021-10-31). Ecuadorians Take the Streets Against President Lasso's Government. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, October 27, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians participated in mobilizations across the country for the second consecutive day against neoliberal economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso. In some cities, protesters blocked the roads. In the capital Quito, officials of the national police force repressed the peacefully demonstrating protesters. The call to continue the mobilizations for a second day was given on the late night of October 26, after various demonstrations in different parts of the country were violently repressed by the police and military forces and over three do…

Staff (2021-10-31). Vuelta a la Patria: 94 Venezuelans Return Home from Ecuador for Free. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan government, by virtue of its commitment for the protection of Venezuelans abroad, in coordination with State airline CONVIASA, facilitated the safe return of 94 Venezuelans from the Republic of Ecuador, free of charge, as part of the Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland) program. | Among the repatriated Venezuelans are children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, natives of the states of Zulia, Yaracuy, Trujillo, Táchira, Sucre, Nueva Esparta, Monagas, Miranda, Mérida, Lara, Carabobo and the Capital District, according to a press release. | During their boarding at the José Joaquín Olmedo I…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-31). Workers of Attorney General's Office in Paraguay begins one-month strike. peoplesdispatch.org The workers of the Attorney General's Office are protesting the budget cuts announced in the ministry for 2022. The unions have condemned that the reduction in budget will affect various areas of its competence in addition to its daily functioning…

Editor2 (2021-10-30). Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out Against Western Media and NGOs "The Creators of Fake News Took Charge of Spreading the Word …Through Facebook" orinocotribune.com By Rick Sterling — Oct 28, 2021 | Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on November 7. According to At the same time, the Sandinista government is intensely disliked by Washington and there has been a steady stream of negative news and accusations. | One theme of accusations concerns the indigenous peoples. In Oct…

Staff (2021-10-30). Diplomat Alex Saab Will Plead Not Guilty to Charges Brought by the US. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was kidnapped by the United States from Cape Verde on October 16, will plead not guilty to the charges of "money laundering" of which he is accused of by the US. This was informed by his defense attorney Henry Bell on Thursday, October 28. | With this decision by Saab, made public through a press release from the diplomat's legal defense, the claims of certain "sources" and mainstream media that Saab was "collaborating" and negotiating with the US government have been proved false. | Saab was illegally detained in Cape Verde on June 12, 2020, when the plane in which he was trave…

Staff (2021-10-30). La alianza Cuba-Venezuela es un puente de solidaridad. cubadebate.cu Con total apego a la ética y al sentido del deber, más de 255 000 colaboradores de la Isla han prestado servicios en la República Bolivariana a través del Convenio Integral de Colaboración Cuba-Venezuela que este 30 de octubre celebra su vigésimo primer aniversario de existencia y evoca las firmas históricas de los Comandantes Fidel y Chávez.

scorinoco (2021-10-30). Venezuelan Embassy in Barbados Launches Fact-Sheet on Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com Bridgetown, October 28, 2021—After the illegal arrest of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab in Cape Verde in June 2020, and particularly after his illegal deportation to the US a fortnight ago, a great number of important articles and interviews have been published online to raise awareness of the serious violations against Saab, Venezuela and the International Law. | In this regard, the Embassy of Venezuela in Barbados took upon itself the task of bringing all these articles and interviews together, along with primary sources, such as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the report by the UN Rappor…

Juan Cole (2021-10-30). It is the Israeli Occupation of the Stateless Palestinians that is the settler Colonial State, and, yes, Apartheid. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Apologists for Israeli policy have taken umbrage at the characterization of Israel as a settler colonial state that practices Apartheid. They argue that Israel is unlike the settler colonial societies (the United States, French Algeria, Brazil, Mexico and all of Latin America, Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia) in that it established …

Sarah Hodges, Julia Hornberger, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Shalini Rudra, Christopher Sirrs, Nishpriha Thakur, Sharifah Sekalala (2021-10-30). [Correspondence] When suspicion replaces evidence in public health. thelancet.com The UK Government's decision not to recognise people as vaccinated if they received COVID-19 vaccines in most of Latin America, Africa, and south Asia received widespread condemnation.1 Many commentators have rightly called out this discriminatory policy, which unfairly targets people from low-income countries. However, as a group of scholars from the medical humanities and social sciences, we are particularly concerned that the way in which the government makes decisions about which countries are exempt from quarantine once fully vaccinated dispenses with evidence-based policy making.

Fight Back (2021-10-30). Philippines: Condemn Philippine National Police massacre of peasants in Masbate. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 25 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the massacre of at least five peasants yesterday early morning in Barangay Bugtong, Mandaon town in Masbate province. | Contrary to the PNP's claims in their press releases, the victims were not members of the New People's Army (NPA). The PNP identified one of the victims as Eddie/Arnold Rosero, a local resident. | According to the NPA's Regional Operational Command in Bicol,…

WSWS (2021-10-30). The Glasgow summit, climate change, and the case for socialism. wsws.org The past two years have seen a series of escalating climate disasters in all regions of the globe, including massive wildfires from the Australian bush to the American west, devastating flooding in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and deadly heatwaves the world over.

Pedro Brieger (2021-10-30). El nuevo fantasma ruso en América Latina. globalizacion.ca A mediados del siglo XIX Marx y Engels escribieron que el fantasma del comunismo recorría Europa. En el siglo XX ese mismo fantasma recorrió el mundo. Ahora, en el siglo XXI, la comunicación es el nuevo fantasma que acecha. Esto…

WSWS (2021-10-30). Australian state government bars COVID-related school closures despite escalating infections. wsws.org The Committee for Public Education's daily tallies of school closures have been viewed online this month by tens of thousands of people.

Tony López R. (2021-10-30). El próximo objetivo militar de Estados Unidos en América Latina. globalizacion.ca Varios son los elementos que indican que Estados Unidos, teniendo como aliados a Colombia y Brasil, se apresta a desencadenar una operación militar contra Venezuela, utilizando como argumento que su presidente Nicolas Maduro Moro, es uno de los grandes responsables…

Editor2 (2021-10-30). AMLO Wants Clarification of the Colosio Murder Case. orinocotribune.com In February, Mario Aburto, who was convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Colosio in 1994, requested that his case be reopened so that "the society knows the truth." | On Thursday, October 28, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered State protection to Mario Aburto, who has claimed that the had police tortured him and forced him to plead guilty for the murder of the Institutionalist Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994. | "If it can be proved that he was tortured, he was threatened, and he has kept silent because of it… the Mexican sta…

_____ (2021-10-30). Mexico Will Create A State-Owned Company For Lithium Production. popularresistance.org The government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to create a state-owned company for the exploration and exploitation of lithium, announced the Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle. | In an interview to local media, the official highlighted on Wednesday that "lithium is a strategic mineral," and gave as an example its use as a "raw material for the manufacture of electric batteries." | According to Nahle, this state-owned company would be established in the secondary law of the energy reform proposed by the Mexican president. "It is going to pass for the exploitation of lithium," she emphasized. | She al…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-30). Migrantes que avanzan por México ya rondan la cifra de 5.000. telesurtv.net La Marcha por la Paz, la Justicia y por la Libertad de los Migrantes va rumbo a Acacoyagua y Mapastepec, en Chiapas.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-30). EE.UU. intenta rescindir programa migratorio Quédate en México. telesurtv.net Funcionarios estadounidenses indicaron que si bien el programa contribuyó a reducir el flujo migratorio, lo hizo imponiendo sufrimiento a miles de migrantes.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Caravan challenges Mexico's complicity in US assault on immigrants. wsws.org Chanting "We are not criminals, we are workers, we are immigrants" and "Libertad, Libertad," at least 2,000 migrants marched out of Tapachula, Mexico on October 23.

sputniknews (2021-10-30). Fully Preserved 1,000-Year-Old Canoe Found in Cave in Mexico. sputniknews.com MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Scientists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered a Mayan canoe, dated 9th-10th century AD, in a flooded karst cave on the Yucatan Peninsula almost fully preserved in the water.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-30). Presidente López Obrador: mayoría de población adulta mexicana está vacunada contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net En México se ha aplicado más de 125 millones de dosis de vacunas contra la Covid-19 a más de 74 millones de ciudadanos.

Staff (2021-10-30). Southwest on defense as AP reporter claims she was almost 'removed' from flight after pilot signed off with 'Let's Go Brandon'. rt.com Critics are calling for the firing of an unidentified pilot after he allegedly signed off when speaking to his passengers, including a reporter, by saying, "Let's Go, Brandon," a phrase commonly used to insult President Joe Biden. | In Saturday tweets, Associated Press reporter Colleen Long said she was on the Southwest flight from Houston, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and claimed she was almost "removed" after trying to ask the pilot about using the phrase. | "That feeling when you're trying to go on vacation and then the pilot says the very thing you're working on over the loudspeaker and you have to tr…

teleSUR, lvm, HIM (2021-10-30). Argentina pide flexibilizar derechos de propiedad sobre vacunas. telesurtv.net La representación del Gobierno argentino destacó la importancia de la transferencia tecnológica para la producción de vacunas.

teleSUR -HIM (2021-10-30). Proyectarán 47 documentales durante gira de cine mexicano. telesurtv.net Cinco estados mexicanos acogerán la muestra con presencia además de materiales filmados en 14 países y producidos en 15 idiomas diferentes.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-30). Campesinos colombianos liberan a 180 soldados que retenían. telesurtv.net Las comunidades, que se oponen a la erradicación forzosa, custodiaron durante 24 horas a los uniformados para evitar hechos de violencia.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-10-30). Pescadores artesanales chilenos seguirán protesta en Valparaíso. telesurtv.net Los pescadores afirmaron no aceptar el acuerdo presentado por el Gobierno chileno porque no plantea una solución a la raíz de sus demandas.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-30). Informe revela récord de asesinatos de indígenas en Brasil. telesurtv.net Casi 190 indígenas fueron ultimados durante el año 2020 en medio del aumento de la violencia contra los pueblos originarios.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-30). Rechazan que CPI no investigue crímenes de guerra en Colombia. telesurtv.net Corte Penal Internacional acuerda con Gobierno de Colombia no investigar posibles crímenes de lesa humanidad.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-30). Extienden por un año el mandato de misión de la ONU en Colombia. telesurtv.net El jefe de la misión de la ONU en Colombia advirtió sobre el aumento de la violencia por parte de grupos ilegales contra indígenas y afrocolombianos.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-30). Central obrera uruguaya rechaza reforma jubilatoria de Gobierno. telesurtv.net La PIT-CNT criticó la falta de diálogo social político para la futura reforma de seguridad social, propuesta por el presidente Lacalle Pou.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-30). Pdte. boliviano llama a la unidad ante intentos golpistas. telesurtv.net El mandatario también apostó por la integración para superar los problemas del país tras el Gobierno de facto de Jeannine Añez.

Editorial La Jornada (2021-10-30). Colombia: La guerra absurda. globalizacion.ca Fuentes militares colombianas informaron que seis pelotones (alrededor de 180 soldados) del ejército fueron retenidos por campesinos cocaleros mientras cumplían "tareas de lucha contra toda la cadena de narcotráfico" en la zona fronteriza con Venezuela, es decir, que efectuaban el…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-30). Al pueblo de Cuba: øEstá Washington orquestando un "golpe blando"? La cooptación de los intelectuales cubanos. globalizacion.ca Nota del autor | En octubre de 2010, fue invitado a la casa de Fidel Castro en las afueras de La Habana para discutir la política exterior de Estados Unidos, los peligros de la guerra nuclear, la crisis económica global y…

Ana Perdigón (2021-10-30). IOM and Venezuela Agree on Mechanisms for Protection of Migrants. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Ombudsman's Office and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have agreed on cooperation and protection mechanisms for Venezuelan migrants. | In a meeting between the Venezuelan Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, and the IOM representative in Venezuela, Jorge Vallés, an agreement was reached to train workers of Venezuelan State institutions on the human rights of migrants. | The training of workers and officials of public institutions will be focused on the development of the tasks that they must fulfill, especially for the care and protection of migrants in border areas, in order to guarantee that…

David L. Wilson (2021-10-30). The "border crisis" numbers don't add up. mronline.org According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), fiscal 2021's final number of migrants apprehended or encountered at the southwestern border was 1,734,686, higher than the 1,643,679 total apprehensions for fiscal 2000.

Victorio Paulón (2021-10-30). Argentina — Las claves para profundizar el camino que inició Néstor Kirchner. globalizacion.ca El endurecimiento del Fondo Monetario Internacional en la negociación de la deuda argentina sumada a las provocativas confesiones del nuevo embajador norteamericano designado para la argentina constituye un combo difícil de digerir para el gobierno y comienzan a reflejarse en…

WSWS (2021-10-30). Modi makes spectacle of India's 1 billionth COVID vaccine shot to cover up his government's culpability for mass death. wsws.org By rights, Modi should be charged—as his Brazilian counterpart, the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, has been—for promoting quackery and presiding over crimes against humanity.

Staff (2021-10-30). Pinochet entregó en adopción a miles de niños chilenos a Suecia para mejorar las relaciones bilaterales. cubadebate.cu La información fue dada a conocer por el medio sueco Dagens Nyheter (DN), que publicó el reportaje "Niños a toda costa", donde dejó en evidencia cómo menores provenientes de países pobres habían sido adoptados en la nación europea sin el consentimiento de sus padres en el período comprendido entre 1971 a 1992.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Attorney Steven Donziger reports to federal prison. wsws.org Donziger, who won a $9.5 billion lawsuit against the oil monopoly Chevron in 2011 on behalf of Ecuadorian farmers and indigenous people, turned himself in to US federal prison authorities on Wednesday to begin serving a six-month sentence on a trumped-up contempt of court conviction.

Nicolás Centurión (2021-10-30). Uruguay: Liberen a los represores. globalizacion.ca Uruguay, que era visto desde el exterior como reducto del progresismo y la socialdemocracia, va dando pasos en sentido opuesto. Es que el cambio de signo de gobierno en una coalición de derechas, le ha dado viento en la camiseta…

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2021-10-30: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-10-30). Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out Against Western Media and NGOs "The Creators of Fake News Took Charge of Spreading the Word …Through Facebook" orinocotribune.com By Rick Sterling — Oct 28, 2021 | Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on November 7. According to At the same time, the Sandinista government is intensely disliked by Washington and there has been a steady stream of negative news and accusations. | One theme of accusations concerns the indigenous peoples. In Oct…

Editor (2021-10-30). 75 years & counting: a history of Western regime change in Syria — Part I. mronline.org Washington and London's latest war against Syria was incubated in CIA and MI6 offices long before the manufactured "uprising" erupted in 2011.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Caravan challenges Mexico's complicity in US assault on immigrants. wsws.org Chanting "We are not criminals, we are workers, we are immigrants" and "Libertad, Libertad," at least 2,000 migrants marched out of Tapachula, Mexico on October 23.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Attorney Steven Donziger reports to federal prison. wsws.org Donziger, who won a $9.5 billion lawsuit against the oil monopoly Chevron in 2011 on behalf of Ecuadorian farmers and indigenous people, turned himself in to US federal prison authorities on Wednesday to begin serving a six-month sentence on a trumped-up contempt of court conviction.

Staff (2021-10-30). La alianza Cuba-Venezuela es un puente de solidaridad. cubadebate.cu Con total apego a la ética y al sentido del deber, más de 255 000 colaboradores de la Isla han prestado servicios en la República Bolivariana a través del Convenio Integral de Colaboración Cuba-Venezuela que este 30 de octubre celebra su vigésimo primer aniversario de existencia y evoca las firmas históricas de los Comandantes Fidel y Chávez.

Fight Back (2021-10-30). Philippines: Condemn Philippine National Police massacre of peasants in Masbate. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 25 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the massacre of at least five peasants yesterday early morning in Barangay Bugtong, Mandaon town in Masbate province. | Contrary to the PNP's claims in their press releases, the victims were not members of the New People's Army (NPA). The PNP identified one of the victims as Eddie/Arnold Rosero, a local resident. | According to the NPA's Regional Operational Command in Bicol,…

Sarah Hodges, Julia Hornberger, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Shalini Rudra, Christopher Sirrs, Nishpriha Thakur, Sharifah Sekalala (2021-10-30). [Correspondence] When suspicion replaces evidence in public health. thelancet.com The UK Government's decision not to recognise people as vaccinated if they received COVID-19 vaccines in most of Latin America, Africa, and south Asia received widespread condemnation.1 Many commentators have rightly called out this discriminatory policy, which unfairly targets people from low-income countries. However, as a group of scholars from the medical humanities and social sciences, we are particularly concerned that the way in which the government makes decisions about which countries are exempt from quarantine once fully vaccinated dispenses with evidence-based policy making.

WSWS (2021-10-30). The Glasgow summit, climate change, and the case for socialism. wsws.org The past two years have seen a series of escalating climate disasters in all regions of the globe, including massive wildfires from the Australian bush to the American west, devastating flooding in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and deadly heatwaves the world over.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Australian state government bars COVID-related school closures despite escalating infections. wsws.org The Committee for Public Education's daily tallies of school closures have been viewed online this month by tens of thousands of people.

Pedro Brieger (2021-10-30). El nuevo fantasma ruso en América Latina. globalizacion.ca A mediados del siglo XIX Marx y Engels escribieron que el fantasma del comunismo recorría Europa. En el siglo XX ese mismo fantasma recorrió el mundo. Ahora, en el siglo XXI, la comunicación es el nuevo fantasma que acecha. Esto…

Editor2 (2021-10-30). AMLO Wants Clarification of the Colosio Murder Case. orinocotribune.com In February, Mario Aburto, who was convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Colosio in 1994, requested that his case be reopened so that "the society knows the truth." | On Thursday, October 28, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered State protection to Mario Aburto, who has claimed that the had police tortured him and forced him to plead guilty for the murder of the Institutionalist Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994. | "If it can be proved that he was tortured, he was threatened, and he has kept silent because of it… the Mexican sta…

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-30). EE.UU. intenta rescindir programa migratorio Quédate en México. telesurtv.net Funcionarios estadounidenses indicaron que si bien el programa contribuyó a reducir el flujo migratorio, lo hizo imponiendo sufrimiento a miles de migrantes.

sputniknews (2021-10-30). Fully Preserved 1,000-Year-Old Canoe Found in Cave in Mexico. sputniknews.com MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Scientists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered a Mayan canoe, dated 9th-10th century AD, in a flooded karst cave on the Yucatan Peninsula almost fully preserved in the water.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-30). Migrantes que avanzan por México ya rondan la cifra de 5.000. telesurtv.net La Marcha por la Paz, la Justicia y por la Libertad de los Migrantes va rumbo a Acacoyagua y Mapastepec, en Chiapas.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-30). Presidente López Obrador: mayoría de población adulta mexicana está vacunada contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net En México se ha aplicado más de 125 millones de dosis de vacunas contra la Covid-19 a más de 74 millones de ciudadanos.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-30). Rechazan que CPI no investigue crímenes de guerra en Colombia. telesurtv.net Corte Penal Internacional acuerda con Gobierno de Colombia no investigar posibles crímenes de lesa humanidad.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-10-30). Pescadores artesanales chilenos seguirán protesta en Valparaíso. telesurtv.net Los pescadores afirmaron no aceptar el acuerdo presentado por el Gobierno chileno porque no plantea una solución a la raíz de sus demandas.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-30). Central obrera uruguaya rechaza reforma jubilatoria de Gobierno. telesurtv.net La PIT-CNT criticó la falta de diálogo social político para la futura reforma de seguridad social, propuesta por el presidente Lacalle Pou.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-30). Extienden por un año el mandato de misión de la ONU en Colombia. telesurtv.net El jefe de la misión de la ONU en Colombia advirtió sobre el aumento de la violencia por parte de grupos ilegales contra indígenas y afrocolombianos.

teleSUR, lvm, HIM (2021-10-30). Argentina pide flexibilizar derechos de propiedad sobre vacunas. telesurtv.net La representación del Gobierno argentino destacó la importancia de la transferencia tecnológica para la producción de vacunas.

teleSUR -HIM (2021-10-30). Proyectarán 47 documentales durante gira de cine mexicano. telesurtv.net Cinco estados mexicanos acogerán la muestra con presencia además de materiales filmados en 14 países y producidos en 15 idiomas diferentes.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-30). Informe revela récord de asesinatos de indígenas en Brasil. telesurtv.net Casi 190 indígenas fueron ultimados durante el año 2020 en medio del aumento de la violencia contra los pueblos originarios.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-30). Campesinos colombianos liberan a 180 soldados que retenían. telesurtv.net Las comunidades, que se oponen a la erradicación forzosa, custodiaron durante 24 horas a los uniformados para evitar hechos de violencia.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-30). Pdte. boliviano llama a la unidad ante intentos golpistas. telesurtv.net El mandatario también apostó por la integración para superar los problemas del país tras el Gobierno de facto de Jeannine Añez.

Editorial La Jornada (2021-10-30). Colombia: La guerra absurda. globalizacion.ca Fuentes militares colombianas informaron que seis pelotones (alrededor de 180 soldados) del ejército fueron retenidos por campesinos cocaleros mientras cumplían "tareas de lucha contra toda la cadena de narcotráfico" en la zona fronteriza con Venezuela, es decir, que efectuaban el…

Ana Perdigón (2021-10-30). IOM and Venezuela Agree on Mechanisms for Protection of Migrants. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Ombudsman's Office and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have agreed on cooperation and protection mechanisms for Venezuelan migrants. | In a meeting between the Venezuelan Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, and the IOM representative in Venezuela, Jorge Vallés, an agreement was reached to train workers of Venezuelan State institutions on the human rights of migrants. | The training of workers and officials of public institutions will be focused on the development of the tasks that they must fulfill, especially for the care and protection of migrants in border areas, in order to guarantee that…

David L. Wilson (2021-10-30). The "border crisis" numbers don't add up. mronline.org According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), fiscal 2021's final number of migrants apprehended or encountered at the southwestern border was 1,734,686, higher than the 1,643,679 total apprehensions for fiscal 2000.

WSWS (2021-10-30). Modi makes spectacle of India's 1 billionth COVID vaccine shot to cover up his government's culpability for mass death. wsws.org By rights, Modi should be charged—as his Brazilian counterpart, the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, has been—for promoting quackery and presiding over crimes against humanity.

Staff (2021-10-30). Pinochet entregó en adopción a miles de niños chilenos a Suecia para mejorar las relaciones bilaterales. cubadebate.cu La información fue dada a conocer por el medio sueco Dagens Nyheter (DN), que publicó el reportaje "Niños a toda costa", donde dejó en evidencia cómo menores provenientes de países pobres habían sido adoptados en la nación europea sin el consentimiento de sus padres en el período comprendido entre 1971 a 1992.

Editor (2021-10-30). An unrealized political possibility: remembering the Grenada Revolution. mronline.org The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible.

Staff (2021-10-30). El SARS-CoV-2 no fue creado como arma biológica, asegura Comunidad de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos. cubadebate.cu La Comunidad de Inteligencia de EEUU (IC, por sus siglas en inglés) evalúa que el COVID-19 no se desarrolló como un arma biológica y la mayoría de las agencias analizan con poca confianza que la enfermedad no fue modificada genéticamente, según el informe desclasificado por la oficina del director de Inteligencia Nacional.

Victoria Korn (2021-10-30). Huelga, secuestros y caos en Haití: El poder de los bandoleros. globalizacion.ca La huelga general convocada por los sindicatos de transporte contra la inseguridad y la escasez de combustible conmovió Puerto Príncipe y varias provincias de Haití, donde se vaciaron las calles, se cerraron los negocios y la circulación de vehículos fue…

Editor2 (2021-10-29). Letter to UNHRC About Political Exploitation of Indigenous Communities in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com This letter, signed by solidarity, human rights, religious, labor and other organizations, has been sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It denounces the misrepresentation and exploitation of disputes over land in Nicaragua's autonomous Indigenous territories for political purposes by local and international organizations which claim to represent the interests of Indigenous peoples. | To: The United Nations Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights | Copy to: | CEJIL (the Center for Justice and International Law) | Center for Civil and…

Hector Luis Alamo (2021-10-29). Workers at El Milagro Tortillería in Chicago Take On Bosses. latinorebels.com Workers at El Milagro tortilleria in Chicago are in a fight with management over illegal labor practices, including the denial of paid sick days, immigration threats, and armed surveillance.

Latino USA (2021-10-29). The Invisible Cost Of Care (A Latino USA Podcast). latinorebels.com In this episode, we dive into the high cost of caregiving labor for so many women, through the story of Daniela Contreras.

Manuel Perez-Rocha (2021-10-29). Latin America Should Withdraw from the World Bank's Harsh Trade Court. fpif.org Regional integration is back on the agenda in Latin America. What shape it takes will be a subject of debate — but with a little leadership, it could lead eventually to a Latin American exodus from a harsh, corporate-friendly trade court in the World Bank. | In September, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a regional bloc founded in 2010 as an alternative to the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS), met in Mexico City — its first summit since 2017. | As José Steinsleger, a writer for Mexico ¥s La Jornada newspaper, puts it, "the initiative was made possible…

Matt Sedlar (2021-10-29). Special Drawing Rights: The Beginning of a Paradigm Change? cepr.net To discuss how countries can maximize the impact of the SDRs, on October 4 CEPR Senior Research Fellow Andrés Arauz participated in a panel alongside Nadia Daar of Oxfam International, George Gray Molina of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Patricia Miranda of the Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice (LATINDADD), and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu of the IMF…

Juan Cole (2021-10-29). Top 4 Reasons Sen. Manchin will Fail to Stop the Tsunami of Green Energy and Biden will get Climate Progress. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia may succeed in preventing Congress from legislating the quick demise of coal and gas plants, but once President Biden has Manchin's signature on his two big legislative packages, there are other ways to move against Big Carbon that Manchin can do nothing about. 1. …

Chris Kanthan (2021-10-29). Okay to be #2 — Lessons for America and China. nationofchange.org The geopolitical rivals need to abandon the obsession to be #1, prioritize sustainable growth, focus on cooperation, and find a way to defuse the escalating tensions.

Emir Sader (2021-10-29). El columpio latinoamericano. globalizacion.ca Desde que surgieron gobiernos antineoliberales en América Latina, el área se ha convertido en epicentro de las grandes luchas políticas del siglo XXI y, al mismo tiempo, en un balancín, en que los gobiernos se instalan y son derrotados, regresan…

Dana Sanchez (2021-10-29). Biden Is Considering Payments Of $450,000 Per Person To Those Impacted By Trump's Zero-Tolerance Border Policies. moguldom.com Black Twitter users have questions about an unconfirmed report that the Biden administration is in talks to offer money to immigrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. Tweets reflect frustration that immigrant families, most of whom crossed into the U.S. illegally, may be compensated while H.R. 40, a proposed, …

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-29). Asesinan a periodista Fredy López en Chiapas, México. telesurtv.net López Arévalo fue agredido mortalmente cuando retornaba a su casa procedente de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital de Chiapas, a donde había celebrado el cumpleaños de su madre.

Staff (2021-10-29). "Shadow Units": How Secretive Border Patrol Teams Shield Agents from Accountability. democracynow.org A human rights network of 60 organizations working along the U.S.-Mexico border released a letter to Congress on Wednesday urging them to investigate "shadow police units" that have helped cover up beatings and killings by Border Patrol agents for more than three decades. The shadow units, identified in the letter as "Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams," are said to possibly be "the largest and longest standing shadow police unit that is operating today in the federal government." New details came to light when attorneys investigating the 2010 Border Patrol killing of Mexican father Anastasio Hernández Rojas f…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-29). Migrantes que avanzan por México piden no ser detenidos. telesurtv.net Denuncian que agentes migratorios detienen a caravanistas y los deportan, pese a que una parte de ellos porta amparos judiciales.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-29). Movimientos sociales alertan que retomarán protestas en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El líder del Frente Unitario de Trabajadores apuntó que al regreso la huelga puede tener carácter indefinido.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-29). Reportan paso de cientos de migrantes haitianos por Honduras. telesurtv.net El incremento de migrantes es evidente, y a los grupos de hondureños que huyen del país se suman haitianos y africanos.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-29). Afirman que el objetivo de EE.UU. es castigar al pueblo cubano. telesurtv.net Díaz-Canel afirmó que el socialismo es la única explicación que ha posibilitado que el país sobreviva a la política de EE.UU.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2021-10-29). Unos 200.000.000 de niños no reciben educación a distancia. telesurtv.net Se evaluaron 67 países, de los cuales, la pesquisa registró que 31 no están preparados para ofrecer aprendizaje a distancia en todos los niveles educativos.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-29). Papa Francisco pide a líderes encarar la crisis ecológica. telesurtv.net El Jefe del Estado Vaticano se dirigió a los jefes de Estado y/o Gobierno que participarán en la cumbre mundial del clima en Glasgow, Escocia.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-29). Sindicatos convocan a huelga general en Andalucía, España. telesurtv.net La Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) se sumó también al paro en el sector público.

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2021-10-29: News Headlines

Emir Sader (2021-10-29). El columpio latinoamericano. globalizacion.ca Desde que surgieron gobiernos antineoliberales en América Latina, el área se ha convertido en epicentro de las grandes luchas políticas del siglo XXI y, al mismo tiempo, en un balancín, en que los gobiernos se instalan y son derrotados, regresan…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-29). Migrantes que avanzan por México piden no ser detenidos. telesurtv.net Denuncian que agentes migratorios detienen a caravanistas y los deportan, pese a que una parte de ellos porta amparos judiciales.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-29). Asesinan a periodista Fredy López en Chiapas, México. telesurtv.net López Arévalo fue agredido mortalmente cuando retornaba a su casa procedente de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital de Chiapas, a donde había celebrado el cumpleaños de su madre.

Staff (2021-10-29). "Shadow Units": How Secretive Border Patrol Teams Shield Agents from Accountability. democracynow.org A human rights network of 60 organizations working along the U.S.-Mexico border released a letter to Congress on Wednesday urging them to investigate "shadow police units" that have helped cover up beatings and killings by Border Patrol agents for more than three decades. The shadow units, identified in the letter as "Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams," are said to possibly be "the largest and longest standing shadow police unit that is operating today in the federal government." New details came to light when attorneys investigating the 2010 Border Patrol killing of Mexican father Anastasio Hernández Rojas f…

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-29). Afirman que el objetivo de EE.UU. es castigar al pueblo cubano. telesurtv.net Díaz-Canel afirmó que el socialismo es la única explicación que ha posibilitado que el país sobreviva a la política de EE.UU.

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-29). Papa Francisco pide a líderes encarar la crisis ecológica. telesurtv.net El Jefe del Estado Vaticano se dirigió a los jefes de Estado y/o Gobierno que participarán en la cumbre mundial del clima en Glasgow, Escocia.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-29). Reportan paso de cientos de migrantes haitianos por Honduras. telesurtv.net El incremento de migrantes es evidente, y a los grupos de hondureños que huyen del país se suman haitianos y africanos.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2021-10-29). Unos 200.000.000 de niños no reciben educación a distancia. telesurtv.net Se evaluaron 67 países, de los cuales, la pesquisa registró que 31 no están preparados para ofrecer aprendizaje a distancia en todos los niveles educativos.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-29). Sindicatos convocan a huelga general en Andalucía, España. telesurtv.net La Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) se sumó también al paro en el sector público.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-29). Movimientos sociales alertan que retomarán protestas en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El líder del Frente Unitario de Trabajadores apuntó que al regreso la huelga puede tener carácter indefinido.

Orlando Delgado Selley (2021-10-29). Los límites de la economía mixta y el FMI. globalizacion.ca En el reporte del personal técnico del FMI al gobierno mexicano, hecho público el 8 de octubre pasado, se entregaron proyecciones sobre comportamientos futuros del PIB y del ingreso real per cápita. Se señala que, en este momento, la prioridad…

Editor2 (2021-10-29). 'How to Prepare a Coup d'État'—the Latest Recipe of the Peruvian Right-Wing Parties. orinocotribune.com By Marcos Maranges — Oct 26, 2021 | This last week was one of the most tense since Pedro Castillo became Peru's president last May. The Congress, with a right-wing majority, is eager to disarm the executive branch so they can technically annul Castillo's electoral triumph over the extreme-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. | For those who do not follow the South American country's internal policies, this may seem like a last-minute move by right-wing sectors, but it is not. The coup was immediately set into motion once Castillo won the presidential runoff early this year. | The first step was to cast doubts ove…

Anonymous007 (2021-10-29). Turkey Deports 7 Syrian Refugees For "Provocatively Eating Bananas" On Video, Mocking Economic Crisis. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Turkey announced it would deport seven Syrian migrants accused of making "provocative" social media posts about eating bananas. | This is yet another attempt to shift focus from the deepening economic and political crisis towards arbitrary nonsense. | One of the most popular

_____ (2021-10-29). Why Defending Nicaragua Is Important. popularresistance.org Since at least the start of the 21st century, if not earlier, two global trends have emerged very clearly. Firstly, increased North American and European aggression overseas has been accompanied by increased economic and political domestic repression in the US itself and its allied countries. This domestic repression has reached unprecedented levels over the last two years, | Secondly, despite the apparent demise of Western led economic globalization, North American and European corporate influence under various guises has co-opted international policy making and governance, as writers from Cory Morningstar to Ia…

_____ (2021-10-29). Who Will Pay For The Damage From Climate Change? popularresistance.org To people in developing countries, it seems clear, the wealthy countries that caused most of the problem of climate change should pay the most to adapt to it and to solve the problem. But instead, countries like the United States lecture low low-emitting countries to do more while they extract their resources and destroy their forests. | For example, Nicaragua was an outspoken critic of the Paris climate talks because they did not go far enough. It is one of the countries most impacted by climate change, yet its own greenhouse gas footprint is one of the smallest. Nicaragua initially insisted that the Paris Accor…

Rick Sterling (2021-10-29). Indigenous Leaders in Nicaragua Speak Out Against Western Media and NGOs. dissidentvoice.org Nicaragua has an election to choose their president and national assembly on November 7. According to polls, the Sandinista Front (FSLN) currently in government is expected to win the presidency and a majority of seats in the assembly. At the same time, the Sandinista government is intensely disliked by Washington and there has been a …

Staff (2021-10-29). President Alberto Fernández: Argentina will not Bow to IMF. orinocotribune.com Argentina's President Alberto Fernández affirmed that his country "is not going to kneel" before the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and attached conditions to an agreement with the multilateral organization to renegotiate a debt of $44 billion, so that it "does not put at risk the future of the Argentines," international media reported. | "If we still do not come to an agreement [with the IMF] it is because we are not going to kneel, because we are going to negotiate until our people's future is not placed at risk because of debt payments," said Fernández during a tribute to former president Néstor Kirchner (…

Ben Radford (2021-10-29). Peru: Democracy under attack from right-wing forces. greenleft.org.au Pedro Castillo, leader of the left-wing Peru Libre party, was sworn in as Peru's president on July 28, reports Ben Radford. Since then, his government has faced a campaign of destabilisation from the right-wing opposition.

Staff (2021-10-29). Blockade Against Venezuela Makes US Businesses Suffer: US Exports Dropped by 93% from 2012 to 2020. orinocotribune.com Nine months after Joe Biden's inauguration as the president of the United States, his government is at the center of international public opinion, with great expectations regarding its relations with Venezuela and different versions about the handling of illegal sanctions and the blockade affecting millions of Venezuelans. | In this situation, Venezuelan media recently published a journalistic investigation, according to which US business owners are currently exerting pressure on President Biden. These groups are also suffering the consequences of the unilateral coercive measures that are supposedly applied again…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-29). Campaign for Venezuela's 21N Regional Elections Begins: How Many Candidates are There? orinocotribune.com According to the schedule established by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), the campaign for Venezuela's November 21 regional and municipal "mega-elections" officially began today. Venezuelans will select governors, mayors, city councilors, and regional legislators during the process. | It is an event that brings together almost 68,000 male and female candidates from the different opposition groups against 3,072 candidates nominated by the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP). This last alliance, that of Chavismo, has as its strength the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela's leading party since…

Staff (2021-10-29). CNE President Meets with Head of EU Election Observation Mission. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, October 28, the president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Pedro Calzadilla, received Isabel Santos, head of the Election Observation Mission (EOM) of the European Union (EU), and Xabier Melián, Santos' attaché in the presidency of the team that will survey municipal and regional elections scheduled for November 21. | The meeting was reported by the electoral authority through its Twitter account, @cneesvzla, where it was explained that the meeting was the first point on Santos' agenda to define the details regarding the deployment of the mission during the upcoming electoral proces…

Anonymous007 (2021-10-29). EU Election Observers Arrive In Venezuela, Legitimizing Upcoming Vote. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Venezuela to observe the regional and local elections. | Campaigning has kicked off for regional and municipal elections scheduled for November 21, which are set to include opposition candidates as well. | More than 3,000 positions — including governors, mayors and municipal councillors — are up for grabs next month, according to Venezuela's elections authority. Some 21 million voters are eligible to…

_____ (2021-10-29). Billionaire Political Meddlers, Disinformation Agents Launch 'Good Information Inc.'. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, billionaires Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched Good Information Inc., a "public benefit corporation" to serve as a conduit of funds to newsrooms that "cut through the echo chambers with fact-based information." On its website, Good Information further describes itself as a "civic incubator" aimed at fostering and financially backing projects that "counter disinformation where it spreads by increasing the flow of good information online." | But more than merely providing an alternative to bad information through their own reporting, the company suggests that censorship is also on the menu: "We bel…

Editor2 (2021-10-29). China Moves Onto USA's Doorstep by Signing Up Cuba to Belt & Road. Will it Cause a Standoff Like the 1962 Missile Crisis? orinocotribune.com By Tom Fowdy — Oct 21, 2021 | As the United States ratchets up its support for Taiwan as a regional chess piece against China, Beijing may also be positioning Havana as a counterweight. The move is sure to enrage Washington. | Cuba this week signed up to China's Belt and Road (BRI) Energy Partnership, which is expected to see Beijing invest in the island's energy industries with a focus on renewables. | Cuba's ambassador to China stated that the agreement ratified his country's commitment to the Belt and Road Initiative and called for the building of an international mega-platform for economic exchanges, und…

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2021-10-29). Cuba como trastorno obsesivo compulsivo. globalizacion.ca La alcancía volvió a sonar. Hace menos de un mes, en septiembre de 2021, la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (Usaid) otorgó 6 millones 669 mil dólares en subvenciones para proyectos destinados a un cambio de régimen …

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-28). OPS: 44 % de la población latinoamericana está vacunada contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Cuba, México, Uruguay y Chile son cuatro de las naciones que encabezan la vacunación anticovid en el continente.

WSWS (2021-10-28). "Public health experts have insisted that preventative measures are necessary to avoid the National Health Service being overwhelmed", UK nurse tells WSWS. wsws.org We have a chronic shortage of staff. Currently, more than a hundred colleagues are absent due to Covid symptoms, isolating and shielding. According to one of our matrons, each month, hundreds of nursing shifts go unfilled.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-28). Gobierno de México promete tarifa única con reforma eléctrica. telesurtv.net Si la iniciativa no pasa por la Cámara de Diputados o el Senado, el Gobierno mantendrá su compromiso de costos bajos de electricidad.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-28). Caravana de migrantes en México supera las 4.000 personas. telesurtv.net El activista Luis García Villagrán ha denunciado la detención de algunos grupos que formaban parte de la caravana…

teleSUR, DRL, JCM (2021-10-28). Fiscalía boliviana imputa a militares sobre Golpe de Estado. telesurtv.net Se trata de los mismos exfuncionarios de las FFAA que habían pedido de manera pública la renuncia de Evo Morales en 2019.

teleSUR -HIM (2021-10-28). Fuerzas policiales reprimen movilizaciones sociales en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Irrupción con disparos de gomas de balas y gases lacrimógenos en Quito, y férreos cordones de las Fuerzas Armadas en otras provincias son expresiones de represión a las protestas.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-28). CNE venezolano firma memorando con Centro Carter sobre misión de expertos para comicios del 21N. telesurtv.net El memorando establece que la misión tendrá garantías de ejercer su trabajo en la jornada respetando la soberanía y autodeterminación del país.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2021-10-28). Gobierno boliviano dará reparación integral a víctimas de 2019. telesurtv.net Las masacres de Sacaba, Senkata y Pedregal ocurridas en 2019, y dejaron un saldo de 37 asesinados, más de 500 heridos y 1.800 detenidos.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-28). øCómo Venezuela logra la eliminación del analfabetismo?>. telesurtv.net La reducción del analfabetismo en Venezuela se consiguió gracias al programa de alfabetización Misión Robinson, creado en el año 2003.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-28). Más de 1.000.000 de niños cubanos tienen dos dosis de vacuna antiCovid-19. telesurtv.net El IVF destacó que la vacuna de producción nacional Soberana02 ha demostrado una alta seguridad contra el coronavirus.

teleSUR, jaa, JGN (2021-10-28). Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos: a 62 años de su desaparición física. telesurtv.net Camilo Cienfuegos fue uno de los líderes de la trascendental invasión del Oriente al Occidente junto a Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

teleSUR, DRL, JCM (2021-10-28). Parlamento cubano rechaza plan subversivo de EE.UU. telesurtv.net La Asamblea Nacional acusa a EE.UU. de utilizar métodos de guerra no convencional e inmiscuirse en los asuntos cubanos.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-28). NATO International Military Staff hosts high-level Colombian delegation at first military-to-military meeting at NATO HQ. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO International Military Staff welcomes Colombian delegation to NATO On the 28th of October 2021, the NATO International Military Staff's Cooperative Security Division hosted a delegation of Colombian military officials for a day of for inter-staff talks at the NATO Headquarters. Colombia has been a NATO Partner since 2017 and this is the first military-to-military …

Ian Ellis-Jones (2021-10-28). United States accused of orchestrating planned protests in Cuba. greenleft.org.au The Cuban government has accused the United States of being behind protests planned to take place in the country on November 15, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.

Editor2 (2021-10-28). Honduran Campesino Leader Explains the ZEDEs. orinocotribune.com A wide range of sectors in Honduras are continuing to mobilize against the Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) with the general election now one month away. Campesino, indigenous and

WSWS (2021-10-28). Opposition grows against increasing schools reopening in Brazil. wsws.org In recent weeks, many Brazilian states have made school attendance mandatory, while ending social distancing in classrooms.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-28). Ecuadorians take the streets against president Lasso's government. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of Ecuadorians have taken to the streets across the country in rejection of a recent increase in fuel prices, which far exceeds the current prices in the world market. The protests are the largest anti-government protests in the five months of Lasso's administration…

Staff (2021-10-28). Venezuela's Minister for Information: Public Media at the Disposal of Democracy as 21N Electoral Campaign Starts. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, October 27, Venezuela's Minister for Information and Communication, Freddy àëáñez, said that all state-owned public media in the country is at the disposal of over 70,000 candidates from the political parties participating in Venezuela's upcoming mega-elections. | "We want to make public the invitation to all political organizations to reach out to public media," stated àëáñez. "They can count on us to carry out their campaigns." | These statements were presented after the head of the communications portfolio held a working meeting with the president of the National Electoral Council (CN…

slorinoco (2021-10-28). Another Iranian Tanker Delivers Condensate to Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Wednesday, October 28, another Iranian vessel unloaded 2.1 million barrels of condensate at a Venezuelan port, under a pact signed between the two countries. | The Iranian oil tanker Dorena, which arrived on Monday in Venezuelan waters, was expected to begin unloading this Wednesday at a port of the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil and natural gas company, British news agency Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a PDVSA document. | This is the second shipment of Iranian condensate that has arrived in Venezuela, according to the document, which does not detail the name of the supplier. | The US-s…

Manolo De Los Santos (2021-10-28). How US Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of its Society. orinocotribune.com By Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad — Oct 27, 2021 | U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appears to be obsessed with Cuba. Every few days he takes to

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-28). Turkey signs contract to deliver war-tested combat drones to 13th country. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From today's Daily Sabah. The deadly Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has been used for what can only be deemed cowardly aerial assassinations in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh and as of yesterday Ukraine. The article mentions the following countries as purchasers and prospective purchasers of the drones: Albania, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Morocco, Poland, Qatar, Saudi …

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WSWS (2021-10-28). "Public health experts have insisted that preventative measures are necessary to avoid the National Health Service being overwhelmed", UK nurse tells WSWS. wsws.org We have a chronic shortage of staff. Currently, more than a hundred colleagues are absent due to Covid symptoms, isolating and shielding. According to one of our matrons, each month, hundreds of nursing shifts go unfilled.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-28). OPS: 44 % de la población latinoamericana está vacunada contra la Covid-19. telesurtv.net Cuba, México, Uruguay y Chile son cuatro de las naciones que encabezan la vacunación anticovid en el continente.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-28). Gobierno de México promete tarifa única con reforma eléctrica. telesurtv.net Si la iniciativa no pasa por la Cámara de Diputados o el Senado, el Gobierno mantendrá su compromiso de costos bajos de electricidad.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-28). Caravana de migrantes en México supera las 4.000 personas. telesurtv.net El activista Luis García Villagrán ha denunciado la detención de algunos grupos que formaban parte de la caravana…

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2021-10-28). Gobierno boliviano dará reparación integral a víctimas de 2019. telesurtv.net Las masacres de Sacaba, Senkata y Pedregal ocurridas en 2019, y dejaron un saldo de 37 asesinados, más de 500 heridos y 1.800 detenidos.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-28). CNE venezolano firma memorando con Centro Carter sobre misión de expertos para comicios del 21N. telesurtv.net El memorando establece que la misión tendrá garantías de ejercer su trabajo en la jornada respetando la soberanía y autodeterminación del país.

teleSUR, DRL, JCM (2021-10-28). Parlamento cubano rechaza plan subversivo de EE.UU. telesurtv.net La Asamblea Nacional acusa a EE.UU. de utilizar métodos de guerra no convencional e inmiscuirse en los asuntos cubanos.

teleSUR -HIM (2021-10-28). Fuerzas policiales reprimen movilizaciones sociales en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Irrupción con disparos de gomas de balas y gases lacrimógenos en Quito, y férreos cordones de las Fuerzas Armadas en otras provincias son expresiones de represión a las protestas.

teleSUR, DRL, JCM (2021-10-28). Fiscalía boliviana imputa a militares sobre Golpe de Estado. telesurtv.net Se trata de los mismos exfuncionarios de las FFAA que habían pedido de manera pública la renuncia de Evo Morales en 2019.

teleSUR, jaa, JGN (2021-10-28). Comandante Camilo Cienfuegos: a 62 años de su desaparición física. telesurtv.net Camilo Cienfuegos fue uno de los líderes de la trascendental invasión del Oriente al Occidente junto a Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-28). Más de 1.000.000 de niños cubanos tienen dos dosis de vacuna antiCovid-19. telesurtv.net El IVF destacó que la vacuna de producción nacional Soberana02 ha demostrado una alta seguridad contra el coronavirus.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-28). øCómo Venezuela logra la eliminación del analfabetismo?>. telesurtv.net La reducción del analfabetismo en Venezuela se consiguió gracias al programa de alfabetización Misión Robinson, creado en el año 2003.

WSWS (2021-10-28). Opposition grows against increasing schools reopening in Brazil. wsws.org In recent weeks, many Brazilian states have made school attendance mandatory, while ending social distancing in classrooms.

Fight Back (2021-10-27). South Florida protesters unite to free Alex Saab. fightbacknews.org Miami, FL – On October 24, 30 protesters rallied against the illegal U.S. extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. The U.S. Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela South Florida Coalition hosted the event at the Torch of Friendship Park in front of a Simón Bolivar statue. Other groups in attendance included the Bolivarian Circle, POWIR and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. | Alex Saab was arrested in Cabo Verde in June 2020 while in route to Iran for a trade deal that would help Venezuela amidst the historic U.S. blockade. Venezuela has struggled to provide its people with food and other basic necessities because o…

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Inicia en Reino Unido el juicio sobre la extradición de Julian Assange. telesurtv.net El proceso de este miércoles es uno de los últimos recursos de Washington para lograr la extradición del fundador de WikiLeaks.

Matt Sedlar (2021-10-27). America as Tax Haven: It's Becoming Part of US Foreign Policy. cepr.net Opening up the shell companies of Latin America's oligarch politicians in the United States would match Biden's well-received words with concrete action.

Matt Sedlar (2021-10-27). Home Health Care: Latinx and Black Women are Overrepresented, But All Women Face Heightened Risk of Poverty. cepr.net Given the momentum of shifting to home-based, noninstitutional long-term care for the majority of aging adults, it is vital to raise wages and ensure sufficient hours, as well as to enhance the training opportunities and earnings associated with jobs in this industry.

Matt Sedlar (2021-10-27). IMF Surcharges: "Regressive" and "Bad News for the World Economy" cepr.net On October 5, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot joined Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, economics professor and CEPR Senior Fellow Jayati Ghosh, and Martín Abeles of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on a panel discussing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) surcharges policy.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-27). Explosion follows Ukrainian drone attack on Donetsk oil terminal. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Explosion follows Ukrainian drone attack on Donetsk oil terminal Kiev forces have attempted to blast an oil terminal in the Kirosvskiy district of Donetsk, the DPR [Donetsk People's Republic] representative in the Contact Group's security subgroup Alexey Nikonorov said. "Ukrainian armed formation keep blatantly violating all active agreements by committing new provocations at the line …

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Piden en México reabrir el caso sobre el magnicidio de Colosio. telesurtv.net La CNDH indicó que el asesino de Colosio, Mario Aburto sufrio de tortura por agentes de la entonces Procuraduría General de la República.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-27). Exponen cráneos gigantes para recordar a Frida Khalo en México. telesurtv.net Algunos de los cráneos exhibidos, replican el peinado y estilo de la pintora, como sus tradicionales trenzas en la cabeza con flores o sus enormes aretes de oro.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Asesinan a otro líder social en el Cauca, Colombia. telesurtv.net Además de los asesinatos sistemáticos contra líderes sociales, Colombia registra 80 masacres durante el año.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-27). Gobierno de Bolivia inicia diálogo con víctimas de masacres de 2019. telesurtv.net Ministros del Ejecutivo asisten al diálogo, que prevé cubrir los 22 puntos del pliego de peticiones presentado por familiares de víctimas.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Colombia suma 145 líderes sociales asesinados durante el 2021. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a Indepaz desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016 han sido asesinados 1.260 líderes sociales.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Movimiento indígena de Ecuador convoca a un segundo día de protesta. telesurtv.net Los convocantes de las movilizaciones exigen una política económica y social que favorezca a los sectores populares más vulnerables.

teleSUR, SH, JCM (2021-10-27). Reprimen marchas en Ecuador en el marco del Paro Nacional. telesurtv.net Las protestas de este 26 de octubre apuntan a ser las más nutridas desde que Guillermo Lasso asumió el poder en mayo.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Comisión del Senado brasileño aprueba informe que acusa a Bolsonaro por crímenes de lesa humanidad. telesurtv.net El presidente de la CPI, Omar Aziz, aseveró que el informe será remitido a los órganos judiciales correspondientes.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Colombia registra la masacre número 81 en el 2021. telesurtv.net En tan solo un día, en Colombia se perpetró una masacre y se asesinó a un líder social.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-27). JEP de Colombia realiza audiencia sobre desapariciones forzadas. telesurtv.net Tiene lugar en Puerto Berrío, localidad de Antioquia afectada por este tipo de violencia hacia víctimas del conflicto armado.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-27). Gobierno extiende estado de emergencia en provincias chilenas. telesurtv.net Hay alrededor de 2.000 efectivos militares desplegados en pos de reducir la violencia en las zonas.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-27). Haití se mantiene en huelga por segundo día consecutivo. telesurtv.net Sectores como el sanitario, telefónicos, transportación y económico sufren las consecuencias del desabastecimiento de combustible.

teleSUR-HIM (2021-10-27). Denuncian agresiones a periodistas guatemaltecos en El Estor. telesurtv.net La Procuraduría de Derechos Humanos guatemalteca exige al Gobierno garantizar la seguridad de los periodistas y activar el programa de protección.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2021-10-27). Alertan sobre desplazamiento en el Caribe por cambio climático. telesurtv.net "Las inundaciones costeras y tierra adentro debido a la intensificación de las marejadas ciclónicas también han continuado siendo un problema en la región…

WSWS (2021-10-27). Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education in Brazil organizes meeting on "The need for school closures and the means to end the pandemic" wsws.org The meeting will arm teachers and parents fighting against the reopening of schools with a program that is science-driven and aligned with the objective interests of the working class.

Staff (2021-10-27). Headlines for October 27, 2021. democracynow.org U.N.'s Guterres Warns World on Track for Climate Catastrophe, Even with Gov't Pledges Ahead of COP26, Brazilian Senators Back Report Accusing Bolsonaro of Crimes Against Humanity for Pandemic Response, Deborah Birx Says 130,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved, But Trump Admin "Distracted" by Election, FDA Panel Recommends Pfizer Vaccine for Children Aged 5-11; Moderna to Sell 110M Vaccines to African Countries, Afghanistan Heading Toward Collapse as Half the Country Faces Acute Food Insecurity, Four People, Including 3 Children, Drown Off Greek Coast, Dozens Arrested as Protesters in Ecuador Condemn Fuel Price Hike,…

Staff (2021-10-27). Lawyer Steven Donziger, Who Sued Chevron over "Amazon Chernobyl," Ordered to Prison After House Arrest. democracynow.org The environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger joins us just before he is ordered to report to jail today, after a years-long legal battle with the oil company Chevron and 813 days of house arrest. In 2011, Donziger won an $18 billion settlement against Chevron on behalf of 30,000 Indigenous people in Ecuador for dumping 16 billion gallons of oil into their ancestral land in the Amazon. Since the landmark case, Donziger has faced a series of legal attacks from Chevron and a New York federal judge, who has employed a private law firm linked to the oil company to prosecute him. Earlier this month, he was…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-27). Turkish media boast of Ukraine using Bayraktar TB2 combat drone to "destroy Russian armament" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From today's Daily Sabah and Hurriyet. In Ukraine's 1st combat use, Bayraktar TB2 destroys Russian armament Once again video of a Turkey-made unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), namely Bayraktar TB2, destroying a Russian-made land vehicle went viral on social media. The footage, showing a familiar scene from Syria and Azerbaijan [Nagorno-Karabakh], was this time shared …

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2021-10-27: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-10-27). South Florida protesters unite to free Alex Saab. fightbacknews.org Miami, FL – On October 24, 30 protesters rallied against the illegal U.S. extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. The U.S. Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela South Florida Coalition hosted the event at the Torch of Friendship Park in front of a Simón Bolivar statue. Other groups in attendance included the Bolivarian Circle, POWIR and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. | Alex Saab was arrested in Cabo Verde in June 2020 while in route to Iran for a trade deal that would help Venezuela amidst the historic U.S. blockade. Venezuela has struggled to provide its people with food and other basic necessities because o…

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Inicia en Reino Unido el juicio sobre la extradición de Julian Assange. telesurtv.net El proceso de este miércoles es uno de los últimos recursos de Washington para lograr la extradición del fundador de WikiLeaks.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-27). Explosion follows Ukrainian drone attack on Donetsk oil terminal. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Explosion follows Ukrainian drone attack on Donetsk oil terminal Kiev forces have attempted to blast an oil terminal in the Kirosvskiy district of Donetsk, the DPR [Donetsk People's Republic] representative in the Contact Group's security subgroup Alexey Nikonorov said. "Ukrainian armed formation keep blatantly violating all active agreements by committing new provocations at the line …

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Piden en México reabrir el caso sobre el magnicidio de Colosio. telesurtv.net La CNDH indicó que el asesino de Colosio, Mario Aburto sufrio de tortura por agentes de la entonces Procuraduría General de la República.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-27). Exponen cráneos gigantes para recordar a Frida Khalo en México. telesurtv.net Algunos de los cráneos exhibidos, replican el peinado y estilo de la pintora, como sus tradicionales trenzas en la cabeza con flores o sus enormes aretes de oro.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-27). Haití se mantiene en huelga por segundo día consecutivo. telesurtv.net Sectores como el sanitario, telefónicos, transportación y económico sufren las consecuencias del desabastecimiento de combustible.

teleSUR-HIM (2021-10-27). Denuncian agresiones a periodistas guatemaltecos en El Estor. telesurtv.net La Procuraduría de Derechos Humanos guatemalteca exige al Gobierno garantizar la seguridad de los periodistas y activar el programa de protección.

teleSUR, SH, JCM (2021-10-27). Reprimen marchas en Ecuador en el marco del Paro Nacional. telesurtv.net Las protestas de este 26 de octubre apuntan a ser las más nutridas desde que Guillermo Lasso asumió el poder en mayo.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-27). Gobierno extiende estado de emergencia en provincias chilenas. telesurtv.net Hay alrededor de 2.000 efectivos militares desplegados en pos de reducir la violencia en las zonas.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Colombia registra la masacre número 81 en el 2021. telesurtv.net En tan solo un día, en Colombia se perpetró una masacre y se asesinó a un líder social.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Asesinan a otro líder social en el Cauca, Colombia. telesurtv.net Además de los asesinatos sistemáticos contra líderes sociales, Colombia registra 80 masacres durante el año.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-27). Gobierno de Bolivia inicia diálogo con víctimas de masacres de 2019. telesurtv.net Ministros del Ejecutivo asisten al diálogo, que prevé cubrir los 22 puntos del pliego de peticiones presentado por familiares de víctimas.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-27). JEP de Colombia realiza audiencia sobre desapariciones forzadas. telesurtv.net Tiene lugar en Puerto Berrío, localidad de Antioquia afectada por este tipo de violencia hacia víctimas del conflicto armado.

teleSUR- lvm -HIM (2021-10-27). Alertan sobre desplazamiento en el Caribe por cambio climático. telesurtv.net "Las inundaciones costeras y tierra adentro debido a la intensificación de las marejadas ciclónicas también han continuado siendo un problema en la región…

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Colombia suma 145 líderes sociales asesinados durante el 2021. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a Indepaz desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016 han sido asesinados 1.260 líderes sociales.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-27). Comisión del Senado brasileño aprueba informe que acusa a Bolsonaro por crímenes de lesa humanidad. telesurtv.net El presidente de la CPI, Omar Aziz, aseveró que el informe será remitido a los órganos judiciales correspondientes.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-27). Movimiento indígena de Ecuador convoca a un segundo día de protesta. telesurtv.net Los convocantes de las movilizaciones exigen una política económica y social que favorezca a los sectores populares más vulnerables.

Staff (2021-10-27). Headlines for October 27, 2021. democracynow.org U.N.'s Guterres Warns World on Track for Climate Catastrophe, Even with Gov't Pledges Ahead of COP26, Brazilian Senators Back Report Accusing Bolsonaro of Crimes Against Humanity for Pandemic Response, Deborah Birx Says 130,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved, But Trump Admin "Distracted" by Election, FDA Panel Recommends Pfizer Vaccine for Children Aged 5-11; Moderna to Sell 110M Vaccines to African Countries, Afghanistan Heading Toward Collapse as Half the Country Faces Acute Food Insecurity, Four People, Including 3 Children, Drown Off Greek Coast, Dozens Arrested as Protesters in Ecuador Condemn Fuel Price Hike,…

Staff (2021-10-27). Lawyer Steven Donziger, Who Sued Chevron over "Amazon Chernobyl," Ordered to Prison After House Arrest. democracynow.org The environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger joins us just before he is ordered to report to jail today, after a years-long legal battle with the oil company Chevron and 813 days of house arrest. In 2011, Donziger won an $18 billion settlement against Chevron on behalf of 30,000 Indigenous people in Ecuador for dumping 16 billion gallons of oil into their ancestral land in the Amazon. Since the landmark case, Donziger has faced a series of legal attacks from Chevron and a New York federal judge, who has employed a private law firm linked to the oil company to prosecute him. Earlier this month, he was…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-27). Turkish media boast of Ukraine using Bayraktar TB2 combat drone to "destroy Russian armament" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From today's Daily Sabah and Hurriyet. In Ukraine's 1st combat use, Bayraktar TB2 destroys Russian armament Once again video of a Turkey-made unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), namely Bayraktar TB2, destroying a Russian-made land vehicle went viral on social media. The footage, showing a familiar scene from Syria and Azerbaijan [Nagorno-Karabakh], was this time shared …

_____ (2021-10-26). The US Will Break Any Laws To Protect The Elites: The Saab And Assange Cases. popularresistance.org The United States government demonstrates repeatedly that it will do whatever it takes to protect the economic and political interests of the elites, even if it means total disregard for human rights and international law. Two cases that highlight this are the recent kidnapping and prosecution of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and the attempts to extradite the Australian Wikileaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange. Clearing the FOG speaks with Roger Harris of Task Force on the Americas who travelled to Cabo Verde where Saab was detained and tortured for over a year before his rendition to Miami and with Joe…

Staff (2021-10-26). Russian Navy destroyer chases off PIRATES who attacked container ship off African coast. rt.com Pirates hoping to hijack a container ship in the Gulf of Guinea saw their plans ruined when a helicopter full of Russian marines rode to the rescue, as a Northern Fleet destroyer happened to be on patrol in the area. | MSC Lucia, flying the flag of Panama and bound for Togo, sent out a distress call around 1pm local time on Monday, when it was boarded by armed men approximately 86 nautical miles southwest of the Agbami Terminal on the Nigerian coast. | The signal was picked up by the missile destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, which was in the area to conduct maritime security operations. The Lucia's crew sheltere…

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-26). Over 500 scholars launch fightback against Israel lobby. dissidentvoice.org Hundreds of international scholars have begun a fightback against pro-Israel lobbyists who have been scoring increasingly high-profile victories on UK campuses as they seek to curb academic freedoms under the guise of stamping out antisemitism. Glasgow university officials have found themselves in the eye of a storm this week, accused of "capitulating" in two separate …

Staff (2021-10-26). "Worked to Death": IATSE Film Crew on "Rust" Walked Off Set to Protest Conditions Before Shooting. democracynow.org We look at how the tragic shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of "Rust" last Thursday on a set in New Mexico is drawing attention to cost-cutting decisions and overall safety in the film industry. Yahoo News is reporting the gun that killed Hutchins had been used by crew members just hours beforehand for live-ammunition target practice. The film's lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin later shot the revolver after he was reportedly handed it by the first assistant director, David Halls, who told him it was a "cold gun," meaning it was not loaded with live ammunition. Halls was fire…

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-26). Organizaciones sociales denuncian prácticas violentas policiales en Colombia. telesurtv.net Entre las prácticas perpetradas por la fuerza pública figuran agresiones sexuales, detenciones arbitrarias y disparos contra manifestantes.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-26). Rechaza estado de sitio en El Estor, Guatemala. telesurtv.net Cientos de policías se han desplegado en el municipio para reprimir las protestas de los pueblos indígenas contra una minera.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-26). Arranca en Ecuador nueva jornada de movilizaciones contra el Gobierno. telesurtv.net Las protestas de este 26 de octubre apuntan a ser las más nutridas desde que Guillermo Lasso asumió el poder en mayo.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-26). Gobierno boliviano se reunirá con víctimas de masacres. telesurtv.net Tras una semana de caminata víctimas sobrevivientes y familiares de las masacres de Sacaba y Senkata llegaron a la ciudad de La Paz.

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-26). Presentan propuesta para revitalizar la educación en Honduras. telesurtv.net Acceso inclusivo al sistema educativo a todos los niveles, institucionalidad y garantías en materia de aseguramiento, son de los principales objetivos del plan.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-26). ONU advierte que millones de afganos pueden morir de hambre. telesurtv.net Cerca de la mitad de la población afgana sufre de inseguridad alimentaria grave.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-26). Alertan sobre manejo del tema climático con fines injerencistas. telesurtv.net Trascendió en un foro académico organizado por el ALBA-TCP, de cara a la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático.

teleSUR, JDO -HIM -JCM (2021-10-26). Víctimas de Sacaba y Senkata realizan vigilia en La Paz, Bolivia. telesurtv.net Demandan acelerar los procesos para identificar a responsables de ambas masacres, ocurridas en noviembre de 2019.

Staff (2021-10-26). In-Person Classes and Youth Vaccination Successfully Begin in Venezuela (Video & Photos). orinocotribune.com As planned by Venezuelan authorities, this Monday, October 25, in-person classes and youth vaccination began for the 2021-2022 academic schedule at all academic levels. | The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and the Minister for Education, Yelitze Santaella, visited the Alberto Màºller Rojas educational institution in Caracas to monitor compliance by children and teachers with the COVID-19 health protocols on the first day of classes. | The resumption of face-to-face classes will be supervised with strict epidemiological monitoring in order to avoid contagion. The option of suspending…

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2021-10-26: News Headlines

_____ (2021-10-26). The US Will Break Any Laws To Protect The Elites: The Saab And Assange Cases. popularresistance.org The United States government demonstrates repeatedly that it will do whatever it takes to protect the economic and political interests of the elites, even if it means total disregard for human rights and international law. Two cases that highlight this are the recent kidnapping and prosecution of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and the attempts to extradite the Australian Wikileaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange. Clearing the FOG speaks with Roger Harris of Task Force on the Americas who travelled to Cabo Verde where Saab was detained and tortured for over a year before his rendition to Miami and with Joe…

Staff (2021-10-26). Russian Navy destroyer chases off PIRATES who attacked container ship off African coast. rt.com Pirates hoping to hijack a container ship in the Gulf of Guinea saw their plans ruined when a helicopter full of Russian marines rode to the rescue, as a Northern Fleet destroyer happened to be on patrol in the area. | MSC Lucia, flying the flag of Panama and bound for Togo, sent out a distress call around 1pm local time on Monday, when it was boarded by armed men approximately 86 nautical miles southwest of the Agbami Terminal on the Nigerian coast. | The signal was picked up by the missile destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, which was in the area to conduct maritime security operations. The Lucia's crew sheltere…

Jonathan Cook (2021-10-26). Over 500 scholars launch fightback against Israel lobby. dissidentvoice.org Hundreds of international scholars have begun a fightback against pro-Israel lobbyists who have been scoring increasingly high-profile victories on UK campuses as they seek to curb academic freedoms under the guise of stamping out antisemitism. Glasgow university officials have found themselves in the eye of a storm this week, accused of "capitulating" in two separate …

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-26). Arranca en Ecuador nueva jornada de movilizaciones contra el Gobierno. telesurtv.net Las protestas de este 26 de octubre apuntan a ser las más nutridas desde que Guillermo Lasso asumió el poder en mayo.

teleSUR, SH (2021-10-26). Gobierno boliviano se reunirá con víctimas de masacres. telesurtv.net Tras una semana de caminata víctimas sobrevivientes y familiares de las masacres de Sacaba y Senkata llegaron a la ciudad de La Paz.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-26). Rechaza estado de sitio en El Estor, Guatemala. telesurtv.net Cientos de policías se han desplegado en el municipio para reprimir las protestas de los pueblos indígenas contra una minera.

teleSUR, JDO -HIM -JCM (2021-10-26). Víctimas de Sacaba y Senkata realizan vigilia en La Paz, Bolivia. telesurtv.net Demandan acelerar los procesos para identificar a responsables de ambas masacres, ocurridas en noviembre de 2019.

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-10-26). Alertan sobre manejo del tema climático con fines injerencistas. telesurtv.net Trascendió en un foro académico organizado por el ALBA-TCP, de cara a la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-26). Organizaciones sociales denuncian prácticas violentas policiales en Colombia. telesurtv.net Entre las prácticas perpetradas por la fuerza pública figuran agresiones sexuales, detenciones arbitrarias y disparos contra manifestantes.

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-26). Presentan propuesta para revitalizar la educación en Honduras. telesurtv.net Acceso inclusivo al sistema educativo a todos los niveles, institucionalidad y garantías en materia de aseguramiento, son de los principales objetivos del plan.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-26). ONU advierte que millones de afganos pueden morir de hambre. telesurtv.net Cerca de la mitad de la población afgana sufre de inseguridad alimentaria grave.

Staff (2021-10-26). In-Person Classes and Youth Vaccination Successfully Begin in Venezuela (Video & Photos). orinocotribune.com As planned by Venezuelan authorities, this Monday, October 25, in-person classes and youth vaccination began for the 2021-2022 academic schedule at all academic levels. | The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and the Minister for Education, Yelitze Santaella, visited the Alberto Màºller Rojas educational institution in Caracas to monitor compliance by children and teachers with the COVID-19 health protocols on the first day of classes. | The resumption of face-to-face classes will be supervised with strict epidemiological monitoring in order to avoid contagion. The option of suspending…

Staff (2021-10-25). Headlines for October 25, 2021. democracynow.org Sudanese Military Dissolves Transitional Gov't, Detains Prime Minister in Coup, "Facebook Papers" Reveal How Co. Fueled Violence in India, Facebook's Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection, "Stop the Steal" Organizers Say GOP Lawmakers, Trump Staffers Involved in Planning Jan. 6 Rallies, Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Orgs as "Terrorist" Groups, Turkey's Erdogan Orders 10 Western Ambassadors Expelled over Support for Jailed Dissident, U.N. Fears Possible "Mass Atrocity Crimes" in Burma as Troops Mobilize, Refugees in Libya Camp Outside U.N. Office to Demand Evacuation, Barbados Elects First-Ever President to Rep…

Staff (2021-10-25). Evo Morales: Plurinational America Not Compatible With Imperialism. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, October 23, the former president of Bolivia and current president of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party, Evo Morales, in an exclusive interview for the international TV station teleSUR, discussed the role of indigenous movements to recover territories and fight against colonialism. | "The invasion of 1492 was under an alliance between the monarchy and the Catholic Church," said Morales. "Pope Francis apologized to the indigenous movement, but not the Europeans… From Bolivia, from South America, we are proclaiming plurinational states." | The former president reiterated that to refer to the…

_____ (2021-10-25). Puerto Ricans Resist Austerity Measures And Corporate Corruption. popularresistance.org A worsening economic crisis, compounded by brutal neoliberal policies, have ushered in a new wave of resistance in Puerto Rico. Nearly half of the population lives below the poverty line. More and more Puerto Ricans are leaving la patria, the homeland, in hopes of a better life in the United States. The archipelago has faced an onslaught of natural disasters, including the catastrophic Hurricane Maria in 2017 and a series of earthquakes throughout 2020. | On paper, Puerto Rico is a "commonwealth" of the United States, a term that implies a kind of shared prosperity between the two places. In practice, Puerto Rico…

Staff (2021-10-25). International Social Movements Denounce Illegal US Move Against Alex Saab (Photos and Videos). orinocotribune.com On Sunday, October 24, social movements from different countries, including the United States, peacefully demonstrated in favor of the release of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. He was illegally extracted from Cape Verde to the US, as part of the interventionist and violent policies of the US authorities against the peoples of the world, and especially the criminal strategy of starving millions of Venezuelans with the sole objective of ousting democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro. | Groups of activists in defense of human rights expressed condemnation for the arbitrary and irregular measures by the gove…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-25). Activistas exigen en EE.UU. liberación de diplomático Alex Saab. telesurtv.net En Miami, la agrupación Círculo Bolivariano "Negra Hipólita" convocó a la concentración en la Antorcha de la Amistad.

Global Research (2021-10-25). Alex Saab: Grave atropello de Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca La arbitraria extradición a Estados Unidos por el gobierno de Cabo Verde del empresario y diplomático venezolano Alex Saab, el 16 de octubre, es en realidad un secuestro, como acusó el presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro. Saab fue detenido y…

Eric A. Gordon (2021-10-25). Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative. peoplesworld.org International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long time ago!) I read his book with awe at his scholarship and at the daring conclusions he draws. I …

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-10-25). Caravana de migrantes continúa su paso hacia Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net La caravana se enfrentó al cerco de agentes del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) y de la Guardia Nacional de México.

Mouris Salloum George (2021-10-25). México — Santa Anna y la rosa amarilla de Texas. globalizacion.ca 18 de abril de 1836, Antonio López de Santa Anna, general en jefe del ejército mexicano marchaba por la llanura tejana en busca de los rebeldes y se enfiló hacia el centro de comercio de Nueva Washington sólo para encontrarlo…

Iván Restrepo (2021-10-25). México — Promesas y datos oficiales. globalizacion.ca Varios lectores de mi artículo del lunes sobre la crisis del agua en el mundo, se quejan porque en él señalé que en México es una realidad y no existe una política de Estado para enfrentarla de la mejor manera…

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-10-25). Movimientos sociales ecuatorianos rechazan medidas económicas. telesurtv.net El Gobierno ecuatoriano aumentó el precio de los combustibles el pasado viernes y varios sectores desaprueban la medida.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-25). Perú ampliará distribución de gas natural en varias regiones. telesurtv.net La masificación del gas natural será en las regiones de Cusco, Puno, Apurímac, Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Ayacucho y Ucayali.

teleSUR, yart, JL (2021-10-25). ONU reconoce avance de China para la erradicación de la pobreza. telesurtv.net El organismo multilateral ponderó la cooperación de China con los pueblos del mundo para el combate de la Covid-19.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-25). Asesinan a líder social en Colombia, el número 143 en el 2021. telesurtv.net Desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016, en el país se han asesinado 1.258 líderes sociales.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-25). Guatemala decreta estado de sitio en el municipio de El Estor. telesurtv.net La medida, vigente por 30 días, limitará el derecho de manifestación y permitirá a las fuerzas de seguridad realizar detenciones sin orden de juez.

Gerardo Villagrán del Corral (2021-10-25). El litio mexicano, un recurso estratégico en el radar de las grandes empresas mundiales. globalizacion.ca En México hay indicios de potencial en litio desde finales de los años 1970 y principios de los 80, según documentos del Servicio Geológico Mexicano, pero lo cierto es que el modelo neoliberal de los gobiernos anteriores optó por truncar…

Liberation Staff (2021-10-25). Northeast Ohio immigrant rights action demands 'papers for all'. liberationnews.org The rallying cry of the °Papeles Para Todos! campaign — that is, to get papers for all — resonated deeply with Cleveland residents. T…

Mauricio Ferolla (2021-10-25). Elections in Honduras, the battle for November 28. peoplesdispatch.org Nasry Asfura of the ruling National Party and LIBRE leader, Xiomara Castro, are the front runners in the presidential elections. Wounds still remain open at 12 years since the coup…

Paul Dobson (2021-10-25). 'El Pollo' Carvajal Extradition to US Suspended, Expected to Proceed Shortly. venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan former intelligence chief and fierce Maduro critic was arrested in Spain on drug trafficking charges.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-25). Venezuela Reports 1,056 New COVID-19 Cases and 10 Deaths on Saturday — In Person Classes to Start on Monday. orinocotribune.com Saturday, October 23, was the 587th day of the pandemic in Venezuela, and 1,056 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the country in the last 24 hours; all were cases of community transmission. In addition, 10 deaths were reported. The Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, informed this through Twitter. | With this update, Venezuela has a total of 399,667 reported infections and 4,800 deaths. Of this total, 14,146 are active cases with 9,230 being treated in hospitals: 4,363 in comprehensive diagnotic centers (CDIs) and 553 in private clinics. The number of people who have recovered is 380,721, which r…

Staff (2021-10-25). 21N Regional Elections: More than 75% of CNE Electoral Schedule Complete. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) has completed over 75% of the activities in its electoral schedule for the Regional Elections to be held on November 21, and currently a number of activities that are being carried out in parallel. This was reported by the principal rector of the electoral body, Tania D ¥Amelio. | During the TV show Aquí con Ernesto Villegas, hosted by the Minister for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), D'Amelio specified that the CNE is arranging a pilot plan, so that people with disabilities would be able to vote at voting desk number 1 of all…

Danny Shaw (2021-10-25). 38 Years After a Triple Assassination, Grenada's Short-Lived Revolution Still Inspires. towardfreedom.org Almost four decades after the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the tiny Caribbean island's revolution is an example the colonized and silenced can stand up, organize and win.

Graziella Pogolotti (2021-10-25). Cuba — Reflexiones sobre el trabajo social comunitario. globalizacion.ca Recién nombrado rector de la Universidad de La Habana, José M. Miyar Barruecos visitó la entonces llamada Escuela de Letras y de Arte. Muy pronto, estudiantes y profesores del alto centro de estudios lo conocieron por Chomy, un apelativo más…

José Manzaneda (2021-10-25). Cuba y el doble rasero desinformativo. globalizacion.ca El último informe de la Federación Internacional de Periodistas, que denuncia el asesinato de 65 profesionales en 2020, 17 más que el año anterior, apenas ha pasado de alguna nota de agencia (1). Los medios han preferido poner el foco…

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2021-10-25: News Headlines

Staff (2021-10-25). Headlines for October 25, 2021. democracynow.org Sudanese Military Dissolves Transitional Gov't, Detains Prime Minister in Coup, "Facebook Papers" Reveal How Co. Fueled Violence in India, Facebook's Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection, "Stop the Steal" Organizers Say GOP Lawmakers, Trump Staffers Involved in Planning Jan. 6 Rallies, Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Orgs as "Terrorist" Groups, Turkey's Erdogan Orders 10 Western Ambassadors Expelled over Support for Jailed Dissident, U.N. Fears Possible "Mass Atrocity Crimes" in Burma as Troops Mobilize, Refugees in Libya Camp Outside U.N. Office to Demand Evacuation, Barbados Elects First-Ever President to Rep…

Staff (2021-10-25). Evo Morales: Plurinational America Not Compatible With Imperialism. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, October 23, the former president of Bolivia and current president of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party, Evo Morales, in an exclusive interview for the international TV station teleSUR, discussed the role of indigenous movements to recover territories and fight against colonialism. | "The invasion of 1492 was under an alliance between the monarchy and the Catholic Church," said Morales. "Pope Francis apologized to the indigenous movement, but not the Europeans… From Bolivia, from South America, we are proclaiming plurinational states." | The former president reiterated that to refer to the…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-25). Activistas exigen en EE.UU. liberación de diplomático Alex Saab. telesurtv.net En Miami, la agrupación Círculo Bolivariano "Negra Hipólita" convocó a la concentración en la Antorcha de la Amistad.

Global Research (2021-10-25). Alex Saab: Grave atropello de Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca La arbitraria extradición a Estados Unidos por el gobierno de Cabo Verde del empresario y diplomático venezolano Alex Saab, el 16 de octubre, es en realidad un secuestro, como acusó el presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro. Saab fue detenido y…

Eric A. Gordon (2021-10-25). Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative. peoplesworld.org International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long time ago!) I read his book with awe at his scholarship and at the daring conclusions he draws. I …

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-10-25). Caravana de migrantes continúa su paso hacia Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net La caravana se enfrentó al cerco de agentes del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) y de la Guardia Nacional de México.

Mouris Salloum George (2021-10-25). México — Santa Anna y la rosa amarilla de Texas. globalizacion.ca 18 de abril de 1836, Antonio López de Santa Anna, general en jefe del ejército mexicano marchaba por la llanura tejana en busca de los rebeldes y se enfiló hacia el centro de comercio de Nueva Washington sólo para encontrarlo…

Iván Restrepo (2021-10-25). México — Promesas y datos oficiales. globalizacion.ca Varios lectores de mi artículo del lunes sobre la crisis del agua en el mundo, se quejan porque en él señalé que en México es una realidad y no existe una política de Estado para enfrentarla de la mejor manera…

teleSUR, yart, JL (2021-10-25). ONU reconoce avance de China para la erradicación de la pobreza. telesurtv.net El organismo multilateral ponderó la cooperación de China con los pueblos del mundo para el combate de la Covid-19.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-25). Guatemala decreta estado de sitio en el municipio de El Estor. telesurtv.net La medida, vigente por 30 días, limitará el derecho de manifestación y permitirá a las fuerzas de seguridad realizar detenciones sin orden de juez.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-25). Asesinan a líder social en Colombia, el número 143 en el 2021. telesurtv.net Desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016, en el país se han asesinado 1.258 líderes sociales.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-25). Perú ampliará distribución de gas natural en varias regiones. telesurtv.net La masificación del gas natural será en las regiones de Cusco, Puno, Apurímac, Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Ayacucho y Ucayali.

teleSUR, yart, JCM (2021-10-25). Movimientos sociales ecuatorianos rechazan medidas económicas. telesurtv.net El Gobierno ecuatoriano aumentó el precio de los combustibles el pasado viernes y varios sectores desaprueban la medida.

Gerardo Villagrán del Corral (2021-10-25). El litio mexicano, un recurso estratégico en el radar de las grandes empresas mundiales. globalizacion.ca En México hay indicios de potencial en litio desde finales de los años 1970 y principios de los 80, según documentos del Servicio Geológico Mexicano, pero lo cierto es que el modelo neoliberal de los gobiernos anteriores optó por truncar…

Liberation Staff (2021-10-25). Northeast Ohio immigrant rights action demands 'papers for all'. liberationnews.org The rallying cry of the °Papeles Para Todos! campaign — that is, to get papers for all — resonated deeply with Cleveland residents. T…

Mauricio Ferolla (2021-10-25). Elections in Honduras, the battle for November 28. peoplesdispatch.org Nasry Asfura of the ruling National Party and LIBRE leader, Xiomara Castro, are the front runners in the presidential elections. Wounds still remain open at 12 years since the coup…

Staff (2021-10-25). 21N Regional Elections: More than 75% of CNE Electoral Schedule Complete. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) has completed over 75% of the activities in its electoral schedule for the Regional Elections to be held on November 21, and currently a number of activities that are being carried out in parallel. This was reported by the principal rector of the electoral body, Tania D ¥Amelio. | During the TV show Aquí con Ernesto Villegas, hosted by the Minister for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), D'Amelio specified that the CNE is arranging a pilot plan, so that people with disabilities would be able to vote at voting desk number 1 of all…

Danny Shaw (2021-10-25). 38 Years After a Triple Assassination, Grenada's Short-Lived Revolution Still Inspires. towardfreedom.org Almost four decades after the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the tiny Caribbean island's revolution is an example the colonized and silenced can stand up, organize and win.

Graziella Pogolotti (2021-10-25). Cuba — Reflexiones sobre el trabajo social comunitario. globalizacion.ca Recién nombrado rector de la Universidad de La Habana, José M. Miyar Barruecos visitó la entonces llamada Escuela de Letras y de Arte. Muy pronto, estudiantes y profesores del alto centro de estudios lo conocieron por Chomy, un apelativo más…

José Manzaneda (2021-10-25). Cuba y el doble rasero desinformativo. globalizacion.ca El último informe de la Federación Internacional de Periodistas, que denuncia el asesinato de 65 profesionales en 2020, 17 más que el año anterior, apenas ha pasado de alguna nota de agencia (1). Los medios han preferido poner el foco…

Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca (2021-10-24). US: Religious Leaders Urge Biden to End Blockade Against Cuba. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-24). Evo Morales: La América Plurinacional no es compatible con el imperialismo. telesurtv.net "El pueblo quiere líderes y no héroes, por lo tanto nos tenemos que proteger para estar siempre del lado del pueblo", acotó Morales.

teleSUR- lvm, JCM (2021-10-24). Cuba rechaza amenaza de EE.UU. contra seguridad nacional. telesurtv.net Estas declaraciones del jefe de Estado están sustentadas a partir de las proyecciones de EE.UU., encabezadas por Juan González, principal asesor para Latinoamérica del presidente estadounidense.

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2021-10-24). Enlaces de Red Latina sin fronteras 23.10.2021. indybay.org

_____ (2021-10-24). Biden Administration Is Undermining The Venezuela Dialogue. popularresistance.org The talks between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right wing opposition had been going well. There are still outstanding issues to be resolved, like ending the economic war, but the discussions held in Mexico led to concrete electoral developments. The European Union agreed to send an electoral observation mission. The United Nations decided to send a panel of electoral experts. (Both institutions refused to observe the 2018 presidential and 2020 legislative elections, despite invitations from the government.) Thousands of opposition candidates registered to run in the mega-elections, which include voti…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Caravana de migrantes parte de Chiapas a la Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net El grupo cuenta con el acompañamiento de Irineo Mújica, director de Pueblos sin Fronteras y Luis García Villagrán, del Centro de Dignificación Humana.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Descubren en México fosas clandestinas con restos óseos. telesurtv.net Se confirmó el hallazgo de fosas con restos humanos durante los primeros tres días de búsqueda en una antigua mina de arena.

teleSUR, lvm, JL (2021-10-24). Felicitan al músico argentino Charly García en sus 70 años. telesurtv.net El Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner celebró el cumpleaños de Charly García con una jornada dedicada a su obra.

teleSUR- lvm, JL (2021-10-24). Encuentran reclusos ahorcados en penitenciaría de Ecuador. telesurtv.net Los decesos ocurrieron en la Penitenciaría del Litoral, en la ciudad costera de Guayaquil.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-24). Tormenta Rick amenaza a las costas del Pacífico mexicano. telesurtv.net México aún se recupera de los efectos del huracán Pamela, que ingresó a tierra el pasado 13 de octubre y causó unos 10.000 damnificados.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Identifican restos de joven desaparecido en Popayán, Colombia. telesurtv.net El joven estudiante Brayan Alexander Arias Muñoz desapareció la época del Paro Nacional.

Alejandra Marks (2021-10-24). Underground Activists in Brazil Fight for Women's Reproductive Rights. zcomm.org Abortion activism networks support and guide women through at-home procedures in Brazil's legally restrictive and socially conservative landscape…

Victoria Torres (2021-10-24). Chile: Carabineros Repress Peaceful Demonstration Two Years After Popular Uprising. orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 22, Chile's special forces, known as Carabineros, were deployed to suppress a peaceful demonstration held at Plaza Dignidad in capital Santiago. The demonstration celebrated the second anniversary of the start of the social uprising that shook Chile back in 2019. | On Friday, protesters gathered in the main square of Santiago to demand freedom for the political prisoners detained during the social unrest in late 2019. | The Carabineros arrived at around 8: 00 p.m. in the downtown area of Santiago to disperse the protest. According to police, two were arrested, including a minor, for public disor…

_____ (2021-10-24). Chile, Two Years After The Popular Uprising. popularresistance.org That October 18, 2019 was a blow that, in one fell swoop, brought down the deceptive faàßade of the conservative regime and inaugurated a new stage in the history of Chile. The enormous injustices maintained and deepened during the very slow (and failed) "democratic transition" initiated in 1990 were exposed. The explosive combination of free market without anesthesia and a democracy lacking in substance and completely delegitimized—thus becoming a rapacious plutocracy—was able to stay afloat thanks to the resignation, demoralization and apathy of the citizenry, skillfully induced by establishme…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-10-24). Price of Subsidized Fuel Adjusted in Venezuela — Long Lines to Remain. orinocotribune.com Caracas, October 23, 2021 ( Since June 1, 2020, Venezuela has a dual scheme of gasoline sales where most gas stations inthe country, approximately 1,500 nationwide, sell gasoline at a subsidized rate of Bs. 0.005 per liter and approximately 200 stations were handed to private entities to sell gasolin…

Staff (2021-10-24). President Maduro Visits Central University of Venezuela, Inspects Renovation Works (Photos). orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, President Nicolás Maduro visited the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) campus in Caracas, to inspect the ongoing renovation works at Venezuela's oldest institute of higher education. After his visit, President Maduro stressed that the renovation of this World Heritage Site will be a cause for reconciliation and educational and cultural benefit for Venezuela. In videos posted on his Twitter account this Friday, the president expressed his congratulations to "the entire Presidential Commission, the workers and the students involved for the coordinated work they are doing towards a recov…

ANSWER Coalition Bay Area (2021-10-24). Sunday 10/31: SF Speakout/Rally: Let Cuba Live, Stop the U.S. Blockade, No CIA Coups! indybay.org Powell + Market Street, San Francisco…

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teleSUR, JL (2021-10-24). Evo Morales: La América Plurinacional no es compatible con el imperialismo. telesurtv.net "El pueblo quiere líderes y no héroes, por lo tanto nos tenemos que proteger para estar siempre del lado del pueblo", acotó Morales.

teleSUR- lvm, JCM (2021-10-24). Cuba rechaza amenaza de EE.UU. contra seguridad nacional. telesurtv.net Estas declaraciones del jefe de Estado están sustentadas a partir de las proyecciones de EE.UU., encabezadas por Juan González, principal asesor para Latinoamérica del presidente estadounidense.

reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras (2021-10-24). Enlaces de Red Latina sin fronteras 23.10.2021. indybay.org

_____ (2021-10-24). Biden Administration Is Undermining The Venezuela Dialogue. popularresistance.org The talks between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right wing opposition had been going well. There are still outstanding issues to be resolved, like ending the economic war, but the discussions held in Mexico led to concrete electoral developments. The European Union agreed to send an electoral observation mission. The United Nations decided to send a panel of electoral experts. (Both institutions refused to observe the 2018 presidential and 2020 legislative elections, despite invitations from the government.) Thousands of opposition candidates registered to run in the mega-elections, which include voti…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Descubren en México fosas clandestinas con restos óseos. telesurtv.net Se confirmó el hallazgo de fosas con restos humanos durante los primeros tres días de búsqueda en una antigua mina de arena.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Caravana de migrantes parte de Chiapas a la Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net El grupo cuenta con el acompañamiento de Irineo Mújica, director de Pueblos sin Fronteras y Luis García Villagrán, del Centro de Dignificación Humana.

teleSUR- lvm, JL (2021-10-24). Encuentran reclusos ahorcados en penitenciaría de Ecuador. telesurtv.net Los decesos ocurrieron en la Penitenciaría del Litoral, en la ciudad costera de Guayaquil.

teleSUR, JL (2021-10-24). Asesinan a líder social en Colombia, el número 143 en el 2021. telesurtv.net Desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz en 2016, en el país se han asesinado 1.258 líderes sociales.

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-24). Identifican restos de joven desaparecido en Popayán, Colombia. telesurtv.net El joven estudiante Brayan Alexander Arias Muñoz desapareció la época del Paro Nacional.

teleSUR, lvm, JL (2021-10-24). Felicitan al músico argentino Charly García en sus 70 años. telesurtv.net El Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner celebró el cumpleaños de Charly García con una jornada dedicada a su obra.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-24). Tormenta Rick amenaza a las costas del Pacífico mexicano. telesurtv.net México aún se recupera de los efectos del huracán Pamela, que ingresó a tierra el pasado 13 de octubre y causó unos 10.000 damnificados.

Alejandra Marks (2021-10-24). Underground Activists in Brazil Fight for Women's Reproductive Rights. zcomm.org Abortion activism networks support and guide women through at-home procedures in Brazil's legally restrictive and socially conservative landscape…

Victoria Torres (2021-10-24). Chile: Carabineros Repress Peaceful Demonstration Two Years After Popular Uprising. orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 22, Chile's special forces, known as Carabineros, were deployed to suppress a peaceful demonstration held at Plaza Dignidad in capital Santiago. The demonstration celebrated the second anniversary of the start of the social uprising that shook Chile back in 2019. | On Friday, protesters gathered in the main square of Santiago to demand freedom for the political prisoners detained during the social unrest in late 2019. | The Carabineros arrived at around 8: 00 p.m. in the downtown area of Santiago to disperse the protest. According to police, two were arrested, including a minor, for public disor…

_____ (2021-10-24). Chile, Two Years After The Popular Uprising. popularresistance.org That October 18, 2019 was a blow that, in one fell swoop, brought down the deceptive faàßade of the conservative regime and inaugurated a new stage in the history of Chile. The enormous injustices maintained and deepened during the very slow (and failed) "democratic transition" initiated in 1990 were exposed. The explosive combination of free market without anesthesia and a democracy lacking in substance and completely delegitimized—thus becoming a rapacious plutocracy—was able to stay afloat thanks to the resignation, demoralization and apathy of the citizenry, skillfully induced by establishme…

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-10-24). Price of Subsidized Fuel Adjusted in Venezuela — Long Lines to Remain. orinocotribune.com Caracas, October 23, 2021 ( Since June 1, 2020, Venezuela has a dual scheme of gasoline sales where most gas stations inthe country, approximately 1,500 nationwide, sell gasoline at a subsidized rate of Bs. 0.005 per liter and approximately 200 stations were handed to private entities to sell gasolin…

Staff (2021-10-24). President Maduro Visits Central University of Venezuela, Inspects Renovation Works (Photos). orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, President Nicolás Maduro visited the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) campus in Caracas, to inspect the ongoing renovation works at Venezuela's oldest institute of higher education. After his visit, President Maduro stressed that the renovation of this World Heritage Site will be a cause for reconciliation and educational and cultural benefit for Venezuela. In videos posted on his Twitter account this Friday, the president expressed his congratulations to "the entire Presidential Commission, the workers and the students involved for the coordinated work they are doing towards a recov…

Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Sauca (2021-10-24). US: Religious Leaders Urge Biden to End Blockade Against Cuba. globalresearch.ca

ANSWER Coalition Bay Area (2021-10-24). Sunday 10/31: SF Speakout/Rally: Let Cuba Live, Stop the U.S. Blockade, No CIA Coups! indybay.org Powell + Market Street, San Francisco…

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-23). Pdte. Ecuador se rehúsa otra vez a fiscalización legislativa. telesurtv.net La Fiscalía de Ecuador decidió abrir una investigación por presunta defraudación tributaria, todo por los Pandora Papers.

Editor2 (2021-10-23). Alex Saab's Extradition Proves the Hard Truth of 'Soft' US Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Cruz Mosquera — Oct 21, 2021 | Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab has been extradited to the US on thinly-veiled political grounds — but the media and 'humanitarian' NGOs are all too happy to toe the State Department's line. | For over six years, the US government has enforced unilateral sanctions against Venezuela in what UN experts have called a breach of the country's human rights and a violation of international law. A UN-commissioned

Staff (2021-10-23). US 'Justice' Now After Former Minister of Foreign Trade José Vielma Mora — the Goal is to Starve Venezuelans. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, the Department of Justice of the United States government reported about a formal accusation issued at a US court against five persons allegedly linked to a corruption plot through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP) program of Venezuela. One of those five is Venezuela's National Assembly deputy, José Vielma Mora. | A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida issued a formal indictment, which was filed on October 7, nine days before the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde, against three Colombian citizens and two Venezuelans, for their alleged…

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Solidarity Committees With Venezuela Support Alex Saab's Cause. telesurenglish.net Friends of Venezuela Solidarity Committees called on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to condemn the extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the U.S. | RELATED: | The Committees recalled that Saab's extradition represents a dangerous precedent as it violates the international treaties on diplomatic relations. | The activists also warned that The United Nations Human Rights Committee, the West African (…

Staff (2021-10-23). Russia and Bolivia Call for the End of Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela and Cuba. orinocotribune.com Senior diplomatic officials of Russia and Bolivia denounced US interference in Latin America and advocated for the end of the US blockade against Venezuela and Cuba. | On Friday, October 22, at a joint press conference held in Moscow, the Russian capital, Bolivian Foreign Affairs Minister Rogelio Mayta and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, denounced the interventionist actions of the US and its allies in the sovereign countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and demanded the lifting of the blockades imposed on Venezuela and Cuba. | Both diplomats stressed that the US is resorting to unilateral coercive…

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-23). Bolivia y Rusia rechazan injerencia a países latinoamericanos. telesurtv.net Cancilleres de ambas naciones se reúnen en Moscú. Exigen además el cese de la guerra económica de EE.UU. contra Cuba.

Wingel Xue, Alexandre White (2021-10-23). [Perspectives] COVID-19 and the rebiologisation of racial difference. thelancet.com In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, early dashboards set up by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering tracked overall numbers of cases and deaths but provided no demographic breakdown of these statistics. Current data show wide racial disparities in the burden of COVID-19 in the USA, with Latino, Indigenous, and Black people disproportionately affected. Similar disparities are also evident in other nations with histories of structural racism.

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Jamaica to Hand Over a Suspect in Moise's Assassination. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Jamaican authorities informed Mario Antonio Palacios' extradition to Port-au-Prince. He is accused of involvement in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise in July. | RELATED: | Palacios became the subject of an International Police (Interpol) red alert following a petition by Haitian authorities. He was arrested for violating Jamaican migration laws. | Colombia's National Police Director…

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Mexico Reports 10 Clandestine Graves in Morelos. telesurenglish.net In Mexico, the National Links Network and the National Brigade for the Search for Persons reported the discovery of at least ten clandestine graves in Morelos. | RELATED: | The Search Brigade worked in 13 municipalities for two weeks. The first positive finding was located in the Cuautla municipality, where prior searches were carried out in the area. | The second finding was located in a mine in the Yecapixtla m…

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-23). Denuncian represión contra pueblo maya q'eqchi' en Guatemala. telesurtv.net Funcionarios policiales usaron gases lacrimógenos contra los manifestantes, dejando a varios afectados.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-23). Asesinan a velocista olímpico Alex Quiñónez en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El homicidio ocurrió bajo el estado de excepción por 60 días decretado por el presidente ecuatoriano para combatir la delincuencia.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Indígenas colombianos rechazan desalojo y exigen ser escuchados. telesurtv.net Los integrantes de la comunidad embera aseguran que no se van a ir del Parque Nacional, en Bogotá, pues no se dieron garantías para un diálogo.

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-23). Advierten sobre aumento de homicidios en Guatemala durante 2021. telesurtv.net El índice de homicidios en Guatemala muestra tendencia al crecimiento, con 245 perpetrados en septiembre, ante los 237 de agosto y 215 de julio.

teleSUR, lvm, HIM, MER (2021-10-23). Estudio revela asesinato de 34.918 niños y jóvenes en Brasil entre 2016 y 2020. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con el estudio, en Brasil un promedio de 7.000 niños y jóvenes son asesinados cada año.

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Italy: Ex-Interior Minister's Trial Begins for Abuse of Power. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, a trial against far-right politician Matteo Salvini started in Italy, where he is accused of illegally blockading 147 migrants at sea in 2019 when was the Interior Ministry. | RELATED: | Charges against Salvini are connected to kidnapping and abuse of power for having prohibited the disembarkation of migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in August 2019. | Last year, th…

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-10-23). ONU: contaminación plástica en mares se triplicará para 2040. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con el estudio presentado, el plástico representa el 85 por ciento de los desechos que se encuentran en los mares.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2021-10-23). Vacuna Sputnik V contribuye a inmunización en la India. telesurtv.net Según autoridades sanitarias, en la India el 30 por ciento de los adultos ha sido vacunado en su totalidad.

teleSUR (2021-10-23). Olympic Athlete Alex Quiñonez Shot to Death in Ecuador. telesurenglish.net In Ecuador, the Guayas' Sports Federation confirmed the assassination of Olympic athlete Alex Quiñonez on Friday. | RELATED: | Quiñonez and a friend Jojairo Arcalla were shot to death by unknown people in the Colinas de la Florida sector in Guayaquil. | Guayas Governor's office, soccer teams, and the general population regretted the incident that ended the life of the 32-year-old medal champion. | "My heart is total…

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-23). Cuba rechaza nueva amenaza del Gobierno estadounidense. telesurtv.net El diplomático remarcó que el pueblo cubano no se amedrentará ante las amenazas promovidas por la Casa Blanca.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-23). Bolivia reitera que no hubo fraude en elecciones de 2019. telesurtv.net El procurador general de Bolivia reiteró que la OEA incumplió el acuerdo establecido para realizar la auditoría en los comicios de 2019.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo cumplen 44 años de lucha. telesurtv.net En homenaje a la Asociación, el Congreso Argentino Instituyó este día como Día Nacional por el Derecho a la Identidad.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Tribunal de Belmarsh enjuicia a EE.UU. por crímenes de guerra. telesurtv.net Más de 20 políticos, intelectuales y congresistas participan en sus sesiones y exigen la liberación del fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange.

Bryant Diaz (2021-10-23). La Cumbiamba NY Workshop and Performance. peoplesforum.org Join us this Saturday in-person for a free workshop and performance, celebrating the 20 year anniversary of La Cumbiamba NY. With traditional instruments such as the indigenous Gaita flutes and the Afro-Colombian drums, the group, led by multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Martin Vejarano, has established itself as one of the finest Cumbia ensembles in the US.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-23). With 7,000 (and growing) troops, security personnel on Belarus border, Poland mulls EU assistance. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Frontex to assist Poland in return operations of migrants? "For today, we do not see the need to involve Frontex in activities on our border. Currently, the section of the border with Belarus is protected by more than 7,000 Border Guard officers, police and soldiers of the Polish Army, and there will be more," Polish …

WSWS (2021-10-23). British government prepares fascistic "push back" of migrants and asylum seekers in English Channel. wsws.org A provision in the Nationality and Borders Bill states that officials would "not be liable to any criminal or civil proceedings for anything done" when they forcibly "push back" dinghies carrying refugees seeking asylum into a busy commercial waterway.

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-10-23). Far-right strike in Bolivia once again a flop. peoplesdispatch.org Days before the strike, trade unions across the country announced that they wouldn't abide by the call, citing that the strike was politically motivated and sought destabilization of the ruling socialist government of President Luis Arce…

Miya Tada (2021-10-23). SOVEREIGNTY AND SOIL: BRAZILIAN LANDLESS MOVEMENT & AGROECOLOGY. peoplesforum.org Join us on at 3: 00pm EDT on Saturday, October 23rd for a screening of Brazilian Landless Movement & Agroecology and a discussion with Carol Sproule of Via Campesina!

WSWS (2021-10-23). Parent denounces full reopening of schools across Brazil. wsws.org "Brazil is a leader in deaths of young people from the coronavirus. How can I not defend my child from this?"

Vijay Prashad (2021-10-23). Chile is at the dawn of a new political era. zcomm.org The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election to be held on November 21, 2021…

James Patrick Jordan (2021-10-23). Solidarity Center Funding Skyrockets for Venezuela and Colombia. orinocotribune.com By James Patrick Jordan — Oct 21, 2021 | The Solidarity Center's activities in Venezuela and Colombia skyrocketed last year. Funding from the mis-named

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-23). Spain Delays Extradition of 'El Pollo' Carvajal to the US. orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 22, the National Court of Spain again suspended Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal's extradition to the US, after it had already determined to proceed with the extradition of the Venezuelan military deserter two days earlier. | According to the official declaration from the Court, communicated by the Third Section of the Criminal Matters Chamber, everything is following the sequential stages of the legal process. These stages constitute the fulfillment of an order and a mandate or judicial resolution that had to be executed previously. | The court document states that "for the sake of an effective judici…

Ricardo Vaz (2021-10-23). Venezuela: ConocoPhillips Closer to Enforcing $9.7B Award After Guaidó Opposition Misses Payments. venezuelanalysis.com The opposition leader has drawn fierce criticism for his handling of foreign assets and international arbitration cases.

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Staff (2021-10-23). US 'Justice' Now After Former Minister of Foreign Trade José Vielma Mora — the Goal is to Starve Venezuelans. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 21, the Department of Justice of the United States government reported about a formal accusation issued at a US court against five persons allegedly linked to a corruption plot through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP) program of Venezuela. One of those five is Venezuela's National Assembly deputy, José Vielma Mora. | A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida issued a formal indictment, which was filed on October 7, nine days before the kidnapping of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from Cape Verde, against three Colombian citizens and two Venezuelans, for their alleged…

teleSUR, drl, JDO (2021-10-23). Pdte. Ecuador se rehúsa otra vez a fiscalización legislativa. telesurtv.net La Fiscalía de Ecuador decidió abrir una investigación por presunta defraudación tributaria, todo por los Pandora Papers.

Staff (2021-10-23). Russia and Bolivia Call for the End of Illegal Sanctions Against Venezuela and Cuba. orinocotribune.com Senior diplomatic officials of Russia and Bolivia denounced US interference in Latin America and advocated for the end of the US blockade against Venezuela and Cuba. | On Friday, October 22, at a joint press conference held in Moscow, the Russian capital, Bolivian Foreign Affairs Minister Rogelio Mayta and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, denounced the interventionist actions of the US and its allies in the sovereign countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and demanded the lifting of the blockades imposed on Venezuela and Cuba. | Both diplomats stressed that the US is resorting to unilateral coercive…

Wingel Xue, Alexandre White (2021-10-23). [Perspectives] COVID-19 and the rebiologisation of racial difference. thelancet.com In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, early dashboards set up by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering tracked overall numbers of cases and deaths but provided no demographic breakdown of these statistics. Current data show wide racial disparities in the burden of COVID-19 in the USA, with Latino, Indigenous, and Black people disproportionately affected. Similar disparities are also evident in other nations with histories of structural racism.

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-23). Bolivia y Rusia rechazan injerencia a países latinoamericanos. telesurtv.net Cancilleres de ambas naciones se reúnen en Moscú. Exigen además el cese de la guerra económica de EE.UU. contra Cuba.

teleSUR- jaa -HIM (2021-10-23). Bolivia reitera que no hubo fraude en elecciones de 2019. telesurtv.net El procurador general de Bolivia reiteró que la OEA incumplió el acuerdo establecido para realizar la auditoría en los comicios de 2019.

teleSUR, lvm, JGN (2021-10-23). Vacuna Sputnik V contribuye a inmunización en la India. telesurtv.net Según autoridades sanitarias, en la India el 30 por ciento de los adultos ha sido vacunado en su totalidad.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo cumplen 44 años de lucha. telesurtv.net En homenaje a la Asociación, el Congreso Argentino Instituyó este día como Día Nacional por el Derecho a la Identidad.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-23). Denuncian represión contra pueblo maya q'eqchi' en Guatemala. telesurtv.net Funcionarios policiales usaron gases lacrimógenos contra los manifestantes, dejando a varios afectados.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Tribunal de Belmarsh enjuicia a EE.UU. por crímenes de guerra. telesurtv.net Más de 20 políticos, intelectuales y congresistas participan en sus sesiones y exigen la liberación del fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange.

teleSUR, lvm, HIM, MER (2021-10-23). Estudio revela asesinato de 34.918 niños y jóvenes en Brasil entre 2016 y 2020. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con el estudio, en Brasil un promedio de 7.000 niños y jóvenes son asesinados cada año.

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-23). Advierten sobre aumento de homicidios en Guatemala durante 2021. telesurtv.net El índice de homicidios en Guatemala muestra tendencia al crecimiento, con 245 perpetrados en septiembre, ante los 237 de agosto y 215 de julio.

teleSUR, yart, JDO (2021-10-23). Indígenas colombianos rechazan desalojo y exigen ser escuchados. telesurtv.net Los integrantes de la comunidad embera aseguran que no se van a ir del Parque Nacional, en Bogotá, pues no se dieron garantías para un diálogo.

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-23). Asesinan a velocista olímpico Alex Quiñónez en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El homicidio ocurrió bajo el estado de excepción por 60 días decretado por el presidente ecuatoriano para combatir la delincuencia.

teleSUR, HIM (2021-10-23). Cuba rechaza nueva amenaza del Gobierno estadounidense. telesurtv.net El diplomático remarcó que el pueblo cubano no se amedrentará ante las amenazas promovidas por la Casa Blanca.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-10-23). ONU: contaminación plástica en mares se triplicará para 2040. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con el estudio presentado, el plástico representa el 85 por ciento de los desechos que se encuentran en los mares.

Bryant Diaz (2021-10-23). La Cumbiamba NY Workshop and Performance. peoplesforum.org Join us this Saturday in-person for a free workshop and performance, celebrating the 20 year anniversary of La Cumbiamba NY. With traditional instruments such as the indigenous Gaita flutes and the Afro-Colombian drums, the group, led by multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Martin Vejarano, has established itself as one of the finest Cumbia ensembles in the US.

WSWS (2021-10-23). British government prepares fascistic "push back" of migrants and asylum seekers in English Channel. wsws.org A provision in the Nationality and Borders Bill states that officials would "not be liable to any criminal or civil proceedings for anything done" when they forcibly "push back" dinghies carrying refugees seeking asylum into a busy commercial waterway.

WSWS (2021-10-23). Parent denounces full reopening of schools across Brazil. wsws.org "Brazil is a leader in deaths of young people from the coronavirus. How can I not defend my child from this?"

Miya Tada (2021-10-23). SOVEREIGNTY AND SOIL: BRAZILIAN LANDLESS MOVEMENT & AGROECOLOGY. peoplesforum.org Join us on at 3: 00pm EDT on Saturday, October 23rd for a screening of Brazilian Landless Movement & Agroecology and a discussion with Carol Sproule of Via Campesina!

Vijay Prashad (2021-10-23). Chile is at the dawn of a new political era. zcomm.org The search for the new era in Chile has two important avenues: the writing of the new constitution, which is what the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention are doing, and the presidential election to be held on November 21, 2021…

Andreína Chávez Alava (2021-10-23). UN Expert Releases Full Report on Impact of US-led Sanctions Against Venezuela. zcomm.org UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan reiterated her call for sanctions relief, stating they undermine Venezuelans' human rights…

Joe Parkin Daniels (2021-10-23). 'Haitians are Kidnapped Every Day'. zcomm.org Missionary Abductions Shed Light on Growing Crisis…

a guest author (2021-10-22). Kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab speaks in court. workers.org Saab made the following statement in U.S. Federal Court in Miami on Oct. 16. The statement is lightly edited. My name is Alex Nain Saab Moran, with Venezuelan diplomatic passport number 045778720. I am a special envoy with diplomatic immunity to the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran . . . |

Editor2 (2021-10-22). Biden kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat: #FreeAlexSaab now! orinocotribune.com By Greg Butterfield — Oct 19, 2021 | The Biden administration on Oct. 16 kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from the West African country of Cape Verde, in blatant violation of international law. Under U.S. pressure, Saab had already been imprisoned and tortured in Cape Verde for 16 months. | "On a flight chartered by the [U.S.] Department of Justice, in which the Cape Verdean authorities had no control that could guarantee the safety of the Venezuelan diplomat, because they do not have a bilateral extradition treaty with the North American nation, Alex Saab arrived Saturday night and was transferred to…

A Guest Author (2021-10-22). U.S. illegally extradites Venezuelan diplomat from Cabo Verde. workers.org The Free Alex Saab Committee issued the following news release Oct. 18. For more see afgj.org/free-alex-saab. The Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab was renditioned and kidnapped to the U.S. on Oct. 16 without waiting for a final extradition decision. The action was taken in secret, without notifying his defense team and without . . . |

Brittani Banks (2021-10-22). Why America's Health Care Workers Are Escalating Their Fight for Fair Treatment and Patient Safety. independentmediainstitute.org So many people with COVID-19 sought treatment at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in recent months that the hospital triaged patients in a tent outside the facility and set up a makeshift ward in the main lobby. Many workers put in 14- and 16-hour shifts to keep the Southern California facility operating during the crisis, …

Hector Luis Alamo (2021-10-22). Poll: Biden Support Falls Among All Americans, Especially Independents and Latinos. latinorebels.com While the pandemic has certainly hurt Biden's support among Latinos, so has the economy. And Latino support for Biden on immigration is even lower.

WSWS (2021-10-22). Spain's fascistic Vox party, Latin American right launch anti-communist "Madrid Forum" wsws.org The Forum is a loose association of far-right figures pledging to "confront the threat posed by the growth of communism on both sides of the Atlantic."

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Montonera Mother Who Fought Against Argentine Dictatorship Died. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Argentina's "Sons for Identity & Justice Against Oblivion and Silence" (HIJOS) regretted the death of Thelma Jara, a member of the May Square Mothers who fought against the crimes of Jorge Videla's dictatorship (1976-1983). | RELATED: | "Farewell, dearest Thelma. Our sincerest condolences to your family and friends. No forgetfulness or forgiveness for the Videla dictatorship's crimes!" HIJOS stated. | In 1979, the dictatorship kidnapped an…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Belmarsh Tribunal Judges the US For the Assange Case. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Belmarsh Tribunal held its first face-to-face session at the London Convocation Hall to judge the U.S. government for its crimes against humanity in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for the imprisonment of Julian Assange, who revealed such information. | RELATED: | With this process, the Belmarsh Court emulates the Russell-Sartre people's court, which sat in Stockholm and Copenhagen in 1967 to try the White House fo…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Cuba To End Pandemic-Related Transport Restrictions. telesurenglish.net Since over 60,5 percent of the Cuban population has already been immunized against the coronavirus, the National Temporary Working Group to Fight COVID-19 approved the gradual restoration of all public transportation services from Nov. 1. | RELATED: | "Our office will remove all restrictions on car and bus traveling schedules and eliminate checkpoints at each province's entrances," the Transport Ministry's Passen…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Blinken's Visit To Colombia Is Part Of An Assault On Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuela denounced that the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Colombia is part of a strategy of aggression against the Bolivarian people and institutions. | RELATED: | The White House disrespects Colombians when it tries to use their territory to attack Venezuela at a time when their country "is going through one of the worst social upheavals in its history," Venezuela's Foreign Affairs…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). US House Refers Bannon to the Justice for Criminal Prosecution. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the U.S. House voted to refer Steve Bannon, the adviser to former President Donald Trump, to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, accusing him of contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. | RELATED: | The resolution was adopted in a largely party-line vote of 229-202, with only nine Republicans joining all Democrats in approving…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Haiti: The 400 Mawozo Gang Threatens To Murder US Missionaries. telesurenglish.net In a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, the 400 Mawozo gang leader Wilson Joseph threatened to execute 17 U.S. Christian Aid ministers whom he kidnapped on Saturday if Haitian authorities do not hand him a US$17 million ransom. | RELATED: | "I will put a bullet in the head of each of these gringos if you do not give me what I asked," Wilson stated. The missionaries were abducted in broad daylight while vis…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). China Rejects US And EU Meddling In Taiwan Issue. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin called on the United States to act and speak out cautiously when addressing the issue of the Chinese province of Taiwan. | RELATED: | The Chinese diplomat's remarks came in response to the words of President Joe Biden who said on Thursday that the United States would intervene if China invaded Taiwan. He also dared to affirm that China, Russia and the rest of the w…

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Pope Francis Asks the G20 For a Creative Solution to the Crisis. telesurenglish.net Pope Francis asked the G20 leaders to find solutions to the global economic crisis by considering the asymmetries between countries. | RELATED: | "The end of the pandemic must be creative. One does not come out of a crisis the same. One comes out better or worse. The end of the pandemic has to point towards something better. Otherwise, we will go backwards," he said in an interview with Telam published on Friday.

teleSUR (2021-10-22). Chile: Supreme Court Condemns 19 Agents Of The Dictatorship. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Chile's Supreme Court sentenced 19 agents of the defunct National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) to prison for the kidnapping of the brothers Carlos and Aldo Perez during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). | RELATED: | In September 1974, these Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) militants were arrested, tortured, and killed. Judge Hernan Crisosto Greisse determined that Carlos Perez was detained in his office by agents of the Milita…

Staff (2021-10-22). Venezuela Objects to US Secretary of State's Visit to Colombia. orinocotribune.com "It is unfortunate that the US Secretary of State is in Colombia," said Delcy Rodríguez. "It is clear that he is planning aggressions against Venezuela." | On Thursday, October 21, the Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, rejected the presence of the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, in Colombian territory. | In additi…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-22). Did the President of the Colombian Senate Back Down? orinocotribune.com In a statement released on social media networks on Wednesday, October 20, the president of the Colombian Senate, Juan Diego Gómez, appeared to have backed down regarding the proposal to advance in the reestablishment of relations with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which he submitted in writing to the National Assembly. | With this position, the senator has taken back his words, when there was already confirmation of the committee for this purpose. The reciprocal measure was received by the Venezuelan National Assembly, and the respective legislative body of the Assembly was created. | However, Gómez asse…

Staff (2021-10-22). Public Citizen Blasts Pfizer for Putting Corporate Profit Over Increasing Access to COVID Vaccines. democracynow.org A damning new report shows that one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine makers appears to have played a role in restricting access to those very vaccines. The report, "Pfizer's Power," published this week by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, examines Pfizer's contracts with the United States, United Kingdom, European Commission, Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic and Peru. They offer a rare glimpse into the power Pfizer has to silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk and maximize profits in the middle of a public health crisis. We speak with Public Citizen researcher Zain Rizvi, au…

Stephen Sefton (2021-10-22). Why Defending Nicaragua Is Important. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-10-22). Union sabotages GM workers strike vote in Brazil. wsws.org As workers in Sà£o Caetano were being threatened by GM, the union announced it would do nothing to protect them, and that continuing the strike was a purely individual decision.

WSWS (2021-10-22). Bolsonaro charged with mass murder for COVID-19 herd immunity policy in Brazil. wsws.org The CPI report stands as an indictment not just of Brazil's fascistic president, but of heads of state and ruling classes the world over.

Ana Dagorret (2021-10-22). Bolsonaro Indicted (Again) for Crimes Against Humanity. counterpunch.org The parliamentary commission of enquiry concluded in its final report that the Brazilian president and 67 others committed crimes against public health during the covid19 pandemic. This past Wednesday the parliamentary commission that investigated the actions and omissions of the Brazilian government during the covid19 pandemic presented its final report. In more than a thousand

Staff (2021-10-22). Venezuelan National Assembly Authorizes New Committee to Normalize Relations with Colombia. orinocotribune.com During the special session of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) called for this Thursday, October 21, the deputies approved the creation of a Similarly, a Parliamentary Friendship Group was approved "which must begin to take action to improve relations between the two n…

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2021-10-22). Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron v. Steven Donziger. fair.org Steven Donziger (right) in Ecuador. | This week on CounterSpin: When

Staff (2021-10-22). Former CITGO Executives to Remain in Prison, House Arrest Measure Revoked. orinocotribune.com On Saturday, October 16, six former Venezuelan executives of the state-owned oil company CITGO, a subsidiary of PDVSA, were taken to jail again, according to sources in the judiciary. They had been under house arrest since April this year after being convicted for crimes of embezzlement. Relatives and lawyers confirmed this information. The criminal court that is handling their case revoked their house arrest measure. | One of those executives is José àÅngel Pereira, former president of CITGO. Pereira was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for embezzlement, entering into an agreement with a co…

Editor2 (2021-10-22). An Unrealized Political Possibility: Remembering the Grenada Revolution. orinocotribune.com By Kevin Edmonds — Oct 20, 2021 | The United States overthrow of the Grenada Revolution in 1983 initiated a vicious and unrelenting regime of neoliberalism that has gutted the Caribbean nation. But revolutionary Grenada showed the world a radical alternative to capitalism and neocolonialism is possible. | October 25th marks the 38th anniversary of Operation Urgent Fury — the name given to the United States invasion of the Caribbean commonwealth of Grenada. Thanks to the efforts of 7,600 US troops and a flagrant violation of international law, Grenada was "rescued" from the horrors of communist dictator…

Staff (2021-10-22). Headlines for October 22, 2021. democracynow.org Report Reveals U.S. Immigration Officers' Violent and Sexual Abuse of Asylum Seekers , National Guard Troops Helped Texas Law Enforcement Arrest Over 70,000 Asylum Seekers, Haiti Gang Threatens to Kill Missionary Hostages Amid Dire Security & Economic Conditions , Just 14% of Vaccines Pledged to Poorer Nations Have Been Delivered as Rich Countries Hoard Doses, Climate Crisis Set to Drive Public Health Crisis and Threaten National Security , Wealthy Nations Tried to Dilute U.N. Climate Report Ahead of COP26 Global Summit, House Votes to Hold Steve Bannon in Contempt for Defying Capitol Insurrection Subpoena, J&J S…

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