Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2020-02-06
In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.

Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law"

Guyana: Global Witness Accuses Exxon of 'Exploitative' Contract
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
Guyana loses $55 billion with its current oil license deal with Exxon shows an analysis of the international human rights and anti-corruption group Global Witness. | RELATED: | Houthis Bombs Aramco Oil Field in New Attack on Saudi Arabia | The group urged the Guyanese government to renegotiate the deal as they found that the rushed deal left the country with a lower profit share from Exxon's Stabroek oil license than countries generally get from such negotiations. | The investig…
telesurenglish.net/news/global-witness-accuses-exxon-of-exploitative-contract-guyana–20200205-0026.html

The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America's Neoliberal Role Model
Ariela Ruiz Caro | zcomm.org | 2020-02-06
The popular uprising in Chile has unmasked the image of well-being in Chilean society that the international establishment has been selling…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-dramatic-fall-of-chile-as-latin-americas-neoliberal-role-model/

Evangelical Missionary Leads Brazil Office for Isolated Tribes
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
The government of ultra-right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed on Wednesday the appointment of an evangelical missionary to head the office responsible for Brazil's uncontacted Indigenous peoples. | RELATED: | Brazilian Indigenous Tribes to Sue Bolsonaro Over Crude Remarks | Despite an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the nomination from national and international organizations, the Indigenous Affairs Agency ( FUNAI) designated…
telesurenglish.net/news/Evangelical-Missionary-Leads-Brazil-Office-for-Isolated-Tribes-20200206-0010.html

Pablo Escobar's hitman Popeye dies of cancer at 57, showing little remorse for his killings
rt.com | 2020-02-06
Pablo Escobar's former hitman Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, aka Popeye, has died of stomach cancer. The notorious killer called himself a "holy warrior" in an interview with RT and said that "taking up arms is always an option." | Vasquez was known as the right hand of the notorious drug lord, commanding Escobar's army of hitmen. He surrendered to Colombian law enforcement in 1992, a year before his boss was killed. | While in custody, Popeye confessed to personally committing hundreds of murders and orchestrating thousands more. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison

Aida Merlano: Ivan Duque Persecutes Me to Assassinate Me
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
The former Colombian congresswoman, Aida Merlano, said Thursday that Colombian President Iván Duque is chasing her to assassinate her. | "I apologize for entering the country like this, illegally," Merlano said during her statement at a special hearing held at the Palace of Justice, in Caracas, where she said she was set up by the leaders of the country's traditional political machine. | RELATED: | US and Colombia Carrying out Military Exercises in Cartagena | She stressed that t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Aida-Merlano-Ivan-Duque-Persecutes-Me-to-Assassinate-Me-20200206-0008.html

US and Colombia Carrying out Military Exercises in Cartagena
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
The U.S. Special Operations Command South spokesperson Cesar Santiago reported that Colombia and his country are developing joint military exercises in Cartagena. | RELATED: | FARC Leader Sends Letter to Duque About Persecution of Members | "This exercise will help build interoperability between the armies of the U.S. and Colombia, ensuring that we are ready to respond quickly in support of our partners in case of a crisis," Santiago said, as reported by local media RCN. | On…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-and-Colombia-Carrying-out-Military-Exercises-in-Cartagena-20200206-0003.html

Pragmatic agenda: Lavrov tours Latin America to foster cooperation, not to spite Washington
rt.com | 2020-02-06
The Russian foreign minister's three-day trip to Latin America has provoked nervous reactions in the US, where it is assumed to be part of an anti-American agenda even though Moscow has legitimate economic interests in the region. | During the trip that started on Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to pay one-day visits to Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela

Trudeau Government's Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-06
What's more likely to shape Canadian policy in the Hemisphere: human rights and democracy or bankers' bottom-line? Last week Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The self-declared president met Canada's Prime Minister, international development minister and foreign minister. Trudeau said, "I commend Interim President Guaidó for the courage and leadership he has shown …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/trudeau-governments-effort-to-overthrow-venezuelan-government/

Maduro: 'the US Does Not Appoint President in Venezuela'
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday reminded Donald Trump that the president of Venezuela is chosen by the Venezuelan people and not the United States. | RELATED: | Venezuela Commemorates 28th Anniversary of National Dignity Day | "In Venezuela, the president is not appointed by the U.S. president; the People choose him through elections,…
telesurenglish.net/news/Maduro-the-US-Does-Not-Appoint-President-in-Venezuela-20200206-0001.html

Argentina: desnutricià≤n Wichí es exterminio indà¨gena
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-02-06
Argentina_Salta: Muertes reiteradas por desnutricià≤n de infancia originaria wichí es exterminio indà¨gena…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/04/18830371.php

Argentina: desnutricià≤n Wichí es exterminio indà¨gena
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-02-06
Argentina_Salta: Muertes reiteradas por desnutricià≤n de infancia originaria wichí es exterminio indà¨gena…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/02/04/18830371.php

The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America's Neoliberal Role Model
Ariela Ruiz Caro | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-05
After the outbreak of the most intense and massive social protests ever recorded in the history of Chile, on November 16 the government and most political parties signed an agreement to restore peace and public order and initiate a process to draft a new constitution. The protests, triggered by the rise in subway fares on…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/05/the-dramatic-fall-of-chile-as-latin-americas-neoliberal-role-model/

The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America's Neoliberal Role Model
Ariela Ruiz Caro | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-05
After the outbreak of the most intense and massive social protests ever recorded in the history of Chile, on November 16 the government and most political parties signed an agreement to restore peace and public order and initiate a process to draft a new constitution. The protests, triggered by the rise in subway fares on…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/05/the-dramatic-fall-of-chile-as-latin-americas-neoliberal-role-model/

Exxon's Exploitative Oil Deal in Guyana Will Deprive the Country of Up to $55 Billion
Global Witness | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-05
Exxon's exploitative oil deal with Guyana will cause the country to lose up to US$55 billion, according to a new Global Witness investigation based on an OpenOil analysis. | The new report, Signed Away, shows how the oil major used | …
globalresearch.ca/exxon-exploitative-oil-deal-guyana-deprive-country-55-billion/5702868

Mesa and Camacho vs. Añez: Feud Between Coup Leaders Begins
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
An internal feud between coup leaders keeps growing in Bolivia, as both Carlos Mesa and Luis Fernando Camacho accused, interim President Jeanine Añez, for abusing her position to benefit her political ambitions, ahead of May 3 presidential elections. | RELATED: | Bolivia De Facto Govt Reestablishes Diplomatic Ties With Israel | On the one hand, the presidential candidate for Community Citizen, Carlos Mesa, complained about the unequal standings of the contestants, "inevitably,…
telesurenglish.net/news/mesa-and-camacho-vs-anez-feud-between-coup-leaders-begins-20200205-0016.html

Free Bolivian political prisoner Facundo Molares!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-05
Bolivia suffered a vicious coup d'état on November 10, 2019 that was provoked by right-wing gangs rampaging in the street, traitorous police and military officers, the old guard political elite, and, of course, supported by the United States Embassy. As soon as Evo Morales was elected to a fourth term as president of Bolivia on October 20, with almost 47% of the vote, right-wing elements, centered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, started a campaign to destabilize the progressive government headed by Evo. | Directly after the results announcing that Morales won in the first round of the presidential election, reactiona…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/2/5/free-bolivian-political-prisoner-facundo-molares

People With HIV Are "an Expense" for Brazil: Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that citizens with HIV are a severe problem, and generate a high "expense" for the country, sparking outrage among the popular sectors of the South American nation. | RELATED: | Bryant's Death Sparks Brazilian Campaign Against Homophobia | "A person with HIV, in addition to having a serious problem, is an expense for everyone here in Brazil," the far-right president of Brazil said. | The head of state expressed his discriminatory c…
telesurenglish.net/news/People-With-HIV-Are-an-Expense-for-Brazil-Bolsonaro–20200205-0027.html

Brazil's Workers Party advances austerity policies in unity with Bolsonaro
wsws.org | 2020-02-05
The PT, which promotes itself as a representative of the "left", in fact constitutes one of the greatest threats to the Brazilian working class, alongside Bolsonaro.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/05/braz-f05.html

Russian FM Lavrov Starts Latin America Tour in Cuba
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cuba as part of a Feb. 5 to 8 tour of Latin America that will include visits to Mexico and Venezuela. | RELATED: | Russia and Venezuela Sign Agriculture Cooperation Agreement | Lavrov's meeting with his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez will take place in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zajarova said. | The spokeswoman also said that among the issues to be discussed between…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-FM-Starts-a-Tour-of-Latin-America-in-Cuba-20200205-0022.html

SOTU: Democratic "Resistance" Give Trump's Venezuela Aggression a Standing Ovation
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-05
Perhaps the loudest applause heard during Trump's State of the Union Address was reserved for Venezuala's Juan Guaidó, as Democrats and Republicans rose as one to salute the self-declared president.
mintpressnews.com/state-of-the-union-democrats-applaud-guaido-venezuela/264678/

US Blockade to Affect Medical Treatment of Venezuelan Children
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
The Latin American Foundation for Human Rights and Social Development ( Fundalatin) denounced Tuesday the suspension of medical treatments for children who have undergone transplants, due to the financial blockade imposed by the United States on Venezuela. | RELATED: | Russian FM to Visit Venezuela to Help Counteract Sanctions | The organization explained that the affected children, who are being treated in Italy and Argentina, will rece…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Blockade-to-Affect-Medical-Treatment-of-Venezuelan-Children-20200205-0013.html

Argentina to Pass Law to Decriminalize Abortion: Fernandez
teleSUR-age | telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
The government is preparing a project to decriminalize abortion, President Alberto Fernandez said at the closing of his European tour on Wednesday in France. | Argentina: Fernandez to Send Legal Abortion Bill to Congress | "I am going to pass a law that will end the criminalization of abortion and allow the care of any abortion in any public center," he added at the of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Scienses PO Paris) . | The president's goal, he specified, is for t…
telesurenglish.net/news/argentinas-government-will-approve-a-law-to-end-the-criminalization-of-abortion-20200205-0010.html

Argentina's Senate Approves Government Debt Renegotiation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
Argentina's Senate approved this Wednesday and turned into Law a project that enables the government of Alberto Fernandez to take the necessary formal steps to restructure the massive sovereign debt of the country issued under foreign laws. | RELATED: | Argentina to Pass Law to Decriminalize Abortion: Fernandez | The initiative, which had already been approved last week by the Chamber of Deputies, unanimously received Wednesday's approval in the Upper House. | T…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinas-Senate-Approves-Government-Debt-Renegotiation-20200205-0018.html

Ecuador: CNE Starts Planning 2021 General Elections
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
The National Electoral Council of Ecuador (CNE) introduced the new Democracy Code ahead of 2021 general elections for both President and assembly. | RELATED: | 'Protecting TeleSUR Is Protecting the Peoples' Voice' Villegas | Among the main changes in the code, there is gender parity in the formulation of electoral lists and the creation of a new computer system for the control of campaign spending. | Furthermore, the Contentious Electoral Tribunal does not have the power to dismi…
telesurenglish.net/news/ecuador-cne-started-planning-general-elections-20200205-0024.html

Argentinean Minister Defends Demand for Sovereignty over Malvinas
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-05
Argentinean Defense Minister Agustin Rossi defended his country's demand for sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands, a territory seized by the United Kingdom, and described that occupation as inadmissible colonialism. | RELATED: | Argentina's Senate Approves Government Debt Renegotiation | In a lengthy interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik, Rossi n…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinean-Minister-Defends-Demand-for-Sovereignty-over-Malvinas-20200205-0023.html

Bolivia: UN underlines support for 'credible, transparent and inclusive' election
news.un.org | 2020-02-04
With Bolivia this week reaching a "decisive stage" in its electoral process, the United Nations "will do everything possible" to support the country in holding a vote that is credible, transparent and inclusive, envoy Jean Arnault has said.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1056652

Guaido's Failed Foreign Tour Ends With A Flop
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-02-03
President Maduro speaks to a massive crowd at Miraflores Palace on the anniversary of a failed Guaido coup (From Orinoco Tribune) Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself the president of Venezuela a year ago but despite multiple coup attempts, he never took power and his support there rapidly disappeared. Now, with his foreign tour concluding, Guaidó's support is shrinking around …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/guaidos-failed-foreign-tour-ends-with-a-flop/

The Old Puppets Return: Meet Bolivia's Corrupt Washington-Backed Candidates
Oliver Vargas | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-03
Elections are looming in Bolivia. Despite closing ranks to force out Evo Morales' left-indigenous government, the different factions of Bolivia's pro-coup right have fallen out with each other less than three months into their rule. The crisis boiled over on January 26, when Jeanine Anez, the self-declared 'interim' president, declared that she would stand as a candidate, despite pledging not to. Her announcement triggered a rebellion within her own cabinet that she crushed by purging the dissenters. | However, the problem facing the Bolivian right is much larg…
mintpressnews.com/bolivia-elections-meet-us-backed-right-wing-candidates/264559/

ACLU: Trump Is Expanding His Racist Travel Ban, This Time Targeting Africans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-03
The Trump administration has expanded its contested travel ban to six additional countries

Why aren't Americans rising up like the people of Chile and Lebanon?
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-02-02
The tinder for a revolutionary movement is everywhere…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/why-arent-americans-rising-up-like-the-people-of-chile-and-lebanon/

Headlines for January 31, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-31
Senate Poised to Acquit President Trump in Impeachment Trial, World Health Organization Declares International Public Health Emergency, U.S. Special Envoy Warns of International Crisis in Idlib, Syria, Britain Formally Withdrawing from European Union Tonight, Pentagon Deploys 1st Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead-Armed Submarine, Trump Admin Poised to Loosen Restrictions on Use of Landmines, Human Rights Groups Condemn Mexico for Crackdown on Central American Migrants, Mexican Butterfly Conservationist Found Dead, Bolivia's Movement for Socialism Candidate Luis Arce Returns to Bolivia, U.S. Pushes EU to End Ban on Chemic…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/31/headlines

Headlines for January 31, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-31
Senate Poised to Acquit President Trump in Impeachment Trial, World Health Organization Declares International Public Health Emergency, U.S. Special Envoy Warns of International Crisis in Idlib, Syria, Britain Formally Withdrawing from European Union Tonight, Pentagon Deploys 1st Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead-Armed Submarine, Trump Admin Poised to Loosen Restrictions on Use of Landmines, Human Rights Groups Condemn Mexico for Crackdown on Central American Migrants, Mexican Butterfly Conservationist Found Dead, Bolivia's Movement for Socialism Candidate Luis Arce Returns to Bolivia, U.S. Pushes EU to End Ban on Chemic…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/31/headlines

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi's Facebook and Instagram…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/social-media-giants-disappear-popular-iranian-venezuelan-accounts/

Ciudadano estadounidense detenido e interrogado por agentes del DHS sobre la solidaridad con Venezuela del movimiento antiguerra
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-29
Un ciudadano estadounidense que participó en el Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela fue detenido, registrado e interrogado…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/29/ciudadano-estadounidense-detenido-interrogado-agentes-dhs/

Ciudadano estadounidense detenido e interrogado por agentes del DHS sobre la solidaridad con Venezuela del movimiento antiguerra
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-29
Un ciudadano estadounidense que participó en el Colectivo de Protección de la Embajada de Venezuela fue detenido, registrado e interrogado…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/29/ciudadano-estadounidense-detenido-interrogado-agentes-dhs/