(2020-07-20). Brazil Is About to Become An "Unofficial" NATO Member. globalresearch.ca The Brazilian government on Friday made an announcement on its so-called Defense legal base, a set of documents comprised of the National Defense Policy, National Defense Strategy and White Paper on National Defense. Every four years Brazil's Congress must approve …
(2020-07-20). In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia. thenation.com In Quarantine, on the Plains of Colombia…
(2020-07-20). Ecuador's electoral council bars Rafael Correa's party from upcoming general elections. peoplesdispatch.org The Social Commitment Movement for the Citizen's Revolution, led by former president Rafael Correa, rejected the decision and announced that it would take part and win the 2021 general elections…
(2020-07-20). Venezuela Sees COVID-19 Outbreak at State Television Network. venezuelanalysis.com Caracas' regional government chief, Dario Vivas, has tested positive, while National Assembly President Luis Parra has been hospitalised with pneumonia-like symptoms.
(2020-07-20). Nicaragua: No Stopping the Sandinista Revolution. globalresearch.ca 41 years on from the revolutionary triumph of 1979, the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) in Nicaragua looks stronger and with greater legitimacy than ever. Nicaragua embodies the same revolutionary paradox as Cuba and Venezuela. Despite all three countries …
(2020-07-20). Paralyzed Companies Rescued By An 'Army' Of Volunteer Workers. popularresistance.org The Productive Workers' Army (EPO) is a grassroots movement composed of Venezuelan workers that came together in 2014. They dedicate their volunteer labor to rescuing various companies that have been paralyzed because of the economic situation which the country is going through, the shortages of spare parts and supplies due to the US blockade, and the various kinds of political destabilization. | The movement, with 2,270 members spread across the country, defines itself as "an unconventional army to win an unconventional war." | When the EPO is contacted by workers from the company in trouble, those best placed -…
(2020-07-20). Third Brazil minister has COVID-19, touts unproven drug cocktail. yenisafak.com Brazil's Citizenship Minister Onyx Lorenzoni said on Monday he had tested positive for the new coronavirus, the country's third minister to be infected amid the world's second-worst outbreak.Lorenzoni, a close ally of President Jair Bolsonaro, credited relatively mild symptoms to an anti-malarial drug touted by the president on social media and at public rallies."I already feel the positive effects," the minister wrote on Twitter about his regimen of chloroquine, along with azithromycin and ivermectin, as a treatment against the virus.Bolsonaro, who is quarantined after he also tested positive for the virus, is t…
(2020-07-20). Saturday 7/25: LaborFest 2020 presents: Chile & US Healthcare Workers Under COVID-19 & Capitalist Control. indybay.org This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
(2020-07-19). Peru: Protest Interrupts President's Visit To COVID-19 Hospital. telesurenglish.net A protest conducted by doctors and patients Sunday interrupted a Peru's President Martin Vizcarra's visit to a hospital in the southern city of Arequipa. | RELATED: | Demonstrators gathered in front of Honorio Delgado Hospital welcomed the president with disapproving chants, such as "Vizcarra, enough with the lies!" | Honorio Delgado Is the hospital designated to take care of COVID patients in Arequipa. | As reported, Vizcarra even t…
(2020-07-19). Florida officials admit counting MOTORCYCLE death as Covid-19 fatality, remove it from list after media scrutiny. rt.com 
Officials in Orange County, Florida have confirmed that a motor accident death was initially included into the coronavirus death toll. It was later struck off the list, but not until authorities were challenged by the media. | Florida Department of Health in Orange County announced on Saturday that it no longer counts the death of a man aged in his 20s in a motorcycle accident as a coronavirus fatality. | The case "was reviewed and he was taken off the list for Covid fatalities," Kent Donahue, spokesman for Orange County Health Officer Dr Raul Pino, told Fox35, which initially broke the story after perusing li…
(2020-07-19). Argentina: Hebe De Bonafini Denounces Threats Against Her Life. telesurenglish.net Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association's President Hebe de Bonafini Saturday denounced she had received death threats. | RELATED: | "Around 2 AM, somebody threatened me through my house's intercom. They came into my building after opening a little door that leads to my house," she wrote in the Association's social media accounts. | According to Bonafini, the words used to intimidate her were " we are going to kill you to shut you up."
(2020-07-19). Bolivian Coup Government Calls for another Canada-backed Foreign Intervention in its Presidential Elections. dissidentvoice.org On July 15, Luis Fernando Camacho, leader of the violent coup against Bolivian president Evo Morales and current candidate for the Bolivian presidency, issued a desperate appeal to the Organization of American States. Bolivia's coup leader, Fernando Camacho, has asked the OAS to intervene to stop democratic elections taking place on September 6th. Camacho says …
(2020-07-19). COVID-19 Cases Top 14 Million Worldwide. telesurenglish.net For a second day in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases, with 259,848 new infections in the last 24 hours. | RELATED: | The WHO confirmed Sunday a total of 14,007,791 COVID-19 cases, and 597,105 deaths worldwide. The biggest increase in cases came from countries like the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa. | The United States reported the larg…
(2020-07-19). Colombia: At Least 8 Farmers Killed by Armed Group in Catatumbo. telesurenglish.net Colombia's Peasant Association of Catatumbo (ASCAMCAT) Saturday denounced the murder of at least eight of its members by the narco-paramilitary group "Los Rastrojos". | RELATED: | The massacre occurred in the village of Totumito Carboneras, Catatumbo, in the department of Norte de Santande. | "We urge the Regional Ombudsman's Office of Cúcuta and the municipal authorities of Tibú to initiate an investigation into this violent act," the organization said in a statement. | This mass…
(2020-07-19). SouthCom Warships Sailing Near Venezuelan Shores. popularresistance.org The United States Navy (US) sailed into Venezuelan waters, "to challenge the excessive claim of Venezuela on June 23", when the Minister of Popular Power for Defense, G / J Vladimir Padrino López , warned that a US ship entered 30 miles north of the Venezuelan coasts, calling the event a threat. | According to US military forces, the "Freedom of Navigation" operation in the Caribbean Sea is being carried out "outside 12 nautical miles off the Venezuelan coast." However, the ship sailed through an area that according to international law belongs to Venezuela. According to the Venezuelan Organic Law of Aquatic Spac…
(2020-07-18). Bolivians Take To The Streets Against The Añez Government. popularresistance.org Bolivia's Workers Central (COB) Tuesday called for tens of thousands of people to hold a mass protest in several cities against the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez. | "The Bolivian people, the Indigenous groups, and educational organizations raised their voice of protest today," the COB Secretary-General Juan Carlos Huarachi said in La Paz. | One of the demonstrators' main calls is the definitive confirmation of the general elections for September 6. | "We ask for a democratically elected government that resolves the country's economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19," Huarachi added, adding that citize…
(2020-07-18). New delivery workers demonstration in Brazil exposes unions and their allies. wsws.org After a massive continent-wide strike on July 1, delivery workers in Brazil are being told to place their fate in the hands of the unions and Congress.
(2020-07-18). Brazil surpasses two million coronavirus cases as reopening drive continues. wsws.org "We cannot continue suffocating the economy," President Jair Bolsonaro said, as Brazil suffered the highest single day death toll in the world.
(2020-07-17). The US Increases Risk of War in South America, Lula Warns. telesurenglish.net Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva harshly criticized President Jair Bolsonaro's new National Defense Policy (NDP) and warned that the United States is pushing his country into a warlike conflict against Venezuela. | RELATED: | "I have been reading with concern the reports on the NDP new edition. Our governments have tried to make the defense policy and strategy instruments for peace, sovereignty, a…
(2020-07-17). Chile: Night Of Fury To Demand The Withdrawal Of Pension Funds. popularresistance.org From Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning, Chilean citizens took to the streets to support a pension-related bill and protest against President Sebastian Piñera. | Today the Lower House is expected to vote on a bill that will allow Chileans to withdraw the 10 percent of their savings that remain controlled by the repudiated Pension Fund Insurers (AFP), which are private companies that control pensions in this South American country since that time of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). | "This initiative is supported by a large majority of the people, which claims to have the freedom to dispose…
(2020-07-17). Headlines for July 17, 2020. democracynow.org United States Hits Daily Record of 75,600 Coronavirus Cases as Death Rate Rises, Colorado & Arkansas Mandate Masks as Georgia's Governor Sues to Overturn Atlanta Mask Ordinance, Detroit Protesters Block School Buses in Bid to Halt In-Person Summer Classes, "Science Should Not Stand in the Way" of School Reopenings, Says Trump's Spokesperson, India and Brazil Pass Grim Coronavirus Milestones, Colombia's Hospitals Near Capacity as Paramilitaries Enforce Coronavirus Lockdowns with Violence, Thousands Still Planning to Attend Scaled-Back Republican National Convention in Florida, Trump Administration Wins Reprieve in…
(2020-07-17). Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the U.S. Have Not. strategic-culture.org 
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order. | Vijay PRASHAD | Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from Covid-19 in either country. Both of these Southeast Asian states border China, where the virus was first detected in late December 2019, and both have thriving trade and tourist relations with China. India is separated from China by the high Himalaya Mountains, while Brazil and the United States ha…
(2020-07-17). Argentina Rejects UK's Military Actions in the Malvinas Islands. telesurenglish.net Argentina's Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola Thursday rejected the British military maneuvers in the Malvinas Islands, a territory usurped from the South American country in 1833 which is still in dispute. | RELATED: | "Argentina's government strongly repudiates military maneuvers in our illegitimately occupied territory. It is an unjustified show of force," Sola said. | The patrol ship HMS Forth, the British I…
(2020-07-17). Nicaragua: Army Halts 700 Tons Of Drug Trafficking A Year. telesurenglish.net The Nicaraguan Army stopped the trafficking of about 700 tons of drugs in a year, as a result of its retaining wall strategy, according to a report presented by the institution. | RELATED: | General Julio Cesar Avilés, head of the Army, said that drug production in South America is estimated at 3 thousand tons per year, 80 percent of which seeks to pass through Central America on their way to the United States. | "We try to contain a…
(2020-07-17). Argentina Rejects U.S. Plans To Rule Regional Bank. telesurenglish.net Argentina's Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola Thursday rejected U.S. intentions to propose a candidate for Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) presidency. | RELATED: | Several countries have already presented candidates after Colombian Luis Alberto Moreno announced that he will be leaving the Bank's presidency in September. | In this line, Mauricio Claver-Carone became the U.S.'s first candidate for this p…
(2020-07-17). Bolivia: Senate Will Try To Ban Unconstitutional Military Promotion. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's Senate President Eva Copa Thursday announced she will file a legal proceeding to annul military promotion by decree imposed by the coup-born government of Jeanine Añez. | RELATED: | Senator indicated that she will address the Constitutional Court to advance in a measure against the promotions decreed. | "We will not allow a transitional government to take attributions like that," Copa stated to a local radio station…
(2020-07-17). The 'strongmen' have failed. peoplesdispatch.org Three countries, the US, Brazil and India, lead the global COVID-19 case count. What connects them are their leaders -Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi – whose policies and polarizing ways have hindered efforts to combat the disease.
(2020-07-17). Neoliberal discourse on land harms livelihoods and environmental security: Oakland Institute report. peoplesdispatch.org Studying the cases of countries like Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Brazil, the Oakland Institute report debunks some of the myths on development and land use propagated by mainstream economics, and calls for the preservation of commons.
(2020-07-17). "Palace letters" point to the plotting behind the 1975 constitutional coup in Australia. wsws.org Together with the military coup in Chile in 1973, the Labor government's dismissal was one of the first acts in what became an international counter-offensive against the working class.
(2020-07-17). Recent Developments in Ecuador: Rights of Nature. commondreams.org Students of the Pambilino Forest-School look at plants as they walk to school in San Jose de Mashpi, Ecuador on October 31, 2019. – Children learn the importance of nature at a forest-school located in a biosphere reserve in Ecuador. The area is a unique territory in which the social and economic development of communities tends to an harmonious relationship with the natural environment. (Photo by Cristina Vega Rhor / AFP) (Photo by CRISTINA VEGA RHOR/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ecuador_0.jpg …
(2020-07-17). Former President Abdala Bucaram Goes To Court In Ecuador. telesurenglish.net Former Ecuadorian president Abdalá Bucaram faces the judges on Friday during a hearing over the crime of arms trafficking. | RELATED: | Bucaram was dismissed from the government in 1997 and remained a fugitive from Ecuadorean justice for 20 years in Panamá until his trial expired. | On June 4 the Prosecutor's Office in Guayaquil announced that the former president was placed under house arrest for smuggling weapons, following a raid on his home related t…
(2020-07-17). Colombians Question Deployment Of US Security Forces. popularresistance.org Colombian soldiers and military brass have been implicated in a string of human rights violations in recent weeks. On May 1, Semana magazine reported that the Colombian military illegally used U.S. military aid to spy on journalists and human rights defenders, including U.S. citizens. On June 4, Colombian armed forces carried out forced eradication of illicit crops and injured six farmers. On June 25, seven soldiers confessed to gang-raping a 13-year-old Emberá girl in Northern Colombia. | Yet the United States is only deepening its relationship with the Colombian military. On May 28, the U.S. Southern Command (S…
(2020-07-16). Venezuela Denounces US Destroyer Incursion in Contiguous Zone. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza Thursday denounced to the international community that the USS Pinckney (DDG-91) warship sneaked into the "contiguous zone" of this South American country. | RELATED: | "It is an inexcusable act of provocation that aims to undermine our sovereignty and territorial integrity," Arreaza tweeted. | He also stressed that this act of "erratic and childish" provocati…
(2020-07-16). Ecuador Exceeds 5,150 Deaths From COVID-19. telesurenglish.net Ecuador's Health Ministry (MSP) Wednesday reported 45 new deaths from COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll to 5,158 deaths. The MSP also assured that 3,343 deaths have been registered from symptoms similar to those caused by the new coronavirus. | RELATED: | In this South American country, 759 new positive cases of COVID-19 were registered, which brings the number of confirmed infections t…
(2020-07-16). Cardboard Coffins Are Used to Bury the Poorest in Bolivia. telesurenglish.net Given the inability of RELATED: | Burying or cremating a corpse has become almost a luxu…
(2020-07-16). Colombia: Bogota Hospitals Overloaded With COVID-19 Patients. telesurenglish.net Colombia Bogota Medical College (CMB) on Thursday informed that local healthcare centers collapsed due to COVID-19 bed occupancy. | RELATED: | According to the institution's report, the Santa Clara Hospital assists 52 patients with only a 44-bed capacity. The Occidente clinic ceased admissions due to total overcrowding of their installations. | Besides, COVID-19 patients do not receive oxygen or medical equipment…
(2020-07-16). Blockbuster Oil Bribery Scandal Exposes Corrupt Double-Dealing Of Guaidó 'Attorney General'. popularresistance.org Below the radar of US media, a district court in Florida tossed out a multibillion-dollar bribery case in March 2018 thanks to testimony delivered by a former member of the shadow administration of Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó. | That ex-official, Jose Ignacio Hernandez, served as attorney general in the US-backed Guaidó junta until July of this year. As this investigation will reveal, Hernandez's testimony was bought and paid for by foreign oil giants with an interest in defrauding Venezuela's state petroleum company out of billions of dollars. | These corporate titans, which included some of the world's l…