(2020-04-11). Colombia's Government Acts Like Doormat for U.S. zcomm.org —and Its People Aren't Going Along With It…
(2020-04-11). Venezuela Donates COVID-19 Tests to Caribbean Countries. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez reported Friday that the Bolivarian Government donated rapid and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to several Caribbean countries to help them in the fight against COVID-19. | RELATED: | Rodríguez said that, by order of President Nicolas Maduro, tests were sent to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua, and Barbuda, as well as Dominica and Grenada. | "To our brothers in…
(2020-04-11). St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada Thank Venezuela for Donations. telesurenglish.net Saint Vincent & the Grenadines RELATED: | "We have received 3,000 rapid test kits for the COVID-19 and a relevant quantity of reagents for the PCR test,"
(2020-04-11). Bolsonaro Prompts Crowds After Visiting Emergency Hospital. telesurenglish.net Brazil's . | RELATED: | After visiting an emergency hospital, the former captain went out to meet his fans who wanted to…
(2020-04-11). Brazilian TV Host Axed for Saying Coronavirus Patients Should Go to Concentration Camps. sputniknews.com The presenter, who was fired from another network three years ago for calling a black musician a "monkey", has now generated another wave of backlash with critics calling him a Nazi.
(2020-04-10). Over 530 Bolivians Remain Stranded at the Border With Chile. telesurenglish.net Over 530 Bolivian citizens remain stranded at the border between Bolivia and Chile. Given the precarious retention conditions, they are vulnerable to COVID-19 contagious. | RELATED: | According to Colchane city Mayor Javier Garcia, Bolivia's coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez has abandoned migrants during the sanitary emergency. This Chilean local authority her of being discriminatory with her citizens. | Those who entered Bolivian territory in airships were…
(2020-04-10). Greg Mortimer Cruise Passengers to Be Repatriated From Uruguay. telesurenglish.net Uruguay will evacuate this Friday part of the passengers on board the Australian cruise ship Greg Mortimer, most of them infected by COVID-19. | RELATED: | Authorities will deploy a humanitarian corridor to transport 112 passengers from the ship to the airport in Montevideo, according to the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | The humanitarian plane is expected to arrive the airport at 5 a.m. However, the cruise sh…
(2020-04-10). Colombia's Gustavo Petro Diagnosed with Cancer. telesurenglish.net Senator Gustavo Petro, one of the most prominent leftist leaders of the Colombian government, said Friday that he was recently diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. | RELATED: | "I decided to travel to Cuba to complete health tests, and they diagnosed on March 2, an early stage of cancer of the lining between the esophagus and stomach," Petro confirmed. | Petro, who lost the presidential elections in 2018 against i…
(2020-04-10). Puebla Group to Analyze COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America. telesurenglish.net The Puebla Group Friday meet virtually to analyze proposals to face the economic and social crisis that Latin America is experiencing due to COVID-19. | RELATED: | Several progressive leaders will analyze what the COVID-19 holds for the future of the region, how to get out of the humanitarian siege and what political rectifications should be made. | The meeting will be attended by Argentina's President Alberto Fernan…
(2020-04-10). Brazil Bolsonaro Hits the Streets To Defy COVID-19 Guidelines. telesurenglish.net Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets of Brasilia on Friday, drawing crowds and greeting followers in his latest public attack on social isolation measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak. | RELATED: | On Friday, a national holiday in Brazil, Bolsonaro went to a military hospital, before stopping at a pharmacy and then visiting one of his sons in a residential building, according to TV images and press r…
(2020-04-10). Memoir: A Liberation Theology Stations of the Cross in Northeast Brazil. counterpunch.org Padre Andreas, a Jesuit priest from Spain, came on a radical mission to the impoverished hillside shantytown of Alto do Cruzeiro in the municipio of Timbauba, a sugarcane market town in Pernambuco Brazil. At the time, 1989, I was living on "the Alto" (the hill) with the rural workers, sugarcane cutters, and fishermen and women
(2020-04-10). Brazil: Judge Prohibits Bolsonaro From Lifting Quarantines. telesurenglish.net Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) judge Alexandre De Moraes ordered RELATED: | "It should be noted that the…
(2020-04-09). Adolf Trump goes for Venezuela: A jump into nothingness? mronline.org 
In the midst of a desolate scenario, when the United States has become the country with the highest number of those infected by the Coronavirus, President Donald Trump and his team of serial criminals like Elliott Abrams, Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, Marco Rubio and others, announced that their country and 22 other nations would launch a …
(2020-04-08). "People Are Dying in the Streets": Ecuador Struggles to Cope with COVID-19 as Cases Skyrocket. democracynow.org 
The coronavirus pandemic is exhausting Ecuador's medical resources, with at least 220 dead and more than 4,000 cases. Ecuador is among the top three countries with the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the entire Latin American region. In recent days, images of dead bodies wrapped in plastic tarp left on the streets of the city of Guayaquil as families desperately try to bury loved ones have shocked the entire country and the world. Guayaquil is Ecuador's most populous city and the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the country. We speak with Denisse Herrera, the Ecuador correspondent for teleSUR.
(2020-04-08). Open Letter to Condemn Trump Administration's Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and High-Ranking Venezuelan Officials. dissidentvoice.org We, the undersigned organizations and prominent individuals, condemn the false claims of criminal charges by the US government against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international drug trafficking. The US government is offering a $15 million bounty for information that would …
(2020-04-08). Brazil and COVID-19: Favela Residents and Indigenous Communities Among Those Most at Risk. cepr.net As of noon on April 8th the total number of Covid-19 positive cases reported by Brazil's health ministry exceeded 14,000 and the number of deaths exceeded 700. This is, by far, the highest number of reported cases in Latin America (though Ecuador has a greater number of reported cases and deaths on a per capita …
(2020-04-08). Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages. thegrayzone.com Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
(2020-04-06). Sanctioning the Way for COVID-19. cepr.net MarketWatch See article on original site While the United States is fighting COVID-19 here at home, US sanctions against other governments are aiding the virus' spread abroad. They've already likely contributed to many unnecessary deaths in Iran, and Venezuela's experience with the pandemic may also be much more deadly due to these punitive measures. COVID-19 …
(2020-04-03). Ex UN anti-narcotics chief & mob expert says US Treasury running 'mafia racket' against Venezuela. thegrayzone.com Pino Arlacchi, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Prevention, says US is behaving…
(2020-04-01). Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission. thegrayzone.com Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…
(2020-03-13). No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy. zcomm.org I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump's financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela with military action,
(2020-02-06). Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law" theantimedia.com In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.