(2020-09-01). Maduro, Venezuelan Opposition Close to Deal on Election Participation – Report. sputniknews.com Two Venezuelan opposition leaders are in talks with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections in December, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlàºt àáavu≈üoƒülu revealed Tuesday.
(2020-09-01). Rafael Correa makes another attempt to overcome suppression of his political rights. peoplesdispatch.org 
Wednesday September 2 is the last day for the candidates elected in the primary elections to formalize their participation in the 2021 general elections in Ecuador…
(2020-09-01). As Covid-19 pandemic rolls on, Russia becomes fourth country to pass one million confirmed cases, joining Brazil, India & the US. rt.com 
As children head back to school, Russia's coronavirus case numbers continue to break records. On Tuesday, confirmed infections in nationwide reached seven figures, becoming the first European country to break the million mark. | Behind just the US, Brazil, and India, Russia is the fourth country in the world to break the milestone nobody wanted to get near. However, when compared to these other three countries, it at least seems to be on the right track. On August 31, the US reported 38,560 new cases, India 68,770, and Brazil 48,590. Russia has had less than 5,000 per day since August 15. | Despite being fourt…
(2020-09-01). Venezuela and Palestine: A Revolutionary Alliance. zcomm.org If this Venezuelan opposition comes to power with the help of American imperialists, the current pro-Israel and rightward shift in the political dynamics of Latin America will get further consolidated…
(2020-09-01). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Dockworkers in Bermuda announced an overtime ban to oppose cost-cutting, while mineworkers in Colombia are set to strike Cerrejón open-pit coal mine over contract demands.
(2020-09-01). Human rights lawsuits used by Chilean "left" to mask preparations for authoritarian rule. wsws.org Amid a growing threat of police-state dictatorship, it once again falls on the Chilean parliamentary "left" and its satellite organisations to conceal the class nature of the capitalist state.
(2020-09-01). US Government Seizes Websites Allegedly Involved In Iran-Venezuela Oil Deal. popularresistance.org The US government announced today that it had seized three websites used by Iran to facilitate oil deals with Venezuela. The decision follows the US interception of Iranian oil tankers bound for Venezuela and increased pressure from Washington on both countries. | The Department of Justice assumed control of the websites for Mobin International, Sohar Fuel and Oman Fuel, which the department called front companies. The companies allegedly facilitated a fuel shipment by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Venezuela, according to a department press release.
(2020-09-01). Powerful Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake Strikes Northern Chile – EMSC. sputniknews.com Early readings of the Tuesday phenomenon from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) recorded a magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the shore of Atacama, Chile.
(2020-08-31). US Pressure Strategy Against Venezuela Fails, Arreaza Says. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza stressed that the maximum pressure strategy against his country is a resounding failure of the U.S. elites, who are disconnected from reality and do not understand the Bolivarian people's resistance. | RELATED: | The Minister said that the U.S. ruling class knows nothing about the reality of Venezuela and "much less about Chavismo and its historical, political, and social…
(2020-08-31). Brazil: Pataxo Indigenous Families Threatened With Eviction. telesurenglish.net Members of the Pataxo da Jaqueira Indigenous Reserve in Bahia state started protests against an eviction order released by President Jair Bolsonaro's administration. | RELATED: | The eviction order arose after a hearing among the Federal Public Ministry, the National Indian Foundation, and the Sky Dream School of Pilots, a company that claims to be the legitimate owner of the land. | TeleSUR's correspondent in Brazil, Andre Vieira…
(2020-08-31). Maduro pardons 100+ opposition lawmakers to promote 'national reconciliation' in Venezuela. rt.com 
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced pardons for 110 opposition lawmakers currently facing charges, saying this should promote democracy in the country currently under US sanctions and demands for regime change. | The intent of the pardons is to "promote national reconciliation and the search for peace," Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez announced on Monday in Caracas. | The measure was proposed by the Commission for Truth, Justice and Peace and seeks to strengthen democracy and "open channels of political action" within the framework of the Venezuelan Constitution, Rodriguez added. | The gover…
(2020-08-31). Colombia Announces Military Offensive to Stop Massacres. telesurenglish.net Colombia's Military Forces Saturday announced a new offensive to stop the massacres in which over 180 people have died since the beginning of August. | RELATED: | "The security forces will confront the criminals. We are trying to minimize the massacres in the country. To achieve this, we will go to the roots of this violence: drug trafficking," Military Forces Commander Luis Navarro informed. | In the Cauca Departm…
(2020-08-31). Fall 2020 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant News Alert! indybay.org ICE Is Leaving Immigrants To Die In Detention, Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money To Build Border Wall With Mexico…
(2020-08-31). The stage is set for a Venezuela October surprise. peoplesdispatch.org 
Aggression against Venezuela from the US has intensified in recent weeks and all signs are pointing towards an escalation ahead of elections in the US and Venezuela…
(2020-08-31). Venezuela's Oil Industry Between Sanctions and Strategic Blunders: A Conversation with Carlos Mendoza Potella. globalresearch.ca Carlos Mendoza Potella is an economics professor at Venezuela's Central University and advisor to Venezuela's Central Bank. He recently spoke to Venezuelanalysis about the origins of the crisis in the country's oil industry and what that means for its future….
(2020-08-31). Venezuela's PDVSA Sued for Missed Payments at Curacao Refinery. venezuelanalysis.com The state-run oil firm is also being asked to relocate crude deposits at Bonaire's BOPEC storage facility due to the risk of accidents caused by poor maintenance.
(2020-08-31). US Knew of Uribe's Ties to Drug Trafficking Since 1991. telesurenglish.net A recently declassified U.S. Department of Defense document reveals that the U.S. was monitoring former Colombian senator and president Alvaro Uribe Velez's relations since his first presidential administration. | The document, a memorandum shared on the U.S. National Security Archive website, is dated from August 2004 and signed by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense, Peter W. Rodman. | RELATED: | In the documen…
(2020-08-31). Brazil: Bolsonaro Walks Again Among Supporters Without a Mask. telesurenglish.net Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro Sunday again walked among his supporters without wearing a mask and disrespecting the social distancing protocols during a solar energy plant's inauguration in Caldas Novas city, in the Goias State. | RELATED: | Despite…
(2020-08-31). India Record's Highest Single-Day COVID-19 Infections. telesurenglish.net India recorded on Sunday the world's highest single-day increase in COVID-19 infections as authorities reported 78.761 new cases. | RELATED: | The country also has the fastest-growing number of recorded cases, with 3.5 million overall contagions. Hence, India has become the third worst-hit country by the COVID-19 pandemic, after the U.S. and Brazil. | However, in recent days the government has eased restriction measures to open…
(2020-08-31). Brazil: Chief Raoni Metuktire Tested Positive for COVID-19. telesurenglish.net The Brazil Institute Raoni said on Monday that chief Raoni Metuktire tested positive for COVID-19. | RELATED: | "His condition is good, without fever, breathing normally and without the help of oxygen. Raoni had COVID-19, and tests show the presence of antibodies," the Raoni Institute tweeted. | After showing pneumonia symptoms, the 89-years-old chief of the Kayapo people was admitted to a hospital in Sinop municipa…
(2020-08-31). Argentina's Observation Satellite Was Successfully Launched. telesurenglish.net Argentina's observation satellite SAOCOM 1B Sunday was launched from Cape Cañaveral (Florida) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket owned by the enterprise Space-X. | RELATED: | The satellite, built entirely in Argentina, was stabilized in its orbit while waiting to deploy its 35 square meter radar antenna. This process will be completed 24 hours after its launch. | Argentina ¥s President Alberto Fernandez praised the SAOCOM 1B satellite's importance and said that "
(2020-08-31). Chile: Another Mapuche Prisoner on Hunger Strike Hospitalized. telesurenglish.net Mapuche political prisoner Eliseo Reiman Sunday was transferred from Lebu prison to a hospital after he spent two months of hunger strike and seven days of not drinking water. | RELATED: | "Reiman's health is deteriorating due to the hunger strike that he and his comrades have been carrying out," the Mapuche spokesman Miguel Maliqueo informed. | The prisoner's relatives asked Lebu's authorities for a doctor they trust…
(2020-08-31). COVID-19: Chile Eases Restrictions For Senior Citizens. telesurenglish.net Despite the high prevalence of COVID-19 in Chile, Health Minister Enrique Paris Sunday announced that his government will ease quarantine restrictions for people over 75 years old. | RELATED: | As part of the deconfinement plan called "Step by Step", senior citizens will be free to move around from Monday to Friday. This way, they won't have any additional restrictions, as long as their communes are either in the transi…
(2020-08-31). Extreme Right In Venezuela Seeks To Sabotage The Election. popularresistance.org In a little more than three months, on December 6, parliamentary elections will be held in Venezuela. The most extreme wing of the Venezuelan opposition, which forms the so-called G4 (that includes the parties Voluntad Popular of Leopoldo López, Primero Justicia of Henrique Capriles, Acción Democrática and Un Nuevo Tiempo) plans, with U.S. support, to boycott the electoral process and renew the mobilization in the streets. Colombian sources with access to U.S. government functionaries and to leaders of the Venezuelan opposition became aware of a recent video conference meeting including members of the U.S. foreig…
(2020-08-30). Venezuela: Right-Wing Opposition Leader Released to House Arrest. venezuelanalysis.com Juan Requesens had been linked to the August 2018 assassination attempt against President Maduro.
(2020-08-30). COVID-19: How and why India is losing the battle. peoplesdispatch.org 
It has become customary to say that given its huge population, India is doing much better than say, the US or Europe. This is how officialdom is trying to explain away the shockingly high numbers of total confirmed cases (over 340,000 on August 29) and total deaths (nearly 63,000) — both of which put India at the third position globally, behind the US and Brazil. | However, the comparison is not really valid. India needs to be compared not with the US and Europe but to regions of the world where the population's age, economic standards and healthcare access is similar. Such a comparison reveals that, in fac…
(2020-08-30). To Capture and Subdue: America's Theft of Syrian Oil Has Very Little to Do With Money. strategic-culture.org 
So, next time you see headlines about Exxon being in some kind of legal dispute with, say, Venezuela, ask yourself how was it that those companies became involved with the resources of that part of the world? More often than not, the answer will be similar to how this U.S. company got involved in Syria.
(2020-08-29). Venezuela: Aggression In October? popularresistance.org A US-sponsored military aggression against Venezuela could take place before the November 3 elections in that country. On August 22, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, chief of the strategic operational command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), said that "The international intelligence agencies allied to Venezuela inform us that Colombia is preparing an aggression, and the FANB will respond with force and forcefulness to any aggression against the sovereignty and independence of Venezuela, under the command of our Commander in Chief Nicolas Maduro Moros". Coinciding with this, they met in Bogotá with Presiden…
(2020-08-29). A Colombian Activist Is Killed Every 20 Hours. popularresistance.org The Alliance for Global Justice is extremely concerned with the recent increase of violence in Colombia. In our June 16, 2020 action, we asked you to sign a letter asking Members of the USA Congress to act immediately to protect the lives of social leaders, peasants, indigenous and Afro Colombians victims of the violence generated by the illegal arm forces present in their communities. Unfortunately, despite our efforts, the human rights situation in Colombia has worsened to disturbing levels. | In 2020, there have been 43 massacres with most of the victims in the Colombia states of Nariño, Cauca, Valle del Cauca…
(2020-08-29). Why U.S. political scientists are arguing that Evo Morales should be the President of Bolivia. mronline.org 
Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University—looked at raw evidence from the Bolivian election authorities that had been handed over to the New York Times.
(2020-08-29). Colombian President Duque Authorizes The Return Of US Troops. popularresistance.org Colombia's Defense Ministry Thursday informed that President Ivan Duque allowed the resumption of the U.S. Army's cooperation work in the country after it was suspended by a court order. | In July, Cundinamarca's Administrative Court ordered to suspend the U.S. Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) activities after several senators' complaints. | Over 20 lawmakers claimed that Duque had violated political controls because he did not ask the Senate's authorization to allow the transit of foreign troops in the national territory. Alternative Democratic Pole Party (PDA) Lawmaker Ivan Cepeda urged the government t…
(2020-08-29). These Six Banks Have Frozen $4.6 Billion Belonging To Venezuelans. popularresistance.org The looting, theft and hijacking of resources from Venezuela has been of great magnitude, six banks withhold under the excuse of US sanctions, around 4.6 billion dollars much needed by and belonging to the Venezuelans, currently facing a spike in Covid-19 cases. The website La Tabla cited the data published by the Venezuelan NGO dedicated to the study, promotion, education and defense of human rights, "Organización Sures", which explained that this Venezuelan money is in the following banks: | Novo Banco: $ 1,547,322,175.89, | Bank of England: $ 1,323,228,162.57, | Clearstream: $ 517,088,580.00, | Citibank: $ 458…
(2020-08-29). Venezuela Reportedly Sends Ship Full of Aluminium to Iran Following Fuel Deliveries From Tehran. sputniknews.com The two countries have been actively cooperating after unilateral US sanctions started affecting their economies. Tehran has namely delivered several shipments to help Caracas restart its massive oil refining industry.
(2020-08-29). Volkswagen to slash 35 percent of Brazilian workforce as jobs bloodbath hits auto industry. wsws.org Twenty-eight thousand jobs have been wiped out since 2013, when the unions began pushing for systematic contract suspensions and bailouts for automakers in Brazil.