(2020-10-06). Ecuador's UNES registers candidates for upcoming general elections. peoplesdispatch.org Ecuador's progressive coalition, the Union for Hope (UNES), on October 2, successfully registered Andrés Arauz and Carlos Rabascall as candidates for presidency and vice-presidency, respectively, at the office of the National Electoral Council (CNE) for the general elections scheduled for February 7, 2021. | The UNES presidential candidate and former economic minister, Andrés Arauz, was the first to share the news. "Today, together with Carlos Rabascall, we registered the UNES presidential ticket. It's official," he wrote in The…
(2020-10-06). Protests erupt in Chile after police throw 16-year-old off bridge. wsws.org Chile's murderous police violence proves that all of the tensions that gave rise to the social convulsions one year ago have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2020-10-06). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Ecuadorian unemployed workers and supporters marched through the capital last week while food delivery workers pledged to join an international strike on October 8.
(2020-10-06). Venezuelan gov't wins appeal on gold reserves held in the UK. peoplesdispatch.org The Venezuelan government secured a legal victory on Monday in its battle to regain access to gold stored in the Bank of England (BoE). | On Monday, the English Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) concerning the control over 31 tons of gold stored in London, overturning a previous High Court In July, Judge Nigel…
(2020-10-05). UK Court Decision on Venezuela Gold Deals Blow to Regime Change Efforts. mintpressnews.com A UK court ruled that the administration of Boris Johnson's position that Juan Guaidó is the legitimate ruler of Venezuela is far from equivocal, paving the way for over $1 billion of the country's gold to be released.
(2020-10-05). Revolutionary Organization In Venezuela. popularresistance.org Our latest joint production with Tatuy Televisión Comunistaria looks at five examples of revolutionary organization in Venezuela: El Maizal Commune, Pueblo a Pueblo, the Pobladoras Movement, Tinta Violeta and the Campesino Struggle Platform. | Amidst a tough crisis and a muderous blockade, these organizations (and many others) have doubled down in their efforts to resist and deepen the Bolivarian Revolution.
(2020-10-05). Headlines for October 5, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Breaks Isolation, Endangers Secret Service as WH Sends Mixed Messages on Trump's Condition, GOP Vows to Push Through SCOTUS Hearings as 3 Senators Test Positive for COVID-19, Coronavirus Cases on the Rise Across the Country as NYC Seeks to Shut Down 9 Neighborhoods, ICE Prisoners in Washington Tested for COVID-19 After Exposure from a Guard, Police in Chile Throw Teenager Off Bridge During Anti-Government Protest, Fighting in Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Region Escalates, Killing at Least One, Guatemala Deports Thousands of Central American Migrants Headed Toward U.S., ICE Erects Billboards with Faces of Immig…
(2020-10-05). UK Court Rules Favorably For Returning Venezuela's Gold. popularresistance.org London – A tug-of-war over $1 billion worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England took a new turn on Monday as the English Court of Appeal overturned an earlier High Court ruling on who the UK recognised as Venezuela's president. | The Court of Appeal granted the Nicolas Maduro-backed Banco Central de Venezuela's (BCV) appeal and set aside July's High Court judgement, which had found that Britain's recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as "constitutional interim president of Venezuela" was conclusive.
(2020-10-05). Venezuelan Gov't Wins Appeal on Gold Reserves Held in the UK. venezuelanalysis.com The English Court of Appeal overturned a ruling "unequivocally" recognizing opposition leader Guaido as the country's legitimate leader.
(2020-10-05). Why a DC Public Relations Firm Pretended to Be Bolivian on Facebook. cepr.net The Americas Blog featured a post last week about the growing wave of election interference and misinformation campaigns sweeping Latin America, especially as a tool of right-wing governments and political movements. As these digital operations have grown in popularity, so has the market for firms to organize them. In particular, new details about the recent …
(2020-10-05). Venezuela Announces New Fuel Scheme as Iranian Gasoline Arrives. globalresearch.ca A second Iranian convoy of tankers is arriving in Venezuela this week with over 800,000 barrels of gasoline. | Forest, Faxon and Fortune ships will be discharging the fuel shipments in the El Palito and Paraguana refinery ports over the coming …
(2020-10-05). Bolivia: Amid New Crisis, Coup Government Seeks To Divide Spoils. popularresistance.org Just weeks out from the October 18 elections, Bolivia's coup government is again in crisis following the departure of three key ministers over an unconstitutional attempt to privatise an electricity company. | It comes as polls show Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce potentially winning in the first round, less than a year after his party was thrown out of office by a right-wing coup. | Relatively unknown senator Jeanine àÅñez was sworn in as "interim president" last November following the coup against then-MAS president Evo Morales.
(2020-10-04). FBI Seized Legally Privileged Materials From Julian Assange. popularresistance.org The FBI in the United Kingdom enlisted the Ecuador government's help in seizing legally privileged materials from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he was arrested and expelled from their embassy in London on April 11, 2019. | According to Gareth Peirce, one of Assange's attorneys, that day she "made immediate contact with the embassy in regard to legally privileged material, an issue of huge concern." Assange wanted the material—in addition to "confidential medical data"—"identified and released to his lawyers."
(2020-10-03). Communist and Workers Party's declaration for the repatriation and freedom of Simon Trinidad. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following declaration demanding the release of Ricardo Palmera (Simon Trinidad). Freedom Road Socialist Organization is one of the signers. | The Communist Parties and Workers signed by this declaration, we demand from the Government of the United States of America the immediate repatriation and release of political prisoner Ricardo Palmera Pineda, better known as Simon Trinidad in his militancy in the insurgent organization FARC-EP. | Simón Trinidad was captured in January 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, while advancing contacts for future peace talks. It was immediately hande…
(2020-10-03). US deploys missile destroyer off coast of Venezuela. wsws.org The military provocation has come amid a wave of new sanctions against both Venezuela and Iran, which is supplying the South American country with vital fuel supplies.
(2020-10-03). Health care workers stage strikes, protests in Chile and Argentina. wsws.org According to Amnesty International, of the 7,000 health professionals in the world who have died after contracting COVID-19, more than a third are from the Americas.
(2020-10-03). UN report on Venezuela omits the greatest violation of human rights: US aggression. peoplesdispatch.org The victim's of Venezuela's right-wing mobs have been completely left out of the UNHRC's report on Venezuela, Leonardo Flores looks at the politicized nature of this report and the intentional omissions…
(2020-10-03). Peru Orders Arrest of Officials Linked to Corruption Case. telesurenglish.net Peruvian Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requested preventive detention for some of the people linked to the singer Richard Swing's case. | RELATED: | Ten people, who were previously under pre-trial detention, will comply with other seven days of preliminary detention as part of the investigations. Among them, there are two former secretaries of Peru's President Martin Vizcarra. | "This case is still under evaluation an…
(2020-10-03). Bolivia's Regime Opens to Foreign NGOs & Intervention. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's Jeanine Añez has lifted restrictions on foreign Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) in a reversal of the pro-sovereignty policy previously implemented by President Evo Morales. | RELATED: | Supreme Decree 4353 ends rules which had been enacted by Morales in order to restrict NGO's, particularly the usual influx of those from the United States, from intervening in domestic politics. | Añez presented the decre…
(2020-10-03). Do Canadian Sanctions Against Venezuela Violate Canadian Law? A Question of Democracy. globalresearch.ca "Sanctions must be treated as a form of warfare. . . . Let us regard the imposition of sanctions with the same gravity as we would regard the act of going to war." — Mehran Nakhjavani[1] | There is widespread …
(2020-10-03). UN Report On Venezuela Omits The Greatest Violation Of Human Rights. popularresistance.org On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela's oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were "lynched, burned alive, decapitated and murdered by extremist sectors of the Venezuelan opposition." This fact-finding mission had published a report a week earlier that generated sensationalist headlines of "crimes against humanity" and painted a bleak picture of the situation in Venezuela.
(2020-10-03). Chile: Acerca del Proceso Constituyente. indybay.org Chile: | Acerca del Proceso Constituyente | Entrevista al profesor Gabriel Salazar, Premio Nacional de Historia.
(2020-10-03). Late Iranian actor applauded in Brazilian filmfest. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 03 (MNA) — The late Iranian actor, Levon Haftavan has been appreciated for his performance in the short film "Barzakh" at Rock Horror in Rio Film Festival in Brazil.
(2020-10-02). Using Human Rights To Promote War. popularresistance.org Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right's Council which accuses Venezuela's government of "crimes against humanity". She points out major flaws in the report's methodology and exposes one of its authors as a defender of Chilean fascists. She explains that the US and its allies are weaponizing human right in order to drum up support for a war on Venezuela.
(2020-10-02). Chile: Indigenous People Demand Role in Constitution Draft. telesurenglish.net Representatives of Chilean Indigenous communities and organizations demanded from Congress not to prolong the discussion about native people's participation in drafting a new constitutional text if Chilean people approve it in October 25 plebiscite. | RELATED: | "We would like to ask the parliamentarians to be able to continue the discussion in the Constitution Committee of the Senate. It is fundamental to have a…
(2020-10-02). Thousands take the streets in national strike in Colombia. zcomm.org The nationwide protest was carried out in rejection police brutality, economic crisis, massacres and the indifference of the national government towards them…
(2020-10-02). Ecuador: Left wins key ruling on government effort to rig election. liberationnews.org 
The left in Ecuador secured a crucial victory yesterday in the face of attempts by the right-wing government of President Lenín Moreno to deny progressive candidate Andrés Arauz the right to stand in next February's presidential election. The National Electoral Council ruled that the Union for Hope alliance would be permitted to nominate a substitute …
(2020-10-02). Luis Arce Remains Favorite To Become Bolivia's Next President. telesurenglish.net The latest poll from the Latin American Geopolitical Strategic Center (CELAG) shows that Bolivia's Socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce is the favorite to win the October election. | RELATED: | The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) candidate has 44.4 percent of the voting intention, followed by his conservative rival Carlos Mesa, with 34 percent. | The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) candidate…
(2020-10-02). Colombia Humana Activist Is Murdered in Medellin. telesurenglish.net The Colombia Humana movement activist Elias Galindo Thursday was found murdered in his apartment in Medellin. | RELATED: | Although an official version of the incident has not yet been released, the authorities' preliminary report states that Galindo was found by his daughter in one room of his apartment and presented stab wounds. | The attackers stole his computer and cell phone, which contained information about…
(2020-10-02). UN Venezuela Report Omits US Human Rights Violations. mintpressnews.com On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela's oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an
(2020-10-02). Brazil: Consumer Confidence Decrease To Unprecedented Levels. telesurenglish.net Brazil's National Industry Confederation (CNI) reported on Thursday that consumer confidence decreased to unprecedented levels in September as a result of high unemployment and a spike in inflation. | RELATED: | According to CNI, the National Consumer Expectation Index (INEC) showed 42.8 points, 3.3 points below the index's historical average of 46.1 points. | The latest report notices that the remarkable lack of trust is common to all cons…
(2020-10-02). Bolivia: Santa Cruz Decrees Emergency State Due to Wildfires. telesurenglish.net The Bolivian province of Santa Cruz decreed a state of emergency for the region because of massive wildfires on Thursday. | RELATED: | "To this day, about 34 fires have been registered, and over 831,000 hectares have been affected. Through Decree No. 322, I declare a Departmental Disaster due to Forest Fires and Drought; to protect the life, the Natural Heritage, as well as the economic resources of Santa Cruz," Ruben…
(2020-10-02). Bolsonaro Evokes Fascist Slogan to Call for Local Elections. telesurenglish.net Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro evoked a fascist slogan on Thursday when he asked his supporters to vote for candidates committed to "God, Homeland, and Family" in the November municipal elections. | RELATED: | The far-right-wing president used the same slogan as the Brazilian Integralist Action, a political movement inspired by Italian fascism. | "We are going to choose politicians who have God in their hear…
(2020-10-02). Peru Investigates Unusual Transactions of Late President Garcia. telesurenglish.net Peruvian Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Thursday revealed that Alan Garcia, who served as president from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011, carried out unusual real estate transactions through apparently ghost companies in 2015. | RELATED: | "The former president invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspicious operations that could be the source for acts of corruption," the Attorney General's Office reported.
(2020-10-02). Argentina Demands the Liberation of Photographer in Bolivia. telesurenglish.net Argentina's Foreign Affairs Ministry demanded Bolivia's de facto government free Argentinian photographer Facundo Molares Schoenfeld, detained during the coup d'etat against former President Evo Morales. | RELATED: | The Argentinian Foreign Affairs Ministry said that the release of Molares is "particularly urgent given their state of health, added to the impact of the unjustified and consecutive cancellations of hearings called by the…
(2020-10-02). Evo Morales Questions OAS Credibility in Bolivia's Election. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's former president Evo Morales Thursday questioned the Organization of American States (OAS) ability to oversee the country's general elections after its failure to do so in the 2019 elections. | RELATED: | "The OAS received the coup-born Interior Minister Arturo Murillo when he was visiting the U.S. to seek support while national polls show that the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will be the winner of t…
(2020-10-02). Venezuela Is 1st LATAM Country to Receive Russia's Vaccine. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez Friday announced that the country received the first batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that the nation is ready to begin phase 3 of its clinical trials. | RELATED: | "Our country just became the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to join the studies for the first COVID-19 vaccine registered in the world," Rodriguez recalled. | The first batch…
(2020-10-02). Venezuela Succeeds in Normalizing Fuel Supplies. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's government on Thursday said it has succeeded in "normalizing" the supply of fuel throughout the South American country, following weeks of severe shortages and disrupted distribution. | RELATED: | Starting Monday, the country's 1,568 gasoline service stations will be reactivated after production at two of the country's main refineries was restored, Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said. | "We are making a…