Daily Archives: November 6, 2020

2020-11-06: News Headlines

Andrew Korybko (2020-11-06). The 2019 Bolivian Elections Fraud "Precedent" vs. The 2020 US Elections Fraud. globalresearch.ca The precedent established by the Organization of American States' claims that fraud was committed in the 2019 Bolivian presidential election after a suspicious delay in releasing the tally resulted in then-President Morales emerging the victor without a second round being …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-06). FARC party and Colombian national government sign peace commitments. peoplesdispatch.org The agreements between the FARC party and the Colombian national government are the outcome of the Pilgrimage for Life and Peace, made by hundreds of ex-combatants demanding compliance with peace accords…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-06). MAS denounces explosion at campaign headquarters in La Paz. peoplesdispatch.org Sebastián Michel, the spokesperson of the Movement Towards Socialism — Political Instrument for People's Sovereignty (MAS-IPSP) denounced that on the night of Thursday November 5, a stick of dynamite exploded outside the door of the MAS-IPSP campaign headquarters. Michel reported that incoming president Luis Arce was in a meeting at the campaign house when the explosive detonated and that it occurred when far-right groups marched by. | Former Bolivian president Evo Morales

teleSUR (2020-11-06). Iranian FM Arrives in Cuba After Completing Visit to Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif has arrived in Cuba, the second stop on his Latin American tour, to address mutual interest issues. As informed this Friday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Persian Diplomacy head is already in Havana, the Cuban capital, after having finished his official visit to Venezuela. | RELATED: | During his trip to Cuba, besides meeting…

teleSUR (2020-11-06). 200 Years of the First Raising of Argentina's Flag in Malvinas. telesurenglish.net President Alberto Fernandez will preside over the commemoration to mark the 200 anniversary of the first raising of Argentina's national flag in the Malvinas Islands on Friday. | RELATED: | The main event will be held at the Olivos presidential residence and will be attended by Foreign Minister Felipe Sola and the Malvinas Secretary Daniel Filmus. Meanwhile, other activities are expected to take place nationwide, i…

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-11-05). Electoral Musings: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com It is perfectly valid for the American public to express outrage over Trump's declaration of victory, but the entire American media and political class forever lost all legitimacy to condemn a nation's leader for illegitimately crowning themselves by backing the Venezuela coup. | ‚ùñ | Watching Democrats' inability to handily defeat a crazy reality TV host in two elections is like seeing someone pick a fight with a six year-old girl and getting their ass kicked, then coming back with a bunch of their friends and watching them all get carried off on stretchers. | ‚ùñ | All t…

Ralph Nader — Bruce Fein (2020-11-05). How Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh Violated Election Law. counterpunch.org Conservative media celebrities Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have flagrantly violated the federal election law prohibition of donating anything of value exceeding $2,800 to a presidential candidate. The ongoing strategic collaboration between Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh is obvious and has been widely documented in newspapers and books. Both Hannity and Limbaugh have collaborated with President

Philip M. Fearnside (2020-11-05). BR-319: The Beginning of the End for Brazil's Amazon Forest. globalresearch.ca The text of this commentary is updated from an earlier Portuguese-language version of the author's column at *** | The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil's military dictatorship, but was abandoned in …

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-05). Maduro slams US' giving democracy lessons to world. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 05 (MNA) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says Washington is in no position to give lessons in democracy to the world as Donald Trump is apparently rejecting the early results of US election.

Manuela Solé (2020-11-05). Electoral Campaign Begins in Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com The campaign for upcoming legislative elections will go on for a month.

teleSUR (2020-11-05). The Guarani Language Has Its First Dictionary in Paraguay. telesurenglish.net The Guarani Language Academy approved the first dictionary of this pre-Columbian language whose use is oficial and widely disseminated in Paraguay. | RELATED: | As the Secretariat for Language Policies (SPL) explained, this linguistic tool is a monolingual text with 2000 entries, each of which describes the Indigenous language from its own semantics. | Each entry has also grammatical marks and definitions that reco…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-11-05). Tensions Grow in Bolivia as Arce's Inauguration Day Approaches. globalresearch.ca Arce's victory was not enough to overcome the effects of the coup in Bolivia. Currently, the country is strongly threatened by the confluence of the anti-democratic interests of various political groups, paramilitaries and religious fundamentalists who seek to prevent the …

Steve Ellner (2020-11-05). Center-Left convergence in Venezuela: A blow to U.S. interventionism. mronline.org Steve Ellner argues that average Venezuelans understand that U.S. sanctions hurt them—and should be resisted.

teleSUR (2020-11-05). Colombia: Commitment Reached To Meet 2016 Peace Accords. telesurenglish.net Representatives from the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) announced on Wednesday that six commitments were reached with Colombian authorities in order to observe the fulfillment of the 2016 Peace Accord. | RELATED: | The announcement comes after several violations of the peace agreement voiced by former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (FARC-EP) who have staged a march in Defense…

teleSUR (2020-11-05). 'New Peru' Leader Veronika Mendoza Will Run in 2021 Elections. telesurenglish.net The New Peru leader and former congresswoman Veronika Mendoza on Thursday officially announced her candidacy for the elections to take place in April 2021. | RELATED: | She made the announcement in the city of El Cusco on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution undertaken by Tupac Amaru and Micaela Bastida. | She will run for Together for Peru and her Vice president posts will be a…

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-05). Zarif starts meetings in Venezuela. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 05 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has started his diplomatic meetings in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.

Lina Roa, Ellie Moeller, Zachary Fowler, Rodrigo Vaz Ferreira, Sebastian Mohar, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Aline Gil Alves Guilloux, Alejandro Mohar, Robert Riviello, John G Meara, Jose Emerson dos Santos Souza, Valeria Macias (2020-11-05). Assessment of diagnostics capacity in hospitals providing surgical care in two Latin American states. thelancet.com Facilities providing SAO care in low-resource states in Mexico and Brazil often lack functioning diagnostics services and workforce. Scale-up of diagnostic services is essential to improve SAO care and should occur with emphasis on equitable and adequate resource allocation.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-05). Chilean protesters demand release of those arrested during October 2019 uprising. peoplesdispatch.org Chilean protesters have been demanding the release of political prisoners who were detained during the October 2019 uprising. The protests last year triggered a movement that led to last month's historic constitutional referendum…

WSWS (2020-11-05). Hospital fire in Brazil exposes criminal neglect of workers' lives. wsws.org A fire at a hospital in the state of Rio de Janeiro resulted in the deaths of eight people, at least three of them COVID-19 patients.

Jack Delaney (2020-11-05). 'You Have to Listen to the Streets': Rebel Diaz on Hip Hop and the Chilean Constitution. thenation.com 'You Have to Listen to the Streets': Rebel Diaz on Hip Hop and the Chilean Constitution…

_____ (2020-11-04). Ending Regime Change — in Bolivia and the World. strategic-culture.org Medea BENJAMIN | Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and In the long history…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-04). Mobilizations in Colombia intensify in defense of life and peace. peoplesdispatch.org In Colombia, mobilizations have intensified demanding an end to escalating violence against social movements and political activists. The objective of is to draw the national government's attention to the humanitarian crisis faced by Afro-descendant, Indigenous, human rights, peasant and social organizations. Meanwhile, ex-combatants of the FARC are demanding that the national government comply with the peace agreements signed between the former government and the FARC in Havana, Cuba, in 2016.

W. T. Whitney (2020-11-04). Chile's Referendum Vote Should Advance Progressive Political Changes. counterpunch.org Chileans voted in a national referendum on October 25. Commentary reflects what happened: "We began to dig the grave of the Pinochet-era constitution and the market economy," one report said. This was an "overwhelming, historical triumph of the people," declared Chile's El Siglo newspaper. Voters chose either yes or no on holding a constituent assembly

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-04). Doc-series 'Operation Venezuela' launches. peoplesdispatch.org The 10-part series called 'Operation Venezuela' launched today across The project is produced by investigative journalists, filmmakers and documentarians and will include testimonies and accounts about the events over the past several years including the numerous coup attempts, violent guarimba protests, sabotage at…

teleSUR (2020-11-04). Bolivia's Electoral Tribunal Rules Out Audit of Elections. telesurenglish.net The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia ruled out an audit of the last general elections' results. Simultaneously, the extreme right-wing group Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee announced a strike until it is carried out. | RELATED: | The president of the electoral body, Salvador Romero, said that "it is effectively ruled out (an audit) because the electoral process concluded with the delivery of the count, with…

teleSUR (2020-11-04). Bolivia: the Pro-Santa Cruz Civic Committee Calls for Strike. telesurenglish.net The Pro-Santa Cruz Civic Committee (PSCC) has announced a strike starting on Thursday in protest over the results of the general elections held on October 18. | RELATED: | The PSCC president Romulo Calvo made the announcement after an agreement reached in a meeting held by the extended board of directors of the Committee on November 3. | The civic strike is set to begin in the eastern sector of Chiquitano, extending throughout Sa…

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-04). Iranian Foreign Minister arrives in Venezuela on Wednesday. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister was welcomed by his Venezuelan counterpart upon his arrival in the country on Wednesday.

WSWS (2020-11-04). Fascist protests in Bolivia demand overturning of presidential election. wsws.org Last night, a street council called by fascists in Santa Cruz demanded the overturning of the recent election and a military takeover.

teleSUR (2020-11-04). Brazil: Bolsonaro's Son To Face Charges Over Corruption. telesurenglish.net The Brazilian Prosecutor's Office denounced on Wednesday Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the president Jair Bolsonaro, for money laundering, embezzlement, criminal organization, and role in the malversation of public funds. | RELATED: | The Rio Public Ministry submitted the complaint after two years of investigating the case known as "rachadinhas." The Public Ministry denounced that Bolsonaro's eldest son led a…

teleSUR (2020-11-04). Iran's Foreign Minister Starts Latin American Tour in Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Iran's foreign minister began his trip to Latin America in Venezuela, where he arrived on Wednesday to promote a strategic alliance. | RELATED: | "At 3: 45 am today [Wednesday], we welcomed the brother foreign minister of Iran, (Mohamad Yavad) Zarif. Each high-level visit deepens our strategic alliance, our brotherhood," announced Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in a message posted on his Twitter accoun…