(2020-12-09). Bolivia: New Gov't Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime. mintpressnews.com The Movement to Socialism party is already enacting widespread changes to Bolivia in an attempt to undo the damage of one year of US-backed austerity and military rule.
(2020-12-09). Big win for Venezuela's PSUV, assurance for President Maduro. fightbacknews.org In a compelling victory, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its allies won 68% of the vote for the Venezuelan National Assembly on December 6. This strengthens the position of President Nicolas Maduro and buries any hope the U.S. had of installing a right-wing pretender in office. | The PSUV and its allies will now take 189 of 277 seats in the National Assembly. Rightist opposition parties won only 28% of the vote and lost control of the body, which functions like a senate. Despite U.S. corporate media claiming the right-wing opposition boycotted the election, there was very public campaigning by…
(2020-12-09). Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela. popularresistance.org On December 6, Venezuelans elected a new National Assembly with a left political majority. This election, which was well-run and legitimate despite what the imperialist media and countries say, reconstitutes the Venezuelan parliamentary body with participation from both the ruling and opposition parties. It marks the end of an era during which the National Assembly was a tool of the right wing agenda and US regime change efforts. To facilitate understanding of the current election and political climate in Venezuela, Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Paul Dobson of Venezulanalysis…
(2020-12-09). Assassination of social activists continues in Colombia. peoplesdispatch.org 
The assassination of social activists in Colombia continues at a horrifying rate. Community leaders, environmentalists, land defenders, human rights activists and former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerilla group are relentlessly being targeted by illegal armed groups operating in the country. | Between November 30 and December 7, six Indigenous leaders, two Afro-descendant leaders, two environmentalists and one social leader were murdered. Additionally, in a massacre in Santander de Quilichao, on December 5, another Indigenous leader and one ex-combatant of the FARC were kille…
(2020-12-09). Beef, Banks and the Brazilian Amazon. globalresearch.ca Preserving tropical rainforests is critical to help stop climate breakdown and to safeguard the rights of the local communities and indigenous peoples who depend on and defend them. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the importance of …
(2020-12-09). Venezuelan court convicts the CITGO Six. workers.org 
Venezuela's Supreme Court sentenced six top CITGO oil executives to prison for corruption, embezzlement, money laundering and conspiracy on Nov. 26. The former executives went behind the back of the Venezuelan state and signed an agreement with two U.S. based-international financial companies — for which they were detained in Nov. . . . |
(2020-12-09). Embassy Protection Collective will help monitor Venezuelan elections. workers.org 
By Jose Szepara On Dec. 6, Venezuelans will turn out to vote in the country's National Assembly elections, and the world waits with bated breath as observers from all over the world wait for the final results. Election monitoring groups have made their way to Venezuela to act as impartial . . . |
(2020-12-09). Venezuela's PSUV retakes control of National Assembly despite low turnout. mronline.org 
With 99 percent of the votes counted, the PSUV has won 68 percent with a 30.5 percent participation rate.
(2020-12-09). Venezuela: New Parliament Needs To Solve a Way Out To Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Over 6 million 200 thousand voters headed to the polls in Venezuela's parliamentary elections that took place under a climate of normality and total transparency as reported by international observers on December 6. | RELATED: | With 98.63 percent of the electoral records transmitted by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday, the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) coalition secured a majority in the new Parliame…
(2020-12-09). Iran ready to strengthen economic ties with Bolivia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) — The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic to La Paz voiced Iran's readiness to expand cooperation with Bolivia in the field of production.
(2020-12-08). Bolivarian Social Democracy Triumphs in Venezuelan National Assembly Elections. globalresearch.ca On Sunday, Venezuelans voted to elect 277 National Assembly members for five-year terms from January 5, 2021 to January 5, 2026. | An unprecedented total of 14,400 candidates from 107 political parties ran for office. | Two Bolivarian blocs were heavy favorites …
(2020-12-08). Relations Between Colombia and China Are on the Rise. globalresearch.ca China is about to accomplish a historic act in Colombia. In 1942, when Bogotá had 380,000 inhabitants, a project was launched to build the urban metro. After more than 75 years and with 8 million people, the work finally seems …
(2020-12-08). Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger. dissidentvoice.org 
Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …
(2020-12-08). Action for Change Starts in Congress. counterpunch.org 
We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials
(2020-12-08). Three quarters of Brazilian Amazon have been infected with COVID-19 since March. imperial.ac.uk Three quarters of the population of Manaus in Brazil's Amazon have been infected with coronavirus since the city's first outbreak in March.
(2020-12-08). Venezuela, a population difficult to defeat: Lessons for the Middle East. thealtworld.com 
At the "Escuela Técnica Comercial Manuel Palacio Fajardo De Caracas Venezuela" in an area called 23 Enero, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza came to vote. The people of the neighbourhood stood in line waiting their turn after being disinfected by the sanitary officers. A few guards were in the background, not interfering with the self-organisation of the population. The Minister Arreaza was later joined by the daughter of Comandante Hugo Chavez, Maria Gabriel, who also came to vote at the same school where the late Chavez used to vote. | It is indeed a normal scene here to see people from all walks of…
(2020-12-08). Venezuela Votes to End Neocolonialism, Create Its Own Path. dissidentvoice.org 
On December 2, the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC) members, who were arrested in May 2019 when the United States illegally invaded the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC, completed their probation, ending the risk of the 30 days in prison that was being held over their heads. I am one of the four who were arrested. …
(2020-12-08). Venezuelan elections: What lies ahead? peoplesdispatch.org The legislative elections in Venezuela saw the ruling Great Patriotic Pole emerge victorious. The new Assembly has a number of challenges with far right-wing sections under Juan Guaidó continuing to foment discontent, and the country facing an economic crisis…
(2020-12-08). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Health care workers in Argentina and California have staged actions over COVID-19 issues while pandemic related issues have sparked actions by other sections of workers, including food processing workers and hotel workers.
(2020-12-07). Venezuela's PSUV Retakes Control of National Assembly Despite Low Turnout. venezuelanalysis.com With 99 percent of the votes counted, the PSUV has won 68 percent with a 30.5 percent participation rate.
(2020-12-07). Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger — 'News And How To Use It' by Alan Rusbridger. zcomm.org Pilger tells the unfiltered, uncompromised truth about the foundations of power. His focus is on speaking up for the victims of power, not on serving power…
(2020-12-07). Peru's export agriculture workers win repeal of regressive labor law. liberationnews.org 
Early in the morning on Nov. 30, thousands of export agricultural workers from the southern coastal region of Ica, Peru, blocked the Panamericana Sur highway, a major transportation artery, to protest their own precarious labor conditions and tax cuts for large export agricultural companies codified in the Agrarian Promotion Law. Also known as the "Chlimper …
(2020-12-07). Argentina Passes "Millionaire's Tax" to Fund Covid-19 Recovery. commondreams.org "We're coming out of this pandemic like countries come out of world wars, with thousands of dead and devastated economies," said one senator. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/argentina_wealth_tax.jpg …
