Chile: Elections pave the way to a new country
Victor Figueroa Clark | greenleft.org.au | 2021-05-27
The elections for Chile's Constitutional Convention show a massive public desire for true social-political transformation and, crucially, provide the means to achieve it. | Elections to the Constituent Convention charged with writing a new Constitution for Chile have yielded a result nobody expected. The left went into the elections divided across many lists, the right was united under one banner, the parties of the social-liberal Concertación [Coalition of Parties for Democracy] under another. | Of the 155 seats, polls predicted that the Concertación list would get 45 seats, the right wing coalition, Vamos por C…
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Colombia: Broad general strike challenges 'narc-oligarchy'
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2021-05-26
May 23 — The general strike against anti-poor "reforms" in Colombia is finishing its fourth week. So far, every test of strength has shown popular support has grown in defiance of police and fascist murders and beatings of protesters and the threat of COVID-19, which has already killed 85,000 people. . . . | Continue reading Colombia: Broad general strike challenges 'narc-oligarchy' at Workers.org…
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Conservative Guillermo Lasso sworn in as Ecuador's new president
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-26
Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing coalition of Creating Opportunities‚Ää party (CREO) and Social Christian Party (PSC) was sworn in as the president of Ecuador on May 24 with Alfredo Borrero as the vice president of the country. The duo will govern the Latin American country for the next four years. | The inauguration ceremony was held at the Legislative Palace in the capital Quito. It was attended by several conservative leaders including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, Haiti's de-facto President Jovenel MoàØse, Spanish King Felipe VI,…
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The communal cooking pot
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-05-26
In Chile, community food networks and mutual aid tell us that the revolution starts close to home writes Jumanah Younis | May 26, 2021 | Newswire…
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Juan Grabois, member of International Solidarity Mission to Colombia, deported on arrival
ARG Medios | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-26
Colombia migration authorities denied entrance to Juan Grabois who is part of an Argentinian human rights delegation. The International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights Observation arrived on May 25 to Colombia and is made up of different human rights and social organizations from Argentina and other countries in the region. | Grabois explained on Twitter that "After a series of physical attacks witnessed by several people and by security cameras, the Colombian government expelled me from its territory because it considers me a risk to State Security." | He also added that "they took my documents and luggag…
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4 weeks of national strike in Colombia
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-26
Several national and international social and political leaders as well as human rights organizations have expressed their concerns regarding the excessive use of force and implementation of military assistance programs to suppress social protests.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/26/4-weeks-of-national-strike-in-colombia/