(2021-06-13). Peru: What Will be the Nature of a Pedro Castillo Government? globalresearch.ca As we go to press, June 11, 2021, the results published by Peru's National Electoral Processes Office (ONPE) point in favor of Perú Libre's candidate José Pedro Castillo Terrones against Fuerza Popular's Keiko Fujimori. | Fujimori has claimed fraud and …
(2021-06-13). Venezuela gets new shipment of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — A new batch of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Venezuela, Russian Ambassador to the Latin American country Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov said.
(2021-06-13). Venezuela's Bolivarian Oxygen Route: How Venezuelans Are Facing COVID-19 Challenges. orinocotribune.com 
In Venezuela, workers' productive councils, students' teams from the Jesús Rivero Bolivarian Workers' University (UBTJR), and Workers' Militia in SIDOR, PDVSA Petroleum Services, in coordination with regional governments, mayors, the General Health Services and organized communities, are supplying liquid oxygen to the public healthcare system of Venezuela. | In about two months, they have supplied more than 40% of the demand for oxygen in the public healthcare system, which is particularly necessary for treatment of patients with COVID-19. They have provided 100% of the requirements of the industrial clinics of P…
(2021-06-13). US Compels Small African Country To Imprison Venezuelan Diplomat. popularresistance.org Upon landing in Cabo Verde, Saab was forcibly removed from the plane, imprisoned, and held under torturous conditions. A year later, Saab, who is a lawfully appointed diplomatic agent of Venezuela, remains illegally imprisoned and is fighting extradition to the US. | Saab faces US charges with a maximum penalty of 160 years imprisonment. To put Saab's potential sentence into perspective, the reportedly rogue Cabo Verde soldier who murdered eleven in the 2016 Monte Tchota massacre on the Cape Verdean island of Santiago received a 35-year sentence. | Although Saab had not violated any law in Cabo Verde, the US has…
(2021-06-13). Lava Jato: Sergio Moro's 7 Crimes of Judicial Bias. orinocotribune.com By Brian Mier — Jun 8, 2021 | The Brazilian Supreme Court just released its March, 2021, 411 page ruling that reverses all Lava Jato related convictions against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and initiates an investigation of 7 counts of felony judicial bias against disgraced former judge and Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | When the ruling was first announced, many journalists were quick to credit the Intercept, for it's slow-motion leaking of a small portion of the Telegram conversations between prosecutors revealed by hacker Wagner Delgatti in what is now called Operation Spoofing. Delgatti him…
(2021-06-12). Is Keiko Cooking Up a Fraud in Perú? Castillo Urges Supporters to 'Rise Up'. orinocotribune.com Pedro Castillo's Perú Libre called on Peruvians to stand up to the illegal decisions that the National Elections Jury is adopting as the end of the count was reached. | The National Jury of Elections (JNE) of Perú decided earlier today to extend the deadline for requests to annul the voting records of the presidential elections to be submitted, extending the limit established by the electoral regulations by 48 hours. The period for submitting such requests had already expired at 8: 00 p.m. local time on Wednesday. | "The people must rise up," stated the Twitter account of Perú Libre , the party of the leftist cand…
(2021-06-12). Peru: 49 Congresswomen Elected for the 2021-2026 Period. telesurenglish.net Peru's National Jury of Elections (JNE) delivered the credentials to 130 lawmakers, 49 of whom are women who obtained a seat for the parliamentary period 2021-2026. RELATED:
(2021-06-12). Pedro Castillo's presidential win: A Peruvian trade unionist perspective. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Cristiano Mayta, a trade unionist in Peru on June 10 as the country awaited the official results of the president election. | Fight Back!: What is your organization? | Cristiano Mayta: I am the International Secretary of the union SINATREL at a Coca-Cola bottling plant. I am also a member of an organization called Socialist Left of Peru (Izquierda Socialista Perú). | Fight Back!: What were the conditions in Peru leading up the president elections? | Mayta: In 1990, Peru was transformed to a neoliberal model by the dictator Alberto Fujimori. We call this ideology "Fujimorismo" and we faced…
(2021-06-12). Puebla Group Calls to Respect Election Results in Peru. telesurenglish.net The Puebla Group called on Peruvian institutions and political actors to respect the presidential election's results and refrain from promoting political upheaval in the country. | RELATED: | "The June 6 election is a historic opportunity to regain confidence in the institutions, which, in recent years, has suffered a serious crisis, undermining the democratic stability of Peru," The Puebla Group representatives said. | The Puebla G…
(2021-06-12). Peru: 49 Congresswomen Elected for the 2021-2026 Period. telesurenglish.net Peru's National Jury of Elections (JNE) delivered the credentials to 130 lawmakers, 49 of whom are women who obtained a seat for the parliamentary period 2021-2026. | RELATED: | The new Congress will have the highest number of congresswomen in the last 20 years. | Free Peru (PL) and Popular Force (FP) parties are the benches with more female representation with 11 congresswomen each, followed by the Alliance for Progress (AP) with…
(2021-06-12). Puebla Group Calls to Respect Election Results in Peru. telesurenglish.net The Puebla Group called on Peruvian institutions and political actors to respect the presidential election's results and refrain from promoting political upheaval in the country. RELATED:
(2021-06-12). Peru Electoral Authorities Extend Deadline For Fujimori Fraud Claims. popularresistance.org Peru's National Elections Court (Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, JNE) has extended the deadline for presenting motions to nullify votes. The move will benefit far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori who is presenting a flurry of spurious claims of she says constitutes 'electoral fraud'. | The deadline for presenting complaints was 8pm, Wednesday, June 9th. The new deadline is now Friday, June 11th at 8pm. Of the 771 motions to annul presented so far, 741 are from Keiko Fujimori's Fuerza Popular party and 30 are from Pedro Castillo's Peru Libre party. | Pedro Castillo has rejected the move stating, "If it is true that t…
(2021-06-12). Peru Electoral Authorities Extend Deadline For Fujimori Fraud Claims. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Peru's National Elections Court (Jurado Nacional de Elecciones, JNE) has extended the deadline for presenting motions to nullify votes. The move will benefit far-right candidate Keiko Fujimori who is presenting a flurry of spurious claims of she says constitutes 'electoral fraud'. The deadline for presenting complaints was 8pm, Wednesday, June 9th. The new…
(2021-06-12). Will right-wing Peruvian demagogue Keiko Fujimori burn the country down before accepting defeat? thegrayzone.com Despite a wave of anti-communist propaganda and mysterious "terrorist" massacre, leftist teacher Pedro Castillo has triumphed in Peru's presidential election. But his right-wing rival refuses to accept the results. LIMA, PERU — Keiko Fujimori, the political heiress to the jailed Peruvian former dictator Alberto Fujimori, appears to have lost her third election in a row. This time, she has been defeated by Pedro Castillo, a leftist teacher from the rural Andes who narrowly leads in a deliberately delayed poll. Facing …
(2021-06-12). Perú y México: Dos triunfos de la izquierda nacional y popular. globalizacion.ca El domingo pasado se realizaron elecciones en Perú y en México, dos comicios claves para Latinoamérica. Una de las coincidencias más emblemáticas entre ambos, situación que se replica en otros países de la región, es la aparición de una izquierda…
(2021-06-12). Mexico Donates 400,000 Astrazeneca COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed the delivery of 400,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Belize, Bolivia, and Paraguay. RELATED:
(2021-06-12). Mexico Donates 400,000 Astrazeneca COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed the delivery of 400,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to Belize, Bolivia, and Paraguay. | RELATED: | The solidarity action is being carried out through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Belize will receive 100,000 doses, while Bolivia and Paraguay will receive 150,000 each. | Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced that vaccine donations…
(2021-06-12). US Government Expels Eighty Venezuelan Migrants — Some of Them Part of a Group that Entered a Few Weeks Ago with Big Media Coverage. orinocotribune.com 
The expulsion of 80 Venezuelan migrants into Mexico by the United States government has been denounced as "a scam" on social media. Among those expelled, there is a group of people who had recently crossed the Rio Grande in the hopes of entering the United States, and their situation had received substantial media coverage at that time. | According to
(2021-06-12). Colombia, Between Extermination and Emancipation. zcomm.org Colombia's nationwide strike has gone on for a month now, its mass mobilization reaching historic proportions for the nation and for Latin America…
(2021-06-12). Sunday 6/13: From Colombia to Palestine- The Bay Rises Up. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St. | San Francisco…
(2021-06-12). A National Strike Has Reignited in Colombia — and Is Winning Some Victories. truthout.org 
Since April 28, people in Colombia's cities and towns have engaged in an ongoing national strike, el paro nacional. Originally called in November 2019 by the major labor federations in opposition to a package of neoliberal tax, health care, pension and education legislation emerging from the right-wing national government, the strike went dormant for a stretch after the pandemic hit Colombia, but now has resurfaced stronger than ever — and activists are starting to win some national and lo…
(2021-06-12). Bolivian government investigates supply of ammunition to coup regime by Ecuadorian government. peoplesdispatch.org Bolivian government minister Eduardo del Castillo reported that the government had received unofficial information regarding the delivery of war ammunition by the Ecuadorian government to Jeanine àÅñez's coup regime in November 2019.
(2021-06-12). Venezuela calls on US to 'unlock' vaccine money. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro demanded on Friday that US President Joe Biden "unlock the money for the vaccines" for the COVID-19, coronavirus.
(2021-06-12). Venezuela's Oil Production Bounces Back. popularresistance.org Guayaquil, Ecuador — Venezuela's crude output increased in May, recovering from the previous month's fall. | The latest Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) monthly report placed the Caribbean country's May production at 531,000 oil barrels per day (bpd), a rebound from April's 486,000 bpd, according to secondary sources. In contrast, state oil company PDVSA communicated a higher number of 582,000 bpd. | The May figures are the highest in 12 months and put the nation back in the steady growth trend it has been experiencing since the beginning of the year after reaching historic lows in the s…
(2021-06-12). New York Times Admits US Sanctions Are Destroying Venezuela. popularresistance.org The facile right-wing talking point that the economic crisis facing Venezuela "proves" that "socialism always ends in failure" has become so hackneyed by overuse that it has attained its own tongue-in-cheek name. The ad Venezuelum, as it has come to be known, has slowly developed into such a tedious and predictable right-wing tactic that it seems to now serve as an all-purpose retort to try to discredit even the most modest of left-of-center proposals. In October 2018, for instance, then-President Trump responded to a plan by progressive Democrats in congress to introduce a bill to establish a system of universal…
(2021-06-12). US Compels Small African Country to Imprison Venezuelan Diplomat. dissidentvoice.org The Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, imprisoned for trying to buy humanitarian supplies from Iran in legal international trade but in violation of illegal US sanctions, is facing extradition to the US. That is like getting stabbed in the back and then being arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. US extraterritorial judicial overreach On June 12, …
(2021-06-12). Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil. roarmag.org 
Protester covered in mud at a protest against Vale after the Brumadinho mine disaster. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — February 1, 2019. Photo: Rodrigo S Coelho / Shutterstock.com | This essay was produced in collaboration with the ("We are all affected") | — Common MAB saying | A person can go a few weeks without food, year…
(2021-06-12). Inside the struggle for water sovereignty in Brazil. zcomm.org Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens has been fighting for decades against the privatization of water and for popular control over natural resources…
(2021-06-12). Three Men in Possession of Three Rifles and 853 Bullets Arrested in Delta Amacuro (Near Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago). orinocotribune.com 
Officials of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) detained three men in the Delta Amacuro state, who were carrying three rifles and 853 cartridges of different calibers in a boat, according to reports obtained from the military authorities. | The detainees were identified as José Gregorio Flores González, Orlando Alfredo Gómez Goveia and Luis Abrahán González Rojas, members of Los Fusileros, which is an organization classified as a Structured Organized Crime Group. | According to the report, the three men were traveling in a white and blue wooden Balajú-type boat that was sailing through the El Guayo sector in the…
(2021-06-12). Argentina Sentences to Prison Five Ex-Repressors for Murder. telesurenglish.net San Martin's Federal Oral Court sentenced five ex Armed Forces' intelligence officers to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed between 1978-1980 against members of the guerrilla organization "Motoneros." | RELATED: | The defendants were sentenced for murder with malice aforethought, unlawful deprivation of liberty, and aggravated torment of 94 victims in the "Campo de Mayo" military base, where a clande…
(2021-06-12). Argentina Sentences to Prison Five Ex-Repressors for Murder. telesurenglish.net San Martin's Federal Oral Court sentenced five ex Armed Forces' intelligence officers to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed between 1978-1980 against members of the guerrilla organization "Motoneros." RELATED:
(2021-06-12). Chile To Finish Subnational Elections Started Last Month. telesurenglish.net Chile's Electoral Service (SERVEL) director Raul Garcia announced the installation of polling stations to elect 13 governorship posts in Sunday's subnational election's runoff. RELATED:
(2021-06-12). Chile To Finish Subnational Elections Started Last Month. telesurenglish.net Chile's Electoral Service (SERVEL) director Raul Garcia announced the installation of polling stations to elect 13 governorship posts in Sunday's subnational election's runoff. | RELATED: | Valparaiso, Aysen, and Magallanes were the only three regions out of 16 where candidates secured 40 percent of the votes needed to secure the governor's post in the election first round celebrated last month. | On Sunday, polling stat…