From Palestine to Colombia: The end of the White world colonial/capitalist project?
Ajamu Baraka | mronline.org | 2021-05-15
Despite the quickening decline of the "West," the U.S. and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence. | May 15, 2021 | Newswire…
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Cómo EEUU cultivó a grupos indígenas y ambientalistas en Ecuador para derrotar el correísmo
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-15
Cuando el socialista Rafael Correa se convirtió en el presidente de Ecuador, frentes de la CIA inyectaron dinero a grupos indígenas y ambientalistas, mientras que la embajada de los Estados Unidos cultivaba a líderes oportunistas para socavar su base electoral. Estas fuerzas ayudaron a asegurar la victoria del banquero derechista Guillermo Lasso en 2021. Por Benjamin Norton Traducido por Diego Sequera (You can read this article in English here.) El pueblo de Ecuador quedó impactado por la sorpresa en las …
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[Correspondence] Peruvian research: striving for the highest standards
Jorge Arévalo, Francisco C Villafuerte, Martin Montes, Theresa J Ochoa, researchers from Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, from Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia | thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
For 60 years, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru, has contributed to world-class knowledge in tropical medicine, high-altitude medicine and physiology, public health, and basic sciences with the highest research standards and ethics. We therefore read with interest the World Report by Lucien Chauvin,1 in which we found some inaccuracies that we would like to clarify.
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Forced Sterilizations Haunt Peruvian Candidate Keiko Fujimori
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
Peru's Association of Women Affected by Forced Sterilizations (AMPAEF) announced that this Tuesday they will hold a sit-in at the headquarters of the Palace of Justice, in the capital Lima, to continue demanding "truth, justice, and reparations" in their case. | A representation of women affected by a program that was implemented during the neoliberal government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) will participate in the protest, through which hundreds of thousands of women in situations of poverty and vulnerability were forced to deprive themselves of their rights, and their possibility of conceiving children. | Thi…
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[Department of Error] Department of Error
thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
Chauvin L. Peruvian COVID-19 vaccine scandal spreads. Lancet 2021; 397: 783–This World Report incorrectly stated that clinical trials had been halted at Cayetano Heredia University. The National Institute of Health suspended the unit at Cayetano Heredia University doing the Sinopharm trial, pending an investigation. It did not suspend other trials. This correction has been made to the online version as of May 13, 2021.
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South America's 'Business Friendly' Bloodbath
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
International Business and Banking support for the most repressive regimes in Latin America is even more evident than it was during the original cold war. Now, Wall Street ºs three main men in South America all face charges of crimes against humanity, even genocide, at the International Criminal Court. | Whilst the anglosphere regularly attacks governments of the left in Latin America on human rights grounds, it is its pliant business friendly U.S. regional allies; Brazil ºs Bolsonaro, Chile ºs Piñera, and Colombia ºs Duque, who face being sent before the Hague. | All three countries face cruc…
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The utterly horrifying and depressingly preventable COVID crises in India and Brazil
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-05-14
Young people in India are scrambling to find oxygen supplies for dying neighbors and relatives while poor and Black communities in Brazil suffer the worst of a COVID surge. It didn't have to be this way.
therealnews.com/the-utterly-horrifying-and-depressingly-preventable-covid-crises-in-india-and-brazil

Chile and Colombia to Move Money Out of Militaries
David Swanson | warisacrime.org | 2021-05-14
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 15, 2021 While the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism. While most big military spenders (including the super-mega-biggest one) have increased or kept their spending … Continue reading "Chile and Colombia to Move Money Out of Militaries"
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From Grenfell to Iraq to Chile: Lowkey on the necro-politics of neoliberalism
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-14
Vijay Prashad talks to rapper and activist Lowkey about the different aspects of neoliberalism that led to the Grenfell tower fire in London in June 2017 which killed 72 people.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/14/grenfell-iraq-chile-lowkey-necro-politics-of-neoliberalism/

Chile: 5 Keys for this Weekend's Election that will Define the Future
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
For some they are the most important elections [in Chile] since the plebiscite that marked the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), for others these elections will set the rules of the game for the next decades. Whatever the approach, no one doubts the significance of the elections that Chile will experience this weekend. The star will undoubtedly be the Constituent election, which should bury the dictator's legacy. | 1. What is being voted on | Chile faces four simultaneous elections on May 15 and 16 in which 16,730 candidates participate: municipal and regional elections, in which mayors, counc…
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How the Movement in Chile Went from Jumping Subway Turnstiles to Rewriting the Constitution
Waging Nonviolence | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-14
Mass protests that began in 2019 in Chile — and have deep roots in the country's militant history of resistance to neoliberalism — are about to bring about a new constitution. This is an attempt to correct the constitution imposed under military dictatorship in 1980 (with the guidance of Milton Friedman and the so-called Chicago …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/how-the-movement-in-chile-went-from-jumping-subway-turnstiles-to-rewriting-the-constitution/

Meet the Neo-Nazi advising Colombian police on how to break the National Strike
Dan Cohen | mronline.org | 2021-05-14
Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it. | May 14, 2021 | Newswire…
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Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
By Dan Cohen — May 10, 2021 | Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it. | CALI, COLOMBIA (Transcript) — Colombia is on strike. And the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it. | It kicked on when the far-right president President Ivan Duque announced a wildly unpopular tax reform imposing crushing austerity measures on middle class and poor Colombians. Duque's proposal aimed to pay off debt in order to project stability and satisfy international investors. But that st…
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Israel and Colombia: The Ever More Special Relationship
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
By Belen Fernandez — May 12, 2021 | Right-wing alliance is bringing their bilateral partnership 'to new political and economic levels' | Last August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Colombian President Ivan Duque held a joint videoconference to launch a new free trade agreement between their countries. | The corresponding media release from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the agreement would "create opportunities for the Israeli economy in va…
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Meet The Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police On Breaking The National Strike
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Cali, Colombia – Colombia is on strike. And the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it. | It kicked on when the far-right president President Ivan Duque announced a wildly unpopular tax reform imposing crushing austerity measures on middle class and poor Colombians. Duque's proposal aimed to pay off debt in order to project stability and satisfy international investors. But that stability for international capital means more instability for the tens of millions of Colombians struggling to put food on the table. | The country is already in dire economic straits — 43 percent of Colombi…
popularresistance.org/meet-the-neo-nazi-advising-colombian-police-on-how-to-break-the-national-strike/

Rights experts call for probe into violent crackdown on Colombia protests
news.un.org | 2021-05-14
Independent human rights experts appointed by the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) have called for the Colombian Government to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the violent crackdown on recent peaceful protests in the country.
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Colombia: crisis social y política
àÅngel Guerra Cabrera | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-14
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia, Claudia Blum, presentó al presidente Iván Duque el lunes pasado su renuncia irrevocable y efectiva de manera inmediata, se informó ayer, en lo que supone la segunda dimisión en el Palacio de Nariño…
globalizacion.ca/el-chavismo-hacia-la-pelea-electoral/

Roaming Charges: How Bio-Warfare Came to Colombia
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-14
There's a theory that Israel controls US politics, that the most powerful war-making state the world has ever known is a mere puppet of Israel, institutionally incapable of asserting its own agenda in the Middle East. This is a convenient myth for both parties, since it makes Israel seem more powerful than it is and it tends to exculpate the US from direct complicity in ergregious human rights abuses. But in fact the US finances Israel. It is dependent on us. Its crimes are ours. We paid for them.
counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/roaming-charges-how-bio-warfare-came-to-colombia/

If I fall in the struggle, take my place
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2021-05-14
Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. | May 14, 2021…
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Colombia: Anti-Government Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Colombia's security forces apparently entered panic mode and the government of President Ivan Duque all but collapsed after the US Congress reiterated threats to cut military funds. | The panic was most evident on the National Army's twitter page, which suddenly began publishing in Spanglish about mysterious "spirit of body and military training." | The prosecution and the police additionally announced investigations into reports on widespread human rights violations against anti-government protesters. | This violence that surged after protests began on April 28 suddenly stopped on Wednesday when police apparentl…
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Colombians continue to resist as national strike completes 15 days
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-14
Enduring brutal police and military repression, hundreds of thousands of Colombians continue to remain on the streets against neoliberalism and violence, for life, peace, justice and democracy…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/14/colombians-continue-to-resist-as-national-strike-completes-15-days/

Interview with Tatiana Moreno: 'Colombia Is A Narco-State'
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-14
Oliver Vargas & Kathryn Ledebur Tatiana Moreno of Congreso de los Pueblos Kawsachun News spoke to Tatiana Moreno of the Colombian social movement Congreso de los Pueblos after two weeks of mobilzations. We discussed the ongoing brutal repression against demonstrators by Ivan Duque's security forces. Understanding the context of the mass protests requires us to… Read…
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Solidarity with Colombia in the Netherlands
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
Several thousands marched and protested against the repressive Colombian regime — the Dutch Press agency ANP however counted only a few dozen. | On Friday, May 7, protest demonstrations were announced in The Hague and Amsterdam in solidarity with Colombians who are striking and fighting against the many human rights violations and Neo-liberal exploitation and poverty in their country. | This was prompted by a number of measures that would make life even worse and harder for many Colombians, such as huge VAT increases, petrol price hikes, dismantling of social services, freezing civil servants' salaries, …
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If I Fall In The Struggle, Take My Place
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. It is impossible to keep track of the events, which move swiftly from public manifestations to courtroom scenes, from the dissipation of tear gas to the invisible frustration of the prison cell. Yet, underlying these events and amidst the range of feelings that shape them lies a sense of refusal, the Great Refusal, the refusal to…
popularresistance.org/if-i-fall-in-the-struggle-take-my-place/

Portland protest says 'U.S. out of Colombia!'
Workers World Portland, Oregon, bureau | workers.org | 2021-05-14
A militant group of demonstrators occupying a lane of traffic marched through the streets of Portland, Ore., May 8 chanting "U.S. out of Colombia" and "Israel and Colombia, U.S. puppets." Credit: Bridget Cars driving around them honked in support of signs condemning U.S. financial and military aid to the right-wing . . . | Continue reading Portland protest says 'U.S. out of Colombia!' at Workers.org…
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Colombia Has Lost Its Fear
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
After decades of armed conflict and paramilitary violence, Colombia has seen protest movements return in strength over the past year and a half. The forceful demonstrations of the past week exceed even the high points of the nationwide uprising of November and December 2019. In response, the most heavily armed government in Latin America has carried out a brutal crackdown. | The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have hit Colombia hard. The country is reaching a breaking point as the ruling class attempts to squeeze the last drops of profit out of an already suffering populace kept in line…
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Lawyer for Indigenous fights Big Oil
Workers World staff | workers.org | 2021-05-14
Activists and allies turned out May 10 for a rally at Federal Court in New York City to support Steven Donziger, a lawyer and champion for environmental justice and human rights. Donziger led the team that won a historic $9.5 billion lawsuit against Chevron for pollution crimes in Ecuador. May . . . | Continue reading Lawyer for Indigenous fights Big Oil at Workers.org…
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Zionism's Alliance with Luis Almagro the Yanacona
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
By Pablo Joffre Leal — May 11, 2021 | The policy of "public diplomacy" that the Zionist government has ordered, as part of the process of cleaning up the image of its regime, implies buying support from international organizations, governments, parliamentarians, and opinion leaders. | These are usually well rewarded for this shameless support in favor of an entity that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity. In this context and as part of his political conversion process from progressivism and solidarity with the peoples, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Uruguay…
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