(2021-05-28). Colombia's protests and the coming revolt against authoritarian neoliberalism. nationofchange.org It leaves one wondering whether the Andean country is becoming more like its most important ally as many in the western press insist, or if the politics of the United States and its allies are becoming more like those of Colombia.
(2021-05-28). La crisis latente en la frontera colombo-panameña. globalizacion.ca El heterogéneo flujo migratorio que ingresa a Panamá a través de la frontera con Colombia tiende a continuar y crecer. Pese a la dureza y letalidad de los caminos que penetran al territorio panameño a través de la selva, es…
(2021-05-28). øColombia va por el petróleo venezolano? globalizacion.ca Colombia, desde hace décadas continua con la escalada de guerra sucia contra la guerrilla, para "supuestamente proteger" sus reservas de petróleo. E igualmente, EE.UU. la está apoyando con su fachada de búsqueda de "narco-terroristas", pero su intención es establecer condiciones…
(2021-05-28). Saturday 5/29: From Colombia to Palestine: Abolish State Terror. indybay.org Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, CA…
(2021-05-28). Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
(2021-05-28). Solidarity shown with Colombia. greenleft.org.au A vigil at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square), in Adelaide, on May 24 was organised to show solidarity with the people of Colombia and to mark the more than 47 people who have been killed by security forces since April 28. | Police and military forces in Colombia are violently repressing those who are mobilising against new neoliberal tax changes. A four-day national strike was organised in April.
(2021-05-28). Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil's left. mronline.org 
If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren't enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios. | May 27, 2021…
(2021-05-27). Colombian Police Unleash Another Night of Terror in Bogota. telesurenglish.net Colombia's Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) on Wednesday injured 82 people after cracking down on a peaceful protest in Bogota with expired tear gas canisters and firearms. | RELATED: | According to the Red Cross, 60 injured people suffered eye and respiratory tract damages, 15 protesters received head, face, arm, and leg wounds, and three citizens got thorax, cranioencephalic, or cervical traumas. | Videos spread on social netw…
(2021-05-27). Colombian Senators Do Not Remove Defense Minister From Office. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Senate voted against the dismissal of Defense Minister Diego Molano, who has been accused by human rights defenders of allowing a wave of police brutality that has left 43 citizens dead so far. | RELATED: | With 69 votes against and 31 in favor, the Senate dism…
(2021-05-27). Colombia To Purchase 'Emergency' Weapons To Quell Protests. telesurenglish.net Senator Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday denounced that Colombia's President Ivan Duque will urgently buy new tear gas cartridges and grenades in Brazil to crackdown on protesters. | RELATED: | "Duque says he wants to negotiate, but he is planning to purchase ammunition from the Brazilian CONDOR Chemical Industry company to continue massacring the Colombian people," Cepeda highlighted. | On Wednesday, the National Police's Administrative…
(2021-05-27). Development, Climax and Polarizing Elements of Peru's 2nd Round of Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Franco Vielma Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, in the final stretch of their political campaigns (Photo: As Perú) The second round for the presidential election in Peru is, as few others, extremely crucial for the Andean nation, both for the singularity of the preceding political framework and for the electoral political moment itself. Peru is…
(2021-05-27). Chile: Elections pave the way to a new country. greenleft.org.au 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…
(2021-05-27). Ecuador: CONAIE President Jaime Vargas — It's Time to Unite. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun NewsJaime Vargas, President of Ecuador's CONAIE. April 24, 2021. Photo: Kawsachun Coca President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Jaime Vargas, spoke to Radio Kawsachun Coca/Kawsachun News during his recent visit to Villa Tunari, Trópico of Cochabamba for a RUNASUR commission meeting. Vargas, who is an indigenous leader of the Amazonian…
(2021-05-27). India marks day of resistance as farmers' struggle continues and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the nationwide 'Black Day' of resistance observed in India as the ongoing farmers' struggle completes 6 months, the crackdown on a protest against the killing of activists in Iraq, the success of a 22 month long struggle for better working conditions and pay by workers at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in France, the ongoing crackdown on Papuan communities in Indonesia as they demand the release of political prisoners, and volunteer initiatives to feed poor and unhoused people in Brazil in the absence of adequate government aid policies during the pandemi…