Daily Archives: June 14, 2021

2021-06-14: News Headlines

Carlos Fazio (2021-06-14). El enigma Castillo y el otro Perú posible. globalizacion.ca Con 100 por ciento de las actas procesadas, Pedro Castillo, candidato de Perú Libre, logró una ventaja de apenas unas décimas porcentuales (equivalente a 70 mil votos) sobre Keiko Fujimori, del partido Fuerza Popular, en la segunda vuelta de la…

Editor2 (2021-06-14). Colombia, Between Extermination and Emancipation. orinocotribune.com By Laura Carlsen — Jun 11, 2021 | Colombia's nationwide strike has gone on for a month now, its mass mobilization reaching historic proportions for the nation and for Latin America. The anti-government protests never cease. This phase of resistance began with a shout of protest against a new policy that would levy taxes on basic products and services, raising the cost of living in a country where unemployment, poverty and inequality are at unprecedented levels. It has now become a struggle between extermination and emancipation. | Even after the Iván Duque government backed off its proposal to tax the "basic…

Yves Engler (2021-06-14). Canadian Venezuela conference and Liberal hypocrisy. zcomm.org The sanctions have contributed to 100,000 deaths, according to former UN Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas, and massive outward migration…

Staff (2021-06-14). Five Hundred Thousand New Sputnik V Vaccines Arrive in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com A batch of 500,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine arrived this Saturday, June 12, at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. | This is the eighth shipment of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Venezuela from Russia. The batch was flown in by a flight of the Russian airline Azur Air, and was received at the airport by the Venezuelan Minister for Health, Carlos Alvarado, and the Russian Ambassador to Venezuela, Sergey Melik Bagdasarov. | Alvarado informed that with these new doses "we already have enough vaccines in Venezuela today to vaccinate 13% of…

Staff (2021-06-14). CVG Ferrominera Workers Refurbish Locomotives with National Labor and Technology. orinocotribune.com With the coordination between the workers organized in the Workers' Productive Councils (CPTT) and the retired personnel of the Railroad Management, Venezuelan state company CVG Ferrominera is advancing in its Locomotive Recovery Plan to increase the production and transport of ferrous ore. Locomotive number 1045 has been the first to be put back into operation, the state company reported on its Twitter account @Ferrominera_CVG | With the arrival of spare parts, the 1045 locomotive was the first to receive the components for reincorporation into the ore transport fleet. Progressively other locomotives, eleven (11…

_____ (2021-06-14). Venezuela conference another example of Liberal hypocrisy. popularresistance.org On the one-year anniversary of Canada's defeat in its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council the Trudeau government is hosting an International Donors' Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants. While it may sound like a humanitarian endeavor, it's the latest phase in Canada's multipronged effort to overthrow Nicolás Maduro's government, which has included plotting with the opposition to anoint an alternative president.

Staff (2021-06-14). Uncovered: Parallel Cabinet of Right-Wing Venezuelans Rules El Salvador alongside President Bukele. orinocotribune.com An investigation carried out by the Salvadorian The investigation detailed a hidden structure led by at least 10 Venezuelan advisers, in which their contracts, fees and responsibilities are not available to the public, but are greater than various Salvadoran ministers. | Th…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-14). Parallel Cabinet of Right-Wing Venezuelans Rules El Salvador Alongside President Bukele. libya360.wordpress.com Ana Perdigon An investigation carried out by the Salvadorian online media outlet El Faro detailed the relationship and hidden influence that exists between leaders of the Venezuelan right and the government of the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. The investigation detailed a hidden structure led by at least 10 Venezuelan advisers, in which their…

Editor2 (2021-06-14). Pentagon Gives Ukraine New Military Aid Package Worth $150 Million. orinocotribune.com While crying wolf about Iranian vessels allegedly supplying Venezuela with weapons, the US military continues to send weapon packages to Ukraine, exacerbating a conflict in the autonomous regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, and increasing regional tensions. | The United States is providing Ukraine with another $150 million package of military aid which includes counter-artillery radars and counter-unmanned aerial systems, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Friday. | "Today, the [Defense] Department is announcing a new $150 million package as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative to help U…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-14). U.S. Interference Threatens Latin American Elections. libya360.wordpress.com Stella Calloni In its plan to colonially control Latin America, the United States openly intervenes in the elections of the region through the Organization of American States (OAS) whose Secretary General Luis Almagro, who was at the head of the coup in Bolivia against President Evo Morales manipulating the results of the elections of October…

Eduardo Aliverti (2021-06-14). Argentina — Los barcos y la selva de aprovechadores. globalizacion.ca La idea es que el incidente sirva para disparar cierto aspecto más profundo. Ignorar al tema es correr el riesgo de asemejar a un zombie. Magnificarlo como si fuera un hecho categórico es un delirio. La patinada del Presidente sobre…

Staff (2021-06-13). Evo Morales Denounces Coup Plan in Peru. orinocotribune.com Former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales has decried that a hidden coup plot is being developed in Peru. He made this comment in regard to the uncertainty generated around the recount of ballots of the Peruvian presidential election held last Sunday, in which Pedro Castillo stands as virtual president-elect. | "We are concerned that a coup plot is hidden behind the review of the voting records in Peru, to steal the victory from the Peruvian people who elected their government at the polls with dignity and sovereignty," wrote Morales on Twitter. | Denunciamos que detrás de la revisión de actas de votación en el

Staff (2021-06-13). Puebla Group Calls for Respect of Electoral Results in Peru. orinocotribune.com On Friday, June 11, the Puebla Group congratulated candidate Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party for his electoral victory in the June 6 presidential election of Peru, and called on all sides and institutions to respect the popular will expressed at the polls. | In an official statement published on Friday, this progressive Ibero-American alliance, which includes two incumbent presidents, several former presidents and a myriad of personalities from 16 countries, asked the representatives of all Peruvian institutions to respect the popular vote without any conditions or restrictions. | QUIENES CONFORMAMOS EL G…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (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 …

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (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.

Staff (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…

Brian Mier (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…

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