Daily Archives: June 28, 2021

2021-06-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-28). Protests and coup threats as Peru enters fourth week without certification of presidential vote. wsws.org There is growing popular unrest in Peru in the face of what has been described as a slow-motion coup to overturn the election of Pedro Castillo as president.

Editor (2021-06-28). The imminent coup in Peru. mronline.org Legal maneuvers and delays, presented by the far-right, are pushing Peru closer to a coup with each passing day. It's been 20 days since Peru's June 6th election, and the authorities have not yet proclaimed the winner, Pedro Castillo. | June 28, 2021…

Mario Wainfeld (2021-06-28). Argentina — Perspectivas, qué se pone en juego en el Congreso: Un vistazo sobre las elecciones que vienen. globalizacion.ca El ex presidente estadounidense Donald Trump denunció fraude, una caterva impresentable de republicanos copó el Capitolio meses atrás. Keiko Fujimori, la candidata peruana a presidenta abonada a la derrota tras definición por penales, denuncia fraude y opera para impedir que…

_____ (2021-06-28). Strikers Across Colombia Are Demanding Transformational Change. popularresistance.org What started as a Colombian protest against a regressive tax bill has become a national strike against police brutality and poverty. | The administration of President Ivan Duque has already pulled back the tax reform and the finance minister has resigned, but people are angry and marches and road blocks continue. Unions, student groups, and other organizations have formed a National Strike Committee which is negotiating with the government, demanding transformational change. | Among the strike committee's demands are guaranteed health care during the pandemic, a universal basic income, and a commitment to protect…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-06-28). Killings of social leaders and ex-combatants continue in Colombia and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at 2 months of Colombia's National Strike, the release of activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah from prison in Saudi Arabia, and more…

Paul Dobson (2021-06-28). US, EU, Canada Impose Conditions for Possible Sanctions 'Review'. venezuelanalysis.com Washington and its allies demanded Caracas show "meaningful progress" in talks with Guaidó and upholding "international standards for democracy."

Nino Pagliccia (2021-06-28). US-EU-Canada: A Shameless Admission of Punishing Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Nino Pagliccia — Jun 26, 2021 | The US State Department posted a The actual message comes two thirds of the way down the note: "We welcome substantive, credible advancements to restore core democratic processes and institutions in Venezuela and are willing to review sanctions policies based on meaning…

Bruno Rodríguez Padilla (2021-06-28). " °Cuenten todos con Cuba en la primera fila de esta batalla por la vida, por la dignidad, por la paz y por la justicia!" globalizacion.ca Discurso del Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Cuba en la XIX Cumbre del ALBA-TCP. 24 de junio de 2021 | Compañero Nicolás Maduro Moros, presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. | Compañero Luis Arce Catacora, presidente del Estado…

Staff (2021-06-28). Diosdado Cabello: High Turnout in PSUV Primaries Application Process — Preliminary Results. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, June 27, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, informed through his Instagram account @mazo4f that the nomination process for candidates for the mega-elections of November 21 has been carried out in a transparent manner with a high turnout and spirit. | From the counting center of the PSUV primaries nomination process, Cabello praised the high participation of the party's revolutionary membership in the voting. "People have realized the purity of this process, the greatness of this process, and haveattended en masse to make their nominations and…

Adán Chávez Frías (2021-06-28). El partido de Chávez. globalizacion.ca I | Cuando en diciembre de 2006 el Comandante Hugo Chávez propuso la creación del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), como consecuencia del proceso de maduración de las fuerzas revolucionarias y tras la victoria obtenida en las elecciones presidenciales de…

Staff (2021-06-28). Spain's MEP Manu Pineda: 'There is a Global Movement Committed to a Multilateral World'. orinocotribune.com "There is a global movement that is committed to a multilateral world, that is why the empire targets China or Russia, because they can lead a process against the hegemony of the empire," said the European Parliament deputy and head of International Relations for the Communist Party of Spain, José Manuel "Manu" Pineda, during an interview this Sunday, June 27, on the television program Aquí con Ernesto Villegas [here with Ernesto Villegas], hosted by the journalist and Minister for Culture of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas. | Pineda said that this movement "does not accept that there is a global policeman who tells…

Staff (2021-06-28). Conclusion to Second Week of Automated Voting System's Comprehensive Audit—21N Venezuela's Regional Elections. orinocotribune.com On Friday June 25, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) completed the second week of the Comprehensive Audit of the Venezuelan Automated Voting System, which began last Monday, June 14, in preparation for the regional and municipal mega-elections that will take place on Sunday, November 21, the electoral body reported through its Twitter account @cneesvzla. | A spokesperson for the group of academic experts—participants in the process alongside representatives of all political parties—considered the assessment to be progressing as planned. | Likewise, they complimented the high technical level…

Celina della Croce (2021-06-28). How a U.S. Congressman Took on the U.S. Blockade Against Venezuela. counterpunch.org On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake of ongoing rallies and discussions with Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, activists gained some ground as the congressman tweetedan open letter to President Joe

Nicolás Centurión (2021-06-28). Uruguay — Una democracia plena…con pleno rostro de impunidad. globalizacion.ca Víspera del 27 de junio, a 48 años del golpe de Estado. Aquella fatídica noche, el Presidente electo Juan María Bordaberry disolvió las cámaras legislativas. Se inauguraba así, la noche más larga y tenebrosa de la historia uruguaya. | 8 años…

Eduardo Aliverti (2021-06-28). Argentinas — Las elecciones y lo que se perdería de vista. globalizacion.ca Una pregunta contrafáctica, que se efectuó aquí hace ya algún rato, es si las cosas que inquietan o angustian al palo progresista, debido a las reales y eventuales timideces del Gobierno, serían sustancialmente distintas si comandase en forma directa lo…

teleSUR (2021-06-27). Peru: Over 60 Ex-Officers Under Investigation After Coup Call. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Peru's General Attorney's Office launched an investigation against over 60 former high-rank officers from the Armed Forces for alleged rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy, since they called for a Coup to avoid the inauguration of leftist President-elect Pero Castillo. | RELATED: | Prosecutors have 30 days to shape a case against at least 23 retired Army Generals, 22 retired Navy Vice Admirals, and 18 ret…

Atilio Boron (2021-06-27). The Myth of the Democratic Right (Regarding Pedro Castillo's Victory in Peru). orinocotribune.com By Atilio Borón — Jun 21, 2021 | Despite the fact that the verdict of history is irrefutable, there is a tendency, within the conventional wisdom of the social sciences and the established opinion, to constantly spread the erroneous conception that the Latin American right-wing has reconciled itself with democracy. Such an opinion states that the latter has already cut ties with its oligarchic, racist, patriarchal and colonial genesis and that it has put an end to its history as a conspicuous instigator and frequent direct executor of innumerable coups d'état, attacks, sabotage, massacres and all kinds of vi…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-06-27). Attack or False Flag Operation? Iván Duque Denounces 'Attack' on his Helicopter Near Paramilitary Stronghold of Cúcuta. orinocotribune.com In the midst of disbelief and comments that cast doubt on the veracity of the event, Colombian President Iván Duque decried that he was the victim of an alleged attack in which the helicopter in which he was traveling was shot at multiple times from the ground. | Colombian media spread the version that the presidential aircraft, a US-made Blackhawk combat helicopter, had received 6 bullet holes. | Helicopter carrying Colombia's President Duque struck by bullets in attack — Press T…

teleSUR (2021-06-27). Colombia: Political-Motivated Assassinations on the Rise. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Colombian Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) denounced the assassination of 6 former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) members in the last 24 hours. | RELATED: | The first report is about former FARC-EP member and Peace Agreements signatory Norelia Trompeta's assassination, a 25-year-old girl from Buenos Aires municipality in Cauca Province. | According to Institute for Development…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-06-27). Confirman asesinato de lideresa Diana Jaramillo en Colombia. telesurtv.net Diana estaba dedicada al trabajo comunitario en el Barrio 5 Estrellas de La Gabriela, municipio de Bello, Antioquia.

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

_____ (2021-06-27). The Spirit Of Carabobo Will Overcome The Stench Of Monroe. popularresistance.org Two hundred years ago, on 24 June 1821, the forces of Simón Bolívar trounced the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Carabobo, a few hundred kilometres west of Caracas, Venezuela. Five days later, Bolívar entered Caracas in triumph; the Spanish fortresses of Cartagena and Puerto Cabello had been seized by the Liberator's armies, making a return to power for Spain impossible. In Cúcuta, a congress assembled to draft a new constitution and to elect Bolívar as the president. | Bolívar, now the head of the Republic of Gran Colombia (today's Colombia and Venezuela), would not rest. He got on his horse and rode south to…

_____ (2021-06-27). How A US Congressman Took On The US Blockade Against Venezuela. popularresistance.org On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake of ongoing rallies and discussions with Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, activists gained some ground as the congressman tweeted an open letter to President Joe Biden on June 14 in which he called on the president to end "all secondary and sectoral sanctions" against Venezuela. The letter stated: | "While US officials debate the sanctions policy in Washington, for people in Venezuela the ongoing crisis is a lif…

Staff (2021-06-27). US and European Union Blockade on Venezuela Is Collapsing: Here is Some Evidence. orinocotribune.com The recent change in discourse by Juan Guaidó, affirming that he now aspires to negotiations with the Venezuelan government, seems to have its root in the United States that may be thinking about reversing some sanctions, just as President Nicolás Maduro had asserted a few days ago. And once again the administration of Joe Biden is urging for broad negotiations with specific deadlines to be carried out so that "in Venezuela there are free and fair elections." This was stated on Thursday, June 24, by Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of the US State Department. | Sherman's post on her social media, carrying this messa…

S. Brian Willson (2021-06-27). Nicaragua Targeted for US Overthrow in 2020-21: Brian Willson. globalresearch.ca First published by GR on August 3, 2020 | The USA failed State continues to seek destruction of Nicaragua (among other nations such as Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran, who refuse to obey US demands for neoliberal privatization that enrich the …

_____ (2021-06-27). Final Declaration Of ALBA-TCP's 19th Summit. popularresistance.org The Heads of State and Government and the heads of delegations of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty, meeting in person on June 24, 2021, within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by signing this declaration, renew our commitment to strengthening the integration and unity of our peoples as the founding ideology of Commanders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro Ruz; we vindicate the ideology of Bolívar, Martí, San Martín, Sucre, O'Higgins, Pétion, Morazán, Sandino, Túpac…

Roger Harris (2021-06-27). The Case of Alex Saab: US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge. orinocotribune.com By Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris — Jun 24, 2021 | With the possible extradition of a Venezuelan diplomat to the US on bogus charges, an emergency human rights delegation organized by the International Campaign to Free Alex Saab was quickly dispatched to Cabo Verde, where he is imprisoned. This island archipelago nation off the west coast of Africa is one of the smallest, poorest, and geographically isolated countries in the world. | The international human rights delegation did not gain Alex Saab's freedom. They were even denied a visit with him. But breakthroughs were made raising the visibility of the…

teleSUR (2021-06-27). Argentina Mourns Its COVID-19 Victims. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez Sunday held a commemorative act to tribute people who passed away due to COVID-19. | RELATED: | The official act was broadcast on national television from the Kirchner Cultural Center, where Fernandez called on Argentineans to act united to defeat the pandemic. | "We all have loved ones who have lost their lives in this time, absences that have left a void in their families, voids in our society…

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