Daily Archives: July 12, 2021

2021-07-12: News Headlines

José Carlos Llerena Robles (2021-07-12). There's a Dirty Tricks Campaign Underway in Peru to Deny the Left's Presidential Victory. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-07-12). Let the People Decide: Former Haitian Gov't Minister on Political Chaos After President Assassinated. democracynow.org Political turmoil continues in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel MoàØse, with multiple people claiming leadership of the country and gangs unleashing a new wave of violence in the streets. Haitian police say they have arrested a key figure in the assassination, 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian-born doctor based in Florida who arrived in Haiti in June with "political objectives." Sanon is one of three Haitian Americans now arrested in the attack, along with 18 Colombians. Five Colombians are still at large, and three were reportedly killed. The United States, meanwhile, h…

Black Alliance for Peace (2021-07-12). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray but Not in Haiti, Palestine, or Colombia? dissidentvoice.org U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrats have been playing the "Black Lives Matter" tune on their fiddle. Biden even raised the issue of Black Lives Matter during his presidential campaign. But, just days after Biden was sworn into office, his administration lent support for the Haitian dictator, Jovenel MoàØse, who stayed in office past …

Diana Carolina Alfonso (2021-07-12). Colombia y Haití: La máquina continental del desolvido. globalizacion.ca Algunas teorías conciben que el capitalismo gore implica una última fase en la expansión neocolonial del capitalismo reciente. Sin embargo, las claves de ese peculiar desarrollo capitalista, basado en el poder de decidir quién mure y quién vive, se encuentran…

Staff (2021-07-12). Venezuela: Cota 905 and the Role of Armed Groups in the Hybrid War. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Jun 10, 2021 | As these lines are being written, the Venezuelan State security forces are conducting a police operation with the objective of neutralizing the belligerent activities carried out by armed groups in three populous sectors of Caracas, in the El Valle-El Cementerio axis, Cota 905 and La Vega. | This is a strategic corridor that connects the southwest of Caracas with the exit towards Miranda state, via the Carretera Negra de Los Mangos, which connects with the Pan-American Highway, and which projects towards almost the entire west of the capital city. | The armed groups in quest…

Adán Chávez Frías (2021-07-12). Venezuela — Independencia y Patria Socialista. globalizacion.ca I | Al iniciar el mes de julio de esta era bicentenaria, las venezolanas y los venezolanos seguimos en batalla por la Patria, en defensa de su dignidad, soberanía e independencia; una independencia de cuya declaración conmemoramos un nuevo aniversario el…

Staff (2021-07-12). President Maduro: More than 20 Colombian Paramilitaries Trained Cota 905 Gangs. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced this Sunday, July 11, that during the operation Gran Cacique Indio Guaicaipuro in Caracas, Colombian military weapons were seized. He also announced that at least 20 paramilitaries from Colombia were at Cota 905 alongside the criminal gangs, "linked to the criminal structures operating on Cota 905." | Similarly, Maduro denounced Leopoldo López for his involvement, from Madrid, Spain, in funding the gangs and their terrorist activities in Venezuela. "They are an incurable network of violence, hatred, and terrorism," said Maduro. "They receive all their support…

Staff (2021-07-12). Gobierno argentino denuncia a Macri por envío de armas a Bolivia. cubadebate.cu El Gobierno de Argentina denunció al expresidente argentino Mauricio Macri por el presunto envío de material bélico a Bolivia, en el marco de la represión previa al golpe de Estado contra Evo Morales. La presentación lleva la firma de la ministra de Seguridad, la Administradora Federal de Ingresos Públicos y el ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos.

teleSUR (2021-07-12). 'A New Condor Plan Is Underway in Latin America', Morales Warns. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's ex-President Evo Morales warned about the implementation of the new Operation Condor in Latin America. He pointed out this possibility given the growing evidence of the participation of Ecuador's ex-President Lenin Moreno and Argentina's ex-President Mauricio Macri in the 2019 coup against him. | RELATED: | These far-right politicians supplied Jeanine Añez's Interim government with weaponry to repress the pro-democracy protests i…

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Russia, Nicaragua, Bolivia Reject Destabilization in Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that her country rejects attempts to destabilize the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Cuba. | RELATED: | She qualified as "unacceptable the external interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state… and any other destructive action that foments the destabilization of the situation on the island". | The diplomat also expressed…

WSWS (2021-07-12). Military threatens Congress over COVID inquiry as Bolsonaro says Brazil "may not have" elections. wsws.org Fraudulently promoted for decades as guardians of democracy, the Brazilian military now claims the right to overrule the elected government.

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia (2021-07-12). OPINION: Bolsonaro's Authoritarian Drive Seems Unstoppable. latinorebels.com Authoritarian leaders tend to seek to hold on to power by any means they deem necessary—whether through censorship, media control, or coups. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is one of those leaders.

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Latin America Rejects US Destabilization Attempts in Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Latin America's social organizations, political figures, and intellectuals expressed their support for the Cuban people and government in response to the U.S.-backed destabilizing protests on the Island. | RELATED: | "We urge unity in defense of the Revolution. Cuba is dignity", Colombia's Commons Party president Rodrigo Londoño said, stressing that his organization defends the sovereignty of the Cuban people and th…

teleSUR, JL (2021-07-12). Denuncian masacre en Arauca, la número 51 en Colombia en el año. telesurtv.net "Las víctimas son los hermanos Juan Garcés y Raul Garcés, así como a sus sobrinos Joaquin Garcés y Angel Garcés", especifica el instituto en su informe.

Juan Guahán (2021-07-12). Argentina: Las desigualdades, vacunas lentas y déficits sanitarios se pagan. globalizacion.ca Tanta desigualdad, problemas de vacunación y déficits sanitarios no salen gratis, los están pagando los argentinos en vidas humanas. Los datos son concluyentes, las cifras del Covid que exhiben Argentina y los países de Nuestra América son malos, en algunos…

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Ecuador: Farmers Begin Massive Strike Against President Lasso. telesurenglish.net On Monday, 8,000 Ecuadorian banana, rice, and sugarcane producers began an indefinite national strike because of the disrespect to the minimum support price and other President Guillermo Lasso's government non-compliances in agricultural matters. | RELATED: | Since coming to power in May, Lasso has ignored the agreements signed on the minimum support prices for agricultural products and the cost control of the inputs…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-07-11). Ivan Duque's Security Adviser's Cousin Involved in MoàØse Assassination. orinocotribune.com A cousin of Colombian President Iván Duque's national security adviser, Rafael Guarín Cotrino, is reported to be one of the mercenaries who carried out the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse on July 7. | This was informed by the Colombian official himself through a statement circulated by diverse media platforms. In the statement, Guarín stated that although there exists a blood relation, he has never met or had any contact with said relative. | "My father informed me that Mr. Mauricio Grosso Guarín is a son of one of his ten siblings," declared Rafael Guarín in the text of his statement. "I…

àÅlvaro Verzi Rangel (2021-07-11). Incógnitas y especulaciones sobre el asesinato del presidente haitiano. globalizacion.ca Las autoridades haitianas informaron de la detención de por lo menos 17 extranjeros que habrían participado en el ataque y asesinato del presidente Jovenel MoàØse, perpetrado por un comando compuesto por 26 colombianos y dos estadounidenses de ascendencia haitiana, identificados…

José Antonio Gutiérrez D. (2021-07-11). Productos de exportación: Militares (r) colombianos asesinan al presidente haitiano. globalizacion.ca El ex ministro de defensa colombiano, y ex embajador de ese país en EEUU, Juan Carlos Pinzón, cuando recién comenzaban las negociaciones de paz con las FARC-EP, sacaba pecho sobre la exportación de militares colombianos a todo el mundo para…

Steve Lalla (2021-07-11). Latin America & the Caribbean is a Battleground Between Imperialism & Progressive Movements—and the Right is Divided, says Spokesperson for Perú's Communist Party. orinocotribune.com July 9 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—During a recent conference Luis Garate, spokesperson for Perú's Communist Party-Patria Roja, portrayed Perú's right-wing political actors as divided among themselves. | "The real situation is that Pedro Castillo has been elected," said Garate. "What is happening is that the right-wing forces, Keiko Fujimori and the ultra, far-right, and fascist groups, don't want to recognize the results. Right now, here in Perú, the right-wing forces are divided, because the US and the OAS are telling them 'no, the Peruvian elections have been cleared, they were transparent.'" | Unli…

_____ (2021-07-11). Dirty Tricks Campaign In Peru To Deny The Left's Presidential Victory. popularresistance.org Half an hour's taxi ride from the House of Pizarro, the presidential palace in Lima, Peru, is a high-security prison at the Callao naval base. The prison was built to hold leaders of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), particularly Abimael Guzmán. | Not far from Guzmán's cell is that of Vladimiro Montesinos, intelligence chief under former President Alberto Fujimori, who is also now imprisoned. Montesinos was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in 2006 for embezzlement, influence peddling, and abuse of power. | Now, audio files from phone calls made by Montesinos from his prison indicate an attempt to influence the r…

_____ (2021-07-11). Dirty Tricks Campaign In Peru To Deny The Left's Presidential Victory. popularresistance.org Castillo's opponent, Fuerza Popular's Keiko Fujimori — the daughter of the former dictator Alberto Fujimori — has hired a range of Lima's top lawyers to obstruct any decision by the state's electoral commission. In addition, her team has cast aspersions against the campaign of Castillo and Perú Libre, accusing them — without evidence — of being financed by disreputable groups, including drug cartels.

Sandipan Talukdar (2021-07-11). What do we know about the Lambda variant? peoplesdispatch.org The Lambda variant, which was first identified in Peru, was declared as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization in June. It has reportedly spread to at least 31 countries…

Staff (2021-07-11). American Association of Jurists on Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab by Cape Verde for Extradition to the United States (Statement). orinocotribune.com The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) denounces the illegal arrest on June 12, 2020, of Alex Nain Saab Morán, diplomat of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Mr. Saab, of Colombian and Venezuelan nationality, was arrested when the flight to the Islamic Republic of Iran made a stopover in the Republic of Cape Verde. He was traveling to obtain medicine and medical equipment required by Venezuela for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The arrest, with no valid grounds, took place at the request of the United States government for extradition to the USA. | Saab was traveling as Venezuela's Special Envoy, a positio…

Staff (2021-07-11). Three 'Colombian Paramilitaries' Captured in Operation Gran Cacique Indio Guaicaipuro in Caracas. orinocotribune.com "We have captured three 'Colombian paramilitaries' as part of Operation Gran Cacique Indio Guaicaipuro, and we have also seized weapons originating from the United States and the Colombian armed forces," Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez informed this Saturday, July 10, during a press conference carried out jointly with the Minister for the Interior, Carmen Meléndez, to offer a report of the security operations in Caracas. | "Today," continued the vice president, "we want to report on all the dimensions involved in the operation Gran Cacique Indio Guaicaipuro, which has been of great importance to preserv…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-07-11). 'Anguish at Casa de Nariño': Colombian Paramilitaries Captured in Cota 905 Confess Everything. orinocotribune.com With the arrest of three Colombian paramilitaries in the framework of the security operation Gran Cacique Indio Guaicaipuro in Caracas, the Cota 905 locality and surrounding areas of the capital that criminal gangs had kept under control for two days have been liberated. | Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has

Staff (2021-07-11). Venezuela reports crushing heavily armed gang in Caracas, blames US, Colombia for instigating violence. rt.com The Venezuelan government has said it has derailed a violent gang's plans to create chaos in the capital. The street battles in northwest Caracas lasted for some 72 hours and left at least 26 dead, including four officers. | This week, parts of the Venezuelan capital turned into a battlefield as some 2,500 government troops engaged in a shooting war with the so-called 'Koki' gang, named after the nickname of its leader, Carlos Luis Revete, who has an estimated 250 people under his command and alliances with other gangs. | The powerful criminal organization is based in the northwestern Cota 905 neighborhood and…

Ricardo Vaz (2021-07-11). Venezuela: Security Forces Claim Success in Anti-Gang Operation in Caracas. venezuelanalysis.com Heavily armed groups had expanded control from the hillside Cota 905 barrio to surrounding areas in the capital.

Mario Wainfeld (2021-07-11). El escándalo hace juego con la historia: Todo lo que hizo el macrismo durante el golpe en Bolivia. globalizacion.ca * El gobierno del presidente Mauricio Macri apoyó políticamente al golpe de Estado contra Evo Morales. Se apuró a reconocer en cuestión de horas a la presidenta de facto Jeanine Añez. Calló respecto de masacres consumadas por la usurpadora. Se…

scorinoco (2021-07-11). Argentina's Macri Sent Arms for Bolivia Coup Massacres. orinocotribune.com The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Bolivia has published documents that show how the government of Argentina, under President Mauricio Macri, supplied the bullets used by the àÅñez dictatorship to repress anti-coup protests in 2019 across the country, including in Sacaba and Senkata, where numerous protesters were shot dead. | In a press conference on Friday, July 9, Bolivian Foreign Affairs Minister Rogelio Mayta presented an official letter dated November 13, 2019, three days after the coup against Evo Morales, in which Bolivian military General Jorge Gonzalo Terceros, Chief of the country's Air Force at the…

teleSUR (2021-07-11). Argentina: Unionist Demand To Take Macri to Court. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the Argentine Workers Union (CTA) asked to investigate Mauricio Macri's government for sending weaponry to Bolivia to support the 2019 coup d'Etat against the then President evo Morales. | RELATED: | The CTA drafted a declaration calling "unquestionable" the evidence proving that former Argentine President Macri (2015-2019) knew in advance that a coup d'état was being plotted against then Bolivian President Evo…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-07-11). Argentina Military Aid For Bolivia Coup Greater Than Initially Thought. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun NewsInvestigations carried out by Argentina's Security Ministry have revealed that the military aid sent from Mauricio Macri's government to the Añez regime was much larger than what had been published by Bolivia's Foreign Ministry. The neoliberal Macri government sent 40,000 bullets to the Añez dictatorship in the first days of the coup, just days…

Staff (2021-07-11). Police Stole Sacred Objects From Afro-Brazilian People. Now Museums Hoard Them. truthout.org A significant part of Afro-Brazilian history is located in museum collections — not always open to the public — formed by objects seized during the aftermath of slavery. Since

Rodolfo Koé Gutiérrez (2021-07-11). Siguen insistiendo en el suicidio del Mercosur. globalizacion.ca La tensión disparada el miércoles entre Argentina y Uruguay en la reunión de cancilleres del Mercosur por el anuncio de Uruguay de que comenzará a explorar acuerdos comerciales de forma individual, quedó ratificada al día siguiente en la cumbre de…

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