Daily Archives: July 13, 2021

2021-07-13: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Lula Rejects the Manipulation of Narrative Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net Former Brazilian president and socialist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced via Twitter on Tuesday the manipulation of the Cuban reality in the aftermath of Sunday ¥s disturbs. | RELATED: | "What is happening in Cuba that is so special that they talk about it so much?! There was a march. I even saw the president of Cuba at the march, talking to people. Cuba has already suffered 60 years from a US econ…

sputniknews (2021-07-13). Pro-Revolutionary Forces Take to Streets of Cuba as More Details Revealed in Moise's Assassination. sputniknews.com More details emerge about Moise assassins; National strike in Colombia enters 10th week; 20 Years of endless war blows back on US society; and US targeting of Cuba and Haiti connected to imperialism hegemony.

Staff (2021-07-13). Haiti: Jovenel MoàØse's Head of Security Traveled to Colombia 6 Times — Linked to Miami-based CTU Security. orinocotribune.com Colombian authorities confirmed this Monday that the head of security at the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dimitri Hérard, made several trips to Colombia and other Latin American countries in 2021, the purposes of which are unknown, reported the news agency EFE. | "We learned through Interpol's team in Colombia that Commissioner Dimitri Hérard, head of the general security unit of the National Palace of Haiti, had made trips to Ecuador, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, using Colombia as a stop off," said the director of the Colombian Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, in a press conference abou…

Black Alliance for Peace (2021-07-13). Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, but Not in Haiti, Palestine or Colombia? globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Peru: JNE Concludes Review of All of Keiko's Vote Contestations. telesurenglish.net The spokesperson of the National Jury of Elections (JNE) of Peru, Luis Alberto Sanchez, announced that this authority resolved this Monday the appeals of nullity and complaints of law presented by the neoliberal candidate Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular) after the second round of the presidential elections, in which she faced the progressive candidate Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre). | In declarations to local media, Sánchez informed that the JNE notified the corresponding Special Electoral Juries (JEE) of this step. Based on this, the spokesman estimated that the winner of the elections could be proclaimed next we…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Bolsonaro Signs Bill To Privatize Electrobras. telesurenglish.net Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed on Tuesday a bill that advances the privatization of the electricity company Electrobras, which produces 30 percent of the country ¥s power. | RELATED: | The bill, passed by the Senate on June 17, opens the company's shares to private capital by diluting the state's 61 percent stake. The government hopes to acquire $4.95 billion from the share sale, but it will keep a golden share to vet…

teleSUR, jdo, JCM (2021-07-13). Hallan sin vida a desaparecidos durante protestas en Colombia. telesurtv.net Duván Felipe Barros Gómez y Alquimedez Santana se reportaron desaparecidos desde hace más de un mes.

Staff (2021-07-13). Del mundo para Matanzas: Médicos de la Henry Reeve. cubadebate.cu En la noche de este lunes, arribaron a la ciudad de Matanzas 182 nuevos profesionales de la salud que se sumarán a la lucha que libra este territorio contra la Covid-19.De ellos, 103 se encontraban cumpliendo colaboración médica en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, mientras que los otros 79 lo hacían en Azerbaiyán, como parte del contingente internacionalista Henry Reeve.

Nils Castro (2021-07-13). En Haití sólo la primera frase se repite. globalizacion.ca El miércoles siete, el presidente de Haití fue muerto a tiros en su residencia, por una cuadrilla de exmilitares colombianos bien pertrechados, que arribados a través de la vecina República Dominicana. Ninguno de los anillos de seguridad del Presidente ofreció…

Victoria Torres (2021-07-13). Venezuela Reports 1,200 New COVID-19 Cases, 12 Deaths & a 94% Recovery Rate on Sunday. orinocotribune.com On the 483rd day of the pandemic in Venezuela, Sunday, July 11, the nation reported 1,200 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours—all due to community transmission—in addition to 12 deaths. The details were announced by the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, through her Twitter account. | With this update, Venezuela reaches a total of 284,942 infections and 3,290 deaths through almost 16 months of the pandemic. Of these, 14,024 are active cases, of whom 7,389 are receiving care in hospitals, 5,995 in Comprehensive Diagnostic Centers, and 640 in private clinics. The number of individuals…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Argentina Denounces Macri's Participation in 2019 Bolivian Coup. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentina's government denounced ex-President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) for the irregular shipment to Bolivia of weapons and ammunition to repress social protests after the 2019 coup d'etat against Evo Morales. | RELATED: | Macri made available to Jeanine Añez's regime at least 40,000 AT 12/70 cartridges and 150 grenades. To this purpose, his administration violated the quantities and destination of the items declared in the cu…

teleSUR, jdo, NG (2021-07-13). Justicia de Bolivia extiende prisión preventiva a Jeanine àÅñez. telesurtv.net La expresidenta facto es investigada por su participación en el golpe de Estado perpetrado en esa nación en noviembre de 2019.

WSWS (2021-07-13). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Nurses strikes loom in Canada, Dominican Republic; Miners continue strike in Mexico; and Health workers to begin strike in Bolivia…

Staff (2021-07-13). Webinar Thursday 15: Current Popular Struggles Against US Intervention: Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile. orinocotribune.com Join us in this new revised webinar with Dan Kovalik and please share this invitation. | We are faced with possible US intervention in Haiti after the murder of the president, a possible coup over the election results in Peru, new US backed protests in Cuba, the positive election results in Chile, the continued bloody repressions in Colombia, regime change plans against Sandinista Nicaragua, and the growing movement to free Venezuela's Alex Saab. Dan Kovalik, labor and human rights lawyer, has been on delegations to many of these countries, and he will review the present state of the popular struggles and Washing…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Argentina Asks to End Blockades Against Cuba and Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez addressed the economic and social situation of Cuba and Venezuela and ratified his position in favor of ending the U.S. economic blockades against these nations. | RELATED: | "This policy has prevented Cuba and Venezuela from accessing artificial respirators. Realize what that means", Fernandez said, stressing that those who suffer the consequences of the block…

Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza (2021-07-13). PSUV Expresses Solidarity with Cuba in Face of US Imperialist Aggression — Demonstration in Support of Cuba in Caracas. orinocotribune.com Caracas, July 12, 2021 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), in a public statement issued this Monday, July 12, expressed its solidarity with the people and government of Cuba, faced with a new onslaught by the US empire against the Cuban Revolution. | "We will accompany that brother people as another soldier to defeat the imperialist recolonizing plans with which they intend to overthrow the independence and sovereignty of our sister nation and establish, at an inopportune moment, the re-instatement of the nefarious Plan Condor that—violating democracy, inst…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Colombia Denies Meeting Between Duque and Mercenary Recruiter. telesurenglish.net The Colombian government denied that President Ivan Duque had met with Antonio Intriago, a Venezuelan citizen who is the representative of the CTU Security company that recruited the Colombian ex-military men who took part in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise. | RELATED: | "The then presidential candidate Ivan Duque did not hold any meeting nor has any link with Antonio Intriago," the Colombian…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). 'Colombia Has Become a Regional Threat', Venezuela Warns. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino denounced that the tolerance of Colombian governments towards paramilitaries, drug traffickers, and mercenaries has generated a serious security problem in Latin America. | RELATED: | "Colombia has become a threat to Venezuela and the region," he said at a swearing-in ceremony for eight new commanders of the Strategic Regions of Integral Defense (REDI). | These sta…

teleSUR (2021-07-13). Colombia Seeks To Hide the Traces of the Violence It Generates. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez denounced the existence of a media campaign that President Ivan Duque is spreading internationally to hide the participation of Colombian mercenaries and drug traffickers in the destabilization of Latin American governments. | RELATED: | "All violent actions have their epicenter in the Duque administration and its paramilitarism, which has become the new Colombi…

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…

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 …

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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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). Nearly 3 Mln Venezuelans Have First COVID Vaccine, Ministry. telesurenglish.net Almost 3 million people in Venezuela have received their first vaccine dose against COVID-19, Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said on Monday. | RELATED: | In a radio interview, the official said that there are currently 2.9 million people who have gotten at least one vaccine dose and over 1.1 million who have received two doses. | "This is part of the mass vaccination process that began on May 29 throughout the country and ha…

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…

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…

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…

teleSUR (2021-07-12). President Maduro: Three Conditions for International Dialogue. telesurenglish.net The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, expressed his agreement to hold a new dialogue process in Mexico, sponsored by the government of this nation and the Kingdom of Norway. | RELATED: | However, the Venezuelan head of state stipulated three essential conditions for this international meeting to take place. | "One; that the United States of America and the European Union lift all sanction…

Paul Dobson (2021-07-12). [UPDATED] EU Mission Evaluates Venezuela Electoral Team as Gov't — Opposition Talks Scheduled. venezuelanalysis.com The new talks are due to be held in Mexico and will be mediated by the Norwegian government.

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.

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