(2021-10-30). Colombia: La guerra absurda. globalizacion.ca Fuentes militares colombianas informaron que seis pelotones (alrededor de 180 soldados) del ejército fueron retenidos por campesinos cocaleros mientras cumplían "tareas de lucha contra toda la cadena de narcotráfico" en la zona fronteriza con Venezuela, es decir, que efectuaban el…
(2021-10-30). Attorney Steven Donziger reports to federal prison. wsws.org Donziger, who won a $9.5 billion lawsuit against the oil monopoly Chevron in 2011 on behalf of Ecuadorian farmers and indigenous people, turned himself in to US federal prison authorities on Wednesday to begin serving a six-month sentence on a trumped-up contempt of court conviction.
(2021-10-30). Modi makes spectacle of India's 1 billionth COVID vaccine shot to cover up his government's culpability for mass death. wsws.org By rights, Modi should be charged—as his Brazilian counterpart, the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, has been—for promoting quackery and presiding over crimes against humanity.
(2021-10-29). Blockade Against Venezuela Makes US Businesses Suffer: US Exports Dropped by 93% from 2012 to 2020. orinocotribune.com 
Nine months after Joe Biden's inauguration as the president of the United States, his government is at the center of international public opinion, with great expectations regarding its relations with Venezuela and different versions about the handling of illegal sanctions and the blockade affecting millions of Venezuelans. | In this situation, Venezuelan media recently published a journalistic investigation, according to which US business owners are currently exerting pressure on President Biden. These groups are also suffering the consequences of the unilateral coercive measures that are supposedly applied again…
(2021-10-29). 'How to Prepare a Coup d'État'—the Latest Recipe of the Peruvian Right-Wing Parties. orinocotribune.com By Marcos Maranges — Oct 26, 2021 | This last week was one of the most tense since Pedro Castillo became Peru's president last May. The Congress, with a right-wing majority, is eager to disarm the executive branch so they can technically annul Castillo's electoral triumph over the extreme-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. | For those who do not follow the South American country's internal policies, this may seem like a last-minute move by right-wing sectors, but it is not. The coup was immediately set into motion once Castillo won the presidential runoff early this year. | The first step was to cast doubts ove…
(2021-10-29). Peru: Democracy under attack from right-wing forces. greenleft.org.au Pedro Castillo, leader of the left-wing Peru Libre party, was sworn in as Peru's president on July 28, reports Ben Radford. Since then, his government has faced a campaign of destabilisation from the right-wing opposition.
(2021-10-29). EU Election Observers Arrive In Venezuela, Legitimizing Upcoming Vote. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Venezuela to observe the regional and local elections. | Campaigning has kicked off for regional and municipal elections scheduled for November 21, which are set to include opposition candidates as well. | More than 3,000 positions — including governors, mayors and municipal councillors — are up for grabs next month, according to Venezuela's elections authority. Some 21 million voters are eligible to…
(2021-10-29). Campaign for Venezuela's 21N Regional Elections Begins: How Many Candidates are There? orinocotribune.com According to the schedule established by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), the campaign for Venezuela's November 21 regional and municipal "mega-elections" officially began today. Venezuelans will select governors, mayors, city councilors, and regional legislators during the process. | It is an event that brings together almost 68,000 male and female candidates from the different opposition groups against 3,072 candidates nominated by the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP). This last alliance, that of Chavismo, has as its strength the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuela's leading party since…
(2021-10-29). CNE President Meets with Head of EU Election Observation Mission. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, October 28, the president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Pedro Calzadilla, received Isabel Santos, head of the Election Observation Mission (EOM) of the European Union (EU), and Xabier Melián, Santos' attaché in the presidency of the team that will survey municipal and regional elections scheduled for November 21. | The meeting was reported by the electoral authority through its Twitter account, @cneesvzla, where it was explained that the meeting was the first point on Santos' agenda to define the details regarding the deployment of the mission during the upcoming electoral proces…
(2021-10-29). Movimientos sociales alertan que retomarán protestas en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El líder del Frente Unitario de Trabajadores apuntó que al regreso la huelga puede tener carácter indefinido.
(2021-10-29). President Alberto Fernández: Argentina will not Bow to IMF. orinocotribune.com Argentina's President Alberto Fernández affirmed that his country "is not going to kneel" before the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and attached conditions to an agreement with the multilateral organization to renegotiate a debt of $44 billion, so that it "does not put at risk the future of the Argentines," international media reported. | "If we still do not come to an agreement [with the IMF] it is because we are not going to kneel, because we are going to negotiate until our people's future is not placed at risk because of debt payments," said Fernández during a tribute to former president Néstor Kirchner (…
(2021-10-29). Prospects for Chile: New president, new constitution, continuing turmoil. peoplesworld.org 
The 1973 U.S.-supported military coup against Chile's socialist government and the murder of President Salvador Allende may be old history. The Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1988 and democratic forms—elections, political parties, debate—are in place. And Chile's economy, recovering from the pandemic, is booming. For the U.S. State Department, Chile is now "a leader in promoting …