(2021-11-13). Gobierno boliviano reitera que oposición busca desestabilizar. telesurtv.net El mandatario boliviano indicó que los mismos que promueven un paro en el país fueron los que participaron en el golpe de Estado de 2019.
(2021-11-13). 21N Regional Elections: Smear Campaign Activated — EFE Takes the Initiative. orinocotribune.com The mega-elections to be held on November 21 in Venezuela have a significance beyond the fact of electing candidates for regional and municipal authorities, as they are the first event in several years that will include the participation of a political sector of the country that had preferred to take the path of sabotage of the elections to damage the national institutions. | In this sense, it is not surprising that there are still attempts to sabotage the elections by creating mistrust among the population and playing the abstention card, even though there are only a few days remaining until the event itself, an…
(2021-11-13). Brutal repression against striking public employees in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil. wsws.org Municipal workers were demonstrating against pension cuts approved by the City Council, without any reaction from their unions.
(2021-11-12). Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela As Existential Threats To The US. popularresistance.org One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Americas, universal healthcare and education are guaranteed to the population as a human right, while in the U.S. those kinds of basic human rights are distant dreams. | The day after the so-called progressive block of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives surrendered to President Joe Biden and the right-wing corporate wing of the party on the Build Back Better legislation that offered some minor a…
(2021-11-12). Minister Plasencia: Even if Alex Saab is Convicted, We will Continue to Insist on his Release. orinocotribune.com 
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, stressed that even in the case that Alex Saab is convicted, Venezuela will continue to insist on his release. Plasencia described the process carried out by the United States as a "kidnapping." | "If Alex Saab is convicted, we will continue to insist that he be released, because it is an illegal process," Plasencia said. "There are instances and opportunities to continue legally defending the rights of the Venezuelan representative at this juncture of kidnapping and illegal arrest." The minister made the statements during an interview with the Russian…
(2021-11-12). Peruvian President Pedro Castillo's cabinet continues to suffer blows. peoplesdispatch.org Defense minister Walter Ayala is the tenth minister of President Pedro Castillos's cabinet who had been forced to resign due to a defamation campaign by right-wing forces…
(2021-11-12). Pdte. boliviano reitera que no permitirá que la derecha derroque al Gobierno. telesurtv.net El mandatario y el expresidente Evo Morales participan en acto de masas para rechazar nuevos intentos de golpe de Estado.
(2021-11-12). Far-right tensions brewing amid one year anniversary of the return of democracy in Bolivia. peoplesdispatch.org 
Members of the opposition and far-right Civic Committees have been mobilizing and blocking roads in different departments of Bolivia as a part of a politically motivated strike.
(2021-11-12). Cuba Won't Tolerate US Interference In Its Internal Affairs. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected the stance adopted by U.S. State Secretary Anthony Blinken, who accused the Cuban government of preventing the holding of a march scheduled for Nov. 15. | RELATED: | "Such march is not an authentic initiative of our people, but an instance of the 'regime change' strategy which the U.S. trialed in Bolivia with the coup d'état against President Evo…
(2021-11-12). A un año de su épico retorno a Bolivia tras el exilio en Argentina: Evo Morales, regreso a Chimoré. globalizacion.ca "Un 11 de noviembre salí de Chimoré para salvar mi vida, y un 11 de noviembre volveré con vida a Chimoré". La frase, pronunciada por Evo Morales en suelo argentino, cuando transcurría su exilio junto a Alvaro García Linera y…
(2021-11-12). Venezuela's Mega-Elections Guarantee Transparency and Political Participation. orinocotribune.com By Nino Pagliccia — Nov 11, 2021 | So far in this century there has been a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in Latin America. The revolutionary processes have been carried out mostly through democratic electoral suffrage as a substitute for the armed revolutionary processes of the last century. | Instead, there have been coups or attempted coups carried out by forces of the neoliberal right to halt progressive democratic advances. This is the case, for example, of Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, etc. | We are not going here to analyze the reasons for this phenomenon. But we do observe that as the revol…
(2021-11-12). President Maduro Sets Subnational 'Rapid Action Fund'. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro announced that his administration will create a "rapid action fund" so that the 23 governors and 335 mayors to be chosen in the Nov. 21 elections can resolve problems the citizenry poses to them without any hindrance. | RELATED: | "All resources needed to develop this initiative have been already allocated. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and I are working closely…
(2021-11-12). Venezuela's El Sistema to Break a Guinness World Record this Saturday. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, November 11, Venezuelan cultural authorities and executives of the world-renowned El Sistema music program announced that the world's largest symphony orchestra will perform this Saturday, November 15, on the Patio de las Academias, at Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas. Over 12,000 musicians will play simultaneously for at least seven minutes. | The statement was issued at a press conference held by the Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, and the Minister of Information and Communication, Freddy àëañez, alongside Eduardo Méndez, executive director of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra, and David Ascanio, wh…
(2021-11-12). Venezuela's El Sistema to Break a Guinness World Record this Sunday. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, November 11, Venezuelan cultural authorities and executives of the world-renowned El Sistema music program announced that the world's largest symphony orchestra will perform this Sunday on the Patio de las Academias, at Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas. Over 12,000 musicians will play simultaneously for at least seven minutes. | The statement was issued at a press conference held by the Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, and the Minister of Information and Communication, Freddy àëañez, alongside Eduardo Méndez, executive director of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra, and David Ascanio, who will take the…
(2021-11-12). Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US. dissidentvoice.org Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second …
(2021-11-12). Bolsonaro's Brazil Could See Itself Excluded From Talks On The Amazon Rainforest. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageWashington's and the EU's narratives on the environment, however, are marked with contradictions. | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | During his visit to Colombia on October 22, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the US was to soon launch an Amazon-wide pact to reduce deforestation. Strangely, no mention was made of Brazil being included in this conversation. Blinken even declined to answer a question regarding Brazilian Presiden…
(2021-11-12). øIguales ante la ley? Mauricio Macri, la contracara de Sebastián Piñera en Argentina. globalizacion.ca "La impunidad de los poderosos" fue una de las frases que más sonó ayer en la Cámara de Diputados chilena que aprobó enviar a juicio político al presidente derechista Sebastián Piñera. Es un tema que pone al sistema en punto…
(2021-11-12). Argentina: Economic Issues at The Center of Campaign Closures. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Argentine political parties closed their campaigns amid citizen discontent due to the increase in the inflation rate and the deterioration of the exchange rate. | RELATED: | President Alberto Fernandez's party Front of All (FT) and the right-wing opposition alliance "Together for Change" (JC) carried out mass events in Buenos Aires province, an electoral district that concentrates 37 percent of re…
(2021-11-12). Climate Crisis = Health Emergency: Air Pollution, Pandemics & Displacement Make the World Sick. democracynow.org 
Health leaders are warning governments of "unimaginable" health consequences from the climate crisis if world leaders don't take decisive action to decarbonize. This week at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, the Global Climate and Health Alliance presented a letter to the COP26 president signed by 46 million health workers who are calling for global climate action on health. Meanwhile, a delegation of mothers from Brazil, Britain, India, Nigeria, Poland and South Africa attended COP26 to deliver their own letter to the summit's president that was signed by about 500 parent groups from 44 countries and calls for…
(2021-11-12). Mapuche people under siege by Chilean military; genocide being charged. peoplesworld.org 
In the southern sector of Chile, a "state of exception"—a euphemism for a "state of emergency"—has been declared by President Sebastian Piñera. Troops have been sent to the Araucania region, the land of the Mapuche Indigenous nationality. (Note: The government's name for the area, Araucania, is considered a pejorative term by many Mapuche.) Piñera has said four provinces have experienced what he …
(2021-11-12). Court cases show Colombian government role in paramilitary killings, U.S. implicated. peoplesworld.org 
Struggle over agrarian rights in Colombia led to thousands of deaths after 1946. Another 200,000 were killed between 1948 and 1958. From then until 2018, class war involving leftist guerrillas, narcotraffickers, paramilitaries, big landholders, and Colombia's Army took the lives of further 260,000 Colombians. The 2016 agreement ending 50 years of armed conflict between the …
(2021-11-12). Constitucional colombiano rechaza recurso de àÅlvaro Uribe. telesurtv.net Con esta decisión dividida, la Corte Constitucional le mantiene la condición de imputado al expresidente colombiano.
(2021-11-12). Denuncian el asesinato de otro líder social en Caquetá, el número 152 en Colombia durante este 2021. telesurtv.net La víctima se convirtió en el líder social número 1.267 en ser asesinado tras la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz de 2016 en La Habana.
(2021-11-12). Uruguay: Lacalle Pou y el péndulo entre China y Estados Unidos. globalizacion.ca América Latina es otro de los escenarios de la disputa entre las dos potencias más poderosas del momento: Estados Unidos y China. La disputa que vienen desarrollando estos dos gigantes, con múltiples facetas y aristas, emerge en esta región de…