(2021-11-21). Back to the Ballot! Rolling Coverage of Venezuela's 'Mega-elections'. venezuelanalysis.com Live updates from VA's on-the-ground team as Venezuelans head to the polls to elect a massive 3,082 officials.
(2021-11-21). Venezuela: The Dictatorship of Democracy. orinocotribune.com By Marcos Maranges — Nov 18, 2021 | On this coming Sunday, November 21, Venezuela will go to regional and local elections to vote for over 3000 public officials. However, some governments and people still think that the country is a dictatorship ruled by President Nicolás Maduro. We all know where these words come from, but despite it, is there any solid evidence or argument to believe it? The upcoming electoral process gives us the perfect context to put a light on this issue. | In this opportunity, the right-wing parties have proposed candidates for the first time since 2018. The Venezuelan opposition inte…
(2021-11-21). Chicago activists demand release of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. liberationnews.org 
Saab is fighting extradition to the U.S. for the "crime" of trying to procure humanitarian supplies of food, fuel, and medicine from Iran in violation of illegal U.S. sanctions.
(2021-11-21). European Union Election Observation Mission Meets with Right-Wing Politicians: Guaidó, Capriles, Machado, Evans and Figuera. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, November 18, representatives of the European Union (EU) Elections Observation Mission (EOM) that is in Venezuela reported via Twitter on several meetings they held with spokespersons of Venezuela's extreme right, such as former deputy Juan Guaidó and the coordinator of the Vente Venezuela movement, María Corina Machado, in the hours before of the regional and municipal mega-elections. | In this regard, the international observers is maintaining their work schedule while the National Electoral Council's (CNE) schedule for the November 21 mega-elections advances with the objective to materialize the de…
(2021-11-21). Guinness Confirms Venezuela's El Sistema Record as Largest Orchestra in the World. orinocotribune.com With a gala held this Saturday, November 20, at the headquarters of El Sistema, the official announcement of the results of the record attempt was made, as Venezuela's National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela (El Sistema) obtained the Guinness World Record for "The Largest Orchestra in the World." | This record was held until Saturday by Russia, where in 2019, 8,097 musicians performed the Russian national anthem. Now the record belongs to Venezuela, where 12,096 musicians from El Sistema, in a new feat, performed various pieces at the Military University of Venezuela. The piece…
(2021-11-20). Briefing: Venezuelan Elections November 2021. popularresistance.org Venezuela goes to the polls again on N21ovember in 'mega elections.' The dialogue that began in late summer between the Venezuelan government and sections of the hard right-wing opposition had been going well, with some definite outcomes. These include the decision by some right-wing opposition parties that have boycotted elections for years to take part in the elections. But the US's illegal extradition from Cape Verde of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was en-route to Iran to broker a trade deal to bring fuel, food and medicines to Venezuela, has threatened to sabotage both the talks, as the US did before in…
(2021-11-20). President Maduro addresses international allies during "Defense of Democracy and Truth in Venezuela" fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – On Wednesday November 17, former union bus driver and current president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, spoke to over 500 international solidarity activists from over 70 countries. | "Venezuela has been giving an intense battle against the aggression, siege, and lies from U.S. imperialism and its direct allies from the right on this continent and around the world," Maduro stated. Maduro also lambasted the "cowardly left, the new indirect allies of U.S. imperialism who hide behind their masks of progressivism threaten our noble peoples who have been fighting." Adding to the many achievements of the Bol…
(2021-11-20). [Correspondence] CoronaVac efficacy data from Turkey. thelancet.com Mine Tanriover and colleagues1 report that the efficacy of CoronaVac against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 in a trial in Turkey is 83 ∑5% (95% CI 65 ∑4—92 ∑1). By contrast, the efficacy of CoronaVac against symptomatic COVID-19 has been estimated at 50 ∑7% (36 ∑0—62 ∑0) in a Brazilian trial and at 65 ∑3% (20 ∑0—85 ∑1) in an Indonesian trial.2,3 Noting that post-vaccination neutralising antibody titres are quite strongly associated with vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection,4,5 the efficacy estimated from the Turkish dataset is much higher…
(2021-11-20). Denuncian campaña de desestabilización contra Gobierno peruano. telesurtv.net Mendoza afirmó que todas las fuerzas democráticas deben rechazar los ánimos golpistas de cierto sector opositor.
(2021-11-20). 21N: 99% of Voting Stations Already Installed in Preparation for Elections. orinocotribune.com On Friday, November 19, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Pedro Calzadilla, informed that by Friday noon, 90% of the voting stations had been installed for the regional and municipal elections to be held this Sunday, November 21. | "The electoral material is already deployed, it is ready," said Calzadilla in a television interview. "So far we have 90% of the tables installed." | He assured that for this election, the international monitoring, accompaniment and observation program is very broad, given the importance of the elections in the political stability of Venezuela. | "We h…
(2021-11-20). Venezuelans to vote in regional elections. america.cgtn.com 
Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday, November 21. This marks the return of the opposition to run in local polls and these elections are being carefully monitored by international observers.
(2021-11-20). UN Rejects One US Coercive Measure Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, announced that the UN has rejected one of the coercive measures imposed by the United States on Venezuela, which denies the Bolivarian Republic its right to health. | Moncada made this comment after the UN General Assembly approved the Resolution on Equitable, Affordable, Timely and Universal Access of all Countries to Vaccines in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, on Thursday, November 18. | Moncada informed that "in the resolution, there is an important paragraph for Venezuela, for it rejects one of the criminal measures of the US…
(2021-11-20). CNE de Venezuela anuncia instalación del 99% de las mesas de votación. telesurtv.net "Los venezolanos y venezolanas deciden, y será en paz y de reencuentro del país", dijo la funcionaria electoral.
(2021-11-20). Picking Up Where Bush, Obama, and Trump Left Off, Biden Extends U.S. Campaign to Crush Venezuela. covertactionmagazine.com On October 13th, Venezuela's representative to the UN Samuel Moncada denounced plotting by the United States and Colombia against Venezuela's …
(2021-11-20). Nicaragua Officially Announces Its Irrevocable Withdrawal from OAS. orinocotribune.com 
On Friday, November 19, Nicaraguan Foreign Affairs Minister, Denis Moncada, announced the irrevocable withdrawal of his country from the Organization of American States (OAS). | The government of Nicaragua sent a letter to the organization denouncing interventionist declarations from the OAS that refused to recognize the Nicaraguan elections of November 7, and thus resigns and leaves the organization that stipulates a two year term to make the resignation effective, as happened with Venezuela in 2019. | The OAS charter mandates a two-year exit process, during which time the departing country retains all of the ri…
(2021-11-20). Venezuela Provides Spain Information on Terrorists who Attacked CNE Headquarters. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia provided the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires in Venezuela, Ramón Santos, with information on the terrorist gang from Spain that attacked the headquarters of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE). Minister Plasencia informed this through a post on his Twitter account. | "At the headquarters of the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministry," wrote Plascencia, "we delivered a formal note to the Chargé d'Affaires of Spain, Ramón Santos, with documentation confirming the existence of terrorist gangs in that country that are trying to attack Venezuelan public institutions…
(2021-11-20). Venezuela espera decisión sobre récord Guinness. telesurtv.net Este sábado se sabrá si Venezuela alcanzó el récord Guinness como la orquesta más grande del mundo.
(2021-11-20). [World Report] Brazilian scientists reject national award. thelancet.com 21 scientists have rejected one of Brazil's highest scientific honours, after President Bolsonaro vetoed two recipients. Lise Alves reports from Sà£o Paulo.
(2021-11-20). Brazil, Amazon, World: West Papua's Green State Vision, an Appeal to Lula. zcomm.org This is a big, very bold question because it would, in fact, challenge the Eurocentric, imperially-based Westphalian system and embrace the broader idea of Indigenous systems that recognise "interdependencies between political actors and relations to the land"
(2021-11-20). Will Voters Choose to Make Chile Terrible Again? zcomm.org Confronted by a stark choice between the dreadful past and a still-to-be-charted future — and grappling with the discontents and challenges facing so many countries, including the United States — what will Chile decide?>
(2021-11-20). Polarized presidential elections in Chile. america.cgtn.com 
Chileans head to the polls this weekend to vote in what have been described as the most polarized presidential elections in the country's history. Chile is still processing the protests of 2019 and the country's political map is set to be redrawn.
(2021-11-20). Colombian Police Repudiated for Using Nazi Symbols at Academy Event. orinocotribune.com 
On Thursday, November 18, some members of the Colombian police used Nazi symbols at an event paying "tribute" to the German police, which generated strong controversy in Colombia. The incident occurred at the Simón Bolívar Police Academy in Tuluá, in the Valle del Cauca Department. In the photos, which went viral on social media, police officers are seen wearing the Nazi swastikas, and one officer even disguised as Adolf Hitler. | The Valle University Student and Youth Organization condemned the incident, expressing outrage at the Colombian police paying tribute to the Nazi police and army. Similarly, environment…
(2021-11-20). Court Cases Show Colombian Government Role in Paramilitary Killings, US Implicated. orinocotribune.com By W. T. Whitney — Nov 18, 2021 | Struggle over agrarian rights in Colombia led to thousands of deaths after 1946. Then, The 2016 agreement ending 50 years of armed conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colomb…