(2022-02-04). Peru and Brazil Sign Agreements to Expand Amazon Cooperation. telesurenglish.net During an official visit to Porto Velho City on Thursday, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo signed several cooperation agreements with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. | RELATED: | Given the importance of the Amazonian region for both nations, they agreed on policies for the promotion of regional integration through land infrastructures. Among the policy proposals is, for example, the road interconnection between th…
(2022-02-04). Chavez Ignited the Bolivarian Revolution with the 4F Rebellion. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Venezuelans remember the 30th anniversary of the anti-imperialist rebellion that Colonel Hugo Chavez led against President Carlos Perez (1989-1993), a corrupt politician who implemented neoliberal policies that worsened the people's living conditions. | RELATED: | On Feb. 4, 1992, five army units under Chavez's command moved into Caracas to seize key military and communications installations throughout…
(2022-02-04). The Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square Honors Chavez Legacy. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated the Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square in Caracas City on Thursday, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the revolt led by Colonel Hugo Chavez. | RELATED: | "In the early hours of February 4, 1992, Venezuela experienced the greatest political and spiritual upheaval that has been known since the time of Independence," Maduro said, recalling that that revolt marked the begin…
(2022-02-04). President Maduro: Chávez's 4F Rebellion was a Cry Against Colonization. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted earlier today that the rebellion of February 4, 1992, known in Venezuela as 4F/1992, led by Commander Hugo Chávez, represented an outcry against the colonization that the neoliberal government of Carlos Andrés Pérez intended to impose on the country. | The comments were made as part of President Maduro's address during commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of 4F. The head of state hosted the inauguration of the Plaza de la Rebelión Anti-imperialista [Anti-Imperialist Rebellion Square], located in the environs of the San Carlos barracks, in Caracas, wher…
(2022-02-04). Pdte. Alberto Fernández realiza visita oficial a China. telesurtv.net China es el segundo destino de las exportaciones argentinas y el principal origen de las importaciones del país.
(2022-02-04). Armed Group Kills 3 Colombians In Putumayo Department. telesurenglish.net The Colombian Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) denounced that armed men tortured, murdered, and burned the bodies of three people in the El Basal neighborhood in the Putumayo department on Wednesday. | RELATED: | The first victim was identified as Efren Ramos, prosecutor of the El Basal's Communal Action Board (JAC). The identity of the other two victims remains unknown because the fire comple…
(2022-02-04). Colombian Court Postpones Debate on Abortion Decriminalization. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Colombian Constitutional Court postponed the debate on the total decriminalization of abortion, as new disqualification petitions were filed against the tie-breaker judge of last January ¥s vote. | RELATED: | The legal debates commenced with two lawsuits presented in 2020: the first one was filed by Andres Sanchez in July, and the second one by the "Just Cause," a coalition of women's rights groups. Both of them…
(2022-02-04). Colombian Police Shots A 10-Year-Old Embera Indigenous Child. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Colombian anti-narcotics police injured 10-year-old Indigenous child Elio Niasa amid a confrontation with the Emberas leaders in the La Italia settlement, located between the municipalities of Puerto Asis and Valle del Guamuez. | RELATED: | Although Police brigades lacked orders from the Ethnicity Ministry, they landed on La Italia in helicopters to develop a narcotics search operation. | The communit…
(2022-02-03). 57% of Peruvians Support Changes At The Constitutional Level. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, a survey from the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG) revealed that 57,7 percent of Peruvians support either drafting constitutional reforms or a new Magna Carta. | RELATED: | The study showed that nearly two-thirds of the citizenry support nationalizing the health care system to guarantee its universal coverage and that the State provide social protection to low-income people. | Over 53…
(2022-02-03). Cuba's Resumen Latinoamericano Website Silenced Due to Blockade. orinocotribune.com By Graciela Ramírez — Jan 29, 2022 | This January 27, while we were preparing different notes on national and international affairs, our website cubaenresumen.org was silenced. We could not upload any information, we thought at first it was due to a technical problem with the website. | After an hour we began to receive messages via WhatsApp from friends and readers of Cuba en Resumen in Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Spain, the United States and Italy who were asking what was happening, since they could not access not only what was published in the morning, nor anything on our website. | We immedia…
(2022-02-03). Jorge Rodríguez: Deputies Failing to Fulfill their Oath Will be Jailed. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, February 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) Jorge Rodríguez, warned that deputies who fail to comply with their oath will go to prison. This was said after referring to the case of PSUV parliamentarian, Taina González Rubio, who was arrested in Falcón for her alleged involvement in a drug trafficking network. | "Jail will be the destination for any deputy failing to fulfill their oath, thus becoming a despicable traitor. Everyone who deviates from the right path will be sent to jail," he asserted during his speech at the session this Tuesday, in which the parliamentary immunity o…
(2022-02-03). Los Tramojos: Venezuelan Campesinos Rescue Land After Years-Long Struggle. venezuelanalysis.com The symbolic estate headlined 320 land titles handed by the Venezuelan government to campesinos "to strengthen food production".
(2022-02-03). Venezuela: Law Authorizes Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions. telesurenglish.net "What has been happening up to now is that the rich and the big traders pocket the dollars and do not give the Venezuelan State a single cent of those dollars with which they make transactions," said the president of the legislative body, Jorge Rodríguez, during the session broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión. | RELATED: | The reform establishes that the tax rate will be between 2 percent and 20 percent for transa…
(2022-02-03). President Maduro Announces Expansion of Credit & Other Economic Decisions. orinocotribune.com 
This Wednesday, February 2, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced measures aimed at expanding access to financing through Venezuela's banks, including the implementation of mechanisms to democratize credit, allowing entrepreneurs and businessmen to expand productive capacity. | The announcements were made during a meeting held at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, in the framework of the National Council of Economy, with the participation of all the representatives of the country's public and private financial institutions, and the Central Bank of Venezuela, among other state agencies. | "We have been amalgama…
(2022-02-03). FAO Removes Venezuela from List of Hunger Hotspots, Incorporates Colombia. orinocotribune.com The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has excluded Venezuela from its list of countries facing severe food shortages. | In a FAO, in its report, stated that this year in Latin America, Colombia, Haiti and Honduras are in the Agency's list of highest levels of concern; but there is not such a forecast for Venezuela…
(2022-02-03). Ecuador: Death Toll From Pichincha Avalanche Increased To 26. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Ecuadoran authorities confirmed one more death in the La Gasca neighborhood due to the Feb. 1 avalanche, which devasted the neighborhood's infrastructure. | RELATED: | "Access to 'ground zero' is blocked. The situation has not been resolved yet. So far, the Quito City authorities have counted 26 dead citizens, ten missing people, and 53 injured inhabitants," Orlando Perez reported for teleSUR. | Perfect Paola Pab…
(2022-02-03). Headlines for February 3, 2022. democracynow.org U.S. to Deploy 3,000 Additional Troops to Eastern Europe Amid Tensions over Ukraine, Witnesses Say U.S. Raid That Killed ISIS Leader in Syria Left Civilians Dead, Pentagon Sends Warship and Planes to UAE; Saudi Arabia and Israel Hold Joint Naval Exercises, Militia Attacks DRC Camp for Displaced People, Killing 60, Pfizer Asks FDA to Approve COVID Vaccine for Young Kids Despite Mixed Clinical Trial Results, Ecuadorian Court Rejects Oil Drilling on Indigenous Lands in Amazon Rainforest, Biden Renominates Former Chevron Lawyer First Tapped by Trump to Become Federal Judge, Senate Forges Ahead with Judicial Confirmat…
(2022-02-03). Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Demonstrate Against Argentina's Agreement with IMF. orinocotribune.com 
The President of the Association of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, through a letter published this Monday, January 31, expressed the organization's disagreement to the payment of Argentina's external debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An exorbitant loan was issued by the Washington, DC-based IMF to the Argentine government during the mandate of former neoliberal President Mauricio Macri. The $56.7 billion loan was the largest ever issued to a single country. | The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization was formed to struggle against the Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. Par…
(2022-02-03). Argentina: Máximo Kirchner Resigns as President of Frente de Todos Parliamentary Block (+IMF). orinocotribune.com Máximo Kirchner resigned on Monday, January 31, from his responsibility as the head of the Frente De Todos (ruling party) in the Congress of the Argentine Republic. The deputy, who until Monday presided over the block of deputies of the ruling party, made his decision public through a statement in which he expressed his disagreement with President Alberto Fernández's economic policy, embodied in the recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). | With this position, the son of former President Néstor Kirchner and current Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, distanced himself from the pr…
(2022-02-03). Anti-China Canadian MPs claim Sovereignty over Argentine Mine. dissidentvoice.org 
The anti-China panic sweeping Canadian politics has descended from tragedy into farce. A month ago I mocked Globe and Mail Report on Business columnist Eric Reguly for complaining about China-based Zijin Mining purchasing Neo Lithium. The nominally Canadian firm extracts lithium in Argentina. Reguly succeeded in stirring a national security scare about minerals extracted 10,000 …
(2022-02-03). Argentina President: It's Necessary to End Dependence on US, Develop Cooperation With Russia. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Argentina's large external debt rose largely because of the United States, so Buenos Aires needs to get rid of dependence on Washington and open up new opportunities in cooperation with Russia, President Alberto Fernandez said.
(2022-02-03). Argentina To Develop Cooperation With Russia. telesurenglish.net The President marked the challenging context Argentina is facing, economically speaking, because of a severe external debt crisis. To a large degree, A crisis originated due to Argentina's orientation towards the U.S. since the 1990s. | RELATED: | The dependence on Washington has only increased Argentine debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the President. | In conversations with Russian President Vladimir Puti…
(2022-02-03). Argentina: Megaminería mata. indybay.org Murió un trabajador minero triturado por una máquina en Mina de oro Lindero – Mansfield en la Puna de Salta.
(2022-02-03). Survey describes chances of ex-president becoming leader again. rt.com 
Brazil's former president is poised to beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, a poll shows | Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was polling at 41%, ahead of President Jair Bolsonaro with 30%, according to a survey conducted by PoderData between January 31 and February 1. Lula da Silva's lead over Bolsonaro has slightly narrowed compared to a 42-28 difference two weeks ago. | In a runoff vote, Lula da Silva would beat Bolsonaro with 54% against 37%, the same poll found. Both men have not yet formally declared their candidacies. A different poll last month showed that Lula da Silva could win in the first round. | Famous for his…
(2022-02-03). 87% Of Brazilian Doctors Got COVID-19 In Last Two Months. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB) published a survey according to which 87.3 percent of doctors were infected with COVID-19 in the last two months. | RELATED: | The exponential increase in COVID-19 cases also affected the mental health of these professionals, 51.6 percent of whom are very apprehensive as they think that their health can be affected by anything right now. | At least 51.1 percent of physicians ar…
(2022-02-03). Pressing for Cancellation of Brazilian President's Visit to Russia, Reports Say. orinocotribune.com 
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) — The United States is putting pressure on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to call off his visit to Moscow in February saying it may be interpreted as taking sides amid tensions on the Russian-Ukrainian border, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported, citing diplomatic sources. | "During a Sunday phone call with Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concerns again that the president's visit might be interpreted as a sign that Brazil takes a side in the conflict", sources in the Brazilian Foreign Ministry told the newspape…
(2022-02-03). 'Police used Bogota bus terminals to torture protesters'. colombiareports.com Bogota police used bus terminals in Colombia's capital as illegal detention centers during protests last year, according to opposition politicians. The accusation made by two Bogota city council members was…