(2022-01-02). Venezuela: De la resistencia a la recuperación productiva y el bienestar social. liberationnews.org 
Por Jesús Faría, presidente de la Comisión Permanente de Economía, Finanzas y Desarrollo Económico de la Asamblea Nacional (AN), y miembro del liderazgo nacional del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV).
(2022-01-02). Venezuela Commemorates Haitian and Cuban Revolutions. orinocotribune.com 
On Saturday, January 1, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela congratulated the people and the government of Haiti for 218 years of independence of the nation as well as Cuba for the 63rd anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Venezuela also reaffirmed its commitment to brotherhood with the two Caribbean countries. | "Since the birth of the Haitian Revolution, the Haitian people have been the precursor of liberation struggles and a spirit of equality that spread throughout all of Our America," read the statement released on Saturday by the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, published on its Twitt…
(2022-01-02). Welcome 2022! President Maduro Highlights his Administration's Achieved Goals. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a message to welcome in the new year 2022. In his message, the president highlighted the goals that had been achieved in the previous year 2021 and referred to it as a mystical cycle for Venezuela in which the Carabobo Bicentennial was celebrated. | Maduro pointed out that 2021 was characterized by its renewal of hope and by the strength of the people's courage in the midst of the attacks perpetrated by different sectors of the national and international right-wing. | "We will have to remember 2021 as being the year of our democratic institutions; of the consolidation of…
(2022-01-02). Venezuela: from resistance to recovery in production and social welfare. liberationnews.org 
By Jesús Faría, president of the Permanent Commission of Economy, Finances and Economic Development of the National Assembly and member of the national leadership of the…
(2022-01-01). 2021 Latin America And The Caribbean In Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again. popularresistance.org US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean continued in a seamless transition from Trump to Biden, but the terrain over which it operated shifted left. The balance between the US drive to dominate its "backyard" and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major popular electoral victories in Chile, Honduras, and Peru. These follow the previous year's reversal of the coup in Bolivia. | Central has been the struggle of the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America) countries — particularly Venezuela, Cuba, and…
(2022-01-01). Venezuelan Government Delivers House Number 3.9 Million Despite the Blockade. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, December 30, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, delivered in the Nueva Barinas II Housing Complex, in the Barinas municipality, Rómulo Betancourt parish, Barinas state, the milestone of 3.9 million homes delivered by the Great Venezuela Housing Mission (GMVV). | "Today we deliver the 3,900,000 house here, a gift to Chávez," said the president. | In Aragua state, President Maduro pointed out that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to affect the world, and despite the imposition of unilateral coercive measures by the United States government and authorities, the Venezuelan g…
(2022-01-01). Argentina: Labor, Environmentalists, and Indigenous Unite to Defeat Mining (Canada Mining Corporations Again). orinocotribune.com By Marisela Trevin — Dec 28, 2021 | A zoning law would have opened up the southern Argentinian province of Chubut to large-scale mining by multinational corporations. | But the law was defeated in just five days by an alliance of environmentalists, workers, youth, and indigenous people. Their fight points the way forward for other movements around the world. | The people of the southern Argentinian province of Chubut are celebrating more than just the holidays this December. After a fierce struggle against a recently enacted zoning law that would have opened the province up to large-scale silver, copper, and…
(2022-01-01). [Correspondence] Brazilian science under continuous attack. thelancet.com Despite the resistance of Brazilian scientists, science in Brazil has been undermined by measures implemented by the federal government in the past 3 years, such as increasing budget cuts, attacks on the autonomy of universities, and a general policy of denial of science. A recent budget cut of US$110 million to the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovations budget, in addition to the withholding of $490 million from the National Scientific and Technological Development Fund, not only represents an enormous impediment to conducting research at universities and research institutes, but also jeopardises the fut…
(2022-01-01). Two Attacks Against the Police in Two Days: Direct Action as a Voice Against Prison Abuse. itsgoingdown.org 
By: La Zarzamora The following is an English translation of an article from the independent feminist media outlet La Zarzamora, contextualizing two recent explosive attacks carried out against the prison system in Santiago and providing a wider view of the crisis inside the prisons in so-called Chile. The gendarmerie are one of two police forces…