Daily Archives: March 22, 2022

2022-03-22: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-22). Venezuela: A Model Of Resistance To US Intervention. popularresistance.org Unlike Ukraine, Venezuela successfully resisted the violent US-led coup attempt in 2014, and in other years, by right wing forces and the hybrid war being waged against it. Venezuela is recovering despite the ongoing economic blockade. Now, because the United States needs oil, the Biden administration has started talking to the Maduro government and there is hope that relations between the two countries may resume. For an update on this situation, as well as the future of Venezuela's US-based oil company CITGO, the status of Venezuela's gold in the Bank of London, the demise of Juan Guaido, and the kidnapping of…

Dan Collyns (2022-03-22). The ancestral crops of Peru. america.cgtn.com The Peruvian Andes is home to one of the most diverse food systems in the world. Dan Collyns tells us about the importance of Peru ¥s agro-bio-diversity.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela of Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustration…

Staff (2022-03-22). Venezuela's Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions Starts Monday. orinocotribune.com Last Thursday, March 17, Venezuela's National Integrated Service for the Administration of Customs (SENIAT) At the core of the reform is the ruling that foreign currency transactions will be subject to a tax equal to or grea…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela for Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustratio…

teleSUR, JL (2022-03-21). Pdte. de Perú declara emergencia en el sector agrario. telesurtv.net "Nuestras tierras nos dan todos los alimentos y los hermanos agricultores merecen ser apoyados de manera integral y rápida", recordó el mandatario.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). A Commune Called 'Che': A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela's project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.

Ramzy Baroud (2022-03-21). New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to Deadly US Sanctions? mintpressnews.com Now that Russia's moves in Eastern Europe have re-ignited the 'Great Game' of a previous era, Venezuela, Cuba and others, though thousands of miles away, are finding themselves at the heart of the budding new Great Game…

Staff (2022-03-21). Venezuela and China to Deepen Strategic Alliance (+New Credit Line Reports). orinocotribune.com Caracas, March 20, 2022 ( Orinoco Tribune had access to credible sources mentioning an agreement between the Chinese and the Venezuelan government through which China will open a new $5 billion line of credit, allowing Venezuela to boost its economic recovery strategy, which has yield…

Joel Richards (2022-03-21). Ukrainian community in Argentina helping refugees amid Ukraine crisis. america.cgtn.com Like many cities around the world, Buenos Aires has seen protests over the conflict in Ukraine in recent days. A large Ukrainian community is pulling together to help those affected by the crisis. Some sectors of the economy in Argentina are also starting to feel …

teleSUR, JL (2022-03-21). Boca Juniors derrota a River Plate como visitante. telesurtv.net El tanto del Xeneize llegó por intermedio del colombiano Sebastián Villa en la segunda parte.

Julian Cola (2022-03-21). Lula Counters FBI-Backed "Corruption" Prosecution to Lead Brazil's 2022 Presidential Race. mintpressnews.com "At the age of 74, my heart only has room for love," Lula told a crowd of supporters from an impromptu stage, adding that as a migrant from the poor, underserved northeast region, "there's nothing that can beat me."

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-21). Colombia's election chief orders recount of congressional election results. colombiareports.com Colombia's top election official ordered a recount of disputed congressional election results. National Registrar Alexander Vega ordered the recount of the Senate election results at the request of President Ivan…

teleSUR, JL (2022-03-21). Asesinan a líder social en Colombia, el número 43 en el 2022. telesurtv.net Además de los 43 líderes sociales asesinados, el país contabiliza 23 masacres perpetradas durante el 2022.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-21). Public confidence in Colombia's elections collapsed: observers. colombiareports.com Public confidence in Colombia's electoral process collapsed due to "an accumulation of errors," according to election observers. The crisis followed congressional elections of which the results are still being disputed…

Joris Leverink (2022-03-21). Reviving the legacy of civil rights leader Anton de Kom. roarmag.org The story of Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom might seem one of those hard-to-believe Hollywood-style legends. Born the son of a formerly enslaved Surinamese farmer in 1898, he would go on to lead a national struggle against the ruling Dutch Empire before being imprisoned and banished to the Netherlands. Once in exile, he joined the resistance against German occupation, was captured and died of tuberculosis in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 47. | The seeming contradiction of a Black anti-imperialist that would come to fight and die on behalf of his oppressor nation, coupled with an unrivaled position as a D…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.

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