2023-09-12: News Headlines

Ana Perdigón (2023-09-12). President Maduro Continues China Tour, Meets With BRICS Bank Chief and CPC Authorities. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, met with the president of the New Development Bank (NBD) of the BRICS, Dilma Rousseff, as part of his official visit to China. | The meeting took place at the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) headquarters in Shanghai, on Sunday, September 10. | Maduro and Rousseff discussed NDB's impact in the construction of a new world economic system. | @N…

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-09-12). Puebla Group Demands Formal Apology from the US for Chile Coup. orinocotribune.com

WSWS (2023-09-12). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Educators from across Argentina staged National Day of Educators' Struggle to highlight their issues including pay while more than 1,000 Hormel meatpackers rallied on Labor Day as their contract deadline neared.

Phil Pasquini (2023-09-12). Teach-In on the 50th Anniversary of the Brutal Chilean Coup & The AFL-CIO. indybay.org At and educational conference sponsored by the Labor Education Project on The AFL-CIO International Operations reports were made about the US AFL-CIO supported and organized coup in Chile on 9/11/73.

WSWS (2023-09-12). Chile's pseudo-left government commemorates 50th anniversary of Pinochet's coup by appeasing far right. wsws.org Monday's ceremony marking 50 years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende was noteworthy for its boycott by the entire Chilean right, whose representatives issued statements justifying the coup.

Vijay Prashad (2023-09-12). What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973? orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Sep 7, 2023 | Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given a green light by the US government, did not leave their barracks. President Salvador Allende, who led the Popular Unity government, went to his office in La Moneda in Santiago to

Alexis Polo Gonzalez, Resumen English. (2023-09-12). Chile: 'I Have The President On The Line'; Allende's Last Message. popularresistance.org In the early hours of September 11, 1973, the coup forces carried out Operation Silence, in order to silence the media supporting Salvador Allende's government. The military's mission was a complete success. However, before they managed to bomb all the transmitting antennas, Allende was able to address the country for the last time. | The president's last speech to the country was through Radio Magallanes in the midst of the shooting in the vicinity of La Moneda Palace, the seat of the executive. Journalist Leonardo Cáceres informed the microphone that Allende would speak to the country. It was 09: 20 in the morni…

Pauline Lipman, Rico Gutstein, Convergence. (2023-09-12). Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities Of Political Crises. popularresistance.org Twenty years of grassroots organizing by Black and Latinx community organizations, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), and the broad Left propelled CTU organizer Brandon Johnson to victory in the April 2023 Chicago mayoral race. Similarly, across the country, progressive and left organizations are focusing on electoral politics as a central arena of struggle. These campaigns are part of a larger motion—a new generation of social movements, union organizing, and Black-led uprisings against racist state violence—provoked by intertwined political, economic, social, and ecological crises in the US and globa…

ecns.cn (2023-09-12). Venezuelan President Maduro visits multiple Chinese cities. ecns.cn Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros visited a number of Chinese cities including Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, Shanghai and Ji'nan, East China's Shandong Province during his seven-day "historic" visit to China starting from Friday.

Ana Perdigón (2023-09-12). Colombian President: West's Economic Blockade Against Venezuela is Reason Behind Migration Crisis. orinocotribune.com Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated that the migration crisis in the region originated because of the economic blockade against Venezuela imposed by the United States and the European Union. | Making a joint statement with his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador during the Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Life, Peace and Decelopment, held in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday, September 9, Petro stated that the US blockade against Venezuela started a series of migratory waves. | "In the case of migration, it was the economic blockade that began waves of exodus, first from Venezuela to Colombi…

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-12). Rally commemorates Chile coup. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2023-09-12). 50 Years After Coup in Chile: Peter Kornbluh on How U.S. Continues to Hide Role of Nixon & Kissinger. democracynow.org On the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that deposed democratically elected socialist leader Salvador Allende, we discuss the U.S. contribution to the coup and declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project with Peter Kornbluh. His book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, has been revised and published in Chile for the first time. "There's a lot known about the U.S. role in Chile, but there's a lot to be reminded of, as well, and then ther…

Staff (2023-09-12). Coffee & Chavistas with Elida Polanco: 'Capriles and Machado Should be in Jail'. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Elida Polanco is a Venezuelan alternative communicator. She is co-founder of Radio Perola and Voces Libertarias, two notable community…

Franck Gaudichaud (2023-09-12). A Revolutionary Experience. Chile 1970-1973. internationalviewpoint.org "A true capitalist counterrevolution transformed Chile into the world's first experiment in neoliberalism." | – | / |

Anand Naidoo (2023-09-12). The Heat: Chile Coup 50 Years On. america.cgtn.com Chile marks the 50th anniversary of its coup in 1973. | It is now 50 years since Chile was rocked by a military coup in September 1973. | It was backed by the United States and brought an end to the government of the democratically elected Marxist president, Salvador Allende. | General Augusto Pinochet took over and under his military rule, which was bloody and divisive, it lasted until 1990. Today, Chile is still dealing with the trauma of those turbulent times. | Joining the discussion: | Peter Kuznick is…

Phil Pasquini (2023-09-12). Teach-In on the 50th Anniversary of the Brutal Chilean Coup. indybay.org

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-12). Presidente de Venezuela sostiene reunión con autoridades del Comité Provincial de Shandong. telesurtv.net El presidente resaltó que el oriente de Venezuela tiene un inmenso potencial para unir inversiones, producción y comercio con Shandong.

teleSUR, DRL, odr, YSM (2023-09-12). Chile recuerda 50 años de golpe contra Salvador Allende. telesurtv.net El golpe del 11 de septiembre de 1973 liderado por el general Augusto Pinochet dio inicio a una dictadura de 17 años, que dejó más de 40.000 víctimas, entre ellos más de 3.200 ejecutados.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-12). Presidente de Venezuela destaca logros alcanzados durante su gira por China. telesurtv.net El mandatario anunció el hermanamiento de Carabobo, La Guaira y Anzoátegui y Monagas con Shangái, Shenzhen y Shandong, respectivamente.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-12). Se movilizan a un año del feminicidio de María Belén Bernal en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Desde el 1 de enero hasta el 30 de junio de 2023, se registraron 122 feminicidios de mujeres y niñas.

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-09-12). Bolivia continúa con la inflación más baja de Suramérica. telesurtv.net El Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) reportó un incremento del 0,39 por ciento del índice de precios al consumidor (IPC)en el mes de agosto, comparado con julio.

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