mforinoco (2023-03-05). Political Repression Under Peruvian Coup Regime. orinocotribune.com By Clau O'Brien Moscoso — Mar 1, 2023 | The people of Peru continue to protest the coup which ousted President Pedro Castillo Terrones. Clau O'Brien Moscoso reports from Peru. | National Strike, Day 52 | As the coup against President Pedro Castillo continues into its third month, the political repression on the ground has been severe and growing. From a single mother who fundraised approximately 2000 soles (roughly under $500) to buy food, medicine, and other necessities for protesters coming to Lima from provincial regions, to community leaders from the FREDEPA (Front for the Defense of the People of Ayacu…

Staff (2023-03-05). Colombia's Satena Airline Resumes Commercial Flights Between Bogotá and Caracas. orinocotribune.com On Friday, March 3, more than 40 passengers arrived at the Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, on an EMB145 aircraft belonging to the Colombian airline Satena. This was Satena's first commercial flight from Bogotá to Caracas in over five years. There was a short service disruption that, according to Colombian sources, was caused by aircraft deficiencies despite some analyst speculations that US sanctions were also part of the inconvenience. | Satena will have flights on this route twice a week. On Tuesdays and Fridays at 5 a.m., flights will depart from Bogotá to Caracas, ret…

mforinoco (2023-03-05). Political Repression Under Peruvian Coup Regime. orinocotribune.com By Clau O'Brien Moscoso — Mar 1, 2023 | The people of Peru continue to protest the coup which ousted President Pedro Castillo Terrones. Clau O'Brien Moscoso reports from Peru. | National Strike, Day 52 | As the coup against President Pedro Castillo continues into its third month, the political repression on the ground has been severe and growing. From a single mother who fundraised approximately 2000 soles (roughly under $500) to buy food, medicine, and other necessities for protesters coming to Lima from provincial regions, to community leaders from the FREDEPA (Front for the Defense of the People of Ayacu…

Staff (2023-03-05). Colombia's Satena Airline Resumes Commercial Flights Between Bogotá and Caracas. orinocotribune.com On Friday, March 3, more than 40 passengers arrived at the Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, on an EMB145 aircraft belonging to the Colombian airline Satena. This was Satena's first commercial flight from Bogotá to Caracas in over five years. There was a short service disruption that, according to Colombian sources, was caused by aircraft deficiencies despite some analyst speculations that US sanctions were also part of the inconvenience. | Satena will have flights on this route twice a week. On Tuesdays and Fridays at 5 a.m., flights will depart from Bogotá to Caracas, ret…

Staff (2023-03-05). Latin America's Plan Against Inflation 'a New Scenario of Regional Integration'. orinocotribune.com Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba are leading a project to contain and reduce inflation in Latin America. According to experts consulted by Sputnik, the plan is viable and could lead to the region's economic diversification. | According to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the plan consists of the commercial exchange of food imports and exports, as well as other goods, to reduce the consequences of economic problems in the region. | Producers, distributors and merchants will be invited to participate in the agreement. According to the most recent data, inflation is reported at 5.63% in Bra…

Staff (2023-03-05). World Meeting on the Validity of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Thought Begins in Caracas. orinocotribune.com On Friday, March 3, the World Meeting for the Validity of Commander Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Thought in the 21st century began to commemorate 10 years since Chávez's death. Over 140 international guests from 55 countries and several national intellectuals and writers are attending. From the José Félix Ribas room of the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, a series of conversations were held aimed at extolling Hugo Chávez's historical legacy in the consolidation of socialist Venezuela and his vision of a new multicentric and multipolar world. | Among the invited intellectuals present at the event are Atilio Botón fr…

Ociel Ali Lopez (2023-03-05). Ecuador: Between Corruption Scandals and Washington's Hand, Possible Scenarios for Lasso. orinocotribune.com By Ociel Alí López — Feb 28, 2023 | The electoral results of the sectional elections in Ecuador, held on February 5, are still generating an impact. President Guillermo Lasso's government has ended up so weakened that there are clear concerns that he will not make it to the end of his term, constitutionally scheduled to end in 2025. | This weekend, the powerful indigenous movement, accustomed to putting rulers on the ropes and, in many cases, overthrowing them, has declared a break with the dialogue tables it had with Lasso's administration and demanded his resignation. | To add to the tension, on Sunday, th…

Staff (2023-03-05). Mbappé se convirtió en el máximo goleador en la historia del París Saint-Germain. cubadebate.cu Kylian Mbappé se convirtió en el máximo goleador en la historia del París Saint-Germain, al marcar en los descuentos del partido que el conjunto capitalino ganó el sábado 4-2 al Nantes en la liga francesa. Al aportar el sexto y último gol del cotejo, Mbappé llegó a 201 dianas con el PSG y superó el récord del uruguayo Edinson Cavani.

JANET (2023-03-04). NYC: Sunday 3/5 Rally 4pm Commemorating Hugo Chávez U.S. Hands off Venezuela! Free Alex Saab! iacenter.org Join us in commemorating 10 years since the passing of Comandante Hugo Chávez. He strove to liberate the Venezuelan masses from poverty and US imperial domination, to serve the people, and to arm them politically & organizationally. Chávez nationalized Venezuela's natural resources to benefit the people and introduced medical and social programs for the poor. As we mourn our fallen hero, we also pledge to redouble our efforts to defend the socialist values that Comrade Hugo Chávez upheld. Comandante Hugo Chávez Presente! Our demands: * U.S. Hands OFF Venezuela! * NO Sanctions on the Venezuelan people! * FREE kidn…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute For Social Research. (2023-03-04). Who Die For Life — Like Hugo Chávez — Cannot Be Called Dead. popularresistance.org On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar's teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that it initiated two years earlier. The mission was named after Rodríguez (who was also known by the pseudonym Samuel Robinson). | One of those adults, María Eugenia Túa (age 70), stood beside President Hugo Chávez Frías and said, 'We are no longer poor. We are rich in kn…

People's Dispatch. (2023-03-04). US Renews 'National Emergency' Against Venezuela, Keeping Sanctions. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, March 1, US President Joe Biden renewed a directive declaring a state of national emergency "with respect to the situation in Venezuela." Titled Executive Order 13692, the measure was first implemented by former President Barack Obama in 2015 citing an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States." The EO was accompanied by sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials. | EO 13692, which has been renewed for another year, provides an expansive basis for the US to continue to impose illegal and brutal unilateral measures against the Bolivarian Repu…

Staff (2023-03-04). Venezuela: Jorge Rodríguez Criticizes Inadequate Infrastructure for Disabled People. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, March 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, urged the deputies to exercise the function of comptroller of the laws enacted for the benefit of all the Venezuelan people. | Rodríguez entered the Federal Legislative Palace's session chamber in a wheelchair due to a temporary disability in his left leg. He shared on social media that he was there to "do his job," but no further information was provided about the cause of his temporary disability. | Rodríguez called on the members of the National Assembly in the absence of ramps and other measures and devices that allo…

JANET (2023-03-04). NYC: Sunday 3/5 Rally 4pm Commemorating Hugo Chávez U.S. Hands off Venezuela! Free Alex Saab! iacenter.org Join us in commemorating 10 years since the passing of Comandante Hugo Chávez. He strove to liberate the Venezuelan masses from poverty and US imperial domination, to serve the people, and to arm them politically & organizationally. Chávez nationalized Venezuela's natural resources to benefit the people and introduced medical and social programs for the poor. As we mourn our fallen hero, we also pledge to redouble our efforts to defend the socialist values that Comrade Hugo Chávez upheld. Comandante Hugo Chávez Presente! Our demands: * U.S. Hands OFF Venezuela! * NO Sanctions on the Venezuelan people! * FREE kidn…

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute For Social Research. (2023-03-04). Who Die For Life — Like Hugo Chávez — Cannot Be Called Dead. popularresistance.org On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar's teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that it initiated two years earlier. The mission was named after Rodríguez (who was also known by the pseudonym Samuel Robinson). | One of those adults, María Eugenia Túa (age 70), stood beside President Hugo Chávez Frías and said, 'We are no longer poor. We are rich in kn…

People's Dispatch. (2023-03-04). US Renews 'National Emergency' Against Venezuela, Keeping Sanctions. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, March 1, US President Joe Biden renewed a directive declaring a state of national emergency "with respect to the situation in Venezuela." Titled Executive Order 13692, the measure was first implemented by former President Barack Obama in 2015 citing an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States." The EO was accompanied by sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials. | EO 13692, which has been renewed for another year, provides an expansive basis for the US to continue to impose illegal and brutal unilateral measures against the Bolivarian Repu…

Staff (2023-03-04). Venezuela: Jorge Rodríguez Criticizes Inadequate Infrastructure for Disabled People. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, March 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, urged the deputies to exercise the function of comptroller of the laws enacted for the benefit of all the Venezuelan people. | Rodríguez entered the Federal Legislative Palace's session chamber in a wheelchair due to a temporary disability in his left leg. He shared on social media that he was there to "do his job," but no further information was provided about the cause of his temporary disability. | Rodríguez called on the members of the National Assembly in the absence of ramps and other measures and devices that allo…

Staff (2023-03-04). Venezuela's Peasant Movement Demands Justice for Assassination of Carlos Bolívar (+Los Tramojos). orinocotribune.com At approximately 5: 30 a.m. on Thursday, March 2, Carlos Bolívar, a member of the Peasant Platform in Guárico state, was assassinated. Since 2018, he had been fighting to rescue Los Tramojos, a plot of land disputed with a landowner. The Platform for Peasant Struggle and the National Peasant Movement reported in a statement that Bolívar was assassinated while beginning his work in Puerto Carrizalero-Camaguán, Guárico. | "Bolívar was a historic leader in the struggle to rescue the Los Tramojos ranch, an emblematic case of the Admirable Peasant March, national leader of the Platform for Peasant Struggle and the Nati…

Staff (2023-03-04). Perú declara Estado de Emergencia por intensas lluvias en 56 provincias. cubadebate.cu Debido a las fuertes lluvias en varias regiones del norte del país, el Gobierno peruano decretó el viernes el Estado de Emergencia por al menos 60 días con el objetivo de ejecutar medidas y acciones que garanticen la protección de los ciudadanos ante los intensos aguaceros. La medida regirá en más de 230 distritos pertenecientes a 56 provincias.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-03-04). Bolivia respalda plan de México contra la inflación en Latinoamérica. telesurtv.net Entre los países que diseñará el plan se encuentran Brasil, Colombia, Cuba y Argentina.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-04). ALBA Movimientos debate crisis sistémica del capitalismo global. telesurtv.net Alba Movimientos es un instrumento de integración que nos ayuda a mirar de forma conjunta para enfrentar esos tiempos de inestabilidad.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-03-04). Rusia destaca impronta de Hugo Chávez en la comunidad global. telesurtv.net Canciller ruso, Serguei Lavrov, expresó que "incluso los opositores de Hugo Chávez reconocían la magnitud de su personalidad".

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-04). Presidente Maduro rechaza extensión del decreto de EE.UU. sobre Venezuela. telesurtv.net El mandatario aseguró que gracias a la unión de la clase obrera el país va saliendo adelante y va venciendo las sanciones impuestas.

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-03-04). Fiscalía de Ecuador pide arresto domiciliario para expresidente Moreno. telesurtv.net Por tener más de 65 años, la fiscal general pidió tanto para Lenín Moreno como para otros 13 sospechosos que se llevara a cabo el arresto domiciliario.

teleSUR, MER (2023-03-04). Liberan a policías y funcionarios retenidos en Caquetá, Colombia. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado colombiano aseveró que personalmente dialogará con los campesinos sobre sus necesidades, quejas y reclamos.

teleSUR, SH (2023-03-04). Gobierno peruano declara el Estado de Emergencia por lluvias. telesurtv.net El Estado de Emergencia regirá por 60 dias en 56 provincias de las regiones de Áncash, Cajamarca, La Libertad, Lambayeque, Lima, Piura y Tumbes.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-03-04). Educadores y universitarios exigen dimisión de Lasso en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Al son de las consignas ¡Fuera, Lasso, fuera! colectivos civiles llevan a cabo acciones de protesta en contra del mandatario ecuatoriano.

teleSUR, jaa, YSM (2023-03-04). Continúan combatiendo 21 incendios forestales en Chile. telesurtv.net Se mantiene la alerta roja en las regiones de Biobío y La Araucanía.

teleSUR, DRL (2023-03-04). Peruanos se movilizan para exigir renuncia de Dina Boluarte. telesurtv.net Designan un nuevo fiscal especializado de DD. HH. en Puno, quien será responsable de investigar la masacre perpetrada allí el 9 de enero de 2023.

teleSUR, SH (2023-03-04). Fiscalía de Perú cita a Dina Boluarte por muertes en protestas. telesurtv.net La presidenta peruana deberá acudir el próximo 7 de marzo a la sede del Ministerio Público en la capital del país.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-03-04). Fiscalía de Ecuador formula cargos contra expresidente Moreno. telesurtv.net La audiencia se celebra desde las 10H00 (hora local) en la sede de la Corte Nacional de Justicia, en Quito.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-03-04). Inicia vacunación contra la gripe aviar en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El país recibió las vacunas después de las pérdidas de 1,2 millones de aves entre muertas o sacrificadas por diversos focos infecciosos.

teleSUR, SH (2023-03-04). Presidente de Ecuador decreta estado de excepción en Esmeraldas. telesurtv.net Según datos oficiales desde enero, se han registrado 70 homicidios en la provincia de Esmeraldas.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-03-04). Emiten alerta roja por calor extremo en Buenos Aires, Argentina. telesurtv.net Se tomó la decisión al cumplirse el cuarto día consecutivo con temperaturas superiores a los 35 grados.