(2025-02-11). US Court Blocks Trump Administration Sending Immigrants To Guantanamo. popularresistance.org A federal court on Sunday halted the Donald Trump administration's attempt to transfer three Venezuelan immigrants, detained in New Mexico, to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. | Earlier that day, the men's lawyers argued in a legal filing that the detainees "fit the profile" of those the administration had targeted for transfer to Guantanamo. | The filing also stated that they were "Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang," CNN reported. | The lawyers urged a US District Court in New Mexico to block the transfer, arguing that the "uncertainty"
(2025-02-11). Migrants return to Venezuela from the United States. plenglish.com Caracas, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan Government on Monday announced the return home of two planes from the United States as part of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland Plan), on which national migrants are returning from the northern nation.
(2025-02-10). Bolivia: Do We Not Eat? Do We Not Know How to Speak? libya360.wordpress.com Cindy Forster Part I: Listening to the Poor Last September's enormous march, October's blockades, and the assassination attempt against Evo Morales met with thousands of Indigenous standing guard. "For them —for this kind of government— we are worth nothing. So who are we, then? Do we not eat? Do we not know how to speak?"…
(2025-02-10). Billionaire proposes US$1 million reward for Bolivia's ex-president Evo Morales. scmp.com Evo Morales, who is subject of an arrest warrant, responded that Marcelo Claure was crazy or foolish.
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-02-10). Bolivia: Do We Not Eat? Do We Not Know How to Speak? libya360.wordpress.com Cindy Forster Part I: Listening to the Poor Last September's enormous march, October's blockades, and the assassination attempt against Evo Morales met with thousands of Indigenous standing guard. "For them —for this kind of government— we are worth nothing. So who are we, then? Do we not eat? Do we not know how to speak?"…
newarab (2025-02-10). Immigrants seek to block Trump from sending them to Guantanamo. newarab.com 
Lawyers for three Venezuelan immigrants arrested in New Mexico during A court filing Sunday says while the men haven't been told they'll be transferred out of the Otero County Processing Centre, they have a credible fear that they'll be sent to Guantanamo. Other detainees at the facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were flown to the…
TASS (2025-02-10). US puts major pressure in UN hoping to scare off Russia's potential partners — envoy. tass.com The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations was established at the UN Headquarters in New York in 2019 at the initiative of then Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza…
(2025-02-10). Runoff vote expected in Ecuador presidential election. america.cgtn.com 
With most votes counted in Ecuador's election, the country is headed for a runoff vote after a statistical tie between incumbent conservative President Daniel Noboa and his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez. Dan Collyns reports from Quito.
(2025-02-10). Bipartisanism Wins in Ecuador: Noboa and González Head to Presidential Run-off. libya360.wordpress.com Pablo Meriguet Luisa González and Daniel Noboa will face off in the run off elections on April 13. Photos via X In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates. Right-wing…
(2025-02-10). National Electoral Council of Ecuador: Presidential Elections to Go to Runoff. orinocotribune.com The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador announced that if the trends in the scrutiny of the votes cast in the presidential elections held this Sunday are maintained, there will be a runoff on April 13. | In a press conference late on Sunday night, the president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, said that so far more than 66% of the electoral records have been processed and that this task will continue "until the last vote is counted." |
(2025-02-10). Ecuador set for run-off in presidential election dominated by security. aljazeera.com Surge in support sees left-wing challenger Luisa Gonzalez neck and neck with incumbent President Daniel Noboa.
(2025-02-10). Leftist surge pushes Ecuador presidential race toward run-off in April. scmp.com Ecuador's conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa led leftist Luisa González by less than 1 per cent in close race.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2025-02-10). US Puppet Narco State: CIA/State Department Control Over Ecuador. popularresistance.org On January 3rd, Black Agenda Report contributor Clau O'Brien Moscoso interviewed economic analyst Juan Fernando Terán on the deadly war on crime that President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa has imposed on the Ecuadorian people, with fatal consequences for African, indigenous and poor communities. One such case is that of the Guayaquil Four , four young African boys forcibly disappeared then murdered by members of the Ecuadorian Air Force on Dec 8, 2024. The following is the second part of the interview…
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2025-02-10). Bipartisanism Wins in Ecuador: Noboa and González Head to Presidential Run-off. libya360.wordpress.com Pablo Meriguet Luisa González and Daniel Noboa will face off in the run off elections on April 13. Photos via X In an unprecedented election, the candidate of the ruling party and the candidate of the Citizen Revolution party monopolized more than 88% of the valid votes, even though there were almost 16 candidates. Right-wing…
Harvey Goldberg (2025-02-10). Amid harsh deportations from the U.S., Ecuador holds elections. indybay.org At stake in the elections are the Presidency of Ecuador and every seat in the National Assembly. Mendez spoke about the Trump deportations of Ecuadorians; the needss of Ecuadorians in the U.S.; the disenfranchisement of most Ecuadorians living in the diaspora; the current situation in Ecuador; and the potential for fraud in the elections.
Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza (2025-02-10). Leonidas Iza: "Elections are an extension of the people's struggle" internationalviewpoint.org In conversation with Jacobin América Latina, the Ecuadorean indigenous leader and presidential candidate analyses the country's economic and political crisis, the impact of popular mobilisations and the need to articulate a project from the grassroots that combines social struggle and electoral dispute. | – |
Staff (2025-02-10). Daniel Noboa y Luisa González a segunda vuelta en elecciones en Ecuador. cubadebate.cu El actual presidente de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, se medirá a la representante de Revolución Ciudadana (RC), Luisa González, en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales en el país sudamericano. Al parecer Noboa y su equipo esperaban ganar en una sola vuelta, a pesar de que varias encuestas y expertos preveían un escenario bastante parejo.
aljazeera (2025-02-10). Ecuador set for run-off in presidential election dominated by security. aljazeera.com Surge in support sees left-wing challenger Luisa Gonzalez neck and neck with incumbent President Daniel Noboa.
(2025-02-10). Stories of Resistance: How Indigenous peoples in Brazil fought COVID-19. therealnews.com 
Back to the Earth | In the early days of COVID, when the disease spreads like wildfire | And ICU units overflow capacity | There are few places as bad as Brazil | And the Amazon is ground zero | A sign of just how scary it can get | And what awaits everyone else | Mass graves in Manaus | Hospitals at capacity | Oxygen running out | Cases spiking | The death count rising | Particularly among Indigenous populations | And president Jair Bolsonaro laughs off the virus | He tells cameras it was just a little cold | That he is strong and won't catch it (even though he does) | He fights with governors | And attack…
ICRC (2025-02-10). Brazil: 2024 – promotion of international humanitarian law (IHL) and responses to the effects of armed violence. icrc.org
newleftreview (2025-02-10). André Singer: Lulismo 3.0: A Mid-Term Diagnosis. newleftreview.org The curdling of Brazilian politics, as an energized new right advances at local level, the corrupt swamp of the Centrà£o holds sway in Congress, while Lula attempts to bargain with capital from the Planalto. What do these trends portend for the country's future?
(2025-02-10). Three members of Colombia's cabinet resign over new cabinet chief. colombiareports.com Two ministers and the administration chief of Colombia's President Gustavo Petro resigned after the appointment of an allegedly corrupt cabinet chief. Petro announced the appointment of former Senator Armando Benedetti…
(2025-02-10). SATIRE: Colombia President Claims Cocaine No Worse Than Whiskey. theonion.com 
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting that cocaine is "not worse than whiskey" and that it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America. What do you think?
Adriaan Alsema (2025-02-10). Three members of Colombia's cabinet resign over new cabinet chief. colombiareports.com Two ministers and the administration chief of Colombia's President Gustavo Petro resigned after the appointment of an allegedly corrupt cabinet chief. Petro announced the appointment of former Senator Armando Benedetti…