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(2023-12-20). Fuerte sismo de magnitud 6 remeció Arequipa, Perú. telesurtv.net Este es el segundo terremoto sentido en el país este miércoles, luego del temblor de magnitud 4.5 sentido esta madrugada en la región Apurímac…
(2023-12-21). Conmebol da calendario de preliminares de la Copa Libertadores. telesurtv.net El día 7 de febrero, el Aurora de Bolivia será local en Cochabamba contra el Melgar de Perú a las 20: 30 hora local…
(2023-12-21). Victory for Venezuela: Alex Saab is free! liberationnews.org 
Washington wanted to set an example with Saab and punish him, his family and the Venezuelan people for daring to resist the U.S. sanctions. Congratulations, Alex Saab. You are right, Venezuela won this battle.
(2023-12-21). Venezuela Secures Release Of Government Envoy Alex Saab. popularresistance.org Venezuela successfully negotiated the release of Alex Saab, a government envoy who spent more than three years detained. | Saab landed in Caracas on Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by his family and Venezuelan government officials. His release comes as a result of a negotiation between the Nicolás Maduro government and the Joe Biden administration that will see the release of up to 36 people, 10 of them US citizens, currently detained in Venezuela. | The Maduro government envoy was arrested during a refueling stopover in Cape Verde in June 2020 on his way to Iran to negotiate food and fuel import deals amidst…
(2023-12-21). US releases detained Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. peoplesdispatch.org Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the United States since October 2021, was finally released from US custody on December 20. Saab was detained in Cape Verde a year after being Saab was sanctioned amid intensified US attacks against Venezuela, which was attempting to…
(2023-12-21). Venezuela Brings Home Alex Saab in Exchange for Releasing Convicted US Mercenaries. orinocotribune.com 
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(2023-12-21). How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded. dissidentvoice.org Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as "a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy." The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington's illegal economic coercive measures, also known as sanctions. Negotiated prisoner exchange In …
(2023-12-21). A Bolivarian specter haunts the Monroe Doctrine. peoplesdispatch.org December 2, 2023 marked 200 years since US President James Monroe's famous words to Congress: "America for the Americans". To remember that anniversary, the Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH) organized an international forum "Bolivar versus Monroe, against imperialism, fascism and neocolonialism, within the framework of 200 years of anti-imperialism", in Caracas, Venezuela, from November 30 to December 2, 2023. | Over the three days of the conference, intellectuals and politicians from all over the continent spoke about the legacy of the Monroe Doctrine today and the ongoing struggle against US imperialism. Ma…
(2023-12-21). Gobierno venezolano anuncia liberación de diplomático Alex Saab. telesurtv.net Ya se encuentra en Venezuela. Su extradición a EE.UU. fue denunciada como un secuestro, con la complicidad de las entonces autoridades de Cabo Verde.
(2023-12-21). Presidente venezolano recibe al diplomático Alex Saab tras su liberación. telesurtv.net El Gobierno venezolano confirmó la liberación del diplomático Alex Saab mediante un comunicado.
venezuelanalysis.com (2023-12-20). Venezuela Secures Release of Gov't Envoy Alex SaabThe Venezuelan government and Saab's defense lawyers have maintained that he was acting as a special envoy and therefore was subject to diplomatic immunity. Caracas viewed the detention of Saab as a violation of international law, tantamount to a "kidnapping" and his persecution as a politically motivated trial. Saab maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering.
(2023-12-20). President Maduro: There Must Be Justice for Palestinian People. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that the Palestinian people deserve justice. He labeled as "monstrous" the massacre suffered by Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and denounced it as "an uncontrolled genocide." | "Humanity has to always remember who the criminals were, what crimes they committed, and sooner rather than later there must be justice," he stated on Monday, December 18, during the 30th episode of his TV program Con Maduro+. | President Maduro added that more than 7,000 children have been victims of the Israeli bombardment throughout the Gaza Strip. "This i…
(2023-12-20). Venezuela's Foreign Minister: Canada's Interference in Essequibo Dialogue is Hostile (+UK). orinocotribune.com
(2023-12-20). Venezuela, Guyana: The shocking war that wasn't. responsiblestatecraft.org 
On December 4, Venezuelan voters
(2023-12-20). Liberan a excónsul del Reino Unido secuestrado en Ecuador. telesurtv.net La ministra de Gobierno, Mónica Palencia, confirmó la liberación y expresó que "gracias al trabajo de la policía Ecuador y de sus unidades se logró el rescate".
(2023-12-20). Exvicepresidente ecuatoriano Jorge Glas pedirá asilo a México. telesurtv.net La defensa de Glas señaló que el asilo se pedirá de conformidad con la Convención de Asilo Diplomático de Caracas.
(2023-12-21). Thousands take to the streets in Argentina in the first mobilization against Milei's government. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of Argentines demonstrated, this Wednesday December 20, "against the economic austerity measures" implemented by Javier Milei's government. The day was marked by high tension early on, following a major police operation carried out at the main entrances to the city of Buenos Aires. | The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, announced that she would debut her "anti-picketing protocol", presented last Friday December 15, and threatened that they would not allow the demonstration to take place. However, the call to mobilization managed to overcome the fear that the government tried to install. | The pe…
(2023-12-21). Argentina — El ideologismo como pilar de la política exterior. globalizacion.ca La prensa hegemónica, cuyos principales exponentes se hallan febrilmente en carrera para a ver quién es el más oficialista, celebra gozosa el "giro" de la política exterior argentina anunciado por la canciller Diana Mondino. Este cambio de rumbo resume la…
(2023-12-21). Cuba rechaza intentos de vincularla con actos vandálicos en Argentina. telesurtv.net "La narrativa que busca responsables en Cuba de situaciones internas en Argentina es un intento fallido de hallar causas donde no deben buscarse", expresó.
(2023-12-21). Argentina — Otra vez el "ajuste doloroso" junto al "estatuto del orden" globalizacion.ca El nuevo ciclo ultraconservador en la Argentina ha comenzado, sustentado en una viscosa mezcla ideológica: el discurso fundacional de Martínez de Hoz, el menemismo de los 90 con su interregno delarruista de fin de siglo, y el neoliberalismo privatizador macrista…
(2023-12-21). Realizan marcha contra medidas de ajuste económico en Argentina. telesurtv.net En la marcha estuvieron presentes al menos 100 organizaciones sociales, políticas, sindicales, estudiantiles y de derechos humanos (DD.HH.).
(2023-12-20). Argentina: not to be mistaken for a nightmare, this is reality. pressenza.com Argentina's cities are rapidly losing their traditional vertigo. A strident, lethargic, lethargic silence survives. The euphoria of winning the World Cup is over, although the media still insist that the Argentinians "are world champions". | The people are aware that nothing will ever be the same again. They have kept deep within their interior those ideas of equality, solidarity, fraternity, smiles and hugs. Now it's every man for himself for almost everyone, except for those who already had everything… and are going for more. | It is not an economic shock — to which citizens are accustomed -, it is not a…
(2023-12-20). Gobierno argentino impulsa campaña para desalentar protestas. telesurtv.net La jornada de movilización en Argentina en conmemoración de las manifestaciones del 20 de diciembre de 2001 comenzó con requisas policiales de autobuses urbanos.
(2023-12-20). Marcharán en Argentina contra plan de ajustes del presidente Milei. telesurtv.net Esta será la primera gran movilización contra el plan económico de Javier Milei, la cual coincide con el aniversario del estallido social de diciembre de 2001.
(2023-12-21). Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil's Long Coup. globalresearch.ca
(2023-12-20). Chinese currency goes international in first yuan-based cross-border commercial loan. america.cgtn.com 
The first yuan-based cross-border commercial loan was recently completed in Brazil marking a major step toward the internationalization of the Chinese currency. A Chinese company that operates a major hydropower plant in Brazil was the recipient. | Paulo Cabral reports from Brazil.
(2023-12-21). Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another. counterpunch.org 
This past Sunday, Chileans voted once again on a new constitution, opting to reject — for the second time in two years — an attempt at constitutional revision. Rejecting a highly conservative text, voters chose to keep the dictatorship-era constitution for the time being. A political saga that began amid immense hope has now devolved
(2023-12-20). Lessons From One Unequal Society To Another. popularresistance.org This past Sunday, Chileans voted once again on a new constitution, opting to reject — for the second time in two years — an attempt at constitutional revision. Rejecting a highly conservative text, voters chose to keep the dictatorship-era constitution for the time being. A political saga that began amid immense hope has now devolved into a dismal disarray that's left countless Chileans tired and frustrated. | Here in the United States, we face an equally bleak political outlook. According to a recent Pew Research Center report, 25 percent of U.S. adults feel that neither of the nation's two major par…
(2023-12-20). Chile, Tomás Hirsch: "The victory of the No vote in the constitutional referendum is a cause for relief". pressenza.com The draft constitution drawn up by the right was rejected yesterday with more than 55% of the vote. We have requested Tomas Hirsch, Deputy Hirsch, president of Humanist Action, to comment on the referendum result. | The triumph of the No is the triumph of the people of Chile, who wisely rejected a constitutional proposal that looked more like a government programme of the extreme right than a possible Constitution for our country. | In Chile, we have a bad Constitution, generated during the dictatorship by the generals and their friends, and we have fought for more than 40 years to change it, but it is not a ques…
(2023-12-20). Una Ofrenda Por la Paz. worldbeyondwar.org 
Por Juan Pablo Lazo, World BEYOND War, December 20, 2023 | La escuela de cuidadores de vida, que se nutre e inspira de las enseñanzas originarias Koguis de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, organiza un encuentro al que ha invitado a líderes de con un camino de Paz de toda América. Entre ellos, ha pedido a Juan Pablo Lazo coordinador de World Beyond War de la bioregión del Aconcagua para que facilite el momento participativo. | Se invita a la comunidad hispanoparlante a sumarse a cocrear en la comprensión que la acvtividad tendrá un momento de grupos pequeños donde todos tendrán oportunidad de expresar…
(2023-12-20). Chile: La experiencia de la herida. globalizacion.ca Fernando Prats, en su exposición "Dos minutos y medio para el mediodía del 11 de septiembre de 1973", manifiesta lo que plantea Jean-Luc Nancy: "Un cuerpo no está vacío. Está lleno de otros cuerpos. | Quizás esa sea la experiencia de…
(2023-12-21). Boycott of Leather Suppliers over Fears for Uncontacted Indigenous People in Paraguay. dissidentvoice.org 
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, on the day she was first contacted in 2004. Her relatives are still hiding in the forest. © GAT/Survival Pasubio, one of Europe's leading leather manufacturers, has today announced that it will refuse to buy leather from suppliers whose activities directly or indirectly threaten the forests inhabited by the uncontacted Ayoreo people …
(2023-12-20). Abaten a nueve narcotraficantes en operativo antidrogas en Paraguay. telesurtv.net El asalto forma parte del Operativo Ignis promovido por agencias antidrogas y de seguridad brasileñas y paraguayas en el departamento de Canindeyú.
(2023-12-20). Condenan a expresidente surinamés Desiré Bouterse por masacre. telesurtv.net Exlíder del ejército, Desi Bouterse siempre ha negado su participación y dijo que el proceso tenía motivaciones políticas.