Positive Universe: South America

2022-10-02: News Headlines

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-10-02). Nueva masacre en Colombia tras triple asesinato en el Cauca. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con Indepaz, los hechos de la masacre número 81 en Colombia tuvieron en el municipio Villa Rica, Cauca.

TeleSUR, MER (2022-10-02). Denuncian asesinato de lideresa social en Putumayo, Colombia. telesurtv.net Van 132 líderes y lideresas sociales asesinadas en lo que va de este 2022 en Colombia, según cifras de Indepaz.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-10-02). Venezuela logra liberación de dos jóvenes injustamente apresados en EE.UU. telesurtv.net Su excarcelación es resultado de conversaciones directas de representantes de la Casa Blanca con el presidente Nicolás Maduro.

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-10-02). Mujeres se movilizaron contra feminicidios en Ecuador. telesurtv.net Las manifestantes acusan al Estado ecuatoriano de inoperancia y complicidad con la violencia de género.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-10-02). Organizaciones rechazan paro económico en Santa Cruz, Bolivia. telesurtv.net Convocan a movilización de apoyo al Gobierno de Luis Arce el próximo 3 de octubre.

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-10-02). Bolivia y Perú coordinan acciones contra el narcotráfico. telesurtv.net El plan consta de 35 acciones de intercambio de información, control de cultivos y uso coordinado de la fuerza aérea.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-01). Brazil: A Presidential Election that Will Mark the Immediate Future of Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Gustavo A Maranges A man sits next to a graffiti of former Brazil's President and candidate for presidential election Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at his campaign headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares Interview with Latin American political scientist and filmmaker Micaela Ovelar on the current scenario in the South…

WSWS (2022-10-01). For the independent mobilization of the working class against the threat of dictatorship in Brazil. wsws.org The Brazilian political crisis is one of the epicenters of a globally interconnected process of dissolution of democratic forms of rule by the ruling class in all countries.

TeleSUR, SH (2022-10-01). Procesan a dos detenidos por el intento de asesinato a Cristina Fernández. telesurtv.net La jueza María Eugenia Capuchetti sindicó a Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo y Agustina Díaz como partícipes secundarios del intento de homicidio contra la expresidenta.

Roger D. Harris (2022-10-01). US Hybrid War Against Venezuela Goes to Court: The Case of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com Ambassador Alex Saab, a victim of the US economic war to achieve regime change in Venezuela, has been under arrest for over two years. This article recounts the developments in the diplomat's court case. Saab is fighting against his illegal detention and extradition before the 8th District Court in Miami. | As Venezuela's special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the US has flouted this principle of international law. | Judicial overreach on politic…

Scorinoco (2022-10-01). Venezuela Calls on Netherlands For Coordination to Combat Drug Trafficking. orinocotribune.com

UnitedEditor (2022-10-01). Brazil chooses 2022: The numbers and more… unitedworldint.com This October 2, the largest democracy in Latin America will hold general elections and, depending on the reaction of the political forces to the results, the progressive wave advancing in the region will be reaffirmed or not. The Brazilian people will go to the polls to elect federal deputies, who will renew half of …

_____ (2022-10-01). Democratic Rebellion Throughout Latin America And Caribbean. popularresistance.org Evo Morales, former President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia and President of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, was a special guest of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during festivities marking the 212th anniversary of Mexico's independence. The other international guests included John and Gabriel Shipton, father and brother of journalist Julian Assange; family of the late farmworker and activist César Chávez; Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara; and former Uruguayan President "Pepe" Mujica. | On September 15 Morales witnessed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calling ou…

Lucrecia Franco (2022-10-01). Brazilian indigenous women run for federal and state elections. america.cgtn.com More Brazilian indigenous women leaders are running for federal office in this year's Brazil's election. Find out more.

Eforinoco (2022-10-01). Venezuela Denounces Guyana's Distortions on Essequibo at the UN. orinocotribune.com Venezuela denounced the most recent misrepresentations of Guyana on the territorial dispute over the Essequibo region, expressed at the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations on September 21. | "The persistent and false accusations that Guyana has been uttering since 2015 before the UN General Assembly, a year that coincides with the moment in which the oil transnationals decide to invade the undelimited waters, are unacceptable," declared the government of Venezuela through an official statement. In the communiqué, Venezuela expressed its indignation at "how the world is being lied to, when for decades Vene…

_____ (2022-10-01). Biden Lies At The United Nations. popularresistance.org It takes a special kind of hubris for a president of the United States to speak at the United Nations, the place where international law is supposed to be upheld and defended. Yet the representative of the worst violator of international law predictably shows up every September when the United Nations General Assembly holds its annual session. The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez got it right when he spoke in 2006: | "Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the ow…

Scorinoco (2022-10-01). Venezuela to Build New Military Bases For Civilian Support And National Security. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, September 29, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that he has given orders for the construction of new military bases in the state of Falcón. These bases, transcending the traditional model, will primarily serve to provide support to the population and improve the defense capabilities of the country. | "I have already given orders for the establishment of military bases in the area," he said. "It is not a traditional military base. They are new bases in their concept: new in their integration with the population, in their surveillance capacity, their armed reaction capacity. New milita…

Paulo Cabral (2022-10-01). Brazil holds presidential election on Sunday. america.cgtn.com Here is what we know about Brazil's presidential election on Sunday.

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-10-01). Venezuela denuncia tergiversaciones de Guyana en ONU sobre el Esequibo. telesurtv.net La Cancillería venezolana refiere a la reciente intervención de Guyana en el contexto de la Asamblea General de la ONU.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-10-01). Venezuela se suma al plan de paz total impulsado por Colombia. telesurtv.net El presidente Nicolás Maduro, asimismo, celebró el llamado a la paz total que formuló su homólogo colombiano en días pasados.

Andrés Figueroa Cornejo (2022-10-01). EE.UU. comete acto injerencista justo cuando el golpismo trama nueva intentona antidemocrática. globalizacion.ca Alto y fuerte el Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Rogelio Mayta, rechazó el informe que Washington dirigió al Congreso estadounidense este viernes 30 de septiembre, respecto de un reporte de la Organización de Estados Americanos, OEA,…

TeleSUR, MER (2022-10-01). Llegan a Venezuela otros dos tripulantes del avión de Emtrasur. telesurtv.net A su llegada al aeropuerto, José García Contreras recordó que todavía permanecen en Argentina cinco miembros de la tripulación.

TeleSUR, MER (2022-10-01). Autorizan salida de Argentina a otros 2 tripulantes del avión Emtrasur. telesurtv.net La decisión fue ratificada por el juez Federico Villena, del Juzgado Federal Criminal y Correccional de Lomas de Zamora 1.

TeleSUR, pha, JGN (2022-10-01). La Caravana de la Muerte en Chile: inicio de la era del terror. telesurtv.net Este 30 de septiembre se cumplen 49 años de que iniciara una de las operaciones más mortíferas de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet en Chile, la Caravana de la Muerte.

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2022-10-01: News Headlines

Staff (2022-09-30). Nicaragua's President Ortega Calls Chile's President Boric a White House 'Lapdog'. orinocotribune.com Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega calls his Chilean counterpart a US "lapdog" after Boric attacked Nicaragua at the United Nations (UN). | "The government that wants to receive applause from the Yankee empire and from some governments of the European Union goes out there, like a lapdog, to talk about the need to release the political prisoners in Nicaragua, and they forget about the political prisoners that they have in their country in Chile," Ortega said on Wednesday, September 28, during a ceremony on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the founding of Nicaragua's National Police. | The Sandinista leader…

Editor (2022-09-30). Rafael Correa: 'They Have Already Destroyed Assange'. scheerpost.com Then Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patiño with Julian Assange at the embassy in London, 16 June 2013. (Photo: Xavier Granja Cedeño / Ecuador foreign ministry) | By Matt Kennard / "The British are used to being obeyed, not to negotiate with a third-world country. They tried to deal with us like a subordinate country." | "Assange didn't have any possibility of a fair legal process in the United States." | "We engaged a special security company in order to protect the London embassy, to protect Juli…

TeleSUR (2022-09-30). Lula and Bolsonaro on Ukraine and Sanctions Against Russia. telesurenglish.net Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) are the favorites for the presidential elections that Brazil will hold on Sunday, October 2. Over the last few months, they have made several statements that portray what they think about the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia. | Several people walk in front of a street towel stall with images of the current president of Brazil and candidate for re-election, Jair Bolsonaro, and his contender, former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva…

Infobrics (2022-09-30). BRICS Nations Call for More Cooperation on Disaster Management. infobrics.org The BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have pledged to boost cooperation on disaster management against the backdrop of exacerbating climate change, increasingly frequent natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic…

_____ (2022-09-30). The 'Leftism' Of The Americas Collapses At The Door Of Haitian Sovereignty. popularresistance.org It is an exhilarating time for the "leftists" of the Americas. This past week, at the 77th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, leader after Latin American leader made grand statements against U.S. and Western imperialism, the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy, the violations of human rights, and the West's assault on the sovereignty of smaller nations. Colombia's brand-new president, Gustavo Petro, made an impassioned plea against the genocidal "War on Drugs." Cuba's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, rejected the attacks on the sovereignty of China and Rus…

TeleSUR, MER (2022-09-30). Asesinan a otro líder social en el Norte de Santander, Colombia. telesurtv.net La víctima fue identificada como Dinael González Criado e integraba la comisión de trabajo de la Junta de Acción Comunal de Campo Seis.

_____ (2022-09-30). From Wounded Latin America, Demand To Put An End To The War On Drugs. popularresistance.org Each year, in the last weeks of September, the world's leaders gather in New York City to speak at the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. The speeches can usually be forecasted well in advance, either tired articulations of values that do not get acted upon or belligerent voices that threaten war in an institution built to prevent war. | However, every once in a while, a speech shines through, a voice emanates from the chamber and echoes around the world for its clarity and sincerity. This year, that voice belongs to Colombia's recently inaugurated president, Gustavo Petro, whose brief remarks distill…

JANET (2022-09-30). US Hybrid War against Venezuela Goes to Court: The Case of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. iacenter.org By John Philpot and Roger D. Harris September 29, 2022 Photo: Maria Isabel Batista Ambassador Alex Saab, a victim of the US economic war to achieve regime change in Venezuela, has been under arrest for over two years. This article recounts the developments in the diplomat's court case. Saab is fighting against his illegal detention and extradition before the 8th District Court in Miami. As Venezuela's special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the US…

Ricardo Vaz (2022-09-30). Venezuela: New Setback in $8.5B ConocoPhillips Award Case. venezuelanalysis.com The South American nation is looking to have the 2019 ICSID ruling annulled.

_____ (2022-09-30). US Hybrid War Against Venezuela Goes To Court. popularresistance.org Ambassador Alex Saab, a victim of the US economic war to achieve regime change in Venezuela, has been under arrest for over two years. This article recounts the developments in the diplomat's court case. Saab is fighting against his illegal detention and extradition before the 8th District Court in Miami. | As Venezuela's special envoy and a deputy ambassador to the African Union, Saab has diplomatic immunity from arrest and detention under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Although a party to the convention, the US has flouted this principle of international law. Alex Saab was targeted by the U…

TeleSUR (2022-09-30). Bolsonaro Hides Behind Allies to Attack Lula Da Silva in Debate. telesurenglish.net During the presidential debate on Thursday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and other right-wing candidates staged a political spectacle full of aggressions whose objective became obvious: to take votes away from the Workers' Party candidate Lula da Silva, who has already passed percent of voting intentions according to the most recent polls. | RELATED: | To avoid direct confrontation with Lula, Bolsonaro enlisted the…

Brett Heinz (2022-09-30). The Fake News Machine: How Meta Endangers Brazilian Democracy. cepr.net With just days left before Brazilians head to the polls to decide the political future of their country, the use of social media by political elites to manipulate elections is again in full swing.

Liberation Staff (2022-09-30). PSL Editorial: We stand with the people of Brazil vs. Bolsonaro's coup plots. liberationnews.org Brazilians will go to the polls in a pivotal election on Sunday to choose a new president. Support for former president Lula da Silva of the Workers Party, the main candidate of the left, is surging.

TeleSUR (2022-09-30). Lula Says South America Wants His Victory in Brazilian Elections. telesurenglish.net Former president and candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said today that South America wants to see him win the October 2 elections in Brazil to reorganize the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) once again. | Presidential candidate Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (c) participates in a campaign event today, in Fortaleza (Brazil)…

TeleSUR (2022-09-30). Australian Research Reveals How COVID-19 Damages Heart. telesurenglish.net A new research led by Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) discovered how COVID-19 damages the heart. The study found that while both COVID-19 and influenza are severe respiratory viruses, they appeared to affect cardiac tissue very differently. | RELATED: | The research used actual cardiac tissues collected during autopsies from seven COVID-19 patients from Brazil, two people who died from influenza, and six control patie…

Morning Star (2022-09-30). 200 environmental activists killed worldwide last year, says Global Witness report. peoplesworld.org Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world last year, including 54 in Mexico, which became the deadliest country in the annual report by Global Witness. More than three-quarters of the killings took place in Latin America, with double-digit death tolls in Colombia, Brazil, and Nicaragua. It was the third consecutive …

Kzorinoco (2022-09-30). Venezuela to Export Medicine to Colombia. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday, September 27, The Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion (VCEPI), Johann àÅlvarez Márquez, held a meeting with the Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cifar) to discuss the commencement of the process of exporting medicine to Colombia. Antibiotics, analgesics, and anti-inflammatories are some of the products that will be exported. | àÅlvarez Márquez reported that at this time the national government, collaborating with the private sector, is ready to cover the national production of medicine, protect the pharmaceutical industry, and export Venezuelan products of excell…

Ana Perdigón (2022-09-30). Venezuela's Central Bank Eliminates Minimum for Foreign Currency Purchases. orinocotribune.com In a September 26 statement, the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) declared that the maximum amount able to be purchased of any currency remained at ‚Ç¨8, 0 (or its equivalent), but it did not specify a minimum amount, which was previously ‚Ç¨ for individuals and ‚Ç¨ 0 for companies. | The maximum amounts for foreign currency sales per client/user that banks and exchange houses may carry out are ‚Ç¨1,000 per day, ‚Ç¨4,000 per month, and ‚Ç¨8, 0 per calendar year. | "The accumulated balance will be considered when…

Annie Game (2022-09-30). Can Democracy Survive Brazil's Upcoming Elections? commondreams.org What is next for Brazil? There is no simple answer, but democracy is at risk as the country approaches a national election on October 2, 2022—and we should all be concerned.

TeleSUR (2022-09-30). Venezuela Calls on UNESCO to Protect Cultural Rights. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Venezuelan Culture Minister Ernesto Villegas called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to adopt measures to protect the cultural rights of peoples from the harmful impact of sanctions imposed by other countries. | RELATED: | UNESCO should offer a "mechanism to protect the cultural rights of peoples, their heritage and cultural diversity, from unilateral coercive…

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-30). Perú instala comisión para atender derrame de crudo en Loreto. telesurtv.net La decisión se tomó tras una rotura en el Oleoducto Norperuano vertiera unos 2, 0 barriles de crudo en el río Cuninico, en la región de Loreto.

Lucrecia Franco (2022-09-30). Brazil's general elections debate. america.cgtn.com With Brazil's general elections just two days away, Brazil's far right-wing President, Jair Bolsonaro, and leftist ex-President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faced off in a fiery debate in Rio de Janeiro. Polls indicate the race has come down to these two candidates with …

TeleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-09-30). Desempleo en Chile alcanza un 7,9 % en trimestre junio-agosto. telesurtv.net En el caso de las mujeres, la tasa de desocupación se ubica en el 8,2 por ciento y la de los hombres fue de 7,7 por ciento.

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-09-30). Presidente Maduro llama a ampliar vocación exportadora de Venezuela. telesurtv.net "Vamos a la apertura total de la frontera, paso a paso, de manera segura", manifestó el presidente venezolano.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-30). Venezuela y Bolivia refrendan lazos de cooperación y amistad. telesurtv.net Ambos cancilleres manifestaron la condena a la "imposición de medidas coercitivas unilaterales de acoso económico, las cuales afectan el derecho del pueblo venezolano al desarrollo".

TeleSUR, JGN (2022-09-30). Cuba agradece solidaridad de México y Venezuela tras huracán. telesurtv.net Díaz-Canel encabezó una reunión para poner en marcha un plan de recuperación del país tras el paso de Ian.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-29). Thays Carvalho: We Have to Combine All Struggles to Confront Bolsonarism and Build Hope in Brazil. libya360.wordpress.com Ahead of national elections in Brazil, Thays Carvahlo from the People's Brazil Movement spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the loss of rights suffered by the Brazilian people in the last six years and the hope offered by the upcoming polls of building a people's government. She talks about the response of the youth movement to…

Nicolás Centurión (2022-09-29). El Uruguay del presidente Lacalle: Escándalos en continuado. globalizacion.ca El presidente uruguayo Luis Lacalle no viajó a la 77 Asamblea de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) porque se fue de vacaciones con sus hijos por una semana con su custodia personal. En el medio surgieron denuncias de persecución…

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