Peace in Colombia Should Mean Land Reform and an End to Hunger
Vijay Prashad — Zoe Alexandra | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-04
Since the end of April, Colombia's streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry and triedto suffocate any advancement of the Havana peace accords of 2016. Discontent led to street protests, which were repressed harshly by the government. These protests, Rodrigo Granda of Colombia's Comunes party told us in an interview, "are defined by the wide participation of youth, women, artists, religious people, the Indigenous, Afro-Colombians, unions and organizations from neighborhoods of the po…
counterpunch.org/2021/06/04/peace-in-colombia-should-mean-land-reform-and-an-end-to-hunger/

Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia's Crackdown on Protesters
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-04
Photos circulating on …
globalresearch.ca/birds-fascist-feather-why-israel-aiding-colombia-crackdown-protesters/5746945

The global wave of miners strikes and the case for the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
From the nickel mines of Northern Ontario and the coalfields of Alabama to the Atacama desert in Chile and the jungles of Colombia, miners of every race and nationality are engaged in an international strike wave against the world's most powerful transnational mining corporations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/pers-j04.html

Trade unions work to "de-escalate" protests in Colombia
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
While working hand in glove with the discredited unions, whose "de-escalation" only serves to isolate the protests, the ruling class and US imperialism are escalating repression.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/colo-j04.html

As Colombia's right-wing government mounts savage repression, Canada criticizes "violence" of impoverished protesters
wsws.org | 2021-06-04
In a cynical statement, Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau managed to avoid mentioning Duque and his far-right government, never mind the heavily armed paramilitary police force that has used US- and Canadian-made weaponry to terrorize protesters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/04/coca-j04.html

The Challenges Facing Brazil's Left
Tricontinental | zcomm.org | 2021-06-04
Even though we are living in a moment in which we have to remain defensive, the window of history seems to be wide open everywhere, igniting a new moment in our current political context…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-challenges-facing-brazils-left/

Argentina: The Battle Of COVID Vaccines
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-06-04
Demonstrators protest against President Alberto Fernandez's lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Buenos Aires, on April 17 [Agustin Marcarian/Reuters]Written by Piero Messina exclusively for SouthFront. | Playing a sad tango melody, the 2019 Covid pandemic is sending Argentina and its government into a tailspin. Accusations of corruption in the management of the vaccination campaign, controversies over the supply of medicines, quarrels with pharmaceutical companies and the temptation to sell…
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Headlines for June 4, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-04
Activists Call U.S. Plan to Ship 25 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Abroad "Deeply Insufficient", WHO Warns of Surging COVID-19 Cases in Africa as Vaccine Shipments Come to "Near Halt", Chinese Authorities Ban Hong Kong Vigil Commemorating Tiananmen Massacre, Arrest Organizer, Peruvian Presidential Runoff Pits Ex-Dictator's Daughter Against Socialist School Teacher, 89 Politicians Killed in Run-up to Mexican Midterm Elections, Lawyers for Guantánamo Prisoner Challenge Judge's Order Permitting Use of Info Obtained by Torture, Watchdog Says Pentagon Grossly Misrepresented Civilian Casualties from U.S. Military, U.N. Sa…
www.democracynow.org/2021/6/4/headlines

Understanding Peru's elections from the Peasant Patrols to Fujimorism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-04
500 years of colonial history, 200 years of life as a republic, and 40 years of experience of the rural and urban peasant patrols movement, to understand a subject and a process that come from afar. | June 4, 2021…
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Peace In Colombia Should Mean Land Reform And An End To Hunger
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-03
Since the end of April, Colombia's streets have smelled of tear gas. The government of Colombian President Iván Duque imposed policies that put the costs of the pandemic on the working class and the peasantry and tried to suffocate any advancement of the Havana peace accords of 2016. Discontent led to street protests, which were repressed harshly by the government. These protests, Rodrigo Granda of Colombia's Comunes party told us in an interview, "are defined by the wide participation of youth, women, artists, religious people, the Indigenous, Afro-Colombians, unions and organizations from neighborhoods of the p…
popularresistance.org/peace-in-colombia-should-mean-land-reform-and-an-end-to-hunger/

New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia's "Political Genocide"
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Dan Cohen — Jun 2, 2021 | Known as the "Red Dance," the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history. | BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — On April 6, 1984, a group of men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the home of Milcíades Contento in the town of Viotá, Colombia. Contento was a peasant, communist and member of the Patriotic Union (UP), a newly-formed experimental political party born out of the 1985 peace negotiations between the cons…
orinocotribune.com/new-investigation-reveals-role-of-israeli-operatives-in-colombias-political-genocide/

Colombia: "The Government Murders with Impunity Because the US Empire is Behind it."
Carlos Aznarez | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Carlos Aznarez — May 31, 2021 | Cecilia Zamudio is a Colombian writer, poet, journalist and artist, and like many of her compatriots lives these days with great concern for what means the repressive escalation of the government of Iván Duque, but also with deep satisfaction to the patriotism that the Colombian people starring a national productive strike that has passed the month of duration, With her we talked about all these contingencies, in order to further sharpen the efforts of internationalist solidarity with the struggle of that people. | Day after day, Uribism in government continues to develop a…
orinocotribune.com/colombia-the-government-murders-with-impunity-because-the-us-empire-is-behind-it/

Human Rights Mission Condemns State Terrorism In Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Colombia's International Human Rights Verification Mission on Thursday ordered an investigation into President Ivan Duque's administration for "torturing, disappearing, raping, and murdering Colombian citizens during the social outbreak." | RELATED: | Colombia To Purchase 'Emergency' Weapons To Quell Protests | "The government is encouraging police brutality, which has limited the right of the people to protest peacefully and to take part in the country's political decisions," the Mission c…
telesurenglish.net/news/Human-Rights-Mission-Condemns-State-Terrorism-In-Colombia-20210603-0009.html

Mobilizations in Colombia Persevere After Government Continues Militarization
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
The National Strike Committee of Colombia announced that peaceful mobilizations will continue throughout country, as the government of Iván Duque refuses to endorse the preliminary agreement agreed to in May. | "The peaceful strike continues due to the government's attitude of refusing to negotiate the emergency document," said Committee delegate Francisco Maltés. | El Comité Nacional de Paro convoca en el marco del Paro Nacional: | Gran toma de capitales Miércoles 2 de junio En todo el país. | Por negociación del Pliego Nacional de Emergencia ya. pic.twitter.com/C67irYwEzJ…
orinocotribune.com/mobilizations-in-colombia-persevere-after-government-continues-militarization/

New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia's "Political Genocide"
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-06-03
By Dan Cohen — Jun 2, 2021 | Known as the "Red Dance," the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union remains one of the most extreme cases of political violence in Latin America and new evidence suggests that it was concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history. | BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — On April 6, 1984, a group of men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the home of Milcíades Contento in the town of Viotá, Colombia. Contento was a peasant, communist and member of the Patriotic Union (UP), a newly-formed experimental political party born out of the 1985 peace negotiations between the cons…
orinocotribune.com/new-investigation-reveals-role-of-israeli-operatives-in-colombias-political-genocide/

International Mission Assesses Colombia's Violence
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
The International Solidarity and Human Rights Mission reported on Thursday its first assessments of the state repression during the National Striked that have kept the country in turmoil for 37 days. | RELATED: | Human Rights Mission Condemns State Terrorism In Colombia | According to one of its members, Ismael Jalil, the mission spread throughout the Colombian territory to verify all the information and collect their testimonies as "they were not carried away by the information tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/International-Mission-Assesses-Colombias-Violence-20210603-0022.html

Colombia: Police Brutality Left 30 People Injured In Pereira
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Colombia's Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) on Wednesday night used stun guns and tear gas canisters to halt a peaceful protest in Pereira city, where they left at least 30 people injured. | RELATED: | Seven Killed in Colombia's 60th Massacre of 2020 | Videos posted on social networks show hundreds of people fleeing from the agents amid tear gas smoke and gunfires. The ESMAD attacked protesters to clear the Ciudad Victoria civic square, the main point of resistance in Pereira. | "Our city li…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Police-Brutality-Left-30-People-Injured-In-Pereira-20210603-0002.html

Lab-Leak Theories of COVID-19 Are Unfounded, Scientists Say
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) mission team to Wuhan to inquire into the origins of COVID-19 have expressed their disbelief that the virus escaped from a laboratory. | RELATED: | Brazil Reports 2,507 More COVID-19 Deaths | "The evidence right now, well, for the lab side, it's political: It's from an intel agency that's not been shown. That's not scientific," said WHO team member and zoologist Peter Daszak in a podcast last week. "It's not something that you can really reasonably la…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lab-Leak-Theories-of-COVID-19-Are-Unfounded-Scientists-Say-20210603-0003.html

Brazil: The People, at Last, Took to the Streets
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2021-06-03
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unicornriot.ninja/2021/brazil-the-people-at-last-took-to-the-streets/

A Road to Victory for Chile
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-06-03
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Recent political events in Latin America have given rise to a new subject that takes the lead in events based on novel behaviors that were not always understood by their predecessors. Now, it is the youth, women, environmentalists and indigenous peoples, among others, who are setting the course and pace of the… Read…
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Leftist Candidate Castillo Condemns Fujimori Father's Crimes
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Free Peru's (PL) leftist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo Wednesday held a meeting with relatives of victims who suffered forced disappearance during Alberto Fujimori's presidency (1990-2000). | RELATED: | Peru: History-Shaping Presidential Elections This Weekend | Castillo received a public letter from families of the Cantuta case victims, in which they denounced ongoing human rights violations and urged for justice. | He met also the relatives of 24-year-old Inti Sotelo, who…
telesurenglish.net/news/Leftist-Candidate-Castillo-Condemns-Fujimori-Fathers-Crimes-20210603-0004.html

Argentina Postpones Parliamentary Elections Due to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Argentina's Senate approved…
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Argentina To Start Large-Scale Production of Sputnik V Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
On Wednesday, Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti informed that COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccines will be soon produced in the South American nation, following the approval by the Russian Gamaleya Institute of the doses' samples produced in Richmond labs. | RELATED: | Argentine Health Minister Highlights Productive Visit to Cuba | Vizzotti confirmed that the three batches of the vaccine components 1 and 2 were able to meet the standards, so progress will be made in importing a…
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Who Is Peru's Presidential Candidate Keiko Fujimori?>
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori will face primary school teacher Pedro Castillo in the run-off elections to be held on June 6. | RELATED: | Free Peru's Candidate Still Leads Polls Ahead of Election Day | According to national polls, the Fuerza Popular Party's leader will trail in the race for the presidency. Castillo is expected to get 40 percent of the votes in his favor while Fujimori could receive 37 percent of the votes. | The unpopularity of the right…
telesurenglish.net/news/Who-Is-Perus-Presidential-Candidate-Keiko-Fujimori-20210603-0016.html

Oil Prices Edge Lower Amid Mixed U.S. Inventories Data
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
Oil prices inched lower on Thursday as traders pored through a mixed U.S. fuel inventory report. | For July delivery, the West Texas Intermediate lost 2 cents to settle at 68.81 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for August delivery decreased 4 cents to close at 71.31 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. | RELATED: | Guyana: Activists Sue Government Over Offshore Exxon Drilling | U.S. crude oil inventories decreased by 5.1 millio…
telesurenglish.net/news/Oil-Prices-Edge-Lower-Amid-Mixed-U.S.-Inventories-Data-20210603-0019.html

Ecuador: Quito Metropolitan Council Approves Removal of Mayor
telesurenglish.net | 2021-06-03
During an extraordinary meeting that began on Wednesday afternoon, members of Quito's Metropolitan Council approved a request for the removal of Jorge Yunda, the mayor of Ecuador's capital city. | RELATED: | Ecuadorians Protest on Lasso's First Day in Office | This request was filed by the "Front of Professionals for the Dignity of Quito". The Mayor's lawyer argued that such request violates the principles established in the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights since the only way to re…
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Quito-Metropolitan-Council-Approves-Removal-of-Mayor-20210603-0007.html

Heading toward summit: new NATO narrative depicts Russia as threat to world peace
Rick Rozoff | mronline.org | 2021-06-03
In recent months all U.S. geographical and several other military commands have branded Russia an adversary in all parts of the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from South America to North Africa, from West Asia to Eastern Europe, from cyberspace to outer space. | June 3, 2021…
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