2021-05-28: Social Media Postees

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Colombia's protests and the coming revolt against authoritarian neoliberalism
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2021-05-28
It leaves one wondering whether the Andean country is becoming more like its most important ally as many in the western press insist, or if the politics of the United States and its allies are becoming more like those of Colombia.
nationofchange.org/2021/05/28/colombias-protests-and-the-coming-revolt-against-authoritarian-neoliberalism/

Saturday 5/29: From Colombia to Palestine: Abolish State Terror
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-05-28
Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/27/18842778.php

Solidarity shown with Colombia
Sam Wainwright | greenleft.org.au | 2021-05-28
A vigil at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square), in Adelaide, on May 24 was organised to show solidarity with the people of Colombia and to mark the more than 47 people who have been killed by security forces since April 28. | Police and military forces in Colombia are violently repressing those who are mobilising against new neoliberal tax changes. A four-day national strike was organised in April.
greenleft.org.au/content/solidarity-shown-colombia

La crisis latente en la frontera colombo-panameña
Nils Castro | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-28
El heterogéneo flujo migratorio que ingresa a Panamá a través de la frontera con Colombia tiende a continuar y crecer. Pese a la dureza y letalidad de los caminos que penetran al territorio panameño a través de la selva, es…
globalizacion.ca/la-crisis-latente-en-la-frontera-colombo-panamena/

øColombia va por el petróleo venezolano?
José A. Amesty R. | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-28
Colombia, desde hace décadas continua con la escalada de guerra sucia contra la guerrilla, para "supuestamente proteger" sus reservas de petróleo. E igualmente, EE.UU. la está apoyando con su fachada de búsqueda de "narco-terroristas", pero su intención es establecer condiciones…
globalizacion.ca/colombia-va-por-el-petroleo-venezolano/

Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-28
By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
orinocotribune.com/colombia-turns-on-media-amid-barrage-of-lies-and-propaganda/

Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil's left
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2021-05-28
If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren't enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios. | May 27, 2021…
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Dossier no. 40: The challenges facing Brazil's left
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2021-05-28
If the social consequences of adopting an ultra-neoliberal project weren't enough already, the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and the gross mismanagement and negligence in combatting the virus have led to the worst-case social, economic, and health scenarios. | May 27, 2021…
mronline.org/2021/05/27/dossier-no-40-the-challenges-facing-brazils-left/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dossier-no-40-the-challenges-facing-brazils-left

Colombian Senators Do Not Remove Defense Minister From Office
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
On Thursday, the Colombian Senate voted against the dismissal of Defense Minister Diego Molano, who has been accused by human rights defenders of allowing a wave of police brutality that has left 43 citizens dead so far. | RELATED: | Colombian Police Unleash Another Night of Terror in Bogota | With 69 votes against and 31 in favor, the Senate dism…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Senators-Do-Not-Remove-Defense-Minister-From-Office-20210527-0009.html

Colombia To Purchase 'Emergency' Weapons To Quell Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
Senator Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday denounced that Colombia's President Ivan Duque will urgently buy new tear gas cartridges and grenades in Brazil to crackdown on protesters. | RELATED: | Colombia Goes on Strike to Demand an End to Violence | "Duque says he wants to negotiate, but he is planning to purchase ammunition from the Brazilian CONDOR Chemical Industry company to continue massacring the Colombian people," Cepeda highlighted. | On Wednesday, the National Police's Administrative…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Purchases-More-Weapons-To-Quell-Protests-20210527-0008.html

Colombian Police Unleash Another Night of Terror in Bogota
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
Colombia's Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) on Wednesday injured 82 people after cracking down on a peaceful protest in Bogota with expired tear gas canisters and firearms. | RELATED: | Colombia Goes on Strike to Demand an End to Violence | According to the Red Cross, 60 injured people suffered eye and respiratory tract damages, 15 protesters received head, face, arm, and leg wounds, and three citizens got thorax, cranioencephalic, or cervical traumas. | Videos spread on social netw…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Police-Wound-82-People-With-Guns-And-Expired-Tear-Gas-20210527-0001.html

Saturday 5/29: From Colombia to Palestine: Abolish State Terror
Angela | indybay.org | 2021-05-27
Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/27/18842778.php

Development, Climax and Polarizing Elements of Peru's 2nd Round of Elections
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-27
Franco Vielma Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, in the final stretch of their political campaigns (Photo: As Perú) The second round for the presidential election in Peru is, as few others, extremely crucial for the Andean nation, both for the singularity of the preceding political framework and for the electoral political moment itself. Peru is… Read…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/development-climax-and-polarizing-elements-of-perus-2nd-round-of-elections/

Chile: Elections pave the way to a new country
Victor Figueroa Clark | greenleft.org.au | 2021-05-27
The elections for Chile's Constitutional Convention show a massive public desire for true social-political transformation and, crucially, provide the means to achieve it. | Elections to the Constituent Convention charged with writing a new Constitution for Chile have yielded a result nobody expected. The left went into the elections divided across many lists, the right was united under one banner, the parties of the social-liberal Concertación [Coalition of Parties for Democracy] under another. | Of the 155 seats, polls predicted that the Concertación list would get 45 seats, the right wing coalition, Vamos por C…
greenleft.org.au/content/chile-elections-pave-way-new-country

Ecuador: CONAIE President Jaime Vargas — It's Time to Unite
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-27
Kawsachun NewsJaime Vargas, President of Ecuador's CONAIE. April 24, 2021. Photo: Kawsachun Coca President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Jaime Vargas, spoke to Radio Kawsachun Coca/Kawsachun News during his recent visit to Villa Tunari, Trópico of Cochabamba for a RUNASUR commission meeting. Vargas, who is an indigenous leader of the Amazonian… Read…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/ecuador-conaie-president-jaime-vargas-its-time-to-unite/

India marks day of resistance as farmers' struggle continues and other stories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the nationwide 'Black Day' of resistance observed in India as the ongoing farmers' struggle completes 6 months, the crackdown on a protest against the killing of activists in Iraq, the success of a 22 month long struggle for better working conditions and pay by workers at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in France, the ongoing crackdown on Papuan communities in Indonesia as they demand the release of political prisoners, and volunteer initiatives to feed poor and unhoused people in Brazil in the absence of adequate government aid policies during the pandemi…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/india-marks-day-of-resistance-as-farmers-struggle-continues-and-other-stories/

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2021-05-27: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-27). India marks day of resistance as farmers' struggle continues and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the nationwide 'Black Day' of resistance observed in India as the ongoing farmers' struggle completes 6 months, the crackdown on a protest against the killing of activists in Iraq, the success of a 22 month long struggle for better working conditions and pay by workers at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in France, the ongoing crackdown on Papuan communities in Indonesia as they demand the release of political prisoners, and volunteer initiatives to feed poor and unhoused people in Brazil in the absence of adequate government aid policies during the pandemi…

Victor Figueroa Clark (2021-05-27). Chile: Elections pave the way to a new country. greenleft.org.au The elections for Chile's Constitutional Convention show a massive public desire for true social-political transformation and, crucially, provide the means to achieve it. | Elections to the Constituent Convention charged with writing a new Constitution for Chile have yielded a result nobody expected. The left went into the elections divided across many lists, the right was united under one banner, the parties of the social-liberal Concertación [Coalition of Parties for Democracy] under another. | Of the 155 seats, polls predicted that the Concertación list would get 45 seats, the right wing coalition, Vamos por C…

John Catalinotto (2021-05-26). Colombia: Broad general strike challenges 'narc-oligarchy'. workers.org May 23 — The general strike against anti-poor "reforms" in Colombia is finishing its fourth week. So far, every test of strength has shown popular support has grown in defiance of police and fascist murders and beatings of protesters and the threat of COVID-19, which has already killed 85,000 people. . . . |

Anonymous007 (2021-05-26). Colombian Rioters Burn Palace Of Justice In Tulua, As Protests Rage For Nearly A Month. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 25th, the Palace of Justice in the Colombian city of Tuluá was set on fire after a wave of violent riots. | Rechazo y condeno estos actos de terrorismo que buscan sembrar caos y miedo. Ataques como los de esta noche en Tuluá dejan de ser vandálicos y se convierten en actos terroristas. La protesta pacífica es legítima, la violencia es delito. — Wilson Rui…

WSWS (2021-05-26). Amid raging pandemic, Peruvian police evict thousands of working class families. wsws.org The violent evictions of the unemployed and homeless is one more crime in the Peruvian government's homicidal handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editor2 (2021-05-26). The Political Situation & the National Strike in Colombia. orinocotribune.com By Pedro Santana Rodríguez — May 20, 2021 | The protests in Colombia have continued for 23 days in the midst of brutal repression that has resulted in more than 50 demonstrators killed, according to the non-governmental organization INDEPAZ (Institute of Studies for Development and Peace), as of May 18, 2021. There were 46 cases of killings by police, in addition to six other cases that were in the process of verification, the latter in the city of Cali. As of May 12th, according to a joint report by INDEPAZ and Temblores, there had also been 278 wounded, 32 eye injuries, 356 physical aggressions, 18 acts of…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-26). Conservative Guillermo Lasso sworn in as Ecuador's new president. peoplesdispatch.org Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing coalition of Creating Opportunities‚Ää party (CREO) and Social Christian Party (PSC) was sworn in as the president of Ecuador on May 24 with Alfredo Borrero as the vice president of the country. The duo will govern the Latin American country for the next four years. | The inauguration ceremony was held at the Legislative Palace in the capital Quito. It was attended by several conservative leaders including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, Haiti's de-facto President Jovenel MoàØse, Spanish King Felipe VI,…

ARG Medios (2021-05-26). Juan Grabois, member of International Solidarity Mission to Colombia, deported on arrival. peoplesdispatch.org Colombia migration authorities denied entrance to Juan Grabois who is part of an Argentinian human rights delegation. The International Mission of Solidarity and Human Rights Observation arrived on May 25 to Colombia and is made up of different human rights and social organizations from Argentina and other countries in the region. | Grabois explained on Twitter that "After a series of physical attacks witnessed by several people and by security cameras, the Colombian government expelled me from its territory because it considers me a risk to State Security." | He also added that "they took my documents and luggag…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-26). 4 weeks of national strike in Colombia. peoplesdispatch.org Several national and international social and political leaders as well as human rights organizations have expressed their concerns regarding the excessive use of force and implementation of military assistance programs to suppress social protests.

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