Amid warnings of "catastrophic" COVID-19 third wave, Brazil's state governors reopen economy
wsws.org | 2021-05-22
The scientific institute Fiocruz's warning that a new surge of current high infection rates "will be catastrophic" is being covered up by the mainstream media and ignored by federal and state governments.
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[Articles] Patient care and clinical outcomes for patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to African high-care or intensive care units (ACCCOS): a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study
ACCCOS | thelancet.com | 2021-05-22
Mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is higher in African countries than reported from studies done in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Increased mortality was associated with insufficient critical care resources, as well as the comorbidities of HIV/AIDS, diabetes, chronic liver disease, and kidney disease, and severity of organ dysfunction at admission.
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Amnesty International Urges US to Suspend Arms Sales to Colombia: Used to 'Repress Protestors'
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-21
The non-governmental organization heavily funded by Western countries and corporations documented that the Colombian security forces used the Venom multiple projectile launcher against demonstrators. | The organization Amnesty International (AI) urged the US government to immediately suspend the direct and indirect sale of arms, equipment, and technology to Colombia, because they have been used by police forces to repress citizens during the national strike that began three weeks ago in the Latin American country. | "The role of the United States in fueling the incessant cycles of violence committed against the p…
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Duque, Bolsonaro and Piñera: Between Guardianship and Crimes Against Humanity
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-21
Misión Verdad From the right, the presidents of Chile, Sebastián Piñera; Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; and Colombia, Iván Duque together with the former presidents of Argentina, Mauricio Macri; Ecuador, Lenín Moreno; and Peru, Martín Vizcarra (Photo: Esteban Félix / AP). A few days ago some news portals reported that Colombian President Iván Duque was denounced before… Read…
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Jesús Santrich: The Laughter of a Bolivarian Cannot Be Easily Extinguished
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-21
By Néstor Kohanon — May 19, 2021 | The shots and grenades that took his breath away were from the Colombian army, as was the knife or razor with which they mutilated his lifeless hand. The orders came from Iván Duque, the little pigeon sponsored by "il capo mafia" àÅlvaro Uribe. Two equally genocidal Colombian lumpens, cornered by one of the most important popular rebellions that Colombia has experienced in the last decades. | But let no one be deceived. Let's speak without euphemisms. The strategy that guided this operation clearly comes from "higher up": the United States and Israel, two partner stat…
orinocotribune.com/jesus-santrich-the-laughter-of-a-bolivarian-cannot-be-easily-extinguished/

Amnesty International Urges US to Suspend Arms Sales to Colombia: Used to 'Repress Protestors'
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-21
The non-governmental organization heavily funded by Western countries and corporations documented that the Colombian security forces used the Venom multiple projectile launcher against demonstrators. | The organization Amnesty International (AI) urged the US government to immediately suspend the direct and indirect sale of arms, equipment, and technology to Colombia, because they have been used by police forces to repress citizens during the national strike that began three weeks ago in the Latin American country. | "The role of the United States in fueling the incessant cycles of violence committed against the p…
orinocotribune.com/amnesty-international-urges-us-to-suspend-arms-sales-to-colombia-used-to-repress-protestors/

National Strike in Colombia is Massive, Meets Violent Repression
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-21
Colombia is afire with a National Strike mounted by working people young people, and the excluded. They are protesting neoliberal reforms that diminish lives and hopes. Tax-reform proposals from President Iván Duque's rightwing government triggered large demonstrations that began on April 28 and are continuing. Brutal repression has inflamed the rebellion. The government quickly withdrew…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/national-strike-in-colombia-is-massive-meets-violent-repression/

Brazil: Indigenous Articulation Takes Attacks against Yanomamis to the Supreme Court
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-21
Martha Raquel Sonia Guajajara, one of the leaders who denounced the unpunished attacks against the indigenous population — Mídia Ninja The population suffers with the escalation of wildcat miners' violence in their lands; the attacks continue The Brazilian Indigenous People Articulation (Apib) issued a petition in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on Wednesday, May 19, asking… Read…
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Artist Publishes 100 Drawings From Peru's COVID-19 Pandemic
The Associated Press | latinorebels.com | 2021-05-21
LIMA, Peru (AP) — With a pencil and a notebook, artist Edilberto Jiménez walks the streets of Lima and cities in the Andes mountains collecting stories and images about the coronavirus health crisis that has devastated Peru.
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Chile shifts left to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution, as Goldman Sachs eyes its copper reserves
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-21
Ben Norton speaks with Chilean activist and politician Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about the historic May 15/16 elections in which left-wing and independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats for a convention to rewrite the constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Sepúlveda Allende, a grandson of Chile's legendary socialist President Salvador Allende, also discusses Chile's enormous copper reserves, which are some of the largest in the world, and are now being targeted by US corporations, after …
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/20/chile-election-pinochet-constitution-copper/

Chile Shifts Left to Rewrite Pinochet-era Constitution
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-21
And today we are going to talk about Chile's elections. This May there were municipal elections and constituent elections, to write a new constitution, because today Chile still has a Pinochet-era constitution, which was written in the time of the military dictatorship, of Augusto Pinochet.
popularresistance.org/chile-shifts-left-to-rewrite-pinochet-era-constitution/

Lula Confirms He Will Run in Brazil's Next Presidential Election
Carlos Arellán | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-21
Lula finally confirmed that he would compete in an election against Jair Bolsonaro. However, the former president clarified that he would do so under certain conditions: "If I am in the best position to win the presidential elections, and I am in good health, yes, I do not doubt it," he told a French magazine that interviewed him. | According to recent polls, the leader of the Brazilian Workers' Party would defeat the current president in the first and second rounds. | According to Datafolha, in a first vote, Lula would get 44% of the vote, compared to only 23% for Bolsonaro. In the second round, the former presi…
orinocotribune.com/lula-confirms-he-will-run-in-brazils-next-presidential-election/

PDF of May 20 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2021-05-20
Download the PDF. Free, Free Palestine! U.S. backs Israeli terror in Gaza 'By any means necessary' Defend resistance! Global Solidarity; Susan Abulhawa on Zionism; Not one dollar for occupation! ALSO: 'Crown: Freedom' mural; MOVE remembrance; Justice for Tamir Rice; Maskless mandate danger. GLOBAL: Syringes for Cuba; Colombia. Tear down the . . . | Continue reading PDF of May 20 issue at Workers.org…
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Colombian National Strike Makes Duque To Engage In Dialogue
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
After 23 consecutive days of protests against Colombia's President Ivan Duque, the National Strike Committee (NSC) on Thursday announced that it will hold new talks with the government in Bogota. | RELATED: | Colombians Rekindle Their National Strike Amid State Terrorism | The Federation of Educators (FECODE), the Colombian Workers' Union (CUT), and the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) are some of the movements that will attend the meeting on behalf of the demonstrators.
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Strike-Committee-Announces-New-Talks-With-Government-20210520-0014.html

Colombian Police Crack Down On Protests With Long-Range Weapons
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
Colombians on Wednesday denounced that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) cracked down on peaceful protests with long and short-range weapons. | RELATED: | Colombians Rekindle Their National Strike Amid State Terrorism | Videos posted on social networks show agents shooting at farmers in Bucaramanga. According to witnesses, at least 25 protesters were wounded. | In Caucasia, dozens of children, pregnant women, and elderly people had to take refuge from police brutality in La No…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Police-Crack-Down-On-Protests-With-Long-range-Weapons-20210520-0001.html

Panama Closes Its Borders to Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
Panama's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday it is closing its border with Colombia starting today as hundred of Colombians are trying to migrate escaping the social unrest and police brutality in their country, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Colombian National Strike Makes Duque To Engage In Dialogue | "The National Government has determined to temporarily suspend the entry into the national territory by land, sea, and river routes of all persons coming from the bo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Panama-Closes-Its-Borders-to-Colombia-20210520-0019.html

And Now the Health Reform Bill has been Struck Down in Colombia: 'Mobilization Does Work'!
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-20
On Wednesday, May 19, following 22 days of marches against the government of Iván Duque, the Colombian Congress shelved the recently proposed health reform bill. | With 27 votes in favor and 5 against, the seventh committees of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of Colombia rejected reviewing the health reform bill proposed by the government of the country's president, Iván Duque. | "Attention, with 11 votes in favor and 2 against in the Senate, and with 16 votes in favor and 3 votes against in the House, Congress has just overthrown the health care reform," announced the Central Unitaria de…
orinocotribune.com/and-now-the-health-reform-bill-has-been-struck-down-in-colombia-mobilization-does-work/

Police Brutality Leaves 43 Citizens Killed in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) reported that 43 Colombians have died as a result of the actions that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) and the Armed Forces have deployed to stop protests against President Ivan Duque. | RELATED: | Colombian Police Crack Down On Protests With Long-Range Weapons | Four of these murders were clearly recorded on video. This is the case of Nicolas Garcia, Marcelo Agredo, Santiago Murillo, and Brayan Niño, whose deaths inv…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Police-Brutality-Death-Toll-Climbs-To-51-Amid-Protests-20210520-0006.html

Port Resistance: The Autonomous Zone at the Heart of Colombian Protests
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-20
By Joshua Collins — May 17, 2021 | Meet the kids of Cali, who make up the soul of a national revolution |