Venezuelan FM calls on UN to take action on Palestine
Kamal Iranidoost | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-05-15
TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA) — Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has called on the United Nations to take action in support of the Palestinian people.
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Venezuelan Oil Production Down as PDVSA Targets Major Investment
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2021-05-15
The state oil company is reportedly looking for "new business models" with bigger private sector involvement.
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[Correspondence] Venezuela is collapsing without COVID-19 vaccines
Enrique S López Loyo, Marino J González, José Esparza | thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
Once considered a rich oil-producing country, Venezuela is confronting a rapidly increasing COVID-19 epidemic that adds to a complex humanitarian crisis that has been affecting the country since 2016.1 The health-care system has collapsed and is incapable of responding to the ever-increasing number of patients who require hospitalisation. Health-care personnel, including doctors, nurses, and other first-line health staff, have been substantially affected by the epidemic, leading to the highest lethality reported in the Americas.
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Venezuela: Regional & Municipal Elections Scheduled for November 21–Complete Electoral Calendar Announced
Lucía Eugenia Córdova | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
Venezuela's regional and municipal elections will take place on Sunday, November 21, 2021. This was announced to the country on Thursday, May 13, by the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Pedro Calzadilla, following the approval of the corresponding electoral calendar. | RELATED CONTENT: Venezuela Inaugurates CNE Board: Meet the New Authorities | This calendar comprises, as usual, a set of dates: | ‚Ä¢ The special day for new voter registration and data update will be…
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Venezuela's Attorney General Unveils Corruption Plot at Lácteos Los Andes: Its President was Arrested
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
Earlier today the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab announced the dismantling of a corruption scheme at Lácteos Los Andes CA, a public enterprise in the dairy industry, carried out by the president of the company, Colonel Luis Augusto Piligra Jiménez. | During a press conference, Saab indicated that the Public Ministry (MP) together with the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM ) pursued an investigation following complaints about irregularities within the company. | The prosecutor announced the arrest of the president of Lácteos Los Andes, Colonel Luis Augusto Piligra Jiméne…
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From Palestine to Colombia: The end of the White world colonial/capitalist project?
Ajamu Baraka | mronline.org | 2021-05-15
Despite the quickening decline of the "West," the U.S. and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence. | May 15, 2021 | Newswire…
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Jorge Rodríguez: If You Want Dialogue Begin Admitting to the Horrendous Crimes Committed — No Amnesia
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
This Thursday, May 13, the President of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, stressed that the Venezuelan opposition cannot now appear on the national stage and call for dialogue without acknowledging their actions that affected the Venezuelan people. | During a regular session in which a draft agreement was approved in support of the implementation of the Constitutional Anti-Blockade Law for National Development and the Guarantee of Human Rights, Rodríguez assured that "the capacity of the people to resist the attacks has been incredible," especially those in recent years. He questioned whether s…
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Colombia: crisis social y política
àÅngel Guerra Cabrera | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-14
La ministra de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia, Claudia Blum, presentó al presidente Iván Duque el lunes pasado su renuncia irrevocable y efectiva de manera inmediata, se informó ayer, en lo que supone la segunda dimisión en el Palacio de Nariño…
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Interview with Tatiana Moreno: 'Colombia Is A Narco-State'
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-14
Oliver Vargas & Kathryn Ledebur Tatiana Moreno of Congreso de los Pueblos Kawsachun News spoke to Tatiana Moreno of the Colombian social movement Congreso de los Pueblos after two weeks of mobilzations. We discussed the ongoing brutal repression against demonstrators by Ivan Duque's security forces. Understanding the context of the mass protests requires us to… Read…
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Solidarity with Colombia in the Netherlands
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
Several thousands marched and protested against the repressive Colombian regime — the Dutch Press agency ANP however counted only a few dozen. | On Friday, May 7, protest demonstrations were announced in The Hague and Amsterdam in solidarity with Colombians who are striking and fighting against the many human rights violations and Neo-liberal exploitation and poverty in their country. | This was prompted by a number of measures that would make life even worse and harder for many Colombians, such as huge VAT increases, petrol price hikes, dismantling of social services, freezing civil servants' salaries, …
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Colombia Has Lost Its Fear
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
After decades of armed conflict and paramilitary violence, Colombia has seen protest movements return in strength over the past year and a half. The forceful demonstrations of the past week exceed even the high points of the nationwide uprising of November and December 2019. In response, the most heavily armed government in Latin America has carried out a brutal crackdown. | The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have hit Colombia hard. The country is reaching a breaking point as the ruling class attempts to squeeze the last drops of profit out of an already suffering populace kept in line…
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Meet the Neo-Nazi advising Colombian police on how to break the National Strike
Dan Cohen | mronline.org | 2021-05-14
Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it. | May 14, 2021 | Newswire…
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Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike
Dan Cohen | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
By Dan Cohen — May 10, 2021 | Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it. | CALI, COLOMBIA (Transcript) — Colombia is on strike. And the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it. | It kicked on when the far-right president President Ivan Duque announced a wildly unpopular tax reform imposing crushing austerity measures on middle class and poor Colombians. Duque's proposal aimed to pay off debt in order to project stability and satisfy international investors. But that st…
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South America's 'Business Friendly' Bloodbath
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
International Business and Banking support for the most repressive regimes in Latin America is even more evident than it was during the original cold war. Now, Wall Street ºs three main men in South America all face charges of crimes against humanity, even genocide, at the International Criminal Court. | Whilst the anglosphere regularly attacks governments of the left in Latin America on human rights grounds, it is its pliant business friendly U.S. regional allies; Brazil ºs Bolsonaro, Chile ºs Piñera, and Colombia ºs Duque, who face being sent before the Hague. | All three countries face cruc…
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Israel and Colombia: The Ever More Special Relationship
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
By Belen Fernandez — May 12, 2021 | Right-wing alliance is bringing their bilateral partnership 'to new political and economic levels' | Last August, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Colombian President Ivan Duque held a joint videoconference to launch a new free trade agreement between their countries. | The corresponding media release from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the agreement would "create opportunities for the Israeli economy in va…
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Chile and Colombia to Move Money Out of Militaries
David Swanson | warisacrime.org | 2021-05-14
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 15, 2021 While the proposal for a global ceasefire during a disease pandemic has done the opposite of catching on, there are a few small signs of sanity and even of successful activism. While most big military spenders (including the super-mega-biggest one) have increased or kept their spending … Continue reading "Chile and Colombia to Move Money Out of Militaries"
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Meet The Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police On Breaking The National Strike
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Cali, Colombia – Colombia is on strike. And the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it. | It kicked on when the far-right president President Ivan Duque announced a wildly unpopular tax reform imposing crushing austerity measures on middle class and poor Colombians. Duque's proposal aimed to pay off debt in order to project stability and satisfy international investors. But that stability for international capital means more instability for the tens of millions of Colombians struggling to put food on the table. | The country is already in dire economic straits — 43 percent of Colombi…
popularresistance.org/meet-the-neo-nazi-advising-colombian-police-on-how-to-break-the-national-strike/

Rights experts call for probe into violent crackdown on Colombia protests
news.un.org | 2021-05-14
Independent human rights experts appointed by the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) have called for the Colombian Government to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the violent crackdown on recent peaceful protests in the country.
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Roaming Charges: How Bio-Warfare Came to Colombia
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-14
There's a theory that Israel controls US politics, that the most powerful war-making state the world has ever known is a mere puppet of Israel, institutionally incapable of asserting its own agenda in the Middle East. This is a convenient myth for both parties, since it makes Israel seem more powerful than it is and it tends to exculpate the US from direct complicity in ergregious human rights abuses. But in fact the US finances Israel. It is dependent on us. Its crimes are ours. We paid for them.
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If I fall in the struggle, take my place
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2021-05-14
Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. | May 14, 2021…
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Colombia: Anti-Government Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Colombia's security forces apparently entered panic mode and the government of President Ivan Duque all but collapsed after the US Congress reiterated threats to cut military funds. | The panic was most evident on the National Army's twitter page, which suddenly began publishing in Spanglish about mysterious "spirit of body and military training." | The prosecution and the police additionally announced investigations into reports on widespread human rights violations against anti-government protesters. | This violence that surged after protests began on April 28 suddenly stopped on Wednesday when police apparentl…
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Colombians continue to resist as national strike completes 15 days
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-14
Enduring brutal police and military repression, hundreds of thousands of Colombians continue to remain on the streets against neoliberalism and violence, for life, peace, justice and democracy…
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If I Fall In The Struggle, Take My Place
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-14
Ugliness defines the mood of state violence from Cali (Colombia) to Durban (South Africa), each context different and the depth of the violence particular to the location. Images of security forces cracking down on people trying to express their political rights have become commonplace. It is impossible to keep track of the events, which move swiftly from public manifestations to courtroom scenes, from the dissipation of tear gas to the invisible frustration of the prison cell. Yet, underlying these events and amidst the range of feelings that shape them lies a sense of refusal, the Great Refusal, the refusal to…
popularresistance.org/if-i-fall-in-the-struggle-take-my-place/

Portland protest says 'U.S. out of Colombia!'
Workers World Portland, Oregon, bureau | workers.org | 2021-05-14
A militant group of demonstrators occupying a lane of traffic marched through the streets of Portland, Ore., May 8 chanting "U.S. out of Colombia" and "Israel and Colombia, U.S. puppets." Credit: Bridget Cars driving around them honked in support of signs condemning U.S. financial and military aid to the right-wing . . . | Continue reading Portland protest says 'U.S. out of Colombia!' at Workers.org…
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