(2022-07-12). María Corina Machado Now Wants to Compete in Elections. orinocotribune.com The head of the Come Venezuela (Vente Venezuela in Spanish) political movement, María Corina Machado, apparently changed her mind again, and now wants to compete for the upcoming 2024 presidential elections, according to an announcement she made in a video posted on her Twitter account. | "We are willing to measure ourselves," said the far-right politician, "because Venezuela needs a political leadership, and a leadership that does not give in and does not give up, and that keeps its word and its commitment." | She said that this announcement resulted from the seventh federal meeting of her political organization…
(2022-07-12). Special Economic Zones: Why Venezuela Relies on Them to Attract Foreign Investment. orinocotribune.com 
The legal instrument was approved with the vote of the deputies of the opposition and the government, but was rejected by the Communist party deputy. | Venezuela seeks to obtain financial assets in various ways. With this objective, the National Assembly recently approved the Organic Law of Special Economic Zones (ZEE), an instrument intends to increase the country's income and encourage "economic independence," according to its promoters. | Beyond the fact that the law was approved in consensus by the government and opposition benches (with the negative vote of the only communist deputy), the law establishes con…
(2022-07-11). Mayi Cumare confiesa participación en el asesinato de Carlos Lanz. telesurtv.net Maxiorisol (Mayi) Cumare, la esposa del líder revolucionario, reconoció ante la fiscalía haber pagado para el asesinato de Carlos Lanz.
(2022-07-11). Challenging The AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism. popularresistance.org A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, negatively impacting US workers too. The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center is one of the four core components of the National Endowment for Democracy. Clearing the FOG speaks with Kim Scipes, a co-founder of the new Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO's International Operations (LEPAIO). Scipes describes the long history of labor imperialism and how unions are challenging it. Adrienne Pine provides a brief report on workers prot…
(2022-07-11). Reiniciarán envío de paquetería desde Colombia hacia Cuba. cubadebate.cu El próximo día 17 de julio Cubana de Aviación y CI Proyectos Comerciales Lobaton Express reiniciarán el envío de paquetería desde Colombia hacia Cuba, confirmó la directora de operaciones de la compañía. La empresa constituida en Colombia y con presencia en Chile, Estados Unidos, Panamá y Perú brinda sus servicios a Cuba desde hace 15 años.
(2022-07-11). Denuncian masacre en el Cauca, la número 53 en Colombia durante el 2022. telesurtv.net Además de las masacres, el país contabiliza 99 líderes sociales y 24 excombatientes asesinados en el año.
(2022-07-10). CITGO Stolen by Washington & Guaidó Asks Maduro for Help. orinocotribune.com The CITGO board of directors illegally appointed by former deputy Juan Guaidó wants to backtrack on its policy and now wants to ask the government of Nicolás Maduro for help to be able to operate, according to a news published this Saturday, July 9, by the far-right news website The fake executive director of the PDVSA subsidiary in the US, Carlos Jordá, appointed in 2020 by Juan Guaidó with the connivance of Washington, when he took over the company, now says that he is willing to…