Daily Archives: July 20, 2022

2022-07-20: News Headlines

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-07-20). Denuncian asesinato de líder social en Putumayo, Colombia. telesurtv.net Suman 103 los líderes asesinados en 2022 y 1.330 desde la firma del Acuerdo de Paz. Atentan contra otro líder en el Cauca.

Staff (2022-07-20). Iran Helps Venezuela's PDVSA to Increase Production, Says Reuters. orinocotribune.com Iran will be increasing the supply of a key type of crude oil to Venezuela, with the aim of boosting the productivity of Venezuelan refineries, and thus freeing up its oil for exports. | According to a Iran w…

Victoria Torres (2022-07-20). Extradited—Ernesto Quintero, Leopoldo López's Protégé, Back in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, July 19, in his regular press conference, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, reported that Leopoldo López's protégé, Ernesto Quintero, was extradited from Spain to Venezuela. Quintero is implicated in the financial scam carried out by ABA Mercado de Capitales. | The representative of the Public Ministry said that about 300 people, mostly elderly, were victimized by this fraud, carried out by Ernesto Quintero and others, for an amount of some $ million. | Saab specified that Quintero was charged on July 18, electronically, from the 51st Control Court of the Metropolitan Area of &…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-07-20). Former opposition takes control of Colombia's Congress. colombiareports.com Colombia's formed opposition will take control of Congress in a historic session on Wednesday. The Historic Pact, the progressive party of President-elect Gustavo Petro, will be leading the government coalition…

TeleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-07-20). Nuevo Congreso de Colombia se instala con mayoría del Pacto Histórico. telesurtv.net Para el periodo 2022-2026 se instalarán 108 senadores y 187 representantes a la Cámara con un total de 285 congresistas.

TeleSUR, gao, SH (2022-07-20). Hallan evidencias de acción terrorista a gasoducto venezolano. telesurtv.net El ministro Tareck El Aissami afirmó que darán con los responsables del sabotaje para llevarlos a la justicia venezolana.

TeleSUR, JL (2022-07-20). Colombia celebra independencia en medio de expectativas y retos. telesurtv.net Colombia celebra su independencia en medio de la gran expectativa ante el nuevo Gobierno que está por venir.

Editor (2022-07-19). Leaked Docs: Facebook 'Bot' Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Documents shared with MintPress reveal that Valent Projects — a shadowy communications firm that advises social media platforms such as Facebook on alleged state-backed online influence campaigns — has itself received $1.2 million from U.S. intelligence front USAID, for "counter disinformation and communications support." This relationship has hitherto never been publicly …

Project Censored (2022-07-19). Whistleblower Summit and the Recent Election Results in Colombia. projectcensored.org For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on co-organizers and participants of the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC, including Marcel Reid, Michael…

Ddorinoco (2022-07-19). Omicron Drives Surge in Venezuela's COVID-19 Cases. orinocotribune.com This Sunday night, Venezuela's Presidential Commission for the Prevention, Care, and Control of COVID-19 reported that 672 new infections were registered in the country in the last 24 hours, of which 666 cases were due to community transmission, and six were imported. This was reported by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez Rodríguez reported that the state in which the largest number of new cases occurred is Miranda (272), with…

Editor (2022-07-19). US Intel Officer Targeted by John Bolton Reacts To Coup-Plot Confession. scheerpost.com By Aaron Maté / In a live interview with CNN, former senior US official John Bolton admitted that he has "helped plan coups d'etat" in a number of foreign countries, including Venezuela. | Fulton Armstrong, a former senior US intelligence official, has a unique perspective on Bolton's coup confession. In 2002, Bolton unsuccessfully tried to have Armstrong removed from his post after the US intelligence community refused to back Bolton's allegations of an advanced Cuban bio…

Staff (2022-07-19). Diosdado Cabello: Washington Sends Mercenaries to Attack Venezuela's Pipelines. orinocotribune.com On Monday, July 18, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced the US government for sending mercenaries to Venezuela "to attack oil facilities." | During a press conference given by the ruling party, Cabello spoke about the attack perpetrated this Sunday on a pipeline in eastern Venezuela. | "The attacks against the electrical system and against the oil system come from the United States through mercenaries," said Cabello. "All attacks on the electrical system are transversal. In the end, they affect the water as well, but they look for places to do da…

TeleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-07-19). Recuperan cuerpos de desaparecidos en el Cesar, Colombia. telesurtv.net El ejercicio conjunto de búsqueda entre la JEP y UBPD tiene como propósito ayudar a encontrar el paradero de desaparecidos entre los años 1996 y el 2002.

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-07-19). Tres líderes indígenas incluidos en nuevo Gobierno de Colombia. telesurtv.net El presidente electo colombiano Gustavo Petro anuncia a Leonor Zalabata, Patricia Tobón y Giovani Yule para puestos clave en su Gobierno.

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-07-19). EE.UU. intenta boicotear al sector petrolero venezolano. telesurtv.net El dirigente del PSUV afirmó que EE.UU. apoyada por sectores de la oposición no cesan en sus acciones contra las instalaciones petroleras.

TeleSUR- jaa, JL (2022-07-19). Militares retirados en Colombia reconocen 127 falsos positivos en el Cesar y La Guajira. telesurtv.net La JEP imputó a 15 miembros del Batallón de Artillería número 2 de La Popa, jurisdicción del Ejército Nacional, pero tres no reconocieron su participación en los actos.

Staff (2022-07-19). UPEC desarticula campaña de desinformación contra Cuba. cubadebate.cu El sitio Cubaperiodistas, de la Unión de Periodistas de Cuba, informó en sus redes sociales que utilizando la herramienta Gephi para visualizar la red en Twitter en torno a la etiqueta que convoca a la desobediencia civil en Cuba, detectaron 8 190 usuarios que han generado 27 301 interacciones en los últimos días, la mayor parte de ellos ubicados en EE.UU., Venezuela, México y Colombia.

_____ (2022-07-18). Does The World Economic Forum Measure Up To Nicaragua? popularresistance.org In that uncertain context, when a report like this year's World Economic Forum Report on the Global Gender Gap appears, people living in the majority world naturally look twice at its underlying principles, moral vision and assumptions. This is especially so in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela or other countries around the world similarly under attack from the same Western corporate and political elites who control the World Economic Forum itself. An important feature of the WEF report is its dependence on the data and presupppositions of diverse Western institutions and organizations. But despite thi…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-07-18). Prisoner Simón Trinidad is a victim of deadly U.S.-Colombia alliance. peoplesworld.org Simón Trinidad's 72nd birthday is July 30. Don't think about sending him a card. U.S. prison authorities have blocked his mail since 2004. He is lodged in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado. Extradited from Colombia, he remained in solitary confinement until 2018. As a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Trinidad …

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