2020-03-14: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-03-14). Colombia: Duque Closes Border With Venezuela, Thousands at Risk. telesurenglish.net Without having sent any previous signal, RELATED: | "Starting at five in the morning tomorro…

Telesur (2020-03-14). Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade. globalresearch.ca Venezuela's

teleSUR (2020-03-13). Maduro Activates "State of Alarm" to Face Covid-19. telesurenglish.net The President of Venezuela, RELATED: | During a broadcast on national media, the Executive reiterated that the decision was made based on Article 338 of the Constitution, which…

teleSUR (2020-03-13). Colombia: Supreme Court Accuses Uribe of Vote Buying. telesurenglish.net Colombian Supreme Justice Court started a preliminary investigation march 12 against the South American nation ex-president due vote-buying accusations. | RELATED: | Uribe will be investigated because of evidence linking him to the late José Guillermo Hernández, better known as àëeñe, who is suspect of buying votes on current leader Ivan Duque's behalf. These audios mention illicit payments to obtain votes in the northern Colombian state of La Guajir…

Joe Emersberger (2020-03-13). No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy. zcomm.org I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump's financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela military action, including

teleSUR (2020-03-13). Venezuela: Two Covid-19 Cases Are Confirmed. telesurenglish.net In the early hours of Friday, two cases of coronavirus in Venezuela were confirmed, according to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. | RELATED: | The affected people are a 42-year-old woman who was traveling through the European Union and a 52-year-old man who was in Spain. | The two infected patients, who reside in the Miranda state, are duly isolated and in mandatory quarantine. | The epidemiological fence around their direct contac…

Fight Back (2020-03-12). Venezuela: FRSO meets National Electoral Council president. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) labor delegation met today with Tibisay Lucena, president of the CNE (the National Electoral Council) to discuss the upcoming elections. Lucena spoke about this election as very important in the face of U.S aggression and the economic war. | Lucena explained the electoral processes in Venezuela are a result of democratic changes put forward in the 1999 Constitution after President Chavez was elected. The CNE is a new branch of government, the electoral branch, that oversees a fair and democratic process. This is in addition to the legislative, ju…

Fight Back (2020-03-11). Venezuela: FRSO labor delegation meets with Bolivarian Space Agency. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela — The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) labor delegation met with space program officials, March 11, at the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities. Pictured are Adolfo Godoy, the president of ABAE; Mariano Imbert, the manager of Commercial Development; Salvador Lugo, the vice minister of Science and Technology, along with members of the FRSO delegation.

Stansfield Smith (2020-03-11). A Case Study of Corporate Media Disinformation. dissidentvoice.org Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian "election interference," on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender's Manufacturing the Enemy: …

Venezuela Analysis (2020-02-06). Embassy Protection Collective: "We Are Not the Ones Who Violated the Law" theantimedia.com In this exclusive interview, VA talks to the activists who defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC ahead of their trial.