2022-03-22: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-22). Venezuela: A Model Of Resistance To US Intervention. popularresistance.org Unlike Ukraine, Venezuela successfully resisted the violent US-led coup attempt in 2014, and in other years, by right wing forces and the hybrid war being waged against it. Venezuela is recovering despite the ongoing economic blockade. Now, because the United States needs oil, the Biden administration has started talking to the Maduro government and there is hope that relations between the two countries may resume. For an update on this situation, as well as the future of Venezuela's US-based oil company CITGO, the status of Venezuela's gold in the Bank of London, the demise of Juan Guaido, and the kidnapping of…

Staff (2022-03-22). Venezuela's Tax on Foreign Currency Transactions Starts Monday. orinocotribune.com Last Thursday, March 17, Venezuela's National Integrated Service for the Administration of Customs (SENIAT) At the core of the reform is the ruling that foreign currency transactions will be subject to a tax equal to or grea…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela of Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustration…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-22). Colombia's Uribe Accuses Venezuela for Election Debacle, Minister for Defense Responds. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, March 20, Venezuela's Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino reacted firmly to accusations issued by Colombia's former president, àÅlvaro Uribe, following the defeat suffered by Uribe's party in the March 13 Colombian parliamentary elections. | Accusation and manipulation | According to Uribe's accusation, Venezuela's General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) was behind the alleged fraud that occurred in Colombia's March 13 elections. | "Venezuela's penetration contributed to the electoral fraud in Colombia," wrote Uribe yesterday. With this statement Uribe expressed frustratio…

Staff (2022-03-21). Venezuela and China to Deepen Strategic Alliance (+New Credit Line Reports). orinocotribune.com Caracas, March 20, 2022 ( Orinoco Tribune had access to credible sources mentioning an agreement between the Chinese and the Venezuelan government through which China will open a new $5 billion line of credit, allowing Venezuela to boost its economic recovery strategy, which has yield…

Ramzy Baroud (2022-03-21). New Great Game: Can Venezuela Negotiate an End to Deadly US Sanctions? mintpressnews.com Now that Russia's moves in Eastern Europe have re-ignited the 'Great Game' of a previous era, Venezuela, Cuba and others, though thousands of miles away, are finding themselves at the heart of the budding new Great Game…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). A Commune Called 'Che': A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes. transcend.org 1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela's project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.

Staff (2022-03-21). Intercambia Secretario Ejecutivo del ALBA-TCP con estudiantes y especialistas en relaciones internacionales. cubadebate.cu El secretario ejecutivo de la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, intercambió este lunes con estudiantes, profesores, investigadores y especialistas cubanos sobre las relaciones internacionales en la actualidad. El encuentro tuvo lugar en el Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI).

teleSUR, JL (2022-03-21). Boca Juniors derrota a River Plate como visitante. telesurtv.net El tanto del Xeneize llegó por intermedio del colombiano Sebastián Villa en la segunda parte.

teleSUR, JL (2022-03-21). Asesinan a líder social en Colombia, el número 43 en el 2022. telesurtv.net Además de los 43 líderes sociales asesinados, el país contabiliza 23 masacres perpetradas durante el 2022.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-21). Colombia's election chief orders recount of congressional election results. colombiareports.com Colombia's top election official ordered a recount of disputed congressional election results. National Registrar Alexander Vega ordered the recount of the Senate election results at the request of President Ivan…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-03-21). Public confidence in Colombia's elections collapsed: observers. colombiareports.com Public confidence in Colombia's electoral process collapsed due to "an accumulation of errors," according to election observers. The crisis followed congressional elections of which the results are still being disputed…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-03-21). Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death. transcend.org 14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.

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