2022-05-03: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2022-05-03). Colombia records assassination of 62 activists in first quadrimester of 2022. peoplesdispatch.org According to INDEPAZ, in addition to the assassination of 62 social activists and 18 ex-combatants, 37 massacres have also been recorded in the first four months of this year…

teleSUR, JGN (2022-05-03). Pdte. de Venezuela recibe a ministro del Petróleo de Irán. telesurtv.net Ambos funcionarios analizados diferentes acuerdos de cooperación bilateral en el sector petrolero, gasífero y petroquímico.

teleSUR, JDO (2022-05-03). Titular de Defensa responde ante Senado de Colombia por masacre. telesurtv.net Diego Molano rinde cuentas sobre el ataque a civiles el 28 de marzo en Puerto Leguízamo, en el que murieron 11 campesinos.

teleSUR, lvm, JL (2022-05-03). Denuncian asesinato de lideresa social en Antioquia, Colombia. telesurtv.net Con María Elvia Gómez Alzate serían 64 los líderes sociales asesinados durante el 2022.

teleSUR, JL (2022-05-03). Petro suspende campaña en Eje Cafetero colombiano tras amenazas. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a información recibida, el grupo paramilitar "La Cordillera" estaría preparando un atentado contra el favorito a ganar la Presidencia, Gustavo Petro.

Editor2 (2022-05-03). 'We Killed Innocent People': Retired Colombian Army Officials Confess to Murdering Civilians. orinocotribune.com By Tanya Wadhwa — Apr 29, 2022 | Ten retired soldiers and one civilian admit to kidnapping and murdering 120 innocent peasants, framing them as left-wing guerrilla fighters killed in combat | Ten retired members of the Colombian Military Forces confessed to kidnapping and murdering over one hundred civilians, them framing them to authorities as left-wing guerrilla fighters killed in combat during counterinsurgency operations in the 2000s. The admissions were made during public hearings organized by the Recognition of Truth Body of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in the Norte de Santander department…

_____ (2022-05-02). Ukraine: The American Tyranny Of Power. popularresistance.org The history of the US intelligence operations goes back to World War II. Stephen Bandera was released from prison by OSS officers in 1944. Bandera was a Nazi operative whose militia slaughtered Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front. The OSS/CIA recruited Bandera so he could fight the advancing Soviet Union. In all the years since then, the CIA has never had an annual audit of its trillion dollar budget, and of course nothing has changed. | Just over ten years ago the CIA initiated its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) "Orange Revolution" to once more cravenly attempt to thwart the Russians,…

Ricardo Vaz (2022-05-02). Venezuela: Maduro Announces Pensioner Bonus as Unions Stage Worker's Day Marches. venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan president pledged "fair compensation" for retired workers hit hard by inflation in recent years.

Staff (2022-05-02). Venezuela Defeating COVID-19: Only 27 Deaths in April. orinocotribune.com Caracas, May 1, 2022 ( During the month of April only 27 COVID-19-related deaths were reported across Venezuela. The pandemic has claimed more than six million deaths worldwide, including the tragic loss of over one million lives in the United States alone. Brazil has registered over 663,000 COVID-related deaths,…

Staff (2022-05-02). Chavismo Commemorates 3 Years since Failed Coup Led by Guaidó and López (Photos). orinocotribune.com This Saturday, April 30, three years after the People's Victory Day against the failed coup, which took place on the same day in 2019, was commemorated. From the Altamira bridge, Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), pointed out that, "today we can shout to the world that traitors will never return to Venezuela again." | During his speech, from the same place where the extreme right, led by former deputy Juan Guaidó and fugitive Leopoldo López, tried to carry out a coup against President Nicolás Maduro Moros, Cabello warned that "if today the Venezuelan oppositi…

Staff (2022-05-02). Abren nueva ruta aérea turística Venezuela—Cuba. cubadebate.cu Una nueva ruta aérea turística quedará inaugurada este lunes entre Cuba y Venezuela, anunciaron fuentes de la turoperadora GTN. El vuelo de Aerolíneas Estelar cubrirá la ruta La Habana-Santiago de Cuba y Porlamar, centro urbano y económico de la Isla de Margarita y saldrá este lunes de Caracas rumbo a la isla venezolana.

teleSUR, jaa, JL (2022-05-02). Pdte. de Venezuela anuncia creación de fondo especial para trabajadores. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado venezolano también anunció la instauración del banco digital de los trabajadores.

Camilo Rengifo Marín (2022-05-02). Colombia — Por fin, àÅlvaro Uribe irá a juicio por soborno y fraude procesal. globalizacion.ca El expresidente àÅlvaro Uribe Vélez, acusado por organizaciones humanitarias de genocidio, deberá ir a un juicio por la manipulación de testigos, fraude procesal y soborno, decidió la jueza Carmen Helena Ortiz, luego de estudiar cientos de pruebas que la Fiscalía…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-05-02). Colombia's war crimes tribunal orders 63 investigations into alleged paramilitary allies. colombiareports.com Colombia's war crimes tribunal ordered 63 criminal investigations against suspected political and business allies of paramilitary organizations. The investigation order is the result of testimonies given by Dario Antonio Isiga,…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-05-02). Colombia on alert about possible violence during elections. colombiareports.com Colombia's Interior Ministry said it would prioritize security measures in historically violent regions to prevent the possible interference of illegal armed groups. According to Interior Minister Daniel Palacios, the government…

teleSUR, JL (2022-05-02). Asesinan a otro líder social en Colombia, el número 62 en 2022. telesurtv.net Colombia también contabiliza 18 excombatientes asesinado y 37 masacres perpetradas durante el presente año.

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