(2021-12-07). 'Surreal': Biden Invites Venezuelan Coup Leader Juan Guaidó to US 'Summit for Democracy'. orinocotribune.com By Kenny Stancil — Dec 1, 2021 | Critics slammed Biden's decision to invite the leader of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president to an ostensibly pro-democracy gathering. | U.S. President Joe Biden was nearly the victim of a
(2021-12-07). U.S. Vowed to Help Prevent New Variants by Closing Global Vaccine Gap, But Plan's Funding Is Stalled. democracynow.org 
As the Biden administration faces increased pressure to address global vaccine inequity, USAID administrator Samantha Power announced a plan Monday for the United States to spend an additional $400 million to help increase vaccine access internationally. The move came days after Vanity Fair revealed a $2.5 billion plan to thwart Omicron-like variants has been stalled inside the Biden administration. We speak with reporter Katherine Eban, who broke the story, and says vaccines are piling up in countries that lack the health infrastructure to distribute them quickly. "The problem is shifting from not enough doses t…
(2021-12-07). Venezuela's Oil Production Reaches 930,000 Barrels per Day Peak in December's First Week. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuela's state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) achieved a total oil production of 930,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the first week of December. The level approaches PDVSA's forecast of one million bpd by the end of the year, as detailed in an internal PDVSA report. The nation's oil industry, in addition to millions of Venezuelan citizens, have seen their livelihoods damaged by illegal coercive measures (or "sanctions") issued by the United States and Europe in an attempt to oust President Nicolas Maduro. | The level of production was reached due to the efforts of exploration and production workers…
(2021-12-07). Venezuela: Five Candidates Run For Governor In Barinas State. telesurenglish.net As of Tuesday morning, five Venezuelan parties had registered candidates to run in the elections for governor to be held in the Barinas state on January 9, 2022. | RELATED: | Previously, the National Electoral Council (CNE) annulled the results of the elections held in that territory given that the winning candidate in the Nov. 21 elections, Freddy Superlano, should not have participated in the democratic process because pre…
(2021-12-07). UNGA Recognizes President Nicolas Maduro's Representative. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) approved a resolution confirming the credentials of diplomats who are qualified to participate and represent their countries before this multilateral organization. Among them is Samuel Moncada, the permanent representative of the Venezuelan State to the United Nations (UN). | RELATED: | Through this decision, the UN members made a tacit recognition that the government hea…
(2021-12-07). Colombia launches digital library of the peace process with FARC. america.cgtn.com 
Colombia launched a digital public library of Colombia's Peace process on Monday. The library includes 4,500 documents, video, and infographics to help understand the more than 400 historical moments that made the peace accord possible in 2016. Find out more.
(2021-12-06). Julio Borges Resigns and Guaidó Staggers: 'Interim Government Must Disappear'. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, December 5, Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges took to his Twitter account to express his disagreement with the "management" of Juan Guaidó and his fictitious "government." Through a Twitter thread, Borges described what he will do starting this Tuesday. All this comes two weeks after the crushing defeat that the hard right opposition suffered in the November 21 regional elections. | This move represents a separation of Borges from what the opposition used to call "interim government" headed by Guaidó. Now a number of those involved in that imaginary government classify it as not very transpar…
(2021-12-06). Venezuelan Opposition Admits Guaido's Team Committed Corruption. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges resigned from | Julio Borges, the politician who serves as foreign minister for Venezuela's U.S.-backed "interim government," said on Sunday he would leave his post, further weakening the opposition just weeks after it was routed in regional elections.
(2021-12-06). Diego Sequera Discusses the Underpinnings of Venezuelan Election and Huge Maduro/Socialist Victory. orinocotribune.com Sunday's result underscores the notion that the Venezuelan people blame the U.S. sanctions for their suffering, rather than purely pointing the finger at the government. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is celebrating as, with almost all votes counted, they appear to have won 20 out of the country's 23 states in Sunday's regional "mega elections." More than 70,000 candidates stood for one of 3,082 public positions, including local mayorships, councillors, regional legislators and state governors — the vast majority of candidates affiliated with opposition parties. | The landslide victory was…
(2021-12-06). Barinas Governor Election Re-Run: Candidates Sign Up as CNE Rector Quits. venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan government has backed Jorge Arreaza, while the opposition's main candidates were blocked.
(2021-12-06). Jorge Arreaza PSUV Candidate for Barinas Re-Election. orinocotribune.com With the battle-cry "Long live Chávez!", Jorge Arreaza Montserrat assumed, on Sunday, December 5, the candidacy for governorship in Barinas state, after being so designated by the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). | Arreaza declared that he was moved, and thanked, from the heart, President Nicolás Maduro, for the confidence in him to undertake this new battle in the state where Hugo Chávez was born and that has great ideological significance for the Bolivarian Revolution. | "If you trust this son of Chávez, this brother of Nicolás Maduro, to lead the reins of Barinas for the n…
(2021-12-06). Former Venezuelan FM Arreaza To Run for Governor of Barinas. telesurenglish.net Former Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza will be the candidate for governor of Barinas for the Great Patriotic Pole in the elections of January 9, 2022, announced last Sunday President Nicolás Maduro in a virtual meeting with the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) during a meeting held in that Venezuelan state. | President Maduro called all Chavismo forces to fully support Jorge Arreaza's candidacy for the governorship of Barinas state, the only public office that will disputed next January.
(2021-12-06). Josu Landa: National Autonomous University of Mexico Reactivates the Simón Bolívar Chair. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara The reactivation of the Simón Bolívar Chair at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was a precise moment to talk to the Venezuelan philosopher Josu Landa, professor at that university, who together with Dr. Ambrosio Velasco, a Mexican academic with a distinguished career, have taken on the task of resuming the study…
(2021-12-06). US Government and Media Conceal the Reality of Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Ted Snider, an expert in the analysis of patterns in U.S. foreign policy and history, assessed the latest regional and local elections in Venezuela, and said that if the opposition had won, the media would have been full of front pages about the removal of Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez's party, but that is not the case. So the media have kept it secret from the U.S. public, he pointed out. | The U.S. government and media are hiding the reality of what is happening in Venezuela, commented today the Antiwar.com website.
(2021-12-06). Former DINA Agent Living in Australia Is One Step Closer to Facing Justice in Chile. strategic-culture.org With Rivas one step closer to facing the Chilean courts, pressure should be ramped up for further disclosure on Australia's duplicitous role, and how it might be contributing towards the oblivion and impunity enacted by Pinochet. | Chile's dictatorship operated over 1,200 detention and torture centres, yet Cuartel Simon Bolivar was its best kept secret until Jorgelino Vergara Bravo, a former errand boy for the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) chief Manuel Contreras, revealed its existence as "the place where no one got out alive." Vergara, known as El Mocito, gave testimony which placed the feared Lautar…
