Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to nearby countries of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (largely in response to ...
![U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump for a working lunch with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trump-bolton-pompeo-288x180.jpg "Bolton Weaves a Tall Tale in his Venezuela Chapter 2")
Four major sanctions over 10 months that crippled the Venezuelan economy are hardly indicative of an administration that “vacillated and wobbled”, in Bolton’s words. (Common Dreams) From the first paragraph of “Venezuela Libre”, the ninth ...
A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of ...
Flight logs of the Bolivian presidential jet show that on November 11, the day of the coup, the aircraft was not in La Paz or any other Bolivian airport, but flying to Brazil’s capital Brasilia. (By: ...
Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet. The wildfires that tore across Australia were as devastating as they were overwhelming, scorching some 15 million acres of land, killing ...
The statues are coming down. The most recent avalanche began in the United States after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the uprising it occasioned. In Philadelphia, the city removed a statue ...
“For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the OAS’ claims of fraud were bogus.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) More than seven months after claims of fraudulent ...
Unless Democrats begin to take advantage of the liability Guaidó represents and push back against Trump’s regime change efforts, there seems to be little hope of improving U.S.–Venezuela relations, regardless of who wins the presidency ...
The FCC’s 1949 Fairness Doctrine required broadcast television and radio licensees to present controversial issues of public interest in a “fair, equitable, and balanced” manner, but critics have argued that it actually hinders open discourse ...
“Bolsonaro is not only turning a blind eye as land grabbers, illegal loggers, and miners continue to plunder Indigenous territories during the pandemic, he plans to make things easier for them.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common ...
The Trump administration immediately denied all involvement, “it has nothing to do with our government,” the president said yesterday. But as the dust settled, the mercenaries immediately began implicating each other – and the U.S. ...
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross the maritime border. They landed on the Venezuelan coastline at ...
The United States has decided to play hardball with Mexican authorities rather than working toward a collaborative solution. Despite rising coronavirus cases and deaths in Mexico, American manufacturers and the Trump administration have increased pressure ...
One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed ...
Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
Bill Cosby was always a rapist monster. That much, hindsight and evidence make clear. Still, moored in our “Me Too” moment, it’s easy to forget how profound and influential the man, and the network smash hit, The Cosby ...
Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by President Iván Duque. In particular, the people called on the government to withdraw ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
“South America is no longer to follow the resource nationalist project of Evo Morales; this is Elon Musk’s South America, a place for the neo-conquistadors to make money and leave behind them social carnage.” Elon ...
“In memory of her mother, and of the almost 30-year struggles of COPINH, Zúñiga Cáceres says that there needs to be a ‘refoundation of Honduras.'” On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and ...
Democracy in Bolivia did not die in darkness, it died to the applause of the Washington Post. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday from a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Despite protests of historic proportions fueled by anger over corruption and a brutal right-wing crackdown, the unrest in Colombia has garnered remarkably little international media attention compared to Venezuela. (By: Whitney Webb & Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian ...
Upon his return to Venezuela, Juan Guaido was greeted by an enraged mob hectoring, jeering and manhandling him, kicking his car and covering him in water and other liquids. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Self-declared ...
“Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society… With his death, not only my family lost a loved one; but the whole world, and ...
“Chevron is using its limitless resources to crush defendants and win this case through might rather than merit.” Chevron is waging a scorched earth legal campaign against the environmental lawyer who won a multi-billion suit ...
“In Bolivia, if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security.” – Evo Morales It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on ...
“Charging journalists with criminal activity based on interactions with sources sends a chilling message to reporters working on sensitive stories…” The Brazilian government charged Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his reporting on leaked ...
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken ...
Immigration advocates are concerned new asylum procedures at the U.S.-Mexico border are denying migrants their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. A plan to send Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. to ...
The U.S. is building a new generation of nuclear weapons and dismantling nuclear arms control treaties, increasing the threat of nuclear war. The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a ...
Another priest sexual abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church this time implicating officials as high up as Pope Francis. The global sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has devastated the reputation of the Catholic ...
Luis Lacalle Pou’s victory ushers in a conservative government and ends the rule of the left-wing Frente Amplio coalition after 15 years in power during which Uruguay saw major social and economic gains. (Peoples Dispatch) ...
What lies ahead for Bolivia in the aftermath of the recent coup that deposed popular indigenous leader Evo Morales? Most likely, rigged elections and the end of democracy. With every passing day, it becomes clearer ...
The Bolivian coup, and the U.S. support behind it, fit into a longer process to undermine leftist governments in the region that threaten the interests of the U.S., its allies, and transnational corporations. Thirteen of us ...
Evo Morales rode to victory in 2006 with the promise of a new day for Bolivia but mining interests have fought back. When you look at your computer screen, or the screen on your smartphone ...
The left and right-wing struggle in Bolivia to hold onto power after the forced resignation of Bolivia’s longtime socialist leader Evo Morales reflects the growing divide across Latin America. The recent forced resignation of Bolivian ...
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign after a Bolivian coup that has shaken the country and resulted in violent and deadly protests. Bolivia is currently wading through what exiled former Bolivian President ...
Morales was the first indigenous president in his majority indigenous nation – one that has been ruled by a white European elite since the days of the conquistadors. (By Alan Macleod, FAIR) Army generals appearing ...
When Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism took power in 2006, the government immediately sought to undo decades of theft by transnational mining firms. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup ...
What “Free Lula” meant was not only the freedom of Lula, but also an end to lawfare as an instrument against the people. Just before 5 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former ...
Recent damning reports by the Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald exposing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration culminated in personal attacks on Greenwald’s family and a slap in the face. Rio-based American journalist ...
The assassination of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, a member of an Amazon defenders group known as the “Guardians of the Forest,” has prompted outrage from indigenous rights and environmentalist groups. (By Karla Mendes, Mongabay) Paulo Paulino ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. ...
When intellectual property laws that protect companies conflict with the rights of farmers to plant their fields, who should win? (By Karine Eliane Peschard, The Conversation) A Brazilian appeals court has decided in favor of ...
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