Organizations across the country have condemned the government of president Iván Duque for not providing security to social leaders. (By Tanya Wadhwa, Peoples Dispatch) Two weeks ago, four social leaders were assassinated in Colombia, taking ...
The latest sanctions are meant to limit Venezuela’s access to US dollars. (By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuela Analysis) The US Treasury Department has levied sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) in a bid to ...
Venezuela experienced a nationwide blackout in March of 2019 which President Maduro attributed to sabotage. (By AlbaTV, translation by Resumen) The North American intelligence agencies and their government’s attention and monitoring of the electricity situation ...
The crossing was captured by patrol cameras, and Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station intercepted the migrants on U.S. soil. U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 360 Central American migrants crossing the ...
Kenney spoke of how he would defend Alberta’s resource sector with a “fully staffed, rapid response war room” that would, “effectively rebut every lie told by the green left.” Jason Kenney and his right-wing United ...
GRAYZONE PROJECT EXCLUSIVE: Away from the public eye, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank hosted a top-level, off-the-record meeting to explore US military options against Venezuela. (By Max Blumenthal, Grayzone Project) ...
“The World Bank will be deeply involved, and we are preparing for that, but the situation is still troublesome on the ground.” Both global lenders, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ...
“In a moment when there’s been a rise of authoritarianism around the world, they’re giving a positive nod to a man who is rolling back human rights protections and scientific knowledge.” The American Museum of ...
The rifle parts cost about $1,500. The assembled firearms sold for as much as $12,000 in Paraguay and $20,000 in Brazil. (By Josefina Salomón, InSight Crime) Arms traffickers in Argentina bought US AR-15 rifle parts, ...
A battle over the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico Policy” is being played out in the court system. The Trump administration pushed an emergency stay motion through to the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th district ...
The communal land, invaded by the mining company for constructing the highway, is the private property of the peasants. (Peoples Dispatch) On March 28, leaders of over 38 peasant communities of the Challhuahuacho district of ...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating whether the White House interfered with relief funding intended for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Growing tension over the situation in Puerto Rico has been further ...
The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs.” (By Max Blumenthal, Grayzone) ...
One year after the brutal murders of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes, the question of who ordered the assassination still remains. (Peoples Dispatch) One year ago today, Brazilian councilwoman ...
Trump pledges veto in response to bipartisan vote ending national emergency declaration at the southern border. On Thursday, 12 Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. Senate and voted to end Trump’s declaration of an emergency ...
“Donald Trump is most responsible for the cyber attack on the Venezuelan electricity system.” As Venezuela struggles through the sixth day of a blackout that has affected as much as 70 percent of the country, ...
Authorities in Venezuela denounced cyber attacks on the central hydroelectric plant which left 70% of the country without electricity. (PeoplesDispatch) Electricity supply is being rapidly restored in Venezuela after three days of power failure in ...
A newly approved Cuban constitution substantially expands social, political and economic rights in Cuba. (By María Isabel Alfonso, The Conversation) Cuba has rejected a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in its new and revised constitution, a move ...
Regional diplomacy is much slower than foreign intervention. But it avoids further bloodshed and reduces the role of anti-Americanism in Venezuela’s crisis. (By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University, The Conversation) Violence erupted at the Venezuela-Colombia ...
Around 450 delegates from 85 countries congregated in Caracas, to participate in a gathering of solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. People from across the world have come to Caracas to join together as ...
The National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and free abortion called for demonstrations across Argentina to demand the government to address the bill for Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy again this year. (PeoplesDispatch) On ...
Juan Guaido is trying to take control of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, but it could split the company in two. Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s opposition leader trying to wrest power from incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, just ...
A study by the World Bank concluded there is no difference in the cost, quality and speed of services offered via public or private companies. So how should Puerto Rico rebuild? (CPI)From the inside of ...
In an exclusive interview with La Jornada, Maduro rejects that Venezuela is a dictatorship, that human rights are violated or that there is a humanitarian crisis. (Resumen Latinoamericano) In the worst crisis since assuming the ...
Why is the West sending humanitarian aid while simultaneously blocking Venezuela from accessing its own money? (Resumen Latinoamericano)The first trucks carrying the so-called humanitarian aid for Venezuela have arrived at the Colombian border city of ...
“Long live people’s power”, said Maduro, urging the people to continue fighting for their sovereignty. (Peoples Dispatch) On February 2, thousands of citizens and members of social movements and people’s organizations took part in a ...
Who is Juan Guaidó and how did he rise to the head of a movement to end Nicolas Maduro’s reign in Venezuela? Juan Guaidó, a relatively unheard of 35-year-old Venezuelan politician, has suddenly taken Venezuela and the ...
In the face of yet another blatant power grab led by the US and supported by right-wing forces in Latin America, the government and people of Venezuela mount a strong defense. (Peoples Dispatch) On January ...
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, claims to have seized the state asset after the US imposed a series of sanctions on the country’s state oil firm, PDVSA. The U.S. argues that sanctions applied on ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War?
A press conference held by John Bolton suggested the US might send 5,000 troops to Venezuela. Things are getting dangerous in the standoff between the United States and Venezuela. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War? Tensions between the U.S and Russia are threatening to get out of ...
Only two months after an American missionary was killed by a tribe in India he was attempting to contact, another missionary is being investigated for crossing into tribal land. A missionary with the Greene Baptist ...
In response to Trump declaration, President Nicolas Maduro gives diplomats from ‘imperialist’ U.S. 72 hours to leave the country. (Common Dreams) President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela officially cut off dipomatic ties with the U.S. government ...
Oil companies in Vaca Muerta, one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world, are accused of illegally dumping industrial oil and toxic waste in open waste ponds, as revealed in a ...
Guzmán’s trial is a telenovela-style explainer on why a wall is unlikely to stop the lucrative U.S.-Mexico drug trade. (The Conversation, by Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong) The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ...
Will the departure of another migrant caravan heading for the US border affect negotiations over funding for the US border wall? Another migrant caravan is on its way to the United States. The caravan is coming ...
Illegal gold mining and the illicit activities that go hand in hand with every step of the process have cast a dark shadow over one territory in Colombia. In the territory of Colombia known as ...
Maduro begins his second term amidst a devastating economic crisis and claims challenging the legitimacy of his presidency. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term in office amid international claims that ...
Russia – U.S. geopolitics could result in a new US military base in Brazil, but Brazil’s military doesn’t seem to happy about that. On Thursday Jan. 3 the Brazilian administration under President Jair Bolsonaro stated ...
During the week of Dec. 16, Californian Congressmembers Nanette Barragán and Jimmy Gomez camped out in the cold at the Tijuana-San Diego border to help facilitate the safe passage of Honduran immigrants into the US. ...
The brutal murder of two teenage members of the migrant caravan is a reminder of the violence that migrants are trying to escape. Two teenage members of the migrant caravan that traveled from Central America to ...
“I am coming here again to denounce the plot that is being prepared from the White House to violate Venezuelan democracy, to assassinate me and to impose a dictatorial government in Venezuela.” (People’s Dispatch) Venezuelan ...
“We are preparing to defend Venezuela to the last inch when necessary.” Two Russian Tupolev-160 long-range strategic bombers that landed in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 10 sparked outrage and condemnation from U.S. officials. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...
“The company has been exposed and could not defend itself; they allowed the army to torture us inside the factory.” On Tuesday, two former Ford Motor Company executives were sentenced in an Argentine courtroom for ...
ENGLISH VERSION La crisis moderna de refugiados en Centro América no surgió en el vacío, años de intervención por corporaciones multinacionales, y las instituciones que las apoyaron, tienen una responsabilidad significativa. A pesar de todo ...
While Western countries struggle to progress and find common ground on climate change, Costa Rica is quietly breaking records for renewable energy. The Central American country of Costa Rica has broken its own renewable energy ...
(The Conversation, by Jana Lipman, Tulane University) The naval base at Guantanamo Bay is quietly commemorating its 115th anniversary. On Dec. 10, 1903, the United States established its first overseas military base on 45 square miles ...
Amid all the drama of an international forum were a few significant moments for world affairs. The G20 summit, which wrapped up Saturday, Dec. 1, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, produced several key agreements despite concerns ...
The changing of the guard in Mexico brings increased scrutiny as thousands of immigrants sit in shelters on the border between the US and Mexico awaiting their fate. Nearly 100 more of the Central American ...
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