Latino America
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Haz que las bombas incendiarias contra Cuba hagan boomerang
www.workers.org Haz que las bombas incendiarias contra Cuba hagan boomerang – editorialYa está fuera de los titulares. Pero su mensaje sigue vigente. Hablamos de los artefactos incendiarios que los terroristas lanzaron contra la Embajada de Cuba en Washington, D.C. El mensaje es obvio: hay algo fuera de lugar si el Estado canalla más peligroso del mundo -con sede en Washington- pue
>Es un crimen que se puedan lanzar bombas incendiarias contra la embajada cubana. Es una admisión de la participación oficial de Estados Unidos en este crimen que nadie haya sido capturado. Pero no es ni mucho menos el peor crimen que el imperialismo yanqui ha cometido contra el pueblo cubano. Bloquear la economía cubana, calumniar a Cuba de “terrorista” es un crimen mucho peor. > >El año pasado, cuando la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas votó sobre el levantamiento del bloqueo a Cuba, el levantamiento del bloqueo ganó, por 185 a 2. Sólo [una neocolonia] se unió a Estados Unidos para votar en contra de Cuba. Dos Estados canallas. Y los gobiernos de los otros 185 países están convencidos de que es un disparate llamar a Cuba un estado terrorista. > >Así que si el ataque a la embajada cubana ha llamado más la atención sobre la flagrante mentira utilizada para hacer sufrir al pueblo cubano, utilicemos esa atención para movilizarnos y conseguir que Cuba sea eliminada de la lista. Ya existe una petición para exigir precisamente eso. Ya ha recorrido más de un tercio del camino hacia el objetivo de un millón de firmas.
- www.workers.org China and Venezuela to Establish ‘All-Weather Strategic Partnership’
By Andreína Chávez Alava The following article was posted Sept. 15 on venezuelanalysis.com. Caracas Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has wrapped up a six-day visit to China with a meeting with President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to strengthen political and ec
>Following Wednesday’s presidential meeting, Maduro and Xi supervised the signing of 31 bilateral cooperation documents focused on boosting collaboration in areas from oil, scientific development and tourism to “enriching the variety of trade goods.” > >The main agreements include [the People’s Republic of] China’s support in the construction of [the Bolivarian Republic of] Venezuela’s special economic zones (SEZs), poverty reduction efforts and boosting the South American nation’s national electric grid, significantly strained due to a years-long lack of investment. > >The allied nations likewise signed an agreement between China Meheco pharmaceutical company and Venezuela’s public health system to transfer technology and knowledge for the maintenance of medical equipment, to build and remodel hospital facilities, as well as to supply medicines and materials to the Caribbean country. > >In a special broadcast of his weekly program from China, Maduro went on to highlight that Caracas will begin exporting agricultural products such as coffee and avocados to the Chinese market. > >One aspect of the new China-Venezuela alliance that caught international headlines was the agreement for space exploration, which will “take the first Venezuelan man or woman to the moon on board a Chinese spacecraft,” said President Maduro. In July, Venezuela became the first Latin American country to join the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) to build a base near the moon’s south pole within the next decade. > >Additionally, Caracas and Beijing agreed to deepen cooperation between legislative bodies and advance collaboration in industrial, green and sustainable development, mining projects, digital economy, culture and education exchange.
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Sergio y el río: desaparecido por defender la vida
adondevanlosdesaparecidos.org Sergio y el río: desaparecido por defender la vida - A dónde van los desaparecidosSergio Rivera Hernández, defensor nahua del territorio, originario de Zoquitlán, en la Sierra Negra de Puebla, lleva casi cuatro años desaparecido. Su caso es el primero en todo el país que llega a juicio por el delito de desaparición cometida por particulares, y específicamente, en contra de un def...
- apocaliptic.com #Ostula; el narco y el gobierno se coordinan para atacar a comunidad nahua en resistencia
Como si se tratara de una estrategia de terror coordinada, mientras la comunidad indígena de Santa María Ostula estaba enterrando al joven guardia comunitario Lorenzo Froylán de la Cruz…
- radiozapatista.org Yucatán: Tras represión, indígenas de Ixil se mantienen en resistencia
Fuente: Avispa Midia Por Ñaní Pinto Foto de portada: Comunidad Ixil En las primeras horas de la mañana del jueves pasado, 5h30 para ser más exacto, Agentes de la Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE) de Yucatán y centenas de policías de...
- www.workers.org Haiti: U.N. sanctioned occupation is a done deal
The U.S. government has finally found a country in the Global South willing to lead a U.N.-approved intervention “to assist Haitian police in restoring security.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed Aug. 1 on X (formerly Twitter): “We commend the government of Kenya for responding to Haiti’s
>Haitian popular organizations quickly expressed opposition to the new intervention. > >As chair of the U.N. Security Council for August, the U.S. intends to hold a vote authorizing Kenya to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti towards the end of August and to lead a multilateral force now being formed. > >These Kenyan police will not be under U.N. command. The U.N. has zero popular support in Haiti; it introduced cholera into Haiti twice, and its troops have a reputation for brutal treatment of Haitian protesters. > >The cost of U.N. operations in Haiti from June 2004 to October 2017 was estimated at $7 billion, and Haiti still is the most underdeveloped country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Minor point: the grammar on the comm name is wrong
In romance languages, the adjective usually comes after the noun, unlike in English where it comes before. A proper way to write it in Spanish/Portuguese would be "América Latina" as América is also a grammatically female noun. (And "Amérique latine" in that other language). I'm not sure if it is some sort of reference that I just missed, but I figured it'd be better to point it out in case it was just a simple mistake. If the intent was instead to have "Latino" be the noun, it'd be more correct as "Latino Americano" or "Latinoamericano".
- www.pagina12.com.ar Brasil: un juez halló culpable a Jair Bolsonaro de abuso de poder | El juez instructor del caso pidió inhabilitar al expresidente por ocho años
En julio de 2022 el entonces mandatario convocó a medio centenar de embajadores extranjeros en la residencia oficial de la presidencia para descalificar el sistema electoral.
- www.pagina12.com.ar Perú: demanda de Pedro Castillo ante las Naciones Unidas | El expresidente acusó al Estado peruano de "actos permanentes de tortura"
En el documento entregado al Comité contra la Tortura de la ONU se indica que la incomunicación absoluta le causa a Castillo y a su familia “graves sufrimientos”.
- kaosenlared.net Publican en Bolivia libro sobre Silvio Rodríguez en la Flota Cubana de Pesca
Canciones del mar (Intiedit, 2023) de Silvio Rodríguez es un libro obligatorio para cualquier fanático del trovador cubano, quien en septiembre de 1969 se sube a un motopesquero “Playa Girón”, junto a unos 100 hombres veinteañeros, pioneros de la incipiente Flota Cubana de Pesca, rumbo a las costas ...
- www.pagina12.com.ar Perú: La coalición de derecha y ultraderecha concentra más poder | El Congreso avanza sobre instituciones clave
La mayoría parlamentaria, en la cual el fujimorismo tiene rol protagónico, ya tomó el control del Tribunal Constitucional y de la Defensoría del Pueblo, y hace unos días dio un zarpazo a la Fiscalía.
- orinocotribune.com Government of Colombia and ELN Sign Historic Ceasefire, UN and Venezuela Celebrate
The government of Colombia and the guerrilla organization National Liberation Army (ELN) signed a ceasefire on Friday, as part of the negotiations that started in Caracas and are currently taking p…
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Growing mass anger in Haiti
www.workers.org Mass anger in HaitiMillions of Haitians regularly don’t get enough to eat. They have access only to dirty, contaminated water. The turmoil of their struggle for survival has resulted in more than 1,630 people killed, wounded or kidnapped in the first three months of 2023, according to the United Nations Integrated Off
>Currently, neighborhood groups are handing out machetes and setting up checkpoints to keep gang members out. > >According to a New York Times report June 3, there has been a very sharp reduction in kidnapping and killing following the killings of gang members. The Times proclaims concern about vigilantism, that is, the self-organization for combat within the community independent of the police, and speculates about a potential reaction from the gangs.
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Ecuador in crisis due to capitalist rule (again)
www.workers.org Muerte Cruzada, Ecuador in crisisIbarra, Ecuador June 3 — On May 17 at 6:59 a.m., Ecuador’s banker-President Guillermo Lasso faced impeachment by the National Assembly and a dishonorable expulsion from office. At 7:00 a.m. that day, Lasso invoked the “muerte cruzada” (mutual death) clause of Ecuador’s Constitution. Applying t
>Ecuadorians are angry about the insecurity, the governmental incompetence and Lasso’s total indifference to the needs of the masses. People remember that life was better six years ago — before Lenín Moreno became president, before the COVID-19 pandemic, before prison massacres and surging street violence. > >[…] > >La Vía Campesina (the International Peasant’s Movement) on May 20, demanded that Lasso must “Respond immediately to the serious social crisis that Ecuador is facing, with high rates of hunger and child malnutrition, poverty, migrations, unemployment of almost half of the population, lack of investment in health and education, and an out-of-control level of violence and insecurity due to criminal gangs.” > >The peasants’ group also demanded “Lasso must refrain from deepening neoliberalism, extractivism, the privatization of basic services, the handover of natural goods — oil, mining, the radio-electrical spectrum — to transnational corporations.”
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U.S. responsible for deplorable conditions in Haitian prisons
www.workers.org Haiti, hunger and U.S. prison imperialismBy James Patrick Jordan Note: This article, first published by Black Agenda Report, has been edited for the May 25, 2023, print issue of Workers World. Read in full at tinyurl.com/yck3k98y. Three prisoners in the U.S.-built prison in Petit-Goâve, Haiti, starved to death between Aug. 23 and Sep
>The vast majority of those imprisoned at Petit-Goâve and throughout the Haitian prison system have not yet been tried or convicted of a crime. In fact, of a prison population of 11,580 persons as of May 2021, only 2,071 had been sentenced. Across Haiti, there were an estimated 80 to 100 prisoners who died of malnutrition and lack of medical care nationwide last year. > >The United States has funded the construction of four prisons in Haiti since 2013. However, given its dominant influence over and funding of the Haitian National Police and its prison system, the U.S. bears responsibility for the deplorable conditions that characterize all of Haitian jails today.
- www.workers.org América Latina en Resistencia: EE.UU. mantiene la “presión máxima”
Por Jessica Dos Santos y Ricardo Vaz Publicado en investigaction.net, el 14 de mayo de 2023. El pasado 25 de abril, el presidente de Colombia Gustavo Petro logró reunir a delegaciones de 20 países para la llamada “Conferencia Internacional sobre el proceso político en Venezuela” realizada en B
>Sobre los tres puntos, y empezando por el último, el gobierno venezolano (con razón) ha dicho que no tiene sentido seguir dialogando si no se cumplen los acuerdos. En noviembre del año pasado se firmó un acuerdo para liberar 3 mil millones de dólares en fondos venezolanos congelados en el extranjero. Los recursos se usarían a través de agencias de la ONU en salud, educación y reparación de infraestructuras. > >No obstante, la oposición y sus aliados (que congelaron las cuentas venezolanas) no han cumplido el acuerdo. No es descabellado pensar que EE.UU. busca presionar al gobierno venezolano de todas las formas posibles.
- www.workers.org The U.S role in fomenting violence in Haiti
María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the U.N. Security Council on the current situation in Haiti emphasized “the urgent need for the deployment, authorized by the Security Council, of an international specialized force
>The United States has traditionally used the excuse of “gang violence” as justification for intervention in Haiti, ignoring the fact that it has not implemented the arms boycott Washington has declared would prevent the weapons from reaching Haiti. > >The violence has driven people from their homes. Tens of thousands of Haitians have been internally displaced. Schools have closed and institutions like hospitals have had trouble functioning. > >The progressive newspaper Haïti-Liberté has called on all patriots, young and older, to join together and create a self-defense force for the whole nation.
- www.workers.org Brasil y China acuerdan intercambios sin dólar
Entrevista de Lorena Guillen, de ABYA YALA TV, Bolivia, a Julio Gambina, presidente de la Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales y Políticas, Argentina, sobre los acuerdos entre China y Brasil para el intercambio en monedas locales, sin depender del dólar. El acuerdo se realizó el 29 de marzo y la no
>En dicha ocasión, Lula, el presidente de Brasil señaló que “si por mi fuera, impulsaría una moneda única en la región”. Es una voluntad individual y personal, pero me parece que este acuerdo entre China y Brasil marca una tendencia o un rumbo de cierta voluntad expresada por el presidente brasileño de que América Latina y el Caribe transite por otros carriles en la cooperación monetaria y financiera.
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Britain sends Kosovar troops to Malvinas NATO base
www.workers.org Britain sends Kosovo puppet troops to Malvinas NATO baseJan. 21 — While NATO prolongs the proxy war against Russia that it provoked 11 months ago as it extended eastward, the imperialist military alliance is also expanding its role in South America. A Jan. 19 article in the German daily newspaper junge Welt reported, “On Friday [Jan. 13], Kosovo Security
>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia expressed solidarity with Argentina and opposition to the presence of Kosovar troops in the Malvinas. They expressed surprise that “such a step comes from a permanent member of the Security Council, which, as is known, is the highest U.N. body in charge of preserving international peace and security.” (United World, Dec. 28, 2022)
- orinocotribune.com Argentina Sentencing Former Military Dictators is a Regional Model, Says Chomsky
On December 21, former Argentine police officer Mario Sandoval was sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the last Argentine military dictatorship. “The Argentine …
I know that Chomsky makes dumb comments from time to time, but I do like his support of the prosecution of fascist military war criminals and people who committed crimes against humanity in Latin America.
I know that all my Latin American friends really like him.
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Cuba: State capitalist?
I heard someone refer to Cuba as state capitalist.
When I hear the same thing said about China or the old USSR, I can usually tell when 'state capitalism' is being used in good faith or not.
But with Cuba, I don't know enough.
My instinct, based on little knowledge, is that Cuba is not 'state capitalist'.
Is it?
What kind of economy does Cuba have?
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Peru’s oligarchy overthrows President Castillo
www.liberationnews.org Peru’s oligarchy overthrows President Castillo - Liberation NewsPhoto: Pedro Castillo visiting the Amazon region after an earthquake. Credit -- @PedroCastilloTe Thi
- www.workers.org Nicaragua’s humane response to COVID-19 crisis
When Nicaragua identified its first COVID-19 case on March 18, 2020, President Daniel Ortega understood that shutting down the economy would be catastrophic for the country’s informal farmworkers. In Nicaragua, three-quarters of all jobs are in farming. If workers don’t work, they don’t get paid.
>By prioritizing its national health care system, Nicaragua became one of the first nations in the region to devise a robust COVID-19 response strategy, issuing a joint protocol with the Pan-American Health Organization (the Americas branch of the World Health Organization) on Feb. 9, 2020. Thus, its 36,000 health care workers received training on dealing with the virus before the first case appeared.
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Brazil’s working class celebrates election triumph, prepares for difficult road ahead
www.liberationnews.org Brazil’s working class celebrates election triumph, prepares for difficult road ahead - Liberation NewsPhoto: Lula celebrates with a massive crowd of supporters on election night. Credit: @ptbrasil/Ricar
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Para Cuba, ayude a enviar un contenedor de solidaridad material!
>Queridos amigos, > >Cuba necesita ayuda para recuperarse de los daños masivos causados por el huracán Ian. > >La prioridad número uno del Proyecto Hatuey en octubre es enviar un contenedor marítimo de EEUU a Cuba, lleno con 36.000 libras de leche en polvo, alimentos no perecederos y medicamentos. Necesitamos recolectar $50.000 para llenar con éxito el contenedor y entregar el envío. Por favor haga una donación hoy. > >Además del apoyo internacional de México, Venezuela y Colombia con trabajadores eléctricos, suministros y materiales para techos, los trabajadores eléctricos cubanos en toda la isla están trabajando arduamente para restaurar la energía. Hay un gran esfuerzo para reconstruir miles de casas destruidas. El pueblo cubano está trabajando heroicamente para recuperarse. > >La voluntad y determinación del pueblo cubano de recuperarse es fuerte. Lo que les falta son recursos, debido al bloqueo económico de Estados Unidos y 243 medidas adicionales firmadas por el presidente Trump. Esas medidas no han sido levantadas por el presidente Biden. Cuba acaba de publicar su informe sobre los efectos del bloqueo, que puedes leer aquí. Durante el mandato de Biden hasta ahora, el bloqueo ha causado daños a la economía de Cuba por $ 6,4 mil millones, y eso es solo los daños monetarios. El daño al pueblo cubano va mucho más allá, con escasez de insumos médicos y tantas otras cosas. Por supuesto, nuestra contribución para superar este daño es pequeña, comparada a las necesidades, porque sobre todo, Cuba necesita que se levante el yugo de la agresión estadounidense. Pero somos parte de la ola internacional de solidaridad material y moral que siempre ha hecho saber al pueblo cubano que no está solo. Por favor dona lo que puedas. > >Donar > >En nombre del Proyecto Hatuey, le agradecemos de antemano cualquier ayuda que pueda ofrecer para Cuba. > >Gloria La Riva, Coordinatora, Projecto Hatuey >Nadia Marsh, MD, Profesora de Medicina Clínica >Simon Ma, MD, MPH, Medicina de Familia >Leni Villagómez Reeves, MD >Rachel Viqueira, MHS, Epidemióloga
(De un correo electrónico. Énfasis original.)
- peoplesdispatch.org How Cuba is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Ian : Peoples Dispatch
The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after landfall, 82% of the residents of Havana had their power restored with work ongoing for the western part of the island
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PSL Editorial: We stand with the people of Brazil vs. Bolsonaro’s coup plots
www.liberationnews.org PSL Editorial: We stand with the people of Brazil vs. Bolsonaro’s coup plots - Liberation NewsPhoto: Protesters in 2021 carrying signs accusing Bolsonaro of genocide for his handling of COVID-19
- www.workers.org Haiti explodes with cries of ‘down with misery’
Since August 22, the date when the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets in every city and many towns to repeatedly say “down with misery.” They are staying in the streets even in the face of warnings about inundations from Hurricane Fio
>The demonstrations eventually merged and marched together through Hinche, setting up burning barricades. Banks, public transport and the Hinche market were closed. The cops used tear gas to disperse the crowd. There were injuries but no deaths. The Table of Opposition included civic and community organizations, some small political parties, human rights organizations and the teachers union. (Source.)