Daily Archives: November 5, 2020

2020-11-05: News Headlines

Manuela Solé (2020-11-05). Electoral Campaign Begins in Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com The campaign for upcoming legislative elections will go on for a month.

Vijay Prashad (2020-11-05). U.S. is Doing Its Best to Lock Out China From Latin America and the Caribbean. counterpunch.org On August 20, 2018, El Salvador's leftist president Salvador Sánchez Cerén announced on national television that El Salvador would break its ties with Taiwan and recognize the People's Republic of China. This was in accord with international law, said Sánchez Cerén, and it would bring "great benefits for our country."

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-11-05). Electoral Musings: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com It is perfectly valid for the American public to express outrage over Trump's declaration of victory, but the entire American media and political class forever lost all legitimacy to condemn a nation's leader for illegitimately crowning themselves by backing the Venezuela coup. | ‚ùñ | Watching Democrats' inability to handily defeat a crazy reality TV host in two elections is like seeing someone pick a fight with a six year-old girl and getting their ass kicked, then coming back with a bunch of their friends and watching them all get carried off on stretchers. | ‚ùñ | All t…

Steve Ellner (2020-11-05). Center-Left convergence in Venezuela: A blow to U.S. interventionism. mronline.org Steve Ellner argues that average Venezuelans understand that U.S. sanctions hurt them—and should be resisted.

_____ (2020-11-05). Hurricane Eta: Nicaragua Prioritizes Saving And Improving Lives. popularresistance.org How is it that there were only two lives lost during a level 4 Hurricane that affected Nicaragua beginning Nov. 2 on the Caribbean Coast? Nicaragua is constantly preparing and training people to save lives in disasters: thousands of people have participated in simulations for hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and more, and this happens a number of times during the year in every municipality. | Nicaragua is among the first countries in Latin America and the Caribbean with the best disaster risk management, according to a study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in August 2020.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-04). Mobilizations in Colombia intensify in defense of life and peace. peoplesdispatch.org In Colombia, mobilizations have intensified demanding an end to escalating violence against social movements and political activists. The objective of is to draw the national government's attention to the humanitarian crisis faced by Afro-descendant, Indigenous, human rights, peasant and social organizations. Meanwhile, ex-combatants of the FARC are demanding that the national government comply with the peace agreements signed between the former government and the FARC in Havana, Cuba, in 2016.

Mohammed al-Deirawi, Ramzy Baroud (2020-11-04). "They Tried to Freeze Me to Death:" Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons. counterpunch.org Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba', an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab desert. Mohammad was arrested by the Israeli army at a military checkpoint in central Gaza on March 1, 2001. He

Abdel Bari Atwan (2020-11-04). Looking behind the Vienna attacks. thealtworld.com Are we facing a fresh wave of terror that poisons relations between European governments and their Muslim populations? | Monday evening's terrorist attack in Vienna was a serious development. It could prove to be the prelude to more acts of horrific and indiscriminate violence against civilians in Europe that aggravates current tensions between incumbent governments and their Muslim immigrant communities. | This act of terror differed in several important respects from the previous attacks that took place recently in France and other European countries. | It was a concerted operation, employing firearms rather th…

Macollvie J. Neel (2020-11-04). How immigrant communities are confronting COVID challenges. nationofchange.org "With Caribbean people in general, we have a way of adapting to situations [that] we're put into to make the most out of them."

Vijay Prashad (2020-11-04). The US is doing its best to lock out China from Latin America and the Caribbean. peoplesdispatch.org Vijay Prashad writes on how the US has meddled in trade relations between China and El Salvador, while promoting its own private investment initiatives…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2020-11-04). Cuban report says U.S. blockade still causing immense economic loss. peoplesworld.org Cuba's Foreign Ministry every year prepares a report on Cuba's experience with the U.S. economic blockade of the island, in force since 1962. On Oct. 22, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presented this year's report at a press conference in Havana. The Ministry releases the reports ahead of an annual vote in the United Nations General …

Ben Hillier (2020-11-04). The United States is not a democracy. mronline.org The country's constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population.

WSWS (2020-11-04). Typhoon Goni devastates the Philippines. wsws.org The UN reported around 68.6 million, or roughly 65 percent of the population are affected by Typhoon Goni, with 24.3 million living in the worst affected areas.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-04). Doc-series 'Operation Venezuela' launches. peoplesdispatch.org The 10-part series called 'Operation Venezuela' launched today across The project is produced by investigative journalists, filmmakers and documentarians and will include testimonies and accounts about the events over the past several years including the numerous coup attempts, violent guarimba protests, sabotage at…

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-04). Iranian Foreign Minister arrives in Venezuela on Wednesday. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister was welcomed by his Venezuelan counterpart upon his arrival in the country on Wednesday.

teleSUR (2020-11-04). Iran's Foreign Minister Starts Latin American Tour in Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Iran's foreign minister began his trip to Latin America in Venezuela, where he arrived on Wednesday to promote a strategic alliance. | RELATED: | "At 3: 45 am today [Wednesday], we welcomed the brother foreign minister of Iran, (Mohamad Yavad) Zarif. Each high-level visit deepens our strategic alliance, our brotherhood," announced Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in a message posted on his Twitter accoun…

teleSUR (2020-11-03). Bolivia: Arce Invites President Maduro To His Swear-in Ceremony. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's President-elect Luis Arce has extended an invitation to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro to attend his swear-in ceremony set for Nov. 8th. | RELATED: | The invitation comes days after the decision by the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez to invite Venezuelan opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido, who self-proclaimed "Interim president". | On Tuesday, ex-President Evo Morales announced that he will return to Bolivia on…

_____ (2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…

teleSUR (2020-11-03). Nicaragua: Category 4 Hurricane Eta Made Landfall in Puerto Cabezas. telesurenglish.net Hurricane Eta made landfall in Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua with sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour on Tuesday, while threatening to reach Honduras and other Central American and Caribbean countries. | RELATED: | The Hurricane experienced a rapid intensification and reached maximum sustained winds of 134 miles per hour. In the next 12 to 24 hours, it is expected to move in a similar direction and decrease its t…

Mehr News Agency (2020-11-03). Eloctoral college anti-democratic aspect of US democracy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 02 (MNA) — Prof. Zonis believes the Electoral College established by the founders of the US in order to protect the interests of the less populous states from the high population states is an anti-democratic aspect of US democracy.

The Canary (2020-11-03). Powerful Hurricane Eta threatens flooding across Central America. thecanary.co Powerful Hurricane Eta is heading towards Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with potentially devastating winds. | Heavy rain from its storm bands is already causing rivers to overflow across Central America. | The Category 4 hurricane had sustained winds of 150mph, and the US National Hurricane Centre warned that Eta could strengthen further, perhaps reaching Category 5, before making landfall on 3 November. | Authorities in Nicaragua and Honduras have moved people from outer islands and low-lying areas to shelters. Residents scrambled to shore up their homes, but few structures along Nicaragua's remote Caribbean coast…

Paul Dobson (2020-11-02). US Cuts Venezuela's Diesel Lifeline with Sanctions Clampdown. venezuelanalysis.com The move is expected to have a "devastating" impact on agriculture, water treatment and electricity generation.

WSWS (2020-11-02). Brazilian armed forces conduct unprecedented military exercises amid US threats to Venezuela. wsws.org Bolsonaro's Foreign Ministry last Friday classified as "secret" cables about Pompeo's trip to Brazil, which took place during war games in Brazil and Colombia.