Daily Archives: May 27, 2021

2021-05-27: News Headlines

José àÅngel Portal Miranda (2021-05-27). La COVID-19 ha confirmado que el mundo necesita de sistemas sanitarios resilientes. globalizacion.ca Intervención del Doctor José Angel Portal Miranda, Ministro de Salud Pública de Cuba en la 74 ™ Asamblea Mundial de la Salud | Tema: "Poner fin a esta pandemia, prevenir la siguiente: construir juntos un mundo más saludable, seguro y justo". | Señora…

Staff (2021-05-27). No Tokyo Olympics: As COVID Spikes in Japan, Calls Grow to Cancel Games. IOC Refuses. Who Profits? democracynow.org Pressure is growing on organizers to cancel the Tokyo Olympics as Japan struggles to contain a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases. The games, which were delayed by a year due to the pandemic, are scheduled to begin July 23 even though less than 3% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in the developed world. Jules Boykoff, author and former Olympic athlete who played for the U.S. Olympic soccer team, says the "extremely lopsided" contracts the International Olympic Committee signs with host countries give the body ultimate authority over whether or not to cancel…

Sara Flounders (2021-05-27). Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped: Release Alex Saab! workers.org Nearly a year ago, on June 12, 2020, Alex Saab was pulled off a plane at an U.S. demand for his arrest, during a refueling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, a small and very poor island archipelago nation off the West Coast of Africa. Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat . . . |

Staff (2021-05-27). March of Solidarity with Palestine in Caracas (+ Photos). orinocotribune.com Hundreds of Venezuelans mobilized in Caracas this Tuesday, May 25, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and denouncing the 11 days of criminal aggression and bombardment of Gaza by Israel. The march started from Plaza El Indio in Chacao, east of Caracas, and ended at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN), in Torre Parque el àÅvila. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) delivered to the UN a statement in support of Palestine, stating that both "the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the PSUV express their strong rejection and condemnation against the acts of extermination ca…

Kenn Orphan (2021-05-27). The Spotlight on Israel Apartheid Must Not Fade. counterpunch.org Unlike ever before, Israel is finally seeing some major pushback that is international in scope. With its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign exemplified by the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, its attacks on worshippers at one of the holiest sites in Islam, Al Aqsa, and on the holiest of holidays, and its murderous and criminal assault on the captive population of Gaza, Israel has been put in an uncomfortable spotlight. But the key to dismantling its entrenched apartheid system lies in keeping that spotlight fixed, especially now that a ceasefire has been implemented. If attenti…

Staff (2021-05-27). Spain Receives Venezuela's Formal Request for Leopoldo López Extradition (+ Orlando Figuera Case). orinocotribune.com Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, confirmed that Spain has already received the formal request for the extradition of the Venezuelan fugitive from justice, Leopoldo López. | Without providing any further explanation regarding the expected response to the request, the Spanish minister stated that they would "follow the procedure as usual," Europa Press agency reported. | On May 11, the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) authorized a request to be issued to the government of Spain for the extradition of the ultra-rightist and opposition leader Leopoldo López Men…

Editor2 (2021-05-27). AU Day Celebration: Venezuelan Diplomat Calls on African Leaders to Resist Oppression. orinocotribune.com Today May 25, 2021 is being celebrated across the continent as Africa Day in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. | As part of the celebration, many statements have been made to celebrate the continent and also tackle various issues happening within the continent. | Venezuela's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Alex Saab in a statement on the occasion of the celebration said it is a day of liberation from foreign control and oppression and is worth celebrating. | Citing himself as someone who has suffered injustice over his detention a…

Darren Byler (2021-05-27). From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance. zcomm.org In both Xinjiang and elsewhere, the labour of populations controlled by surveillance infrastructure is devalued and becomes a source of heightened exploitation…

Staff (2021-05-27). Argentina Withdraws Support for International Criminal Court Case Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The Embassy of Argentina in the Netherlands sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, requesting the withdrawal of all the steps taken by the Court against Venezuela, as reported by the news channel RT. The media had access to a letter in which the Argentine nation reiterated that it was no longer part of the Lima group as it was during the right-wing government of Mauricio Macri who had supported all the unilateral measures that adversly affect the Venezuelan people. | "The Government of the Republic of Argentina withdraws from said referral as well as from any pr…

Monica Moorehead (2021-05-26). Despite loss of life & destruction, Gaza resists, hits Israel hard. workers.org A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas began May 21. It followed 11 days of the U.S.-armed and backed Israeli Air Force's vicious airstrikes on occupied Gaza. The bombs and rockets massacred more than 250 Palestinians, including over 60 children. Some 2,000 people were injured out of a population of 2 . . . |

WSWS (2021-05-26). The rise of a rare COVID-19 complication known as "black fungus" adds to India's misery in the pandemic. wsws.org A rare complication of COVID-19 is becoming an epidemic in India known as black fungus, which is a byproduct of the impact of the COVID-19 infection on the immune system, using corticosteroids to treat COVID-19 and the high prevalence of diabetes in that country among the population.

Staff (2021-05-26). Duque Denies IACHR Entry to Colombia, Social Media Users Remind Him of When he Asked for IAHCR Intervention in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Stating the official version of the Colombian government regarding the ongoing serious social crisis in Colombia, Iván Duque's vice president and now foreign affairs minister Marta Lucía Ramírez has declined to accept, for the time being, requests from the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The two multilateral organizations had asked the government of Colombia to allow a commission to enter the country, in order to monitor the countless human rights abuses that have been registered during recent popular protests. | "We have received the requests from…

_____ (2021-05-26). Michigan Marches Unite Palestine Solidarity And BLM. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, May 18, roughly 200 people gathered to march in front of the Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, Michigan where Joe Biden was speaking. Dearborn is home to the largest Arab American and Palestinian populations in the United States. Speaker Jae Bass, a Black Detroiter and a leader of Detroit Will Breathe (DWB) — a militant, politically independent organization created last year in the midst of the uprising against police brutality — connected the experiences of the daily fight against police brutality here with the brutality of the Israeli military in Palestine. Noting that both struggles are lin…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-26). Palestine is a Mirror into the Contemporary World Struggle Against Imperialism, and its Contradictions. libya360.wordpress.com Danny Haiphong One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military. "Palestinians deserve full solidarity in their ongoing struggle to liberate themselves and their land." Unity among the people of colonized Palestine has engendered a violent response from the Israeli…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-05-26). How Chavismo Will Select Candidates for November Mega-Election. orinocotribune.com Chavismo will select the contenders for the regional and municipal elections of November 21 through a methodology that will allow the Chavista bases to directly nominate their candidates. | This was announced by President Nicolás Maduro, who is also president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the largest political group within the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) alliance. | "Comrade Diosdado Cabello has issued a comprehensive proposal for the purpose of consulting the consensus of the party bases," stated Maduro. "For it is among the bases where the candidates for governors, mayors, deputies and counc…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2021-05-26). Venezuela Announces Renewed Vaccination Effort After Delivery of 1.3 Million Doses. venezuelanalysis.com The Maduro government aims to have the entire population vaccinated by the end of the year.

Staff (2021-05-26). Anti-Chavista Luis Vicente León: 68% of Venezuelans Reject US Sanctions (Diesel). orinocotribune.com Luis Vicente León, president of the polling firm Datanálisis and an outspoken anti-Chavista, highlighted this Tuesday, May 25, that 66.4% of Venezuelans agree with lifting the "sanctions" that prevent state oil company PDVSA from exchanging crude for diesel, according to a recent opinion poll released through his Twitter account @luisvicenteleon. | In a series of messages, the economist and university professor pointed out that "66.4% of Venezuelans consider that the United States should lift the ban on importing diesel to Venezuela from other countries, as it does not fulfill its objective of putting pressure on…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-05-26). Conservative Guillermo Lasso sworn in as Ecuador's new president. peoplesdispatch.org Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing coalition of Creating Opportunities‚Ää party (CREO) and Social Christian Party (PSC) was sworn in as the president of Ecuador on May 24 with Alfredo Borrero as the vice president of the country. The duo will govern the Latin American country for the next four years. | The inauguration ceremony was held at the Legislative Palace in the capital Quito. It was attended by several conservative leaders including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, Haiti's de-facto President Jovenel MoàØse, Spanish King Felipe VI,…

Pedro Cabán (2021-05-26). OPINION: Saving Puerto Rico? latinorebels.com Despite its seemingly good intentions, the CAP rescue plan perpetuates the long-standing imperial practice of excluding Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens, from participating in the formation of policies that dramatically affect their lives.

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2021-05-27: Social Media Postees

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March of Solidarity with Palestine in Caracas (+ Photos)
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
Hundreds of Venezuelans mobilized in Caracas this Tuesday, May 25, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and denouncing the 11 days of criminal aggression and bombardment of Gaza by Israel. The march started from Plaza El Indio in Chacao, east of Caracas, and ended at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN), in Torre Parque el àÅvila. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) delivered to the UN a statement in support of Palestine, stating that both "the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the PSUV express their strong rejection and condemnation against the acts of extermination ca…
orinocotribune.com/march-of-solidarity-with-palestine-in-caracas-photos/

The Spotlight on Israel Apartheid Must Not Fade
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-27
Unlike ever before, Israel is finally seeing some major pushback that is international in scope. With its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign exemplified by the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, its attacks on worshippers at one of the holiest sites in Islam, Al Aqsa, and on the holiest of holidays, and its murderous and criminal assault on the captive population of Gaza, Israel has been put in an uncomfortable spotlight. But the key to dismantling its entrenched apartheid system lies in keeping that spotlight fixed, especially now that a ceasefire has been implemented. If attenti…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/27/the-spotlight-on-israel-apartheid-must-not-fade/

No Tokyo Olympics: As COVID Spikes in Japan, Calls Grow to Cancel Games. IOC Refuses. Who Profits?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-27
Pressure is growing on organizers to cancel the Tokyo Olympics as Japan struggles to contain a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases. The games, which were delayed by a year due to the pandemic, are scheduled to begin July 23 even though less than 3% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in the developed world. Jules Boykoff, author and former Olympic athlete who played for the U.S. Olympic soccer team, says the "extremely lopsided" contracts the International Olympic Committee signs with host countries give the body ultimate authority over whether or not to cancel…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/27/cancel_tokyo_olympics

Spain Receives Venezuela's Formal Request for Leopoldo López Extradition (+ Orlando Figuera Case)
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
Spain's Minister for Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, confirmed that Spain has already received the formal request for the extradition of the Venezuelan fugitive from justice, Leopoldo López. | Without providing any further explanation regarding the expected response to the request, the Spanish minister stated that they would "follow the procedure as usual," Europa Press agency reported. | On May 11, the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) authorized a request to be issued to the government of Spain for the extradition of the ultra-rightist and opposition leader Leopoldo López Men…
orinocotribune.com/spain-receives-venezuelas-formal-request-for-leopoldo-lopez-extradition-orlando-figuera-case/

La COVID-19 ha confirmado que el mundo necesita de sistemas sanitarios resilientes
José àÅngel Portal Miranda | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-27
Intervención del Doctor José Angel Portal Miranda, Ministro de Salud Pública de Cuba en la 74 ™ Asamblea Mundial de la Salud | Tema: "Poner fin a esta pandemia, prevenir la siguiente: construir juntos un mundo más saludable, seguro y justo". | Señora…
globalizacion.ca/la-covid-19-ha-confirmado-que-el-mundo-necesita-de-sistemas-sanitarios-resilientes/

Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped: Release Alex Saab!
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-05-27
Nearly a year ago, on June 12, 2020, Alex Saab was pulled off a plane at an U.S. demand for his arrest, during a refueling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, a small and very poor island archipelago nation off the West Coast of Africa. Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat . . . | Continue reading Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped: Release Alex Saab! at Workers.org
workers.org/2021/05/56674/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelan-diplomat-kidnapped-release-alex-saab

AU Day Celebration: Venezuelan Diplomat Calls on African Leaders to Resist Oppression
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
Today May 25, 2021 is being celebrated across the continent as Africa Day in commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. | As part of the celebration, many statements have been made to celebrate the continent and also tackle various issues happening within the continent. | Venezuela's Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union, Ambassador Alex Saab in a statement on the occasion of the celebration said it is a day of liberation from foreign control and oppression and is worth celebrating. | Citing himself as someone who has suffered injustice over his detention a…
orinocotribune.com/au-day-celebration-venezuelan-diplomat-calls-on-african-leaders-to-resist-oppression/

From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance
Darren Byler | zcomm.org | 2021-05-27
In both Xinjiang and elsewhere, the labour of populations controlled by surveillance infrastructure is devalued and becomes a source of heightened exploitation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-xinjiang-to-mississippi-terror-capitalism-labour-and-surveillance/

Argentina Withdraws Support for International Criminal Court Case Against Venezuela
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
The Embassy of Argentina in the Netherlands sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, requesting the withdrawal of all the steps taken by the Court against Venezuela, as reported by the news channel RT. The media had access to a letter in which the Argentine nation reiterated that it was no longer part of the Lima group as it was during the right-wing government of Mauricio Macri who had supported all the unilateral measures that adversly affect the Venezuelan people. | "The Government of the Republic of Argentina withdraws from said referral as well as from any pr…
orinocotribune.com/argentina-withdraws-support-for-international-criminal-court-case-against-venezuela/

Despite loss of life & destruction, Gaza resists, hits Israel hard
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2021-05-26
A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas began May 21. It followed 11 days of the U.S.-armed and backed Israeli Air Force's vicious airstrikes on occupied Gaza. The bombs and rockets massacred more than 250 Palestinians, including over 60 children. Some 2,000 people were injured out of a population of 2 . . . | Continue reading Despite loss of life & destruction, Gaza resists, hits Israel hard at Workers.org
workers.org/2021/05/56638/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=despite-loss-of-life-destruction-gaza-resists-hits-israel-hard

Palestine is a Mirror into the Contemporary World Struggle Against Imperialism, and its Contradictions
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-26
Danny Haiphong One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military. "Palestinians deserve full solidarity in their ongoing struggle to liberate themselves and their land." Unity among the people of colonized Palestine has engendered a violent response from the Israeli… Read…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/palestine-is-a-mirror-into-the-contemporary-world-struggle-against-imperialism-and-its-contradictions/

How Chavismo Will Select Candidates for November Mega-Election
José Manuel Blanco Diaz | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-26
Chavismo will select the contenders for the regional and municipal elections of November 21 through a methodology that will allow the Chavista bases to directly nominate their candidates. | This was announced by President Nicolás Maduro, who is also president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the largest political group within the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) alliance. | "Comrade Diosdado Cabello has issued a comprehensive proposal for the purpose of consulting the consensus of the party bases," stated Maduro. "For it is among the bases where the candidates for governors, mayors, deputies and counc…
orinocotribune.com/how-chavismo-will-select-candidates-for-november-mega-election/

Venezuela Announces Renewed Vaccination Effort After Delivery of 1.3 Million Doses
José Luis Granados Ceja | venezuelanalysis.com | 2021-05-26
The Maduro government aims to have the entire population vaccinated by the end of the year.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15215

Conservative Guillermo Lasso sworn in as Ecuador's new president
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-26
Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing coalition of Creating Opportunities‚Ää party (CREO) and Social Christian Party (PSC) was sworn in as the president of Ecuador on May 24 with Alfredo Borrero as the vice president of the country. The duo will govern the Latin American country for the next four years. | The inauguration ceremony was held at the Legislative Palace in the capital Quito. It was attended by several conservative leaders including Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, Haiti's de-facto President Jovenel MoàØse, Spanish King Felipe VI,…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/26/conservative-guillermo-lasso-sworn-in-as-ecuadors-new-president/

Duque Denies IACHR Entry to Colombia, Social Media Users Remind Him of When he Asked for IAHCR Intervention in Venezuela
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-26
Stating the official version of the Colombian government regarding the ongoing serious social crisis in Colombia, Iván Duque's vice president and now foreign affairs minister Marta Lucía Ramírez has declined to accept, for the time being, requests from the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The two multilateral organizations had asked the government of Colombia to allow a commission to enter the country, in order to monitor the countless human rights abuses that have been registered during recent popular protests. | "We have received the requests from…
orinocotribune.com/duque-denies-iachr-entry-to-colombia-social-media-users-remind-him-of-when-he-asked-for-iahcr-intervention-in-venezuela/

OPINION: Saving Puerto Rico?
Pedro Cabán | latinorebels.com | 2021-05-26
Despite its seemingly good intentions, the CAP rescue plan perpetuates the long-standing imperial practice of excluding Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens, from participating in the formation of policies that dramatically affect their lives.
latinorebels.com/2021/05/26/opinionsavingpuertorico/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=opinionsavingpuertorico

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