Daily Archives: June 28, 2021

2021-06-28: News Headlines

Paul Dobson (2021-06-28). US, EU, Canada Impose Conditions for Possible Sanctions 'Review'. venezuelanalysis.com Washington and its allies demanded Caracas show "meaningful progress" in talks with Guaidó and upholding "international standards for democracy."

Nino Pagliccia (2021-06-28). US-EU-Canada: A Shameless Admission of Punishing Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Nino Pagliccia — Jun 26, 2021 | The US State Department posted a The actual message comes two thirds of the way down the note: "We welcome substantive, credible advancements to restore core democratic processes and institutions in Venezuela and are willing to review sanctions policies based on meaning…

Bruno Rodríguez Padilla (2021-06-28). " °Cuenten todos con Cuba en la primera fila de esta batalla por la vida, por la dignidad, por la paz y por la justicia!" globalizacion.ca Discurso del Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Cuba en la XIX Cumbre del ALBA-TCP. 24 de junio de 2021 | Compañero Nicolás Maduro Moros, presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. | Compañero Luis Arce Catacora, presidente del Estado…

Editor2 (2021-06-28). Bennett's Fragile Hookup with the Zionist Left Offers Little Promise for a Post-Apartheid Israel. orinocotribune.com By Miko Peled — Jun 22, 2021 | On the racist reality of Israeli politics, the absurdity of calling any Zionist party "Left," and why the so-called Zionist Left could join a coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett: their differences are inconsequential. | BIR AL-SABA, PALESTINE — Jumaa Alzbarqa served as a member of the Israeli Knesset for two years. He heads the office of the National Democratic Alliance, or

The Associated Press (2021-06-28). Puerto Rico to Receive Nearly $4B in U.S. Pandemic Funds. latinorebels.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Monday that Puerto Rico will receive nearly $4 billion in federal education pandemic relief funds to help boost the U.S. territory's fight against COVID-19.

Staff (2021-06-28). Spain's MEP Manu Pineda: 'There is a Global Movement Committed to a Multilateral World'. orinocotribune.com "There is a global movement that is committed to a multilateral world, that is why the empire targets China or Russia, because they can lead a process against the hegemony of the empire," said the European Parliament deputy and head of International Relations for the Communist Party of Spain, José Manuel "Manu" Pineda, during an interview this Sunday, June 27, on the television program Aquí con Ernesto Villegas [here with Ernesto Villegas], hosted by the journalist and Minister for Culture of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas. | Pineda said that this movement "does not accept that there is a global policeman who tells…

Staff (2021-06-28). Conclusion to Second Week of Automated Voting System's Comprehensive Audit—21N Venezuela's Regional Elections. orinocotribune.com On Friday June 25, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) completed the second week of the Comprehensive Audit of the Venezuelan Automated Voting System, which began last Monday, June 14, in preparation for the regional and municipal mega-elections that will take place on Sunday, November 21, the electoral body reported through its Twitter account @cneesvzla. | A spokesperson for the group of academic experts—participants in the process alongside representatives of all political parties—considered the assessment to be progressing as planned. | Likewise, they complimented the high technical level…

Staff (2021-06-28). Diosdado Cabello: High Turnout in PSUV Primaries Application Process — Preliminary Results. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, June 27, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, informed through his Instagram account @mazo4f that the nomination process for candidates for the mega-elections of November 21 has been carried out in a transparent manner with a high turnout and spirit. | From the counting center of the PSUV primaries nomination process, Cabello praised the high participation of the party's revolutionary membership in the voting. "People have realized the purity of this process, the greatness of this process, and haveattended en masse to make their nominations and…

Adán Chávez Frías (2021-06-28). El partido de Chávez. globalizacion.ca I | Cuando en diciembre de 2006 el Comandante Hugo Chávez propuso la creación del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), como consecuencia del proceso de maduración de las fuerzas revolucionarias y tras la victoria obtenida en las elecciones presidenciales de…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-28). Communiqué of the Libyan People's National Movement to the Peoples of ALBA-TCP. libya360.wordpress.com We aspire to rehabilitate our historical relationship and build the bridges of our extension and fraternal contact with our brothers of the same trench in Latin America and the Caribbean. Your Excellencies Heads of States and Governments of ALBA: Warm greetings, While your summit XIX in Caracas, please receive a warm greeting from us, the…

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2021-06-28). The World Says No to the Blockade of Cuba. globalresearch.ca

Alejandra Garcia (2021-06-28). The US Gets Isolated by Its Cuba Blockade Policy: What Will Happen Now? globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-06-28). This week in history: June 28-July 4. wsws.org 25 years ago: Yeltsin claims reelection as president of RussiaOn July 3, 1996, Boris Yeltsin won the Russian Federation's presidential runoff election in a vote widely viewed by the population as fraudulent. The election set the stage for future social upheavals and political crises in the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Celina della Croce (2021-06-28). How a U.S. Congressman Took on the U.S. Blockade Against Venezuela. counterpunch.org On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake of ongoing rallies and discussions with Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, activists gained some ground as the congressman tweetedan open letter to President Joe

Graziella Pogolotti (2021-06-28). Cuba — Palabras en la Biblioteca. globalizacion.ca Con el triunfo de enero de 1959 se abrieron las compuertas para viabilizar la más amplia difusión del arte y la literatura. Los escritores pudieron extraer los manuscritos que permanecían engavetados y darlos a conocer a través de una serie…

Rosa Miriam Elizalde (2021-06-28). Cuba — El mundo dice no al bloqueo. globalizacion.ca El veredicto de la abrumadora mayoría de los países que integran Naciones Unidas en favor del levantamiento del bloqueo a Cuba, emitido el miércoles contra el gobierno de Estados Unidos, es más que una victoria diplomática de la isla que…

Dan Roberts (2021-06-28). The Shortwave Report 06/25/21 Listen Globally! indybay.org A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.

Ian Ellis-Jones (2021-06-28). Making literacy powerful: Cuba's successful Yo, Sí Puedo campaign. greenleft.org.au Cuba's world famous adult literacy campaign was the subject of a fascinating forum following a screening of the 2011 documentary film Maestra in Sydney. Ian Ellis-Jones reports.

_____ (2021-06-27). The Spirit Of Carabobo Will Overcome The Stench Of Monroe. popularresistance.org Two hundred years ago, on 24 June 1821, the forces of Simón Bolívar trounced the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Carabobo, a few hundred kilometres west of Caracas, Venezuela. Five days later, Bolívar entered Caracas in triumph; the Spanish fortresses of Cartagena and Puerto Cabello had been seized by the Liberator's armies, making a return to power for Spain impossible. In Cúcuta, a congress assembled to draft a new constitution and to elect Bolívar as the president. | Bolívar, now the head of the Republic of Gran Colombia (today's Colombia and Venezuela), would not rest. He got on his horse and rode south to…

Editorial Team (2021-06-27). Colombia: Jesus Santrich assassination straight out of the CIA playbook. challenge-magazine.org The Farc leader, killed by Colombian commandos in Venezuela, was a victim of the hybrid warfare techniques taught by the US and Israel, explains Oliver Dodd | ON May 17, Seuxis Pausias Hernandez Solarte, aka Jesus Santrich, one of the two most prominent leaders of the Farc, was ambushed and assassinated in Venezuela by commandos sent by the Colombian state. | Santrich had been a member of the Farc for three decades, having joined Colombia's Young Communist League when he was 13 years old. | Although crucial to negotiating the 2016 peace agreement, which led to the majority of the Farc becoming a legal politica…

_____ (2021-06-27). How A US Congressman Took On The US Blockade Against Venezuela. popularresistance.org On a cold winter day in February 2019, activists gathered in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to denounce the attempted US-backed coup in Venezuela. More than two years later, in the wake of ongoing rallies and discussions with Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, activists gained some ground as the congressman tweeted an open letter to President Joe Biden on June 14 in which he called on the president to end "all secondary and sectoral sanctions" against Venezuela. The letter stated: | "While US officials debate the sanctions policy in Washington, for people in Venezuela the ongoing crisis is a lif…

Staff (2021-06-27). US and European Union Blockade on Venezuela Is Collapsing: Here is Some Evidence. orinocotribune.com The recent change in discourse by Juan Guaidó, affirming that he now aspires to negotiations with the Venezuelan government, seems to have its root in the United States that may be thinking about reversing some sanctions, just as President Nicolás Maduro had asserted a few days ago. And once again the administration of Joe Biden is urging for broad negotiations with specific deadlines to be carried out so that "in Venezuela there are free and fair elections." This was stated on Thursday, June 24, by Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of the US State Department. | Sherman's post on her social media, carrying this messa…

teleSUR (2021-06-27). Cuba Reports a New Peak of COVID-19 Infections in a Week. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Cuba's Director of Epidemiology Francisco Duran reported 2.698 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours,. The figure beat for the second time daily infections records. | He explained that 2.579 cases were contacts of COVID-19 patients who were under strict monitoring and quarantine in health care centers. | Matanzas (657 cases), Camaguey (359), and Havana (347) are the most affected provinces.

Brian Shilhavy (2021-06-27). CDC: 6,113 Dead Following COVID-19 Injections Including 576 Abortions — Population Control Agenda Hard to Deny. globalresearch.ca

Roger Harris (2021-06-27). The Case of Alex Saab: US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge. orinocotribune.com By Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris — Jun 24, 2021 | With the possible extradition of a Venezuelan diplomat to the US on bogus charges, an emergency human rights delegation organized by the International Campaign to Free Alex Saab was quickly dispatched to Cabo Verde, where he is imprisoned. This island archipelago nation off the west coast of Africa is one of the smallest, poorest, and geographically isolated countries in the world. | The international human rights delegation did not gain Alex Saab's freedom. They were even denied a visit with him. But breakthroughs were made raising the visibility of the…

_____ (2021-06-27). Final Declaration Of ALBA-TCP's 19th Summit. popularresistance.org The Heads of State and Government and the heads of delegations of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty, meeting in person on June 24, 2021, within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Battle of Carabobo in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by signing this declaration, renew our commitment to strengthening the integration and unity of our peoples as the founding ideology of Commanders Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro Ruz; we vindicate the ideology of Bolívar, Martí, San Martín, Sucre, O'Higgins, Pétion, Morazán, Sandino, Túpac…

S. Brian Willson (2021-06-27). Nicaragua Targeted for US Overthrow in 2020-21: Brian Willson. globalresearch.ca First published by GR on August 3, 2020 | The USA failed State continues to seek destruction of Nicaragua (among other nations such as Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran, who refuse to obey US demands for neoliberal privatization that enrich the …

2021-06-29 04:19 | 00:19 EST | 27 | 0 | 9 | 18 | 0