Monthly Archives: September 2021

2021-09-20: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). Ties with China necessary, essential for Latin America, says Cuban academic. ecns.cn For Latin America, ties with China are necessary and essential, a Cuban academic said following Chinese President Xi Jinping's message to the recently concluded 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Staff (2021-09-20). "People Are Desperate": Biden Vows Mass Deportations as Thousands of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio. democracynow.org Thousands of asylum seekers, primarily from Haiti, have sheltered in a makeshift camp at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Del Rio International Bridge, as the Biden administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations. On Sunday alone, the Biden administration said it sent three deportation flights to Haiti, with several more flights expected in the coming days. "For them to be deporting young children into Haiti right now, … it is unacceptable," says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. We also speak with Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the…

Staff (2021-09-20). New Revelations on Haiti Assassination: Grenade-Dropping Drones, Paranoid President & Guards Who Ran. democracynow.org Miami Herald Haiti and Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles discusses new revelations about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel MoàØse. In her piece, "Grenade-dropping drones, a paranoid president, guards who ran: Latest on Haiti assassination," she reports the night President Jovenel MoàØse was shot "was actually the second time in a span of weeks that his life was in danger, according to testimony from one of the Colombians in custody, and one of the Haitian Americans."

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-20). Activistas marcharon en Dominicana contra contaminación ambiental. telesurtv.net Los manifestantes exigen la salida del país de la multinacional minera Barrick Gold y reclaman una baja de precios en combustibles.

WSWS (2021-09-20). Biden administration begins mass deportation flights from Texas to Haiti. wsws.org Hundreds of Haitian refugees were flown back to Port-au-Prince Sunday in the first step of what officials said would be the removal of all 12,000 refugees sheltering under an underpass in Del Rio, Texas, on the US-Mexico border.

Staff (2021-09-20). Headlines for September 20, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians as Victims' Families Demand Probe, Women and Girls Increasingly Left Out of Education, Public Life in Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover, Biden Admin Starts Deporting Haitian Asylum Seekers Without Due Process as Humanitarian Crisis Mounts, Senate Parliamentarian Says Dems Cannot Use Spending Bill to Create Pathway to Citizenship, FDA Panel Says Booster Shots Should Be Offered to People 65+ and High-Risk Patients, CA Firefighters Protect Trees with Foil Blankets as Wildfire Threatens Sequoia National Park, U.N. Warns Planet Headed Toward Catastrophic 2.7 &infin…

teleSUR, SH (2021-09-20). Haití acusa a EE.UU. de humillar a migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net El primer ministro Ariel Henry llamó a la unión de todos los sectores del país para darles una oportunidad a los migrantes deportados…

WSWS (2021-09-20). COVID-19 vaccine inequality: 75 percent of doses administered in just 10 countries. wsws.org Vaccination rates are by far the lowest in Africa, where around 39 million or 3 percent of the continent's 1.3 billion population have been fully vaccinated.

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). China-donated vaccines arrive in Kenya amid intensified pandemic fight in Africa. ecns.cn Senior Kenyan government officials on Saturday received a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses from China as the East African nation ramps up inoculations for high-risk populations against the virus, saying they would reinvigorate the pandemic fight in the country.

Rainer Shea (2021-09-20). The "United States" isn't a Nation, it's a Terrorist Organization. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 16, 2021 | The idea that the United States represents an actual nation is a myth designed to comfort us in the face of the horrifying reality we on this continent are living out. This is a reality where an entire landmass has been illegally annexed, and put under an occupation which continues throughout the vast majority of Native territory. A reality where this occupation is used to perpetuate a matrix of inhumane detention centers and militarized police state subjugation of this continent's African population, as well as against the brown indigenous peoples from south of the arbitraril…

Ariela Ruiz Caro (2021-09-20). The Mexico Dialogue on Venezuela and the End of the Lima Group. counterpunch.org The conversations in Mexico between the opposition Unitary Platform of Venezuela and the Maduro government, with the intermediation of Norway, represent the failure of the US interventionist strategy and the end of the Lima Group. On August 13, a new stage of negotiations officially began to reestablish the institutional framework and democratic coexistence in Venezuela

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). VI CELAC Summit: Latin America and the Caribbean to Expand Relations with China. orinocotribune.com The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held this Saturday, September 18, in Mexico city, opens the doors to broader relations with China and the European Union (EU). | During the VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC, several nations called for the dismantling of the Organization of American States (OAS ), and on the contrary, to consolidate Latin American integration and inter-relation, far from the interests of the United States and Canada. | Comparto la foto oficial de la VI Cumbre de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la CELAC. Un encuentro de grandes p…

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). President Maduro Proposes New Institutional Framework for CELAC (Lacalle and Abdo). orinocotribune.com On Saturday, September 18, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, proposed to create a new institutional framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to resume the path of regional intergration that had already begun to be built during the 2000s. | During his speech at the VI CELAC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mexico City, the Venezuelan president stressed that the former councils of ministers had made proposals, and there was also a very valuable interregional dialogue that must be restarted. | President Maduro, without any previous announcement, arrived in Mexico…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-19). Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Approve Historic Agreement at CELAC Summit. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch The VI Summit of the Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was held in Mexico City on Saturday, September 18 and concluded with the approval of a 44-point declaration. The historic summit saw the participation of 31 countries and the presence of several important leaders, such…

Laila Tajeldine (2021-09-19). The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to Counterparts at CELAC Summit. orinocotribune.com By Laila Tajeldine — Sep 19, 2021 | The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, came out stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). | Despite over 400 sanctions that are suffocating Venezuela, despite two assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional government of Venezuela, despite multiple attempts of coup d'état, destabilization and violence, and despite the predictions of the planners of all of the above, there in Mexico, at the CELAC summit, the Presid…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-19). Colombia Further Isolated After CELAC Summit. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Ivan Duque's increasingly isolated narco-regime has expressed contempt for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) following today's 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government. Colombia, notably absent from Saturday's meeting, had blocked the Summit's declaration in the latest sign of discord with the rest of the region. A press…

Staff (2021-09-19). AMLO Condemns US Blockade of Cuba. orinocotribune.com As part of the commemoration of the 211 years of the Independence of Mexico, the annual military parade, held in Mexico City, had Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel as this year's guest of honor. In a speech given before the parade, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), President of Mexico, highlighted the injustice suffered by the Cuban people due to the ongoing US blockade, and urged US President Joe Biden to lift the blockade against Cuba. | "The government that I represent respectfully calls on the US government to lift the blockade imposed on Cuba, because no state has the right to subdue another nation, anothe…

teleSUR, yart, NG (2021-09-19). Vietnam aprueba uso de vacuna cubana Abdala. telesurtv.net La aprobación del fármaco coincide con la visita del presidente vietnamita a Cuba para tratar ese tema.

_____ (2021-09-19). A Network Of Military-Related Programs Is Spreading In Schools. popularresistance.org Seventy-six years after the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I am reminded of my own mindset during the Cuban missile crisis when American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev were threatening a nuclear confrontation. I remember feeling that my life would soon end, clearly embracing a comprehensible existential threat even at the age of 7. | I now understand the weapons of mass destruction deployed against the Japanese in 1945 as the two most horrible "singular event war crimes" ever committed by a state actor. | Coming from and living in the most militarized cultur…

C.J. Atkins (2021-09-19). Cuba está más cerca de la igualdad en el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. peoplesworld.org La igualdad fue un gran triunfo en Cuba el miércoles cuando se publicó un nuevo borrador del código de familia del país que propone otorgar a las parejas del mismo sexo el derecho a casarse y adoptar hijos. Ese cambio es uno entre muchos en un documento de 480 artículos que se presenta a la …

_____ (2021-09-19). Understanding The Basics Of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, And Capitalism. popularresistance.org Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual or subgroup of that community, a ruler. Universal suffrage is clearly a step toward at least formal democracy because voters elect leaders. How real this formal democracy is depends on the inclusivity of the population voting and the concrete reality of voters' equal influence on the election's outcome. | Residential communities in many parts of the modern wor…

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-09-19). The "Secret Agenda" of the So-called Elite and the COVID mRNA Vaccine. "Reducing World Population"? globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. Important and timely article, first published on April 10, 2020 | "The International" is …

Staff (2021-09-19). China Firmly Rejects Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com On Friday, September 17, the People's Republic of China firmly rejected the illegal detention of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and urged the United States to respect the norms that govern international law. | Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, stated at a press conference that the US "has been playing a shameful role in regard to Venezuela. The US has constantly abused political and judicial maneuvers, including sanctions and extraditions; with the purpose of meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela." | Lijian went on to point out that the US harassment policy "affects the…

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-19). China señala de vergonzoso el papel de EE.UU. contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net Desde China destacan que EE.UU. afecta los intercambios regulares de personal internacional y pone en peligro la cooperación entre países.

Maria Paez Victor (2021-09-19). Hush, Hush (Venezuela is Winning!). orinocotribune.com By María Páez Victor — Sep 17, 2021 | By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about "dictator," "authoritarian regime," "collapsed economy," "humanitarian crisis," etc. etc. | So, the game-changing news that there are peace talks being held in Mexico City between the Venezuelan government and opposition parties is ignored. Mexico is acting as host and facilitator, with the kingdoms of Norway and Netherlands, and the Russian Federation as mediators. This seminal…

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2021-09-19: News Headlines

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). VI CELAC Summit: Latin America and the Caribbean to Expand Relations with China. orinocotribune.com The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held this Saturday, September 18, in Mexico city, opens the doors to broader relations with China and the European Union (EU). | During the VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC, several nations called for the dismantling of the Organization of American States (OAS ), and on the contrary, to consolidate Latin American integration and inter-relation, far from the interests of the United States and Canada. | Comparto la foto oficial de la VI Cumbre de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la CELAC. Un encuentro de grandes p…

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). President Maduro Proposes New Institutional Framework for CELAC (Lacalle and Abdo). orinocotribune.com On Saturday, September 18, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, proposed to create a new institutional framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to resume the path of regional intergration that had already begun to be built during the 2000s. | During his speech at the VI CELAC Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mexico City, the Venezuelan president stressed that the former councils of ministers had made proposals, and there was also a very valuable interregional dialogue that must be restarted. | President Maduro, without any previous announcement, arrived in Mexico…

teleSUR, yart, NG (2021-09-19). Vietnam aprueba uso de vacuna cubana Abdala. telesurtv.net La aprobación del fármaco coincide con la visita del presidente vietnamita a Cuba para tratar ese tema.

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-19). China señala de vergonzoso el papel de EE.UU. contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net Desde China destacan que EE.UU. afecta los intercambios regulares de personal internacional y pone en peligro la cooperación entre países.

teleSUR (2021-09-18). Mexico Calls for an Economic Integration With Social Dimension. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) called for the reactivation of the LATAM economy taking into account the region's young and creative workforces. | RELATED: | He explained that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) could further support regional economic integration. | AMLO warned that this integration has to observe a social…

teleSUR (2021-09-18). Venezuela Proposes a General Secretariat for Celac. telesurenglish.net Addressing the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro reiterated the need to set up a "powerful" bloc's General Secretariat to promote the region's multilateralism, integration, and cooperation. | RELATED: | "I propose the constitution of CELAC General Secretariat with sufficient power to take the reins of the construction of what is the dream of Latin American…

teleSUR (2021-09-18). CELAC VI Summit Supports Cuba and Argentina in Their Demands. telesurenglish.net Rejecting the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba and reaffirming Argentina's sovereignty over the Malvinas islands, representatives from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) concluded the bloc's VI Summit chaired by Mexico on Saturday. | RELATED: | Mexico's Foreign Minister Ebrard explained that officials from 31 countries signed a Joint Declaration of 44 points and special accords. | Besides the allocation…

teleSUR (2021-09-18). Cuba Offers Its COVID-19 Vaccines to Celac Members States. telesurenglish.net Speaking at the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel offered Cuban-produced COVID-19 vaccines to fight the pandemic in the region. | RELATED: | He noted that the Cuban biotechnology industry had produced already three vaccines and two vaccine candidates. The achievement was possible thanks to Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro's idea to promot…

news.un (2021-09-18). FROM THE FIELD: Haiti's gruelling post-quake road to recovery. news.un.org Thousands of Haitians continue to take refuge in neighbours' houses, makeshift shelters, chapels or informal displacement sites, a month after a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the west of the Caribbean island where they live. That's according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) which has been assisting in recovery efforts.

teleSUR (2021-09-18). ECLAC Presents a Plan For Regional Vaccine Production. telesurenglish.net Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Executive Secretary Alicia Barcena presented a technical report to boost COVID-19 vaccine production capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean region. | RELATED: | The report analyzed the LATAM pharmaceutical industry to propose a roadmap for regulation strengthening and cooperation links. | Barcena presented a Health Self-Sufficiency Plan aimed at offering…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-09-18). CELAC to Choose Between Dignity or OAS' Monroe Doctrine. libya360.wordpress.com y Kawsachun News< After five years without meeting, Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will convene on Saturday for the VI Summit in Mexico City. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose late Friday arrival upstaged all other participants of the Summit, has submitted a proposal to his Mexican counterpart,...

scorinoco (2021-09-18). AMLO Urges Biden Once Again to Lift US Blockade Against Cuba. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, September 16, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico urged US President Joe Biden to act to end Washington's blockade and the policy of aggression against Cuba once and for all. | In a speech commemorating the 211th anniversary of Mexico's independence, with which AMLO opened the traditional military parade honoring the entrance of the Trigarante (Three Guarantees) army to Mexico City in 1821, he reiterated his opinion that he had expressed in June at the Chapultepec Castle regarding the dignity of the Cuban people. | In the presence of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, a special guest, who…

Anand Naidoo (2021-09-18). The Heat: Guantanamo Prison. america.cgtn.com The notorious U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of men were detained by America for years without charge or trial, is still open after almost 20 years? In the weeks and months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States in …

teleSUR, SH (2021-09-18). EE.UU. prepara vuelos para deportar a migrantes haitianos. telesurtv.net Medios estadounidenses indicaron que se estarían preparando hasta ocho vuelos de deportación diarios a Haití.

_____ (2021-09-18). 'Infuriating Disappointment': Biden DHS Ramping Up Deportations to Haiti. commondreams.org

_____ (2021-09-18). Architect of Texas Abortion Ban Takes Aim at LGBTQ+ Rights While Urging Reversal of Roe. commondreams.org "It is unconscionable for the Biden administration to resume deportation flights to Haiti, despite the country's ongoing political, economic, and environmental disasters."

Peter Koenig (2021-09-18). Video: Towards Digital Tyranny. # Say No to the Covid Vaccine Passport. globalresearch.ca What is Agenda ID2020? | Behind its development is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — with support of the Rockefeller Foundation — and others belonging to the sinister all-digitization, depopulation and eugenics agenda. | It is an alliance of public-private partners, …

Staff (2021-09-18). Inflated Housing Costs Are Shutting Afghan Refugees Out of Communities. truthout.org When Jill Galante heard from a local refugee caseworker that his agency expected their city would receive 800 Afghan families before December, her stomach dropped. | "I told him, 'Well, we don't have the housing for 800 families. We're just creating a homeless population,'" recalled Galante, a volunteer who since 2016 has led grassroots efforts to stock apartments for refugees resettling in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. "And he said, 'Yeah, I told them that.'" | The U.S.'s chaotic exit from Afg…

Shawgi Tell (2021-09-18). 5,000 Charter Schools Closed in 30 Years. dissidentvoice.org Privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools have been around for 30 years 1 and are legal in 45 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, and Guam. To date, five states have been able to fend off these segregated outsourced schools that siphon billions of public dollars a year from under-funded public schools. About 3.3 million students are …

Staff (2021-09-18). European Union to Support World Food Program Operations in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The European Union has confirmed that it will financially support the operations of the World Food Program (WFP) in Venezuela, reported the EU delegation office in Caracas. This was established during a donors' meeting. | Rafael Dochao Moreno, representative of the EU in Venezuela, stated that the donor meeting adopted "a very clear objective: to ensure that tens of thousands of children in Venezuela can benefit from our help and that their daily diet can be improved." | For his part, President Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday, September 16, that his administration had signed a new agreement with the WFP, aft…

Andreína Chávez Alava (2021-09-18). UN Expert Releases Full Report on Impact of US-led Sanctions Against Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan reiterated her call for sanctions relief, stating they undermine Venezuelans' human rights.

_____ (2021-09-18). Hush, Hush (Venezuela Is Winning!). popularresistance.org By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about "dictator", "authoritarian regime", "collapsed economy" "humanitarian crisis", etc. etc. | So, the game-changing news that there are peace talks being held in México City between the Venezuelan government and opposition parties is ignored. México is acting as host and facilitator with the kingdoms of Norway and Netherlands, and the Russian Federation as mediators. This seminal event has been scarcely reported by the Nort…

Staff (2021-09-18). Venezuela Denounces Serious Violation of Agreements Signed in Mexico. orinocotribune.com The Head of Venezuela's government delegation to the Mexico Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, reported that the Venezuelan government categorically rejects the serious violation of the agreements signed by opposition elements and their foreign sponsors, who have already dedicated themselves to sabotaging and evading their commitments established in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on August 13. Rodríguez specifically addressed the agreement concerning the restoration of the assets and resources belonging to Venezuela, held abroad or in foreign bank accounts. | Through his official account on Twitter @jorgerpsuv, Rodr…

Gregory Wilpert (2021-09-18). Objectivity and Commitment. zcomm.org Interview on the origins of Venezuelanalysis and reflects on the relationship between commitment and objectivity in news reporting…

Victoria Korn (2021-09-18). Venezuela — El bolívar se ha depreciado en 3,1 billones por ciento desde 2012. globalizacion.ca Una nueva reconversión monetaria se anuncia en Venezuela dentro de dos semanas, y a partir del primero de octubre, a la escala monetaria actual se le sustraerán seis ceros a la derecha y la denominación de la moneda pasará a…

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