2021-10-16: News Headlines

Misión Verdad (2021-10-16). The Real Reason Behind Opposition Infighting. orinocotribune.com The following is a translation of the report of the Samuel Robinson Institute for October 14, 2021. | As a fallout of the recent scandals surrounding the Venezuelan company Monómeros, which was hijacked by Juan Guaidó in 2019 and is currently in a highly vulnerable position, the divisions intrinsic to anti-Chavismo have returned to the fore; this time, however, with a different content. | The Context | The intervention in Monómeros by the Superintendency of Corporations (a regulating body attached to the Colombian Ministry of Commerce) was followed by allegations of corruption from Humberto Calderón Berti and a s…

Editor2 (2021-10-16). Vaccine Solidarity vs. Vaccine Diplomacy. orinocotribune.com By Becca Mohally Renk — Oct 14, 2021 | This week the Nicaraguan government announced that starting on October 20th it will be vaccinating children aged two to 17 with COVID-19 vaccines developed in Cuba. As soon as the announcement was made, my phone started buzzing as everyone I know sent each other the news. The excitement is palpable — two to 17 year olds represent nearly a third of Nicaragua's population, and with this announcement it feels like we are really on the home stretch of the pandemic. | After a slow COVID-19 vaccine roll out in due to unequal distribution of the vaccines around the world…

Dalia González Delgado (2021-10-16). Justice Democrats: øEl Tea Party de la izquierda? globalizacion.ca Bernie Sanders y Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez no son nombres extraños para los lectores habituales de Cubadebate. Pero si les digo Justice Democrats quizás sea menos conocido. En pocas palabras, se trata de una plataforma que está detrás de la elección al…

Staff (2021-10-16). Guaidó vs. the Opposition: The Fight is Public Now. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan opposition is now in a publicly acknowledged feud with Juan Guaidó and its internal struggles are now in the open. The last few days have seen a "give and take" of remarks regarding the disaster surrounding Pequiven subsidiary Monómeros, Venezuelan state company based in Colombia that was taken over by former deputy Juan Guaidó and fugitive from Venezuelan justice Leopoldo López after Colombian President Iván Duque recognized Guaidó's "interim" government. | A few weeks ago, Monómeros filed for bankruptcy and this has been the trigger for a partisan war between Voluntad Popular (VP) and Primero Jus…

Paul Dobson (2021-10-16). Borrell 'Interventionism' Puts EU November Electoral Mission to Venezuela at Risk. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-10-16). President Maduro Sends Letter to King of Spain Demanding Respect for Victims of Colonial Occupation. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 14, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, sent a letter to the King of Spain, Felipe de Borbón, demanding respect for the memory of the ancestors of the American peoples, who, 529 years ago, were subjugated under the occupation of the Spanish empire, and suffered centuries of violence, genocide and destruction. Through his Twitter account, the Venezuelan president shared the letter in which he expressed his condemnation of the fact that Spain "intends to minimize and falsify the events that occurred during the so-called Conquest of America in the 15th century." | In this regard, the Ven…

Staff (2021-10-16). CNE Meets European Union Chargé d'Affairs in Caracas (Borrell's Interventionist Comments). orinocotribune.com On Friday, October 15, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Pedro Calzadilla, met with the charge d'affaires of the European Union mission in Caracas, Rafael Dochao. Dochao was summoned by the Venezuelan national electoral body as part of the efforts to breach the impasse caused by the interventionist statements made by the EU High Representative for External Relations, Josep Borrell, on October 8. | As the CNE informed through a press release, during the meeting, Calzadilla ratified the CNE's efforts to maintain the EU electoral observation mission, which had been formally agreed o…

Editor2 (2021-10-16). Announcement — Webinar on November 21 Elections in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Webinar with Jesús Rodriguez-Espinoza, Editor of the TITLE: November 21st Elections in Venezuela — One more sign of Bolivarian Democracy | Online event: October 20, 5PM PST — 8PM EST and Caracas time. | The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has had more than two dozen democratic elections since 1999. Chavismo has been ratified in the polls consistently by Venezuelans. El…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-10-16). Asamblea Nacional repudia asesinato de adolescentes venezolanos en Colombia. telesurtv.net Los diputados se adhirieron a la demanda que el Gobierno de Venezuela presentará contra Colombia ante la Corte Penal Internacional…

teleSUR, jm, JGN (2021-10-16). Andrés Bello y su paso humanista por América Latina. telesurtv.net Andrés Bello es recordado como un insigne hombre de la academia, que dedicó gran parte de su vida al desarrollo de diversos campos del conocimiento humano.

Gloria La Riva (2021-10-15). Eyewitness report: Cuba's scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID. liberationnews.org After a serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer, there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downward curve in illnesses and deaths.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-10-15). México acuerda con Cuba adquirir vacuna Abdala contra Covid-19. telesurtv.net El mandatario mexicano destacó que las relaciones de cooperación con Cuba se basan en el desarrollo y solidaridad internacional.

Editor (2021-10-15). The Italian government confronts a new test: fascism in the streets. mronline.org Here is the "eternal fascism" that Umberto Eco warned us against, when he explicated the symptoms of the virus that made Italy the incubator, and then the European model, of an anti-parliamentary regime, violent, anti-freedom, anti-Semitic and warmongering.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2021-10-15). La respuesta de La Habana al COVID-19: øCayó la Cuba socialista en la "falsa narrativa" de las grandes farmacéuticas? globalizacion.ca Necesitamos ser honestos sobre esta pandemia global que tiene una agenda no tan oculta para llevar a la civilización de regreso a la edad oscura. Es fácil ver lo que está sucediendo a nuestro alrededor con las constantes mentiras sobre…

G. Dunkel (2021-10-15). U.S. rejects Haitians fleeing utter misery. workers.org There are two streams of Haitian refugees fleeing the utter devastation of their country, inflamed by the feckless, decades-long U.S. domination of their economy and politics and more recently the devastating magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Aug. 14. One by land comes from the over 200,000 Haitians who had been . . . |

_____ (2021-10-15). The Haitian Migration Crisis: Made in the U.S.A. strategic-culture.org By Ashley SMITH | Through his administration's recent policies towards Haiti and Haitian migrants, President Joe Biden is carrying out a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, this represents continuity in a decades-long, bi-partisan policy toward Haiti. | Biden recently ordered the breakup of a camp of 15,000 mainly Black Haitian migrants under a border bridge in Del Rio, Texas. The migrants—many of whom had traveled thousands of miles—had fled to the U.S. in the hopes of being granted asylum from the horrific oppression and exploitation they face in Haiti, Chile, Brazil, and other states in the regi…

_____ (2021-10-15). Afro-Indigenous People In Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. popularresistance.org On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, I want to tell you about my people, the Garifuna. We're an Afro-Indigenous people, descended from Arawaks and Africans. Our ancestral territory spans the Caribbean border of Central America. | Latin American and Caribbean communities like ours are rarely noticed in U.S. media‚Äâ—‚Äâexcept when we migrate. | In summer 2021, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris came to Central America and told would-be migrants: "Do not come ." More recently, photos of U.S. Border Patrol agents whipping Haitian refugees in the Texas desert brutally drove that mes…

Latino Rebels (2021-10-15). Haitian Advocacy Groups Call on Biden to End 'Cruel Asylum Policies'. latinorebels.com On Thursday, groups advocating for better treatment of Haitian asylum seekers published a full-page ad in the Washington, D.C. edition of the New York Times, calling on Pres. Joe Biden to end Title 42 and the continued expulsion of Haitian migrants.

Ricardo Vaz (2021-10-15). Venezuela: Credit Suisse Predicts 5.5 Percent Growth Despite Oil Sector Setbacks. venezuelanalysis.com The country's inflation also came down to single digits for the first time in more than four years.

Sara Flounders (2021-10-15). Cape Verde, nearing designation as human rights abuser, criticized heavily by UN. workers.org The following is a statement from the International Action Center. The United Nations has put Cape Verde on notice: the torture, arbitrary detention and violations inflicted on Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab must stop, and the government has been asked to explain itself. Free Alex Saab benefit concert, Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. . . . |

Staff (2021-10-15). Detachment of Power Lines Caused Blackouts in Caracas Today, Sabotage Not Ruled Out. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Minister of Electric Energy, Néstor Reverol, reported this Thursday, October 14, that "a new attack on the National Electric System" occurred at approximately 10: 50 in the morning, when "a detachment occurred on lines 1 and 2 of the 69 KV line from Papelón-Convento in the Capital District (Caracas), affecting the Convento substation, which is a nodal substation of the National Electric System." | In a statement made by telephone to the public television network Venezolana de Televisión, Reverol indicated that this "detachment" produced "the de-energization of the Cota Mil, Santa Rosa, Chacao and Magal…

Staff (2021-10-15). President Maduro Vows to Strengthen Vuelta a la Patria Program for the Return of Migrants. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, October 13, President Nicolás Maduro addressed the subject of the Venezuelan children murdered in the North of Santander, in Colombia. The Venezuelan head of state asserted that Venezuelans should not continue to be victims of abuse or xenophobia by countries that promote hatred against Venezuelans. For this reason, he decided to strengthen the Vuelta a la Patria program to welcome all good citizens who need it. "Here, we await you with open arms, with Christian and humane love," he said. | "Venezuela is united, and it is the homeland of love for the inclusion of good people," explained Maduro. "For…

Daniela Jimenez (2021-10-15). Former Deputy Guaidó Puts $1.2 Billion at Risk in New York Court. orinocotribune.com The criminal scheme of Juan Guaidó failed once again in a new action against the assets of Venezuela and their theft abroad. Guaidó and his group put more than a billion dollars at risk when they failed to defend resources, so a New York court ruled against Venezuela in favor of bond creditors with which Venezuela has debts because of the restrictions imposed by illegal US sanctions. The blockade and the unilateral coercive measures have also illegally stopped or impeded commercial oil activity, causing a fall in foreign exchange income, and then there are the threats of embargoes and looting. | The anti-Chavista…

John Philpot, Roger D. Harris (2021-10-15). Free Alex Saab Delegation at the African Bar Association. dissidentvoice.org An international Free Alex Saab delegation attended the October 3-7 annual meeting of the African Bar Association in Niamey, Niger. Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab has been under arrest in Cabo Verde since June 2020 by orders of the US and is fighting extradition to Miami. His "crime" is organizing humanitarian missions to procure food and …

A Guest Author (2021-10-15). Free Alex Saab delegation attends meeting of African Bar Association. workers.org By John Philpot and Roger D. Harris, Free Alex Saab Committee An international Free Alex Saab delegation attended the annual meeting of the African Bar Association in Niamey, Niger, on Oct. 3-7. Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who has been under arrest in Cabo Verde since June 2020 by orders of . . . |

Michele de Mello (2021-10-15). Murder of young Venezuelan immigrants rekindles tension between Colombia and Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org Caracas has promised to take the case to the UN and claims that it is part of larger "politics of hatred and persecution by high authorities"

a guest author (2021-10-15). Venezuela: U.S. ignorance of reality can't justify farce. workers.org By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Sent to Workers World by the author, a Venezuela analyst and writer. Translated by Michael Otto The erroneous views on Venezuela of those who observe the country through lenses reinforcing stereotypes have often led governments and international organizations to make decisions following opinions that have already . . . |

teleSUR, JDO (2021-10-15). Venezuela investiga causas de interrupción eléctrica. telesurtv.net Ministro Néstor Reverol aseveró que no descartan que tras lo ocurrido haya otro ataque al sistema eléctrico nacional.

teleSUR, drl, MER (2021-10-15). Pdte. Maduro envía carta de protesta al rey de España. telesurtv.net "Es inaceptable que en pleno siglo XXI una nación que se precia de ser civilizada rinda culto a lo peor de su pasado", expresó el mandatario.

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