2020-07-21: News Headlines

_____ (2020-07-21). Bolivia At The Gates Of An Electoral And Political-Military Coup D'état. popularresistance.org Once the coup d'état was consummated in November, a series of devices were put in place in Bolivia aimed at legitimizing a coup president who came to power in an unconstitutional manner and anointed by the military, who were, together with the police, not the architects but the legitimizers of the coup. | A coup d'état that could have been consummated by a bad decision of the direction of the process of change, which made the third person in the chain of succession, the President of the Senate, Adriana Salvatierra (MAS-IPSP), resign once Evo and Alvaro were out of the country and on their way to Mexico, leaving a…

Jeremy Nichols (2020-07-20). Don't be Fooled: New Mexico Proposal Would Open Door for Toxic Frack Waste Dumping. globalresearch.ca We've highlighted before how Sadly,

Stephen Sefton (2020-07-20). Nicaragua: No Stopping the Sandinista Revolution. globalresearch.ca 41 years on from the revolutionary triumph of 1979, the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) in Nicaragua looks stronger and with greater legitimacy than ever. Nicaragua embodies the same revolutionary paradox as Cuba and Venezuela. Despite all three countries …

teleSUR, ce (2020-07-20). President Daniel Ortega: Savage Capitalism is the Worst Epidemic. telesurenglish.net Commander of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and Vice President Rosario Murillo addressed the nation in a special act at Managua's Plaza de la Revolución, this Sunday, on the 41st anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. | RELATED: | Much of the President's discourse was focused on Nicaragua's achievements in the area of public hea…

teleSUR (2020-07-19). Nicaragua: Festivities Mark 41st Anniversary of FSLN Revolution. telesurenglish.net Rows of citizens greeted the President and Commander of the Sandinista Revolution, Daniel Ortega, upon his arrival to the Plaza de la Revolución in Managua for today's central act in commemoration of 41 years since the 1979 Sandinista Revolution. | RELATED: | The date marking the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship is also an annual date of reflection on the ongoing construction of a free, sovereign and dignified nation while honoring the heroes of t…

_____ (2020-07-17). Nicaragua: The Revolution Won't Be Stopped. popularresistance.org 2019 was an amazing year in the search for peace in Nicaragua with The Amnesty Law and the promotion of reconciliation between neighbors in every corner of the nation. It was a year of life-giving advances in all aspects of wellbeing: poverty reduction, health, education, gender equity, recreation, culture and infrastructure; strengthened food security, and a new highway that joins Bluefields to the rest of the nation making the first paved transit route from the Caribbean to the Pacific. | And all this despite cruel US unconventional warfare against the Sandinistas that has gone on for decades and reached a peak…

teleSUR (2020-07-17). Nicaragua: Army Halts 700 Tons Of Drug Trafficking A Year. telesurenglish.net The Nicaraguan Army stopped the trafficking of about 700 tons of drugs in a year, as a result of its retaining wall strategy, according to a report presented by the institution. | RELATED: | General Julio Cesar Avilés, head of the Army, said that drug production in South America is estimated at 3 thousand tons per year, 80 percent of which seeks to pass through Central America on their way to the United States. | "We try to contain a…

teleSUR (2020-07-17). El Salvador: Another Cemetery Collapses Due To Covid-19 Burials. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's Quezaltepeque mayor Salvador Saget Friday reported that the municipal cemetery collapsed after an increase in burials due to COVID-19 deaths. | RELATED: | "We reached the total collapse of our municipal cemetery," Saget briefed local news media. | Quezaltepeque cemetery was built in 1925. In March, local authorities alerted about a collapse risk, as new pandemic deaths were more frequent. The graveyard administrat…

teleSUR (2020-07-17). AMLO Donates 25 Percent Of His Salary To Mexican Hospitals. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday that he would donate 25 percent of his salary to contribute to improving health services in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | During a press conference in the city of Manzanillo, in the state of Colima, the President, also known as AMLO, emphasized that "there can't be a rich government with a poor populace." | The initiative set the exa…

Jeff Bryant (2020-07-17). After Years of Underfunding, Public School Teachers are Now Supposed to Save the Economy? counterpunch.org "After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes," said Mary Parr-Sanchez, president of the New Mexico affiliate of the National Education Association, when I spoke with her about how educators have responded to the pandemic in her state. "After this, I hope teachers will be viewed as the community pillars that

Center for Biological Diversity (2020-07-17). Thursday 7/16: Saving Life on Earth: The Wall & Current Ecological Devastation of US-Mexico Borderlands. indybay.org Online…