(2020-12-10). Colombia closes airspace to international observers to Venezuela elections. fightbacknews.org Caracas, Venezuela – 60 international observers of the Venezuelan election were stuck at the airport December 8, for a flight to Mexico. The flight kept getting delayed and delayed. After six hours of waiting, people were sleeping on the floors, tables and couches. Then the head of Conviasa's national flights spoke to the observers in the airport and said that Venezuela asked Colombia permission to have observers fly over Colombia to return home. Colombia approved it. Two hours before the flight was going to leave, they denied the flight route. He said, "This has happened many times. They do this to try to contro…
(2020-12-10). Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties. popularresistance.org Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia (FAIR.org, 12/17/19), violent protesters in Nicaragua (FAIR.org, 8/23/18) or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal US sanctions on their own country (FAIR.org, 6/14/19), the London-based news service can be counted on to cover for them. | In the case of Ecuador, a servile US ally since President Lenín Moreno took office in 2017, Reuters has ignored efforts to prevent Moreno's s…
(2020-12-09). Guatemala: Social Organizations Call for Constitutional Reforms. telesurenglish.net Members of Indigenous organizations, student movements, women's groups, and other social groups demand the convening of a constituent assembly to solve Guatemala's political crisis. | RELATED: | Gathered under a movement labeled Guatemala's Social and Popular Assembly (ASP), the organizations announced protests nationwide to demand the resign of President Alejandro Giammattei and Vice President Guillermo Castillo.
(2020-12-08). Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger. dissidentvoice.org 
Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …
(2020-12-08). Action for Change Starts in Congress. counterpunch.org 
We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials
(2020-12-08). Sea Shepherd Research Mission Discovers Possible New Species of Whale in Mexico. counterpunch.org ENSENADA, BCN, Mexico Researchers working with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society believe that they have discovered a previously unknown species of whale off the western coast of Mexico. On the morning of November 17, scientists on board Sea Shepherd vessel Martin Sheen observed three beaked whales surfacing in nearby waters. The sightings occurred 100 miles north of Mexico's
(2020-12-08). More than 230 Organizations Call for Immediate Protection for Nationals of Central American Countries Devastated by Hurricanes Eta and Iota. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-12-08). As Private Cities Advance in Honduras, Hondurans Renew Their Opposition. counterpunch.org Efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) in Honduras have recently emerged anew. ZEDEs, first legislated as Special Development Regions (REDs) and informally known as "charter cities," "model cities," or "startup cities," are a flexible territorial concession that can be used for city-scale real estate and tourism development, resource