El Salvador: 1981 El Mozote Massacre Survivors Pursue Justice
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-12
The survivors of the El Mozote massacre, carried out by the US-backed Salvadoran Army in 1981, commemorated the 39th anniversary this Saturday. They hope to see the criminal process go to trial in 2021, and to finally see a conviction against those linked to the horrific crime. | RELATED: | United Nations Warns Over Forced Displacement in Central America | The criminal case against more than a dozen military commanders, including some members of the military leadership of the…
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Honduran Refugee Caravan Denied at Guatemala Border
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-12
The caravan of Honduran refugees which left the city of San Pedro Sula on Thursday, headed for the United States, has been prevented from crossing into Guatemala. | RELATED: | New Caravan of Honduran Migrants Sets off To the United States | The migrant refugees were detained by Honduran riot police and told they were required to have a negative Covid-19 test and a passport to enter Guatemala. | Officials of the migration institute indicated that they would not allow the passage…
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Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/georgia_primary.jpg …
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OAS's New Attempt To Interfere In Venezuela Rejected
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
On Wednesday, the representatives of Argentina, Mexico, and Bolivia to the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected a new resolution that disregards Venezuela's Sunday elections and calls for a transitional government. | The representatives condemned the new attempts of destabilization against Venezuela, noting the belligerent strategy promoted by the OAS resolution that claimed the elections did not observe International Law's guarantees. | Argentina's ambassador to the OAS Carlos Raimundi rejected both the calls to not recognize the elections' results and the imposition of conditions to the Venezuelan gov…
popularresistance.org/oass-new-attempt-to-interfere-in-venezuela-rejected/

Migrant caravan of workers displaced by hurricanes departs Honduras
wsws.org | 2020-12-11
The migrants are escaping the destruction of their homes and livelihoods by back-to-back, record-setting storms that have left more than 400,000 Hondurans and Guatemalans living in shelters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/11/cara-d11.html

Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia — You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
All political eyes are on Georgia's runoff election on January 5th, 2021. Two Senate seats are up for grabs and will decide whether the evil Trumpster and corporatist Senator Mitch McConnell stays in total control of the U.S. Senate or not. If the Democrats win both seats, the Senate would be split, 50-50. Vice President…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/go-vote-yourself-a-raise-georgia-youve-long-earned-it/

New Caravan of Honduran Migrants Sets off To the United States
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-10
On Wednesday night, hundreds of Hondurans started a new caravan bound for the United States driven by lack of employment after the devastating damage that tropical storms Eta and Iota left in Honduras. | RELATED: | Guatemala's Army Rejects the Caravan of Honduran Migrant | "After the hurricanes, we were left without work and there are no options in the country," said Carlos Gonzalez, a migrant from Sonaguera. | Similar to what happened with the caravans that came out in the last two…
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Colombia closes airspace to international observers to Venezuela elections
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-10
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…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/12/10/colombia-closes-airspace-international-observers-venezuela-elections

Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
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…
popularresistance.org/reuters-looks-away-as-ecuador-tries-to-outlaw-opposition-parties/

New OAS's Attempt of Interference in Venezuela Rejected
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-10
On Wednesday, the representatives of Argentina, Mexico, and Bolivia to the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected a new resolution that disregards Venezuela's Sunday elections and calls for a transitional government. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Capriles Says Opposition Has No Leadership or Unity | The representatives condemned the new attempts of destabilization against Venezuela, noting the belligerent strategy promoted by the OAS resolution that claimed the elections did…
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