Daily Archives: December 25, 2020

2020-12-25: News Headlines

A Guest Author (2020-12-25). U.S. attempts 'soft coup' in Cuba. workers.org By Rosa Miriam Elizalde From Resumen English Dec. 10 ‚àí Invasions get bad press — those close-ups of foreign boots marching over a beach or a neighborhood like El Chorrillo in Panama in 1989, where they still don't know the total number of people who the U.S. troops killed. After . . . |

_____ (2020-12-25). 2020 Latin America And The Caribbean Tn Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again. popularresistance.org The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, tipped portside by year end 2020 with major popular victories, including reversal of the coup in Bolivia and the constitutional referendum in Chile. Central has been the persistence of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution against the asphyxiating US blockade, along with the defiance by Cuba and Nicaragua of US regime-change measures. | The grand struggle played out against the backdrop of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, impacting countries differently depen…

Online News Editor (2020-12-25). Japan's foreign minister to tour Latin America, Africa. laprensalatina.com Tokyo, Dec 25 (efe-epa).- Japan's foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi announced Friday that on Jan. 4 he will undertake a tour of Latin America and Africa. The trip will include Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Senegal, Nigeria and Kenya and will end on Jan. 14, Motegi said in a press conference. He said it is the …

teleSUR (2020-12-24). 220 Cuban Doctors To Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic in Panama. telesurenglish.net Panama on Thursday received 220 Cuban doctors who came to fight the pandemic in the Central American country that has the highest incidence rate of the disease in the continent. | RELATED: | On Dec. 15, Health Minister Luis Sucre announced the hiring of foreign doctors and the beginning of adjustments in health facilities to receive the growing number of COVID-19 patients. | Because of the lack of medical person…

Vijay Prashad (2020-12-24). Colombia's President shows his disdain for democracy and Venezuelans. mronline.org On December 8, a Conviasa flight prepared to take off from Caracas, Venezuela, for Mexico City. It planned to carry 200 election observers and journalists who came to Venezuela from a range of countries to monitor the National Assembly elections that were held on December 6.

WSWS (2020-12-23). Death toll rises to 11 at General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico. wsws.org José Luis H., who worked in the plant's car body area, was the last confirmed death, on December 19. The plant's Human Resources manager, who had overseen the firing of workers for challenging the lack of protections against COVID-19, also died earlier this month.

Orinoco Tribune (2020-12-23). US Attack: Treasury Department Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba and Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca The US imposed sanctions on three Cuban entities and three Nicaraguan citizens, the US Treasury Department reported today. | The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department sanctioned the Cuban companies Grupo de Administración Empresarial, Financiera Cimex and Kave …

RT (2020-12-22). China's CanSino to submit its Covid-19 vaccine for review in Mexico — FM. rt.com China's Covid-19 vaccine producer will submit its product on Tuesday for review by Mexico's health regulator, according to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. | "Today it will submit its [CanSino Biologics] file to the analysis of Cofepris," Ebrard confirmed. The regulator will be assessing the vaccine for emergency use, it was Mexico wants to have access to vaccines as soon as possible amid a rebound…