Daily Archives: June 12, 2021

2021-06-12: News Headlines

Oscar Laborde (2021-06-12). Perú y México: Dos triunfos de la izquierda nacional y popular. globalizacion.ca El domingo pasado se realizaron elecciones en Perú y en México, dos comicios claves para Latinoamérica. Una de las coincidencias más emblemáticas entre ambos, situación que se replica en otros países de la región, es la aparición de una izquierda…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-06-12). US Government Expels Eighty Venezuelan Migrants — Some of Them Part of a Group that Entered a Few Weeks Ago with Big Media Coverage. orinocotribune.com The expulsion of 80 Venezuelan migrants into Mexico by the United States government has been denounced as "a scam" on social media. Among those expelled, there is a group of people who had recently crossed the Rio Grande in the hopes of entering the United States, and their situation had received substantial media coverage at that time. | According to

Editor2 (2021-06-12). US Cries Foul Because Nicaragua Stops it from Buying This Year's Elections. orinocotribune.com By Rita Jill Clark-Gollub — Jun 10, 2021 | The corporate media is again awash with accusatory articles about Nicaragua, claiming that the government is disqualifying political opponents to give the FSLN an easy win in this year's elections. Let's take a look at what is actually happening, from new laws, to eligibility of political parties, to treatment of those accused of crimes. It is a combination of people engaged in real crimes claiming to be presidential candidates before they get arrested, an incredible amount of U.S. regime change money flowing into the country for years, and Nicaraguan government ins…

Max Blumenthal (2021-06-12). Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua. thegrayzone.com Los periodistas Max Blumenthal y Benjamin Norton investigan como Estados Unidos financiaron a grupos violentos de la extrema derecha y medios de comunicación que publicaron noticias falsas para incitar un golpe de estado en 2018 contra el gobierno sandinista de Nicaragua. (You can read or watch this report in English here.) Transcripción Cuando el Frente Sandinista volvió al poder en Nicaragua a través de elecciones democráticas en 2006, Washington inició una operación con decenas de millones de dólares para crear, …

Max Blumenthal (2021-06-12). How US govt-funded media incited a violent coup in Nicaragua. thegrayzone.com Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton investigate how the United States funded violent far-right groups and media outlets that published fake news to fuel a 2018 coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. (Puede leer o ver este informe en español aquí.) Transcript When the socialist-oriented Sandinista Front returned to power in Nicaragua through democratic elections in 2006, Washington began pouring tens of millions of dollars into the creation, training, and funding of right-wing opposition groups in the Central American nation. Millions …

_____ (2021-06-12). Guatemala: Address Policies That Put Corporations Over People. popularresistance.org Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Guatemala this week to discuss solutions to the poverty, violence, and corruption that are among the driving forces of migration. Contributing to these drivers are neoliberal arrangements, such as the Central America—Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental…

Jen Moore (2021-06-12). In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People. zcomm.org As the Vice President seeks to remedy root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples…

Suyapa Portillo Villeda (2021-06-12). The Root Cause of Central American Migration Is US Imperialism. zcomm.org It would be nice if the US government acknowledged that its imperialist meddling in Central America drove millions to flee to the United States…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-11). Pedro Castillo Thanks Bolivia, Argentina, and Nicaragua for Recognizing Win. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Peru's Pedro Castillo has thanked Presidents Luis Arce, Alberto Fernández, and Daniel Ortega, during an address to his supporters this evening in Lima. The three heads of state publicly recognized Castillo as President-elect of Peru on Thursday. Winner of Sunday's ballot, Pedro Castillo, thanked supporters gathered in Lima in anticipation of an official…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-06-11). Biden official says trade deal is pro-worker. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement—the three-way trade pact that replaced jobs-destroying NAFTA—is an example of pro-worker trade, crafted with a lot of worker input, the Democratic Biden administration emphasizes and will continue to do so. So says Katherine Tai, Biden's new, labor-lauded, U.S. Trade Representative, speaking to an AFL-CIO-sponsored virtual Zoom "Town Hall" on trade on June …

Joris Leverink (2021-06-11). Building an anti-imperialist climate justice movement. roarmag.org Via Campesina protest march in Mexico, 2010. Photo: In his new book,

_____ (2021-06-11). Kamala's "New Era" Mexico Trip was an "Anti-Trump Coup" Clean-up Job. strategic-culture.org We cannot ignore the vast network of Soros-backed NGOs operating in Central America and, much to the chagrin of the Mexican government, also in Mexico. | What can we make of Kamala Harris' trip to Mexico? The public reads reports about success, but without anything to back that up. Naturally, from corporate media and from Harris, we are left with meaningless platitudes and cackling vagueities. We are roughly informed that Harris (and not Biden) goes to meet with heads of state of Guatemala and Mexico. Guatemala is one of the Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador) states caught up in the 'Root Causes…

The Associated Press (2021-06-11). Official: US Told Nicaragua It Will Respect Vote—If Free. latinorebels.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — A senior U.S. official said Thursday that less than two weeks ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Nicaragua's foreign minister that the Biden administration would respect the results of free and fair elections in November.

_____ (2021-06-11). US Coup Machine Unleashes New Sanctions On The Nicaraguan People. popularresistance.org U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced new unilateral coercive measures, or 'sanctions', against members of the elected government of Nicaragua. | News of the new sanctions was accompanied by simultaneous statements by officials of the State Department aimed at the Nicaraguan government. Accordingly, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro tweeted a letter in which he urged the President of OAS Permanent Council to convene an urgent meeting on Nicaragua. | The latest planned interference comes as the U.S. escalates its campaign against the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government…

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2021-06-11). Latin America Ditching US Dollars? Following El Salvador, Other Latin American Countries Plan to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender. globalresearch.ca Did El Salvador …

El Faro English (2021-06-11). How El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin in Five Hours. latinorebels.com El Salvador adopted the dollar in November of 2000, just eight days from the time of announcement. 'Bitcoinization,' meanwhile, took two and a half days, and just five hours from the time the bill reached the legislature. The most in-depth explanations of the two-page law weren't given to the legislative committee in charge of analyzing it, nor to the Assembly itself. Rather, Bukele and two of his brothers fielded questions on the bill in a Twitter livestream, in English, with foreign investors.

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