(2022-08-01). Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberly — Jul 20, 2022 | Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the US But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated. | Holidays in the United States celebrate awful events such as the settler colonists declaring independence from Britain so that they might take indigenous lands and protect slavery. There is also Thanksgiving, the commemoration of genocide turned into a day when Americans should think grateful thoughts before spending more than they can afford in order to celebrate Christmas. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday but is rarely treated as…
(2022-08-01). Internationalists' role in Nicaragua's 1979 Revolution. iacenter.org By Hernán Cano July 25, 2022 odriguez Gelfenstein for the news agency Sputnik in preparation for the July anniversary of the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution. Its introduction noted that Rodriguez Gelfenstein, whose guerrilla father was forced out of Chile by the 1973 coup led by Augusto Pinochet, was, at 22, an officer in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces and participated in the last month of Nicaragua's war of liberation with an international contingent fighting the Somoza dictatorship and later in the training of the national army. Translation: John Catalinotto. Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein: Fidel told us that the b…
(2022-08-01). Nicaragua… "Still, It Moves…" popularresistance.org At his Senate confirmation hearing, Rodriguez openly declared his intention to attack Nicaragua's economy and institutions. Among other things he declared that he would work to exclude the country from the Central American Free Trade Agreement. He also promised to seek to isolate Nicaragua internationally so as to obtain the release of criminals the US government paid via its non profit network to overthrow Nicaragua's government in 2018 and to try disrupting the country's national elections in 2021. He even declared that as ambassador he would contest the development of Nicaragua's sovereign relations with China…
(2022-08-01). Nobel guatemalteca rechaza arbitrariedades contra periodistas. telesurtv.net "Hechos como este, después de la firma de los Acuerdos de Paz, nunca más deberían repetirse", expresó Rigoberta Menchú.
(2022-08-01). How Samuel Alito's Attack on Privacy Rights could Make that famous Star Trek Kiss between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner Illegal Again. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment)  ; Steve Chawkins writes in the LA Times that actress Nichelle Nichols died of a heart attack on Saturday at 89 in Silver City, New Mexico. Nichols was cast by Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry as Lt. Nyota Uhura, chief communications officer of the Federation star ship Enterprise and the fourth …
(2022-08-01). México anuncia que no entregará permisos de explotación de agua. telesurtv.net AMLO instó este lunes a tomar conciencia y llamó a que los Gobiernos estatales tengan más cuidados con el otorgamiento de permisos de usos de agua.
(2022-08-01). Docentes de Panamá discuten acuerdos de mesa de diálogo. telesurtv.net Se prevé que en estos encuentros se examine la fecha del retorno a clases, actividad casi paralizada desde el inicio de la huelga.
(2022-08-01). Organizaciones sociales y Gobierno panameño alcanzan acuerdo sobre educación en Mesa de Diálogo. telesurtv.net Mesa de Diálogo logra más de 20 acuerdos en materia educacional. Este presupuesto se concretará en 2024.
(2022-07-31). New Migrant Caravan Heads to the U.S. popularresistance.org On Monday, about 3,700 Central American migrants left the border state of Chiapas for the United States. According to reports from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the caravan is made up of people from countries including Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador, Cuba, Panama, and also from Asia. | Members of this new caravan reported that this mobilization is taking place after two weeks of unsuccessful waiting for a response from authorities of the National Migration Institute (NMI) for the issuance of temporary permits to travel through the territory and thus alleviate some of th…
(2022-07-31). New Migrant Caravan Heads To The US. popularresistance.org On Monday, about 3,700 Central American migrants left the border state of Chiapas for the United States. According to reports from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the caravan is made up of people from countries including Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador, Cuba, Panama, and also from Asia. | Members of this new caravan reported that this mobilization is taking place after two weeks of unsuccessful waiting for a response from authorities of the National Migration Institute (NMI) for the issuance of temporary permits to travel through the territory and thus alleviate some of th…
(2022-07-31). President of Guatemala Unharmed After Shots Fired at His Entourage (+Drug Cartels). orinocotribune.com 
The president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, was reportedly unharmed after shots were fired at his entourage this Saturday, July 30, when he was traveling through a village in the northwestern department of Huehuetenango, bordering Mexico. | "Shots fired at the presidential delegation in the village of La Laguna de Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango," reported local radio station Sonora es la Noticia. | "Some people were wounded but President Alejandro Giammattei is unharmed and safe," it added. | However, the Guatemalan military discarded this version of the events. Military spokespersons reported that on the occa…
(2022-07-31). Descartan ataque contra presidente de Guatemala en Huehuetenango. telesurtv.net Con los detalles ofrecidos por el Ejército se constata que el presidente Giammattei no sufrió un ataque armado como lo habían publicado medios locales.
(2022-07-31). El presidente de Guatemala sale ileso de un ataque a tiros a su comitiva. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, resultó ileso de un supuesto ataque a tiros a su comitiva cuando se desplazaba por una aldea del departamento noroccidental de Huehuetenango. "Disparos a la comitiva presidencial en la aldea La Laguna de Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango", dijo la radio Sonora es la Noticia.