Carlos Aznarez Colombia is experiencing days of strong popular uprising against the evil government and especially focusing on the unrestrained repression unleashed against the popular sectors. To talk about this process of struggle and its consequences we interviewed Erika Prieto, a young representative of the People’s Congress in the area of human rights. How do…
Nicaragua 2018: Uncensoring the Truth
Tortilla con Sal A group of people in solidarity with Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution have recorded, transcribed and translated numerous testimonies to illustrate the experiences of people at grass roots in Nicaragua of the violent failed coup attempt between April and July of 2018. These testimonies supplement existing reports by independent writers and journalists. A list…
Dismantling the Report of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission to Venezuela
Misión Verdad Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Hall at the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photo: UN The recent publication of a report issued by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was positioned, in the media and international opinion, due to its remarks on…
Bolivia: Violent Pro-Coup Extremists Assault MAS Canvassers
The socialist party leads pre-election voter intention surveys but faces violence promoted by right-wing candidates and defacto authorities. Bolivian coup supporters waged an attack on Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) canvassers, setting fire to campaign tents and destroying materials. Videos circulating on social media show what appears to be people in MAS t-shirts being chased down…
President Maduro: 51,360 Integral Defense Units Activated in Venezuela (Militia)
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during a video-conference with the popular base of the Bolivarian Militia, reported that there are currently 51,360 Integral Defense Units activated throughout the country, which represent the people’s military power because they are deployed in all the communities nationwide. He stressed that this military corps has more than 4.5…
Libya: Calls for Mass Demonstrations to Terminate All Political Bodies, Hold Immediate Elections
Activists from different regions of Libya called for Saturday protest marches to demand dropping all political bodies in Libya, the central governor of Libya, and all directors appointed through quotas. The activities gave the regions of Tripoli, Benghazi and Sabha the freedom to choose the method of assembly, provided that it be at the same…
Argentinians Commemorate the 44th Anniversary of the Night of the Pencils
Peoples Dispatch Out of the ten students abducted by the national security forces on September 16, 1976, only four survivedand the whereabouts of the other six are still not known. Photo: Izquierda Web The night of September 16, 1976, was one of the bloodiest night of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina, when a group…
The Paramilitaries of the Coup: Santa Cruz
Today we launch our first documentary project, shining a light on racist pro-coup violence in Santa Cruz, promoted by both Carlos Mesa and Fernando Camacho. In English and Spanish, it will air live at 6pm (Bolivia & ET) today on our Facebook page, as well as that of Radio Kawsachun Coca We've launched our mini-documentary…
Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez Withdraws from the Electoral Race
Just 31 days before the elections, Bolivia’s de facto president, Jeanine Áñez, announced her withdrawal from the presidential race. The news came one day after the most extensive electoral survey conducted to date placed her in fourth place in terms of voting intentions, far from being able to contest a second round. Her frustrated candidacy…
Peace is the Only Path
Jorge Arreaza MontserratIn Venezuela, we have been resisting different phases of the same plan of aggression for more than two decades. The accumulation of failures, rudeness and clumsiness, far from discouraging the imperial forces — it does not matter whether they suit up as Republicans or Democrats — seems to irritate the arrogant and quarrelsome…
Water Poverty and the Growing Conflict Between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
Julian Vigo The Ethiopian government made a strategic decision to control most of the Nile River that flows into Egypt and Sudan. “The GERD will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant when it comes into full operation.” The satellite images are frightening. Prior to this summer’s’s filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), countries downstream from Ethiopia…
The Long, Disgraceful History of American Attacks on Brown and Black Women’s Reproductive Systems
Natasha Lennard In front of a small crowd of activists and media, city workers remove a statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon and medical pioneer in the field of gynecology, from its perch on the edge of Central Park on April 17, 2018 in Harlem, New York. Forced sterilization of poor women of color…
