Misión Verdad Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Hall at the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photo: UN The recent publication of a report by the Independent Mission for the Determination of the Facts in Venezuela by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council established its position in the media and international opinion, due to its…
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…
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…
Al-Saraj’s Resignation Will Escalate Disputes Between GNA Officials and Militias of Tripoli and Misrata
A failed government that relied on extremists and militias to consolidate its power Tripoli – The Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, announced, on Wednesday, his desire to hand over his duties by the end of October, in a move likely to increase political ambiguity in Tripoli and even internal…
LNA Operation in Sebha Was a Painful Blow to ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood
The security operation carried out by the Libyan National Army in the city of Sebha represented a painful blow to the ISIS terrorist organization by eliminating one of its most prominent emirs in North Africa and dismantling his cell. It also perplexed Muslim Brotherhood politicians and the media as they do not consider ISIS a…
In Bolivia, Washington Has Replicated Past Fascist Horrors
Rainer Shea The campaigns from imperialist propaganda operatives to brand Bolivia’s coup regime as some sort of example of progressive governance, or as in any way superior to the Morales government on human rights, have been pure smoke and mirrors. Installed after a weeks-long campaign of racist violence, the regime of the Christian fundamentalist Jeanine…
Caribbean Gangsters: New Crime Plot by Guaidó’s Fake Government Revealed
Misión VerdadThe scandals and corruption, blackmail and extortion by the “fake government” of Juan Guaidó have undermined his image. Photo: AP The Miami-based anti-Chávez journalist Patricia Poleo has once again fired on the imposed “leader” of the Venezuelan opposition, Juan Guaidó, this time revealing an extortion plot against businessmen at the expense of his artificial…
