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News and reporting from Latin America. To support: https://t.co/GuLpqWKRqN
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BREAKING: Bolivia ends relations with Israel. Minister of the Presidency: "We are sending this official communication to the State of Israel, in which, as stated, we make known our decision as the Plurinational State of Bolivia to break diplomatic relations with Israel."
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Cuban scientists yesterday as they found out that the vaccine they had been working on (Abdala) is 92.28% effective, among the highest in the world.
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Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸. “I imagine being a father in Palestine. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
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Social movements flood São Paulo's Paulista Avenue demanding vaccines, food and the immediately impeachment of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.
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BREAKING: Bolivia has cancelled and returned the full sum of the US $346.7 Million IMF loan taken out by the coup regime, in rejection of IMF impositions on internal economic policy. As of February 2021, the loan had already racked up $24.3 Million in interest and commissions.
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In Barranquilla, Colombia, a statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled today as protesters waved the indigenous wiphala flag.
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Cubans chant "I am Fidel!", as thousands flood the streets in defense of the revolution.
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President Xiomara Castro orders free electricity for the country's poorest.
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🇨🇺 Lula defends Cuba's right to implement its own model and says the U.S. blockade on Cuba must end.
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Evo Morales was asked if China and Russia are 'imperialist'
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‘If this isn’t genocide, I don’t know what is!’. @LulaOficial doubled down on Israel at an event in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
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Israel's zionist regime must be brought to trial for its crimes against the Palestinian people, says Bolivia's Vice President David Choquehuanca 🇵🇸
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Bolivian police say they found Jeanine Añez hiding *in a box* after hours searching the city of Trinidad, Beni. When she was not at her home, many feared that she had fled to Brazil. However, she was still in her city, she had failed to leave in time.
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The leaders of the anti-Venezuela 'Lima Group' are gone, but President Maduro has stayed.
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Evo Morales reads @ElonMusk's tweet before a crowd of thousands, "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it."
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BREAKING: 184 countries vote to demand an end to the U.S. blockade on Cuba, adopting the UN Resolution, titled: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo, imposed by the USA against Cuba". Only the United States and Israel voted against.
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Residents in the town of Palma Soriano, Cuba, have mobilized in defense of the revolution and against US intervention.
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"I'm the first Afro-descendant woman of Colombia. I'm your Vice President and I want to present to you your President, Gustavo Petro." @FranciaMarquezM
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BREAKING: The United Nations General Assembly calls for an end to the long-standing and genocidal U.S. blockade on Cuba for the 30th consecutive time, in a 185 to 2 vote.
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OFFICIAL: Bolivia announces the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel, making it the first and only country of Latin America do so since October 7th.
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BREAKING: Ex-dictator Jeanine Áñez sentenced to 10 years in prison for the Golpe de Estado II case.
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BREAKING: Belize suspends all diplomatic activities in 'Tel Aviv', withdraws its Consul, and suspends all activities of the Israeli consulate in Belize, cancelling the accreditation of the Israeli ambassador. Statement:
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🇧🇴 Solidarity with Palestine in La Paz, Bolivia this evening.
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President-elect Pedro Castillo celebrating tonight in Lima, Peru.
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Bolivia's courts have annulled the arrest warrant against Evo Morales. Judge Román Castro threw out the detention order for 'terrorism' that the regime issued after the coup.
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Bolivian social movements appear to now out-number the military in Plaza Murillo, the site of the government palace. The area was earlier filled with military vehicles and heavily-armed troops.
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AMLO says that Mexico will lead a worldwide movement to end the U.S. blockade on Cuba.
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🇧🇷 @LulaOficial: "A business owner doesn't make a lot of money just because he worked: He makes a lot of money because his workers worked."
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BREAKING: Nicaragua files application against Germany at the ICJ for aiding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by providing political, financial, and military support to Israel.
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BREAKING: Francia Márquez takes Colombia’s Vice Presidential oath, swearing before god, the people, and before her ancestors "hasta que la dignidad se haga costumbre." 🇨🇴
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"Viva Fidel!" The revolutionary people of Cuba fill the streets to protect their Revolution and sovereignty from imperialist attacks.
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🇻🇪🇧🇷 @LulaOficial: 'Venezuela will once again be treated normally like all countries want to be treated.'
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“The ‘War on Drugs’ has failed.”. “There has been a genocide on my continent.” @petrogustavo
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U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander:"This region is so rich in resources. it's off the charts rich.". "60% of the world's lithium is in the region; you have heavy crude, you have light sweet crude, you have rare earth elements, you have the Amazon. "
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Evo Morales condemns the United States for pushing Ukraine and Russia into conflict.
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Lula: 'Brazil made the decision not to pass on the ammunition because we don't want it to be used in the war against Russia.'
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While in London, President Lula calls for a movement in defense of Julian Assange.
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BREAKING: Jeanine Añez has been captured by Bolivian authorities. The @MindeGobierno confirms the 2019 coup leader is in police custody.
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Peruvians are tired of being insulted by the national media. This voter's family were victims of forced sterilization. She denounces corruption by elites. These voices are censored by the national media, you'll only hear them on @teleSURtv.
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Peru's Prime Minister addressed Congress today in Quechua, but the right-wing representatives shouted him down because they don't understand it. He reminds them that it's his constitutional right to speak his own language.
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BREAKING: Nicaragua resigns and withdraws from the Organization of American States (OAS)
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Mexico has called for a lithium alliance with Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. Together, they have the majority of the world's lithium.
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President Lula in Beijing: 'US and other countries must stop supplying weapons and encouraging war'
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BREAKING: Bolivia's courts have ordered the arrest of former coup President Jeanine Añez and her most senior Ministers, as they are considered a 'flight risk'. This comes as part of the investigation into the US-backed coup in 2019.
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BREAKING: Leftist Pedro Castillo takes the lead in Peru's official count for the first time, by a margin of 0.15%
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BREAKING: Cuba’s Código de las Familias (Families Code) has been ratified by the population in Sunday’s referendum, receiving 66% of the ‘Yes’ vote: Consejo Electoral Nacional.
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BREAKING: Leftist candidate Pedro Castillo has been formally declared as the winner of Peru's presidential elections.
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Bolivians marched today against the US-backed regime, past the Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, where the regime massacred anti-coup protesters on November 15th 2019.
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Brazil is in its final week of election campaigning and @LulaOficial is making a final push to try to secure a first round victory.
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President Daniel Ortega: 'The practice of invasion is in the blood of the Yankee empire.'🇨🇳🇳🇮
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BREAKING: Evo Morales is re-elected President of the 6 Federations of the Trópico of Cochabamba, the campesino union which founded the MAS and which he led throughout the struggles of the neoliberal period.
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Bolivia's Senate President @AndronicoRod recognizes the victory of Pedro Castillo in Peru, hailing it as a victory for Latin America.
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Ecuador: Indigenous communities from around the northern province of Imbabura arrive in the city of Ibarra to express their rejection to Guillermo Lasso's neoliberal policies on day four of nationwide protests.
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Bolivia becomes the first country in the Americas to formally break relations with Israel in the period since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
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BREAKING: Bolivian armed forces have surrounded the government palace in Bolivia's Plaza Murillo in an apparent coup attempt.
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Workers in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have reportedly seized control of numerous factories in response to a bosses lockout against President Luis Arce. Among those seized are Pil, the largest manufacturer of dairy products in Boliva, and Fino, the largest producer of vegetable oil.
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Today, Peru held a general strike against the neoliberal coup regime led by Dina Boluarte. Protesters across the country were also demanding justice for those killed by this regime in the last few weeks. This march was in the city of Arequipa 🇵🇪
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Cuba's Mijaín López has won gold in four consecutive Olympics . 🥇 Beijing 2008 .🥇London 2012 .🥇 Rio 2016 .🥇 Tokyo 2020.🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
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Rare earth elements, lithium, oil, light sweet crude, copper, gold, the Amazon, and fresh water. This is what the United States wants to plunder from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The University of Buenos Aires has published this old photo they recently discovered in their archives. Evo Morales in 1995, then a union leader, attending a public lecture titled "Perspectives for liberation in Latin America", held in the Philosophy Department.
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Ukraine🇺🇦and the United States🇺🇸are the only two countries to vote against a Russian resolution on “combating the glorification of Nazism and neo-Nazism” at the United Nations. The EU and Canada were among the abstentions. December 16, 2021:
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BREAKING: Nicaragua announces the expulsion of representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the closure of its offices in the country.
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BREAKING: Bolivia's COB workers' federation announces a 72-hour deadline to retract decision to postpone elections. A general strike and road blockades begin Monday in all nine departments if the deadline isn’t met. COB labour leader Juan Carlos Huarachi:
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Bolivia exdictator Jeanine Añez is once again pretending to pass out during her trial, leading to yet another delay in proceedings today.
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Jeremy Corbyn was the guest of honour today at the President of Mexico's daily press conference.
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The city of Camagüey, Cuba, has mobilized in defense of the Revolution. The crowd chant: "Down with the traitors (vendepatrias)!"
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Matt Lee asks Ned Price: "Let's talk about the Biden administration and its policy towards Cuba, which still has the embargo, right? Is that not a case of a big state trying to dominate a smaller state?"
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Fujimori supporters cry "fraud" and say they won't accept a Pedro Castillo presidency.
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At Gustavo Petro's presidential inauguration, the King of Spain was the only dignitary who remained seated during the arrival of Bolívar's sword—the sword used to defeat the Spanish army two centuries ago.
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Evo Morales recalls the time when neoliberal 🇦🇷 ex-president Mauricio Macri asked him for the secret to Bolivia's economic growth, to which Evo replied, "nationalize natural resources".
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In his first speech in Bolivia, Evo Morales says that the country has 3 reasons to celebrate.
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Peruvian artist Flora Meneses has painted the indigenous woman in Andahuaylas, Peru, that faced down a military helicopter with a slingshot. Peru's new coup regime killed 3 protesters that day in her town.
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Colombian president Gustavo Petro at #COP27 :. "The market is not the main mechanism to overcome the climate crisis. It's the market and the accumulation of capital that produced it and it will never be its remedy."
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Bolivia will not allow the foreign looting of their lithium reserves, says President Luis Arce at the UN General Assembly.
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The daughter of Peru's most recent dictator met with the daughter of Bolivia's most recent dictator.
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Evo Morales is back in his country. 11 months of exile due to the US-backed coup, but he is now back as the leader of the Bolivian people.
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Bolivian soldier Mario Teran, Che Guevara's killer, has died. In August 2006, Cuban doctors cured him of cataract blindness as part of the free treatment they provided to millions of Bolivians.
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Mass graves of indigenous children at the sites of Canada’s genocidal residential schools and the Bolivia coup are part of the same extermination policy, says Evo Morales.
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Commander Hugo Chávez condemns Israel's terrorism and genocide against Palestinians.
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Bolivia's rapid economic growth is based on rejecting the IMF and building a strong role for the state, President Luis Arce tells the UN General Assembly.
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Cuba: "It is Russia today—but tomorrow it could be any of our countries, especially nations of the South which do not support the interests of domination. " @PedroPedrosoC
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Bolivia's legislature is preparing charges against Añez and numerous key ministers, for their involvement in the massacres of indigenous protesters just after the coup. Others will face charges for corruption in the purchase of tear gas and Covid19 ventilators.
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Bolivian President Luis Arce was visibly moved by the size of the 180km anti-fascist march yesterday, in defense of democracy and his government #MarchaPorLaPatria
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz goes on an anti-Marxist tirade on the Senate floor, triggered by Gustavo Petro’s inauguration.
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“Do you have something against African reporters?”. A day after the U.S. announced its new strategy towards Sub-Saharan Africa, and with a new Commander assuming command of AFRICOM today, African reporters say they have to "beg for questions" from Biden's Press Secretary.
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Three policies announced by Bolivia's President-elect Luis Arce:. - New wealth & property tax. - Investigations into the massacres of the coup regime. - Restore relations with Cuba, Venezuela & Iran
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Bolivian dictator Jeanine Añez is now qualified as a 'technical assistant' in textile production. She completed this course while in prison.
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