Some estimates suggest that 1.2 MILLION people marched through the streets of the capital, quite possibly the largest demo in Mexican history, certainly among the largest ever in the hemisphere.
And what do I see from the Western left? Tweets about a tiny demo in China.
To everyone trying to compare what’s happening in the US today with Venezuela, the far more accurate comparison is the 2019 far-right US-backed coup in Bolivia that saw fanatics storm government buildings who insisted there was an electoral fraud when there wasn’t one.
According to AP, it is “unclear” what is behind the significant decline in poverty since López Obrador came to office in 2018, seemingly ignoring the obvious fact that the decline coincides with the change in public policy implemented by his government.
To those "Latin Americanists" demanding we listen to the voices of Bolivians, can we make sure we listen to these Bolivian women as well? They've descended from El Alto to say NO TO THE COUP.
"We are never going to humble ourselves or kneel before those transnational companies."
Escuchen a las mujeres de El Alto que llegaron hasta La Paz. La derecha golpista ha despertado una rabia histórica, hay dolor, memoria, dignidad y no se van a rendir.
#PueblosDelMundoConEvo
#12Nov
Lima’s white elite, which never accepted that a rural man became president, are using their expensive cars to block the streets near the Mexican embassy in Peru after rumors circulated that Castillo was seeking asylum from Mexico.
Here in Mexico City, if you suspect you have COVID-19, you text a number and fill out a questionnaire, the response depends on your answers.
If they suspect you have coronavirus, they deliver this emergency kit with masks, medicine, essential goods, and food to your home.
Ay. Quiero llorar y no sé cómo sentirme. Por ser caso sospechoso de COVID-19 (y que hablé a locatel y me quedé en mi casa) hoy vinieron a mi casa del
@GobCDMX
a traerme mi kit médico y una despensa. ¿Qué es esto? ¿Suecia? Me sentí así.
Man interrupts Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly at a breakfast hosted by Montreal Council on Foreign Relations. He was escorted out by security.
@CTVNews
@CTVNationalNews
#ukraine
Coup attempt in Bolivia DEFEATED.
The new head of the armed forces orders troops in the plaza near the gov palace to withdraw, tankettes have now pulled back, including Zúñiga, people & vehicles are starting to pour in to the square to show their support for President Luis Arce.
IMPORTANT: the testimony of this soldier, loyal to Maduro, indicates that the coup plotters lied to rank and file troops, telling them they were to take part in an operation at a prison, instead they were taken to a highway in order to provoke a violent conflict between troops.
No faltará el medio en México que celebre este "Golpe de Estado" en Venezuela. ¿Qué está sucediendo?
Los militares fueron engañados para participar. Esta es la derecha que solo busca la guerra, usando a sus propios hermanos.
#PazParaVenezuela
I was putting a story together about resource conflicts in the area near the butterfly reserves of Michoacán but no one wanted to talk, everyone was scared of reprisals. This is why.
Worth noting, the entire police forces of two towns were detained in connection to this case.
Monarch butterfly defender
@HomeroGomez_G
has been found dead after more than two weeks of his disappearance in Michoacán, according to local press reports. Pretty depressing news. His videos were mesmerizing
Students at Mexico’s
@UNAM_MX
set up an encampment in solidarity with the Palestinian people and fellow students in the US staging similar protests. They demand an immediate ceasefire and for Mexico to break relations with Israel in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
@Louis_Allday
Here's the thing that grinds my gears about this straw-man, Cubans are also well aware of the internal contradictions of their revolutionary process and are protagonists in the efforts to address them. It is the height of arrogance to think they need people to teach them.
I’m in Venezuela, in touch with hundreds of observers this is a flagrant lie and grossly irresponsible, Vivanco has no credibility. This is a desperate move by an agent of the opposition trying to help them save face in light of a what will likely be a huge loss by the opposition
URGENTE: Hemos recibido denuncias de ataques por colectivos armados en el contexto electoral en Venezuela.
Estamos siguiendo de cerca la situación en el país.
Mis DM están abiertos para recibir denuncias de víctimas o testigos presenciales.
Por favor RT.
Worrisome development in Honduran election with the ruling National Party claiming their internal numbers give them an “overwhelming” victory. Analysts had warned their plan would be to claim an early victory to try to set the narrative early.
#HondurasElections
As usual, Amnesty publishes disinformation about Venezuela, suggesting that police are repressing "peaceful" protest. No. Security forces are trying to contain a violent fascist uprising.
The video fails to mention that the far right is attacking people and burning buildings.
Jorge Ramos is a clown and a (poor) showman, who isn’t really interested in the truth but rather in promoting his brand. What kind of journalist asks “hard questions” but walks out on the answer? He cheapens my profession, then he goes back to US while we Mexicans face threats.
@jorgeramosnews
se dijo “muy preocupado” por la seguridad en México, pero se fue cuando se estaba explicando la estrategia. Si fuéramos mal pensados, diríamos que sólo fue a provocar. Qué suerte que no lo somos.
This is grossly wrong. The demonstrators are by all indications students from the country's teachers' training colleges organized with the FECSM, a Marxist student organization that has never been linked to US regime change operations.
Misinformation doesn't help.
US State Department is orchestrating a color revolution in Mexico?
“Protesters” (rent-a-mob) break down the door of the Presidential Palace.
Mexican President Amlo has been targeted by the US for a couple of years now.
Maybe him wanting to join BRICS was the last straw?
Breaking News: The Justice Dept. charged a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Wednesday for plotting to kill John Bolton, a Trump-era national security adviser. Prosecutors said the man had offered $300,000 to hire someone to kill Bolton.
“Because [AMLO’s cash-transfer] programs are not means-tested it is not clear whether they have particularly helped the poorest Mexicans.”
AP also serves readers a big dose of neoliberal orthodoxy, there’s plenty of evidence backing the efficacy of universal programs.
“Evo, Mexico welcomes you with open arms.”
Mexicans gather at the Embassy of Bolivia in Mexico City to denounce the coup against Evo Morales and welcome him after the AMLO gov announces it will grant him asylum.
#EvoElMundoEstaContigo
#evomexicocontigo
Unlike Brian, the people at
@KawsachunNews
have principles, in this case anti-imperialist principles. I know that’s hard to accept for a guy who serves only the interests of capital.
For these people, it’s never really been about whether you’re a leftist, whether you care about poverty or social justice or climate. It’s only about whether you support their little clique of dictatorships in Caracas, Havana & Managua. So of course they despise Gabriel Boric
There is a country that is making these massive investments in low-income housing, all while under crippling sanctions. That country is, of course, Venezuela. But the demonization campaign has made it very difficult to point to their example. This is why anti-imperialism matters.
The more PDFs I read about equity, carbon, energy, and housing, the more I come back to something basic: unless govts make massive investments in low-income homes—100s of $Bs—all the consultation, frameworks, and discourse won't matter. We spend big or we die. It's that simple.
Articles like this are revolting. Are we supposed to believe that the Times now cares about poverty & inequality in Venezuela when for years it was the loudest cheerleader for US sanctions that got the country to this point? When its reporters helped manufacture consent for this?
Venezuela’s economy imploded nearly a decade ago in one of worst crises in modern Latin American history. Now there are signs the country is settling into a new, disorienting normality — with poverty starting to lessen and pockets of wealth arising.
When US mercenaries tried (and failed) to invade Venezuela as part of a plot to kill Maduro, many of us warned that if it wasn’t treated seriously by the “international community” it would be viewed as a green light to use this method.
The scheme seems to have worked in Haiti.
Someone with an American accent is heard saying in English over a megaphone, “DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.”
Sources said the assailants, one of whom spoke in English with an American accent, were not with the DEA. "These were mercenaries"
A partir de las 23:30 (hora del Este) del 29 de febrero de 2024, los ciudadanos mexicanos van a necesitar visa para entrar a Canadá, a menos que cumplan con ciertos criterios.
🧵⬇️
The fact that white academics label Latin Americans speaking about Latin America as "conspiratorial" tells you everything you need to know about their commitment to "decolonization". Stop listening to them, they are not our allies.
Yankee, go home.
The fact that so many academics retweet this dictator-apologist and conspiratorial website as a source of news about Latin America tells you everything you need to know about the profundity of the crisis of critical thought in the world.
HUGE: Colombian court orders the detention of ex-President Uribe, widely seen as having ties to narcotraffickers and paramilitaries, the same is said of Calderon here in Mexico.
Could 2020 be the year we see both Colombia’s Uribe and Mexico’s Calderon behind bars?
Bolivia, which suffered a military coup in 2019, is now dealing with unrest in the armed forces, this after the general Juan José Zúñiga was removed from his post after threatening
@evoespueblo
.
In Latin America, coups against democratically elected govs are latent threats.
Opposition leader Xóchitl Gálvez perpetuates the racist, classist, and false notion that populations in Mexico’s south don’t have the same work attitude as the rest of the country.
You can dress up the PAN in a huipil but it seems they’ll never shake their outdated views.
.
@XochitlGalvez
dice que en el sureste del país no trabajan 8 horas seguidas
La panista mencionó que en el sureste no tienen la misma cultura que en el norte: “Recuerdo cuando trabajaba con
@VicenteFoxQue
, quisieron instalar maquiladoras en San Cristóbal de las Casas y les dije
Guaidó 2.0
More punishing sanctions, more collective punishment.
This rush to unilaterally declare the election a fraud is an affront to Venezuelan sovereignty and is driven by the same 20-year, US regime-change strategy against the Bolivarian Revolution.
BREAKING 🇺🇸🇻🇪 Leaked draft of U.S. Reps Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) & Mario Díaz-Balart (R) House resolution to recognize Edmundo González "as the president-elect of Venezuela" and to call for the "imposition of new sanctions" on the Venezuelan gov't and its foreign allies.
Claudia Sheinbaum has arrived to Morena HQ, in her speech she says she received a call from her rival Xóchitl Gálvez conceding the election. Mexico has its first woman president.
In a surprise to no one, Blinken casts doubt on the result in Venezuela. The US was betting on its puppet candidate winning.
Ironic that he speaks of a response by the "international community" when it has destroyed what credibility it ever had by facilitating a genocide.
#BREAKING
: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Maduro announced election victory:
"We have serious concerns that the results announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people... the international community is watching this very closely and will respond
This is an excellent example of how the concept of "human rights" is abused by political actors in Latin America. Instead of calling for justice for the victims of the putschists & coup backers, this NGO comes out to defend the police and military in light of cases against them.
Remember when "analysts" said that the COB's criticism of Evo Morales was proof that he had betrayed his leftist roots.
The COB is backing Morales' MAS party in the upcoming election in Bolivia.
Bolivia's labor union federation (COB) have just announced that they are officially endorsing the Movement Towards Socialism for the upcoming elections.
The forces behind the MAS are growing.
Mexico won its seat on the Security Council, having run unopposed for the LatAm/Caribbean seat. Critics of AMLO have said his stances on the coup in Bolivia & regime change efforts in Venezuela by the US and Canada would isolate his gov.
They were wrong.
There is no fundamental difference between Trump’s and Biden’s Venezuela policy, it would be accurate to call it the Trump-Biden maximum pressure campaign, despite what Blinken and Gonzalez claim.
$347 million in Venezuelan funds stolen from the people.
@camilapress
@KawsachunNews
I like that Guaidó has come full circle. When he declared himself president no one knew who he was, after 3 years people still don't know him or wish they had never heard his name.
The New York Times is facing a serious credibility crisis after the paper hired a biased filmmaker to cover sexual assault allegations on Oct 7.
Today the Mexican community in NY is protesting outside their building over their similarly irresponsible & biased coverage of Mexico.
Chavista forces win a resounding victory in Venezuela’s
#Regionales2021
, voter turnout higher than last year’s elections, opposition failed to mobilize its base after years of boycotts and despite a brutal sanctions regime, voters continue to back the ruling Socialists.
New: Drug trial for ex Venezuela Gen. Cliver Alcala set for July 10.
@cliver2013
is a fierce opponent of
@NicolasMaduro
who led a barracks rebellion against the socialist leader. He is accused of conspiring a decade ago with Maduro and others to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
With so much disinformation circulating online about Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and her Jewish background, I was really happy to be able to disprove these claims in a recent appearance on the
@kthalps
show.
Link to full show below.
Meanwhile, Venezuela did join COVAX, made its payments, only to have the bank freeze the funds as a result of US sanctions, with the money only being released weeks later. How many people could have been vaccinated in that time?
According to Cuban health officials, Cuba tried to join COVAX, but was told it didn’t qualify for free vaccines and must pay $47 million. Cuba decided to make its own vaccines instead. COVAX has delivered only a tiny percent of the vaccines promised to the world’s poor.
The piece also overstates the role of remittances, as Mexican economist Gerardo Esquivel points out below, the impact is remittances on poverty is relatively small.
@Diegoelbatoglez
Relativamente poco. Las remesas representan poco más del 2% del ingreso de los hogares. Claro que para los que las reciben, esa importancia es mucho mayor, pero no podría explicar estos resultados.
Wow, gringos really do just start fearing whatever bogeyman state they're told to fear, don't they?
Manufacturing Consent was first published in 1988 and yet in 2021 many people are still allowing mass media to dictate what they think.
45% of Americans now say China is the United States' greatest enemy, more than double the percentage who said so in 2020.
(Iran has fallen from 19% to 4%)
After the outlet called on the public to ignore the advice of the undersecretary of health, activists in Oaxaca symbolically closed the offices of TV Azteca today in an act of protest against the company for "profiting off the poorest" and for asking Mexicans to essentially die.
Hoy clausuramos simbólicamente una empresa que lucra con l
@s
más pobres y está convocando a la muerte a l
@s
mexican
@s
en aras de sus múltiples negocios.
The reactionaries in Peru are very close to turning a domestic crisis into an international one. States have very specific duties when it comes to the inviolability of diplomatic offices.
Irresponsable y criminal que el gobierno de facto en Perú aliente a sus simpatizantes a bloquear la Embajada de México. El derecho de asilo es sagrado. También la soberanía y la seguridad de nuestra sede diplomática en Lima.
In a sign of just how much things have changed, Xóchitl Gálvez, who is interested in seeking the presidency representing the right-wing National Action Party (PAN), openly and passionately now defends AMLO's universal social programs as she gears up for the 2024 race.
The US knows that protests in places like Cuba lose legitimacy if they're seen as US sponsored.
The fact that the US is so blatantly tying itself so closely to the upcoming protests suggests there's a bigger plan at play.
Anti-imperialists should be on high alert.
Mexican President López Obrador called lithium a “strategic” resource, like oil, that belongs to the nation and announced a state-owned company will be created in order to exploit the resource “for the benefit of Mexicans.”
"El litio es otra cosa, es un mineral estratégico y es de la nación":
@lopezobrador_
explicó que la concesión para este recurso es especial y que será explotado en beneficio de los mexicanos.
They'll oust your presidents in coups, they'll force your country to follow a neoliberal development model, they'll close the door on you when you arrive seeking asylum, they'll throw billions at enforcement.
But they won't call you "dehumanizing" names while they do it.
The Biden admin ordered ICE and CBP to stop using dehumanizing terms like "illegal alien" when referring to immigrants, reports
@washingtonpost
.
Under the order:
▪️ "illegal" is now "undocumented"
▪️ "alien" is now "noncitizen"/"migrant"
▪️ "assimilation" is now "integration"
You know what else undermined democracy in Honduras? The US-backed coup in 2009 that eventually brought the National Party into power. And it happened under a Democratic admin. You should remember, you were serving as Nat’l Security Advisor to Biden.
Former President of Honduras Lobo’s corrupt acts undermined democracy in Honduras. I am designating Lobo and his immediate family members as ineligible for entry into the United States. We remain
#UnitedAgainstCorruption
with our partners in Honduras.
AMLO's presidency, marked by a doubling of the minimum wage, expanded social programs, & labor reforms, has lifted over 5 million out of poverty. Mexico's heightened politicization is reflected in recent elections that saw Sheinbaum win an clear mandate.
Venezuelan Olympic medalist Julio Mayora dedicates his win and his medal to former President Hugo Chavez on the occasion of his birthday today, July 28.
Bold of Freeland to talk about people rewriting constitutions when she was the loudest cheerleader of Juan Guaidó and his ludicrous interpretation of article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution that only he and the rest of the coup plotters agreed with.
🇻🇪 Venezuela: one side has zionists and the far-right mercenary leader Erik Prince openly backing their election fraud claims, the other has communards and anti-imperialists working toward the socialist horizon. Who do you think is defending the interests of the working class?
Last night walking out of the cinema, which is across the street from a social security hospital, we overheard a group of smug doctors complaining about the type of patients they treat. I said that this is why we need more Cuban doctors until we can train more working class docs.
México. Viernes 12 de julio. El Presidente
@lopezobrador_
agradece a Cuba por el envío de aproximadamente mil médicos especialistas a México. Destaca que sin dicha acción, no se habría podido llevar a cabo su plan de salud.
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."
Mexico sent a large high-level delegation to talk security and fentanyl but were met with a lukewarm response.
You'd think with the aggressive rhetoric in the US concerning the issue, they would treat this meeting with greater importance.
PHOTO: Mexico sent its entire national security cabinet to Washington to talk fentanyl yesterday. Yet at the White House there was just one US principal to meet with them. AG Garland later offered them lunch. Via
@Reforma
Ever since AMLO first announced 20 constitutional reforms in Feb., the one I felt merited the most attention and enthusiasm was the one related to the collective rights of Indigenous and afro-Mexican peoples.
I am glad that Pres-elect Sheinbaum had decided to give it priority.
Claudia Sheinbaum está trabajando con los legisladores de la 4T para impulsar una serie de reformas, incorporando una quinta propuesta constitucional en beneficio de las comunidades indígenas y afromexicanas |
#Pol
ítica.
✍️
@Sharon_SMoG
@lesbrains
I’ve always made a distinction between cultural appropriation and cultural extraction, the latter absolutely applies here because as you correctly identify it is theft and the word extraction invokes resource extraction, that’s the picture we should be painting.
One of the things that characterized AMLO's style of governance was his proximity to the people. Today, Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum posed with municipal sanitation workers before heading into work. Seems like it's a tradition that will continue under her leadership.
Does everyone recall that it took a few days for Indigenous peoples & other communities to arrive to Quito during the Ecuador uprising? Well, similarly, the grassroots resistance to the coup in Bolivia has only just begun, more and more people will continue to arrive in La Paz.
La movilización que bajó desde El Alto ya está en La Paz, van por la renuncia de Añez. Vean, escuchen, cada día hay más gente, esto es solo el inicio de la movilización, están llegando las comunidades del altiplano.
#14Nov
#BuenJueves
Watch out for those blaming AMLO’s comments for what happened at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, from journalists to politicians, those making this claim are revealing their ignorance about how political persecution functions in Ecuador. Read this thread as a primer:
In Ecuador, when you think you’ve seen it all, well… no... In a brazen attempt to affect the outcome of the Sunday election, the Prosecutor General has leaked and may even announce that a “witness” has accused “correistas” for the murder of presidential candidate Villavicencio
Media personalities aligned with the Mexican opposition are claiming that a Cuban asset snuck into Mexico and used “artificial intelligence” to change the election results and perpetuate electoral fraud.
I wish I were joking.
I really don't understand the voices out there who insist that the Mexican gov is failing in its response to the crisis, empirical evidence shows the response has been the correct one, which suggests that critics are being motivated by ideology, in a crisis, that is dangerous.
Con números inmejorables en mortandad e infección comunitaria de
#COVID
ー19 MÉXICO decreta el inicio de la FASE 2 de contingencia...
La apuesta es una epidemia larga... que no colapse el sistema de salud como ha ocurrido en otras naciones...
¡Fuerza México!
The Taliban has announced their political agenda for Afghanistan includes:
- Abortion is banned
- Gay marriage outlawed
- Rejection of science
- No vaccines (against their religion)
- No separation of church & state
- Religion taught in schools
The US DOJ, which was heavily involved in the lawfare persecution of Lula, threatened MIT researchers with subpoena about research they had conducted on the 2019 Bolivian presidential election after a request from the Bolivian coup regime.
This opinion piece is getting ratioed and I love it.
The pundits of Mexico’s ancien régime have lost nearly all their credibility inside the country and thankfully they are starting to lose it outside of it too.
Mexico has unfortunately returned to “the perfect dictatorship” of the twentieth century, but now there is an authority –
@lopezobrador_
– who will try to exert power over new president
@Claudiashein
, argues
@EnriqueKrauze
.
Happy to share my first piece in The Nation, made possible thanks to the Mexico Solidarity Project.
Much of the coverage of AMLO’s electoral reform has been at best inaccurate & at worst designed to mislead, so I’m grateful for the opportunity to share a different perspective.
The labeling of a leftist leader as a threat to the country and its democracy is a classic strategy in Latin America, often leading to allegations that future votes will not be “free and fair.”
While it’s important to keep your eyes on Venezuela, we shouldn’t overstate what’s happening either. There have been violent opposition protests but thus far they’ve been small and have been neutralized. Venezuelans want peace.
Estoy pasando por la autopista hay objetos en la vía que dejaron los guarimberos.
Estos focos fueron controlados ayer por la policía y militares.
La cotidianidad comienza a ganar terreno a la estrategia violenta.
Vamos a ver cómo se desarrolla el día.
The
@CneHonduras
is giving its first report, with turnout of approximately 62%, preliminary results give
@XiomaraCastroZ
(LIBRE) a significant lead over
@Tito_alcalde
(National Party) in country-wide results.
In order to understand Drum’s clueless rants, one need only remember that the ruling class uses idiots like him to lay the groundwork for imperialist intervention. Anyone who listens to him is equally as stupid as him.
THREAD
Mexico's ruling MORENA party is an authoritarian nationalist movement based in the most culturally conservative sectors of Mexican society. It is also a macho party: President Lopez Obrador has squeezed healthcare and daycare to finance grandiose building projects.
Join me tomorrow during this webinar on Canada’s interference in Mexico, which is done on behalf of Canadian capital, in defense of its own independent imperialist project in Latin America, and as a member of a broader US-led hegemonic effort.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pursued many progressive domestic reforms and regional policies. What has Canada’s reaction been? Check out next week's discussion with journalists
@GranadosCeja
& Owen Schalk to learn more REGISTER:
Peniley, always at the service of the interests of imperialism, ups the ante. She argues AMLO needs Sheinbaum to win to ensure impunity and cites the case of JOH in Honduras as precedent. With JOH there is overwhelming proof of ties to org. crime, with AMLO there's nothing, zero.
Enough. It’s time for AMLO to end the devil’s bargain he made with the US, it was unjustified before & is unconscionable now.
The US needs Mexico to do its dirty work for them but whatever we’re getting in exchange isn’t worth the cost. Mexico must also clean house at the INM.
Wrote for
@Slate
about the fire that killed 40 people in an immigration detention center Juarez.
I argue that this tragedy is both a reminder that restrictive migration regimes cause mass death and a premonition of the tragedies that are to come.
The absurdity of labeling Cuba a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" when it has played an indispensable role in promoting peace throughout the region, especially in Colombia where President Petro is working to end the US-sponsored counterinsurgency security strategy.
🚨BREAKING: Biden admin releases the Country Report on Terrorism & continues Cuba's designation as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism."
The National Network on Cuba condemns this false designation & calls for an end to US terror toward Cuba. Take Cuba
#OffTheList
! End the blockade!
I live in Mexico City, so I don’t need a car but if I were to get one, I’d totally buy this adorable Bolivian-made electric car!
Coming to Mexico in 2023.
Vehículo boliviano Quantum, eléctrico. Disponible en 2023 en México merced a la Alianza Quantum y la empresa mexicana Potencia Industrial . Será el vehículo eléctrico más económico en nuestro país. Enhorabuena!!
Mexico City.
Since the last election the city has: built 300 youth-focused community centers, expanded public transit, expanded bike infrastructure, made massive investment in the city’s low-income areas, built or rehabilitated 13 parks, serious crime is down, I could go on…
This would be funny if it wasn't so serious. We're witnessing, in real time, an effort to sell another regime change operation, and all it took was a handful of people protesting and a bunch of bots online. Stunning.
“At its heart, fascism is a reaction against the left...”
@le_shipster
told
@KawsachunNews
.
My latest analysis piece, published today in honor of Cuba's Day of National Rebellion.
Bolivian Pres.
@LuchoXBolivia
has emerged from the government HQ, surrounded by the Wiphala and the other Bolivian flag, to greet supporters in Plaza Murillo alongside his VP.
“Disputes about the electoral process must be resolved through the institutional means. The fundamental principle of popular sovereignty must be respected through impartial verification of the results.”
The correct left position, anything else is just playing imperialism’s game.
A good time to remind everyone that unilateral coercive measures aka "sanctions" are illegal and usually lead to the suffering of the civilian population.
BREAKING: In response to the likelihood of mass Haitian migration, the Biden administration is weighing holding Haitian migrants in a third country or expanding capacity at Guantánamo Bay.
El ataque al Capitolio 🇺🇸 es a la democracia. Mis pensamientos con sus ciudadanos y funcionarios que sienten atacada la raíz de su país
La fortaleza de la democracia radica en la solidez e independencia institucional, en el vigor de su entramado social y la consciencia ciudadana
I hope people understand that authorizing military use of force inside Mexico constitutes an act of war.
We’ve gone an entire year hearing from US politicians that the invasion of a sovereign country is unacceptable. Yet I don’t think people would put Mexican flags in their bio.
So the former Attorney General of the United States is now openly calling for an invasion of Mexico. I hope this is enough to wake people up to the slippery slope this could become.
Honduras Votes 2021: poll workers here in the working class neighborhood of Suyapa in the capital say turnout appears higher than last election, this year voters’ biometric data is verified leading to some delays, but voting mostly proceeding normally here.
#HondurasDecide2021
It's going to be so awful when Kamala Harris makes her first trip down here to Latin America to defend whatever plan the White House has cooked up to re-establish US hegemony in the region.
Dresser, who is considered an authoritative voice on Mexico by people who don't know better, was found guilty by a Mexican institution of practicing "political gender-based violence". Her response has been to issue a fake apology and use the opportunity to promote her new book.
Va mensaje para todas las militantes de
@PartidoMorenaMx
preocupadas por la “violencia política de género” ejercida en su contra. No minimizo la importancia del tema pero sí cuestiono la congruencia y el uso político de la VPG para atacar a quienes cuestionamos su forma de
Satire is dead.
Ling, whose job is basically to launder intelligence agency's talking points, puts out a hit piece about "disinformation" on the Canadian state broadcaster where he prominently features someone from a "think tank" closely tied to Western gov'ts and spooks.
Dear
@NACLA
, yes there are areas where there is room for improvement from AMLO but your newsletter today parroted right-wing talking points about Morena's purported "threat" to Mexican democracy and substantiated it with a link to The Economist (!!). This is counterproductive.