Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 6.26.2020 Trump and Biden on Maduro; Bolton’s Venezuela Chapter; “WASP Network,” Cuban Police

https://chicagoalbasolidarity.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/venezuela-alba-weekly-6-26-2020-trump-and-biden-on-maduro-boltons-venezuela-chapter-film-wasp-network-cuban-police/ Axios: Trump cold on Guaidó, would consider meeting Maduro Once again Trump showed he can be more sensible than the neo-con national security state ideologues in government. Trump suggested he’s had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with…

NicaNotes: Keeping Count in Nicaragua during COVID-19

June 24, 2020 By Tom Ricker (This article was originally published by the Quixote Center on June 19, 2020, at https://www.quixote.org/keeping-count-in-nicaragua-during-covid-19/) At the moment, there is a debate about numbers. Official statistics concerning COVID-19 in Nicaragua are 1,823 confirmed cases, with 64 deaths. Based on official statistics, this is the lowest number of confirmed cases…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.19.2020 Cuba and Venezuela condemn racist First World, Continue International Solidarity and Cooperation

Speech by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during online conference of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) June 10: These hard times motivate us to continue working together, with more cooperation and consensus building “Every ship to which ports have been closed; every plane that has not found a landing strip;…

NicaNotes: US-led Nicaraguan Opposition Inflates Covid19 Death lists

By Nan McCurdy (An earlier version of this article was published in Popular Resistance https://popularresistance.org/us-led-nicaraguan-opposition-inflates-covid19-death-lists/) The US is still trying to overthrow the democratically elected president of Nicaragua who won with 72% of the vote – this time it is a Covid-19 related coup attempt. The US-led opposition is utilizing doctors instead of students to…