Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 1.22.2021 Biden Backs Guaido; New Measures against Venezuela; Bolivia Stands with Palestine

Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Venezuela: Biden to Endorse Guaido; Trump Issues Parting Sanctions TeleSur: Guaido Prevents the Use of Frozen Funds for Vaccines  Vijay Prashad on his new book Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War Book: Extraordinary Threat : The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela Sputnik News: Twitter Suspends Account of…

NicaNotes: Juggling during Wartime in Nicaragua—Jugglers for Peace

By Esteban Velez [This article was originally published in eJuggle on Dec. 17, 2020. Copyright International Jugglers’ Association, Inc.  Reprinted with permission.] Days after the assassination of juggler and engineer Benjamin Linder by soldiers from Los Contra (you can read my article about him here), more artists arrived in Nicaragua. It was the Jugglers For Peace group.…

Indigenous Land Grab on the Horizon: Act Now to Save Oak Flat!

By: Madeline McClure BHP and Rio Tinto, two of the world’s largest resource extraction companies, have earned themselves a solid reputation for obliterating native lands and communities throughout the world. Leaders in the international mining market, the British-Australian companies are globally condemned for their labor, environmental and human rights abuses. Today, they’re hard at work…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 1.15.2021 National Assembly proposes greater communal power; Maduro’s report on 2020; webinars

Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: 2020, An Exceptional Year for Venezuela: Key Points of the President’s Annual Address to the Nation “The most brutal thing we have faced is the economic war. The attack in the last five years has been multifaceted. It has attacked all fronts: gold, oil, import of goods, domestic production. There is no…