February 2 webinar – Ecuador’s Presidential Election: Monica Palacios, UNES candidate for North America, interviewed by Joe Emersberger

Tuesday February 2, 7 pm Eastern time Monica Palacios is the Unión por la Esperanza (UNES) party candidate for National Assembly candidate for Ecuadorans in North America. UNES is the present pro-Rafael Correa party.  She will be interviewed by Joe Emersberger, frequent writer on Ecuador author (with Justin Podur) of forthcoming book Extraordinary Threat : The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty…

NicaNotes: A Crucial Year for Nicaragua

By Louise Richards (Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group-UK) [This article was originally published by NSCAG on January 20, 2021. https://www.nscag.org/news/article/329/nicaragua-update] Introduction 2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. There are strong indications that President Daniel Ortega and the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) might again be re-elected with a…

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…