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."
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.
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.
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.
"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
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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." 🇨🇴
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.."
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
.
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.
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.
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
Bolivians marched today against the US-backed regime, past the Huayllani bridge, Sacaba, where the regime massacred anti-coup protesters on November 15th 2019.
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.
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.
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.
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 🇵🇪
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.
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.
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:
BREAKING: Nicaragua announces the expulsion of representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the closure of its offices in the country.
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:
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?"
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".
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
“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.
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