WASHINGTON, (Sputnik) – The United States is requesting key nations in South America to join an international effort to isolate North Korea in an attempt to halt the nation’s development of nuclear-tipped missiles, Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech following a meeting with Chile President Michelle Bachalet on Wednesday.
Tortilla con Sal | Telesur | August 12, 2017 Over the last year, in Latin America, Amnesty International have taken their collusion in support of NATO government foreign policy down to new depths of falsehood and bad faith attacking Venezuela and, most recently, Nicaragua. The multi-million dollar Western NGO claims, “We are independent of any […]
teleSUR | August 12, 2017 The Colombian activist and social leader Fernando Asprilla was murdered on Friday in the Cauca department, and was the third death of a social leader recorded in a 72 hour period. The Ombudsman of Colombia, Carlos Alfonso Negret Mosquera, showed in a recent report that during the period between the […]
teleSUR | August 12, 2017 Venezuela’s newly-elected National Constituent Assembly, ANC, has brought forward the regional elections by two months. The polls, which had been scheduled to take place on December 10, will now be held in October following unanimous approval by the ANC. The second vice president of the body, Isaias Rodriguez, said the […]
teleSur | August 10, 2017 Secretary-General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro used his one-day visit to Israel to condemn Venezuela’s leftist government while expressing “pride that Israel is a friend of the Americas,” praising what he called Tel Aviv’s record of respecting human rights and democracy. The tour seemed less like the […]
Protests against the Fujimoris. | Photo: EFE By Neil Giardino | teleSUR | August 10, 2017 Human rights activists and victims of forced sterilizations in Peru under former president Alberto Fujimori are expressing outrage over the possibility of his pardon by current Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. “They’d be mocking the people and mocking Peru, […]
By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice | August 10, 2017 Does the NDP consistently support a foreign policy that benefits ordinary people around the world? Or does the social democratic party often simply fall in line with whatever the American Empire demands? Hélène Laverdière certainly seems to support the US-led geopolitical order. While the NDP […]
Sputnik – 10.08.2017 The recently imposed sanctions against Venezuela do not contribute to the normalization of the situation in the country, pushing it back into deadlock instead, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday. On Wednesday, the US Department of Treasury announced the expansion of its sanctions on Venezuela. These measures included travel […]
teleSUR – August 8, 2017 Brazilian authorities have revealed that six rural workers were mysteriously murdered in their homes in the lush rural state of Bahia in Brazil Sunday. The crime, which was only announced Tuesday, is the latest in a wave of killings targeting residents in the disputed Iuna Quilombola Territory that lies in … … Continue reading →
teleSUR – August 8, 2017 The Grandmothers and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have blamed the Argentine government for the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado, an activist who disappeared after a military police raid on a Mapuche community Aug. 1. The award-winning human rights group say Maldonado was a victim of “institutional state violence” and […]
