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Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:20 |
Credit: Institute for Palestine Studies
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 2018 (IPS) - The Group of 77 (G77) — the largest single coalition of developing countries at the United Nations– is to be chaired by Palestine, come January.
“It’s a historical first, both for Palestine and the G77,” an Asian diplomat told IPS, pointing out that Palestine will be politically empowered to collectively represent 134 UN member states, including China.
Created in June 1964, the 54-year-old Group comprises over 80 per cent of the world’s population and approximately two-thirds of the United Nations membership
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Monday, 23 July 2018 12:12 |
UPDATE : SEE
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DESTABILIZING VENEZUELA- RAMIFICATIONS ON LATIN AMERICA, AND TIME LINE
By joan Russow PhD
Global Compliance Research Project
Notes for a presentation August 17, 2018 NOTE ARTICLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
A. Destabilization of Venezuela
B. Use of destabilization in Venezuela in elections in Latin America
C. DRAFT Brief time line in Bolivia, Colombia, Chile Honduras, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala Mexico, Nicaragua Venezuela
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Sunday, 01 July 2018 19:27 |
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Mexico Votes Overwhelmingly for "Change" by Electing López Obrador President, CEPR Experts Say
Sluggish Economy, Corruption, Crime Fueled Voters’ Discontent with the Status Quo
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Washington, DC and Jilotepec, Mexico ? Voters in Mexico have "made history" and opted for change in electing Andrés Manuel López Obrador president today, experts from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, based in Washington, said. Candidates from López Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party are also projected to have a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Friday, 29 June 2018 15:20 |
Leopoldo López Is Not Venezuela’s Savior
Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away.
By Greg Grandin the NATION
JULY 29, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/leopoldo-lopez-is-not-venezuelas-savior/JULY 29, 2015
JULY 29, 2015
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Opposition supporters protest against the Venezuelan government and in support of jailed opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma on February 28, 2015. (Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
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Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the jailed darling of Venezuela’s opposition. López is celebrated in the US press as a cross between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He is handsome, like King, and, like Gandhi, occasionally shirtless. Newsweek blushes over López’s “twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones.” He is, apparently, a “revolutionary who has it all”: an “attractive and supportive wife, two children who get along with each other and impossibly adorable Labrador puppies.” Everything except a revolution.
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Despite US support, the revolutionary has only succeeded in pushing like-minded opposition leaders far, far away.
By Greg Grandin THE nation JULY 29, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/leopoldo-lopez-is-not-venezuelas-savior/
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Roberto Lovato has just published a great investigative essay in Foreign Policy on Leopoldo López, the jailed darling of Venezuela’s opposition. López is celebrated in the US press as a cross between Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He is handsome, like King, and, like Gandhi, occasionally shirtless. Newsweek blushes over López’s “twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones.” He is, apparently, a “revolutionary who has it all”: an “attractive and supportive wife, two children who get along with each other and impossibly adorable Labrador puppies.” Everything except a revolution.
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Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:53 |
By Center for Economic Research (CEPR)
On the eve of historic elections, and five years after leaders of Mexico’s then most prominent political parties agreed on a “Pact for Mexico,” the Mexican economy is mired in a “trap of low investment and low growth,” and imperiled by liberalization of financial markets. These are the findings of a new CEPR report. With the left-leaning candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador far ahead in the polls, co-director Mark Weisbrot was interviewed about how the lackluster
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Sunday, 24 June 2018 12:08 |
Venezuelan citizens living in Miami line up last year to vote in a nonbinding referendum against the Venezuelan government. The vote was organized by groups seeking to undermine Venezuela’s unpopular president, Nicolás Maduro. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images)
By Anthony Faiola and Nick Miroff
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/even-as-trump-tightens-asylum-rules-thousands-of-venezuelans-find-a-warm-welcome-in-miami/2018/05/15/5e747fec-52cf-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.357892d28b78May 18

Venezuelan citizens living in Miami line up last year to vote in a nonbinding referendum against the Venezuelan government. The vote was organized by groups seeking to undermine Venezuela’s unpopular president, Nicolás Maduro. (Rhona Wise/AFP/Getty Images)
MIAMI — Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States are arriving to this city in soaring numbers — and receiving a far warmer welcome than the Central American migrants President Trump wants to block at the Mexican border.
Last year, 27,629 Venezuelans petitioned U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for asylum, an 88 percent increase from 2016 and up from 2,181 in 2014. So far this year, the number of Venezuelans who have applied — nearly all of them in Miami — is almost three times as great as any other nationality, according to the latest USCIS asylum data.
Unlike the Central Americans who wade illegally across the Rio Grande and turn themselves in to U.S. border guards, the Venezuelans typically land at the Miami airport with tourist and business visas.
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Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:11 |
The destablization of Latin America ; the Guatemala example . It is important to take into consideration the role of the US in destabilizing Latin America, along with the US role in the School of Americas;. the US obsession over the years with stamping he " red infection "cannot be ignored in the discussion of refugees. The three enclosed articles provide background of the US involvement in destabilizing Guatemala, in supporting dictators and in protecting corporate interests.
Joan Russow
Global Compliance Research Project.

Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz (center facing camera) in 1951, before a U.S.-led overthrow (HO/AFP/Getty
Congress, the CIA, and Guatemala, 1954
STERILIZING A "RED INFECTION"
CONGRESS, THE CIA, AND GUATEMALA, 1954
DAVID M. BARRETT
One of the paradoxes of legislative oversight of intelligence in the early Cold War period was that the United States Congress could give strong, if de facto, support of aggressive covert action while, with the exception of a few leaders, not really knowing which such policies were being carried out. Guatemala is a perfect example. Following its 1944 revolution, which brought democratically elected leftist governments to power, this Central American government faced an increasingly hostile neighbor to the north, the United States. Guatemala's treatment of US-based corporations, especially the United Fruit Company, in expropriating land and other assets, did nothing to improve relations. Elites in Guatemala helped persuade US journalists and members of Congress, not to mention the executive branch, that their government was veering further and further leftward toward Communism in the early 1950s.
Late in the Truman presidency, the US government aborted an attempt to support Guatemalans who aimed to overthrow President Jacobo Arbenz. Those at CIA Headquarters who were involved in the effort felt "grimly" about that "horrifying" turn of events, one Agency leader noted in his diary. But, not surprisingly, new administration leaders--President Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and DCI Allen Dulles--also persuaded themselves that the Guatemalan government was "red." The CIA leader had help from the Board of National Estimates, which informed him on 22 April 1954 that "The Communists now effectively control the political life of Guatemala." 1 A deal made by Arbenz's government to purchase Soviet-made armaments from Czechoslovakia that spring only sealed the matter in the American leaders' minds.
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By Joan Russow
Global Compliance Research Project
THE INFLUENCE OF IRWIN COTLER AND UN WATCH
The panel's members — Santiago Canton of Argentina, Irwin Cotler of Canada and Manuel Ventura of Costa Rica — called for a formal investigation into the charges and asked the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, to submit their report to the ICC.
Irwin Cotler is a member of UN watch a right wing group that has targeted socialist countries and countries that have criticized Israel. Venezuela has been their target since at easy 2012 when Caprile, a Jewish opposition Leader ran against Chavez. The head of the group is Hillel Neuer a lawyer from Montreal. The group was also concerned about Chavez protesting against Israeli treatment of Gaza and in 2009 and against the expelling of the Israeli embassy. On Chavez death, Hillel Neuer, the head of UN Watch, a pro-Israeli front group referred to Chavez, internationally, as a “symbol of evil;” and decried that Chavez was given a one-minute of silence tribute at the UN Human Rights Council.
UN watch has targeted President Chavez over the years and has had an inordinate amount of access to the international media.. Disturbingly one of UN Watch`s directors is another Canadian, MP Irwin Cotler.
The NGO, UN Watch, targets specific states like Venezuela and leaders, such as Hugo Chavez and ignores the failings of other states, such as the US, Canada and Israel.
http://pejnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8981:the-ngo-un-watch-targets-specific-states-like-venezuela-and-leaders-such-as-hugo-chavez-and-ignores-the-failings-of-other-states-such-as-the-us-canada-and-israel&catid=74:ijustice-news&Itemid=216
UNITED STATES HAND IN UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
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Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:32 |
Time for a US Apology to El Salvador
Obamaexpressed regret for US support of Argentina’s “dirty war.” It’s time Washington did the same regarding our active backing of right-wing butchery in El Salvador.
By Raymond Bonner APRIL 15, 2016
https://www.thenation.com/article/time-for-a-us-apology-to-el-salvador/
Women look over the excavation site where the remains of their friends and relatives
El Mozote, El Salvador
Women look over the excavation site where the remains of their friends and relatives are being exhumed by forensic anthropologists in El Mozote, El Salvador. (AP Photo / Luis Romero)
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Over the ages, the United States has routinely intervened in Latin America, overthrowing left-wing governments and propping up right-wing dictators. President Obama pressed a reset button of sorts last month when he traveled to Cuba and Argentina. Now it’s time for him to visit a Latin America country that is geographically smallest but where Washington’s footprint is large and the stain of intervention perhaps greatest—El Salvador.
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