Tag Archive: South America/Colombia

Argentina’s Veteran Ambassador Makes a Stand for the Sovereignty of Latin America

Released for Syndication: 10/21/2020

Alicia Castro does not shy away from her views. She came to diplomacy from the trade union movement, where she was a leader when...

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Why U.S. Political Scientists Are Arguing That Evo Morales Should Be the President of Bolivia

Released for Syndication: 08/28/2020

Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no...

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The Tragic Assassination of Colombia’s Sports Hero Patrón, Lover of Football and His Afro-Colombian Community

Released for Syndication: 08/19/2020

Click here for an image that you may use to accompany the article (the caption and credit is included). Not much, apart from football,...

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Venezuela’s Borderlands Have Been Assaulted by COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 07/01/2020

Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to...

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The U.S. Government’s Pandemic Response Has Hurt Americans—Examples Around the World Show How to Do Better

Released for Syndication: 06/10/2020

Americans are struggling. Around the globe, better responses to COVID-19 offer lessons to the U.S.

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Defeat of a Dirty Military Incursion into Venezuela on a Sunday Morning

Released for Syndication: 05/04/2020

In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to...

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Colombia’s Government Acts Like a Doormat for the United States—and Its People Aren’t Going Along With It

Released for Syndication: 04/10/2020

Last year, on November 21, the Colombian people took to the streets in massive numbers to reject the policies of the government led by...

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Trump Sends Gun Boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 04/03/2020

On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re...

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As the World Tackles the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. Raises the Pressure on Venezuela

Released for Syndication: 03/26/2020

In a press conference on March 26, it was almost comical how little evidence the U.S. Department of Justice provided when it accused Venezuela’s...

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What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

Released for Syndication: 01/22/2020

It was a curious exchange. Frustrated by the attacks on his party—the Movement for Socialism (MAS)—former president of Bolivia Evo Morales made an audio...

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