Jimmy and Ben Norton (The Grayzone) compare coverage in US papers and tv of events in Cuba and narcostate Colombia, which, no matter how many citizens it represses and murders, cannot ever get to be called “authoritarian,” “regime”, “dictatorship”, “murderous”, or the other tendentious epithets used against nations that struggle to free themselves from the oligarchs’ noose. 

The most the Ukrainian military can do is launch an attack on the Donbass. Attacking Crimea across the isthmus would be stupid and pathetic; attacking Crimea from the water would be stupid and absolutely hilarious to watch. And so Donbass it has to be, again. It won’t take long for the Russians to respond using unidentified long-range precision artillery and demolish the Ukrainians’ supply lines, trapping them in cauldrons where they will run out of ammunition, food and fuel and gradually bleed out. This is what transpired before, in 2015, leading Kiev to sign on to the Minsk agreements, because their other choice was to lose their entire army.

As a result of its mission, the OAS recommended Ortega’s government to foster electoral reforms aiming to build a more “democratic and freer political system”. This was just the first move of the already designed plan to undermine the November 2021 Presidential Elections, and OAS’s next actions just confirm this thesis. The organization pressured Nicaragua’s government to fulfill its recommendations, while the US government was funding opposition sectors within the country, and launched an international campaign to discredit a probable triumph of the Sandinista forces. The plan was running tight to the schedule.

The campaign gained in intensity throughout the next months, and in May 2021, when Nicaragua’s National Assembly elected the CSE magistrates, Almagro played his sad role by stating that the voting was fake since the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) controlled most of the Parliament’s seats.

It seems the middle class is scared of a possible indefinite wave of social and economic disruptions. Their instinctive conservatism is kicking in, creating a possible social stasis with no easy resolution.  El estallido social de 2019 hizo que las posturas de los ciudadanos se radicalizaran sobre temas como la inseguridad, lo que llevó a que posturas como la José Antonio Kast, pese a ser muchas veces políticamente incorrectas, se popularizaran de cara a las elecciones presidenciales. Les contamos desde Santiago.

The social outburst of 2019 made citizens’ positions radicalize on issues such as insecurity, which led to positions such as José Antonio Kast’s, despite often being politically incorrect, to become popular in the run-up to the presidential elections. We tell you about it from Santiago.

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of the ruling party of President Nicolás Maduro, and Washington’s attempt to delegitimize the process.