Latin America

Venezuela Oil Production Continues Decline as China Cancels More Shipments

September 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

Caracas, September 12, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) Venezuela’s oil output has continued its downward trend according to figures from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The latest report from the oil cartel detailed that, based on secondary sources, the Caribbean nation produced 712,000 barrels per day (bpd) in August, down from 755,000 in July. The numbers reported directly by state[…]

Lula Tells the World He’s “Back in the Game” from Jail

August 29, 2019 UNAC Editor Brazil, Featured, Latin America

“Lula is Brazil’s only Possible Factor of Stability” Meanwhile, fires rage in the Amazon and Brazilian President Bolsonaro has become a target of global indignation By Pepe Escobar, Global Research, August 28, 2019 Brazil has always been a land of superlatives. Yet nothing beats the current, perverse configuration: a world statesman lingers in jail while a clownish thug is in[…]

Wildfires Rage Throughout the Amazon Rainforest

August 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Brazil, Environment

By Bryan Dyne, published on World Socialist Web Site, August 23, 2019 Satellite imagery reveals that at least a quarter of the Amazon rainforest is on fire or covered in soot and ash across the four Brazilian Amazonian states: Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Pará. A combination of dry summer heat exacerbated by climate change, planned burnings and expanded deforestation[…]

120 Countries Defend Venezuela at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Caracus

July 31, 2019 UNAC Editor Global Alliances, Latin America, Venezuela

Published on Resumen LatinoAmericano, July 20, 2019 The 120 Member States of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM), approved on Saturday an official document ratifying their recognition to the government of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros, reject any attempt to expel the South American country from the Organization of the United Nations (UN) and[…]

NicaNotes: A Gringo in the Plaza: 40 Years of Sandinista Struggle

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Nicaragua, Paths to Emancipation

David Archuleta Jr., National Co-Coordinator AFGJ (Alliance For Global Justice), July 14, 2019 Not even the mosquito-rich Managuan heat could stop the onrush of Nicaraguans from every department in the country to the Plaza de la Fe. They came adorned with FSLN hats, #danielsequeda t-shirts, red and black on every possible accessory. Thousands came by bus, cramming every seat and[…]

Living and Dying in the Streets of Buenos Aires

July 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Argentina, Latin America

By Matias Pacheco, Published by Resumen, on July 8, 2019 Winter is here.We are not talking about the last season of Game of Thrones. We are talking about Argentina, and more specifically about Argentina under the presidency of Mauricio Macri. In the country of the south of the continent this time winter came with death. And we reiterate that we[…]

Venezuela and the Imperialist Confrontation in Latin America

July 23, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Venezuela

The Imperialist Confrontation in Latin America What Are Our Tasks and Perspectives to Defend Venezuela? By Alison Bodine & Ali Yerevani Today, 200 years later, we can say it: After having lost that independence that cost so much, Venezuela, in these last ten years…has recovered its independence…and this recovered independence is a door that we should keep open so that[…]

Colombia, The Invisible Genocide

July 20, 2019 UNAC Editor Columbia, Resistance, The Drug War

By María Fernanda Barreto. published on Resumen, July 16, 2019 In the streets of some Colombian cities, and as it is in the news, the war looks distant. Everyday life seems to be immersed in the official history and there are even those who refer to the armed conflict as being in the past. But in reality, it is peace[…]

Briefing: The Effects of the Economic Blockade of Venezuela

July 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty and Sanctions, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

from the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, The blockade in context The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 and also the right-wing management lock-out in the oil industry. The lock-out,[…]

UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design

July 16, 2019 UNAC Editor United Nations, Venezuela

by Nino Pagliccia, published on Venezuelanalysis, July 8, 2019 Following Michelle Bachelet’s visit to Venezuela last June, the official report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) on the human rights situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was released on July 4, a day before initially scheduled. Judging by the quick review I made, the mainstream[…]