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After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia

November 20, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Counter Revolution, Indigenous peoples, Latin America

by Vijay Prashad, published on Common Dreams, November 12, 2019 Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a[…]

Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen

November 18, 2019 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Neocolonialism, War on the Poor, Yemen

by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, October 16, 2019 Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike with Creativity.” Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have been found in the wreckage of schools, hospitals, and markets across[…]

America Needs Protest

November 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Protest, Resistance

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 6, 2019 A thousand young people demonstrated in Brooklyn, jumping over turnstiles in solidarity with others arrested and brutalized by the cops. “There is no lack of reasons to take action here in the belly of the beast.” In recent months mass protests involving millions of people have emerged in countries[…]

Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador

November 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Austerity, Censorship and Propaganda

by Lucas Koerner, published on FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) October 23, 2019 Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, people are rising up against right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies. Currently in Chile, the government of billionaire Sebastian Piñera has deployed the army to crush nationwide demonstrations against inequality sparked by a subway fare hike. In Ecuador,[…]

Protests Against Unemployment and Corruption in Iraq

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Iraq, Middle East Wars, Protest

Death toll crosses 100 and wounded 6,000 by Countercurrents Staff, published October 7, 2010 Protests against unemployment, poor public services and corruption in Iraq have seen blood over the last few days. The death toll from anti-government protests in Iraq is at least 104. A total of 540 protesters have been arrested, of whom nearly 200 remain in custody, the[…]

Brazil’s Lula is Free

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Brazil, Latin America

Co-Written by Ana Paula Vargas and Vijay Prashad, published on Countercurrents, November 9, 2019 Just before 5pm on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of his prison in Curitiba (Brazil). Lula went to prison in April last year on a 12-year sentence. Five-hundred and eighty days of prison are now over, as[…]

U.S.-backed coup deposes Evo Morales in Bolivia

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America

Workers World Bulletin: As of 4 p.m. EDT on Nov. 10, President Evo Morales has resigned his office in Bolivia, pushed out by a counterrevolutionary coup d’état backed by Washington. After part of the police force joined the counterrevolutionary gangs and the heads of the Armed Forces advised him to resign, Morales took this step as the best of bad[…]

“It’s Now or Never”: Bolivian Elite Destroying the Country

November 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Latin America

by Edu Montesante, published in TeleSUR English, November 7, 2019 To the Bolivian upper classes, President Evo Morales has to resign even if forced by extreme violence, or through a civil war. “It’s now or never!“, said a family in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, gathered close to Christ the Redeemer statue where thousands of demonstrators and road blockers stay[…]

Mass Anti-Capitalist Protests Rock Chile

November 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Chili, Latin America, Protest

By Lazaro Monteverde, Reporting for Socialist Action from Valparaiso, Chile, November 6, 2019 It started small. In the week of Monday, October 14 small groups of middle-school and high-school students started to jump the turnstiles and barriers at Santiago metro stations to protest a 30 peso (approximately 4 cents US) hike. The rate hike took place on October 6 and[…]

Chicago Teachers Divided Over Narrow Strike Settlement

November 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Poverty, Racism, Resistance

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, November 7, 2019 Twenty-five thousand Chicago teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1, AFL-CIO, returned to work on October 31 following a divided vote of the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) 700-member Delegate Assembly (DA) to end the union’s 11-day strike. The vote to accept the five-year tentative contract was 60[…]