June 28, 2022
Gustavo Petro
The newly elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said it is necessary to normalize relations with Venezuela. In his first interview granted to a Colombian media, he told Cambio that the border issue is his main concern.
“Because there is a strong, very strong illegality going on there”, he pointed out while referring to the area of Cúcuta and its possible use in terms of industrialization. “In other words, because of our political difficulties between nations, we are not taking advantage of the enormous territorial resources that exists there”.
Another key issue that concerns the two Bolivarian nations is the Colombian-Venezuelan company Monómeros, kidnapped by the Guaidó clan in complicity with the previous government. Petro explained that the fertilizer producing company he is very important to the country agricultural production and, therefore, necessary to address hunger in his country. “The financial asphyxia that this company has suffered has it paralyzed and so now we have to import fertilizers at three times the value.
The border and the company Monómeros are the initial main knots needing to be untied between the governments of President Maduro and Gustavo Petro. It is worth reminding that the relations between both countries deteriorated and became more complex with his predecessor, Iván Duque, who bowed to the US imperial agenda and made Colombia a center of operations to plan the assassination of the Venezuelan president.
Source: Mision Verdad, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
By David Brooks on June 27, 2022
large demonstrations over the US after supreme court ruling against women’s rights. photo: Liberation News
“Granddaughters today should not have to fight the battles their grandmothers had already won,” declares a banner at protests in the tens of thousands that erupted around the country at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the constitutional right to abortion, while at the annual massive gay pride parades with banners pointing out that “we are still us” (more…)
By Rodrigo Guillot on June 28, 2022
AMLO
In 2010, Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro said: “López Obrador will be the person with the most moral and political authority in Mexico when the system collapses and, with it, the empire.” He was referring to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on June 28, 2022
the people of Ecuador remain in the streets.
Today marks 15 days since the beginning of the demonstrations against the neoliberal government of Guillermo Lasso. During that time over 15,000 indigenous people and representatives of social movements have joined the protests to demand urgent actions to stop the collapse of the living conditions of the poorest and the entire working class. (more…)
By Carolina Vásquez Araya on June 28, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
“The woman’s problem has always been a man’s problem” Simone de Beauvoir. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on June 26, 2022 from Havana
1994, women have led the fight for safe and legal abortions in the US and they won’t stop now. photo: Bill Hackwell
Scandal, pain, and anger. Women’s rights advocates in the United States cannot believe what has just happened. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the historic decision that legalized abortion in the United States. According to the ruling, there is no longer a constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by the case known as Roe v. Wade. The news had been leaked over a month ago but now the cold cruel reality has hit home. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano on June 26, 2022
Barricades on the streets of Quito, photo: Yurak
The situation in Ecuador at this moment is very fluid as the large militant protests remain in the streets erecting barricades and skirmishing with the police. Parliament has just re convened to continue the discussion on the impeachment of President Lasso. If this were to happen it would be another major blow against US foreign policy in the region. Here is the latest report coming from Resumen Latinoamericano’s bureau in Buenos Aires. – editor
(more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on June 25, 2022
State Department spokesman Ned Price, photo: Ron Przysucha
It’s a matter of size, but it depends on the yardstick with which you measure it. In a press conference at the State Department last week, spokesman Ned Price went on a grand peroration against large states bullying small ones and preventing them from “exercising their sovereignty, (more…)