Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.By Peter Kornbluh- Nov. 18th, 2019When Ambassador Héctor Hidalgo Solá was abducted off a busy Buenos Aires street on July 18, 1977, his family had little idea what had happened to him. Unlike many of the estimated 30,000 Argentine desaparecidos—the people disappeared by agents of the country’s military dictatorship—Hidalgo Solá was not a liberal, a leftist, or an armed militant opposed to the regime. He was, in fact, the military government’s appointed diplomatic representative to Venezuela. In that capacity, however, Hidalgo Solá opened his embassy doors to prominent exiles, including labor leaders, politicians, and relatives of the disappeared seeking answers on the fate of their loved ones. When Emilio Mignone, whose daughter was one of the victims, met with Hidalgo Solá in Caracas, the ambassador told him he would go to Buenos Aires to persuade the military government to change its repressive policies. If he tried that, Mignone warned him that they would kill him.This past spring, nearly 42 years after Hidalgo Solá’s disappearance, the Trump administration declassified some 47,000 pages of secret US intelligence files on the “Dirty War” that Argentina’s military government waged against its own people. More than 7,000 CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and National Security Council (NSC) records—now posted on a specially created US government website at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—shed considerable light on the state of terror that existed in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, when the military held power. The detailed documents provide extensive new evidence on the infrastructure of repression, Argentina’s role in the international terrorism campaign known as Operation Condor, and most important, the fate of hundreds of desaparecidos who were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered—among them Hidalgo Solá.“Suspicion will fall on military hardliners who were upset last year when Hidalgo Solá received at his embassy a labor leader ousted after the March 24, 1976 coup,” states one secret intelligence assessment filed just eight days after the ambassador disappeared. FBI sources believed he had been eliminated because the military suspected him of providing passports to exiled opponents of the regime in Venezuela, according to another report. “Hidalgo Solá was kidnapped and assassinated by a special group which has worked for the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE),” asserts a secret CIA intelligence cable, which identified the agents responsible and provided an address for the secret torture center where he was allegedly held.On April 12, these documents were included in the thousands of declassified records formally turned over to Argentina during an official presentation at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Along with Argentine diplomats and US officials, several family members of victims attended the solemn ceremony. Among them was the ambassador’s granddaughter Azul Hidalgo Solá.<strong>“DECLASSIFICATION DIPLOMACY”</strong>
The Argentina Declassification Project, as it is officially known in US government circles, is one of those rare cases in which Donald Trump completed rather than reversed a policy initiated by his predecessor. When Fernando Cutz, then the NSC’s senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, briefed the new president in preparation for the April 2017 state visit of Argentine President Mauricio Macri, he explained to Trump that Macri personally requested the special declassification when Obama visited Buenos Aires a year earlier. Trump had personal ties to Macri: Decades before, they bar-hopped together while their fathers negotiated real estate deals in New York; more recently, the Trump Organization sought Macri’s assistance in its plans to construct a Trump Tower in Buenos Aires. “It helped to be able to present the project as a Macri ask rather than an Obama initiative,” Cutz recalled.The real genesis…

Caracas, November 21, 2019 (<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/473933-bolivia-venezuela-coup-military/">venezuelanalysis.com</a>) – Senior Colombian diplomats discussed strategies for regime change in Venezuela in a leaked audio published by Colombian news site <a href="https://www.publimetro.co/co/noticias/2019/11/20/audio-embajador-sobre-la-crisis-de-venezuela.html">Publimetro</a> on Wednesday.Speaking in a Washington DC cafe, Colombian Foreign Minister Claudia Blum and Ambassador to the US Francisco Santos repeatedly stressed the failure of US-led efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.“The solution is not a military coup, because the military is not going to remove [Maduro]. Nor is the United States going to remove him at the point of an “I don’t know what,” observed Blum, alluding to the possibility of US military intervention in Venezuela. Santos stressed the need for clandestine operations to “support the opposition.”“The only thing that I see is with covert actions within [Venezuela] to make noise and support the opposition which is very isolated,” he told Blum.The ambassador additionally reported that the “CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] is not getting involved [in Venezuela],” a fact that Blum appeared to lament.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/colombian-defense-minister-resigned-false-positive-scandal-with-minors-portrayed-as-insurgents">RELATED CONTENT: Colombian Defense Minister Resigned (False Positive Scandal With Minors Portrayed as Insurgents)</a>Santos went on to complain about the apparent disarray within the Trump administration. He noted that the State Department and the White House were divided over the Inter-American Reciprocal Assistance Treaty (TIAR), which the former “wanted” but the latter did not. The TIAR was <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14664">activated</a> in September at the behest of the Venezuelan opposition, which hailed the move as a first step towards foreign military intervention in Venezuela.For her part, Blum concurred with her ambassador’s assessment, lamenting that with US elections fast approaching, “no one knows what Trump is going to do.” Santos responded by speculating that if Trump fears losing the presidential race, “he will go into Venezuela,” a possibility downplayed by the foreign minister.Both officials, however, agreed on the urgent need to remove Maduro from power.“If this guy doesn’t go, Colombia has no future,” warned Santos, going on to describe efforts to enlist US congressional support on Venezuela. “Let them understand that this shithole is going to destabilize the whole continent,” he emphasized.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/super-mustache-of-nicolas-maduro-the-scapegoat-of-neoliberal-elites">RELATED CONTENT: “Super-Mustache” of Nicolas Maduro: The Scapegoat of Neoliberal Elites</a>Since opposition leader Juan Guaido’s <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14244">self-proclamation</a> as Venezuelan “interim president” in January, the hard-right Colombian government of Ivan Duque has spearheaded efforts to oust Maduro.In February, Colombia strongly supported a US-led attempt to <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14347">force</a> “humanitarian aid” across the Venezuelan border, which Blum dismissed as a “fiasco.”More recently, tensions have been <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14653">on the rise</a> along the 2,219 kilometer Venezuelan-Colombian border since Bogota resumed hostilities with guerrilla factions in August.The leaked audio is the latest in a series of Venezuela-related scandals that have dogged the Duque government in recent months.In September, <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14656">photos and witness testimony</a> surfaced <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14673">revealing</a> that Guaido had crossed the Colombian border in February with the assistance of Colombian paramilitary groups in coordination with the Colombian authorities. The Duque administration had earlier been…

<em>Scott Warren celebrates after being acquitted on two felony harboring charges after authorities raided an Ajo migrant aid station in January 2018. “The government failed after trying to criminalize basic human kindness.” Warren told a crowd outside the courthouse. Photo: Josh Galemore / Arizona Daily Star</em>Federal court jurors in Tucson drew a line between harboring and help on Wednesday, when they acquitted border aid worker Scott Warren on felony charges for the assistance he gave to two Central American men last year.The not guilty verdict came after just two and a half hours of deliberation, and it was greeted with cheering, laughter and tears from Warren’s supporters and fellow aid workers, including a contingent of clergy members from across the country. “The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness,” Warren told the crowd outside the downtown courthouse after it was over.Warren was arrested along with two men who had crossed the border illegally, Honduran Jose Sacaria Goday, 21, and Salvadoran Kristian Perez Villa- nueva, 23.In closing arguments Wednesday, defense lawyer Gregory Kuykendall said Warren only provided humanitarian aid to the men.“Being a good Samaritan is not against the law. Practicing the golden rule is not a felony,” Kuykendall told the jury.RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://orinocotribune.com/you-cant-be-neutral-about-the-racist-coup-detat-in-bolivia">You Can’t be Neutral About the Racist Coup D’état in Bolivia</a>But federal prosecutors argued that Warren actually hid the men for four days — then gave them directions to skirt a nearby checkpoint and continue their journey north — solely to help them evade capture by the Border Patrol. “He gave them a place to stay with four walls that law enforcement couldn’t see through. It’s the literal definition of harboring,” said prosecutor Nathaniel Walters. “They never needed medical attention. What they needed was a place to hide, and that’s exactly what the defendant gave them.”This marked the second time this year prosecutors failed to win a conviction in the case.In June, jurors deadlocked on charges that Warren was part of a conspiracy to smuggle the migrants across the border. This time around, prosecutors decided to drop the conspiracy charge and retry Warren on the two harboring charges.The second trial began last week. Warren took the stand Tuesday as the final witness to testify.Michael Bailey, U.S. attorney for Arizona, said he disagreed with the jury’s decision but added that it won’t change his office’s approach to cases like this.“Although we’re disappointed in the verdict, it won’t deter us from continuing to prosecute all the entry and re-entry cases we have, as well as all the harboring and smuggling and trafficking cases that we have,” Bailey said.“And we won’t distinguish between whether someone is trafficking or harboring for money or whether they’re doing it out of what I would say (is a) misguided sense of social justice or a belief in open borders or whatever,” he said.“Whatever the reason, if you are harboring or trafficking, we will prosecute when the case comes in,” Bailey said. “We’ve got plenty of work to do.”RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://orinocotribune.com/i-was-fired-for-helping-julian-assange-and-i-have-no-regrets-interview">“I Was Fired for Helping Julian Assange, and I Have No Regrets” (Interview)</a>Warren still faces prison time or probation for separate misdemeanor charges related to leaving humanitarian aid on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Tucson in 2017.After Wednesday’s verdict was read and the jury excused, U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins found Warren guilty of illegally operating a motor vehicle in a wilderness area in connection with the No More Deaths group’s aid drop at Cabeza Prieta.Warren was also charged with littering the refuge with abandoned property, but Collins acquitted him of that misdemeanor count because the aid worker was exercising his religious…

<em>Bolivian riot police and soldiers confront supporters of Bolivia’s ex-President Evo Morales during a protest against the interim government in Sacaba, Chapare province, Cochabamba department on November 15, 2019. The police later opened fire on the demons, (Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images)</em>By Lucas Koerner, Ricardo VazBolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. Jeanine Áñez declared herself “interim president” in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12, proceeding to don the presidential sash with the assistance of uniformed soldiers. Despite a lack of quorum rendering the move nakedly unconstitutional, Áñez was immediately recognized by the Trump administration and 10 Downing Street.Tuesday’s scene seemed like a parody of January’s events in Venezuela, in which a virtually unknown lawmaker, invoking highly dubious constitutional arguments, proclaimed himself “interim president” to the delight of Washington.For all the supposed threat Trump represents and the enthusiasm sparked by his possible impeachment, Western media continue to march lockstep behind his administration’s coups in Latin America.Áñez has been sympathetically described as a “qualified lawyer” (BBC, 11/13/19), a “proud Christian” (France 24, 11/13/19) as well as a “women’s rights activist and television presenter” (Time, 11/12/19). Reuters (11/13/19) called her “Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Áñez,” AP (11/13/19) had her as “Bolivia’s newly declared interim president,” whereas for the BBC (11/13/19) she was simply “President Áñez.” AFP (published in France 24, 11/13/19) described her as “the South American country’s 66th president and the second woman to hold the post.”This language mirrors corporate media profiles of Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó (FAIR.org, 7/23/19), who was depicted as a “freedom fighter” (Fox Business, 1/29/19) and a “salsa-loving baseball fan” (Reuters, 1/23/19) who had “captured the heart of the nation” (New York Times, 3/4/19). References to Guaidó as “president,” however, have dwindled in the face of his repeated failure to seize power (FAIR.org, 7/23/19).RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://orinocotribune.com/bolivia-coup-born-governments-witch-hunt-intensifies">Bolivia: Coup-Born Government’s Witch Hunt Intensifies</a> Meanwhile, corporate outlets have euphemistically labeled Áñez as “conservative” (Guardian, 10/13/19; New York Times, 10/12/19; Reuters, 10/13/19), eliding any mention of her far-right, virulently anti-indigenous politics. Áñez is a member of the right-wing Democratic Social Movement from the eastern lowland region of Santa Cruz, historically a bastion of separatist groups and home to some of the most powerful Bolivian oligarchic families. She has a history of making glaringly racist remarks, tweeting in 2013 (6/20/13) that the “Aymara New Year,” an indigenous holiday, was “Satanic”: “There is no replacement for God.” Just days before seizing power, she questioned on Twitter (11/6/19) whether some people being interviewed could really be Indigenous—because they were wearing shoes. For all of liberal journalists’ virtue-signaling concerning minority rights in the global North, the silence is deafening when it comes to blatant racism from pro-US elites in Latin America.Áñez has another scandal brewing, which has yet to be reported in the English-speaking press: Her nephew was arrested for drug trafficking in 2017. According to EFE (10/20/17), Carlos Andrés Áñez Dorado was arrested in Brazil on October 15, 2017, in possession of 480 kilograms of cocaine—more than half a ton.Given the extensive coverage corporate journalists gave to the arrest and conviction of Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores’ “narco-nephews” in 2015–17 (e.g. Business Insider, 10/31/16; Miami Herald, 12/13/17; Daily Beast, 12/15/17), one could expect equally damning exposés in the case of Áñez. Readers shouldn’t hold their breath. In addition to whitewashing Áñez, corporate journalists…

<strong>“No citizen of Cali can be on the street after that time because he will be arrested,” said the mayor of Cali.</strong>The mayor of Cali, Maurice Armitage, on Thursday declared a curfew starting at 7:00 p.m. (local time), in the middle of the march in that city for the day of national strike.“After seeing the demonstration of some 20 thousand people who attended in peace until the CAM, I have no choice but to decree the curfew from 7:00 pm,” Armitage told local press.The mayor said the measure responds to “a series of vandals, bad actors and criminals” who “are robbing and looting businesses,” on whom -he said- will fall the full weight of the law. “No citizen of Cali can be on the street after that time because he will be arrested,” said the mayor and warned “everyone is warned.”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%C3%9AltimaHora?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ÚltimaHora</a> El alcalde de Cali, Maurice Armitage, acaba de declarar toque de queda en la ciudad a partir de las 7:00 p.m. “Ningún ciudadano de Cali puede estar en la calle a partir de esa hora porque será detenido”, dice. <a href="https://t.co/fZncsVqjoS">pic.twitter.com/fZncsVqjoS</a>— El País Cali (@elpaiscali) <a href="https://twitter.com/elpaiscali/status/1197604530411786240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a>For his part, the Secretary of Security and Justice of Cali, Andrés Villamizar, confirmed the curfew, which was already reported to the Ministry of Defense and the National Government.Villamizar said that the authorities in Cali “are not going to allow the city to be kidnapped by a few criminals. The army and the police will enforce the measure.”This November 21 Colombia lived a day of national work stoppage with massive marches in several cities of the South American country. Colombians reject the policies of President Iván Duque.The mobilizations were joined by indigenous people, peasants, workers, students and other popular sectors. The protest is directed towards the labor reform and the government pension reform because they reduce their rights. However, President Duque denies the existence of these measures.Colombians also repudiate government corruption and privatizations.   <em>Featured image: In Cali thousands took to the streets on the day of national unemployment to reject the measures of President Iván Duque. | Photo: Weather</em><a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/news/alcalde-cali-declara-toque-de-queda-colombia-paro-nacional-20191121-0017.html">Source URL: Telesur</a>Translated by JRE/EF <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20National%20Strike"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20National%20Strike"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20National%20Strike"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20National%20Strike"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20National%20Strike"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcolombia-calis-mayor-declares-curfew-amid-national-strike&linkname=Colombia%3A%20Cali%E2%80%99s%20Mayor%20Declares%20Curfew%20Amid%20Nati…

With a triplet by José Salomón Rondón and a goal by Yeferson Soteldo, the Venezuelan National Soccer Team defeated Japan’s team 4-1 in the last friendly match for the Qatar 2020 qualifiers.The win started in minute 8, when “Salo” scored the first goal, then moved on to a string of goals in the next 30′ and 33 ‘minutes.In the 38th minute, the play went to Soteldo, leaving Japan scoreless until the second half, when Hotaru Yamaguchi of the Japanese team scored in the 70th minute. <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/copa-america-vinotinto-beats-bolivia-and-ensures-its-passage-to-quarterfinals">RELATED CONTENT: Copa America: Vinotinto Beats Bolivia and Ensures its Passage to Quarterfinals</a>Salomón Rondón’s first goal opened the scoring with the assistance of Yeferson Soteldo.<a href="https://i0.wp.com/orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EJu8Qa0X0AIhD76.jpeg?resize=770%2C470&ssl=1">EJu8Qa0X0AIhD76</a>The second goal was at 30 minutes with a pass from Darwin Machís and the third only took two more minutes when he took advantage of a nearby rebound. Thus the Chinese Super League striker reached thirty goals with the national team.Yeferson Soteldo partnered with Machís and sentenced the first half with the fourth goal at minute 38.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/copa-america-venezuela-vs-brazil-a-new-goalless-draw-var">RELATED CONTENT: Copa America: Venezuela vs Brazil a New Goalless Draw (+VAR)</a>It is the best match of Venezuela on offense since the triumph against Argentina in Madrid, they refer specialized media, in addition to being the first time that Vinotinto beats Japan. The last time both sides saw each other’s faces the final score was a 1-1 draw on November 16, 2018, at the Bank Dome Stadium in Oita. Hiroki Sakai did both Japan and Tomás Rincón matched from the penalty spot, in compromise in which the Creoles dominated in the second half of the game and took the gratitude of a hobby that knew how to appreciate the results of a good offensive for the final whistle . <em>Featured image: Agencies</em><a href="https://albaciudad.org/2019/11/vinotinto-goleo-a-japon-4-a-1-en-partido-amistoso-en-osaka/">Source URL: Alba Ciudad</a> Translated by JRE/EF<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/wechat?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Friendly%20Osaka%20Match"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/tumblr?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvinotinto-beat-japan-4-to-1-in-friendly-osaka-match&linkname=Vinotinto%20Beat%20Japan%204%20to%201%20in%20Frien…

The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), headed by its magistrate president Maikel Moreno, through the National Commission of Gender Justice of the Judiciary delivered proposals for the Reform of the Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence to the Reform Commission of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), with a view to contributing from the High Court the ongoing strengthening of the Justice System.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/feminist-groups-organizing-against-sexist-violence">RELATED CONTENT: Feminist Groups Organizing Against Sexist Violence</a>Judge France Coello Gonzalez, a member of the Criminal Appeals Chamber of the TSJ and coordinator of the National Commission for Gender Justice of the Judiciary, said the importance of the proposals, which are the result of consultation with all Judicial circuits with jurisdiction regarding crimes of violence against women in which all the judges and other public servants who integrate them participated. In this regard, the Judge said that the proposals include eleven years of experience and operation of the specialized jurisdiction, contemplating innovations in the principles and development of the special process of gender violence , the strengthening of the rights of the victim, the treatment of some types criminal proceedings, the participation of the National Ombudsman’s Office and the inclusion of the figure of the Community Ombudsman. A project is proposed which aspires to be considered in the final one that will be submitted for discussion by the ANC, in strengthening the democratic and social State of Law and Justice  enshrined in the Venezuelan Magna Carta.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/the-normalization-of-abuse-from-the-sadistic-teacher-to-feminicide">RELATED CONTENT: The Normalization of Abuse: From the Sadistic Teacher to Femicide</a>During the presentation of the proposals were present, among others, the constituent and vice president of the Reform Commission, Marelis Pérez Marcano; the constituentist Noelí Pocaterra; the Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, and representatives of the Public Powers and Popular Power. <a href="https://albaciudad.org/2019/11/tsj-presento-propuestas-para-reforma-de-la-ley-contra-la-violencia-a-la-mujer/">Source URL: Alba Ciudad</a>Translated by JRE/EF<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&linkname=Venezuela%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%20Presents%20Proposals%20for%20Reforming%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Law"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&linkname=Venezuela%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%20Presents%20Proposals%20for%20Reforming%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Law"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&linkname=Venezuela%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%20Presents%20Proposals%20for%20Reforming%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Law"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&linkname=Venezuela%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%20Presents%20Proposals%20for%20Reforming%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Law"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&linkname=Venezuela%E2%80%99s%20Supreme%20Court%20Presents%20Proposals%20for%20Reforming%20Violence%20Against%20Women%20Law"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law&…

Venezuela asks the military of the Bolivian embassy in Caracas to leave the country, for the role of the Army in the coup against Evo Morales.The Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Wednesday its decision to withdraw accreditation of the diplomatic military personnel of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Caracas and requested their departure from the Bolivarian country within the next 72 hours.The measure, explains the diplomatic note, “corresponds to the role played by the high command of the Bolivian Armed Forces in the coup d’etat of November 10, and in no case is an individual assessment of the Bolivian soldiers.” <a href="https://orinocotribune.com/bolivias-self-proclaimed-president-broke-diplomatic-relations-with-venezuela">RELATED CONTENT: Bolivia’s Self-Proclaimed President Broke Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela</a>Evo Morales resigned on the 10th of this month from the presidency of Bolivia, in the midst of a coup and violent onslaught of the opposition that refused to recognize his electoral victory, which allowed him to begin a new term  in office lasting until 2025.Immediately, on the same day, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, called Morales’ resignation a “coup d’etat” and expressed his support for the indigenous leader.As soon as the de facto government was established in Bolivia, the self-proclaimed president Jeanine Áñez broke off relations with Venezuela, asked the diplomats “representing the government of Maduro” to leave the country and expressed her support for Juan Guaidó , also a self-proclaimed Venezuelan “president”.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/bolivias-new-puppet-regime-wastes-no-time-aligning-with-us-foreign-policy">RELATED CONTENT: Bolivia’s New Puppet Regime Wastes No Time Aligning With US Foreign Policy</a>This decision led to the breaking of ties between Venezuela and Bolivia, which Morales and the late President Hugo Chávez established more than a decade ago. According to several politicians and analysts, including the American political scientist, Noam Chomsky, this coup d’etat was promoted by the US, which for a long time was eager to oust Morales and his powerful movement, in fact, Washington was one of the first to recognize Áñez. <em>Featured image: The Bolivian embassy in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.</em><a href="https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/venezuela/442786/bolivia-militares-embajada-morales">Source URL: HispanTV</a> Translated by JRE/EF <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fvenezuela-expels-military-attaches-from-bolivian-embassy-in-caracas&linkname=Venezuela%20Expels%20Military%20Attaches%20from%20Bolivian%20Embassy%20in%20Caracas"></a><a…

The president deposed after a coup d’etat in Bolivia, Evo Morales, said that “the nationalization of resources is the cause of this conflict,” which resulted in a right-wing dictatorship that to date has left at least 30 dead . “Some do not accept that the Indians govern,” Morales added.He noted that the de facto government in his country published “a Carte Blanche” to slaughter people. ‘They issued a decree as if they have a carte blanche to kill Bolivians . That is only done in military dictatorship,” he said at a press conference on Wednesday, November 20, from Mexico City.Morales said the repression of the coup regime has caused several deaths and dozens injured at the hands of the armed forces. ‘We have about 30 dead in a week. This massacre is part of a genocide occurring in our beloved Bolivia,” he said.Morales’s statements came after protesters reported the killing of at least six civilians by the armed forces at a hydrocarbon plant located in Senkata, a town near El Alto.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/bolivia-faces-croatian-style-ethnic-cleansing-south-african-like-apartheid">RELATED CONTENT: Bolivia Faces Croatian-Style Ethnic Cleansing & South African-Like Apartheid</a>The deposed president also called on the United Nations to denounce and curb “this massacre of indigenous brothers calling for peace, democracy and respect for life on the streets.”However, he did not rule out a negotiated exit to the conflict, even by holding new elections, after the Bolivian Congress speaking  from the coup, reviewed a legal initiative to call new elections.In a conference from Mexico City, where he temporarily lives under political asylum, Morales explained the progress of his administration in the production of lithium and the gas reserves of the Andean nation. Bolivia has the largest lithium reserves on the planet, with about 21 million tons in the Uyuni salt flat, as confirmed by the US company SRK’s study, a mineral necessary for the manufacture of batteries in electronic devices. This means about 50% of global lithium reserves.In addition, Bolivia has 10.75 trillion cubic feet tested in natural gas reserves, one of the largest in the world.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/colombias-ambassador-in-washington-advocates-covert-actions-against-venezuela-acknowledge-washingtons-regime-change-operation-failure-leaked-audio">RELATED CONTENT: Colombia’s Ambassador in Washington Advocates “Covert Actions” Against Venezuela – Acknowledge Washington’s Regime Change Operation Failure (Leaked Audio)</a> <strong>Truth Commission</strong>
The exiled coca grower leader in Mexico also summoned international organizations and Pope Francis to build a truth commission to clarify what happened in the October 20 presidential elections .Morales criticized the external pressures involved in the Bolivian crisis and accused the Organization of American States (OAS) as a coup sponsor.This, after the multilateral body published a preliminary report in which, despite not providing any evidence on the alleged electoral fraud in favor of Evo Morales, generated a wave of disqualifications against his mandate, including statements by Luis Almagro, secretary general of the OAS.Therefore, Morales called “for some organizations to join and demonstrate how the OAS sponsored this coup d’etat.”He also reiterated his triumph in the first round of the presidential elections in Bolivia, after independent analyzes such as the one carried out by the Center for Research in Politics and Economics (CEPR, based in Washington) and a study by the University of Michigan did not find any elements that indicate an alleged electoral fraud.“We won in the first round. There are international reports that prove it,” Morales defended.<strong>“The US doesn’t want me to return to Bolivia”</strong>
From exile, the Bolivian indigenous leader requested help from the international community to return to his country and contribute to its pacification, for which he requested that international…

While some may be surprised by its response to the Bolivia crisis, Human Rights Watch’s support for a U.S.-backed right-wing coup is no aberration.By Alan MacleodBolivia is currently in turmoil after President Evo Morales was deposed in a U.S.-supported coup d’état on November 10. The new coup government forced Morales into exile, began arresting politicians and journalists while pre-exonerating security services of all crimes committed during the “re-establishment of order,” effectively giving them a license to kill all resistance to their rule. Dozens have died and massacres of indigenous protesters have occurred in the city of Cochabamba and the small town of Senkata.In confusing and alarming situations such as these, millions of people around the world look to international human rights organizations for leadership and guidance. However, far from standing up for the oppressed, Human Rights Watch has effectively endorsed the events. In its official communiqué, it refrained from using the word coup, insisting Morales “resigned”, its Americas Director José Miguel Vivanco claiming the President stepped down “after weeks of civil unrest and violent clashes” and does not even mention opposition violence against his party or the role of the military in demanding, at gunpoint, that he resign. Therefore, Morales mysteriously “traveled to Mexico,” in the organization’s words, rather than fleeing there to escape arrest. Instead, it tacitly endorses the new government, advising it to “prioritize rights.”Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth went further, presenting the elected head of state fleeing the country at gunpoint as a refreshing step forward for democracy, claiming that Morales was “the casualty of a counter-revolution aimed at defending democracy…against electoral fraud and his own illegal candidacy,” noting that Morales had ordered the army to shoot protesters.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/western-media-whitewash-bolivias-far-right-coup">RELATED CONTENT: Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far Right Coup</a>Bolivia’s Evo Morales was “the casualty of a counter-revolution aimed at defending democracy..against electoral fraud & his own illegal candidacy. The army w/drew its support because it was not prepared to fire on people in order to sustain him in power.” <a href="https://t.co/jeVnGta0Kk">https://t.co/jeVnGta0Kk</a>— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1196318814599884801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2019</a>Roth also described the coup approvingly as an “uprising” and a “transitional moment” for Bolivia, while presenting President Morales as an out-of-touch “strongman.”The most important thing now in this transitional moment for Bolivia is ensuring that authorities reestablish the rule of law and protect fundamental rights, including to protest peacefully and to vote in transparent, competitive, and fair elections. <a href="https://t.co/ayWcCKdedS">https://t.co/ayWcCKdedS</a> <a href="https://t.co/WdxFmxEuhw">pic.twitter.com/WdxFmxEuhw</a>— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1194415776205352961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2019</a>New self-declared President Jeanine Añez, whose party received 4% of the vote share in the October elections, has already expelled hundreds of Cuban doctors, broken off ties to Venezuela and pulled Bolivia out of multiple international and intercontinental organizations and treaties. She describes the indigenous majority of Bolivians as “satanic” and insists they should not be allowed to live in cities, instead, being sent to the desert or the sparsely populated highlands. Añez declared that she is “committed to taking all measures necessary to pacify” the population.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/bolivia-faces-croatian-style-ethnic-cleansing-south-african-like-apartheid">RELATED CONTENT: Bolivia Faces Croatian-Style Ethnic Cleansing & South African-Like Apartheid</a>“I dream of a Bolivia free of satanic indigenous…

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ana Maldonado, Pilar Troya Fernández, and Vijay PrashadRevolutions do not happen suddenly, nor do they immediately transform a society. A revolution is a process, which moves at different speeds whose tempo can change rapidly if the motor of history is accelerated by intensified class conflict. But, most of the time, the building of the revolutionary momentum is glacial, and the attempt to transform a state and society can be even more slow.Leon Trotsky, sitting in his Turkish exile in 1930, wrote the most remarkable study of the Russian Revolution. Thirteen years had elapsed since the Tsarist empire had been overthrown. But the revolution was already being derided, even by people on the Left. ‘Capitalism’, Trotsky wrote in the conclusion to that book, ‘required a hundred years to elevate science and technique to the heights and plunge humanity into the hell of war and crisis. To socialism its enemies allow only fifteen years to create and furnish a terrestrial paradise. We took no such obligation upon ourselves. We never set these dates. The process of vast transformation must be measured by an adequate scale’.When Hugo Chavez won an election in Venezuela (December 1998) and when Evo Morales Ayma won an election in Bolivia (December 2005), their critics on the left in North America and in Europe gave their governments no time to breathe. Some professors with a leftist orientation immediately began to criticise these governments for their limitations, and even their failures. This attitude was limited politically—there was no solidarity given to these experiments; it was also limited intellectually — there was no sense of the deep difficulties for a socialist experiment in Third World countries calcified in social hierarchies and depleted of financial resources.<strong>Pace of Revolution</strong>
Two years into the Russian Revolution, Lenin wrote that the newly created USSR is not a ‘miracle-working talisman’, nor does it ‘pave the way to socialism. It gives those who were formerly oppressed the chance to straighten their backs and to an ever-increasing degree to take the whole government of the country, the whole administration of the economy, the whole management of production, into their own hands’.But even that—that whole this, and whole that—was not going to be easy. It is, Lenin wrote, ‘a long, difficult, and stubborn class struggle, which, after the overthrow of capitalist rule, after the destruction of the bourgeois state…. does not disappear…. but merely changes its forms and in many respects becomes fiercer’. This was Lenin’s judgment after the Tsarist state had been taken over, and after the socialist government had begun to consolidate power. Alexandra Kollantai wrote (such as in Love in the Time of Worker Bees) about the struggles to build socialism, the conflicts within socialism to attain its objectives. Nothing is automatic; everything is a struggle.Lenin and Kollantai argued that the class struggle is not suspended when a revolutionary government takes over the state; it is in fact, ‘fiercer’, the opposition to it intense because the stakes are high, and the moment dangerous because the opposition—namely the bourgeoisie and the old aristocracy—had imperialism on its side. Winston Churchill said, ‘Bolshevism must be strangled in its cradle’, and so the Western armies joined the White Army in an almost fatal military attack on the Soviet Republic. This attack went from the last days of 1917 to 1923—a full six years of sustained military assault.Neither in Venezuela nor in Bolivia, nor in any of the countries that turned to the Left over the past twenty years, has the bourgeois state been totally transcended nor has capitalist rule been overthrown. The revolutionary processes in these countries had to gradually create institutions of and for the working-class alongside the continuation of capitalist rule. These institutions reflect the emergence of a unique state-form based on participatory…

We, the undersigned US organizations condemn the civic-military coup in Bolivia and the brutal repression unleashed by the police and military authorized by the self-proclaimed anti-Indigenous “President” of Bolivia, Senator Jeanine Áñez.The regime has burned the Wiphala, flag of the Indigenous nations of Bolivia; decreed an exemption to prosecution for the police and military for the use of lethal force against demonstrators; and has criminalized democratically elected officials and rank and file members of organizations associated with the deposed government. These decrees led to the massacre in Cochabamba on November 15 in which police and the armed forces opened fire on demonstrators killing five people and wounding more than 100, as well as the massacre of Senkata on November 19 in which at least 8 people were killed and at least 30 wounded. They have also led to the deployment of military, police and private intelligence agencies to hunt down and arrest political opponents of the coup regime.We urge an immediate investigation by the UN of the killing of at least 32 people and the wounding of more than 700 by the police and security forces since the coup against President Evo Morales on November 10, 2019, based on official data from the Office of the People’s Defender (“Defensoría del Pueblo”). We also call for the release of all political detainees.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/evo-morales-nationalization-of-resources-is-conflicts-cause-they-do-not-accept-that-indians-govern">RELATED CONTENT: Evo Morales: “Nationalization of Resources is Conflict’s Cause”- “They do Not Accept that Indians Govern”</a>We support calls by the constitutional President, Evo Morales as well as the United Nations, for dialogue to avoid further bloodshed. We call for the return of security forces to the barracks and an investigation into the crimes committed by the police and military, as well as those who authorized the use of lethal force, to hold perpetrators accountable.We also reject the illegal self-proclamation as “President” of Senator Jeanine Áñez, elected without a quorum and without the presence of MAS members of congress, whose safety is under permanent threat. This self-proclamation also violates article 161 of the Bolivian Constitution, according to which Congress must accept the President’s resignation in order for it to be valid, which so far hasn’t taken place.We urge the US Congress and the Organization of American States (OAS) to condemn the coup against the constitutional government and support the path of dialogue over escalating confrontation.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/secret-us-intelligence-files-provide-historys-verdict-on-argentinas-dirty-war">RELATED CONTENT: Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War</a>WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE KILLING OF INDIGENOUS BOLIVIANS!PEACE FOR BOLIVIA!<strong>SIGNATURES</strong>Forum of Sao Paulo, Executive Committee in Washington DC, Maryland and VirginiaCODEPINK, USAANSWER Coalition, USADemocratic Socialists of America, Richmond, Virginia chapterSocialist Unity Party, USAInternational Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, USAFriends of the Congo, Washington DCNational Network on Cuba, USAPopular Resistance, Washington DCParty for Socialism and Liberation, Washington DCBlack Alliance for Peace, Washington DCWomen’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DCCommunist Party, USACentral Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of California, San Diego, CaliforniaCouncil on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA, Washington DCPeace Council, Greater New Haven, ConnecticutRed Nacional de Salvadoreños en el Exterior, RENASE, USACarolina Peace Resource Center, South CarolinaLeonard Peltier Defense Committee, San Diego, CaliforniaCongreso de los Pueblos, Colombia, international committee in DCFigTree Foundation, USA,Comité de Salvadoreños en Washington DCFriends of Latin America, Columbia, MarylandRutilio House, Takoma Park, MarylandCommittee…

By Caitlin JohnstoneThe Guardian has published an editorial titled “The Guardian view on extraditing Julian Assange: don’t do it”, subtitled “The US case against the WikiLeaks founder is an assault on press freedom and the public’s right to know”. The publication’s editorial board argues that since the Swedish investigation has once again been dropped, the time is now to oppose US extradition for the WikiLeaks founder.“Sweden’s decision to drop an investigation into a rape allegation against Julian Assange has both illuminated the situation of the WikiLeaks founder and made it more pressing,” the editorial board writes.Oh okay, now the issue is illuminated and pressing. Not two months ago, when Assange’s ridiculous bail sentence ended and he was still kept in prison explicitly and exclusively because of the US extradition request. Not six months ago, when the US government slammed Assange with 17 charges under the Espionage Act for publishing the Chelsea Manning leaks. Not seven months ago, when Assange was forcibly pried from the Ecuadorian embassy and slapped with the US extradition request. Not any time between his April arrest and his taking political asylum seven years ago, which the Ecuadorian government explicitly granted him because it believed there was a credible threat of US extradition. Not nine years ago when WikiLeaks was warning that the US government was scheming to extradite Assange and prosecute him under the Espionage Act.Nope, no, any of those times would have been far too early for The Guardian to begin opposing US extradition for Assange with any degree of lucidity. They had to wait until Assange was already locked up in Belmarsh Prison and limping into extradition hearings supervised by looming US government officials. They had to wait until years and years of virulent mass media smear campaigns had killed off public support for Assange so he could be extradited with little or no grassroots backlash. And they had to wait until they themselves had finished participating in those smear campaigns.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/i-was-fired-for-helping-julian-assange-and-i-have-no-regrets-interview">RELATED CONTENT: “I Was Fired for Helping Julian Assange, and I Have No Regrets” (Interview)</a>There is, needless to say, no hint or suggestion in the Mueller Report that Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange ever in his life, let alone 3 times in the Ecuadorian Embassy during the election. It would obviously be there if it happened. How can the <a href="https://twitter.com/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guardian</a> not retract this?? <a href="https://t.co/5ory1w0mfj">pic.twitter.com/5ory1w0mfj</a>— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1118944500259414016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a>This is after all the same Guardian which published the transparently ridiculous and completely invalidated report that Trump lackey Paul Manafort had met secretly with Assange at the embassy, not once but multiple times. Not one shred of evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this claim despite the embassy being one of the most heavily surveilled buildings on the planet at the time, and the Robert Mueller investigation, whose expansive scope would obviously have included such meetings, reported absolutely nothing to corroborate it. It was a bogus story which all accused parties have forcefully denied.This is the same Guardian which ran an article last year titled “The only barrier to Julian Assange leaving Ecuador’s embassy is pride”, arguing that Assange looked ridiculous for remaining in the embassy because “The WikiLeaks founder is unlikely to face prosecution in the US”. The article was authored by the odious James Ball, who deleted a tweet not long ago complaining about the existence of UN special rapporteurs after one of them concluded that Assange is a victim of psychological torture. Ball’s article begins, “According to Debrett’s, the arbiters of etiquette since…

<strong>AN INTERVIEW WITH RAFAEL CORREA</strong>In an exclusive interview, Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa spoke to Jacobin about the coup against his ally Evo Morales in Bolivia and the mass resistance to his rightward moving successor Lenín Moreno in Ecuador.Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, ranks among the Pink Tide’s greatest leaders. Coming to power in a land ravaged by poverty and crippled by austerity and privatization programs, Correa oversaw a transformation of Ecuador. In his decade-long tenure, Ecuador’s minimum wage more than doubled, billions were invested in health care, and poverty was cut in half.His story is not unlike that of the recently ousted Evo Morales. Morales was not just Bolivia’s first indigenous president, but its most successful. Since his first election in 2005, the lifelong trade unionist presided over the most consistently high economic growth in Latin America, while also slashing poverty and illiteracy. Yet this did not win him the support of all Bolivians. After three weeks of armed demonstrations fanning out from the country’s eastern provinces, last weekend the army high command told Morales to go.The coup’s organizers hail from traditionally reactionary sections of Bolivian society: the key coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho, a businessman from the Santa Cruz province, arrived in La Paz last weekend promising to “bring God back into the presidential palace.” Like Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, Camacho combines Christian rhetoric with open racism toward indigenous people and intense anticommunism. Such themes are the cutting edge of a bid to criminalize the social movements and progressive leaders who have come to prominence in Latin America in recent years.https://youtu.be/TBcRWMafaUYReacting to events in both Bolivia and Ecuador, Correa spoke to Jacobin’s Nicolas Allen about Donald Trump’s interference in Latin America, the continued challenge to neoliberal hegemony, and how popular mobilization can resist the far-right upsurge.<strong>NA</strong>
<strong>Let’s start with Bolivia, the most pressing problem. How do you understand what is happening there?</strong>RC
When the police are rioting and the military “suggest” the president resigns, it’s very clearly a coup d’état. In Brazil or Argentina or China, we’d call this a coup, but some people don’t like to call things by their real names. Yes, President Morales did resign. But if someone holds a gun to your head and says very politely, “give me your wallet,” and you give it to them, does this mean it wasn’t robbery, but agreed by mutual consent? Clearly, what happened in Bolivia was a coup.<strong>NA</strong>
<strong>As well as the military, the domestic security forces, and certain sectors of Bolivian society, it seems the Organization of American States (OAS) was also a factor in this coup?</strong>RC
The OAS states toe the US line, and they usually act in concert. We’ve seen how the OAS has reacted to not just the Bolivian crisis, but also the one in Ecuador. When the Ecuadorian people rose up against President Lenín Moreno’s betrayals, insisting on the need for early elections (as the constitution allows in times of crisis), the OAS stated that Moreno must complete his four-year term.It preferred deaths, injuries, and arrests to a vote that Moreno would clearly have lost, like the servant of Washington that he is. OAS general secretary Luis Almagro even went to Ecuador to congratulate Moreno on his democratic spirit, right as he was robbing democracy from us. But the OAS didn’t say Morales ought to finish his term. How can we explain such a double standard?Latin America must reflect on the OAS’s role. There is no doubt that Washington carries a predominant, hegemonic weight in the OAS, and obviously Almagro is a spokesman for Washington. Don’t take me for an anti-gringo, I love the United States deeply — I lived there for four years, and I have two degrees from US universities. But I have to…

By Carlos AznarezBolivia is resembling Palestine these days. For many reasons it is important to make this comparison now as the horror of the installation of a brutal dictatorship is unfolding in that South American country.First and foremost these are two native peoples who not only face an implacable enemy but also a religious factor that is among the most lethal weapons that could be used against them. In the name of a defamatory and unhealthy version of true Christianity, the Bolivian oligarchy in true Nazi style is promoting “racial purity”, by using the Bible as its mandate, including brainwashing being applied by the Pentecostal churches to co-opt the poorest layers of society and the different and numerous original ethnicities that it considers inferior.If these tricks don’t work, plan B is rolled out to show them hatred by mocking and humiliating them in every circumstance and destroying the most precious symbols of their identity. Burning of their wiphalas for example, despising and degrading Bolivian indigenous women or cursing the indigenous people as a whole as Camacho, Mesa and the de facto president have done, are concrete elements of punishment to those who look different.This is the same script Zionism wields against the Palestinian people. It is the idea of ethnic cleansing, by the way of distorting the reading of a history where fundamental data is omitted to disguise that when the invaders arrived, they found the indigenous people who had lived there for centuries clinging to their territory with the same strength and determination that they do in the present. The Zionist entity is, like the stateless Bolivian oligarchy, racist and violent to the core, one in the name of Jehovah and the other using an invented God to justify its crimes.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/president-correa-to-jacobin-clearly-what-happened-in-bolivia-was-a-coup-interview">RELATED CONTENT: President Correa to Jacobin: “Clearly What Happened in Bolivia Was a Coup” (Interview)</a>This Bolivian dictatorship of today, which orders its military and police to repress the indigenous-peasant people, workers and students as they did in the most sinister days of the Latin American decade of the 60s and 70s, are shooting from helicopters or tanks, torturing and murdering. This also has class hatred in it against those who, thanks to a popular and revolutionary government, could feel included for the first time, treated as equals, empowered and entwined with the rest of the population.In Palestine, the occupier not only seizes territories, expelling the native inhabitants, demolishing their homes and destroying their crops, but also manifests a deep hatred towards those who, in spite of continuous persecution and massacres, maintain a profile of political and above all cultural resistance. The occupants act as an oppressive class, being in reality an elite of new riches nourished by the wealth that others like them send from the diaspora. The objective of these voluntary contributions, sometimes under pressure, is to achieve, among other projects of economic opulence, to grease the machinery that carries out the continuous looting of Palestine and through a gigantic war apparatus, to militarize that territory in order to harass the rest of the Arab world from there.On the other hand, what can we say about the resistance to the oppressor in Bolivia when every day we are seeing the next Tupaj Katari, Bartolina Sisa and Evo Morales, heroic scenes in which the masses guided by their natural organizations using all the methods of struggle, but making the main weight fall on the peaceful resistance to which the indigenous peoples have been accustomed to using for centuries. An important aspect of this strategy is the blockade of the big cities to make the maximum weight felt by those who sow, produce, manufacture and distribute food. Or at the same time they generate massive mobilizations, occupying the streets, the highways and the diverse territories…

Last Friday, November 15, professor of the Simón Bolívar University (USB), Emilio Hernández, had a talk “Wikipedia: collective content development and ideological bias” as part of the forum on reading, social networks and digital media that was taught at the International Book Fair of Venezuela (Filven 2019).In his talk, he explained the operation of the well-known collaborative web encyclopedia, its advantages and disadvantages, the hierarchies of available users (among them the famous “librarians”), the experiences, some of its rules, the ways of editing content, the cases of “wars of editions”, among many other peculiarities.He pointed out that in the Wikipedia articles on natural sciences (biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc.), based on scientific topics, experimentation and elements that can be verified, they are more or less adjusted to reality and are good quality.However, articles on social sciences (politics, economics, sociology, etc.) and those related to some current struggle (for example, political events in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia or Chile) are generally very biased by the same passions of the moment. “People get to edit them. As Wikipedia is a collective creation, it is edited by anyone who wishes. It’s like a semiotic and ideological battlefield,” he explained.He indicated that “in general it is because, in social sciences, there are no absolute truths but ideological struggles . It should be a reasoned argument and not a fight of lies and fake news .”“The Wikipedia organizers themselves have tried to fight against this phenomenon, but it is very difficult,” Hernández explained. “There have been cases in which the Wikipedia administrators themselves cannot stop expressing their own point of views and also has their own ideological bias.”<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law">RELATED CONTENT: Venezuela’s Supreme Court Presents Proposals for Reforming Violence Against Women Law</a>In his talk, he noted that there have been cases in which it was detected that Wikipedia editions came from IP addresses linked to companies editing their own profiles, something that contravenes Wikipedia’s standards, as well as US government agencies (including the CIA ) .He recommended that people participate in Wikipedia, editing the articles that are wrong, “to write other complementary versions without deleting what is there, but with links to recognized sites where that version is obtained. That is part of the rules of Wikipedia, and in principle they cannot push back”.There are people who have suggested using MediaWiki or other free software for the creation of wikis, in order to create their own Wikipedia, an experience that Cuba has tried with the EcuRed website .<a href="https://i0.wp.com/orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/WhatsApp-Image-2019-11-15-at-4.19.24-PM.jpeg?resize=800%2C450&ssl=1">WhatsApp-Image-2019-11-15-at-4.19.24-PM</a>In this regard, Hernández said that “it is something that does not have much effectiveness in the media battle, because Wikipedia always appears in the first places of the Google search, and any page that one is going to make will not appear in the search results” of said search engine.He gave as an example that, when searching for «José Martí» on Google, the first results are from Wikipedia, and the EcuRed articles appear only on the second or third page of results, which are usually not reached by people who search. “Then, you have to fight in Wikipedia,” he recommended.Nor does he agree to sabotage or vandalize Wikipedia articles, because “doing that has no effect: the previous version is quickly restored.”<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/non-existent-support-68000-fake-twitter-accounts-supporting-the-coup-in-bolivia">RELATED CONTENT: Non-Existent Support: 68,000 Fake Twitter Accounts Supporting the Coup in Bolivia</a>To those people who are afraid or annoyed by participating…

More than 200 protesters have been blinded by pellets fired by state security agents. The National Congress has bowed to a key demand of the monthlong rallies and ordered a referendum on a new constitution.The principle medical organization in Chile announced Thursday that well over 200 people have lost their sight, either partially or completely, due to being shot by pellets fired by state security agents during protests in the South American country.Of those, at least 50 people will require prosthetic eyes said Dr. Patricio Meza, vice president of the Medical College of Chile. “This means that the patient doesn’t only lose their vision, but they lose their actual eye.”Additional statistics from the medical body showed that the average age of victims is 30. In a large majority of the cases, the wound is caused by the impact of a lead or rubber projectile on their eyes, the Medical College confirmed.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/in-bolivia-as-in-palestine">RELATED CONTENT: In Bolivia as in Palestine</a>“We are facing a real health crisis, a health emergency given that in such few days, in three weeks, we have had the highest number of cases involving serious ocular complications due to shots in the eye,” Meza added.The police “are firing at 90 degrees, which is to say, directly at the face,” said Meza.<a href="https://i2.wp.com/orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chile_police_beat.jpg?resize=700%2C394&ssl=1">Chile_police_beat.jpg</a>Protesters seek cover from riot police wielding a baton. The latest protest followed a short break in the wave of demonstrations in which several people have died, forcing the cancellation of two upcoming international summits.
Reuters/J.Silva // DW.com<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/chiles-government-agreed-to-a-constitutional-assembly-will-it-stop-the-protests">RELATED CONTENT: Chile’s Government Agreed to a Constitutional Assembly. Will it Stop the Protests?</a><strong>Referendum on constitution</strong>
More than 20 people have been killed and 2,500 injured since the protests began on October 18 in what started out as a student protest over an increase in subway fares.However, it has since evolved into a much larger and broader movement, with a lengthy list of demands that are related to the ever-widening financial disparity between rich and less well-off Chileans. Citizens are calling for reforms to health care, education, the pension system, and the country’s constitution.Lawmakers in the National Congress on Thursday approved a pathway for a new constitution to replace the current charter enacted by the former military junta of Augusto Pinochet in 1980.A referendum will be held in April on whether to proceed and voters will decide how the new constitution should be drafted. <em>Featured image: Getty Images/AFP/C.Reyes // DW.com,</em><a href="https://portside.org/2019-11-21/hundreds-chileans-blinded-police-protests-began">Source URL: Portside</a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fhundreds-of-chileans-blinded-by-police-since-protests-began&linkname=Hundreds%20of%20Chileans%20Blinded%20by%20Police%20Since%20Protests%20Began"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fhundreds-of-chileans-blinded-by-police-since-protests-began&linkname=Hundreds%20of%20Chileans%20Blinded%20by%20Police%20Since%20Protests%20Began"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fhundreds-of-chileans-blinded-by-police-since-protests-began&linkname=Hundreds%20of%20Chileans%20Blinded%20by%20Police%20Since%20Protests%20Began"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fhundreds-of-chileans-blinded-by-police-since-protests-began&linkname=Hundreds%20of%20Chileans%20Blinded%20by%20Police%20Since%20Protests%20Began"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Forinoc…

“The strike continues”, that is one of the hashtags used by Colombians that have flooded the streets of claims against the Government of Iván Duque in the framework of the national strike on November 21. Sputnik reviews key moments during the mobilization that was historic.“And now that?”. That is the question that resonates in Colombia. With songs, banners and multiple claims, on November 21 (21N) a national strike was held against Duque and the ‘package’ that aims to boost with reductions in the minimum wage for young people, a ‘fare hike’ of electricity and changes in the pension system .In addition, there were demonstrations against the death of social leaders , attempts to regulate social protest and demanding Police Riot Squadron to be dismantled and peace agreements with the FARC be fully implemented.Unemployment and demonstrations were called by various groups of workers and students, and social organizations. The day was the biggest wave of protests against Duque , was topped with a “cacerolazo”. After the massive peaceful demonstrations that took place throughout the country, the incidents have been concentrated in Bogotá and Valle del Cauca, where three people died.Lo que esta pasando en este momento no es broma, Colombia se canso y el paro no se va a detener <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElParoSigue?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElParoSigue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/22Nov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#22Nov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IvanDuque?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvanDuque</a> <a href="https://t.co/0twlREFoB0">pic.twitter.com/0twlREFoB0</a>— COLOMBIA DESPERTÓ &#127464;&#127476; (@heroeswild) <a href="https://twitter.com/heroeswild/status/1197875557846962176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a>There were denunciations of police abuse during the “cacerolazos”, with police brigades braking windows of houses and apartments participating in the “cacerolazo” along with car windows.Policía rompe vidrios de casas en el barrio Policarpa de Bogotá <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cacerolazo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cacerolazo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MafeCarrascal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MafeCarrascal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GataFranca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GataFranca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/21N?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#21N</a> <a href="https://t.co/9S8rOcwOvR">pic.twitter.com/9S8rOcwOvR</a>— Yoana Arenas Bedoya (@yarenasb) <a href="https://twitter.com/yarenasb/status/1197704974962167809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a><strong>The 21N in figures:</strong>253,000 Colombians participated in the protests,622 activities and concentrations were carried out throughout the country, in 350 municipalities,3 dead people and273 people injured.Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, <strong>called it State Terrorism</strong>, posting in his twitter account a video showing how an unarmed demonstrator was killed by a police gunshot from the back.This is how Ivan Duque’s exercises “democracy” in Colombia. <a href="https://t.co/u9tEAXXSWz">https://t.co/u9tEAXXSWz</a>— Orinoco Tribune (@OrinocoTribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/OrinocoTribune/status/1198280444191608832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a> <strong>The situation in Cali: “collective panic”</strong>
The Mayor’s Office of Cali had decreed a curfew between 19:00 on November 21 (GMT-5) and 6:00 on November 22. The Colombian Army confirmed the deployment of the Third Brigade military troops that, along with the Police, patrolled the streets of Cali, the third most populous city in Colombia.However, at nightfall on the night of the 21st, the dissemination of false and true news about impending robberies caused people to arm themselves with sticks, stones and firearms to defend themselves, the magazine Semana published . A “collective panic” was generated, said Maurice Armitage, mayor of Cali, at a press conference.About 125 people were injured in the riots, police coordinator…

By Marco TeruggiA colleague who had to leave Bolivia writes to me. She is being chased along with her partner who, they told her, they are looking for him to “liquidate him”. Since before Evo Morales was forced to resign, a list of names began to circulate; its application accelerated from that moment. It was Arturo Murillo, de facto government minister, who was responsible for putting it black on white: he talked about “hunting” three leaders, after chasing parliamentarians accused of “sedition” and “subversion.” Communication minister Roxana Lizárraga pointed to “journalists and pseudo-journalists”, and on Thursday the Telesur TV channel was taken off from Bolivian television stations.The strategy of decapitation and persecution is part of the coup d’etat architecture that moves according to a series of planned steps. The first was to force the resignation of Evo and Álvaro García Linera. The second, build a de facto government, materialized from the self-proclamation of Jeanine Añez. The third, initiated before and deepened in these days, is the persecution of leaders, along with the beginning of militarized repressions. The latter was announced with the decree to exempt the Armed Forces from criminal responsibility and an additional budget credit of four thousand eight hundred million dollars.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/in-bolivia-as-in-palestine">RELATED CONTENT: In Bolivia as in Palestine</a>The fourth step is the one that is under development without having yet materialized, the call for general elections, for which new authorities of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Departmental Electoral Courts must be appointed. This is the point of greatest complexity for those who are leading the coup. The appointment of authorities of the TSE must pass through the legislative branch, where the Movement to Socialism (MAS) has two thirds of the seats. The de facto government and the real powers after the coup seek to force the agreement with the MAS to accept the electoral call according to their conditions. That means getting the MAS to recognize Añez as president, impose the electoral authorities, and, simultaneously, outlaw Evo.The fifth and final step will be the election as such. There is still no agreement within the coup block about the date. Fernando Camacho said that the deadline for the contest is until January 19 – the 20th would end Evo’s mandate – while other voices have already raised that there are no conditions to achieve the election in January. This point is central to the structure of the coup d’etat that from the beginning was presented as democratic and thus was backed by President Donald Trump and his administration, by the secretary of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro and by the European Union.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/is-colombia-exploding-in-some-cities-the-21n-is-not-over-yet-state-terrorism">RELATED CONTENT: Is Colombia Exploding? In some Cities the 21N is Not Over Yet – State Terrorism?</a>But the democratic fiction that conceals the coup requires the call for elections. Añez appeared from the outset as interim president and the OAS itself, which denies that there has been an “institutional breakdown” – as Uruguay did, for example, asking to be incorporated in the last OAS resolution – urges the de facto government and the politicians to achieve that electoral call. What the coup leaders debate, without internal agreement so far, is about the times and conditions for those elections. They seek to guarantee the proscription of Evo Morales, some claim to do the same with the MAS, and, in turn, have a TSE under control.While that happens, the persecution deepens, police and military repressions have killed more than thirty people, pain and rage increase. Given this, there are resistance in the streets and in the legislative power that advance together, although not necessarily in a coordinated way. The MAS, it has already announced, works to achieve electoral output in…

Come and join us to celebrate Orinoco Tribune’s 1st Anniversary with a Facebook livestream from our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/orinocotribune">Facebook Page</a>. <strong>You just have to visit our Facebook Page to enjoy and participate in the party.</strong>Today, November 24th at 4:00 pm (Caracas time) we will hold our party with our readers, followers and even haters (they are welcome if they behave). We want to celebrate the massive number of readers that have put us, in less than a year, side by side with historical venues for Venezuelan progressive information in English like <a href="http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/">Venezuelanalysis.com</a>, according to benchmark services.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/orinoco-tribune-anniversary-donations-needed-please-share-we-are-12-days-away-from-renewing-hosting-services">RELATED CONTENT: Orinoco Tribune Anniversary: Donations Needed (Please Share – We are 12 Days Away From Renewing Hosting Services)</a>To make it easier for you here you have the time for the event in different cities and countries:12:00pm (California-Vancouver Time)2:00pm (Chicago Time)3:00 pm (New York – Toronto Time)4:00pm (Caracas Time)8:00pm (London -Dublin Time)10:00pm (South Africa Time)1:30am +1day (India Time)8:00am +1day (Sidney Time)<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/latin-america-update-anti-imperialist-by-nature-a-conversation-with-jesus-rodriguez-espinoza">RELATED CONTENT: Latin America Update: “Anti-imperialist by Nature” (A Conversation with Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza)</a>For our livestream 1 year birthday celebration, Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza, the editor, will be on camera with the audience and in chat as much as possible and Elizabeth Ferrari, our co-editor, in chat and moderating, in order to give as many of our community members as possible a chance to participate.We have created a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/414766279222203/">Facebook event</a> and we encourage you to join it because we are planing to update our followers on the event using that tool.We hope to see you there and we thank you all for your support during the last 12 months.See you there!OT/JRE/EF<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Fcome-to-the-party-today-orinoco-tribunes-1st-anniversary-4pm-caracas-time&linkname=Come%20to%20the%20Party%20Today%E2%80%93%20Orinoco%20Tribune%E2%80%99s%201st%20Anniversary%20%284pm%20Caracas%20Time%29"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/wechat?lin…

On November 25, the International Day of Non-Violence against Women is celebrated, recalling the date on which the sisters Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal were murdered in 1960, during the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic. This was explained by Isabel Gómez, a feminist militant belonging to the Tinta Violeta collective, in an interview for Alba Ciudad 96.3 FM, where she also reported on the street-taking that feminist movements will do shortly.<a href="https://i0.wp.com/orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ndice.jpeg?resize=800%2C599&ssl=1">ndice</a>Interviewed by the journalist María Laura Cano, she stressed that November 25 is one of the most important dates promoted by the feminist movement, also recognized by the Organization for the United Nations (UN). At present, they continue to gather to make visible, vindicate violence and denaturalize it [violence]. “There are explicit manifestations of violence against women such as femicide but there is also violence that is a bit more subtle, that is completely naturalized by society, such as media violence.”<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelas-supreme-court-presents-proposals-for-reforming-violence-against-women-law">RELATED CONTENT: Venezuela’s Supreme Court Presents Proposals for Reforming Violence Against Women Law</a>Gomez also stressed that this International Day of Non-Violence Against Women, aims to break the stereotypes that have emerged in the hegemonic media by placing women as an object. Therefore, they have created a media campaign that began on Monday 18, showing the different types of violence typified in the Law of the right of women to a life free of violence.<a href="https://i0.wp.com/orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ndice-1.jpeg?resize=800%2C599&ssl=1">ndice-1</a>She also explained that another type of violence is psychological, which introduces the harassment to which women are subjected in different spaces, as well as domestic violence, the latter, which the feminist movement targets more.<a href="https://orinocotribune.com/socialist-feminism-and-the-communal-state-blanca-eekhout-interview">RELATED CONTENT: Socialist Feminism and the Communal State – Blanca Eekhout (Interview)</a>In that same sense, there is the obstetric violence to which those who give birth are subjected.On the other hand, Gómez reported on the street-taking that they will be doing shortly to demand from the institutions a deep revision and generation of public policies that really address the need of women, “although we have a very inclusive, very revolutionary law regarding this issue, we have seen with great disappointment that public officials of the state revictimize these women who are going to report violence and even try to persuade them not to. ”Finally, she established the difference between femicide and feminicide, and that is that femicide is when a woman is murdered for gender reasons; feminicide occurs when the state is involved in the murder, as in the case of the Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic. <a href="https://albaciudad.org/2019/11/feministas-tomaran-las-calles-para-exigir-politicas-publicas-que-realmente-atienda-la-necesidad-de-las-mujeres-audio/">Source URL: Alba Ciudad</a>Translated by JRE/EF<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Ffeminists-will-take-the-streets-on-monday-to-demand-public-policies-that-address-violence-against-women&linkname=Feminists%20Will%20Take%20the%20Streets%20on%20Monday%20to%20Demand%20Public%20Policies%20that%20Address%20Violence%20Against%20Women"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Forinocotribune.com%2Ffeminists-will-take-the-streets-on-monday-to-demand-public-policies-that-address-violence-against-women&linkname=Feminists%20Will%20Take%20the%20Streets%20on%20Monday%20to%20Demand%20Public%20Policies%20that%20Address%20Violence%20Against%20Women"></a><a href="https://ww…