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Guatemalan Rights Defenders Challenge Ban from Presidential Ballot

“The response, as Indigenous people, is that this ratifies what we’ve denounced, that Guatemala is a corrupt state coopted by criminals.”

The Ortega regime finds itself immersed in a spiral of decay, in which all legal legitimacy is replaced by the raw & arbitrary use of power.

Yordanka Caridad from Cuba took our photo of the day: “Hummingbird Resting”, in Lara, Venezuela.

Lula is also scheduled to meet with Democratic members of Congress, Senator Bernie Sanders and representatives of the AFL-CIO.

Today’s featured artist is Calypso Rose from Trinidad with the song “Abatina” from the album “Far fom Home” (2016).

There has never been in Venezuela such a fierce and sustained repressor of the working class and its leaders as the so-called worker-president

“There was no time to set up a firebreak, nothing. I think everyone here went through the same situation. The wind speed changed very fast”

If he didn’t make it, Nerey had already thought about staying in a Central American country to work. Going back to Cuba was never an option…

Their family members have accused the transnational mining company Ternium of complicity in the kidnappings.

Lula & other officials have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of committing “genocide” by propping up miners & neglecting the Yanomami.