Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC
Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021.
Chileans will vote on May 15-16 to select 155 members of a constitutional convention. They will also choose city council members, mayors, and governors. The vote comes after months of political turbulence. Repeating anti-government demonstrations on a massive scale beginning in October 2019 persuaded the right-wing government of billionaire President Sebastián Piñera and military leaders that, for the sake of peace in the streets, they had better plan for a new Constitution.
Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta and Communist Party candidate for the presidential elections. | PCC
Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a presidential candidate. The election is set for Nov. 21, 2021.
Chileans will vote on May 15-16 to select 155 members of a constitutional convention. They will also choose city council members, mayors, and governors. The vote comes after months of political turbulence. Repeating anti-government demonstrations on a massive scale beginning in October 2019 persuaded the right-wing government of billionaire President Sebastián Piñera and military leaders that, for the sake of peace in the streets, they had better plan for a new Constitution.
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Raúl Castro passes baton to next generation at Cuban Communist Party congress April 19, 2021 3:53 PM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Raul Castro, right, raises the hand of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel after Diaz-Canel was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party at the closing session of the 8th Party Congress in Havana, Monday, April 19, 2021. Diaz-Canel previously succeeded Castro as Cuba s president in 2019. | Ariel Ley Royero / ACN
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro retired from his last major public office this weekend, standing down as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba at its Eighth Congress.
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Venezuela border conflict mixes drug trafficking and regime-change ambitions April 16, 2021 10:25 AM CDT By W. T. Whitney Jr.
Colombian navy soldiers watch as Venezuelan migrants cross near the Arauca River, the natural border with Venezuela, in Arauquita, Colombia, March 26, 2021. | Fernando Vergara / AP
Since mid-March, Venezuelan army units have been attacking and expelling Colombian operatives active in Apure state, in western Venezuela. Colombians have long used the border regions to prepare cocaine arriving from Colombia and ship it to the United States and Europe. Fighting has subsided; eight Venezuelan troops were killed. Seeking safety, 3,500 Venezuelans crossed the Meta River, an Orinoco tributary, to Arauca in Colombia.
the humanitarian impacts of sanctions.” They did not name specific countries, but at the top of the list of countries currently on the receiving end of U.S. sanctions is Venezuela.
The country was the target of multiple Trump administration-backed coup attempts over the last few years, and officially, the U.S. still recognizes coup leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
According to reports, Biden to negotiate with Venezuela’s legitimate government or give up on recognizing Guaidó any time soon. Even with Trump gone, the rest of the world isn’t pausing in its condemnations of the policy pursued by U.S. and its allies toward the South American nation.