US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited four South American countries around Venezuela this week, pledging hundreds of millions in aid to those fleeing the South American nation’s economic crisis but also reiterating threats to depose socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has accused his US counterpart […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080505895_0:135:3072:1863_1200x675_80_0_0_2ae4d7f097eb00a76765f51b5c557b4a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009181080505930-russian-developer-of-covid-drug-areplivir-discussing-deliveries-to-latin-america-africa/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian pharmaceutical company Promomed is in talks with neighbouring countries, Latin America, and Africa to supply them with Areplivir drug that can help in the COVID-19 treatment, the director-general of the company, Andrey Mladentsev, said. “We are in talks about […]
US-Linked PR Firm Ran Fake News Networks For Right-Wing Latin American Regimes By Ben Norton, The Grayzone. September 14, 2020 US-Linked PR Firm Ran Fake News Networks For Right-Wing Latin American Regimes2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/grayzone.png200px200px A Washington, DC-based PR firm linked to the US government and Democratic Party, CLS Strategies, ran a fake […]
‘Que Pena’, a duo by Colombian singers Maluma and J Balvin, was released in September 2019, and the music video has since gained over 200 million views on YouTube. The popular reggaeton artists announced their collaboration in August 2019. Colombian singers Maluma and J Balvin won the Video Music Award […]
Walking The Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide By: Frederick B. Mills, New Politics. August 22, 2020 Walking The Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/pink-tide-daniel-del-toro-e1598107694132.jpg200px200px Above photo: Latin America’s Pink Tide Pink Tide. Daniel Del Toro. Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings, edited by economic historian and prominent Latin Americanist Steve Ellner, offers […]
Mexo, a cryptocurrency exchange designed for the Latin American user, launched on Thursday. Source link
Long Overdue For Latin America: A “Good Neighbor Policy” By Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner, CODEPINK. July 24, 2020 Long Overdue For Latin America: A “Good Neighbor Policy”2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/hands-off-vnz.jpg200px200px Above photo: An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and […]
A surge in Covid-19 cases across Latin America has made it the second-worst hit region for virus deaths, outpacing the US and Canada and trailing only Europe. The situation has been exacerbated by poverty and lack of mass testing. A total of 144,758 people have died from the coronavirus in […]
Coinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You […]
There may be an enterprise blockchain arms race brewing in Latin America. LatamLink, an alliance of three organizations involved in the launch of the EOS public blockchain in 2018, is now busy integrating the EOSIO software for enterprise uses. The group seems to be competing for business in the region […]
Latin Americans Fighting Mining Companies During COVID19 By Jen Moore, Inequality June 25, 2020 Latin Americans Fighting Mining Companies During COVID192020-06-252020-06-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/demonstration-against-criminalization-of-water-defenders-in-guapinol-honduras.-credit-pedrolanda.-e1593105148732.jpg200px200px Above photo: Demonstration against the criminalization of water defenders in Guapinol, Honduras. Pedro Landa. Over the years, the mining industry has taken advantage of dictatorship, disasters, and a variety of distractions […]
As more and more people take matters into their own hands to deal with the looters and rioters, even the Latin gangs in Chicago are coming off looking like the good guys, as they are fighting off the looters. It appears as though several shootings took place, as you can […]
Could The Pandemic Start A Biking Revolution In Latin America? By Leonie Rauls, Americas Quarterly. May 20, 2020 Could The Pandemic Start A Biking Revolution In Latin America?2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/bikes-e1589991142531.jpg200px200px Above photo: Mayor Claudia Lopez rides a bike in Bogotá Jyan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images. The crisis offers an opportunity to ease the congestion […]
The crypto loan startup Ledn, which primarily serves users in Latin America, is now offering USDC stablecoin savings accounts through a partnership with the lending and trading conglomerate Genesis. (Disclosure: Genesis is owned by CoinDesk’s parent company, Digital Currency Group.) Genesis VP of Originations Matt Ballensweig said in a statement […]
In advance of her “Crypto Across Emerging Markets” panel at Consensus: Distributed on May 11, Leigh Cuen is writing a three-part column on how cryptocurrencies are used in the developing world. The first installment explored bitcoin adoption in the Middle East and the second covered Africa. Some believe the broader economic crisis might […]
Swedish startup ChromaWay is expanding a project aimed to make land ownership more transparent by putting records on a blockchain. With the launch of its LAC PropertyChain initiative, announced on Tuesday, the company hopes to strengthen blockchain standards, governance and protocols for land transactions in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay. The […]