Protests Against Greed And Inequality Are Spreading Like Wildfire Through Latin America By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. October 25, 2020 Protests Against Greed And Inequality Are Spreading Like Wildfire Through Latin America2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/latinamerica-e1603655060183.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fire from a molotov cocktail explodes in front of police as a police vehicle shoots water at protesters who marched against the commemoration of the discovery of the Americas, organized by Indigenous groups demanding autonomy and the recovery of ancestral land in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 12, 2020. Esteban Felix | AP. Historic protests are taking place across Latin America as people take to the streets to voice […]
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Bolivia Is A beacon Of Light For Latin America By Nathalia Urban, Source News. October 21, 2020 Bolivia Is A beacon Of Light For Latin America2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/0_bolivia-e1603285865564.jpg200px200px Brazilian journalist and activist Nathália Urban looks at the sensational Bolivian election, where the left appears set to return to power less than one year after being deposed in a coup. After suffering a coup d’état that cost more than 33 lives, left thousands of people injured, and forced important political figures like President Evo Morales to go into exile to survive, official exit polls say that the Movement for Socialism (MAS) will return to power, […]
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 Mike Pompeo of crying crocodile tears over the South American country’s woes. Arreaza insisted in a series of tweets on Saturday former CIA director Pompeo’s threats to Venezuela during recent visits to four nations bordering Venezuela “proves the only ‘man-made crisis’ affecting the Venezuelan people is the one created by the […]
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 the delivery of the medication to the countries of Latin America, such as Mexico, South Africa and Commonwealth of Independent States,” Mladentsev said. According to Mladentsev, Areplivir will be available in internet pharmacies in Russia on Saturday and may appear on the shelves of regular pharmacies in Moscow on Monday. “The […]
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 news network on Facebook and Instagram, spreading propaganda for Bolivia’s coup regime and the right-wing opposition in Venezuela and Mexico. A major US PR firm located just a few blocks from the White House has been caught running an industrial grade propaganda operation on social media. The information warfare blitzkrieg relied on […]
‘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 for Best Latin nomination, with their song “Que Pena” [“Too Bad”], outrunning collaborations by Black Eyed Peas and Ozuna, Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, Anuel AA and others. Maluma attended the ceremony, performing his latest hit “Hawai” from the new album “Papi Juancho” and delivering a speech from the stage. “Wow. Oh […]
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 a critical ethical theoretical framework for assessing the performance of left and left-of-center governments in Latin America during the Pink Tide. The “Pink Tide” refers to the wave of progressive governments beginning with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998. These progressive governments provided alternatives to the neoliberal economic […]
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 military interests, as well as those persuaded by racist arguments. CC. Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, the Trump regime-change […]
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 Latin America as of July 13, surpassing the US and Canada’s death toll of 144,023, according to a new AFP tally. More than 72,000 patients have died in Brazil alone. Latin America’s largest country has registered more than 1.8 million confirmed Covid-19 cases – the second-highest in the world behind the […]
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 can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Not Your Traditional Investor DayOn the same day Reuters reported Coinbase is looking to go public, the exchange scheduled its first-ever investor day, for Aug. 14. Investor days can often signal a planned direct listing, Jamie McGurk, a former operating partner at […]
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 with ConsenSys, a globally distributed outfit focused on all things Ethereum. Up for grabs is LACChain, a blockchain framework that has the backing of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and a host of public and private entities across Latin America and the Caribbean. ConsenSys set up a Besu testnet for LACChain […]
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 to expand operations in Latin America. In the time of Covid-19, with entire populations under lockdown and economies falling apart, mining companies have also hopped on the pandemic profiteering bandwagon. The potential implications are wide-reaching. In Latin America, the areas of interest to mining companies whether they are exploring or digging […]
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 hear shots ringing out as people start scattering. Here is one of the videos from one of the encounters: In another video, we see a few more shootouts, as well as the gangs ramming their big trucks into the looters’ cars. One guy hollers out “F** the looters, n****, we protect […]
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 plaguing the region’s roads and public transit systems. The demand of social distancing is forcing cities across Latin America and the world to rethink public life. That includes a reconsideration of mass transit, with a number of public sector initiatives encouraging biking as a safer alternative. Already, city leaders in Bogotá, […]
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 his company believes this will “be a successful collaboration” that boosts liquidity for institutional investors in North America as well. Stablecoins have become increasingly popular across Latin America. For example, MakerDAO Head of Business Development Greg Diprisco said Wednesday at Consensus: Distributed that Argentina is the leading market for Maker’s dollar-pegged […]
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 lead to “dollarization” in emerging markets, where people increasingly use global currencies like dollars instead of their local fiat. It remains unclear how bitcoin will play into that prospective shift, as bitcoin is still too immature to be predominately used as a competing currency. But crypto entrepreneurs are still giving it […]
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 initiative complements the LACChain initiative, a consortium of institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean aligned with the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The advance also marks the second phase of a land registry project, which began in 2019 and is funded by the IDB. The project focuses on smart […]