RAMIN MAZAHERI—Mexicans are gearing up for a general election, with presidential hopefuls wrapping up their campaigns. But the election is clouded by political violence. There have been multiple attacks against candidates (more than 30 have been murdered by gangs) and their families in recent months. Our correspondent Ramin Mazaheri has more from Mexico.
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EDITOR—”I demand respect for our country… Chile does not harbor any terrorist group either within its territory or outside it,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric previously stated. [Notice that Boric here, by accepting the US empire’s designation of Hezbollah as a “terrorist” organisation, confirmed his fake-leftist /social democrat creds. Proudly “WOKE”, he’s safely ensconced within the empire’s folds. Boric, a descendant of Croats, a culture of notorious rightwingers and onetime WW2 allies of Hitler, is also among the denouncers of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine, an enemy of Nicaragua, Venezuela y Cuba, while claiming Kiev is a sovereign regime instead of an American puppet. He can’t be expected to push back against Washington or Argentina’s provocations.—Ed.]
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TELESUR—The Venezuelan president ordered the Vice-President, Delcy Rodríguez, “to lead a process of reforestation, afforestation and recovery of environmental balances; for which the Council of Vice-Presidents and the Presidential Council for Science, Technology and Innovation must be summoned.” According to the president, a team of scientists and experts of the highest level and from different disciplines will work in the area to achieve its reforestation and the recovery of the environment.
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MARTHA GREVATT—The courage of the masses has emerged in a country deemed the most dangerous in the world for union leaders — with an assassination rate the highest anywhere. Community and human rights activists are also frequent targets of right-wing paramilitary death squads with ties to the military and police. Since the signing of the 2016 peace accords, more than 777 activists, including 137 former FARC combatants, have reportedly been murdered in just the past year.
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ANDRE VLTCHEK—Chileans have been fighting and dying, trying to depose a neo-liberal system, forced down their throats ever since 1973 by the Los Chicago Boys. The Bolivian socialist government, successful, democratic and racially inclusive, has been overthrown, by Washington and Bolivian treasonous cadres. People have been dying there, too, on the streets of El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba.
