The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) expressed its disagreement with the preliminary report of the panel of experts of the United Nations (UN) on the presidential elections held on July 28. In a statement, the electoral body described the report as illegal and contrary to UN principles, “violating the terms of reference agreed with this … Read More
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By James Phillips NicaNotes [James Phillips is a cultural and political anthropologist with forty years as a student of Central America. His most recent book is Extracting Honduras: Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration (Lexington Books, 2022).] (This article was first published in CovertAction Magazine on July 1, 2024.) In Part 1 of this article, a brief outline of the evolution … Read More
Peter Bolton, Roger D. Harris Corporate media’s coverage of Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election is akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Likewise, the media has shifted the narrative into the minutia of electoral procedures, ignoring the … Read More
Democracy Now Eight years after the 2016 peace agreement in Colombia between government forces and guerrillas that was meant to end a half-century of conflict, around 5 million Colombians remain internally displaced and a growing number of people live in areas controlled by armed groups. The ongoing violence in the country has pushed many to … Read More