2022-06-10: News Headlines

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-06-10). Summit of the Americas Marked by Brutal Police Repression. orinocotribune.com The opening day of the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, was stained by brutal police repression of demonstrations. | The meeting has already been marred by controversy surrounding the White House's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, giving rise to boycotts and complaints from many other nations of the Americas. Perhaps most notable was the refusal of Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to attend. | News outlets and social media platforms shared numerous videos of the scene in which a towering Los Angeles police officer violently attacked a woman who was speaking into…

TeleSUR, jaa, JGN (2022-06-10). Pdte. argentino critica exclusión de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua por EE.UU. telesurtv.net El presidente argentino condenó los bloqueos a Cuba y Venezuela, y rechazó la actitud de respaldo de la OEA a la desestabilización en la región.

_____ (2022-06-09). For the Peoples of our Region, the Failure of Biden's Summit of the Americas Would be a Welcome Event. popularresistance.org I applaud the decision by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador not to attend this week's so-called Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles and hope that by Wednesday a majority of the nations in our region would have joined him. However, I am hoping that unlike President Lopez Obrador who is still sending the Mexican foreign minister, other nations demonstrate that their dignity cannot be coerced and stay away completely. Why do I take this position? | If the threat by the Biden Administration as host of the Summit not to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, all sovereign nations in the Americas' region,…

Ajamu Baraka (2022-06-09). For the Peoples of our Region, the Failure of Biden's Summit of the Americas Would be a Welcome Event. dissidentvoice.org The Summit of the Americas is not the property of the host nation. The U.S. has no right to exclude, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, but has done so in disregard of their sovereignty. The U.S. is not fit to judge others or to be responsible for bringing nations together. Every leader in the hemisphere should boycott …

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