2022-06-12: News Headlines

_____ (2022-06-11). Protest Against Exclusions At Summit Of The Americas In Los Angeles. popularresistance.org Los Angeles, California – "We are here today in front of the Convention Center protesting against the Summit of the Americas and particularly the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. It is not really the Summit of the Americas if a large part of that continent and the peoples of Latin America are excluded from the Summit," Answer Coalition director Brian Becker told Sputnik. | They also demand an end to the blockade of Cuba, he added. | The demonstrators shouted chants directed at U.S. President Joe Biden for his decision to leave out these three nations. Participants also carried Cuban, Nicaraguan and Ven…

Fight Back (2022-06-12). Interview with William Camacaro on the Workers' Summit of the Americas. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed William Camacaro, one of the coordinators of the important Workers' Summit of the Americas which takes place on June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: How was this Workers' Summit of Las Americas started? | William Camacaro: I was in Venezuela last year with comrades and we said, "We have a possibility to organize a conference in Mexico." We used to organize an event in Tijuana in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade. That has not happened for six or seven years. Now is more important than ever because Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are under U.S. sanctions. So, we need to make…

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-10). Biden Faces Backlash at Summit of Americas for Excluding Countries. news.antiwar.com President Biden The US didn't invite Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, prompting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

JANET (2022-06-12). Mass opposition to Biden's Summit gains momentum. iacenter.org By Lyn Neeley June 10, 2022 President Joe Biden's Summit of the Americas is being boycotted by most countries in the Western hemisphere, and it is opposed by two large coalitions protesting Biden's refusal to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to this year's event. ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America), a coalition of 11 anti-imperialist Latin American countries, opposes Biden's unilateral actions against Venezuela and Nicaragua and the economic blockade against Cuba. What if the United States held a summit and nobody came? Credit: Carlos Latuff ALBA just held its 21st Summit of Heads of Sta…

Staff (2022-06-12). President Maduro Sends Message of Solidarity to the People's Summit in Los Angeles. orinocotribune.com "Our voice has been there, as we said, the voice of the rebellious peoples of Our America, of Cuba, of Nicaragua, of Venezuela, there in the streets of Los Angeles," said the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, via a video message sent to the People's Summit for Democracy, held in Los Angeles, California. The People's Summit was a counter-event to the 9th Summit of the Americas, from which Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had been excluded by the United States government. | President Maduro's message was broadcast during the closing ceremony of the People's Summit, on Friday, June 10. | President Maduro criti…

TeleSUR, SH (2022-06-12). Pdte. Ortega pide ratificar ingreso de tropas rusas a Nicaragua. telesurtv.net El pedido del presidente Ortega será debatida en la sesión parlamentaria de la próxima semana.

TeleSUR, JL (2022-06-12). Nicaragua saluda a pdte. Putin por aniversario del día de Rusia. telesurtv.net Ante el escenario de ataques por parte de EE.UU. contra la soberanía de los pueblos, Nicaragua ratificó su compromiso de solidificar los acuerdos de cooperación con Rusia.

_____ (2022-06-11). Mexico's President AMLO Condemns US Blockade Of Cuba. popularresistance.org Mexico's left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has condemned the illegal US blockade of Cuba as a "type of genocide" and "tremendous violation of human rights." | At his daily press briefing on the morning on June 6, López Obrador was asked about his decision to boycott the US government's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. | The Mexican president, known popularly by the acronym AMLO, explained that he refused to attend in order to protest Washington's exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. | López Obrador denounced the blockade that the United States has imposed on Cuba for more t…

Staff (2022-06-11). Argentina President to Biden: Being Host Does Not Grant Authority to Impose a Right of Admission. orinocotribune.com The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández strongly criticized the US's exclusion of countries and its blockade policy during his speech at the 9th Summit of the Americas on Thursday, June 9. | "Being a host does not grant the authority to impose a right of admission on the member countries of the continent," said Fernández, alluding to the decision by the United States not to invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to the ninth edition of the Summit of the Americas, held in Los Angeles, California, during June 6-10. | "We definitely would have wanted a different Summit of the Americas," President Fernández state…

Staff (2022-06-11). Que esta sea la última cumbre donde nos falten los pueblos de Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela (+ Video). cubadebate.cu Estoy seguro que este planteamiento va a llevar a que esta sea la última cumbre en donde estemos discutiendo una organización agotada como la Organización de Estados Americanos, última cumbre en la que tengamos que discutir el bloqueo a Cuba y última cumbre que nos falten Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela o cualquier otro pueblo.

Staff (2022-06-11). Luis Arce destacó la denuncia de Alberto Fernández sobre acciones de la OEA durante golpe de Estado en Bolivia. cubadebate.cu El presidente boliviano, Luis Arce, resaltó este viernes la intervención en la Cumbre de las Américas de Alberto Fernández, que denunció el "rol nefasto" de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) en el golpe de Estado a Evo Morales, en 2019. El argentino cuestionó la exclusión de Cuba, Venezuela y Nicaragua de la cumbre por EE.UU.

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