Daily Archives: May 4, 2022

2022-05-04: News Headlines

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-05-04). Washington Will Not Invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to Summit of the Americas. orinocotribune.com Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be excluded from participation at the Summit of the Americas, said Brian Nichols, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the US State Department. | During an interview with the Colombian television channel NTN24, Nichols confirmed the complaint that the Cuban government had recently expressed about its exclusion from the Summit of the Americas. Nichols stated, "Cuba, Nicaragua and the Maduro regime do not respect the Democratic Charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence." | The Summit of the Americas is scheduled to be held in Los Angeles…

Ben Norton (2022-05-03). Nicaragua Expropriates OAS Building, will Replace it with 'Museum of Shame' Documenting Imperialist Crimes. orinocotribune.com Nicaragua's Sandinista government expelled the US-dominated OAS and expropriated its office building, where it will now create a public "Museum of Shame" to educate visitors about imperialist crimes committed against Latin America. | Nicaragua's Sandinista government Nicaragua's Foreign Ministry denounced the Washington-based organization as a "deceitful agency of the State Department of yankee imperialism," calling it the US "Ministry of t…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2022-05-03). Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua To Be Excluded from Summit of the Americas. venezuelanalysis.com The decision puts the US at odds with much of the region and threatens to undermine the Biden administration's stated goals of the summit.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-05-03). Fire from the Mountain: In Search of Omar Cabezas. libya360.wordpress.com Daniel Kovalik For years, I wondered about Omar Cabezas, the Sandinista guerilla who turned us on to the dream of revolution in the first place. Where was he now? Did he still support the Sandinistas and Daniel? Why aren't the media talking to people like him? When I was in college in Dayton, Ohio in…

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