1 Feb 2021
A poll published this weekend by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis revealed that the vast majority of Venezuelans see the government of President Juan Guaidó as “a lie,” despite also overwhelmingly rejecting the illegitimate regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The Megánalisis poll, taken between January 13-25 and published on the 26th, reflects a growing lack of faith that Guaidó will be able to wield any power in the country, a recurring theme in polling since Guaidó legally became president of the country two years ago. The Venezuelan constitution allows the National Assembly, the country’s legislature, to replace the head of the government with an “interim president” in the event that the leader ruptures the democratic order of the country. Following the end of Nicolás Maduro’s last legal term as president in January 2019, Maduro refused to step down, triggering the swearing-in of Guaidó as the legitimate interim president of the country at the time.
Worldwide political parties, organisations, friends wish Party Congress a great success Political parties, organisations and international friends from around the globe have continued offering congratulations to the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
In its message, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle said it understands clearly the strategic significance and importance of this congress to the CPV and Vietnam’s development.
It expressed its belief that the congress will be successful and generate positive outcomes for the making of guidelines and strategies for national development, which will be a solid foundation for Vietnam’s development.
Affirming that Vietnam has continually obtained prosperity and progress for its people under the CPV’s leadership, in its congratulatory message, the People’s Action Party of Singapore wrote that it believes the CPV will continue developing Vietnam to new levels.
28 January 2021. PenzaNews. The EU countries no longer consider Juan Guaido, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, the “interim president” of the Bolivarian Republic. In a joint statement by EU foreign ministers made on January 25, the self-proclaimed head of state, along with other opposition figures, was named “an important actor” and “privileged interlocutor.” Photo: D. Myles Cullen, Flickr.com/whitehouse45
“The EU reiterates its support to all those working towards a democratic future for Venezuela. The EU repeats its calls for […] the freedom and safety of all political opponents, in particular representatives of the opposition parties elected to the National Assembly of 2015, and especially Juan Guaido, as well as other representatives of the democratic opposition. The EU considers them to be important actors and privileged interlocutors and encourages the democratic opposition to take a unified stance with a view to an inclusive process of dialogue and
A Push for Free Elections in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela During President Maduro’s 2018 reelection campaign, he awarded rally attendees with bags of food. More than half the population also received special government IDs, which are required for accessing housing, pensions and medical procedures. After voting, Maduro instructed voters to scan their ID’s. “We will know who fulfilled their obligations to the Fatherland,” he announced. In September 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced that the Venezuelan government participated in a number of crimes including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and torture of critics and extrajudicial killings. The U.N.’s 411-page report investigated roughly 3,000 cases since 2014 when opposition parties rose up against the increasingly authoritarian Venezuelan government. As a result of these findings, many activists are pushing for free elections in Venezuela.
Latin America in the Time of COVID A Mexican market trader
In Latin America, as elsewhere, the health crisis has exposed the brutal realities of the global capitalist system: the extreme inequality that has marked the global economy and the destruction of social services and public resources in the interests of private capital euphemistically called “structural adjustment,” and later, and even more ironically, “the war on poverty” declared by the World Bank. And that has continued into the COVID era at an accelerating pace. Even in the face of what purports to be a universal pandemic, the very rich Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates among others have increased their enormous wealth as the bulk of the planet’s population pays for the contraction of the world economy. And that will be the pattern, as the gulf between the rich and the rest grows wider and the costs of the pandemic are passed on to its victims again.