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  • Andres Arauz at the launch of his health plan. The sign reads, "health is life", Ecuador, March 2, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @ecuarauz

    Ecuador’s leftist candidate ratified as first round winner

    Originally published: teleSUR English on March 2, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    Authorities officially confirmed that Andres Arauz and the banker Guillermo Lasso will compete for the presidency in the second round to be held on April 11.

  • Political activists and leaders including the front-runner for the April 11 presidential election Adres Arauz have denounced that this privatization attempt seeks to extend Moreno's harming economic policies beyond his mandate | Photo: @jpplusni

    Parliament rejects Moreno’s privatization of Central Bank

    Originally published: teleSUR English on March 1, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    Parliament’s Legislative Administration Council (CAL) reported that the project had 14 unconstitutional aspects. The bill presented 84 reforms to the Organic Monetary and Financial Code that would allow a $400 million loan from the International Monetary Fund.

  • Demonstrators from the indigenous organization Ecuarunari mobilize outside the National Electoral Council, Quito, Ecuador, Feb. 26, 2021. | Photo: EFE

    Ecuador: Indigenous organizations announce national strike

    Originally published: teleSUR English on February 28, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    Supporters of Indigenous presidential candidate Yaku Perez demand the recount of electoral records due to alleged electoral fraud.

  • Andres Arauz (c) greets his supporters at a rally, Ecuador, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @jacobinmag

    Andres Arauz wins the first electoral round in Ecuador

    Originally published: teleSUR English on February 7, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    According to unofficial results of an exit poll, Ecuador will have a run-off election. Andres Arauz won 36,2 percent of the valid votes and right-wing candidate Guillermo Lasso got 21,7 percent.

  • The protests have remained peaceful as demonstrators asked the police to support them on Saturday, February 6, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @MayWongCNA

    People back the streets against the military coup

    Originally published: teleSUR English on February 6, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    Activists reported that demonstrators donated water, food, and face shields to the police as they ask them to be on their side, otherwise future generations will suffer. Myanmarese in Norway and Netherlands also protested against the coup carried on February 1, 2021.

  • The OAS & Ecuador's neoliberal president are looking to suspend elections so as to cling on to power and stop the coming victory of the Correísta left. | Photo: Twitter/@OVargas52

    Fears of U.S. interference in Ecuadorean elections

    Originally published: teleSUR on January 30, 2021 (more by teleSUR)  |

    Andres Arauz has 37 percent of voting intention in the most recent polls, compared to 24 percent of the banker Guillermo Lasso, his main competitor, who seeks to banish once and for all the failed model of 21st Century socialism.

  • President of Venezuela's National Assembly Joge Rodriguez denounced on January 23, 2021 the corruption scheme carried out by Juan Guaido. | Photo: Twitter/ @LeonelTeleSUR

    Venezuela denounces large-scale corruption scheme led by Guaido

    Originally published: teleSUR English on January 23, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    “The Government of Paraguay owes $360,000,000 to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The commission that was to be shared between Guaidó and the Paraguayans was $26,000,000 do you know how many vaccines could be bought with that?”, Rodríguez denounced.

  • President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building, Washington DC, U.S., Dec. 6, 2021. | Photo: EFE

    U.S. over 10 officials resign from President Trump’s cabinet

    Originally published: teleSUR English on January 8, 2021 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The resignations come after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters took over the Congress to reject Joe Biden’s certification as President-elect.

  • The former Bolivian president and leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, today waves the Whipala flag of the native peoples during an event in his hometown, The town of Orinoca, part of the route of his caravan after entering yesterday from Argentina, in the department of Oruro (Bolivia). | Photo: EFE

    Evo Morales: Lithium was the reason for the coup in Bolivia

    Originally published: teleSUR English on November 10, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, assures that the large deposits of lithium in the Andean country and his government’s attempt to industrialize the reserves were why the coup d’état against him in 2019 occurred.

  • A report released this morning by UBS and PwC, which covers 2,000 billionaires in 43 nations, reveals that total billionaire wealth reached $10.2 trillion in July. | Photo: Twitter/@ForbesMoncaco-Steve Jurvetson

    Billionaires’ net worth grows to $10.2 trillion during pandemic

    Originally published: teleSUR English on October 7, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The super-rich increased their combined fortunes by 27.5% during the worst of the market turmoil from April through July.

  • Movement Towards Socialism's headquarters in La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 5, 2020. | Photo: MAS

    Bolivia Bolivia’s President-Elect Luis Arce attacked with dynamite

    Originally published: teleSUR English on November 6, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The Socialist leader was attacked while he was at a meeting in La Paz city. There is no report of injuries.

  • A handout photo made available by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 14 October 2020 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad surrounded by locals of Mashta al-Helou village in central Syria. | Photo: EFE/EPA/SANA

    Six million displaced people have returned home

    Originally published: teleSUR English on October 22, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The authorities reported that they have repaired more than 19.000 houses while supporting waste recycling projects that aim at securing an 18.000 job position.

  • This is the first time in 23 years that Evo Morales is disqualified from an electoral campaign ever since he first entered the Legislature in 1997 | Photo: EFE/ Juan Ignacio Roncoroni

    Bolivia Court denies Evo Morales candidacy for October 18 elections

    Originally published: teleSUR on September 7, 2020 (more by teleSUR)  |

    “History shows that they will be able to disqualify Evo, but they will not be able to outlaw the people,” Evo Morales replied as he urged Bolivians no to “fall into any provocation,” instead “abide by that decision because our commitment and priority is for the people to come out of the crisis.”

  • Archival image from July 8, 2020 showing ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in front of a trial hearing at The Hague, Netherlands. | Photo: EFE/Eva Plevier/Pool

    U.S. sanctions ICC prosecutor for investigating its troops

    Originally published: teleSUR HD on September 2, 2020 (more by teleSUR HD)  |

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement in response to an investigation on U.S. military crimes in Afghanistan.

  • Citizen makes noise with a horn during protests, El Alto, Bolivia, August 14, 2020. | Photo: EFE

    Añez intensifies persecution of social leaders

    Originally published: teleSUR on August 20, 2020 (more by teleSUR)  |

    Those who took part in the protests against the postponement of the elections are accused of terrorism and sedition.

  • Russia has officialy started to produce the first vaccine against COVID-19. (Photo: Twitter / @mfa_russia)

    Russia officially produces first batch of COVID-19 vaccine

    Originally published: teleSUR English on August 15, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    “Russia’s health workers and teachers will be the first ones to receive the vaccine in the country,” Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.

  • Michelle Bachelet urges countries to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism. | Photo: EFE

    UN Chief calls for reparations to amend slavery’s legacy

    Originally published: teleSUR English on June 17, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The U.N.’s Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet urged countries to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism.

  • US Blocks Vote on UN’s Bid for Global Ceasefire Amid COVID-19

    U.S. blocks vote on UN’s bid for global ceasefire amid COVID-19

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 13, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. veto trashes the UN’s efforts to convince armed factions in more than a dozen countries to call for temporary truces as the world battles the pandemic.

  • President Jair Bolsonaro at a press conference in Brasilia, Brazil, March 23, 2020. | Photo- EFE

    Democracy in Brazil would not be normal, Bolsonaro threatens

    Originally published: teleSUR English on March 26, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    The far-right president hints that a regime more authoritarian than Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship could be the “price to pay” due to the “chaos” that the “small flu” triggers.

  • The U.S.’s position is part of the illegal sanctions imposed on Feb. 7, on the Venezuelan airline Conviasa. | Photo- EFE

    Venezuela: U.S. blocks flights to repatriate citizens amid COVID-19

    Originally published: teleSUR English on March 24, 2020 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    Arreaza reiterated that the request for humanitarian flights responds to a request made by Venezuelans themselves to the Venezuelan Attention System in the United States.

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