Rights Action works to end exploitation-poverty, corruption, repression in Guatemala & Honduras, & hold U.S. & Canada, accountable for helping cause them.
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SCOOP: Nadia Beller, the Bolivian whistleblower who survived an assassination attempt ordered by Trump associate and political operative Fernando Cerimedo, tells me authorities are seeking to arrest her as soon as Friday. According to sources within the Bolivian government and police, the case will argue that her (brave) testimony against Cerimedo’s crimes—which range from U.S. backed election interference to drug trafficking—is evidence she had prior knowledge and failed to report.
Beller, a lawyer herself, cites multiple legal grounds for immunity and says this is an obvious attempt to silence her for exposing a corruption network spanning from Washington DC to Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and beyond. Beller’s whistleblowing prompted investigations in Argentina and Chile, including a congressional commission probing Cerimedo.
The Bolivian attorney general who arrested and charged Cerimedo with femicide for the attack on Beller was sanctioned by the U.S. and later detained by Bolivian authorities.
Beller says she fears for her life and the life of her unborn child, which Cerimedo allegedly fathered. She is calling on the international community to support her in the face of political lawfare, attempted femicide, and state repression. Please share far and wide.
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Canadians call for independent foreign policy of peace with Cuba and to oppose the blockade at
the United Nations
🇨🇺 The Canadian Network on Cuba— a coalition of 26 solidarity organizations—held a press conference in Ottawa today to demand that the Government of Canada take immediate and concrete action to counter the devastating impact of the United States’ economic war against Cuba in the name of Canadian sovereignty.
The press conference comes after a parliamentary petition was presented by Member of Parliament Leah Gazan (NDP). This is the third petition on this topic to come to the floor in 2026, collecting thousands of signatures, and arrives just before Canadian delegates will vote on the position of the United States blockade at the UN General Assembly on Oct. 28.
The petition and coalition call on Ottawa to undertake the following measures without delay:
1. Deepen and defend economic and cultural exchanges between Canada and Cuba in the
face of United States aggression;
2. Enforce the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act, to protect Canadian corporations who do
business in Cuba against United States sanctions;
3. Lift the Government of Canada’s advisory against non-essential travel to Cuba and expand
opportunities for tourism and trade; and
4. Reaffirm Canada’s historic opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba at the
United Nations and support the annual resolution on the Necessity of ending the economic,
commercial and financial embargo.
The CNC states that the deliberate use of economic coercion to deprive a population of essential resources raises grave humanitarian and international legal concerns. It calls for an immediate end to measures that threaten the well-being of the Cuban people. Canada must also take concrete measures to protect Canadian businesses and institutions from the extraterritorial application of U.S. sanctions.
We heard first from Juilo Fonseca, Co-Chair of the Canadian Network On Cuba and member of the Juan Gualberto Gomez Association of Cuban Residents in Toronto.
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Wow!
Canadian journalist asks Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Member of Knesset, if he is concerned about Israel's plummeting global standing.
Feiglin's response is chilling, as it reveals the fundamental supremacist view he and many in Israel hold.
He says that the real moral supreme court is in Israel, ie with the people of Israel.
The Bible says, he explains, that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. As a result, it's we - Israelis - who get to judge you, rather than you judging us.
And then he adds?
"Are you with the children of God or not?"
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Isaac Saney of the Canadian Network on Cuba and a professor at Dalhousie University of Black and African diaspora studies and history:
“Many economists, many specialists in Cuba, point to the principal cause of the Cuban economic distress as being this unprecedented economic war waged against Cuba that has now become a genocidal siege.
It's become an obsession of Donald Trump, but particularly Marco Rubio, to starve an entire people into submission by deeming, by denying them basic access to trade, to fuel and the basic necessities.
One question I'd like to point out: What country could withstand this would stand what Cuba has done for the last nearly nine, ten months of this vicious, vicious economic warfare raids against it?
What would happen to Canada if somebody were to cut off its access to international trade and so forth? It would lead to chaos.
And so I think it's important to bear in mind that what Cuba is undertaking, as Julio has pointed out, with its 176 measures, has been long debated and discussed about improving the efficiencies of the economy.
But as the United Nations report and many scholars have pointed out in the studies, the principal cause of Cuba's economic distress is this is this criminal, illegal and immoral economic war waged by Washington.”
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Libro “Herbert Anaya, ese mar de fueguitos” producido por el Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Herbert Anaya Sanabria/Ediciones Equipo Maíz.
A 39 años de su asesinato (27 octubre 1987). Investigación y redacción de Elena Freedman, con anécdotas y la participación de diversos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron.
En librería del MUPI, @tejiendomemoria.
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Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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#ElSalvador
25 de octubre de 1980, fue asesinado el defensor de #DerechosHumanos, Ramón Valladares, miembro de la CDHES- No gubernamental.
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📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out
🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET
Livestream details will follow.
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🇧🇷 SE ENTERRÓ SOLO
En pleno debate, Bolsonaro se burló de Lula al decirle "Nueves Dedos". La respuesta de Lula fue tan demoledora que el propio Bolsonaro le terminó pidiéndole disculpas ante millones de televidentes.
Lula perdió uno de sus dedos trabajando siendo menor de edad.
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Aura Buni, Amürü Nuni, frente a la campaña de odio racial contra el Pueblo Garifuna. El odio racial es una estrategia para legitimar el despojo y desterrarnos de nuestros territorios, de lo que hemos heredado de muestros antepasados y que nos permite el bienestar colectivamente.
Los que han acumulado el poder, han desplazado a la gran mayoría del pueblo hondureño condenandolos a vivir en los alrededores o periferias de las grandes urbes, solo para que trabajen y les consuman sus productos. Es este el modelo perfecto para hacer más ricos a los ricos. Y se atreven a afirmar que el pueblo Garifuna está desplazando a los no Garifunas de sus comunidades!!! Nosotros convivimos con los no Garifunas, prueba de ello, es el gran mestizaje que existe hoy en todas las comunidades. Desde la OFRANEH, apelamos a la convivencia pacífica, al respeto y reconocimiento de nuestra posesión territorial ancestral, esa es nuestra lucha. No tenemos odio contra nadie!!
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Mi reflexión sobre las elecciones de hoy en Brasil:
1. Lula no compitió con Flávio Bolsonaro. La competencia fue contra algo mucho más grande y, posiblemente, insuperable en las actuales condiciones históricas. El rival de Lula fue el tecnocapitalismo. Que se metió de lleno en Brasil como no lo había hecho en otros escenarios electorales. Lo vimos cuando META, empresa matriz de Facebook, Instagram y Whatsapp, fue descubierta beneficiando a Bolsonaro. Se configuraron tanto Facebook como Instagram para afectar los contenidos favorables a Lula; con las herramientas de IA de ambas redes impedidas de generar videos y afiches sobre Lula, pero sí sobre Bolsonaro. Y las dos primeras semanas de la campaña de segunda vuelta era notorio cómo las publicaciones a favor de Bolsonaro tenían mucho más alcance. Estas redes sociales y la IA no son meras herramientas; son la infraestructura por la que circula la inmensa mayoría de lo que la gente considera información. Al tiempo que son el principal medio de socialización en el mundo actual.
Los dueños de esa infraestructura, piezas clave del proyecto neoimperial que despliega Trump, saben cómo intervenir unas elecciones para crear mayorías electorales. En este caso para que ganen los candidatos/partidos que les prometan ampliar sus negocios en nuestros países. Especialmente en lo que toca a acceder a recursos energéticos para alimentar sus centros de datos y extraer minerales críticos. Componentes indispensables en la actual carrera por liderar el desarrollo de la IA frente a China que despliega el Estados Unidos de Trump a través de las empresas privadas que controlan este proceso en territorio estadounidense. Las ultraderechas están siendo deliberadamente beneficiadas por los algoritmos para crear mayorías electorales en favor del sector político que le promete a estos tecnoligarcas acceso total a nuestros recursos, datos y minerales. Esta articulación es la que, lo más probable, derrote a Lula hoy.
2. ¿No hay posibilidades para Lula? Las hay, pero no son muchas. Deben darse una serie de combinaciones y todo debe salir prácticamente perfecto para ganar por poco. Difícil, si bien no imposible. Esta tarde, con el primer boletín, iremos sabiendo si se dieron algunas de esas combinaciones.
3. Lula ha hecho un buen gobierno dentro de un contexto geopolítico complejo y en el marco de un capitalismo mundial de bajo crecimiento. Ha entregado números buenos en lo social y datos económicos estables. Distinto al ultraderechista Bolsonaro (padre de quien hoy podría resultar ganador) que dejó un país destrozado en el que, entre otras cosas, millones de brasileños habían vuelto a sufrir hambre. A mas de la destrucción institucional que había significado aquel gobierno extremista donde el insulto y el irrespeto a las instituciones fueron la normal. Pero recordemos que Bolsonaro padre, en 2022, estuvo a punto de reelegirse. Lula le ganó por poco en la segunda vuelta de ese año. Como he dicho antes, en el mundo de hoy no basta con hacerlo bien para ganar elecciones. En estas sociedades marcadas por el declive cognitivo que provoca el uso intensivo de pantallas, y donde el conocimiento es sustituido por creencias, la política es cada vez menos administración y más gestión de emociones. Lógica que las derechas y ultraderechas, con sus discursos simples y constante uso del insulto y la mentira, dominan a la perfección.
4. Es posible que Lula pierda. Y si ello finalmente se concreta hoy terminará la carrera del que seguramente sea el político latinoamericano más exitoso y mundialmente respetado de todo lo que va de siglo XXI. Un gigante en todas las dimensiones. El hombre que sacó de la miseria a millones de brasileños y que hoy, tras más de 20 años siendo el centro de la política de la primera economía de América Latina, llega a una segunda con posibilidades de ganar. Luchando contra toda esa estructura de intereses billonarios, manipulación algorítmica y poder geopolítico que describí antes. Y si gana, será una de las remontadas electorales más épicas de la historia.
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Lula versus Bolsonaro: Passei 1.901 dias em confinamento solitário por revelar a verdade sobre os assassinatos e a espionagem do governo dos EUA, inclusive contra o Brasil e suas indústrias. Lula, fora do poder, lutou pela minha liberdade. Lula, no poder, discutiu minha perseguição com o papa Francisco, que decidiu se encontrar com minha família e ajudar. Depois da minha libertação, Lula e eu nos encontramos em Roma para lamentar a morte do Santo Padre. Lula foi gentil com meus filhos e não pediu nada em troca. Em contraste, Jair e Flávio Bolsonaro nada fizeram e nada disseram. Sem a capacidade de dizer não a Washington e a Tel Aviv, não pode haver política interna, apenas ordens estrangeiras. Essas instruções são sempre as mesmas: “Ampliem nosso roubo de recursos e salários e calem a boca sobre nós assassinarmos crianças”. Os entreguistas entregarão tudo em troca de uma fatia, até a própria língua.
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Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford has a slew of questionable supporters, including the CEO of Shopify, and the founder of Rebel News.
@DesmondCole explains that Bradford’s endorsements shows his proximity to anti-democratic, right-wing rhetoric.
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The U.S. continues to employ an "increasingly diverse array of tools" to maintain its spheres of influence and will continue to do so in its attempt to impose its will on Brazil.
🖊️ Natalia Fingermann and Rafael Ioris write in @diplobrasil
panamericandispatch.org/p/ho…
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Lula supporters have come out in a range of ways to get out the vote for their candidate.
Cyclists in Florianópolis hit the streets in support of the president's reelection campaign.
They were joined by Santa Catarina state legislator @EcoMarquito
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Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.
U.S & META helping steal elections in Brazil
This US/Western electoral interventionism has already happened in other countries. Assuredly it is already happening in lead up to elections in Guatemala (2027), Mexico (2027), etc.
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As Brazilians prepare to vote in the runoff election this Sunday, October 25, Meta has been working to lift the candidacy of Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro.
@PAdispatch
therealnews.com/meta-brazils…
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Today in Parliament, @HMcPhersonNDP asked if Canada would intervene to stop Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems from acquiring a Canadian submarine company.
Disappointingly, the government did not directly answer.
Canada should not be open for business to Israeli companies that are complicit in genocide and illegal occupation.