There have been around 170,000 elections in communes and communal councils from 2006 to 2023.
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition statement on the dangers the Uhuru 3 case poses to free speech In this case, the US government seeks to set a legal precedent regarding “disinformation.” It argues that their US government definition of the term “does not refer to information that is necessarily false.” In the case of the Uhuru 3, what the Uhuru 3 say about the war in Ukraine is determined to be similar to what Russia says, and is therefore propagating Russian disinformation. If they are convicted, then this precedent can be used against organizations exposing US interference in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc.
Venezuelanalysis: Jorge Arreaza – Real Democracy and Continental Integration “there have been around 170,000 elections in communes and communal councils from 2006 to 2023. These elections allow communities to select their local governments and make important decisions. They are about self-government. Additionally, the National Electoral Council is authorized to oversee elections for trade unions, worker councils, and university representatives, among others….All the evidence – including the erratic behavior of the United Nations commission, which posted its report on social media instead of submitting copies to the electoral authorities and the UN Secretary-General, as is customary – points to an international conspiracy aimed at creating a post-truth narrative that presents Venezuela as a failed state.” Arreaza then discusses the history of ALBA. “When you look at BRICS, there’s an interesting alignment with the goals that ALBA proposed some 20 years ago.”
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Peoples Dispatch: Carlos Ron on the democratic tradition of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Maduro, in the election campaign, “also subjected to being banned from social media. There was no showing of the campaign the way the other side was able to do so, and so forth…..When your electricity doesn’t work the right way, when your water pumping system doesn’t work the right way, when your garbage collection system doesn’t work the right way, it’s not because of mismanagement or the socialist vision, it’s because you have 930 measures that prevent these things from working the right way.”
Peoples Dispatch: Carlos Ron on the Bolivarian revolution and the persistent threat of counterrevolution withInsightful questions by Zoe Alexander. Carlos Ron: “the political aspect of the Bolivarian project. It’s a project that has been deepening democracy in Venezuela, it’s a project that has a strength in the combination of the political will of a government to make social transformations and the organized population to carry them out. It’s the combination of these two things that have made things happen during the last 25 years.”
Venezuela has eliminated illiteracy, it provides free health care, nutrition, it has spaces of direct democracy through the community councils, through the communes, it is now self-sufficient in food, with no transgenic crops, The last election before July 28 “ was a national level election where people in the commune were able to vote, out of seven projects, which project they considered a priority, so that government funding would go to that project and actually make it happen.”
Orinoco Tribune: ASTRA Hacker Claims Responsibility for Cyber-Attack Against Venezuela and CNE ASTRA, leader of the hacking group known as the Cyber Hunters, revealed on August 14, that he carried out sophisticated cyber operations to sabotage Venezuela’s electoral system. His team manipulated a “ghost machine” of the CNE, saturating the connection ports and seriously affecting the voting transmission system, which delayed the publication of the electoral results that the country’s highest electoral body was expected to give. The minister of science and technology, Gabriela Jiménez, condemned the fact that since the day of the presidential elections, on July 28, at least 126 state websites had suffered cyberattacks, originating mainly from bot farms in the US, Mexico, France, and Switzerland, conducting almost 30 million attacks per minute against Venezuela.
Mision Verdad: Cyber-attacks against Venezuela: their scope and technical dimensions In the last two weeks there have been peaks of 30 million computer attacks per minute, a scale that coincides with Ossa’s statement, who affirms that DDoS in Venezuela have reached peaks of 700 gigabytes per second, the largest offensive on record if compared to Google’s reports up to 2020. The high magnitude and duration of the onslaughts suggests that a great economic and technological power is at the controls of the cyberwar against Venezuela. The technical sophistication of the attacks has overwhelmed the cybersecurity in place in Venezuela.
Orinoco Tribune: Venezuela Passes Law Regulating Foreign NGOs With the approval of Venezuela’s new Law on Supervision, Regularization, Action, and Financing of Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-Profit Social Organizations, USAID and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will no longer be able to use their funds to finance terrorism in Venezuela, said the Foreign Minister Yván Gil.
Nicaragua Government Statement: Partnership Alliances – a new model for NGOs in Nicaragua “Each NGO, in compliance with all its legal obligations, will submit to public institutions, through the MINT and/or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, as the case may be, Specific Proposals for Alliance Programs and Projects, around Particular Topics, according to their organization’s mission and/or vocation. The Government and State Institutions may or may not accept the Proposals while ensuring that everything instructed, oriented and stipulated in the Laws of the Republic is complied with.”
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Events:
August 25: Defending Venezuela against another Coup Attempt Diego Sequera, Francisco Domínguez, Arnold August, Alison Bodine, Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza.
August 27: Hands Off Venezuela! Eyewitness Reports from the Venezuelan Presidential Election Roger Harris, Camila Escalante, William Camacaro, Justine Teba (The Red Nation)
August 29: Venezuela – Election Observers Tell the Real Story Ajamu Baraka, Vijay Prashad, Bahman Azad, Roger Harris and Zoe Alexander
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Delegations to Cuba, Nicaragua:
Cuba Delegations
December 1-9: National Single Payer: Invitation To Join Our Delegation To Cuba
Witness for Peace delegations to Cuba
Friendly Planet delegations to Cuba
Nicaragua Delegations Casa Ben Linder 2024
Email casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com to apply:
November 8-17 2024: Salud & Solidaridad: Hands-On Healthcare in Nicaragua
February 2025: The Bird Brigade: Birding in Solentiname Arquipelago
March 2025: Power & Protagonism: Women in Nicaragua
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