Author: Arnold August

Bolivian President-elect Luis Arce (centre) shortly after the announcement of the election results, October 18, 2020. Photo courtesy of Luis Arce/Twitter. Despite a year of unbridled state repression, including massacres committed against supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who was deposed just weeks after being declared the victor in

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the First Plenary Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cochabamba, Bolivia, June 4, 2012. Photo by Juan Manuel Herrera/Flickr. On December 6, Venezuelans will go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. Since the last election

Protest in Buenos Aries, Argentina against the coup in Bolivia, November 2019. Photo by Santiago Sito/Flickr. The Trudeau government, in concert with the Trump administration and right-wing regional governments throughout Latin America, was instrumental in the 2019 coup against Bolivia’s first Indigenous leader, Evo Morales. Now-debunked claims of “irregularities” during

A protestor wrapped in a Venezuelan flag participates in a Hands Off Venezuela protest in London, January 29, 2019. Photo by Socialist Appeal/Flickr. In the early hours of May 3, and then again on May 4, heavily armed mercenaries on speedboats attempted to enter Venezuela from Colombia. They were confronted

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne speaks during the closing news conference at the Lima Group Ministerial meetings in Gatineau, February 20. Photo by Adrian Wyld. For the first time since Juan Guaidó’s proclamation as interim president of Venezuela in January 2019, a meeting of the Lima Group has failed

Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, François-Philippe Champagne (right), and Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó. Photo from the Facebook page of François-Philippe Champagne. The Lima Group will meet in Gatineau on February 20, across the river from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill. The group was originally established on August

A backer of former Bolivian president Evo Morales kneels in front of soldiers guarding a street in downtown La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, November 15. Photo by the Associated Press. On November 11, 2019, following the violent, racist, US-led coup in Bolivia against Evo Morales — which was supported from the

Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/AP Since the attempted U.S. coup against Venezuela on January 23, backed by the Lima Group of which the Justin Trudeau government is an active member, Canada’s corporate media have joined in a chorus of hate and disinformation against the Bolivarian Revolution, with the criticism focusing on