Wall-painted portrait of deposed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Photo from Flickr. On October 20, 2011, amid protests supported by the governments of the United States and the European Union, an armed uprising that plunged the country into a civil war, the Libyan leader was captured and brutally murdered by the
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Canadian Dimension: Mexico grants political asylum to Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales annouces his resignation in Cochabamba, Bolivia on November 10, 2019. Still image taken from Bolivian Government TV. Mexico which has offered Bolivian President Evo Morales political asylum on Monday after his forced resignation in the wake of a coup, while thousands of pro-Morales protesters were marching
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: ‘US Champion of Dirty Wars and Interventionism’: Evo Morales on JFK Files
Photo by Sebastian Baryli Bolivian President Evo Morales said the United States is the “champion of dirty wars and interventionism,” Saturday in response to the JFK files recently published detailing some CIA and FBI operations. Following the release of the documents, Morales denounced the U.S. record of military interventions, firing
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Venezuela’s Former MUD Leader Slams Opposition’s Failure at Polls
The former executive secretary of the Venezuelan opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable, MUD, Jesus ‘Chuo’ Torrealba, has blamed the leadership for their losses during last weekend’s regional elections. Torrealba said a “bad strategy” was at the heart of their defeat at the polls. President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela,
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Bolivia UN Envoy on Syria Attack: ‘History Teaches Us’ US Lies to Justify Wars
Photo by the United Nations “Now the U.S. believe that they are investigators, they are attorneys, judges and they are the executioners,” the Bolivian ambassador said. Lambasting the United States’ aggression against Syria, Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations Sacha Llorenti compared the basis for the unilateral move to former
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno Defeats Banker in Presidential Election
Photo from PanamaToday.com Progressive candidate and renowned disability activist from the ruling Alianza Pais party, Lenin Moreno, won the Ecuadorean presidential election Sunday. With 99 percent of the official vote counted, Lenin defeated former banker Guillermo Lasso, candidate for the right-wing CREO-SUMO alliance, with 51.16 percent to 48.84 percent, according
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: 66% of Brazilians Say Congress Voted Coup for Their Own Benefit
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Less than one quarter of Brazilians think that lawmakers acted with the best interests of the country at heart when approving the coup against Dilma Rousseff.
As the interim government o…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Nicolas Maduro Declares Emergency to Face Foreign Intervention
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The 60-day state of emergency will be used against threats of intervention by the United States and Colombia, among others, in light of the political assaults on Brazil’s Dilma Rousse…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: 300 Economists Urge World Leaders to Close Down Tax Havens
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Over 300 leading economists from 30 countries have written to world leaders to explain that there is no economic justification for allowing tax havens while urging them to lift the …
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Majority of US Millennials Reject Capitalism
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Young people in the U.S. are increasingly rejecting capitalism.
According to a recent survey conducted by Harvard University, 51 percent of respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 do no…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Venezuelan Opposition Launches Campaign to Oust Nicolas Maduro
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Venezuela’s right-wing opposition launched a campaign Tuesday to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power this year. The plan includes street protests for his immediate re…
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