2023-06-28: News Headlines

kwjorinoco (2023-06-27). Not-so-soft Coups and the Use of Blackouts in Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Salgado — Jun 26, 2023 | These days, we are entering a new phase in Honduras in the attempt of the right to provoke a color revolution. | This time, the issue seems more organized: power stations that turn off their generators, constant blackouts, people who become enraged, go out to protest in various parts of the country, and even enter frenzies by firing at electrical power transformers. | Faced with allegations of commercial sabotage made by the progressive government, and while the president completed a successful tour of the People's Republic of China, the Honduran fascist right wing notes t…

teleSUR (2023-06-28). French Police Murder Teenager and Spark Riots in Paris. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, a 17-year-old boy, who was arrested for driving without a license, was killed by a policeman with a shot to the chest when the teenager was inside his vehicle. | RELATED: | This new manifestation of police brutality triggered strong protests in Nanterre and other cities on the outskirts of Paris, where at least 24 citizens were arrested. | The police deployed some 2,000 agents to control riots in which the population set…

Huma Yasin (2023-06-28). As Movements Like Stop Cop City Gain Power, Police Treat Free Speech as a Crime. truthout.org Free speech is not free in this country and hasn't been for quite some time. During a raid earlier this month, a dozen police officers arrested three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a bail and legal defense fund, which has helped activists arrested while protesting the construction of a multimillion-dollar police and fire department training center dubbed "Cop City" in a forest southeast… |

Leo Earle (2023-06-28). Senegal: Violent clashes as protesters stare down president. greenleft.org.au At least 16 people were killed, hundreds injured and more than 500 arrested, following three days of protest in Senegal in early June, prompting fears of a further crackdown, reports Leo Earle.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-28). How Honduran activist Edwin Espinal won his freedom from JOH's dictatorship. peoplesdispatch.org Five years ago, Honduran activist Edwin Espinal sat in a supermax prison facing trumped up charges of arson, property damage, and use of homemade explosive material. | Espinal was arrested and faced possibly decades of jail time due to his participation in the mass protests in Honduras against the electoral fraud carried out by Juan Orlando Hernández in the November 2017 elections. The blatant fraud had sparked a mass reaction and from the end of November 2017 well into February 2018, the streets and highways across the country were sites of road blockades, marches, rallies, and cultural actions demanding "Out JO…


Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-06-27). Venezuela: Yukpa People Call for Justice for Detainees Amidst Protests. orinocotribune.com Indigenous communities from western Venezuela were injured during a crackdown while trying to reach Caracas to sell handicrafts. | Caracas, June 24, 2023 ( On June 15, Zenaida Romero, her husband Alfonzo Ramos Romero, and Francisco Romero were arrested after the National Bolivarian Police (PNB) attacked a group of Yukpas on the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge ac…




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