Far right Rio de Janeiro governor Claudio Castro's military police have just killed 60 people in a police operation in Penha favela. Among the dead: 12 people wanted for drug trafficking and 2 police officers. No info yet on deaths from stray bullets.

🚨⚡️Brazilian President Lula da Silva: Negotiations with the U.S. won’t move forward if Marco Rubio is part of the team — he opposes our allies in Venezuela, Cuba, and Argentina.

Rio's bolsonarista governor tried to blame his police massacre on Lula yesterday, despite passing the last year working to block a national security law. Carlos Latuff caption shows him commanding his blood-soaked police singing, "It's Lula's fault".

With some reports coming in that over 100 people were killed by Rio de Janeiro's state military police yesterday, a group of favela-based civil society organizations has issued a public statement, entitled, "Rio Massacre: Public safety is not built with blood". Link below.

#Colombia | President Gustavo Petro celebrated the seizure of eight tons of cocaine near Europe, with the collaboration of the Colombian Navy. 38 people were captured “without a single death,” refuting the claims of the United States' anti-drug policy. telesurenglish.net/president-petr…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that the country's intelligence and counterintelligence services had foiled a new terrorist plot, following recent plans by the CIA and Trinidad and Tobago against national peace. #Venezuela #USA #CIA #TrinidadAndTobago #NicolasMaduro

Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sit down and exchange words in Busan, South Korea. You and I are at the helm of China-U.S. relations. In the face of winds, waves, and challenges, we should stay the right course, navigate through the complex landscape, and ensure the steady

My interview w/ Unified Federation of Petroleum Workers President Deyvid Bacelar is now in CounterPunch. Read it for an organized working class take on Petrobras' new exploratory offshore drilling permit, falsely labeled "at the mouth of the Amazon river" by bad faith actors.

On Thursday, October 30, humanitarian aid arrived in Cuba from the Venezuelan government in solidarity with the Cuban people after Hurricane Melissa devastated much of the eastern part of the Caribbean island. #Cuba #Venezuela #YvanGil #NicolasMaduro #teleSUR

Thousands of Sahrawi residents participated in the fourth call for mobilization, rejecting the United States' initiative to grant the territory of Western Sahara to #Morocco

When asked about NGO criticism of Petrobras' new drilling license, Unified Federation of Petroleum Workers President Deyvid Bacelar says it's unacceptable for the Global North, which destroyed all its forests & emits the most greenhouse gases, to dictate rules to the Global South