Peru's new leftist President Pedro Castillo announced at his inauguration that he will not govern from the typical palace, which is named after a murderous Spanish conquistador

Instead Castillo will make it a museum that tells Peru's real colonial history noticieros.televisa.com/ultimas-notici…
Pedro Castillo, the new leftist president of Peru, said at his inauguration today, "I believe that we have to break with the colonial symbols to end with the chains of domination that have remained in place for so many years" noticieros.televisa.com/ultimas-notici…
As the new president of Peru, Pedro Castillo announced that the Ministry of Culture will change its name to Ministry of Cultures to recognize Indigenous peoples:

"In a diverse country like ours, a ministry is needed that recognizes diverse cultures and other spoken languages"
Peru's new President Pedro Castillo called on his 1st day to "inter-culturize the state," to ensure "voices of Indigenous communities and the Afro-Peruvian people are considered"

He announced a plan to "linguistically transform the Peruvian state" so other languages are included

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25 Jul
A dirty tactic of imperialist hybrid war: regime media mouthpieces like The Guardian of Blairism (which supports every war and neoliberal reform and sabotages leftists like Corbyn) spread disinfo to divide the Latin American left

They did the same against Nicaragua and Venezuela
The Guardian is a right-wing pro-war rag controlled by UK spy agencies. It obediently prints lies to support every imperialist war

And it spends a lot of energy printing propaganda to divide the left, lying about Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to destroy international solidarity
Leaked documents obtained by @declassifiedUK show how The Guardian was effectively taken over and neutralized by UK spy agencies

It's a disinformation weapon of the British government, used to spread propaganda against countries targeted for regime change
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-0…
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14 Jul
Thanks to the socialist revolution, former colony Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the ultra-rich United States, as well as a slightly higher life expectancy.

And this is in spite of the murderous, illegal, 60-year US blockade and nonstop terrorist war on Cuba.
At the end of the right-wing US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the infant mortality rate was a staggering 47.1 deaths for every 1,000 live births. Today it is a mere 3.8 (compared to 5.6 for the US).
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.D…
When anti-imperialist revolutionaries liberated Cuba from US colonialism in 1959, the life expectancy for the average Cuban was only 63 years. Today it is roughly 79 (just above the USA's rate).
data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.D…
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13 Jul
Cubans just held this massive rally in the city of Camagüey IN SUPPORT of their anti-imperialist revolution and their socialist government.

This demonstration is much bigger than the tiny US-backed right-wing protests -- but don't expect mainstream corporate media coverage.
More photos of PRO-government rallies in Cuba, in support of the revolution
Photos of pro-government Cubans marching and chanting "Long live the revolution!"
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12 Jul
The disinformation on Cuba is so blatant: Pro-war, neoliberal British newspaper The Guardian used a photo of Cubans rallying with the July 26 flag (the name of the revolutionary movement founded by Fidel Castro) and falsely claimed they're "anti-government protesters"

Fake news! ImageImageImage
This shameless fake news from The Guardian (of Blairism) is archived here:
archive.ph/5fCUe
More fake news on Cuba: This corporate media outlet in Puerto Rico is using a photo of Cubans rallying in support of the revolution with the July 26 Movement flag, and falsely claiming they are "anti-government"
Read 4 tweets
11 Jul
This (very small) protest in Cuba is part of another US-backed astroturfed "color revolution" (read: regime-change) attempt, led by right-wing activists funded by the US government through CIA cutouts.

But there's a massive global propaganda campaign amplifying this tiny protest
That these US govt-backed regime-change operatives & their PR flacks in corporate media are claiming Cuba's highly funded socialist health care system is supposedly inadequate shows how cynical imperialist propaganda is, while the privatized US health hellscape bankrupts millions
Even this propagandist for US govt mouthpiece the NY Times, in her lie-filled article, admits there are only "hundreds" of Cubans participating in the tiny US-backed protests

And of course she only mentions the suffocating, criminal US blockade in passing
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10 Jul
The 28 mercenaries suspected of killing Haiti's president include 26 Colombians, some former soldiers trained by the US, and 2 US citizens linked to rival Haitian oligarchs who had a falling out with Jovenel Moïse

via @dancohen3000
mintpressnews.com/haiti-suspecte…
The US government has a long history of supporting reactionary authoritarian leaders when they serve its interests, but turning on them when they're no longer useful -- like Panama's Noriega, DR's Trujillo, Iraq's Saddam, and possibly Haiti's Jovenel Moïse
The operation in Haiti is now so obvious: after US-trained mercenaries assassinated the president, the unelected right-wing US puppet appointed "interim prime minister," Claude Joseph, is openly calling for another US military occupation of the country
apnews.com/article/busine…
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