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President Nicolás Maduro says ‘thank God’ for dollarization in Venezuela

November 21, 2019 – 12:02 am

Nicolás Maduro

By Stabroek News – November 18, 2019

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro embraced the currency of his bitter rival the United States yesterday, calling it an “escape valve” that can help the country weather its economic crisis amid U.S. sanctions aimed at forcing him from power.

The official currency, the bolivar, has depreciated more than 90% this year, while hyperinflation in the first nine months of the year clocked in at 4,680%, according to the central bank.

The inflationary spiral has slashed the purchasing power of the South American country’s minimum wage, which together with food assistance, is equivalent to about $10 per month. Continue reading →

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“Silent Warrior” by Indigenous Brazilian Poet Márcia Wayna Kambeba – By Rosaliene Bacchus

November 17, 2019 – 11:27 pm

New post on Three Worlds One Vision – by Rosaliene Bacchus

Márcia Wayna Kambeba – Indigenous Poet – Belém – Pará – Brazil
Photo Credit: Brazilian Women’s Magazine Seja Extraordinária

My Poetry Corner November 2019 features the poem “Silent Warrior” (Silêncio Guerreiro) by Márcia Wayna Kambeba, the artistic name of Márcia Vieira da Silva, an indigenous Brazilian poet, geographer, performer, and activist for indigenous rights. Born in 1979 in the village of Belém do Solimões in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, she is of Omágua Kambeba ethnicity. At eight years, she moved with her family to São Paulo de Olivença—once the largest settlement of the Kambeba people—in Amazonas. Today, she lives in the city of Belém, capital of Pará.

War Court Rules on Suriname President Desire Delano Bouterse for “Mass Murder”

November 16, 2019 – 12:04 am

Photo: In this Aug. 12, 2015, file photo, Suriname President Desire Delano Bouterse at military parade after being sworn in for his second term, in Paramaribo, Suriname. – Associated Press / Ertugrul Kilic, File

By Bert Wilkinson – Caribbean Life News

One of the best known personalities in Caribbean Community politics is fighting hard to stay out of jail. Surinamese President Desi Bouterse who led two coups in 1980 and 1990, has along with about 20 other defendants been summoned to appear before a war court at month end to learn of the date when he would most likely be sentenced to 20 years in jail for mass murder.

On Dec. 8, 1982, soldiers rounded up 15 critics of his then military-led government, pushed their backs against the walls of an old Dutch fort, and executed them, triggering outrage throughout the hemisphere. Continue reading →

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VIDEO: Guyana-born Dr. Ivan Van Sertima | Afrikan Presence in Early America

October 16, 2019 – 12:21 am

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima | Afrikan Presence in Early America

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima | Afrikan Presense in Early America

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Venezuela: Russia and hemispheric geopolitics – Stabroek News Editorial

October 15, 2019 – 12:21 am

Stabroek News – October 13, 2019

A number of news organisations, including the BBC, have produced pieces on Russia’s growing global reach, and President Vladimir Putin’s apparent mission to re-establish his country’s influence in world affairs and engineer a return to spheres of influence. He has been aided by the carelessness, lack of judgement and sometimes arrogance of the West, which made it possible for him to make Moscow a player in the Middle East, take the Crimea and bring eastern Ukraine under its ambit.

But all of this, while of interest to Guyanese on account of the small world we live in, is not of immediate moment. In contrast, Russia’s actions across our border are. Once again, with Washington taking the lead, the West made a strategic miscalculation in de-recognising Nicolás Maduro as Head of State and Government in Venezuela, and according interim presidential status to Juan Guaidó. Continue reading →

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Cash Transfers from Oil Revenues are Not A Magic Bullet – By Tara Patricia Cookson

October 8, 2019 – 1:49 am

Families need more than cash transfers to thrive

By Stabroek News – October 7, 2019 – By Tara Patricia Cookson

The topic of direct cash transfers to Guyanese households, paid for by projected oil revenues, has been in the news over the past few weeks, and seems set to become an issue on the Guyanese elections campaign trail. Will the presidential candidates promise to alleviate poverty by giving families cash?

They will certainly not be the first politicians in the Caribbean or in neighbouring regions to try. Last year I published a book about Peru’s conditional cash transfer program, Juntos, a program considered to be so successful that then-World Bank President Jim Kim offered financing for any country that would replicate it. Indeed, there are many studies that show that Juntos, like other cash transfer programs, soften the acute effects of poverty and increase families’ use of health and education services. Continue reading →

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Maracaibo – Venezuelan El Dorado Hits Rock Bottom – By Katrin Kuntz | Der Spiegel

September 5, 2019 – 11:54 am

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Maracaibo used to be the Dallas of Venezuela; its wealth fueled by oil. But today, residents are fighting for survival and the city is experiencing an exodus. The collapse of Maracaibo is emblematic of what may lie in store for the country at large.

Katrin Kuntz | Der Spiegel International

The day on which residents of Maracaibo destroyed their own city out of sheer desperation began relatively normally, considering the circumstances. It was March 10, 2019, and for the preceding three days, the power had been out across almost the entire country. Fernel Ricardo, a resident of Maracaibo, the second-largest city in Venezuela, remembers how his city took one ste p closer to the abyss that day. Continue reading →

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U.S. — Puerto Rico is another presidential litmus test which Trump has failed –By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN

September 5, 2019 – 12:45 am

–By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN

Among all of President Donald Trump’s many character flaws, perhaps the most unfortunate one is a lack of empathy, especially for those who need it the most. But compassion is a necessary trait for any president, who, as head of state, often has to comfort and console Americans in times of crisis.

Take the case of Puerto Rico. As then tropical storm Dorian bore down on the island last Wednesday morning with a likelihood that it would become a hurricane, the president tweeted, “We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job,” referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “When they do, let them know it, and give them a big Thank You – Not like last time. That includes from the incompetent Mayor of San Juan!” Continue reading →

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Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest: Mother forgive us. We know not what we do…

September 1, 2019 – 7:41 am

01 Sunday Sep 2019 – Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus in Anthropogenic Climate Disruption, Brazil

MAP OF ACTIVE FIRES IN THE AMAZON BASIN – BRAZIL – AUGUST 27, 2019
PHOTO CREDIT: BBC NEWS

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is under attack. So far this year, she has received nearly 75,000 stab wounds, setting the targeted areas ablaze. Seventy-five thousand! Her belching smoke trails turned daylight into darkness over Brazil’s largest city, some 1,677 miles away. How many trees and the non-human lives they sustain have we humans condemned to ashes? For what?

Guyana-born Chemist and Ethno-botanist – Conrad Gorinsky – Dead at 83

August 31, 2019 – 10:50 pm

An Ethno-botanist Who Wanted to Save the Amazon But was Accused of Biopiracy

Dr. Conrad Gorinsky

Obituary | The Times

Conrad Gorinsky was born in Parubaru, near the Kuyuwini river, in British Guiana on March 7, 1936. He died of pneumonia after being treated for nasal cancer on August 18, 2019 at age 83

As a young woman lay dying after being bitten by a venomous sea snake in Papua New Guinea, Conrad Gorinsky bemused his fellow explorers by smearing her swollen leg with mashed mango.

A world authority on the medicinal properties of tropical plants, whose reputation was later tarnished by allegations of “biopiracy”, Gorinsky was familiar with the ancient treatment for snake bites used by the indigenous people. The girl made a full recovery. Continue reading →

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President Nicolás Maduro says ‘thank God’ for dollarization in Venezuela

“Silent Warrior” by Indigenous Brazilian Poet Márcia Wayna Kambeba – By Rosaliene Bacchus

Márcia Wayna Kambeba – Indigenous Poet – Belém – Pará – Brazil
Photo Credit: Brazilian Women’s Magazine Seja Extraordinária

War Court Rules on Suriname President Desire Delano Bouterse for “Mass Murder”

VIDEO: Guyana-born Dr. Ivan Van Sertima | Afrikan Presence in Early America

Venezuela: Russia and hemispheric geopolitics – Stabroek News Editorial

Cash Transfers from Oil Revenues are Not A Magic Bullet – By Tara Patricia Cookson

Maracaibo – Venezuelan El Dorado Hits Rock Bottom – By Katrin Kuntz | Der Spiegel

U.S. — Puerto Rico is another presidential litmus test which Trump has failed –By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN

Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest: Mother forgive us. We know not what we do…

MAP OF ACTIVE FIRES IN THE AMAZON BASIN – BRAZIL – AUGUST 27, 2019
PHOTO CREDIT: BBC NEWS

Guyana-born Chemist and Ethno-botanist – Conrad Gorinsky – Dead at 83

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Márcia Wayna Kambeba – Indigenous Poet – Belém – Pará – Brazil
Photo Credit: Brazilian Women’s Magazine Seja Extraordinária

MAP OF ACTIVE FIRES IN THE AMAZON BASIN – BRAZIL – AUGUST 27, 2019
PHOTO CREDIT: BBC NEWS