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Health personnel attend a patient affected by COVID-19 in Santiago, Chile, July 2, 2020.
Photo: EFE

Russia Offers Latin America a Drug to Cure COVID-19

Russia Offers Latin America a Drug to Cure COVID-19

11 July 2020
by John M. Ackerman
teleSUR Newsletter

Avifavir has been successfully used to treat more than 30,000 patients in 51 regions of Russia.

Russia’s Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) director Kiril...

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro shows military equipment during a meeting with the armed forces
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‘I’ve never seen a contract for toppling a government'

‘I’ve never seen a contract for toppling a government'

Venezuelan VP decries Guaido’s hiring of US mercenaries to Rafael Correa


14 May, 2020

A leaked mult-imillion-dollar deal between an opposition figurehead and a US mercenary firm to oust a leader...

Doctors and nurses of Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade are bid farewell before they travel to hard-hit Italy to help in the fight against the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 21. Cuba has dispatched medical personnel to dozens of countries around the world in hopes of helping to ease a global crisis that has already killed nearly 20,000 people around the world.
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Cuba Uses 'Wonder Drug' to Fight Coronavirus Around World Despite U.S. Sanctions

Cuba Uses 'Wonder Drug' to Fight Coronavirus Around World Despite U.S. Sanctions

By Tom O'Connor, 3/24/20

Cuba has mobilized its medical corps around the world to distribute a new "wonder drug" that officials there say is capable of treating the new...

Cuba has been supplying the drug, which is produced with Cuban technology at the Changchun Heber Biological Technology joint venture, located in Jilin, China.
Photo: Cuba Net

Chile’s Communist Mayor to Import Cuban Meds to Fight COVID-19

Chile’s Communist Mayor to Import Cuban Medications to Fight COVID-19

Published 16 March 2020

“This will be for high-risk infected people. We make ourselves available to the municipalities that require it," Jadue added.

Chile’s Daniel Jadue, Mayor of...

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‘OAS misled public’: MIT study finds ‘NO evidence of fraud’ in Bolivian election that saw Evo Morales ousted in military coup

‘OAS misled public’: MIT study finds ‘NO evidence of fraud’ in Bolivian election that saw Evo Morales ousted in military coup

Published: 27 Feb, 2020

A new MIT study has found no evidence of fraud in Bolivia’s 2019 election, despite allegations of...

Lula has set, as first goal to regain power for the left, the next municipal elections.
Photo: RT

Brazil: Lula Stands As Opposition To Bolsonaro, Right Wants Him Back In Jail

Brazil: Lula Stands As Opposition To Bolsonaro, Right Wants Him Back In Jail

Published 10 November 2019

With only two days of freedom, Lula has gathered all the forces of the progressive line.

Former Brazilian President and leader of the Workers' Party...

Bolivia's President Evo Morales addresses the media next to Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, at the presidential hangar in the Bolivian Air Force terminal, in El Alto, Bolivia November 9, 2019.
Photo: Reuters

World Leaders, Organizations Condemn Coup Against Evo Morales in Bolivia

World Leaders, Organizations Condemn Coup Against Evo Morales in Bolivia

Bolivia's President Evo Morales addresses the media next to Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, at the presidential hangar in the Bolivian Air Force terminal, in El Alto...

Grain harvested in the Krasnodar region, Russia. File photo.
© Sputnik / Aleksander Kondratyuk

Trade, science & culture: Russia, Venezuela to draw up 10-year cooperation plan

Trade, science & culture: Russia, Venezuela to draw up 10-year cooperation plan

6 Oct, 2019

Russia and Venezuela have agreed to develop an official long-term cooperation agenda. The document will determine trade, economic, scientific, technical...

The ex-Brazilian president spoke about the “semi open regime” proposal he is refusing.
Photo: Reuters

Lula: “I Want To Leave This Place With My Innocence Proved”

Lula: “I Want To Leave This Place With My Innocence Proved”

Published 4 October 2019

In the new edition of "Interview," former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been in prison since April 2018 for his alleged link to the...

Photo: Reuters

Haitians Take to the Streets to Denounce Foreign Interference

Haitians Take to the Streets to Denounce Foreign Interference

Published 4 October 2019

The demonstration started in the morning near the capital's air terminal and headed towards UN facilities in Port Prince; the protesters demanded the...

Gabriela Rivadeneira, announced her party wants early elections in order to “move past the political crisis”
Photo: @callimanta

Ecuador Assembly Calls for President's Removal, Early Polls

Ecuador Assembly Calls for President's Removal, Early Polls

Published 3 October 2019

by Dr. Jack Rasmus

Assembly members of Citizen's Revolution call for President Lenin Moreno's ouster, early elections and a return to "rule of law."

Former members of...

Economy grows, poverty decreases in Bolivia with Evo Morales

Economy grows, poverty decreases in Bolivia with Evo Morales

By Jorge Petinaud La Paz, Oct 4

The process of change headed by Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, today exhibits a privileged growth of the economy, while the poverty indicator declined...