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Government maintains journalists and relatives in diplomatic positions abroad
02/06/2020 Silvia Star HIGHLIGHTS , NATIONAL



Appointments ratify President Lenín Moreno's close relationship with the press

News Point .The Government of President Lenín Moreno has shown a close and cordial relationship with the country's mainstream media, hence they have not exercised a critical line towards the regime.

An element that adds to that close press-government relationship is the appointment of journalists or their families in diplomatic positions abroad, as part of the political quota.

According to official information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Christian Bernardo Oquendo Sánchez, son of the owner of Radio Vision of Quito, Diego Oquendo, serves as Second Secretary of the Embassy of Ecuador in Canada, with a unified compensation of USD 5,508. Oquendo Sánchez is an anthropologist and social communicator.

In the list is Pablo Esteban Ortiz García, former Teleamazonas lawyer and brother of journalist Jorge Ortiz, who serves as Ecuador's ambassador to Belgium, with unified income of USD 10,527.

Another case is that of Luis Eduardo Khalifé Moraga, former Secretary of Communication and former interviewer of Ecuador TV, who occupies, with the rank of ambassador, the representation of Ecuador before Unesco, in France, with a remuneration of USD 10,579.

Another former television figure who occupies a diplomatic position is the former presenter of TC Televisión, Martha Agustina Sandoval Riofrío, who serves as general consul in Malaga, Spain, with a salary of USD 6,091.

The journalist and former editor of Diario El Comercio, Ivonne Eulalia Guzmán Vera, integrates Ecuador's diplomatic mission in the United States, as consul general in Los Angeles, and receives a fee of USD 10,092.

These and other commitments with the media would guarantee President Moreno, at least for now, that the press is not very critical of political and economic decisions undertaken by the regime.

A clear example was when the media defended the elimination of fuel subsidies, decreed by the Head of State, and which was subsequently repealed after the October strike last year.

Elaborated: Adrián Acosta

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Carabineros repress new peaceful protest in Chile


In the demonstrations the departure of the chief of police, Mario Rozas, was requested after the complaints against the security body for violation of human rights | Photo: Reuters

Posted 15 February 2020 (53 minutes ago)

Although the demonstrations have decreased in January and February of this year, on Fridays for four months, hundreds of people take to the streets of Santiago to protest.

A new peaceful protest against the government of President Sebastián Piñera was recorded the day before in Santiago, the Chilean capital, which was repressed by police, while there was a fire in the vicinity of the "Plaza de la Dignidad".

The Plaza Italia, renamed "Plaza de la Dignidad" by protesters, a usual protest area in Santiago, gathered thousands of people with flags and canvases in a peaceful demonstration that contrasted with the incidents that occurred in adjacent streets and the intervention of the public force

Although the demonstrations have decreased in January and February of this year, on Fridays for four months, hundreds of people take to the streets to protest.

During the day there were some fires in the streets surrounding the square; one of the most notorious happened after dozens of hooded people set fire to the cabin of a truck that was built against a tree.

Hours later, a house fire was recorded, which is used by students, in Vicuña Mackenna and Carabineros de Chile, very close to Plaza Italia.

The protesters had placed barriers in some streets of the capita, but were repressed by elements of police, which used water-throwing cars.

The mobilizations in the sector again affected the train flow of the Santiago Metro, as several stations on line 1 were operating partially.


On this new day of marches the departure of the chief of police, Mario Rozas, after repeated complaints against the security body for human rights violations.

The concentration, which took place mostly in a peaceful and festive atmosphere, was convened through social networks under the motto "A Valentine without Rozas" and dozens of protesters came with posters alluding to the appointment.

The Carabineros elements used jets of water under pressure and threw tear gas bombs to disperse the discontented, local media reported.

In videos broadcast by the Think Press site, the moment when protesters are attacked with tear gas bombs thrown by police. In response, some people threw them back to the uniformed.

For the month of March, the Chilean population fears that violence by Carabineros is revived with dozens of marches that have already been announced in social networks against the government of President Piñera.

In the next few days the International Song Festival of Viña del Mar is celebrated, which coincides with the end of the summer period and the return to classes.

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Sebastián Piñera's approval reaches a minimum of 9% in Chile


Respondents also expressed their opinion about the police (military police), who only have 34 percent support for their management. | Photo: EFE
Posted 10 February 2020

According to the data collected by the pollster, the disapproval of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera was recorded at 84 percent.

The president of Chile , Sebastián Piñera , reached a minimum approval of 9 percent, according to the survey published Monday by Cadem Public Square.

According to the data collected, the disapproval of the Chilean president was recorded at 84 percent, an assessment that has remained high since the social outbreak against his Government last October.

Likewise, those who participated in the survey expressed only 34 percent support for the management of the police (military police), a historical decrease, who have been denounced for committing human rights violations during the demonstrations.

With respect to the plebiscite that is scheduled for next April, 67 percent agree to approve a new constitution, which represents five points less than the previous measurement, while 27 percent have rejected this consultation, about five points more than the previous one.

Regarding the economic situation in the country, the survey showed that it is an issue that still worries the population, because only 13 percent have expectations that it will improve, 43 percent believe it will remain the same and that same percentage of people He thinks it will get worse.

Despite strong repressions by state agents against anti-government protests, in which thousands of people have been injured and hundreds with eye injuries, the rejection of Piñera has been maintained since October 2019, reiterating the request for his resignation.

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In the Chilean revolt, the best is yet to come

They have not been able to with this stubborn and brave people that for four months they have not only gone out to the squares for thousands, but they have changed their name to beautiful words such as "Dignity" and "Revolution." He has thrown down monuments of conquerors and vendepatrias, disciples of those, has suffered wounds in the eyes of many young people who had opened large, very large, to face their enemies, have added thousands of rebels in prisons and has even raged with pain by the companions killed by those criminals in uniform, pinochetista, who are the Chilean police. Or rather, the "pacos qliaos," as they shout at each crowd meeting.



But the evidence shows that that dictator Sebastián Piñera and his companion of ministers, ministers and jesters, are increasingly surrounded by the anger of those who despise them for becoming ruthless and corrupt figures of a system that is falling apart, and that for Preventing the fall is able to kill these people in a thousand ways. By hunger, by misery or clean shot. Isn't it true, General Rozas?

The same applies to that bourgeois party, from the right or from the "left." The first, because as Piñera they are "murderers just like PInochet", and the second because they were the main supporters of capitalist governments and repressors (against the Mapuche people, the students and the workers) during the Concertación de Lagos or Bachelet. They are the same ones that now agreed with Piñera a constituent plebiscite empty of content, and not the one that those who fight on the front line against oppression every day want. Although they carry out that hoax everything indicates that they are doomed to failure, since the rebellion is difficult to cease.

Four months are not a few to continue fighting the repressive madness of the pacos, no matter how much some bullies continue to announce, as crows, that "it is soon over." They were wrong and they will be wrong again. Chile woke up and all fears were lost. What would be the point of giving up the freedom of the streets with thousands of young people singing, dancing, fighting and answering whoever asks them, who do it for "dignity." But also for the other or the other, for the old men with rubbish retirement, for that student who lived Violeta, who resisted as he could but prevented the PSU filter from leading them ahead By today's 3000 prisoners and prisoners, which are very similar to those who imprisoned the Pinochet dictatorship in the Stadium. By Commander Ramiro, buried in life in a terror prison and by Mauricio Fredes or Neko Mora, of the Colo Colo fans, killed by the damned carabinera repression. And undoubtedly, by Víctor Jara, from whom they sing some of their emblematic songs in the middle of the barricade in the Alameda, as well as enjoying the peleona coherence of the rapper Anita Tijoux or the Bersuit, which this Friday will play from the Plaza radio balconies of Dignity

All these stories and experiences embodied in a wonderful youth were reinstated on Tuesday in the Plaza of Santiago, in Valparaiso, Antofagasta and other answering spaces. As always the repression believed that they dispersed them intoxicating the air with their poison, but in their cowardice they do not understand that this Revolt is unstoppable and by reoccupying their trenches, with smiles, improvised rhythms, cacerolazos and drums, they are showing the world that four Months are nothing. Moreover, they serve to presage that a "combative March" comes with everything.

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Latin America's Women's Day: Huge Marches Across the Continent


Millions of women across Latin America’s cities took to the streets Sunday as women’s day unfold throughout the world. | Photo: teleSUR
Published 8 March 2020 (14 hours 32 minutes ago)

Millions of Latin American women hit the streets of their cities and marked International Women’s Day, against a backdrop of broader social unrest in the region.

Millions of women across Latin American cities took to the streets Sunday to protest against growing inequality, femicide, and abortion laws, as women’s day unfolded throughout the world.

From Buenos Aires to Mexico City, women marched to demand their right for a life free of gender violence in a world where femicides claim the lives of more than 10,000 women each year.

Latin America has a top position within this bleak panorama with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reporting in late 2019 that more than 3,500 women were assassinated in 2018.

El Salvador is the country that leads the ECLAC list, followed by Honduras, Bolivia, and Guatemala.

More than two million Chilean women have taken to the streets against violence, neoliberalism and the repression of the Piñera government for International Women's Day.

A spokesperson for the country’s largest feminist advocacy group, La Coordinadora Feminista 8M Alondra Carrillo, said that along with sharing the demands of the wider protest movement, women in the South American country are fighting for distinct issues related to gender violence, such as legal abortion, domestic violence, and equality in the workplace.

“Women are permanently subjected to various forms of patriarchal violence, which is an integral part of the way in which Chile is organized,” Carrillo said.

Meanwhile, in neighboring Argentina, the 2020 International Women's Day comes just three months after President Alberto Fernandez took office.

The latter has announced plans to create a minister for women and support an effort to legalize abortion after previous attempts were blocked in Congress.

Women in Buenos Aires marched on Congress late Sunday afternoon, and are planning to hold work strikes Monday in support of the abortion law, equal pay and legislation aimed at fighting violence against women.

Further north in Mexico, the day brought record numbers of women into the streets of the capital, as the number of femicides has more than doubled over the last five years.

#Oaxaca #8M The atmosphere on the streets is enraged but also celebratory of the autonomous spaces and networks women across #Mexico and #LatinAmerica are creating to protect and uplift women & non-binary folks #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer #InternationalWomensDay #MexicoFeminicida pic.twitter.com/iS0ZgQu0cg

— samantha demby (@SamanthaThel) March 8, 2020

In Colombia, women in Bogota celebrated the capital’s first female mayor, while protests unfold fueled by outrage over a recent court ruling that upheld limits on abortion.

Feminist mobilizations have been constantly growing and gaining momentum over the past years in Latin America.

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Chile Govt Allows Employers Not To Pay Wages During Quarantine


As of Thursday, Chile has 1,306 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four deaths. | Photo: EFE

Published 26 March 2020 (9 hours 38 minutes ago)

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The ministry of labor says in the case of a force majeure “the parties are exonerated from the reciprocal obligations imposed on them by the contract.”


After various inquiries emerged in Chile about how employers and workers should operate if a complete quarantine was decreed, the ministry of labor issued a set of rules Thursday allowing employers not to pay ​​​​their workers' wages.

The document published by the government of right-wing President Sebastian Piñera ​​​​​​says that in the case of a force majeure “the parties are exonerated from the reciprocal obligations imposed on them by the contract.”

The statement adds that employers will thus no longer have the obligation to offer any work or to pay any wage to their workers. Likewise, the workers are not obliged to fulfill their functions.

Chile's government announced Wednesday a quarantine for large parts of the capital Santiago after the country passed 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

Health Minister Jaime Manalich said the ban on movement would begin Thursday night and last for seven days.

The measure applies to 1.3 million people living mainly in the rich eastern areas of the city where the virus surfaced among people who had recently been to Europe.

As of Thursday, the South American country has 1,306 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four deaths. Manalich said health authorities would set up a sanitary cordon around the city to contain the spread of the virus, although other cases were confirmed outside Santiago.

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Chile: Pinera's Gov't Asks Homeless People To Stay Home


Homeless Chileans live in tents in public spaces | Photo: Twitter/@RendirseJamass

Published 26 March 2020 (17 hours 36 minutes ago)

Jorge Gestoso
"This is a population that has a poor nutritional status, and also has diseases that have not been treated, so they are more likely to contract the virus."


Chile's government requested the homeless population to “stay at home” and to maintain hygiene to prevent Covid-19. The administrative request generates mockeries and polemic reactions.

Chile’s Social Development and Family Minister, Sebastian Sichel, affirmed that his administration is asking the ones who live on the streets to go back to their houses. That statement shows the unfamiliarity of the functionary with the poorest Chileans’ livelihood.

Health and sanitary experts qualify mandatary Sebastian Piñera's administration as negligent and claim it rules with poor resources and social management.

Chilean homeless do not have the supplies or housing conditions to isolate themselves and prevent Covid-19 infection. According to national statistics, more than 14 000 people live in Chile’s streets with no access to basic services as electricity, water or food.


"Not only the elderly or the chronically ill may be a population at risk from Covid-19, there are also other human groups with high vulnerability: the homeless."

"This is a population that has a poor nutritional status, and also has diseases that have not been treated, so they are more likely to contract the virus," explains Francisco Roman, executive director of the “People in the Street” Foundation.

The precarious homeless’ living situation increases risk contagion for the rest of the Chilean population. Figures reveal an increase in the wandering population in the last 3 years. Among them are psychiatric patients, seniors but also families with little kids. Some state strategies to palliate this situation are foster care facilities, open dinners, and basic health services, but experts say is not enough to cover all the ones in need.

So far, Chile registers 1 306 Covid-19 positive cases, and 4 deceased due to the virus.

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Chile's Health Ministar Dismisses Total Quarantine


Crowded lines in La Serena city, Chile, March 31 | Photo: Twitter/@rsbchile

Published 2 April 2020 (19 hours 0 minutes ago)

Mañalich pointed out that quarantine could restrain people from basic services and rights, such as medical attention in an emergency case.


Chilean Health Minister Jaime Mañalich opposes to decree a total quarantine due to COVID-19. The South American nation is under a medical emergency because of the virus spreading. Mañalich ordered quarantine only to retirement homes due the seniors' condition as a vulnerable population.

The functionary declared to local media: "The possibility of having a total quarantine, that is, the whole country being paralyzed for the next four months, is something that nobody is doing in the world. The countries that have tried to do this, I mean Italy, Spain, have failed miserably because a total quarantine means a very serious risk to people's lives in one respect: that is to ensure that they have their food.”

The health minister offered these declarations during a visit to Osorno city in the Los Lagos region, where sanitary authorities implemented quarantine as a preventive measure against the virus and contagious increase.

Mañalich pointed out that quarantine could restrain people from basic services and rights, such as medical attention in an emergency case. The functionary said: "When you do a total quarantine you know what is at stake that these people can take out the garbage, that they can go to the doctor when it is appropriate and that they can acquire or get supplies without hoarding. Very few people have money in their pockets to hoard and keep our daily bread on the table.”


"Health Minister Jaime Mañalich said he sees it as "practically impossible" for the general quarantine measure to be applied in Chile. This, in response to the request that has continued to be made by various authorities, especially mayors, who have been urging the government for weeks"

Despite these Mañalich arguments, several mayors from the southern zone of the Metropolitan region requested the Health Minister for an official quarantine disposition.

"Given the curve of infected people in the region, the number of critical patients and the capacity of our health network, we are convinced that the time has come to no longer postpone the implementation of a measure such as quarantine, a sanitary fence and the advancement of the curfew in the entire Metropolitan region," the mayors requested in a signed letter.

Mañalich's decision of not declaring quarantine has been criticized as a strategy of the rightist functionary to prioritize the economy over people’s behalf. Besides, as some local news media reports, there are not enough medical supplies to give sanitary assistance to those in need or bio-safe equipment for hospital personnel. Even with these alarming situation and WHO instructions to practice social isolation, Mañalich refuses to declare it and asks Chilean people to keep calm.

So far, Chile registers 3404 positive cases and 18 deaths due to the virus.

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Second Medical Flight Arrives in Argentina From Cuba


Cuban doctors return to Brazil after previously being expelled by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro | Photo: EFE

Published 2 April 2020

The Cuban Aviation airline transported some 207 Argentines on the second medical evacuation flight in order to return residents of the South American nation to their homes.

The Argentine ambassador in Havana, Javier Figueroa, expressed that this is only possible thanks to the dedication of many people in Buenos Aires and in the Cuban capital, passing through various local authorities and national laboratories that have donated medicines.

Figueroa also specified that his government is certain that the Argentine tourists who remain on the island will return safely to their homeland.

The diplomat thanked both Cubans and Argentines for the work and actions to make the evacuation airlift possible.

As part of the actions taken, the controls of the aircraft were raised throughout the way, as well as the hygiene and protection measures.

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Chile's Elite Escaping by Whirlybird For Easter Amid Pandemic


Chile has confirmed about 6,000 coronavirus cases, among the highest tallies in Latin America. | Photo: Airbus

Published 9 April 2020 (11 hours 18 minutes ago)

The coronavirus pandemic in Chile first appeared in the capital's richest neighborhoods.

After reports emerged of wealthy residents in Chile’s capital, Santiago, fleeing the city​​​​​​ by helicopter and private plane for Easter, amid the coronavirus crisis, Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel went on state television Thursday to remind them they have a “moral duty” to remain at home.

“What is going to be tested this weekend is how responsible, how supportive, we are as Chileans,” Blumel said, adding that “staying at home is not only an obligation, it is a moral and ethical duty."

Chilean health officials said earlier this week they planned to cordon off the city, setting up road checkpoints manned by police and military, to prevent city dwellers from fleeing to second residences in rural areas and coastal enclaves where they could spread the virus.

But Santiago Mayor Felipe Guevara told state television Thursday that the city had received complaints “that people are using their own or leased helicopter or aircraft to leave the metropolitan region for their second home.”

The coronavirus pandemic in Santiago first appeared in high-end neighborhoods where residents, who regularly travel to Europe, are believed to have imported the virus. However, the poor who are unable to afford medical care and struggle with informal jobs are those who are currently paying the heaviest price for contracting the disease.

Chile has confirmed about 6,000 coronavirus cases, among the highest tallies in Latin America.

For months, the South American nation has been gripped by protests against high living costs and extreme inequalities in a country where the richest have an income nearly 14 times greater than the poorest.

Chile is one of the most unequal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The income gap, which is about 65 percent higher than the OECD average, along with the slow disappearance of the middle class are among the country’s major challenges.

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(Yes, I substituted 'whirlybird' for helicopter. Sue me, I've been wanting to use that word for a while. bp)

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They register 72 doctors deceased by Covid-19 in Guayas, Ecuador


The College of Physicians and the College of Nurses of Guayas dismissed colleagues who died for contracting Covid-19 in the exercise of their work. | Photo: Spútnik Nóvosti

Posted April 15 2020

In view of the health emergency in Ecuador due to the new coronavirus, health personnel in the region have demanded the necessary supplies from the national government to face the pandemic.

The College of Physicians of Guayas (Ecuador) dismissed 72 doctors from that region on Wednesday, who died when they contracted Covid-19 while attending to the population affected by the pandemic, amid the health emergency in the country and the demand for State of greater guarantees to fight the virus.

In addition, the College of Nurses of the Guayas, until April 13, recorded the death of eight professionals, when they were infected in the exercise of their work.

One of the repeated complaints by doctors and nurses is that they do not have adequate biosecurity conditions to attend to those who arrive at health centers, collapsed after the growth of infections.

Both union organizations urged the Ecuadorian authorities not to allow more colleagues to die and called for their names not to be forgotten.

These are the lists that the Guayas Medical College publishes in honor of the memory of its professionals (today's report) dismiss 72 doctors. Likewise, the College of Nurses of the Guayas, who dismiss 8 professionals until April 13 @teleSURtv pic.twitter.com/LWjsrpy0jB

- Denisse Herrera (@denisseteleSUR) April 15, 2020 I mean
For his part, the Health Minister, Juan Carlos Zevallos, declared last week that the majority of doctors and nurses with Covid-19 did not necessarily become infected within hospitals, and affirmed that these are "community infections" or that health personnel led to those scenarios.

The Guayas College of Physicians rejected these statements and asserted that "they try to demarcate the responsibility of the State for the negligence in the supply of supplies, medicines and biosafety equipment for health professionals."

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The College of Nurses of the Guayas express to the Minister of Health the following:
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The College of Nurses of the Guayas also joined the rejection, and demanded that the Minister of Health publicly rectify and assume responsibility for his statements.

"We demand the necessary quantity of protective clothing for health personnel, incorporate more human resources to all hospitals, perform the Covid-19 exams on all nursing personnel," said the spokeswoman for the College of Nurses. from Guayas, Liliana Triana.

This province accumulates the highest number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 in Ecuador.

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Ecuador registers 369 deaths and 7,603 cases due to Covid-19

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During the past weekend, the Ecuadorian authorities made 50 arrests due to speculation in product prices. | Photo: EFE

Posted 14 April 2020

The data updated by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health on the Covid-19 was confirmed by the Government Minister, María Paula Romo.

The Government of Ecuador reported this Tuesday 369 deaths from coronavirus and a total of 7,603 confirmed cases.

In this sense, the Government Minister, María Paula Romo indicated that there are currently 6,212 cases of Covid-19 that are isolated in their homes.

In addition, the official expressed during a radio and television network to the Ecuadorian nation that "197 people are hospitalized with a stable situation and another 129 with reserved prognosis," said Romo.

For his part, the Minister of Public Health of Ecuador, Juan Carlos Zevallos, indicated that they carry out sectorized studies to determine the universe of those infected by Covid-19 with a view to making adequate decisions to confront the pandemic in the Ecuadorian nation.

"Representative samples were taken in different sectors of Babahoyo, the rapid test and the PCR (virus detection) test were applied to validate them, in addition to a survey of the population whose results will be announced in the coming days," he added. Zevallos.

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Colombian doctors resign due to lack of protection supplies


The health personnel, in a letter sent by the manager of the health institution, denounced that they do not have personal protection elements to attend to those infected. | Photo: HSanRafael

Posted April 20 2020



At least 30 doctors resigned from their duties at the San Rafael departmental hospital, located in the Amazonas department, for not having the security guarantees to care for patients with Covid-19.

About 30 health professionals in Colombia, including general practitioners and specialists in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics and general surgery, presented this Monday their massive resignation to the San Rafael departmental public hospital, located in the municipality of Leticia, Amazonas department, as they do not have protection supplies to carry out their work.

The health personnel, in a letter sent by the manager of the health institution, denounced that they do not have sufficient personal protection elements to attend to those infected with coronavirus in the Amazon, a department that already has four confirmed cases, one of them a doctor from the Leticia Clinic.

One of the hospital's resident medical professionals, Jaider Saurith, explained that the employment situation is precarious and there are no guarantees for their relatives in the midst of exercising the profession. According to the specialist, almost 100 percent of the staff is linked by service provision or outsourced, and the biosecurity protocols for handling suspected cases of Covid-19 are not being applied.

Saurith assured that in the hospital unit "we do not have the necessary facilities to deal with this type of case, nor do we have the necessary elements such as a gasometer, portable chest X-ray equipment and medication deficits", which has led to the death of severely affected patients by the coronavirus.

The letter stresses that "there are no supplies and equipment necessary for the provision of services. There are no guarantees of payment for the provision of services." The professionals explain that, after "innumerable" meetings with the Departmental Health Secretariat, the Governance and hospital managers "there is no one to lead the processes." Therefore, they will only attend to vital emergencies that are not related to the coronavirus.

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Capitalism and petty bourgiose priorties on display..... Perhaps the Cubans will help them out.....

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Peru reports 16,325 infections and more than 400 deaths from Covid-19


Similarly, the head of state reiterated that the quarantine measure will be in effect until April 26 with the aim of stopping the growth of those affected by the virus. | Photo: EFE

Posted April 20 2020

The country's health authorities noted that to date 16,325 positive cases and 445 deaths have been reported.

The Peruvian Ministry of Health reported on Monday an increase in the number of infected and deaths from the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). According to official data, the country has to date 16,325 infections and 445 deaths.

The health authorities indicate that 148,011 virus detection tests have been carried out, where 1,682 are hospitalized and 6,968 people have been discharged, likewise, the Peruvian Ministry of Health records that 37.8 percent of those infected with Covid-19 are women and 62.2 percent are men.

The Peruvian president, Martín Vizcarra, said during a press conference that the country is going through a complex situation due to the increase in cases, "these weeks are the most difficult of the Covid-19, due to its level of evolution in the population, it has the highest number of infected within the growth curve, "he added.

Similarly, the head of state reiterated that the quarantine measure will be in effect until April 26 with the aim of stopping the growth of those affected by the virus.

Likewise, the High President announced a package of measures to maintain the guidelines adopted to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, such as the delivery of a $ 226 voucher to more vulnerable families, in turn, ordered private educational centers to lower costs of pensions and gave the directive to the Ministry of Education to open enrollment for students who transfer from private to public schools.

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Chilean social sectors demand real emergency aid


A group of workers is seen wearing masks through downtown Santiago, Chile. | Photo: EFE

Published on April 21, 2020 (4 hours 26 minutes ago)

According to the most recent statistics, Chile registers a cumulative of 10,507 Covid-19 infections and 139 deaths.

Leaders of political parties, mayors, deputies and other social representatives called on Tuesday for the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, to grant "real help" to the population, in the face of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

In an open letter to Piñera, the more than 170 signatories proposed an Emergency Basic Income that ensures the economic sustenance of millions of families affected by the health crisis.

The Chilean president presented on Monday an Emergency Family Income bill, which aims to benefit 4.5 million people from the most vulnerable 60 percent of the population.

Among other measures, the Government, with this initiative, which has yet to be discussed and approved in Congress, seeks to provide resources for three months to households living on the informal economy. On average, each family would receive about 260,000 pesos a month.

The social leaders, however, considered these resources insufficient for families to have an income and stay at home, and thus avoid a greater number of infections from Covid-19.

To cover a basic basket, they proposed, each worker should receive 300,000 pesos, up to 500,000 for a four-member household.

According to the most recent statistics, Chile registers a cumulative of 10,507 Covid-19 infections and 139 deaths.

[Update] Ministry of Health reports 10,507 confirmed cases of # COVID_19 in Chile.

Check the full detail here: https://t.co/b6NxTzF4tq and at https://t.co/0BhgJcFuRm pic.twitter.com/3XNDCk2zRI

- Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) April 20, 2020

The Ministry of Health reported that until Monday the number of patients in intensive care units amounted to 377.

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Colombian authorities prevent thousands of Venezuelans from returning to their country


A group of Venezuelans, stranded in Bogotá, shows a flag next to the buses that were rented to return to their country. | Photo: EFE

Published on April 27, 2020 (5 hours 45 minutes ago)


Experts claim that such a block increases the risk of coronavirus infections.

Thousands of Venezuelans are stranded on the shared border, on the Colombian side, because the government of that nation has prevented them from passing.

Nearly 12 thousand Venezuelans are at different points on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, while another group of Venezuelans on the Colombian-Ecuadorian dividing line faces the same reality after they decided to return to their country, fleeing from the health crises that continue in these South American countries.

Colombian Migration Authorities argue that these measures are taken to regulate the agglomeration of people at the exit points, therefore the number of steps is limited.


The director of Colombia Migration, Juan Francisco Espinosa, explained that the problem occurs because there is a coordinated protocol with the mayors and governments of the coffee country in order to avoid crowds at the exit points.

In a video broadcast by his office, Espinosa remarked that "Venezuelan citizens who wish to return voluntarily to their country will be able to do so with the conditions that have been set for this procedure and those who do not comply with them will see their trip suspended until they do so "

"Colombia has always been ready to help the Venezuelan people, but that help is done in a responsible way, not only with migrants, but with our communities," added the official.

He revealed that since the beginning of the quarantine, on March 25, more than 12,000 Venezuelans have returned to their country and reached the different border crossings in some 300 buses.

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported last Friday that more than 20,000 nationals have returned to the South American country, amid the current pandemic due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

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So, lemme get this straight, some folks who supposedly fled 'communist dictatorship'(& not US economic terrorism)are being prevented from returning to said place after their 'refuge' is revealed as just another capitalist pesthole...hmmm, anything but 'communism'?

File under 'Better Dead than Red'.