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A polling station in Ikeja, Lagos in Nigeria in 2015. The new biometric voter accreditation system might be seen as a game-changer / credit: U.S. Embassy in Nigeria

Buhari Warns About Foreign Meddling As Nigeria Heads to Polls to Decide on Next President

African Stream February 24, 2023 African Stream

Nigeria’s president has scolded Western diplomats for their comments about the way the February 25 presidential election is being run, warning against foreign meddling. Countries across Africa are up against Western-backed coup attempts and Western-supported disinformation campaigns. African Stream reports.

Indigenous people protesting in the streets of Perú against the parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo Terrones / credit: Clau O'Brien Moscoso

Canada Props Up Peru’s Coup Government and Helps Canadian Mining Companies Exploit Crisis

Camila Escalante February 16, 2023 Camila Escalante

Two months after the coup against Peru’s democratically-elected president, Pedro Castillo, Canada is providing key support for a government responsible for the deaths of 58 civilians, as of February 6, 2023. Camila Escalante reports for the Canada Files.

First day of national strike in Lima, Peru / credit: Clau O'Brien Moscoso

‘Coup Regime Won’t Last Without Southern Provinces,’ Says Observer of Unrest in Peru

Julie Varughese January 13, 2023 Julie Varughese

Unrest continues in Peru, where 17 people were killed January 9 in the city of Juliaca, in a southern province. This comes after days of a national strike against the parliamentary coup that ousted President Pedro Castillo. Kawsachun News and Clau O'Brien Moscoso report from the ground.

A protest in Atbara, Sudan / source: Socialist Worker

Hundreds More Injured in Anti-Coup Protests in Sudan As December Revolution Enters Fifth Year

Pavan Kulkarni December 29, 2022 Pavan Kulkarni

Attempts by an alliance of foreign powers, domestic right-wing parties and the military junta to consolidate an authoritarian state in Sudan will be defeated by mass movements, said the Sudanese Communist Party. Pavan Kulkarni reports for Peoples Dispatch.

The 9th Summit of the Americas takes place until today in Los Angeles credit: Summit of the Americas / Twitter

OAS Secretary-General Denounced As ‘Assassin’ and ‘Puppet’ At Summit of the Americas

Rosa Miriam Elizalde June 10, 2022 Rosa Miriam Elizalde

June 7 was a bad day for the secretary-general of the Organization of American States. During the Summit of the Americas, a young man declared to him what he is: an instigator of the coup in Bolivia, reports People's Dispatch.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (center) waves to supporters during a rally held on April 14, 2007, outside the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. It was held here to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the return of democracy after a short-lived coup against Chavez was thwarted in 2002 / credit: Bolivar News Agency/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Venezuela Continues to Be the Model for Democracy In the Americas

Jacqueline Luqman May 11, 2022 Jacqueline Luqman

Popular action undid the United States' 2002 attempted coup against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Twenty years later, the Bolivarian Republic held an international summit commemorating those events, writes Jacqueline Luqman.

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