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Left-wing leader Hugo Blanco bid farewell in Cusco, Peru
July 10 |
“This Democracy is no longer Democracy, Dina Murders the People Repudiates You,” was one of the slogans heard during the burial of peasant leader Hugo Blanco in the Cemetery of La Almudena, in the city of Cusco, in southern Peru.
From the main square of Cusco began the farewell tour of the remains of the union leader of peasant organizations in that region, former constituent assemblyman, former deputy and senator.
The citizens of Cusco, social organizations and close relatives bid farewell to the leader Hugo Blanco.
During the tour to the cemetery, the population waved the historical slogan “Land or death, we will win”, and also protested against the regime by chanting “Dina Asesina, the people repudiate you”.
According to his relatives, the former deputy died last June 25 at the age of 88 in Stockholm, while he was in a hospital where he was being treated for a tumor in his head.
Several Peruvian political figures expressed their deepest condolences through their Twitter accounts.
The remains of Hugo Blanco arrived in Cusco from Sweden this Saturday, July 8, so that dozens of people, among friends and relatives, could say their last goodbye to the late leftist leader.
Blanco’s body was taken to the university auditorium of the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco.
Born in Cuzco, Peru, in November 1934, Hugo Blanco was dedicated from a very young age to the struggle for political change in his country, for the rights of indigenous peoples and for the defense of the environment.
He joined the Argentine Trotskyist movement when he was in that country at the age of 20, and on his return to Peru he joined the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Revolutionary Workers’ Party).
He was one of the great leaders of the Peruvian peasant struggle, as an organizer and trade unionist, creating various popular structures.
He led the Quechua revolt in the early 1960s for agrarian reform. He was arrested, with the accusation calling for the death penalty and ended up sentenced to 25 years in prison, where he suffered torture, carried out fourteen hunger strikes and was the object of an international solidarity campaign.
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Uribe requests freedom amid appeal of historic bribery conviction
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe on Monday requested that the Supreme Court restore his freedom while he appeals the historic 12-year house arrest sentence he received for bribery and procedural fraud.
Uribe, the most prominent figure of Colombia’s right wing, was convicted last week by a lower court for attempting to bribe paramilitary members into denying his ties to the violent anti-guerrilla squads.
Since Friday, the 73-year-old has been under house arrest at his residence in Rionegro, about 30 km from Medellín. The judge justified the measure by citing a risk of flight.
However, Uribe’s defense team rejected that argument and formally petitioned the court to immediately lift the detention order, claiming it lacks legal basis.
Uribe, a dominant force in Colombian politics for decades, is now the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted and placed under arrest, found guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice to prevent links to paramilitary groups.
He has repeatedly denounced the trial as politically motivated, blaming pressure from the leftist government currently in power.
His political party, Centro Democrático, has called for nationwide protests on August 7 in support of Uribe, who remains popular for his hardline stance against guerrilla groups.
Uribe has until August 13 to submit his written appeal. The case will then move to the Bogotá High Court, which has until October 16 to uphold, overturn, or dismiss the sentence. If the deadline passes without a decision, the case will be archived.
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The poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean is currently engulfed in a deep political crisis and a wave of violence driven by armed groups — a situation that an international security mission led by Kenya is attempting to stabilize.
Due to the worsening security conditions, the U.S. government has suspended all official movements of embassy personnel outside the compound in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. State Department announced Monday in a security alert posted on social media platform X.
“There are intense gunfights in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the U.S. Embassy,” the alert reads, urging the public to avoid the area.
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“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
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