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November 23, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By William Camacaro and Frederick MillsFrom Caracas, Venezuela On Sunday, November 21, Venezuela held mega-elections in which more than 70,000 candidates from across the political spectrum ran for 3,083 state, city and local offices, marking a resounding victory for this nation’s sovereignty and democratic institutions in the face ... <a title="Venezuela’s Mega-Elections: Despite U.S. Sanctions, COVID, and Economic Crisis, Chavismo Wins Majority of States" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/venezuelas-mega-elections-despite-u-s-sanctions-covid-and-economic-crisis-chavismo-wins-majority-of-states/" aria-label="Read more about Venezuela’s Mega-Elections: Despite U.S. Sanctions, COVID, and Economic Crisis, Chavismo Wins Majority of States">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2021
Keith Rankin - What is required is democratic capitalism, with due respect for democratic and capitalist property rights. Translated into the 'real world', all adults – ie minors excluded – hold, as a matter of legal principle, a democratic franchise.
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November 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Newshub-Reid Research poll, Parliament, parties Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: Simon Bridges isn’t ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 23 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-23-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 23 2021">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand will move into the covid-19 traffic light system at 11.59pm, Thursday, December 2, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today. That is in 11 days from today, November 22 — and Ardern said it was important that people prepare. At a post-cabinet briefing this afternoon, Ardern said: “The hard truth is that ... <a title="‘Hard truth’ about NZ’s delta as PM ushers in covid traffic light system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/hard-truth-about-nzs-delta-as-pm-ushers-in-covid-traffic-light-system/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Hard truth’ about NZ’s delta as PM ushers in covid traffic light system">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk West Papuans will peacefully mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of West Papua next week — on Wednesday, December 1. It is also the first anniversary of the formation of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) provisional government. “To my people back home and around the world: this ... <a title="Prayer events to mark 60 years since West Papuan ‘birth’ in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/prayer-events-to-mark-60-years-since-west-papuan-birth-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Prayer events to mark 60 years since West Papuan ‘birth’ in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Suara Papua in Jayapura “Since it was first established on November 19, 2008, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) has always been confronted by many challenges, including attempts at criminalisation and disbandment by the state through the institutions of the TNI [Indonesian military] and Polri [Indonesian police].” The above was written by West Papua National ... <a title="13 years of Indonesian harassment, but KNPB’s ‘spirit remains unbroken’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/13-years-of-indonesian-harassment-but-knpbs-spirit-remains-unbroken/" aria-label="Read more about 13 years of Indonesian harassment, but KNPB’s ‘spirit remains unbroken’">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
ANALYSIS: By ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki As in 2008, 2010 and 2014, none of the female candidates standing in Tonga’s 2021 general election this week have been successful. Out of a total of 38,500 votes, 34,198 were cast for the male candidates and only 4352 were cast for the 12 female candidates, down from 14 percent of ... <a title="No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/no-women-elected-in-tonga-time-to-change-the-story/" aria-label="Read more about No women elected in Tonga: time to change the story">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Opinion polls Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Be it this year or next, all signs ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 22 2021">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2021
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s leader is formally supporting the demand of Kanaks in New Caledonia for a delay in next month’s third and final referendum on independence. Prime Minister Bob Loughman told Parliament he would raise his concerns with French ambassador Pierre Fournier in Port Vila. The Kanak pro-independence parties have asked Paris to delay the ... <a title="Vanuatu backs Kanak call to delay vote on independence in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/20/vanuatu-backs-kanak-call-to-delay-vote-on-independence-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu backs Kanak call to delay vote on independence in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2021
COMMENT: By Graham Davis If anyone is wondering why the Fijian media hasn’t reported the details of my reporting on Grubsheet Feejee of the Prime Minister’s secret role in the sacking of the Solicitor-General, his alleged action in shutting down a police drug investigation into a close family member, or his Attorney-General’s alleged behaviour in ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fiji’s draconian media law and a gag on truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/20/graham-davis-fijis-draconian-media-law-and-a-gag-on-truth/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fiji’s draconian media law and a gag on truth">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2021
By Jane Patterson, RNZ political editor, and Rowan Quinn, health correspondent As New Zealand readies for more covid-19 cases, warnings about the ability of public hospitals to cope are escalating. There are 289 intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) beds at the moment, with Minister of Health Andrew Little insisting that could ... <a title="Warning bells from NZ health experts, National over coping with covid surge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/19/warning-bells-from-nz-health-experts-national-over-coping-with-covid-surge/" aria-label="Read more about Warning bells from NZ health experts, National over coping with covid surge">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2021
Kaniva Tonga Tonga’s PTOA Party (Democrats) lost both their rival leaders and majority votes in some strongholds with defeats to seven independent candidates among People’s Representatives in yesterday’s elections. The PTOA Party was split in the lead up to the elections with the creation of two rival groups — the PTOA People’s Board led by ... <a title="Tonga’s Democrats ‘dig their own grave’ in key election losses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/19/tongas-democrats-dig-their-own-grave-in-key-election-losses/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga’s Democrats ‘dig their own grave’ in key election losses">Read more</a>
