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Haiti to ban public support for LGBTIQ rights, criminalise same-sex marriage
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Argentina: Indigenous rights’ activist disappears after repression
Venezuela: Socialist trade unionist on the Constituent Assembly, terror attack on military base

Stalin Perez Borges is an activist with LUCHAS (United League of Chavista Socialists) and a member of the Consultative Council of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Central (CBST).

He spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes about the July 30 elections for the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) and its subsequent inauguration, as well as the August 6 armed assault on a military base by right-wing opponents of Venezuela’s socialist government.
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