Patricio PazminoEcuador’s interior minister has resigned in the wake of simultaneous riots in four prisons that left 79 people dead. “It is my own personal decision to submit my irrevocable resignation as a minister,” Patricio Pazmino said in a letter to President Lenin Moreno, which was made public on Twitter on Friday.

Not a single health worker has received a vaccine against COVID-19 in more than 100 countries.At least 17,000 health workers have died worldwide from COVID-19 over the last year, Amnesty International has said, while also calling for a rapid vaccine release to protect millions of front-line healthcare workers.

Washington’s sanctioning machine has been using the “emergency stage” definition against other countries based on “allegations of domestic corruption and human rights abuses”United Nations human rights experts pose serious questions to the very basis of the so-called “emergency states” that the United States has been declaring against other countries at will as an excuse to bring them under arbitrary and inhumane economic sanctions.

Llorenti highlighted the good control of the coronavirus pandemic by Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.  Photo: @ALBATCPThe executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, announced on Wednesday the creation of a Vaccine Bank for member countries of the initiative that require them.