Venezuela Expels El Salvador's Diplomats from Caracas
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
Venezuela's foreign ministry said on Sunday it was expelling El Salvador's diplomats from the country, in response to the Central American country's decision to expel diplomats representing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. | RELATED: | Venezuela Captures Paramilitary Photographed With Guaido | In a statement, the ministry said it would give the diplomats 48 hours to leave. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government does not recognize Maduro as legitimate and said on…
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Stop U.S. and Canadian support for Honduras' Narco-Dictatorship!
| workers.org | 2019-11-02
This statement on recent events in Honduras was issued by the Honduras Solidarity Network Oct. 13. Former President Mel Zelaya leads an August protest against Honduran dictator JOH. Honduras' Narco-Dictatorship installed through a US backed coup must go! For ten years, since the US backed coup in June 2009, a . . . | Continue reading Stop U.S. and Canadian support for Honduras' Narco-Dictatorship! at Workers.org…
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Mexico, Brazil Are Dangerous Places for Practicing Journalism
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
Regarding the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, which falls on Nov. 2, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a report which holds that Latin America is the world's second most dangerous region for the practice of journalism. | RELATED: | Another Journalist Killed in Colombia, Gov't Remains Silent | According to the 2019 Global Impunity Index (GII), the deadliest countries for journalists are Arab States, where almost a third of the kill…
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UK General Election and the Chance to Get a Corbyn Government
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-01
Last year, Mexicans elected a leftish leader, López Obrador, who pledged "a Robin Hood institute" (Reuters) to "return everything to the people that's been stolen" by elites and small-time crooks (Obrador). Argentines recently rejected the creeping rightward trend in South America and also elected a leftish President, Alberto Fernández. In the US, Presidential candidate Bernie…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/uk-general-election-and-the-chance-to-get-a-corbyn-government/

Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2019-11-01
According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union released Oct. 24, over 5,400 children have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities at the Mexican border since July 2017. While a federal judge in San Diego on June 26, 2018, ordered that the children be reunited . . . | Continue reading Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody at Workers.org…
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Migrant Children Trapped in Mexico Are Leaving Their Families and Crossing the Border Alone
Debbie Nathan | theintercept.com | 2019-10-29
Children of asylum-seekers, trapped in Mexico by Trump's migrant protection protocols, are slipping away from their families and crossing the border alone.
theintercept.com/2019/10/29/mexico-migrant-unaccompanied-children-border-crossing/

I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-10-24
Two weeks ago, I traveled to northern Mexico along with Mexican photographer Guillermo Arias to meet with asylum-seekers who've been trapped at the southern U.S. border by Trump Administration policies. Neither of us was prepared for what we saw there. | We visited two cities — Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros — to track down people who had been placed into the deceptively misnamed "Migrant Protection Protocols" that have slammed America's door shut to people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. Before we arrived, we wondered whether the stories we'd read of kidnappings, assaults,…
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Honduras is ruled by a US-backed drug cartel — and the country's opposition just united to oust it
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-24
"The process of uniting the opposition has begun, to oust the DRUG TRAFFICKERS, who rule us with the dictatorship of…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/24/honduras-us-backed-drug-trafficking-dictatorship-opposition-united/

UNM faculty vote to unionize, blowout union-busting administration
David Myers | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-22
Behind the faculty victory at University of New Mexico.
liberationnews.org/unm-faculty-vote-to-unionize-blowout-union-busting-administration/

Venezuela Denies Guatemalan President-Elect Entrance, Congratulates Ecuadorian People on IMF Defeat
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-10-14
President Nicolas Maduro also called on Chavista forces to prepare to "rescue" the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.
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