UN Report Finds Over 7 Million Children Worldwide Are Being Held in Detention
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-04
A damning United Nations report says that 7 million children are deprived of their liberty worldwide, from children imprisoned on the U.S.-Mexico border to the missing children of ISIS fighters. The Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty says that at least 410,000 of those children are detained in jails and prisons, where violence is "endemic." The study also found that the number of children detained in the context of armed conflict has dramatically risen. The global study was published…
truthout.org/video/un-report-finds-over-7-million-children-worldwide-are-being-held-in-detention/

70 Percent of Mexico's Illegal Weapons Come From US: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-04
The Secretary of National Defense of Mexico, Luis Sandoval, reported on Wednesday that the 19,317 firearms that have been seized inside 26 states of the country have recently been destroyed. | RELATED: | Morales Accuses Bolivian Gov't of Blocking His Migratory Status | Based on the statistics, 70 percent of the weapons that enter Mexico come from the U.S., while 30 percent come from Spain, Austria and other countries, the official said during the morning press conference with P…
telesurenglish.net/news/70-Percent-of-Mexicos-Illegal-Weapons-Come-From-US-Report-20191204-0004.html

Moving Jobs to Mexico Was a Feature, Not a Bug, of NAFTA
Dean Baker | fair.org | 2019-12-04
The Washington Post ( 11/21/19) tells readers that "NAFTA was meant to expand trade…but it also proved disruptive in terms of…relocating businesses and jobs. | The Washington Post ( 11/21/19) gave readers the official story about NAFTA, diverging seriously from reality, in a piece on the status of negotiati…
fair.org/home/moving-jobs-to-mexico-was-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-nafta/

Trump Blasts 'Two Faced' Trudeau Over Leaked NATO Summit Video
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-04
U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Justin Trudeau as "two-faced" on Wednesday after the Canadian prime minister was caught on camera laughing over Trump's press appearances during a chat with other leaders at a Buckingham Palace reception. | RELATED: | U.S. Sends First Salvadoran To Guatemala Under Asylum Agreement | The incident came at a reception on Tuesday evening, after Trump had criticized French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders during long question-and-answe…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Blasts-Two-Faced-Trudeau-Over-Leaked-NATO-Summit-Video-20191204-0002.html

Temporary Protected Status beneficiaries lobby lawmakers for permanent right to stay
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-04
WASHINGTON–Jose Palma and his family came to the U.S., legally, from El Salvador, decades ago. He wants to stay. So does Rena Sorto, another Salvadoran. So does Emanuel Baraq, who came from Haiti and now lives in Florida. Bricklayers' union president Jim Boland wants to ensure they–and 400,000 other people from 14 countries overall–stay here …
peoplesworld.org/article/temporary-protected-status-beneficiaries-lobby-lawmakers-for-permanent-right-to-stay/

Is Trump's New Drug Cartel Terrorism Designation Masking a More Sinister Agenda?
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-04
Everybody in Latin America knows what happens to leftist heads of state who challenge the power of the local elites and of the US government.
mintpressnews.com/trump-mexico-drug-cartel-terrorism-designation-agenda-obrador/263193/

U.N. Report Finds Over 7 Million Children Worldwide Are Being Held in Various Kinds of Detention
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-04
A damning United Nations report says that 7 million children are deprived of their liberty worldwide, from children imprisoned on the U.S.-Mexico border to the missing children of ISIS fighters. The Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty says that at least 410,000 of those children are detained in jails and prisons, where violence is "endemic." The study also found that the number of children detained in the context of armed conflict has dramatically risen. The global study was published in November, on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the landmark international treaty affi…
www.democracynow.org/2019/12/4/un_report_seven_million_children_deprived

Morales Accuses Bolivian Gov't of Blocking His Migratory Status
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-03
President Evo Morales accused the de facto government of Bolivia for creating obstacles to his immigration legal procedures and his vice president àÅlvaro García Linera before the Bolivian consulate in Mexico. | RELATED: | Morales Vows To Do What's Best for Bolivia, Not Afraid of Jail | Morales through his account on the social media network of Twitter said that for a week they began with the steps and have requested collections that did not exist. | "Last week we started…
telesurenglish.net/news/Morales-Accuses-Bolivian-Govt-of-Blocking-His-Migratory-Status-20191203-0006.html

U.S. Sends First Salvadoran To Guatemala Under Asylum Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-03
Guatemala received the first Salvadoran citizen from the United States under a new migration agreement that designates the Central American nation as a so-called third safe country for asylum seekers, Guatemalan authorities reported Tuesday. | RELATED: | US Restores Aid to Central America After Achieving Asylum Deals | The plane, which arrived Tuesday morning from Mesa, Arizona, also had 84 Guatemalans and two Hondurans on board, said Alejandra Mena, spokeswoman for the Guatem…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-sends-first-salvadoran-to-guatemala-under-asylum-agreement-20191203-0018.html

Race Looms Ever Larger as Death Sentences Decline
Liliana Segura | theintercept.com | 2019-12-03
As he was strapped to the gurney in the Texas death chamber, Henry Martinez Porter prepared to deliver his last words. The execution had been scheduled for midnight. Porter, convicted of fatally shooting a Fort Worth police officer who pulled him over, swore that he'd acted in self-defense; he was shot in the side during the altercation. But two different juries sent him to die. | "The only thing that convicted me was that I am a Mexican and that he was a police officer," Porter said. "People hollered for my life, and they are to have my life tonight." Yet people never hollered for the life of a cop who killed a…
theintercept.com/2019/12/03/death-penalty-race-texas/

Nicaragua Marked Next For US "Liberation", Trump Blames "Vicious World" For Khashoggi Murder & More
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-12-02
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (12/1/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
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Plan Cóndor 2.0: Tras el golpe en Bolivia, Trump declara a Nicaragua 'amenaza a su seguridad nacional' y apunta hacia México
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-12-01
Luego de presidir el golpe en Bolivia, los Estados Unidos declararon a Nicaragua como una "amenaza a la seguridad nacional"…
thegrayzone.com/2019/12/01/plan-condor-2-golpe-bolivia-trump-nicaragua-mexico/

The Sanctuary Strategy
James Goodman | progressive.org | 2019-12-01
Policies and activism that work to shelter undocumented immigrants have spread across the country–and are remarkably effective.
progressive.org/magazine/the-sanctuary-strategy-goodman/

Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua 'national security threat' and targets Mexico
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-28
After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a "national security threat" and announced new sanctions,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/operation-condor-2-coup-trump-nicaragua-mexico/

In Nicaragua, She Dodged Bullets. Now She's Stuck at the Border
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-11-25
(Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) The sting of tear gas was still in Julia's eyes when she ran into a public park in the center of the Nicaraguan city of Estelí on June 20, 2018. Earlier that day, she'd wrapped her face in a blue-and-white bandanna — the colors of the Nicaraguan flag — and joined a student-led march against the government of President Daniel Ortega, whose proposed cuts to social benefits were sparking tense street demonstrations across the country. [Note: 'Julia' is a pseudonym; the ACLU is protecting her identity for her safety.] | As the students marched through the streets, paramilitary p…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/in-nicaragua-she-dodged-bullets-now-shes-stuck-at-the-border

The U.S. Government Tracked, Detained, and Interrogated Journalists. We're Suing on Their Behalf
Scarlet Kim | aclu.org | 2019-11-20
As part of a coordinated effort that undermined the freedom of the press, the U.S. government tracked, detained, and interrogated journalists who were reporting on conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, we're suing on their behalf to defend their First Amendment rights. | Together with the New York Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, we're representing five photojournalists who traveled to Mexico in late 2018 and early 2019 to document the experiences of people traveli…
aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-u-s-government-tracked-detained-and-interrogated-journalists-were-suing

Venezuela, El Salvador Break Relations as Maduro Applauds 'New Anti-Neoliberal Wave'
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-04
Guatemala's president-elect has similarly pledged to break with the Maduro government upon assuming office in January.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14717