Twin Flower, about the refugee crisis, from Italy–and Midnight Family, about poverty and health care, from Mexico
wsws.org | 2019-12-12
Two adolescents–one an African refugee–find themselves in painful straits in Twin Flower. Midnight Family focuses on a family in Mexico eking out a meager existence by driving its own private ambulance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/12/twin-d12.html

A Rising Movement Is Challenging Mexico's Corporatized Unions
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-12
After lying dormant for decades, in January this year the Mexican labor movement erupted. A presidential decree in December raising the minimum wage to 102 pesos (US$5) per day and 176 pesos (US$9) in zones close to the US, was the spark that led to tens of thousands of workers undertaking the most important industrial action Mexico has witnessed in the entire 21st century. | It all began in early January in the town of Matamoros, in the border state of Tamaulipas, when tens of thousands of workers from the…
truthout.org/articles/a-rising-movement-is-challenging-mexicos-corporatized-unions/

Mexico Passes Amnesty Law To Release People For Minor Offenses
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-12
The Chamber of Deputies of Mexico approved on Wednesday a new amnesty law that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( AMLO ) called for and whose objective is to benefit people from vulnerable groups. | RELATED: | Mexico's Ex-Head Of Public Security Took Bribes From Cartel | In a message posted on Twitter, the lower house of the Mexican legislative branch said that "with 306 votes in favor, 129 against and 4 abstentions, it was generally endorsed to issue the Amnesty Law."
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Passes-Amnesty-Law-To-Release-People-For-Minor-Offenses-20191212-0003.html

The US Is Deporting Asylum Seekers to Random, Dangerous Countries
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2019-12-12
The US Is Deporting Asylum Seekers to Random, Dangerous Countries…
thenation.com/article/asylum-safe-third-guatemala/

AFL-CIO, Mexican government seek to chain renewed struggles across Matamoros to "independent" trade unions
wsws.org | 2019-12-12
After the historic wildcat strikes earlier this year, the channeling of a resurgence of struggles behind the trade union bureaucracy poses immense dangers to the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/12/mata-d12.html

Trump's new trade deal to replace NAFTA is 'mostly political theater' — Prof. Wolff tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2019-12-12
The new trade pact signed by US, Mexico, and Canada this week to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will make no significant difference, says Richard Wolff of the Economic Update. | "It's mostly political theater," he tells RT's Boom Bust, explaining that what US President Donald Trump "needs and wants is the theater that he is tearing up all the agreements that weren't good for us and substituting new better ones." | The key thing is that "nothing matters unless it's enforced," Professor Wolff says, adding that nothing is going to change with the new deal. The "erosion of manufacturing…
rt.com/business/475696-trump-new-nafta-deal/

Pink sombrero & aroused horse: Painting of naked national hero of Mexico triggers violent protests (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2019-12-12
What does it take to spark protests, lawsuits, mass meme-making, and even prompt the president to react? In Mexico, a painting re-imagining the country's national hero was enough to do the trick. | The painting of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata wearing nothing but a pink sombrero and high heels while riding a visibly aroused white stallion was put on display at an art museum in Mexico City for an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of his assassination. | Zapata was one of the key leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He led the peasantry in the fight for land rights and is especially revered in…
rt.com/news/475708-mexico-zapata-art-scandal/

Majority of Mexicans See United States as Greatest Threat, New Poll Shows
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-12-11
This is not the first time that a US-based outfit has concluded that the US government is a menace to other countries. A 2014 survey of world public opinion found that the United States was overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to world peace.
mintpressnews.com/mexico-united-states-greatest-threat-poll-shows/263358/

Moving jobs to Mexico was a feature, not a bug, of NAFTA
Dean Baker | mronline.org | 2019-12-11
The Washington Post (11/21/19) gave readers the official story about NAFTA, diverging seriously from reality, in a piece on the status of negotiations on the new NAFTA. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/11/moving-jobs-to-mexico-was-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-nafta/

Indonesia: The Oldest Work of Art Discovered
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-11
Two years after the discovery of an unknown cave on a cliff on the island of Sulawesi (Sulawesi, in the vernacular), in Indonesia, a group of scientists concluded that the founded hunting scene painted 43,900 years ago, may be the oldest figurative work of art in the world. | RELATED: | Mexico: Stolen Statues Found, Returned from US Hoarder's Home | Experts think that all the figures, in the four meters long canvas of rock, were made at the same time and therefore make up the narra…
telesurenglish.net/news/indonesia-the-oldest-work-of-art-discovered-20191211-0022.html

Immigration Centers, New 'Cash Cow' of Prison Industry: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-11
An investigation led by the well-known civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center on immigrant detention centers in Florida showed seriously substandard conditions in health services, as well as the confinement and isolation of undocumented immigrants. | RELATED: , US Advocacy Group Launches 'Quit ICE' Initiative | In a report released Tuesday, the SPLC condemned, among others, the failures in medical care, inadequate mental health service, discrimi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Immigration-Centers-New-Cash-Cow-of-Prison-Industry-Report-20191211-0018.html

A Border Officer Told Me I Couldn't Opt Out of the Face Recognition Scan. They Were Wrong
Shaw Drake | aclu.org | 2019-12-05
"Look at the camera," a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) | officer told me as I approached the primary inspection point at the Paso del | Norte port of entry. | "Is that the face recognition technology?" I asked. "If so, I want to opt-out." | "Look at the camera." | "I want to opt-out." | "Look at the camera." | On the evening of November 25, 2019, I crossed from Mexico into the United States. Signs in the port noted the new use of face recognition technology and United States citizens' option to "undergo alternative procedures." After handing over my U.S. passport card, and despite my repeated protests…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/a-border-officer-told-me-i-couldnt-opt-out-of-the-face-recognition-scan-they-were-wrong

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/

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 …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/nicaragua-marked-next-for-us-liberation-trump-blames-vicious-world-for-khashoggi-murder-more/

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/