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2019-10-26: News Headlines

teleSUR (2019-10-26). Mexico Set Up Buoys To Protect Critically Endangered Porpoises. telesurenglish.net Mexican authorities began using buoys on Thursday to mark off a reserve for a critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita, the world's smallest cetacean, and prevent fishing boats from intruding on its last remaining habitat. | RELATED: | Environmentalists Sue US to Save Mexico's Last Vaquita Porpoise | Two buoys — out of a total of 1…

Jordan Davidson (2019-10-26). Government loophole sacrificed $18 billion to Big Oil. nationofchange.org The loophole dates back to a 1995 law that urged companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico by offering oil companies a break from paying royalties on the oil produced.

Mark Gruenberg (2019-10-25). Trumka: Mexican President faces big obstacles to worker rights drive. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—New Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as AMLO and the first progressive president south of the border in decades, faces big obstacles in his drive for Mexican workers' rights, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. The opposition, he explains, is already coming from big business, which exploits Mexican workers, and from Mexico's company …

WSWS (2019-10-25). US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border. wsws.org Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

James North (2019-10-25). Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South. thenation.com Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South…

Ashoka Mukpo (2019-10-24). I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw. aclu.org 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,…

teleSUR -EF (2019-10-24). Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency. telesurenglish.net With 99.99 percent of the votes counted in Bolivia, Evo Morales is once again president of the Andean country with 47.07 percent of the votes. | RELATED: | Mexico Condemns OAS Interference in Bolivia's Elections | The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) published Thursday night that it only has 0.01 percent of ballots left to officially count. | Morales, leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) gained 47.07 percent of the nation's popular vote, enou…

Ben Norton (2019-10-24). Honduras is ruled by a US-backed drug cartel — and the country's opposition just united to oust it. thegrayzone.com "The process of uniting the opposition has begun, to oust the DRUG TRAFFICKERS, who rule us with the dictatorship of…

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

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

Ryan Cristián (2019-09-29). CIA Trump Manipulation, Israel Bombs Iraq, UN Venezuela Lies Exposed & US "Less Equal" Than Mexico. thelastamericanvagabond.com 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 (9/28/19). 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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Mexico Set Up Buoys To Protect Critically Endangered Porpoises
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-26
Mexican authorities began using buoys on Thursday to mark off a reserve for a critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita, the world's smallest cetacean, and prevent fishing boats from intruding on its last remaining habitat. | RELATED: | Environmentalists Sue US to Save Mexico's Last Vaquita Porpoise | Two buoys — out of a total of 1…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Set-Up-Buoys-To-Protect-Critically-Endangered-Porpoises-20191025-0010.html

Government loophole sacrificed $18 billion to Big Oil
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-26
The loophole dates back to a 1995 law that urged companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico by offering oil companies a break from paying royalties on the oil produced.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/26/government-loophole-sacrificed-18-billion-to-big-oil/

US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/bord-o25.html

Trumka: Mexican President faces big obstacles to worker rights drive
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-10-25
WASHINGTON–New Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as AMLO and the first progressive president south of the border in decades, faces big obstacles in his drive for Mexican workers' rights, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says. The opposition, he explains, is already coming from big business, which exploits Mexican workers, and from Mexico's company …
peoplesworld.org/article/trumka-mexican-president-faces-big-obstacles-to-worker-rights-drive/

Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South
James North | thenation.com | 2019-10-25
Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South…
thenation.com/article/coffee-starbucks-honduras-fairtrade/

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,…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/i-went-to-mexico-to-meet-asylum-seekers-trapped-at-the-border-this-is-what-i-saw

Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-24
With 99.99 percent of the votes counted in Bolivia, Evo Morales is once again president of the Andean country with 47.07 percent of the votes. | RELATED: | Mexico Condemns OAS Interference in Bolivia's Elections | The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) published Thursday night that it only has 0.01 percent of ballots left to officially count. | Morales, leader of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) gained 47.07 percent of the nation's popular vote, enou…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Morales-Officially-Wins-Presidency–20191024-0014.html

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.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14692

CIA Trump Manipulation, Israel Bombs Iraq, UN Venezuela Lies Exposed & US "Less Equal" Than Mexico
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-09-29
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 (9/28/19). 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/cia-trump-manipulation-israel-bombs-iraq-un-venezuela-lies-exposed-us-less-equal-than-mexico/