Daily Archives: November 4, 2019

2019-11-04: News Headlines

Staff (2019-11-04). The US Will Soon Dump Many Asylum Seekers in Guatemala. truthout.org The Trump administration will soon begin deporting asylum seekers away from the border — but not back to their home countries. Instead, they'll be sent to Guatemala. | Potentially tens of thousands of people who sought refugee status in the United States could be sent to the Central American nation, one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. The new policy is a culmination of the so-called "Safe Third Country" deal the Trump administration signed with Guatemala on July 26. The agreement stipulates that an…

teleSUR (2019-11-03). Venezuela Expels El Salvador's Diplomats from Caracas. telesurenglish.net 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…

teleSUR (2019-11-03). UN Warns About Increased Attacks, Threats Against Journalists. telesurenglish.net The United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres warned Saturday about the increase of attacks and threats against media workers, in a statement to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity Against Journalists. | RELATED: | Mexico, Brazil Are Dangerous Places for Practicing Journalism | "When journalists are attacked, the whole of society pays a price. Without the ability to protect journalists, our ability to keep us informed and contribute to decision-making is sev…

teleSUR (2019-11-03). Brazil: 8 Dead In Police Anti-Drug Operation. telesurenglish.net At least eight people died and three were arrested Sunday in a militarized police operation in the tourist city of Angra dos Reis in southeastern Brazil, Xinhua reported. | Related: | Mexico, Brazil Are Dangerous Places for Practicing Journalism | The events occurred after police received an anonymous tip about the presence of some perpetrators accused of injuring two officers last Sunday in the same location. | Upon arriving in the neighborhood, agents were shot by the gang tha…

Betsey Piette (2019-11-01). Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody. workers.org 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

T.J. Coles (2019-11-01). UK General Election and the Chance to Get a Corbyn Government. counterpunch.org 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 More

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,…

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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The US Will Soon Dump Many Asylum Seekers in Guatemala
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-04
The Trump administration will soon begin deporting asylum seekers away from the border — but not back to their home countries. Instead, they'll be sent to Guatemala. | Potentially tens of thousands of people who sought refugee status in the United States could be sent to the Central American nation, one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. The new policy is a culmination of the so-called "Safe Third Country" deal the Trump administration signed with Guatemala on July 26. The agreement stipulates that an…
truthout.org/articles/the-us-will-soon-dump-many-asylum-seekers-in-guatemala/

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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Expels-El-Salvadors-Diplomats-from-Caracas-20191103-0005.html

Brazil: 8 Dead In Police Anti-Drug Operation
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
At least eight people died and three were arrested Sunday in a militarized police operation in the tourist city of Angra dos Reis in southeastern Brazil, Xinhua reported. | Related: | Mexico, Brazil Are Dangerous Places for Practicing Journalism | The events occurred after police received an anonymous tip about the presence of some perpetrators accused of injuring two officers last Sunday in the same location. | Upon arriving in the neighborhood, agents were shot by the gang tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-eight-deads-in-police-display-against-drug-traffickers-20191103-0007.html

UN Warns About Increased Attacks, Threats Against Journalists
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
The United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres warned Saturday about the increase of attacks and threats against media workers, in a statement to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity Against Journalists. | RELATED: | Mexico, Brazil Are Dangerous Places for Practicing Journalism | "When journalists are attacked, the whole of society pays a price. Without the ability to protect journalists, our ability to keep us informed and contribute to decision-making is sev…
telesurenglish.net/news/un-increased-attacks-and-threats-against-journalists-20191103-0008.html

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
workers.org/2019/11/44247/

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
workers.org/2019/10/44218/

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

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