STAND 2020: MLK Jr. Day of Art & Solidarity
Mosaic Silicon Valley and others | indybay.org | 2020-01-15
Mexican Heritage Plaza,1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, California 95116…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/13/18829723.php

Pentagon chief says ready to fund southern border wall
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-15
The Pentagon is prepared to provide additional financial support for the Trump administration's controversial southern border wall, according to the U.S. defense secretary."The first priority of the DOD [Department of Defense] is the protection of the homeland. So the southwest border is a security issue," said Mark Esper, when asked by reporters if the Trump administration will transfer part of its 2020 defense budget for building the wall on the Mexican border."And so we'll see how things play out, but we remain committed to supporting the Department of Homeland Security and its mission," he told a press confer…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pentagon-chief-says-ready-to-fund-southern-border-wall-3509731

Pentagon chief says ready to fund southern border wall
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-15
The Pentagon is prepared to provide additional financial support for the Trump administration's controversial southern border wall, according to the U.S. defense secretary."The first priority of the DOD [Department of Defense] is the protection of the homeland. So the southwest border is a security issue," said Mark Esper, when asked by reporters if the Trump administration will transfer part of its 2020 defense budget for building the wall on the Mexican border."And so we'll see how things play out, but we remain committed to supporting the Department of Homeland Security and its mission," he told a press confer…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pentagon-chief-says-ready-to-fund-southern-border-wall-3509733

Central American Caravan for the Disappeared Seeks to Reunite Families
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-14
A caravan of Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans, heads north towards Mexico looking for lost and disappeared loved ones.
therealnews.com/stories/caravan-central-america-disappeared-reunite-families

The US Is Waging a Stealth War at the Mexico Border
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-14
In recent decades, U.S. immigration policies have aggressively targeted families fleeing violence and poverty in Mexico and Central and South America, spawning a network of detention centers that now exist indefinitely along our southern border. The U.S.'s approach to tackling undocumented immigration has come under fire for its use of brutal tactics such as deliberately separating families, placing them in confinement under harsh conditions, and denying them adequate medical and legal counsel. | On today's program, Joh…
truthout.org/audio/the-us-is-waging-a-stealth-war-at-the-mexico-border/

Mexico takes action on coup in Bolivia and bolsters CELAC
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-14
Mexico's government intervened recently in two difficult situations beyond its borders. One is turmoil in Bolivia following a U.S.-assisted coup. The other concerns renewing the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). At issue there is regional integration and independence. Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced out of office on Nov. 10. Two days …
peoplesworld.org/article/mexico-takes-action-on-coup-in-bolivia-and-bolsters-celac/

Guatemalan Indigenous leader Daniel Pascual denounces political persecution
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-14
On January 14, the legal process against Guatemalan Indigenous leader Daniel Pascual is set to begin. Pascual is accused of defamation, slander and injury by the son of a high-ranking military official and interior minister during the dictatorship of Ríos Montt. | According to Pascual's organization the Committee for Peasant Unity -CUC- the charges are unfounded and in violation of the Constitution as well as several international conventions that Guatemala has ratified. Due to his visible role in the defense of human rights and vulnerable communities in Guatemala, Pascual has long been subjected to a systematic…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/14/guatemalan-indigenous-leader-daniel-pascual-denounces-political-persecution/

Guatemala: Giammattei Takes Office in a Poor, Insecure Country
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-14
Guatemala's new president Alejandro Giammattei Tuesday takes office under pressure from the United States President Donald Trump on immigration and security issues. | RELATED: | US Plans to Send Mexican Asylum Seekers to Guatemala | This former director of the Penitentiary System, who will rule Guatemala from 2020 to 2024, must decide his stance quickly on the Asylum Cooperation Agreement (ACA)‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚&Aum…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Giammattei-Takes-Office-in-a-Poor-Insecure-Country-20200114-0002.html

Daniel Ortega Defends teleSUR After Juan Guaido's Threats
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-14
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega addressed a letter on Tuesday to the President of teleSUR, Patricia Villegas, in which he expressed his complete solidarity with the news network in the face of growing threats from the self-proclaimed 'president' of Venezuela Juan Guaido. | …
telesurenglish.net/news/Daniel-Ortega-Defends-teleSUR-After-Juan-Guaidos-Threats-20200114-0008.html

My journey to Aztlán
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-01-11
Los Angeles, CA – September 16, 2019 marked the 50-year anniversary of Chicano Liberation Day. The day was proposed September 16, 1969 in El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, as the date when Chicanos would have Independence. After 50 years we still have not gained our right to self-determination. | My own realization | I was raised in the states of Washington and Georgia but born in Florida. I was not a military brat; I am the daughter of Mexican migrant farm workers. My mother is from Durango, and my father from Hidalgo. Like many who cross the border, their journeys were terrifying and dangerous. My mother, without k…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/1/11/my-journey-aztl-n

The Other Americans: Asylum Seekers Routed to Guatemala
Jeff Abbott | progressive.org | 2019-12-23
A proposed amendment to immigration policy endangers asylum seekers, advocates warn.
progressive.org/dispatches/asylum-seekers-routed-guatemala-abbott-191223/

128 Reuters articles on Bolivia since October 20, 2019 election with no mention of expert criticism of OAS audit UPDATED
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2019-12-15
Bolivia ¥s foreign minister says Mexico appeal to International Court 'a mistake' Bolivia's YPFB strikes transition deal with Petrobras to extend natural gas exports Bolivia is not a Mexican colony, acting foreign minister Longaric tells El Pais Mexico says Spanish diplomats' cars blocked by Bolivia at La Paz embassy Mexico appeals to international court as diplomatic Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/112-reuters-articles-on-bolivia-since-october-20-2019-election-with-no-mention-of-expert-criticism-of-oas-audit/