Mexico's "Progressive President" Sends National Guard to Teargas Immigrants
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-30
More than a year after the last migrant caravan left Central America, thousands of Central Americans gathered again in Honduras and started their journey to the United States on Jan 15. Back in late 2018, 4,000 migrants made a perilous journey from San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second-largest city, to the U.S. border at Tijuana. Desperate to leave behind a life of extreme violence and poverty, thousands of Cent…
truthout.org/articles/mexicos-progressive-president-sends-national-guard-to-teargas-immigrants/

Commander X Granted Political Asylum In Mexico
Anonymous Global | indybay.org | 2020-01-30
PRESS RELEASE: Commander X Granted Political Asylum In Mexico | Thursday – January 16, 2020 4: 00 PM ET…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/29/18830146.php

Honduran Nurses Continue Strike Against Threat of Layoffs
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-30
The members of the Association of Nurses and Auxiliary Nurses in Honduras (Aneeah) continue this Wednesday a national strike for the third consecutive day, due to the threat of dismissal and the refusal of the Government to the possibility of a salary increase | RELATED: | Brazil Petrobras Workers Call Indefinite Strike From Saturday | The nurses' union called for restoring an environment reconciliation, welcomed during the previous dialogue, without reaching confrontations or w…
telesurenglish.net/news/honduran-nurses-continue-strike-against-threat-of-layoffs-20200129-0026.html

'Just Point And Laugh': Trump's Border Wall Partially Knocked Over by High Winds – Videos
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-30
Newly installed panels of US President Donald Trump's beloved wall along the US' southern border with Mexico wound up pushed aside on Wednesday after a spell of strong Southern California winds blew into the region.
sputniknews.com/world/202001301078182616-just-point-and-laugh-trumps-border-wall-partially-knocked-over-by-high-winds—videos/

Outpouring of Grief After Missing Mexican Monarch Butterfly Defender Homero Gómez González Found Dead
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-01-30
Mexican conservationist Homero G√≥mez Gonz√°lez was found dead Wednesday, about two weeks after he was reported missing, provoking a wave sorrow from allies and advocates worldwide as they honored his work running a butterfly sanctuary in the state of Michoac√°n. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gomez2.jpg …
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Mexico: Activist Protector of Monarch Butterflies Found Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-29
Environmental activist Homero Gomez, who fought to protect the famed monarch butterfly, has been found dead in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, a local authority said Wednesday, two weeks after he disappeared. | RELATED: | Honduras: 7 Sentenced in Murder Case of Environmental Activist | The activist's body was located inside a well in a vacant lot 800 meters from the place where he was last seen in the community called El Soldado but due to the conditions of the corpse, D…
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Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy marks one year, leaving tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Mexican border towns
splcenter.org | 2020-01-29
splcenter.org/news/2020/01/29/trumps-remain-mexico-policy-marks-one-year-leaving-tens-thousands-migrants-stranded-mexican

Murder of Mexican Artist Isabel Cabanillas Highlights Endemic Issue of Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
Isabel Cabanillas, a 26-year-old beloved feminist activist and artist, was recently assassinated in Ciudad Juárez, resurfacing the border city's painful legacy of femicides and violence against women. Cabanillas was reported missing on social media by her friends on Saturday, January 18, after she never returned home. On that same day, she was found shot to death on a sidewalk next to her bicycle in downtown Juárez. We speak with Nana Rebell, a feminist activist in Ciudad Juárez and a member of the Juárez feminist collective Hijas de su Maquilera Madre, about Cabanillas's life and the endemic issue of femicide in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/juarez_mexico_isabel_cabanillas_assassination_femicide

Chinese Artist & Filmmaker Ai Weiwei on State Violence from Mexico to Hong Kong to Xinjiang
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-28
In 2014, 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College disappeared after they were abducted in Iguala, Mexico. More than five years after their disappearance, the families of the students are still fighting for justice. The story is the subject of a stunning new documentary by the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The film, "Vivos," follows the families of the disappeared students in their daily lives as they grapple with the absence of their loved ones and attempt to hold the Mexican government accountable for their disappearance. We sat down with Ai Weiwei earlier this week at the Sund…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/28/ai_weiwei_vivos_hong_kong_xinjiang

Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a "Total Disaster"
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2020-01-28
In late November, U.S. immigration authorities began | deporting some Central American asylum-seekers to Guatemala under a new | policy that makes it nearly impossible for them to seek asylum in the U.S. | But Guatemalan human rights workers say that their country's | asylum system isn't capable of handling even the relatively small numbers that | have been sent there so far, and that asylum seekers' precarious status in the | country has already pushed many to leave. | "They're preferring to move on…
aclu.org/news/human-rights/asylum-seekers-are-being-abandoned-in-guatemala-in-a-new-policy-officials-call-a-total-disaster