Honduras: Quarantine and Curfew Extended Until May 3rd
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-27
The Honduran Health Ministry announced on Sunday new COVID-19 preventive measures as they extend the quarantine until May 3rd. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Arrive in Honduras to Fight COVID-19 | Honduran National Risk Management System (Sinager) representatives stated Red Alert and curfew upholding in the 18 departments. | Sinager enforced these measures in March after the COVID -19 outbreak in the Central American nation. This is the sixth time that the authorities have implemented the pr…
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Mexico All but Empties Migrant Shelters Citing COVID-19 Risk
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-26
Mexico has almost entirely cleared out its migrant shelters over the past five weeks citing health hazards in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Sunday. | RELATED: | US Deports COVID-19 Positive Migrant, Infects 14 in Mexico | In a statement, the National Migration Institute (INM) said that in order to comply with health and safety guidelines, since March 21 it had been removing about 3,759 migrants from Mexico's 65 migrant facilities, retu…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-All-but-Empties-Migrant-Shelters-Citing-COVID-19-Risk-20200426-0009.html

Trumpian Reciprocity in the Era of Covid-19
Christopher Brauchli | commondreams.org | 2020-04-26
People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in Guatemala City, on March 16, 2020. (Photo: Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1207413138_1.jpg …
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US-Canada-Mexico Trade Deal To Take Effect July 1
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement will take effect on July 1, a month later than initially proposed, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer notified Friday Congress. | RELATED: | Canada Ratifies New Trade Agreement with United States, Mexico | In a statement, Lighthizer said both Mexico and Canada had taken measures necessary to comply with their commitments under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaces the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agr…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Canada-and-Mexico-Trade-Deal-To-Take-Effect-July-1-20200425-0010.html

Smithfield and Our Troubled Future
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
In 2009, there were suspicions that a Smithfield plant in Perote, Mexico might have triggered the Swine Flu epidemic. It was small potatoes compared to COVID-19. Only 1000 people were infected, with 68 deaths. The Mexico City newspaper La Jornada quoted health officials who concluded that the original carrier was in the "clouds of flies" that thrived in Smithfield's manure lagoons.
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/smithfield-and-our-troubled-future/

California sets disaster relief, local officials urge protection for undocumented
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-24
Among those feeling the sharpest impact from COVID-19 are undocumented immigrant workers facing partial or total unemployment because of the pandemic. Their plight is causing special concern among California elected officials at every level, from school board and city council members through Gov. Gavin Newsom. These workers, who make up some 10% of California's workforce …
peoplesworld.org/article/california-sets-disaster-relief-local-officials-urge-protection-for-undocumented/

NYC Immigrant Communities Fight Hunger, Exploitation & Invisibility Through Mutual Aid
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-21
We look at how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting undocumented people here in New York City, where the coronavirus has hit immigrant communities the hardest, even as the numbers of daily deaths statewide has declined in recent days. As reports of widespread poverty and hunger continue in the immigrant communities, people are also organizing and helping each other through mutual aid despite extraordinarily difficult circumstances. We are joined by Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lutheran pastor at Good Shepherd Church in Brooklyn and co-founder of the national New Sanctuary Movement and the New Sanctuary Coalition here in Ne…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/21/migrants_in_queens

Millions of Women in Mexico Join "Day Without Us" Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed"
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Human Rights Watch cabildea por sanciones letales contra Nicaragua y Venezuela, mientras arrecia la crisis de Covid-19
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-20
Human Rights Watch está orgullosamente asumiendo el crédito por sanciones devastadoras contra Nicaragua, mientras busca escalar la guerra económica en…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/human-rights-watch-sanciones-nicaragua-venezuela/

Human Rights Watch cabildea por sanciones letales contra Nicaragua y Venezuela, mientras arrecia la crisis de Covid-19
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-20
Human Rights Watch está orgullosamente asumiendo el crédito por sanciones devastadoras contra Nicaragua, mientras busca escalar la guerra económica en…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/human-rights-watch-sanciones-nicaragua-venezuela/