(2020-05-11). GM workers in Mexico call for an international struggle to keep plants closed during pandemic. wsws.org Asked about how workers should respond across North America, a worker said: "Through a strike protest to demand no reopening until it's safe and the virus has been eradicated."
(2020-05-11). Mexican workers, COVID-19 and the fight against the back-to-work campaign. wsws.org Thousands of workers at manufacturing plants across Mexico, called maquiladoras, have struck to force the closing of nonessential plants and to demand protective equipment at essential plants.
(2020-05-11). The Execution of Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com 
I do not respect anyone who has not been to prison." Julian Assange once said to Renata Avila, a Guatemalan human rights activist who serves as legal counsel for WikiLeaks. "What he meant," Avila After a decade of being shuttled from house arrest to confinement in an embassy to Belmarsh Prison to, if the United States government ge…
(2020-05-11). Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in Bay of Bengal. wsws.org The Rohingya were attempting to reach Malaysia in a bid to escape the appalling conditions in Bangladesh and in the hope of finding work as undocumented labourers.
(2020-05-10). Rage Against The Machine — Interview with Noam Chomsky (from The Battle Of Mexico City). mronline.org 
The Mexican-American War began with a dispute over the U.S. government's 1845 annexation of Texas. In January 1846, President James K. Polk, a strong advocate of westward expansion, ordered General Zachary Taylor to occupy disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers. Mexican troops attacked Taylor's forces, and on May 13, 1846, Congress approved …
(2020-05-10). Mass Grave Found in Mexico With Remains of at Least 25 People. telesurenglish.net The remains of at least 25 people were found buried in a mass grave outside the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, the Jalisco state prosecutor's office informed Sunday. | RELATED: | The mass grave was found on Thursday and searchers have so far "extracted the remains of 25 unidentified dead people, as well as five bags that are presumed to also contain human remains," the agency said in a statement. | Local neighbors said do…
(2020-05-05). Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water. democracynow.org 
We get an update from two doctors treating patients with the Navajo Nation, the largest Indigenous reservation in the country, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Michelle Tom is a member of the Navajo Nation and a family physician treating COVID-19 patients at the Winslow Indian Health Care Center and Little Colorado Medical Center in northern Arizona near the Navajo reservation. In Gallup, New Mexico, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder is leading a medical volunteer group of 21 nurses and doctors from the University of California, San Francisco as part of the HEAL Initiative. He says the coronavirus hi…
(2020-05-11). Leader of infamous Mexican cartel dies in prison after contracting Covid-19. rt.com 
Notorious Mexican cartel leader Moises Escamilla May has died after contracting the novel coronavirus while serving a lengthy sentence in maximum-security prison on a raft of serious drugs and weapons charges. | Escamilla headed one of the factions of the Los Zetas cartel — a notorious criminal gang in Mexico, involved in cross-border cocaine smuggling as well as kidnapping, sex trafficking and extortion. | Also on rt.com | | According to the Jalisco…
(2020-04-30). US to Mobilize Military Reservists in 'Anti-Drug' Operation Against Venezuela. venezuelanalysis.com The Trump administration is also targeting oil-for-food deals involving the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies.