Mexican workers, COVID-19 and the fight against the back-to-work campaign
wsws.org | 2020-05-11
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/11/andr-m11.html
GM workers in Mexico call for an international struggle to keep plants closed during pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-05-11
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."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/11/sila-m11.html
The Execution of Julian Assange
Patrick Anderson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-05-11
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 says, "was that being in prison means that you have made so much trouble for the system that the only way for the system to deal with you is to lock you up and try to silence you." | After a decade of being shuttled from house arrest to confinement in an embassy to Belmarsh Prison to, if the United States government ge…
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Hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in Bay of Bengal
wsws.org | 2020-05-11
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/11/bang-m11.html
Leader of infamous Mexican cartel dies in prison after contracting Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-05-11
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
Mass Grave Found in Mexico With Remains of at Least 25 People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-10
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: | Mexico: Violence Increases During COVID-19 Crisis | 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…
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Mass Grave Found in Mexico With Remains of at Least 25 People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-10
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: | Mexico: Violence Increases During COVID-19 Crisis | 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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mass-Grave-Found-in-Mexico-With-Remains-of-at-Least-25-People-20200510-0008.html
Navajo Nation Suffers Third-Highest COVID-19 Infection Rate in U.S. with Limited Healthcare & Water
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-05
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…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/5/navajo_nation_coronavirus_pandemic