2020-05-28: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-05-28). Unprotected Migrants Roam Through Southeastern Mexico. telesurenglish.net Hundreds of Central American migrants are going through situations of poverty and high risk of contracting COVID-19 while wandering the streets of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. | RELATED: | In this municipality, humanitarian shelters decided to avoid overcrowding and suspended the admission of new guests from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala | This decision left migrants stranded in Tapachula homeless as they hope to…

teleSUR (2020-05-28). Guatemalan Congress to Dismiss Health Minister Amidst Pandemic. telesurenglish.net Guatemala's Ombudsman Jordan Rodas requested on May 27 Guatemalan Health Minister Hugo Monroy Castillo's dismissal due to corruption and inefficiency accusations amidst the COVID-19 crisis. | RELATED: | "So far the Ministry shows a low execution of its budget being evident that there is no capacity to provide resources and inputs to the health personnel who are in the front line and that places them in serious risk of contagion," Guate…

teleSUR (2020-05-27). El Salvador: Bukele Confesses to Using Hydroxychloroquine. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele affirmed on May 26 he is consuming hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic treatment to prevent COVID-19. | RELATED: | "I take it, as prophylaxis. President Trump takes it as prophylaxis. Most of the leaders of the world take it as prophylaxis," Bukele assured. | The leader made his statements during a press brief to acknowledge the arrival of a sanitary aid shipment from the U.S. | The hea…

Staff (2020-05-27). NYU Response To Grad Student Sickout Puts Fall Semester In Question. therealnews.com On May 6-8, NYU's graduate students held a three-day sickout to try and force the administration to commit to additional financial support for students in the wake of the novel coronavirus. | The students of NYU are echoing the demands of students at other universities: summer funding, a one-year extension of current funding packages, committing to not have a hiring freeze, and support for undocumented students. But NYU's refusal to engage with the graduate students is especially galling given the university's endowment is, by its own accounting, $4.3 billion. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (C…

Staff (2020-05-28). Trump Retweets Speech That Says "the Only Good Democrat Is a Dead Democrat" truthout.org President Donald Trump early Thursday boosted a comment from the founder of the group Cowboys for Trump that "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat." | In his midnight tweet, the president responded to a video clip of Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin making the remark, tweeting from his phone: "Thank you Cowboys. See you in New Mexico!" | t.co/aCRJeskUA8 | — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Last Process: 5 Citations: 2020-05-28 23:40 GMT (19:40 EST)