2021-06-07: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-07). Mexico: Voters Hand Lopez Obrador's Party a Majority in Congress. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Photo: Twitter / @mario_delgado The preliminary count (PREP) conducted by Mexico's electoral authority gave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party MORENA, together with its coalition parties, control of the lower house of Congress but fell short of securing a supermajority. The estimate by the National Electoral Institute (INE) gave the coalition of MORENA,…

teleSUR (2021-06-07). MORENA Party Leads Legislative Elections in Mexico. telesurenglish.net Mexico's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party is emerging as the winner of the legislative elections carried out on Sunday | RELATED: | The party led by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is expected to obtain between 190 and 203 seats in the Lower Chamber. | The National Electoral Institute (INE) Counselor Lorenzo Cordova revealed that the preliminary voting range of MORENA goes from 34.9 to 35.8 percent, which wo…

teleSUR (2021-06-07). Mexico Hopes To Reach Migration Agreements With Kamala Harris. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said his country hopes to reach immigration and border agreements after the visit of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday. | RELATED: | "We want to maintain a very good relationship with the U.S. government," AMLO said, adding that President Joe Biden "has behaved very well." | The Mexican president remarked that the main theme of the visit is the manage…

John Hickman (2021-06-07). "Lethal Disregard:" UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies. juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — The diplomatic language used in official human rights reports often fails to express the horrors that they reference. So it is with the May 2021 report issued by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet: "Lethal Disregard: Search and Rescue and the Protection of Migrants …

WSWS (2021-06-07). Spain's Anticapitalistas back anti-migrant press campaign targeting Morocco. wsws.org This petty bourgeois party is joining in the campaign of the PSOE-Podemos government to denounce Morocco for allowing migrants to cross into Spain's enclave at Ceuta.

Staff (2021-06-06). Argentina Criticizes Almagro's Interference in Mexican Elections. orinocotribune.com Argentina warned that the statements made by the head of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro against the Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister demonstrates his intention to influence the legislative and regional elections of Mexico, scheduled for this Sunday, June 6. | On Friday, June 4, Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Solá criticized the statements of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, against the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, alluding to the latter's service as the governor of Mexico City from 2006 to 2012. | Solá…

teleSUR (2021-06-06). Mexico: Morena Leads the Vote. telesurenglish.net Mexico's ruling party was leading in the election to choose a new lower house of Congress, prelimiary results showed, this would put MORENA in a leading position to achieve the majority that would give the winner 300 seats. | Election day had unfolded peacefully throughout most of the country, despite some isolated episodes of violence in Oaxaca, Baja California, and the State of Mexico, according to reports by the National Electoral Institute (INE), shortly after polls closed. Characterized by campaigns marked by violence, intimidation, and even killings of local candidates, this has been one of the most viol…

Editorial Team (2021-06-06). 89 politicians in Mexico murdered leading up to midterm elections. challenge-magazine.org At least 89 Mexican politicians have been murdered in the last 200 days, 35 of which were candidates for the midterm elections. There have also been over 700 attacks, according to security consultancy firm Etellekt, including threats, beatings and kidnappings. | The 6 June election is to be significant, with over 2,100 mayoral and city council seats being contested, as well as the Chamber of Deputies, Congress' lower house. | This will determine the strength of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and their allies, who together hold a two-thirds majority. Such a major…

teleSUR (2021-06-06). Chile Continues With Summary Deportations of Venezuelans. telesurenglish.net In Chile, the Jesuit Service to Migrants (SJM) Director Waleska Ureta denounced President Sebastian Piñera's government for illegally deporting a group of 30 migrants with no criminal record to Venezuela. | RELATED: | On Saturday morning, the Investigation Police (PDI) took them out from their homes and jobs and carry them to its headquarters, where they are gathered for deportation. | "Let us not normalize this undignif…

2021-06-07 17:37 | 19:37 EST | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0