2021-06-20: News Headlines

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-06-20). Gunmen kill at least 15 people at US-Mexico border. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) — Law enforcement officials say gunmen aboard a number of vehicles have staged attacks in several neighborhoods in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, local media have reported.

teleSUR (2021-06-19). Mexico To Start the Public Campaign on Ex-Presidents' Trials. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Mexico's National Electoral Institute (INE) unanimously approved the campaign on the public consultation to try five former Presidents for acts of corruption. | RELATED: | The campaign on the referendum will take place from July 15 until Aug. 1 and will cost approximately US$44.5 million. | The campaign intends to inform Mexicans about the consultation's goals, the locations for the voting process, the…

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-06-19). Mexican states of Baja California and Sinaloa legalize same-sex marriage. peoplesdispatch.org With the historic decision, Baja California and Sinaloa joined the list of 20 states that recognize marriage between people of the same sex with the approval of a reform in the local Congress…

WSWS (2021-06-19). Responding to WSWS, AFL-CIO official tells Mexican workers that UAW embodies "union democracy" wsws.org A leading official at the Solidarity Center, the government-financed arm of the AFL-CIO, intervened against a WSWS appeal for Mexican workers to support striking workers in the US.

Joris Leverink (2021-06-19). It is time to end illegal pushbacks and abolish Frontex. roarmag.org An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor | The European Union's border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015, which put migration at the top of the European political agenda. It seems that there has not been much opposition against this expansion, which ranges from border

Eds. (2021-06-19). Volcano vs. volcano. mronline.org On the anniversary of his birth, we recall the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico. | June 19, 2021 | Newswire…

Michael Welch (2021-06-19). Still Unreconciled in Canada: A Century of Residential School Horrors. globalresearch.ca "We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths….Some were as young as three years old." — Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First NationKukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, …

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