2021-06-21: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-06-21). AMLO Orders Probe Into Reynosa Killings Amid Growing Violence. telesurenglish.net Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday a probe over the killing of innocent people in Reynosa city last weekend, amid growing violence in the country. | RELATED: | "Everything indicates that it was not a confrontation, but it was a command to shoot people who were planned to be confronted. It is a cowardly attack on the lives of innocent people," the president, also known as AMLO, said. | El Gobierno de la Cuarta…

Staff (2021-06-21). Venezuela Includes Foreign Refugees in COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Program. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan National Commission for Refugees (CONARE), through its office in Guasdualito, Apure state, in coordination with the government, the mayor of the José María Romero Municipality and the Venezuelan Ministry of Health, carried out a COVID-19 mass vaccination day on June 18 for senior citizens in the state. Several refugees of Colombian and Mexican nationalities who live in Venezuela were vaccinated in this session. | Thanks to the cooperation of the governments of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, Venezuela has been able to launch the immunization program against COVID-19 in pr…

David Swanson (2021-06-21). Remember to Forget the Alamo. warisacrime.org Mexico once had a problem with a local provincial government promoting illegal immigration from the United States into Mexico in order to engage in the illegal slavery of illegally trafficked people. The locality involved was called Texas. For years, Mexico let Texas get away with its lawlessness and immorality, including not paying taxes, and including …

John Buell (2021-06-21). Central American Migrants: They're Here Because We Were There. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — Democrats claim to defend an honest rendition of US history, one that will be attentive to the injustices inflicted by slavery and racism. Unfortunately, however, that honesty stops at the water's edge. While the president prepared for and conducted a widely- covered summit that among other things …

WSWS (2021-06-21). New Zealand PM announces fraudulent apology for 1970s immigration raids. wsws.org The apology for past crimes is being used as a cover for those being carried out in the present, with Labour seeking to divert growing opposition to its attacks on migrants and other sections of the working class.

Patrick Cockburn (2021-06-21). The Rise and Fall of Netanyahu. counterpunch.org The rise of Benjamin Netanyahu was very like that of Donald Trump. Both won power as populist nationalist leaders exacerbating and exploiting polarisation within their own countries. Netanyahu inflated the threat from the Palestinians in the eyes of Israeli voters. Trump demonised blacks and immigrants.

The Associated Press (2021-06-21). Ambassadors Recalled After Latest Nicaragua Arrest. latinorebels.com MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Mexico and Argentina recalled their ambassadors to Nicaragua for consultations Monday, a day after President Daniel Ortega's government arrested yet another presidential contender ahead of the November 7 elections.

Iván Restrepo (2021-06-21). México — Cuando despertaron, el sargazo estaba allí. globalizacion.ca No es nuevo el grave problema que se vive en la franja costera de Quintana Roo. Saben de él las autoridades y el sector empresarial desde principios de 2015, cuando comenzaron a llegar miles y miles de toneladas de sargazo,…

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.

Staff (2021-06-20). NGO Sures Report: There is No Venezuelan Refugee Crisis. orinocotribune.com There is no Venezuelan refugee crisis, states a Sures published in its Twitter account that "based on data from the Refugees and Migrants of Venezuela Coordination Platform (R4V),…

Staff (2021-06-20). NGO Sures Report: There is No Venezuelan Refugee Crisis. orinocotribune.com There is no Venezuelan refugee crisis, states a Sures published in its Twitter account that "based on data from the Refugees and Migrants of Venezuela Coordination Platform (R4V),…

_____ (2021-06-20). To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need To Take On Policing. popularresistance.org Police in the United States act with impunity in targeted neighborhoods, public schools, college campuses, hospitals, and almost every other public sphere. Not only do the police view protesters, Black and Indigenous people, and undocumented immigrants as antagonists to be controlled, they are also armed with military-grade weapons. This police militarization is a process that dates at least as far back as President Lyndon Johnson when he initiated the 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act, which supplied local police forces with weapons used in the Vietnam War. The public is now regarded as dangerous and suspect…

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