2021-07-20: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-07-20). Mexican Journalist Shot Dead in Morelia City. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Mexican journalist Abraham Mendoza was shot dead as he walked out of a gym in Morelia city, in Michoacan State. He was a presenter on EXA Morelia radio station and collaborated with the Artists Rights Foundation. | RELATED: | A group of armed men opened fire on him in the facility parking lot and drove away through Madero Poniente Avenue. In the attack, an ice-paddle salesman was also shot but not murdered. | Mi…

Latino USA (2021-07-20). How I Made It: El Peso Hero (A Latino USA Podcast). latinorebels.com This July, "El Peso Hero" is celebrating 10 years of fighting Mexican cartels, corrupt officials and advocating for the rights of migrants on the border.

_____ (2021-07-20). Immigrant Leaders Shut Down NJ ICE 'Black Site'. popularresistance.org Immigrant leaders and immigration justice organizers chained themselves together and blockaded the entrance of the Newark SAC office in response to escalating abuses by ICE. Protesters are calling this unidentified office located in a desolate industrial neighborhood in Newark, NJ an "ICE black site"; and are demanding #ReleasesNotTransfers as detainees continue to be transferred out of New Jersey jails to detention centers across the country and away from their families.

teleSUR (2021-07-20). Cuba Denounces Threats to Anti-Intervention Emigrants in the US. telesurenglish.net Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced on Tuesday that threats against Cubans residing in the United States (U.S.) who promote better ties between the two countries have increased and called for these intimidating actions to stop. | In a message disseminated through the social network Twitter, the head of Cuban diplomacy blamed extremist sectors in South Florida for encouraging such aggressive behavior. | RELATED: |

Staff (2021-07-20). Mexico Used Private Israeli Spyware Pegasus to Surveil President's Family & a Murdered Journalist. democracynow.org Mexico appears to have submitted more phone numbers for potential surveillance to the Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO Group than any other client country, according to an investigation of the company by an international collaboration of media outlets called The Pegasus Project. The Guardian found the mobile phone number of Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda Birto was selected as a possible target for surveillance by a Mexican NSO Group client just weeks before Pineda's assassination in Guerrero in 2017. Nina Lakhani, senior reporter at The Guardian, says Mexico was NSO Group's first client and authorities th…

Staff (2021-07-20). Don't Use Cuba Protests to Justify US Intervention, Say Activists in Mexico. truthout.org Mexico City, Mexico — Singing songs of revolution and chanting slogans in support of the Cuban Revolution, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on Saturday, July 17, in an expression of solidarity with the Cuban people and their right to self-determination. | The jubilant demonstration, organized by both Mexicans and Cubans, came as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel grapples with a destabilization effort by right-wing opponents and U.S. politicians se…

Calla Randall (2021-07-20). The Weekly Round-Up: Migrant Rights, Virginity Testing and Racism. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the news: Immigration and migrant rights have been at the forefront of the news this week. An investigation has revealed that many undocumented migrants in the UK are being denied access to a vaccine, even though NHS England policy states that ID is not required to register with a GP (needed to book a jab). The …

Staff (2021-07-20). "Heartbreaking": Judge's Suspension of DACA Renews Push for Comprehensive Immigration Bill. democracynow.org After a federal judge struck down DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, we look at what may come next with Cesar Espinosa, a DACA recipient and executive director of the Houston, Texas-based, immigrant-led civil rights organization FIEL. He says the latest ruling is "heartbreaking," and urges lawmakers to create a legislative solution for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. "We want to see Congress and the president take action."

United We Dream (2021-07-20). Friday 7/16: Emergency Webinar on DACA Ruling & Immigrant Rights w/ United We Dream. indybay.org Online via livestream recording…

James Fleming (2021-07-20). Why are the Rio Grande and other rivers drying up? liberationnews.org Without immediate and rapid change, New Mexico and other areas will plunge further into drought and irreversible environmental damage.

Staff (2021-07-19). Migration Is Not a "Crisis." It's Survival and Resistance to Ongoing Genocide. truthout.org Earlier this month, a Honduran court

Roger Kulp (2021-07-19). Women prisoners in New Mexico suffer under inhumane conditions. liberationnews.org Though well aware of significant problems, both Department of Corrections officials and the local press have long ignored the situation.

_____ (2021-07-19). 'A False Solution': 500+ Groups Urge US, Canadian Leaders to Reject Carbon Capture. commondreams.org "The parliamentarian offers advice which the president and the Senate are free to take or reject. This is Biden throwing the undocumented under the bus and claiming, wrongly, he has no other choice."

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