2021-08-20: News Headlines

Staff (2021-08-20). Headlines for August 20, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Boosts U.S. Troop Levels in Kabul as Chaotic Evacuations Follow Taliban Takeover, Taliban Says It Executed Former Islamic State Leader Abu Omar Khorasani, Afghan Youth Soccer Player Zaki Anwari Died in Fall from U.S. Plane Evacuating Kabul Airport, Afghan Immigrants in Greece Demand Sanctuary for Refugees Fleeing Afghanistan, WHO Slams Rich Nations for Offering Booster Shots While Just 2% of Africa's Population Is Vaccinated, Texas Supreme Court to Allow Schools to Defy Gov. Abbott's Ban on Mask Mandates, Major Hospital in Port-au-Prince Closes After Gangs Kidnap Doctors, Hampering Earthquake Relief, Rep…

Staff (2021-08-20). SOUTHCOM Now Claims to Support 'Diplomatic Exit' in Venezuela (Mexico Talks). orinocotribune.com According to reports by news agency EFE, Craig Faller, head of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), said that he "fully supports a diplomatic exit" in Venezuela. Faller made the comments at the inauguration of the South American Defense Conference in Miami this Tuesday, August 17, where representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, and Uruguay were present. Bolivia did not participate. | Faller claimed that Venezuela's issues are of a political and diplomatic nature, and did not pass up the opportunity to deride President Nicolás Maduro, whom he desc…

teleSUR- lvm, JGN (2021-08-20). México mantiene alerta ante posible intensificación de Grace. telesurtv.net "Estaremos trabajando en los sitios de mayor afectación", dijo el gobernador de Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquín.

Gilberto López y Rivas (2021-08-20). øMilitarización en México? Sí, y militarismo. globalizacion.ca El término militarización se refiere, en diccionarios de uso común en castellano, a la potenciación de las fuerzas armadas, o su utilización en tareas no tradicionales, como el desarrollo, o para combatir "amenazas internas de carácter no militar o para…

Shahid Buttar (2021-08-20). Defending Voters From Disinformation: Why I Sued the San Francisco Chronicle. counterpunch.org Democracy Relies on Ethical Journalism Imagine an immigrant standing up to challenge our country's most powerful corporate politician. What story could better reflect the American dream? It's almost as if Broadway could write a musical about it. Now imagine losing your home as a teenager, then spending a decade earning your undergraduate degree at night while

AutumnSun (2021-08-20). DACA Is Not Enough – Citizenship For All Multi-city Rally. indybay.org CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS NOW! The Rally was held Tuesday August 17th. In Santa Cruz, CA. at the Town Clock in downtown.

Staff (2021-08-19). Venezuela to Request the Return of Monomeros at Mexico Talks. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, August 18, at a working meeting of the Higher Council of Productive Economy, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, proposed that the business sector should issue a document asking for the return of the Monómeros company to Venezuela. This document will be taken to the dialogue in Mexico. | "I propose that all Venezuelan producers prepare a document that Dr. Jorge Rodríguez will take as a fundamental point to the dialogue table in Mexico—a document that will be signed so that Monómeros is returned to its owner, Pequiven," said President Maduro during a TV broadcast together with Pequiven…

teleSUR, JGN (2021-08-19). Huracán Grace golpeará a México en dos ocasiones. telesurtv.net El ciclón afectará con vientos muy fuertes, oleajes elevados y lluvias severas a Tulum, Cancún, Cozumel y Playa del Carmen.

sputniknews (2021-08-19). Hurricane Grace to Bring Mudslides, 'Destructive Waves' to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. sputniknews.com The US National Hurricane Center earlier predicted that the 2021 hurricane season would be one more of the more destructive and active to date, with as many as 21 named storms. Of the tally, between three and five storms are expected to become major hurricanes.

Cronkite News Arizona PBS (2021-08-19). From farm to table, immigrants feed America. juancole.com By Lauren Irwin, Natalie Saenz and Priya Bhat/News21 ( Cronkite News ) — As the sun beats down on a family farm in McFarland, California, immigrant workers duck under a leafy canopy of cotton-candy grapes for a moment of relief. It's 5: 56 a.m., and temperatures are quickly rising. Draped in cotton from fingers to toes, …

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