2021-09-27: News Headlines

Ipek S. Burnett (2021-09-27). Gunfighter Nation Meets Haitian Migrants. counterpunch.org The image of a White patrol agent with a cowboy hat, on horseback grabbing a Black migrant, carries echoes of the American Old West, invoking the still lasting power and presence of the Myth of the Frontier. In Gunfighter Nation, cultural historian and scholar Slotkin explores how the Myth of the Frontier has always been inseparable from violence—a violence that was carried out in the name of progress and civilization, while at the same time justifying conquests, imperial ambitions, and endless tyranny.

Ana María Aragonés (2021-09-27). Éxito de CELAC, faltaron los migrantes. globalizacion.ca Se llevó a cabo, bajo la presidencia pro tempore mexicana, la Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac), en la que participaron 31 gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe. Alicia Bárcena, directora de la Comisión Económica…

Staff (2021-09-27). Mexico Talks: Venezuelan Government Delegation Overcomes Impasse with Norway After Controversial Statements at UN. orinocotribune.com At night on Saturday, September 25, the head of the Venezuelan government delegation for the Mexico Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, reported that an impasse with the Kingdom of Norway has been overcome, after the representative of the facilitating team of that country, Dag Halvor Nylander, issued a statement assuring that Norway will maintain "strict impartiality." Nylander also regretted the statements made by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg at the UN General Assembly. | Solberg, who recently lost elections in his country, stated in her speech at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly that "we hav…

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-27). México se moviliza a 7 años de desaparición de los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net Marchas por la verdad y justicia del aún inconcluso caso sobre la desaparición forzada de los 43 estudiantes de una escuela normalista.

The Conversation (2021-09-27). Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties. juancole.com By Karen Musalo | — The U.S.'s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration's "inhumane" treatment of Haitian migrants crossing the border via Mexico into Texas. The resignation came amid debate over the U.S. decision to deport thousands of Haitians entering the U.S. in search of asylum or …

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-27). Venezuela denuncia boicot de Colombia contra diálogo en México. telesurtv.net La denuncia responde a una declaración del Gobierno colombiano sobre una supuesta violación de su espacio aéreo.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-09-27). Xenophobia: Right Wingers Evict Venezuelan Migrants in Chile, Set Fire to Their Belongings — Vuelta a la Patria Activated. orinocotribune.com This Saturday, September 26, a new episode of xenophobic violence occurred in Chile, in the midst of a protest against migrants, mostly of Venezuelan nationality, whose clothes, mattresses, baby strollers, toys and tents were burned. | It is estimated that about 3,000 Chileans participated in the xenophobic protest in the city of Iquique, capital of the northern province of Iquique. The city, a coastal town with resorts and spas on the coast of the Pacific ocean, is a popular tourist destination. They reoccupied . | The protesters occupied a square where undocumented and homeless people live, and the events turne…

teleSUR (2021-09-27). Venezuela Demands Respect for Migrants in Chile. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, President Nicolas Maduro's administration demanded that the Chilean authorities respect the human rights of Venezuelan migrants who were victims of violent acts of discrimination. | RELATED: | "Venezuela repudiates xenophobia and aggressions against its migrants and demands that the Chilean national and subnational authorities respect the physical and psychological integrity of our fellow nationals,"

teleSUR (2021-09-27). Thousands of Haitian Migrants Remain Stranded in Colombia. telesurenglish.net The humanitarian situation is deteriorating in the Necocli Municipality in Colombia, where some 20,000 Haitian migrants are trying to cross to Panama and then head to the United States through Central America. | RELATED: | Over the last weeks, hundreds of asylum seekers have been arriving in this municipality every day. Local media and social organizations have denounced that the situation is deteriorating rapidly a…

teleSUR (2021-09-26). Mexico Marks Seven Years of Ayotzinapa Students' Dissapereance. telesurenglish.net Students from rural teacher colleges and relatives demanded justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa young students on the seventh anniversary of their disappearance in Iguala in the Mexican State of Guerrero. | RELATED: | "As long as they do not hand over our comrades safe and sound, we will not be silent, and we will continue to be here in a state of struggle supporting the parents who have not given up," activists said. | The invest…

Staff (2021-09-26). What Happened to the Dialogue in Mexico? Blyde Published the Following Letter. orinocotribune.com According to the head of the Venezuelan opposition delegation Gerardo Blyde, representatives of the Government of Nicolás Maduro did not arrive for the next round of talks in Mexico City, which was supposed to begin this Friday, September 24. | In a statement made by Blyde on his Twitter account: "in the absence of the delegation of the regime today, the delegation of the Unitary Platform reiterates its commitment to advance in this process, always within the rules previously agreed in the Memorandum of Understanding." Blyde highlighted the willingness of his delegation to continue negotiations on issues of socia…

teleSUR (2021-09-26). Venezuelan Government and the Opposition Resume Talks in Mexico. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, officials from the government of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and opposition sectors' representatives grouped in the Unitary Platform began the 3rd round of political negotiations in Mexico. | RELATED: | Previously, the Head of the Bolivarian delegation Jorge Rodriguez informed that differences had been overcome with the Norwegian mediation delegation, following critiques by Norway's Prime Min…

Arnold August (2021-09-26). CLACS: A Significant Step Toward the Inevitable Replacement of the OAS. orinocotribune.com Leading up to the 6th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CLACS, or CELAC for the Spanish-language acronym), hosted by Mexico on September 18 in its capital, with 31 states participating, there were great expectations for a dramatic statement from CLACS as to whether it would de facto replace the Washington-based OAS (Organization of American States). This prospect came about because of remarks by political leaders leading up to the summit. Fortunately, however, this dramatic shift did not take place. | President Nicolás Maduro set the tone by evoking, among other points, the r…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2021-09-26). Smoke and Ruins: Deep Time in Paquimé. counterpunch.org Entry into underground chamber, Paquimé complex. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. | The town is Nuevo Casa Grande in the Chihuahua province of northern Mexico, 100 miles or so southwest of El Paso. It is an old place with a new name. We are sitting outside a dusty cantina made of mud the color of salmon flesh. The finger traces of its builders streak the walls. The window and door frames are turquoise, the paint peeling off in blue scales. | The waitress has left us dark bottles of home-brewed beer and a basket of chile peppers, poblanos and serranos, little green sticks of dynamite. We eat them until our mouths are…

ecns.cn (2021-09-26). China to promote vocational training of migrant workers. ecns.cn China will promote vocational training of migrant workers as part of the efforts to consolidate its poverty alleviation outcomes, an official said Saturday.

scorinoco (2021-09-26). Coast to Coast Protests Erupt in the US Against Biden's Deportation of Haitians. orinocotribune.com From coast to coast, thousands of people in 25 US cities marched on September 23 to demand that President Biden live up to his campaign promises to end inhumane treatment of migrants, notably the mass deportation of Haitian refugees clustered under a bridge in South Texas, along with whippings and beatings from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents trying to stop all migrants across the US southern border. | Instead, they declared, Biden should institute policies he promised on the campaign trail: stopping deportations, reuniting families ICE raids split, closing detention centers—especially priv…

teleSUR, JDO, JCM (2021-09-26). Haití recuerda a EE.UU. que se construyó gracias a migrantes. telesurtv.net Primer Ministro haitiano, Ariel Henry, intervino en la ONU e instó a líderes mundiales a analizar las causas de las migraciones.

Brenda Norrell (2021-09-26). Remains in Desert Believed to be Kidnapped Yaqui from Bacum Pueblo. indybay.org Six bodies found in the Sonoran desert are believed to be those of Yaqui from Bacum Pueblo who were kidnapped when they went for a cow for a traditional feast. There was no news of the other four Yaqui from Bacum who were kidnapped. The Attorney General in the State of Sonora, south of the Arizona border, released the information late today.

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