Daily Archives: January 21, 2021

2021-01-21: News Headlines

Amanda Mills (2021-01-21). Mexico contemplates use of GMO corn in animal feed. nationofchange.org Mexico is currently the biggest foreign market for U.S. GMO yellow corn.

RWAAL (2021-01-20). All Workers Must Support Honduran migrants and refugees. indybay.org Two months after hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated the region and as the pandemic crisis continues, caravan members are escaping conditions of absolute destitution. Capitalist governments line up to thwart workers' pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

teleSUR (2021-01-20). Joe Biden: Immigration Reform During First Day in Office. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Joe Biden has sent Congress an immigration reform bill to facilitate citizenship for undocumented migrants. The bill, set to become the most transformative reform package since 1986, is one of the first initiatives Biden kicked off on inauguration day. | RELATED: | The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 aims at creating a legalization mechanism for the over 10.5 million undocumented migrants living in the U…

splcenter (2021-01-20). President Biden's day-one action a critical step for immigrant justice. splcenter.org &nbsp…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-01-19). Migrants stranded in Guatemala following repression by security forces. peoplesdispatch.org A caravan of more than thousand Honduran migrants were brutally repressed by the Guatemalan military and police forces, on January 17. Honduran migrants, including men, women and children, have set off on this perilous 4,000-km long journey on foot to the US with the hope to apply for humanitarian asylum there.

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2021-01-19). As Guatemalan Forces Beat Back Migrant Caravan, Biden Urged to Reverse Trump Policies of 'Cruelty and Coercion'. commondreams.org "The answer is not to continue doing more of the same but to envision a new direction that respects the political and economic self-determination and dignity of our Central American neighbors." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/guatemala_0.jpg

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Migrants Jump Over Border Fence in Spanish City in Africa. telesurenglish.net Some 150 sub-Saharan migrants on Tuesday tried to enter the Spanish city of Melilla by jumping the border fence with Morocco. | RELATED: | Spanish authorities reported that 87 people entered this North African city although Moroccan and Spanish security forces tried to prevent it. | After jumping over the fence, the Sub-Saharan migrants ran into the city in a group. Of those, 78 people were taken to the Cent…

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Mexico to Produce 6 Million Doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Monday informed that Argentina sent to his country the active substance that will allow the manufacture of 6 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. | RELATED: | Argentina's MAbxience, the laboratory responsible for the raw material production, sent a first batch of the active substance to Mexico thanks to the project that both countries signed in…

teleSUR (2021-01-19). Mexico: Morena Party Opposes Censorship Against AMLO. telesurenglish.net The National Renovation Movement (MORENA) party will challenge a decision by the National Electoral Institute (INE) which prohibited Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from expressing judgments on the June federal elections during his morning press conferences. | RELATED: | "It is an excess against freedom of expression and his right to give his opinion on issues of national importance," MORENA l…