(2021-06-12). Perú y México: Dos triunfos de la izquierda nacional y popular. globalizacion.ca El domingo pasado se realizaron elecciones en Perú y en México, dos comicios claves para Latinoamérica. Una de las coincidencias más emblemáticas entre ambos, situación que se replica en otros países de la región, es la aparición de una izquierda…
(2021-06-12). US Government Expels Eighty Venezuelan Migrants — Some of Them Part of a Group that Entered a Few Weeks Ago with Big Media Coverage. orinocotribune.com 
The expulsion of 80 Venezuelan migrants into Mexico by the United States government has been denounced as "a scam" on social media. Among those expelled, there is a group of people who had recently crossed the Rio Grande in the hopes of entering the United States, and their situation had received substantial media coverage at that time. | According to
(2021-06-11). Biden official says trade deal is pro-worker. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement—the three-way trade pact that replaced jobs-destroying NAFTA—is an example of pro-worker trade, crafted with a lot of worker input, the Democratic Biden administration emphasizes and will continue to do so. So says Katherine Tai, Biden's new, labor-lauded, U.S. Trade Representative, speaking to an AFL-CIO-sponsored virtual Zoom "Town Hall" on trade on June …
(2021-06-11). Building an anti-imperialist climate justice movement. roarmag.org Via Campesina protest march in Mexico, 2010. Photo: In his new book,
(2021-06-11). Kamala's "New Era" Mexico Trip was an "Anti-Trump Coup" Clean-up Job. strategic-culture.org 
We cannot ignore the vast network of Soros-backed NGOs operating in Central America and, much to the chagrin of the Mexican government, also in Mexico. | What can we make of Kamala Harris' trip to Mexico? The public reads reports about success, but without anything to back that up. Naturally, from corporate media and from Harris, we are left with meaningless platitudes and cackling vagueities. We are roughly informed that Harris (and not Biden) goes to meet with heads of state of Guatemala and Mexico. Guatemala is one of the Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador) states caught up in the 'Root Causes…
(2021-06-11). Official: US Told Nicaragua It Will Respect Vote—If Free. latinorebels.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — A senior U.S. official said Thursday that less than two weeks ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Nicaragua's foreign minister that the Biden administration would respect the results of free and fair elections in November.
(2021-06-11). #215Children: Indigenous Peoples Grieve After Mass Grave Found at Residential School. libya360.wordpress.com M. Tiahui Memorials to the 215 children buried at Kamloops Residential School have been put up all over Canada. On May 27, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said that preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia uncovered the remains of 215 children. This…
(2021-06-11). On the picket line. workers.org 
Gig workers are essential workers As pandemic business closures escalated in 2019-2020, many immigrant workers who lost jobs at hotels and construction sites turned to the gig economy for work with Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, GrubHub and Instacart. Labelled as independent contractors by the companies, these workers have few labor protections. . . . |
(2021-06-11). Continuing Venezuela exodus and COVID-19 highlights need for global solidarity for most vulnerable. news.un.org Vulnerable Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 health and socio-economic crisis, urgently need greater support from the international community, UN humanitarians said on Friday, ahead of a donor conference hosted by Canada next week.
(2021-06-11). The 'ICE Kids'. aclu.org This piece was On a cold, rainy night last November, Bastian Rodriguez spent the first hours of his 18th birthday inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van. Rodriguez was aging out of the Cowlitz County Youth Services Center, a juvenile jail in Longview, Wash., and was on his way to the Northwest ICE Processing Center, a privately run immigration detention facility for adults in Tacoma. He had already spent more than two years in ICE custody. | "These adult people are going t…
(2021-06-11). ICE budget set to increase under Biden administration. challenge-magazine.org The Biden presidential campaign received more money than the Trump campaign from companies in the border industry, with Biden promising these companies a 'smart wall' including surveillance towers with night vision and thermal energy cameras as opposed to the physical wall that Trump began constructing. This strategy of using surveillance follows the decades-long US border policy laid out in the 1994 border patrol manual of 'prevention through deterrence', forcing migrants into 'more hostile terrain, less suited for crossing and more suited for enforcement'.
(2021-06-11). Iowa Governor Questions Migrant Flights Into Des Moines. latinorebels.com DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds complained in a letter sent Thursday that the federal government didn't notify her before flying migrant children into the Des Moines airport in April, then shuttling them to other cities as part of an effort to join them with relatives.