Daily Archives: August 22, 2021

2021-08-22: News Headlines

_____ (2021-08-22). On Contact: A Different Kind Of War. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the plight of everyday people victimized by the hardships of life in Mexico and Central America with author and journalist J. Malcolm Garcia. His new book is 'A Different Kind of War: Uneasy Encounters in Mexico and Central America'. A collection of essays informed by grief and anger, the book reveals the varied and distinctive voices of those families fleeing the violence of Honduras, Mexican reporters covering gang conflict in Juarez, and children living off the refuse of a landfill.

Prabhat Patnaik (2021-08-22). Mexico's move to shunt out neoliberal agenda holds lessons for India. peoplesdispatch.org Alongside efforts to reclaim control over Mexico's natural resources, the Andrés Manuel López Obrador government is also planning to recapture control over its Central Bank…

Staff (2021-08-21). Juan Guaidó's Four Defeats that Took Him to Dialogue in Mexico. orinocotribune.com Juan Guaidó's successive defeats have forced him to change course. The media and diplomatic support he got in 2019 undoubtedly positioned his image internationally. This allowed Guaidó to arrive at the negotiation table in Mexico with a challenging attitude; although, concretely speaking, he was unable to exercise the power that was supposedly bestowed upon to him. | In this regard, the failures of the previous dialogues in Norway and Dominican Republic, far from putting extra pressure on the Nicolás Maduro government, weakened, instead, the agency of the self-proclaimed "interim president" of Venezuela. So far,…

teleSUR (2021-08-21). Grace Keeps Affecting Mexico's Central Region as Tropical Storm. telesurenglish.net On Saturday morning, Mexico's National Meteorologic Service informed Tropical Storm Grace was located 20Km north of Texcoco and 40Km to the north-northwest of Mexico City and affecting the country's central region with strong gusts of wind and heavy rainfall. | RELATED: | Grace is heading west-southwest at 20 Km/h, and at 10: 00 am local time, it reported maximum sustained winds of 110 Km/h and a 990 hectoPascal central pressure. | Loc…

WSWS (2021-08-21). As New Mexico continues to push for in-person instruction 109 schools report COVID-19 cases. wsws.org At least six New Mexico schools have been forced into online instruction by coronavirus outbreaks as Delta variant cases surge in schools…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-21). Migration Crisis In US Reaches Unprecedented Levels. southfront.org Illustrative ImageAs the calamity escalates, the greater the crisis of legitimacy for the Biden government. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | The migration crisis in the US seems far from over. Recently, Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, confirmed what everyone already suspected: the number of migrants on the southern border reached an "unprecedented" mark in the country's history. With this, the challenges appe…

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