Daily Archives: November 19, 2021

2021-11-19: News Headlines

Ryan Devereaux (2021-11-19). U.S. Military Training in Mexico Increased as Human Rights Waned. zcomm.org In the years after the U.S. pledged to invest in human rights and rule of law, the Pentagon spent millions training elite Mexican units how to fight…

Mouris Salloum George (2021-11-19). México — Primer sicario y nacimiento de leyendas del narcotráfico. globalizacion.ca Primer sicario de Sinaloa. ´No había existido otro pistolero como él. Poseía una brutal sangre fría que se convirtió en leyenda en Sinaloa a partir del 21 de febrero de 1944, durante la madrugada del carnaval de Mazatlán. En el…

Staff (2021-11-18). Kamala Harris is no border czar, Texas Democrat says. rt.com A long-time Texas congressman representing a district along the US-Mexico border said he has "moved on" from Vice President Kamala Harris when it comes to illegal immigration and now wishes the US had a proper border czar. | "I've moved on from the vice president to say, 'OK, let's work with the ambassadors and let's work with the State Department. Let's work with the homeland secretary'," Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told reporters on Wednesday. | "I wish we had a border czar. We've had border czars under different administrations," he added. | Though the media has "put a lot of focus on the vice pr…

William Rivers Pitt (2021-11-18). From Glasgow to Gulf of Mexico, Fossil Fuel Industry Shows Us Who's in Charge. truthout.org There is a scene from Francis Ford Coppola's bleak masterpiece Apocalypse Now that came to mind in the aftermath of the Captain Willard, played by an impossibly young Mar…

Jena Brooker (2021-11-18). Biden proposes two-decade drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site. peoplesworld.org Indigenous tribes have fought for years to protect Chaco Canyon, one of the oldest and most culturally important native sites in the United States, from the oil and gas industry. Located in the high desert of northwest New Mexico, the historical site served as a hub for ceremony, politics, and trade from the ninth to …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-18). 10 migrants found dead off Libya coast after European coast guards ignore rescue calls. peoplesdispatch.org As many as 99 people on the boat were rescued alive. The wooden boat was found by Doctors without Borders (MSF) around 30 nautical miles from the Libyan coast…

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