(2022-06-14). Interview with Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers' Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: Why are you here at the Workers Summit of the Americas? | Jacobo Torres de Leon: We are here as a general response to the exclusion of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua from the USA's Summit of the Americas, on the part of the U.S. administration. They don't have the right to exclude any country. We question this and how they treat the countries of the Americas. Th…
(2022-06-14). People's Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles ends with a bold plan for the future. popularresistance.org The organizers of the People's Summit for Democracy were determined to close out the summit with a lasting impression on the last day, June 10. | The People's Summit was organized in opposition to the Summit of the Americas that was organized by the US-influenced Organization of American States (OAS) and hosted by the US in Los Angeles. The Summit of the Americas has historically been a place for the US to dictate a political agenda to the Latin American countries. | The Summit of the Americas has been plagued by difficulties since May 10, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that h…
(2022-06-14). Fuerte granizada deja afectaciones en la Ciudad de México. telesurtv.net Aunque no se reportan víctimas mortales, el cúmulo de granizo provocó embotellamientos en distintas zonas de la capital mexicana.
(2022-06-14). Justicia británica falla a favor de la deportación de migrantes. telesurtv.net El juez Rabinder Singh, de la Corte de Apelaciones del Reino Unido, señaló que no podía cambiar la decisión anterior.
(2022-06-14). El Salvador's hardline abortion ban causes major societal issues. america.cgtn.com Mexico has recently decriminalized abortion, while further south in El Salvador, some of the most hardline laws are causing problems for society.
(2022-06-14). Panamericano sub 23: Cuba cae ante sus verdugos de Nicaragua. cubadebate.cu El equipo Cuba sub 23 que participa en el torneo Panamericano en la ciudad mexicana de Aguascalientes, cayó este lunes ante Nicaragua con marcador final de 3-1, después de archivar tres éxitos en sus primeras presentaciones. La escuadra pinolera llegó a la grama del estadio Romo Chávez, cuartel general de los Rieleros en la Liga Mexicana, con el aval de haber derrotado a Cuba en par de ocasiones en la pasada cita continental.
(2022-06-13). Interview with Black Lives Matter organizer at Workers' Summit of the Americas. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviews Josh Higginbotham, Organizer and Director of Research and Development for Black Lives Matter-Oklahoma City, at the Workers' Summit of the Americas which took place June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: Why are you here? | Josh Higginbotham: I am here to stand in solidarity with the nations that were excluded from the summit of the Americas, that are specifically targeted by USA sanctions, bureaucratic terrorism. We are the BLM presence from Oklahoma. | Fight Back!: Why should BLM stand in solidarity with these countries? | Higginbotham: It is very easily recognizable that U.S. forei…
(2022-06-13). Mexico's President AMLO condemns U.S. blockade of Cuba as 'genocide' and 'tremendous violation of human rights'. mronline.org 
Mexico's left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denounced the illegal U.S. blockade of Cuba as a "type of genocide" and "tremendous violation of human rights."
(2022-06-13). Unions Making A Green New Deal From Below. popularresistance.org Somerville, MA is an inner suburb of Boston and the most densely populated city in New England with 81,000 residents. It was long an industrial center inhabited by repeated waves of immigrants, but it has increasingly become a bedroom community for Boston and Cambridge. | Somerville is currently being transformed by the extension of the Boston Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) subway system's Green Line throughout the city, bringing transit access to 80% of Somerville residents. Over five million square feet of new development is in the works. | Somerville's long-term mayor supported development but not union…
(2022-06-13). México reporta al menos 37 migrantes fallecidos durante el 2022. telesurtv.net Según el INM al menos 33 migrantes murieron debido a la fuerza de la corriente y la profundidad del Río Bravo, en la frontera con EE.UU.
(2022-06-13). Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala. transcend.org 7 Jun 2022 – As the US government's Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
(2022-06-12). Interview with William Camacaro on the Workers' Summit of the Americas. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! interviewed William Camacaro, one of the coordinators of the important Workers' Summit of the Americas which takes place on June 10-12 in Tijuana, Mexico. | Fight Back!: How was this Workers' Summit of Las Americas started? | William Camacaro: I was in Venezuela last year with comrades and we said, "We have a possibility to organize a conference in Mexico." We used to organize an event in Tijuana in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade. That has not happened for six or seven years. Now is more important than ever because Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are under U.S. sanctions. So, we need to make…