(2022-12-04). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part II. popularresistance.org The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean to be its "backyard" under the anachronist 1823 Monroe Doctrine. And even though current US President Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to the "front yard" makes any difference, Yankee hemispheric hegemony is becoming increasingly volatile. A "Pink Tide" of left electoral victories since 2018 have swept Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Chile, Columbia, and Brazil. At the same time, China has emerged as an economic presence while tumultuously inflationary winds blow in the world economy. | In this larger context, the socialist tr…
(2022-12-04). Winter 2022 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! indybay.org Racist Hate and Migrantphobia Continues Under Biden…
(2022-12-02). What Happened To (Once) Mighty Bundesmachine… smoothiex12.blogspot.com 
This is not a question. As famous Gary Lineker stated in 1990: "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win." Not the case anymore. In 2018 in the World Cup in Russia tens of millions of Russian fans, including millions who love German football, were salivating in their eager anticipation of seeing 2014 World Champions performing a football equivalent of the 1942 Panzer division on the offensive, but instead… Germany lost to Mexico in the opener and then simply bowed out of the group stage to the astonishment of the fans the world over, including…
(2022-12-02). We Finally Have a Latino Hit in 'Wednesday' (REVIEW). latinorebels.com Latino viewers have become accustomed to cancelations, when something like HBO's 'Gordita Chronicles' earns strong viewership numbers, gets rave critical reviews, and still gets canceled. But Netflix's 'Wednesday,' starring Mexican American and Puerto Rican actress Jenna Ortega, seems destined for a different fate.
(2022-12-02). Mexico's Ban on Genetically Modified Corn to be Addressed at North American Leaders' Summit. orinocotribune.com In a meeting held at the National Palace in Mexico City last Monday, November 28, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a US government delegation headed by the US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack finalized the topics that will be discussed during the North American Leaders' Summit to be held in January 2023 in Mexico. The Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard and Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development Victor Villalobos announced that Mexico's ban of genetically modified corn will be among the discussed topics. | In response to demands from Mexican farmers and agricultural workers, t…
(2022-12-02). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part I. popularresistance.org Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June's historic electoral victory in Colombia over the country's long-dominant US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018. | This electoral wave, according to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, speaking at the Climate Summit in November, "open[s] a new geopolitical age to Lati…
(2022-12-02). Mexico's left takes to the streets, celebrates achievements. peoplesworld.org 
"Sometimes there are revolutions, but people keep on thinking the same way. But now we are seeing a peacetime transformation process and there is a change of mentality…. I said yesterday that we are winning the battle against racism, classism, discrimination. This is not about material things, not about welfare programs. There's been a change …
(2022-12-02). Death by Policy: Crisis In The Arizona Desert (A Latino USA Podcast). latinorebels.com In this year-long investigation from Futuro Investigates, we dig into how the U.S. government's decades-long "prevention through deterrence" policy has knowingly created a deadly funnel, pushing migrants crossing the border into the deadliest terrain in the country.
(2022-12-02). Presidente mexicano anuncia aumento de salario mínimo de 20 % en 2023. telesurtv.net Desde enero del 2023, el salario mínimo mexicano será de 207.44 pesos diarios, lo que representa un alza de 1.052 pesos mensuales.
(2022-12-02). México registra 18 muertes y 68 casos de meningitis por hongo. telesurtv.net La autoridad sanitaria reiteró que la evidencia preliminar sugiere que las pacientes se infectaron por procedimientos de anestesia espinal.