2023-06-20: News Headlines

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-06-20). Cuba, Mexico propose bolero a high heritage recognition. plenglish.com Havana, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) Antonio Rodríguez, General Director of Peoples' Cultures in the Mexican Government, spoke Monday about the binational proposal so that "bolero" is declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-06-20). Presidente mexicano nombra a nueva secretaria de Gobernación. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado precisó que Luisa María Alcalde asumirá el nuevo cargo en el transcurso de la presente semana.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-06-19). Autoridades mexicana encuentran a 129 migrantes en camión de carga. telesurtv.net Otros 19 menores de edad no acompañados de Guatemala y Honduras fueron trasladados a un albergue especial y el resto fue trasladado a una estación migratoria.

Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. (2023-06-20). New Research Examines Restrictions On Incarcerated Journalists. popularresistance.org A briefing from the Prison Policy Initiative documents many of the restrictions that prisons in the United States impose to prevent journalism from incarcerated individuals. | Fourteen states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Virginia—have a "total ban on business and compensation." That means they do not allow incarcerated journalists or writers to receive payment for their work. | The United States government's Federal Bureau of Prisons has what is described as an "explicit ban on journal…

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-06-20). México envía refuerzos para combatir incendios en Canadá. telesurtv.net El equipo está conformado por 100 personas combatientes y tres técnicos de la Comisión Nacional Forestal (Conafor).

WSWS (2023-06-20). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Miners have walked off the job at Mexico's largest gold mine while 11,000 grocery workers in Canada, members of Unifor, face upcoming contract expirations.

Pivot to Peace (2023-06-20). The U.S. is blaming China for its own drug crisis. What's really going on? peacepivot.org The U.S. is blaming China for its own drug crisis. Last week, the U.S. government sanctioned 17 companies and individuals in China and Mexico for fentanyl-related production, in an attempt to deflect blame for the opioid crisis. This issue clearly requires international cooperation, not one-sided accusations. But the same politicians slinging dirt at China have …

Larry Johnson (2023-06-20). Iowa Legislators Visit Texas/Mexico Border As Part of Their Effort to Fight Human Trafficking. sonar21.com My friend and former colleague, Mark Thompson, may have retired from the State Department Bureau of Counter Terrorism — under pressure from the Obama Administration for his role as a…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-06-19). Aspirantes de Morena a la presidencia de México inician giras. telesurtv.net El movimiento fundado por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2011 y reconocido como partido en 2014, participará en las presidenciales del 2024.

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-06-19). Aspirantes a la presidencia de México inician giras este lunes. telesurtv.net El movimiento fundado por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador en 2011 y reconocido como partido en 2014, participará en las presidenciales del 2024.

La Izquierda Diario Argentina, Left Voice. (2023-06-20). Protests In Greece After 79 Migrants Killed, Hundreds Missing In Shipwreck. popularresistance.org Protests erupted on Thursday against the Greek Government for failing to rescue hundreds of migrants off the coast of Pylos in a tragic shipwreck on the Peloponnese Coast which took the lives of at least 79 migrants, with hundreds still missing. In response, anti-racist organizations, unions, and other groups demonstrated in cities across the country, including in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Kardista, and Kalamata. Signs included slogans such as "They turned the Mediterranean into a watery grave" and "We will never get used to the slaughter," condemning both Greek and European migration and refugee policy.

teleSUR, nama, JCM (2023-06-20). Arriban más de 1.100 migrantes a la isla de Lampedusa, Italia. telesurtv.net Se aprobó un plan de evacuación hacia otros puertos, tras recibir los migrantes atención médica y ser identificados.

WSWS (2023-06-20). Texas Governor Abbott ships 42 migrants from Rio Grande to Los Angeles by bus. wsws.org In a cruel political stunt aimed at whipping up anti-immigrant hysteria in the US, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent 42 migrants from Central and South America by bus to Los Angeles, California.

teleSUR (2023-06-19). 1,300 Migrants Arrive on the Island of Lampedusa in Italy. telesurenglish.net On Monday, around 1,300 migrants are overcrowding the reception center on the island of Lampedusa, the closest Italian territory to the northern coasts of Africa, following a new wave of boats that arrived in the past 48 hours. | RELATED: | At least twelve vessels were intercepted last night, with a total of 691 migrants on board. They had departed from Zuwarah in Libya and Sfax in Tunisia. Consequently, the reception ce…

teleSUR (2023-06-19). Pakistan Forms Committee to Probe Boat Accident in Greece Coast. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif stablished a committee to probe the incident of a migrant boat that capsized off the coast of Greece, killing at least 79 people. Sharif instructed law enforcement agencies to trace those involved in human smuggling in Pakistan. | Related: | "In an unfortunate incident on June 14, a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Greece, resulting in the deaths of Pakist…

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