(2023-08-10). Barcena continues Mexico-US talks on migration and drugs. plenglish.com Washington, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena continues today her official visit to Washington with talks on migration and drugs and meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
(2023-08-09). Survivors Of Oppenheimer's Trinity Test Are Still Fighting For Justice. popularresistance.org Eighteen years ago, as Tina Cordova read her local newspaper in the town of Tularosa, New Mexico, she noticed a letter to the editor that made her pause. It was written by the now late Fred Tyler, a fellow New Mexican, about his mother's recent passing from cancer, after having suffered from several types over the course of her life. "I'm wondering," Cordova recalled Tyler writing, "when we are going to hold our government accountable for the damage they did by detonating an atomic bomb in our backyard?" | In south-central New Mexico, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945.
(2023-08-09). We Carry The Burden Of Repatriating Our Ancestors. popularresistance.org We had reached the top of a sandstone mesa when Theresa Pasqual set down her hiking pole and scanned the storied canyon before us. | We could see the centuries-old buildings of Chaco Canyon, a site in northwest New Mexico that her tribe's ancestors, the Ancestral Puebloans, had occupied before eventually establishing other communities in the region. Pueblo Bonito, the canyon's largest structure, sprawled from near the base of the bluff where we stood, its walls arcing around hundreds of hollowed rooms. | Two colleagues and I had traveled to the canyon with Pasqual as part of our reporting on how the nation's most…
(2023-08-09). Conviasa Makes Historic First International Flight With All-Women Crew. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan state-owned airline Conviasa made history by registering its first international flight with an all-female crew. | The airline reported through social media, "This Monday, our first all-women international flight crew took off. The Embraer ERJ-190 aircraft, V0 3736, flew the Caracas, Venezuela — Cancún, Mexico route." | Venezuelan Minister for Transportation and President of Conviasa Ramón Celestino Velásquez stated, "Venezuelan women are taking over the skies," referring to the first flight crewed solely by women. | #07Ago °Nuestra Tripulación de Mujeres! (2023-08-10). Twenty-Seven Migrants Found Dead in Libyan Desert. telesurenglish.net The crisis began at the beginning of July, when at least 1,200 migrants and asylum seekers of sub-Saharan origin were detained in mass raids in the city of Sfax, the main starting point of the migratory route by sea, and expelled to border areas, also with neighboring Algeria. | The crisis began at the beginning of July, when at least 1,200 migrants and asylum seekers of sub-Saharan origin were detained in mass raids in the city of Sfax. Aug. 10, 2023.
(2023-08-10). Naufragio deja 41 migrantes muertos cerca de Lampedusa, Italia. telesurtv.net El pasado sábado, otros dos naufragios frente a Lampedusa dejaron al menos 34 personas fallecidas.
(2023-08-10). Papa Francisco exige actuación ante naufragio de migrantes. telesurtv.net Más de 1.800 personas han perdido la vida en lo que va de año en la travesía del norte de África a Europa.
(2023-08-10). At least 27 migrants expelled from Tunisia found dead in Libyan desert. peoplesdispatch.org Libyan authorities claimed on Wednesday, August 9, to have found at least 27 dead bodies, including some of children, in the desert near the border with Tunisia. The bodies were of migrants who were likely expelled from Tunisia. | The migrants were reportedly forced to wander in the blazing heat of the desert for days without enough food, water, and shelter after being forced across the Libyan border by the Tunisian authorities. They died due to dehydration and starvation. | Most of the dead bodies were found south of the Tunisia-Libya border crossing and have been identified as Sub-Saharan African migrants. Thes…
(2023-08-09). How immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota took on Amazon and won. therealnews.com 
"I've never been an organizer," Khali Jama says, "but I've always fought." As a single mother, a Muslim, and a Somali-American worker living in Minnesota, Jama has always had to fight for the life she, her family, and her fellow workers deserve. And earlier this year, after bringing that fight to the Minnesota state legislature, Khali and her coworkers achieved a major victory. "On May 16," Lisa Kwon reports in PRISM, "Minnesota lawmakers passed the nation's strongest Amazon warehouse worker protection legislation with the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which ensures that workers can take breaks during th…
(2023-08-10). Argentine Campaign Halted Due to Violent Death of Girl. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the violent death of an 11-year-old girl paralyzed the electoral campaign in Argentina, a country that is holding primary elections next Sunday. | RELATED: | Morena Dominguez was going to her school when she was attacked by two individuals on a motorcycle who wanted to steal her backpack. The girl was dragged along the ground and received a strong blow to the liver that caused internal bleeding. She later di…