Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-02: News Headlines

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-05-02). Envían a juicio a director de inmigración mexicano. telesurtv.net El magistrado ha determinado que las pruebas presentadas demuestran que Garduño es responsable por omisión.

Tamara Pearson (2023-05-02). Tesla Plans to Build Huge Factory in Mexican City Struggling With Water Scarcity. truthout.org People were lining up with buckets to get water from a truck last year in Monterrey, Mexico, as two of the city's three dams almost completely dried up. Now Tesla has plans to build a huge electric car "gigafactory" in that same water-insecure city. A gigafactory is Tesla's term for its massive assembly and parts plants. The Monterrey one will be built on 4,200 acres — twice the size of the… |

teleSUR, RDL (2023-05-02). México respeta decisión de EE.UU. sobre militarizar frontera. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con cifras del Comando Norte, en este momento se encuentran desplegadas en la frontera con México un total de 2.450 tropas de la Guardia Nacional.

LEPAIO (2023-05-02). Saturday 4/29: Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org Join us on Zoom with Spanish Text Narration | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yvpzwtHtUuLoNGYKEWxySYgK5gLnOr

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-05-02). Former President of Mexico Revealed as CIA Asset. orinocotribune.com By Saheli Chowdhury — Apr 20, 2023 | Declassified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed that former President of Mexico, José López Portillo, who led the country during 1976-1982, was a CIA asset. The revelation comes as part of a The documents, most of which are related to a CIA probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, contains a memo from a meeting of CIA agents held on November 29, 1976. In said meeting, US inte…

ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Comicomment: U.S. 'beacon of human rights' fails migrant children. ecns.cn

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-05-02). Envían a juicio a director de inmigración mexicano. telesurtv.net El magistrado ha determinado que las pruebas presentadas demuestran que Garduño es responsable por omisión.

Tamara Pearson (2023-05-02). Tesla Plans to Build Huge Factory in Mexican City Struggling With Water Scarcity. truthout.org People were lining up with buckets to get water from a truck last year in Monterrey, Mexico, as two of the city's three dams almost completely dried up. Now Tesla has plans to build a huge electric car "gigafactory" in that same water-insecure city. A gigafactory is Tesla's term for its massive assembly and parts plants. The Monterrey one will be built on 4,200 acres — twice the size of the… |

teleSUR, RDL (2023-05-02). México respeta decisión de EE.UU. sobre militarizar frontera. telesurtv.net De acuerdo con cifras del Comando Norte, en este momento se encuentran desplegadas en la frontera con México un total de 2.450 tropas de la Guardia Nacional.

LEPAIO (2023-05-02). Saturday 4/29: Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org Join us on Zoom with Spanish Text Narration | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yvpzwtHtUuLoNGYKEWxySYgK5gLnOr

Saheli Chowdhury (2023-05-02). Former President of Mexico Revealed as CIA Asset. orinocotribune.com By Saheli Chowdhury — Apr 20, 2023 | Declassified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have revealed that former President of Mexico, José López Portillo, who led the country during 1976-1982, was a CIA asset. The revelation comes as part of a The documents, most of which are related to a CIA probe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, contains a memo from a meeting of CIA agents held on November 29, 1976. In said meeting, US inte…

ecns.cn (2023-05-02). Comicomment: U.S. 'beacon of human rights' fails migrant children. ecns.cn

teleSUR, JCM (2023-05-02). Continúa tensión en frontera entre Chile y Perú por migrantes. telesurtv.net Los ciudadanos extranjeros indocumentados fueron expulsados de Chile y se encuentran en la frontera a la espera de ingresar al Perú con el objetivo de retornar a sus países.

jamanetwork (2023-05-02). Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Non—US-Born Adults in the US. jamanetwork.com Preventive care for one of the world's leading infectious disease killers has received a much-needed push forward. In this issue of JAMA, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updates its recommendation to screen asymptomatic adults at increased risk for tuberculosis infection and highlights the critical role of primary care in tuberculosis prevention. The importance of this recommendation, particularly for immigrant communities who bear the disproportionate burden of this disease, cannot be overstated. In the US, more than half of individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis are hospitalized, and almost 1 in…

Fight Back (2023-05-02). New Orleanians march for May Day. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On a sunny afternoon, May 1, about 70 demonstrators took to the streets downtown for May Day. They marched from the statue of Benito Juárez at Basin and Conti Street to City Hall. The event commemorated International Workers Day, a celebration of workers' and immigrants' struggles for our freedom and dignity. | "No bans, no walls, legalization for all!" marchers chanted as they crossed Canal Street. | At the beginning and ends of the march, immigrants spoke out against discrimination and deportations. | "We are sick and tired of being political pawns for politicians. We are sick and tired of…

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-05-02). Hungarian mayor disperses migrants after attacks on women. plenglish.com Budapest, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Laszlo Dyuricha, mayor of the Hungarian village of Kerepes, this Tuesday dispersed Ukrainian refugees who have been persecuting local girls, the portal index.hu reported.

Derek Seidman (2023-05-01). Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let's Resume Her Fight. truthout.org To the shock of many, the issue of exploited child labor has been grabbing headlines in the United States In late February, The New York Times published a major exposé that documented how migrant children as young as 12 are working as roofers and food deliverers, in slaughterhouses and industrial factories, for major corporations and private equity firms, suffering injury and even death… |

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2023-05-01: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-04-30). Collapse of UK rail union/company talks forces additional strikes by RMT and ASLEF. wsws.org It now turns out that there was no "two-stage" deal leaving the possibility of renewed strike action on offer, and the RMT was engaged in either wishful thinking or wilful deception of its members.

Crystal Moran, Eddie Wong,, Mike Siegel, Convergence. (2023-05-01). Climate Justice On The Ballot In El Paso. popularresistance.org On May 6, voters in El Paso, TX will decide on Prop K, the Climate Charter amendment that would pave the way for a Green New Deal in this metropolitan area of 985,000 residents, 81% of whom are Latinx. The Prop K campaign has placed environmental racism and local control over powerful corporate interests squarely before the public. It grows out of decades of organizing and resistance in El Paso and the frontera communities—from El Paso and Doña Ana Counties to Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. | Eddie Wong interviewed Crystal Moran and Mike Siegel for Convergence. Moran is a local Chicanx, Indigenous comm…

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-05-01). Envían a juicio a director de inmigración mexicano. telesurtv.net El magistrado ha determinado que las pruebas presentadas demuestran que Garduño es responsable por omisión.

Christian Betancourt, Next City. (2023-04-30). Nonprofit Shows How To Create An 'Aboveground Railroad' For Migrants. popularresistance.org In the 1980s, when Sendy Soto and her family left Guatemala for the United States in search of a better life, they followed in a long American immigrant tradition by making Chicago's Logan Square their home. | There, among her Mexican, Central American, Polish and other immigrant neighbors, Soto was instilled with a sense of community and a desire to help and work with Chicago's growing migrant population. | A 2020 report from the Vera Institute of Justice showed that 1.7 million migrants reside in Chicago, about 18% of the population, and 842,000 are at risk of deportation.

LEPAIO (2023-05-01). Saturday 4/29: Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org Join us on Zoom with Spanish Text Narration | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yvpzwtHtUuLoNGYKEWxySYgK5gLnOr

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-01). López Obrador says opposition senators failed to prevent passing laws. plenglish.com Mexico City, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, highlighted today in his morning press conference that opposition senators who took the rostrum of that chamber failed to prevent laws from being approved.

WSWS (2023-04-30). Collapse of UK rail union/company talks forces additional strikes by RMT and ASLEF. wsws.org It now turns out that there was no "two-stage" deal leaving the possibility of renewed strike action on offer, and the RMT was engaged in either wishful thinking or wilful deception of its members.

Crystal Moran, Eddie Wong,, Mike Siegel, Convergence. (2023-05-01). Climate Justice On The Ballot In El Paso. popularresistance.org On May 6, voters in El Paso, TX will decide on Prop K, the Climate Charter amendment that would pave the way for a Green New Deal in this metropolitan area of 985,000 residents, 81% of whom are Latinx. The Prop K campaign has placed environmental racism and local control over powerful corporate interests squarely before the public. It grows out of decades of organizing and resistance in El Paso and the frontera communities—from El Paso and Doña Ana Counties to Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. | Eddie Wong interviewed Crystal Moran and Mike Siegel for Convergence. Moran is a local Chicanx, Indigenous comm…

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-05-01). Envían a juicio a director de inmigración mexicano. telesurtv.net El magistrado ha determinado que las pruebas presentadas demuestran que Garduño es responsable por omisión.

Christian Betancourt, Next City. (2023-04-30). Nonprofit Shows How To Create An 'Aboveground Railroad' For Migrants. popularresistance.org In the 1980s, when Sendy Soto and her family left Guatemala for the United States in search of a better life, they followed in a long American immigrant tradition by making Chicago's Logan Square their home. | There, among her Mexican, Central American, Polish and other immigrant neighbors, Soto was instilled with a sense of community and a desire to help and work with Chicago's growing migrant population. | A 2020 report from the Vera Institute of Justice showed that 1.7 million migrants reside in Chicago, about 18% of the population, and 842,000 are at risk of deportation.

LEPAIO (2023-05-01). Saturday 4/29: Panel On The CIA AFL-CIO Murderous Attack On Mexico City Ford Assembly Worker In 1980. indybay.org Join us on Zoom with Spanish Text Narration | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf-yvpzwtHtUuLoNGYKEWxySYgK5gLnOr

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-05-01). López Obrador says opposition senators failed to prevent passing laws. plenglish.com Mexico City, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, highlighted today in his morning press conference that opposition senators who took the rostrum of that chamber failed to prevent laws from being approved.

teleSUR, lvm, JDO (2023-05-01). Accidente deja 18 personas fallecidas en Nayarit, México. telesurtv.net La Fiscalía puntualizó que seguirá trabajando para identificar a las víctimas fatales del incidente.

Staff (2023-05-01). Headlines for May 1, 2023. democracynow.org Fighting in Sudan Persists Despite Extended Ceasefires as U.N. Warns of Humanitarian Breaking Point, Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinian Teens in Occupied West Bank, Over 200 Bodies of Drowned Migrants Found by Tunisian Coast Guards in Less Than 2 Weeks, Santiago Peña Elected President of Paraguay, Keeping Dominant Pro-Taiwan Party in Power, "Climate Defiance": Protesters Disrupt White House Correspondents' Dinner, Montana Governor Signs Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Minors, First Republic Becomes Second-Largest Bank to Fail in U.S. History, Texas Suspect Used AR-15 Rifle in…

Fight Back (2023-05-01). Chicago: Over 30 organizations march for unity In May Day celebration. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – 400 people rallied in the rain on Saturday, April 29 to celebrate recent victories in the people's movements and uplift their present demands. After an hour-long program, the crowd marched from Union Park to five different politically significant locations. Among other chants in English and Spanish, the crowd declared "The people united will never be defeated!" | The rally was called by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), and endorsed by 31 organizations including the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), the League of United Latin Ameri…

WSWS (2023-05-01). UK abandoned 440 migrants in the Channel across just four days. wsws.org Immediately following the period analysed by the Observer and Liberty Investigates, on November 24, at least 27 people are known to have drowned in the worst disaster in the Channel for 30 years.

ecns.cn (2023-05-01). Comicomment: U.S. 'beacon of human rights' fails migrant children. ecns.cn

Derek Seidman (2023-05-01). Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let's Resume Her Fight. truthout.org To the shock of many, the issue of exploited child labor has been grabbing headlines in the United States In late February, The New York Times published a major exposé that documented how migrant children as young as 12 are working as roofers and food deliverers, in slaughterhouses and industrial factories, for major corporations and private equity firms, suffering injury and even death… |

teleSUR, JCM (2023-05-01). Papa Francisco insta a Hungría a abrir las puertas a los migrantes. telesurtv.net El papa Francisco hizo un llamado a favor de la acogida de migrantes durante una misa al aire libre en Budapest, a la que asistieron decenas de miles de personas.

Dominique Pierre (2023-05-01). Fortress Europe: more migrants dying in the Mediterranean. internationalviewpoint.org The first quarter of 2023 was the deadliest for migrants crossing the Mediterranean since 2017. | – | / |

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Pope Francis Calls Hungarians Not To Close Doors To Migrants. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Pope Francis called Hungarians not to close the doors to migrants in an event attended by 50,000 people in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest. | RELATED: | This petition highly opposes the policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said that he would not allow Hungary to be transformed into an "immigrant country," as it would become "unrecognizable" for its native people. | In 2015, Orban backed building a steel fence on the border with Serb…

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Italy Returned Migrant Barge to Libya, Sea Watch Denounces. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the NGO Sea Watch accused the Italian authorities of returning to Libya a boat carrying 30 African migrants that was saved by the ship Grimstad. | RELATED: | The Italian Coast Guard, which denied having asked the Libyan authorities to intercept that barge, said that the request for help from the boat occurred within the Libyan search and rescue zone (SAR). | Therefore, after the rescue of the migrants, the Baha…

teleSUR (2023-04-30). Expulsion of 7,000 Migrants From Algeria Puts Pressure on Niger. telesurenglish.net Niger Interior Minister Hamadou Amadou Souley fears the emergence of a humanitarian crisis in Assamaka, a town where 7,172 sub-Saharan migrants expelled by Algeria are stranded. | RELATED: | "Since the beginning of 2023, the expulsions of citizens from Central Africa have acquired a critical dimension due to the limited availability of social…

Jesús Inojosa (2023-04-30). Venezuela Requests Chile and Peru Respect for Migrants' Human Rights, Negotiates for Repatriation Flights. orinocotribune.com

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