Monthly Archives: June 2023

2023-06-30: News Headlines

Derrick Broze (2023-06-30). Mexico Announces 50% Tariff on White Corn Imports as Canada Joins US in Fight Over GMOs. thelastamericanvagabond.com The United States and Canada continue their campaign to pressure Mexico to accept Genetically Engineered corn without restriction. Mexico's battle for food sovereignty took another step forward over the weekend as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a 50% tariff on white corn imports. López Obrador, also known as AMLO, said the move was part

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-06-30). Lopez Obrador urges to celebrate anniversary of electoral victory. plenglish.com Mexico City, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday called on his people to gather at the Zócalo on Saturday in order to celebrate five years of victory and four and a half years of his government.

teleSUR, rzr, JCM (2023-06-30). Autoridades mexicanas investigan asesinato de Hipólito Mora. telesurtv.net Hipólito Mora denunció a través de su perfil en Facebook ser víctima de amenazas por parte de los sicarios del grupo criminal Los Caballeros Templarios.

teleSUR, odr, YSM (2023-06-30). México y Barbados cierran con oro en el surf de los Centroamericanos. telesurtv.net La competencia de Surf en la modalidad de tabla corta masculina obtuvo el mexicano Sebastián Williams 16.83 puntos para atribuirse la presea dorada.

teleSUR- lvm, JCM (2023-06-30). Tormenta Beatriz se intensifica en la costa del Pacífico mexicano. telesurtv.net La tormenta tropical Beatriz podría intensificarse a huracán y, de mantener su trayectoria, impactar como categoría 1 en costas del Pacífico mexicano.

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-06-30). Mexico: Expanding Democracy And Defending Sovereignty. popularresistance.org The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking the country's democratic institutions. It's a baseless charge intended to undermine a government that refuses total obedience to US hegemony. | On February 23, an electoral reform bill received its final approval in the Mexican Senate en route to being signed into law. | The National Electoral Institute (INE) is widely recognized to be riddled with excess expenditure and a top-heavy bureaucracy. The new law simply mandates similar cost-saving measures to those that the administration of…

G. Dunkel (2023-06-30). Texas heat wave — dangerous disaster brewing. workers.org Ever since the heat dome established itself over Texas and northern Mexico on June 14, some 30 million to 40 million people have been baked and stressed by unrelenting heat. For an example of unrelenting heat, consider the record set June 19 of 111 F in San Angelo, Texas, which . . . |

Roselena Ramirez (2023-06-30). The Controversy of Mexico's Bullfight Tradition. america.cgtn.com Mexico's tradition of bullfighting goes back five centuries. The largest bullfighting venue in the world…is located in Mexico City. Despite its enormous popularity, it is banned in several states for cruelty. Armando Guerra brings us the story of this controversial Hispanic tradition.

ecns.cn (2023-06-30). Virgin Galactic completes first commercial space flight. ecns.cn Photo shows the rocket of the Virgin's space plane igniting during a research flight that included Italian specialists who conducted a number of microgravity experiments in New Mexico, June 29, 2023.

Staff (2023-06-30). Headlines for June 30, 2023. democracynow.org Supreme Court Bars Affirmative Action at Colleges, Exempts Military and Legacy Admissions, California Task Force Recommends Reparations for Harms of Slavery and Racial Discrimination, Supreme Court's Samuel Alito Ruled Against EPA as Wife Leased Land to Oil and Gas Firm, Death Toll from Heat Wave Hits 112 in Mexico, 14 in Southern U.S., Mike Pence Pledges Support for Arming Ukraine During Surprise Trip to Kyiv, Biden Mulls Cluster Bombs for Ukraine as Reports Emerge of Kyiv's Use of Banned Landmines, 400 Arrested Across France in Third Night of Protests over Police Killing of 17-Year-Old, U.K. Court R…

midwesternmarx (2023-06-30). BOOK REVIEW: WORKING CLASS GIANT, THE LIFE OF WILLIAM Z. FOSTER By: Bob Bonner. midwesternmarx.com Imagine if you will, that we lived in a country in which TV and movie scripts were produced for merit and not edited and censored to ensure compliance with capitalist ideology.​Imagine that in this fictitious USA, it were possible to make movies celebrating heroic leaders of the struggles for working people, Black people, and immigrants.Imagine that those films could be financed, promoted, and viewed as widely as the mindless tripe we are currently subjected to that encompasses all …

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-06-30). Arriban más de 2.000 migrantes en 24 horas a Lampedusa, Italia. telesurtv.net La mayoría de las embarcaciones llevaban migrantes de Sudán, Etiopía, Somalia, Guinea, Mali, Camerún y Burkina Faso.

Corey Schmidt (2023-06-30). Why AM Radio Is Still Essential. progressive.org Automakers are debating AM radio's viability, but advocates note that AM radio is essential to rural and immigrant communities.

Staff (2023-06-30). Ron DeSantis Tricks Venezuelan Migrants, Sending Them Far From Florida. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan migrants in the United States are once again in the news, having These migrants had entered through the US-México border and were subsequently taken fr…

teleSUR, dcdc, DRL (2023-06-30). Instan a Dominicana a detener deportación masiva de haitianos. telesurtv.net Un total de 176.777 migrantes haitianos fueron repatriados de enero a diciembre de 2022.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-06-29). Is the EU Bribing and Blackmailing Tunisia to Crack Down on Migrants? towardfreedom.org The Workers' Party of Tunisia and several human rights groups have strongly objected to a deal proposed by European countries on the movement of migrants. They have called it a violation of sovereignty and the human rights of refugees. Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service have produced this report.

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2023-06-29: News Headlines

teleSUR, nama, YSM (2023-06-29). Inauguran en Cuba proyecto mexicano Sembrando Vidas. telesurtv.net La iniciativa permitirá incrementar la producción agrícola y fortalecer la soberanía alimentaria en tres provincias.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2023-06-29). Tormenta tropical Adrián evoluciona a huracán en el Pacífico. telesurtv.net El ciclón se ubicó a 575 kilómetros al suroeste de Colima con vientos máximos sostenidos de 120 kilómetros por hora.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-06-29). México entrega presidencia de la Alianza del Pacífico a Chile. telesurtv.net Desde este miércoles Chile ejerce la presidencia pro tempore. Perú la asumirá a partir del 1 de agosto de 2023.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-06-29). México sigue al frente del medallero de los XXIV JCC. telesurtv.net El país latinoamericano cuenta hasta ahora con un total de 136 medallas, de las cuales 52 son de oro, 47 de plata y 37 de bronce.

Alasdair Baverstock (2023-06-28). Massive deposits of lithium discovered in Mexico. america.cgtn.com New deposits of lithium are being discovered in northern Mexico. Lithium is a vital resource that is essential in the production of batteries for electric vehicles. See more.

Karla Correa (2023-06-29). Immigrants resist DeSantis's attacks, force businesses across Florida to close. liberationnews.org On June 1, hundreds of Florida businesses were forced to shut their doors due to an immigrant labor strike dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants".

Maddi Johnson (2023-06-29). A tale of class and two tragedies at sea. workers.org Thousands protest in Athens (above) and Thessalonica, Greece, demand a lessening of migration restrictions to prevent more sea disasters and migrant deaths. Demonstrators marched in the port city of Kalamata with signs reading that the shipwreck "wasn't a tragedy but a murder by the state and the EU." The recent . . . |

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-06-28). Unions must embrace migrant workers for the future of the labor movement. therealnews.com Most wealthy nations in the west have turned to migrant workers to keep a variety of industries afloat. But while the cheap labor of immigrants is welcomed, the migrants themselves are not. Canada is no exception. From the agricultural industry to the service sector, migrants can be found working under dangerous conditions for less than the minimum wage. And in many cases, unions simply aren't doing their part to organize this vital section of the workforce. Elizabeth Ha joins The Real News to discuss the plight of migrant workers in Canada and why the labor movement must embrace them for its own survival.

Mike Ludwig (2023-06-28). DeSantis's Election Strategy? Competing With Trump to Be Crueler to Migrants. truthout.org In an effort to portray himself as the harsher punisher of migrants when compared to Donald Trump, 2024 presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a border policy platform on Monday that would require the mass incarceration of migrants, including families and children, in an expanded version of an immigration prison system that is notorious for human rights violations. |

teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2023-06-28). China pide proteger derechos de los migrantes. telesurtv.net China, a través de un comunicado oficial, instó a los países que reconozcan sus violaciones y adopten medidas para proteger los derechos de los migrantes.

WSWS (2023-06-28). PSOE-Podemos enforcement of EU "Let them drown" policy kills another 37 migrants in Spain. wsws.org Of a group of 61 people who were sailing in a rubber boat from Africa on their way to the Canary Islands, only 24 have survived.

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