Monthly Archives: August 2023

2023-08-18: News Headlines

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-08-18). López Obrador says that Mexicans will not consume modified corn. plenglish.com Mexico, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) President Andrés Manuel López Obrador repeated at his morning press briefing on Friday that Mexicans will not consume genetically modified corn, no matter how much pressure there is from the T-MEC partners.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-08-18). Hilary se intensifica a huracán en costa del Pacífico mexicano. telesurtv.net Exhortan a la población a extremar precauciones por precipitaciones, viento y oleaje en los estados de Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero y Oaxaca.

Laith Fadel (2023-08-17). Large numbers of Chinese tourists heading back to Mexico. america.cgtn.com Chinese tourism to Mexico is expected to increase dramatically after China added Mexico back to the list of Latin American countries open to group tours following the Covid-19 pandemic.Mexican officials say a massive influx of Chinese visitors to Mexico is a plus for the country but also …

teleSUR, lvm, JCM (2023-08-18). Huracán Hilary alcanza categoría 3 frente a las costas de México. telesurtv.net "El sábado, Hilary podría continuar en la categoría 4, con un diámetro de 1000 kilómetros", refirió el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

Vijay Prashad (2023-08-18). The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not by Themselves Change the World. dissidentvoice.org Mao Xuhui (China), '92 Paternalism, 1992 In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade of pharmaceutical drugs. India was and is one of the world's largest producers of various drugs, including those used to treat HIV-AIDS; Brazil and South Africa were both …

Alasdair Baverstock (2023-08-18). U.S.-Mexico trade tensions. america.cgtn.com The U.S. has escalated a trade dispute with Mexico over genetically modified corn, imports of which Mexico banned in June over health concerns. What does this mean for diplomatic relations in the region?

splcenter (2023-08-18). Libertarian Party's Far-Right Leadership Worries Takeover Turning Into 'Disaster'. splcenter.org A year after the far-right Mises Caucus took over the Libertarian Party, its membership and financial numbers are down. Some state parties, including New Mexico, Virginia and Massachusetts, have splintered or disaffiliated from the national party. Leaked documents Hatewatch obtained show the Libertarian National Committee is squabbling and worried that their takeover is "turning into a disaster."

Leon Ramos (2023-08-17). People are dying on Texas-Mexico border as Gov. Abbott's militarization intensifies. liberationnews.org It is difficult to say just how many people have died, but the victims and stories of cruelty are mounting.

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-08-18). Reportan siete muertos y 56 desaparecidos por naufragio en Cabo Verde. telesurtv.net La embarcación salió el pasado 10 de julio de la localidad de Fass Boye rumbo a España con unas cien personas a bordo.

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2023-08-15: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2023-08-14). AMLO's pro-working class policies are why poverty decreased in Mexico. peoplesdispatch.org On August 10, the Mexican National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) released a In these same four years, the "multidimensional poverty" level decreased from 41.9% to 36.3…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-08-15). Lopez Obrador announces meeting with Biden at Asia-Pacific meeting. plenglish.com Mexico City, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed on Tuesday he will attend the Asia-Pacific Meeting in November, where he will meet with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to talk about America.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2023-08-15). 2023 California Admission Day – Discover International Underground Railroad Month. indybay.org California Admission Day was an essential part of the 1850 Compromise, a fiercely debated US Congressional Act signed by President Willard Fillmore that strengthened and extended slavery in Utah and New Mexico regions. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, which made the federal government financially responsible for capturing and returning freedom seekers to their enslavers…

teleSUR (2023-08-15). Mexico: At Least 13 Refrigerated Bodies Found in Veracruz Homes. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Verónica Hernández Giadáns, the head of the Veracruz State Attorney General's Office, said that the dismembered bodies of at least 13 people were found in two houses located in the city of Poza Rica. | Related: | According to the Veracruz state prosecutor, the bodies were found on August 13 inside refrigerators and so far it is not possible to give a specific number of skeletal remains found, but it is cer…

A Guest Author (2023-08-14). Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition For the people of Niger and their new leadership. workers.org The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition issued the following statement Aug. 10. Signers include Mobilization4Mumia, Mumia United Nations Liaison Group, International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Friends of Mumia Mexico, Workers World Party, Communist Workers League and Malcolm X Commemoration Committee. Graphic: Anastasya Eliseeva The new government of Niger . . . |

teleSUR (2023-08-15). Italian PM Meloni to Increase Expulsions of Migrants. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Italian Interior Ministry Matteo Piatendosi announced that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will issue a decree to increase expulsions of migrants starting in September. | RELATED: | This policy will be implemented given that the number of undocumented migrants increased by 115 percent in the first seven months compared to the same period of the previous year. | From January to the end of July, 89,1…


Catalina Adorno (2023-08-14). New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It. truthout.org "There should be no private prisons, period, none, period. That's what they're talking about — private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them." That's what President Joe Biden said during an April 2021 speech in Georgia, where he found himself confronted by immigrant rights activists. Two years later, it's clear that those were just empty words: The Biden… |

Staff (2023-08-14). Headlines for August 14, 2023. democracynow.org Maui Wildfire Death Toll Nears 100 as Residents Continue Search for Missing Loved Ones, Nigerien Military Leaders Announce Plan to Prosecute Deposed President Bazoum, At Least 6 Asylum Seekers Drown in Channel; 2 Off Tunisian Coast, 3-Year-Old Toddler from Venezuela Dies on Migrant Bus from Texas to Chicago, Taiwan Vice President Defies Chinese Intimidation While on U.S. Visit, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in West Bank as Int'l Group of Academics Slams Israeli Apartheid, Jordan Cracks Down on Online Speech with "Draconian" Cybercrime Law, U.N. Completes Transfer of 1 Billion+ Barrels of Oil f…

_____ (2023-08-14). Quran Burnings Assertion of Broader Bias against Immigrants in Europe: Ex-UN Rapporteur. transcend.org 7 Aug 2023 – There is a 'strong case' for prohibition of such acts that 'serve no possible constructive purpose,' says Richard Falk.


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