Daily Archives: September 29, 2023

2023-09-29: News Headlines

teleSUR (2023-09-29). President AMLO and Blinken to Address Drug Trafficking Issues. telesurenglish.net Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet on October 5 in Mexico City during a high-level meeting on drug trafficking. | RELATED: | The meeting comes at a time of crisis due to the trafficking and consumption of fentanyl in the United States, just a few weeks after the extradition of the Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. | Blinken will travel acco…

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-28). Lopez Obrador denounces complicity in Ayotzinapa crime. plenglish.com Mexico, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday charged that there was a network of complicity around the State assassinations of the 43 Ayotzinapa students-teachers.

Franc Contreras (2023-09-29). Mexican transportation company halts freight trains migrants use to go north. america.cgtn.com The U.S. and Mexican governments are coordinating strategies in hopes of decreasing the flow of migrants. Still, large numbers of them continue making their way north through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States. | CGTN's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-28). Mexican film La Pasión según Berenice to be screened in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The award-winning and internationally acclaimed Mexican feature-length film "La Pasión Según Berenice" (The Passion of Berenice, 1976) will be screened in Havana on Thursday as part of the promotion of movies produced in Mexico.

The Lancet (2023-09-30). Editorial] Immigration reform in the USA: health must come first. thelancet.com The International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Missing Migrant Project found that 2022 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and identified the USA—Mexico border as the most dangerous overland migration route in the world. The perilous journeys migrants are forced to make expose them to a vast array of health risks. Difficulties in reporting along these clandestine routes mean that the true scale of the challenges migrants experience rarely makes headlines, but the USA's consistent focus on deterrence exacerbates the complex health demands of migration and needlessly exposes vulnerable populat…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-29). Cuba was invited to Mexico's International Anthropology Book Fair. plenglish.com Mexico, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will be the guest country at the 34th International Anthropology Book Fair (FILAH), scheduled from October 5 to 15 at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-29). Parents of the 43 missing students demand trial of Enrique Peña Nieto. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) The parents of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, missing since 2014, lifted the sit-in they held for eight days in front of Military Camp 1-A and demanded the prosecution of former president Enrique Peña Nieto.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-29). Grupo de Puebla celebra en México su IX Encuentro. telesurtv.net El foro instalará en la cita su agenda internacional progresista para combatir el hambre, los bloqueos económicos y la crisis climática.

Editor (2023-09-28). "This fight is Global": Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers. mronline.org From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW's fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Ancient Mayan Grave Uncovered During Rail Project Construction in Mexico. sputnikglobe.com The grave, which could be more than 1,000 years old, was unearthed alongside the construction of the multibillion-dollar Maya Train project in southern Mexico.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-29). Mexico receives more than 14,800,000 foreign tourists by air. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Mexico received 14,876,000 foreign tourists by air from January to August, 8,2 percent more compared to the same period in 2022, the Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco, informed today.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-28). Permanent Conference of Parties condemns attack on Cuban Embassy. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, in United States.

teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2023-09-28). México convoca una reunión para discutir sobre migración. telesurtv.net La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones advirtió este miércoles de que el flujo "sin precedentes" de personas atravesando las Américas requiere de una mayor colaboración entre los gobiernos de Centroamérica…

Erika Schelby (2023-09-29). The Beef Industry is Destroying the American West and Worsening the Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation's first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres around the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, he did not anticipate that this priceless pristine land would be invaded by cattle. This problem would take root around

Jeff Abbott (2023-09-29). Nine Years After Ayotzinapa, There Is Still No Justice for the Families. progressive.org In 2014, forty-three students disappeared in Mexico. The full story of what happened to them remains unknown.

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Puebla Group Holds Its 9th Meeting in Mexico. telesurenglish.net From Friday to Sunday, the Puebla Group will hold its 9th Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, where former presidents and progressive Ibero-American intellectuals will present foreign policy proposals. | RELATED: | More specifically, the Group will analyze its international agenda to fight hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis, and deglobalization. | Other topics under debate will be the creation of a Latin American commo…

Dan La Botz (2023-09-29). Venezuelan immigrants win victory. internationalviewpoint.org "At present as many 9,000 immigrants are crossing the border each day, coming from dozens of countries and Venezuelans making up a large portion of them." | – | / |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-29). Over 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean this year: UNHCR. peoplesdispatch.org The land routes taken by migrants through Sub-Saharan Africa and the sea crossing points in Libya and Tunisia are also extremely dangerous due to wars and local conflicts. Those who survive the perilous sea crossing often face harassment by a web of agencies in European countries…

Staff (2023-09-29). Headlines for September 29, 2023. democracynow.org Ahead of Shutdown, Biden Says GOP Extremists Are Trying to "Burn the Place Down", Biden Warns Trump & MAGA Movement Are a Threat to Democracy, Activist Disrupts Biden Speech, Urges Him to Declare Climate Emergency, 18 Youth Climate Activists Arrested for Occupying Speaker McCarthy's Office, GOP Witnesses Admit No Evidence Yet to Support Impeaching Biden, GOP Lawmakers Refuse to Say Trump Should Be Held Accountable If Convicted, NY Appeals Court Rejects Trump Effort to Delay Civil Fraud Trial, Dozens Killed in Two Blasts in Pakistan, U.N.: Over 2,500 Migrants Have Died or Gone Missing This Year T…

Ashley Curtin (2023-09-28). Biden administration grants Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan migrants. nationofchange.org More than 400,000 Venezuelan migrants already in the United States.will be eligible for the protected status and also eligible to work.

Dan La Botz (2023-09-28). Venezuelan immigrants win victory. internationalviewpoint.org "At present as many 9,000 immigrants are crossing the border each day, coming from dozens of countries and Venezuelans making up a large portion of them." | – | / |

MEE staff (2023-09-28). EU-Tunisia migrant deal 'terrible for human rights', says HRW. middleeasteye.net EU-Tunisia migrant deal 'terrible for human rights', says HRW | Rights group condemns migration deal under which bloc paid Tunis more than $135m last week | Thu, 09/28/2023 – 12: 08 | Tunisia's President Kais Saied and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agree a deal on migration in Tunis in July 2023 (Reuters) | The European Union's decision to release $135m in migrant control assistance…

Unicorn Riot (2023-09-28). Queer Migrants Find Shelter and Community in Tijuana Collective House. unicornriot.ninja

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-09-29). Patrols against migrant trafficking agreed in Europe. plenglish.com In this sense, the German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, highlighted in a statement the importance of detecting and preventing unauthorized entries at an early stage. | The joint working group formed by Faeser and his Czech counterparts, Vít Rakusan; and Polish, Mariusz Kaminski, will operate under the protection of the European Police (Europol) and Empac, the continental Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats, the text specified. | But analysts consider that the solution to the migration issue in the regional bloc involves establishing a common policy on the issue, which today constitutes a…

MEE staff (2023-09-29). UN: More than 2,500 people died or went missing crossing Mediterranean in 2023. middleeasteye.net UN: More than 2,500 people died or went missing crossing Mediterranean in 2023 | At least 186,000 people crossed the Mediterranean between January and August this year, according to UN refugee agency

| Fri, 09/29/2023 – 14: 01 | People in a makeshift boat heading for Italy are intercepted by Tunisian authorities off the coast of Sfax, on 4 October 2022 (AFP) | From January to August this year, m…

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