(2023-09-11). Remembering Salvador Allende and the Chilean Counterrevolution. fpif.org When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism by peaceful means, I decided to do my doctoral dissertation on Chile. In May 1972, I went to take a crash course in Spanish in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos, the birthplace of the legendary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata whose life had been made into a movie starring Marlon Brando that I had seen and liked as a teenager. After three weeks, I felt that the course had substantially improved the rudimentary Spanish I had from high school in the Philippines. So, I flew…
(2023-09-11). Aspirante presidencial mexicana llama a continuar ideales de AMLO. telesurtv.net La ex jefa de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México recibió este domingo su acreditación como coordinadora nacional de defensa de la transformación…
(2023-09-11). US politicians talking about sending Special Forces into Mexico over cartel crisis, accusing China. infobrics.org Because political actions often have economic repercussions, adding further across-border militarization into this complicated dynamic could have quite unpredictable and escalating consequences.
(2023-09-11). After A Century, Oil And Gas Problems Persist On Navajo Lands. popularresistance.org It's a Saturday morning in late June and Garry Jay, a member of the Navajo Nation, pilots a white crew-cab Chevy pickup on a lumpy dirt road across the grasslands north of his house in Shiprock, New Mexico, heading for the round, wood-framed hogan his grandfather built by hand in the 1970s. | His route weaves 20 miles among the hundreds of oil wells that dot Horseshoe Canyon as he chases the bittersweet memories of childhood weekends and summers 40 years ago in that house, on that land, with his grandparents. The family's former winter sheep ranch sits at the base of a sharp cliff, five miles south of the Colorad…
(2023-09-10). Venezuela to Allegedly Receive $3.2 Billion of Frozen Funds, El País Claims. orinocotribune.com Once again the $3.2 billion of Venezuelan funds illegally frozen abroad and discussed in the Mexico Talks' Second Agreement for the Social Protection of the People are in the news, with Spanish newspaper El País claiming that the funds will finally be released in the coming weeks. | According to sources consulted by El País, the $3.2 billion that were agreed to be unfreezed in November 2022 by the US government and the Venezuelan far-right opposition under its tutelage, as part of an agreement with the United Nations to finance education, electricity, and healthcare projects in Venezuela, will finally be release…
(2023-09-10). Che's daughter receives keys to Actopan, in Mexico. plenglish.com Mexico, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) Aleida, the daughter of the Heroic Guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, received the keys to the Capital of Culture, Actopan, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, the local mayor's office reported in a press release on Sunday.
(2023-09-11). Mujeres migrantes: el silencio de la precariedad y los abusos. indybay.org
(2023-09-11). Reportan récord de rescates diarios en ruta migratoria canaria. telesurtv.net Las cifras de migrantes arribando a dichas islas ya se había superado esta misma semana con la llegada de 634 personas en 24 horas, el lunes, 4 de septiembre.
(2023-09-11). Democratic Mayor Eric Adams says migrants "will destroy New York City." wsws.org Two days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said migrants were destroying the city, police raided a migrant shelter and confiscated motorized bikes. The following day, Adams announced budget cuts of 15 percent, blaming migrants.
(2023-09-10). Canadian foreign worker program a 'breeding ground' for slavery — UN expert By: RT. midwesternmarx.com 
The United Nations has called on Ottawa to guarantee the rights of tens of thousands of migrant workers who enter the country annually Migrant workers remove weeds surrounding strawberries plants at a farm in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on July 30, 2023 © Getty Images / Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images Canada's temporary foreign worker program, under which up to 60,000 people a …
(2023-09-10). Women-Led Groups in Chicago Spearhead Response to Migrant Influx. truthout.org Over the past year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused more than 13,000 migrants to Chicago. Many entered the city with next to nothing — and some didn't even make it safely. Last month, the Texas Department of Emergency Management announced that a 3-year-old girl had died en route to Chicago from Texas — the first known fatality of Abbott's Operation Lone Star. For years… |
(2023-09-11). Democratic Mayor Eric Adams says migrants "will destroy New York City" wsws.org Two days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said migrants were destroying the city, police raided a migrant shelter and confiscated motorized bikes. The following day, Adams announced budget cuts of 15 percent, blaming migrants.
