Daily Archives: December 18, 2023

2023-12-18: News Headlines

teleSUR, JGN (2023-12-18). Exvicepresidente Glas ingresa a embajada de México en Ecuador. telesurtv.net La SRE explicó que de conformidad con el marco jurídico mexicano "se permitió el acceso de Glas Espinel en calidad de huésped".

José Luis Granados Ceja, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-12-18). Venezuela And Guyana To Maintain Direct Dialogue On Essequibo. popularresistance.org Mexico City, Mexico — Venezuela and Guyana agreed Thursday to an ongoing direct dialogue between the two countries following a first meeting between their respective leaders in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. | Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali met at the airport in Kingstown alongside representatives from CARICOM, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Brazil, Colombia, and the United Nations. | The two leaders gathered following a letter by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines calling on the leaders to diffuse…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-12-18). Colombia's ELN guerrillas agree to suspend kidnappings. colombiareports.com Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the ELN, agreed to suspend kidnapping people for profit in ongoing peace talks with the government. The agreement that was announced in Mexico comes days after…

Manuel Perez-Rocha (2023-12-18). Mexico Must Stand up to Agribusiness Oligopolies on GM Corn Ban. fpif.org U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments' efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico's proposed ban on genetically modified corn.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-12-18). Clausuran quinto ciclo de diálogos de paz entre el Gobierno de Colombia y el ELN. telesurtv.net Las partes, que desarrollan un proceso de negociaciones desde el año pasado, acordaron reunirse en enero próximo en La Habana, Cuba.

Katherine Hearst (2023-12-18). Libya: How a sinking migrant boat's pleas for help fell on deaf ears. middleeasteye.net Libya: How a sinking migrant boat's pleas for help fell on deaf ears | A hotline for boats in distress said it alerted authorities about a sinking boat off the coast of Libya multiple times, but rescue came too late | Mon, 12/18/2023 – 14: 18 | Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan are crowded into the hold of a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea, before being assisted by Spanish…

Chris Walker (2023-12-18). Report: Trump Wants 300K Troops to Build "Detention Camps" at Southern Border. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump would send an unprecedented number of U.S. military troops to the southern border if elected president again in the 2024 race, tasking them with building migrant prisons and other infrastructure to punish migrants, sources told Rolling Stone Magazine. At least three sources familiar with the situation confirmed to the publication Trump's intent to use "hundreds of… |

Zane McNeill (2023-12-18). 5-Year-Old Boy Dies After Becoming Sick at Chicago Migrant Shelter. truthout.org A 5-year-old boy died on Sunday after falling ill at a migrant shelter in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, just days after Borderless Mag published migrant testimony saying that the shelter has refused to give sick children medicine. "They treat us terribly — like dogs," a young woman at the shelter told Borderless. The city-run shelter is located inside of a warehouse and houses approximately… |

WSWS (2023-12-18). Channeling Hitler, Trump accuses migrants of "poisoning the blood of our country" wsws.org Emboldened by Biden's pledge to enact Trump's border policies as part of a $105 billion military package to Ukraine and Israel, Trump upped his fascistic agitation in Saturday's New Hampshire campaign speech.

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