Monthly Archives: February 2024

2024-02-29: News Headlines

Benjamin Zinevich (2024-02-29). Coordinated media attacks on Mexican president AMLO? peoplesdispatch.org The Mexican president was the subject of a series of articles which all seemed to have the objective of linking him with illegal drug trafficking groups but without any proof…

Owen Schalk (2024-02-29). AMLO's push for environmental reforms angers Canadian mining sector. mronline.org Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico's resource wealth.

teleSUR, jaa, SH (2024-02-28). Venezolana Anyelin Venegas ganó oro en preolímpico de pesas. telesurtv.net La venezolana se impuso a su connacional Génesis Rodríguez quien obtuvo la plata y el bronce quedó en el cuello de la mexicana Janeth Gómez.

Laith Fadel (2024-02-29). Violence on highways threatens Mexico's trucking industry. america.cgtn.com Violence on Mexico's highways is escalating, prompting concerns from the country's truckers who are advocating for increased protection. CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock shows how trucking unions are appealing to the government for assistance.

teleSUR, jaa, JGN (2024-02-29). Reportan aumento de actividad en volcán Popocatépetl de México. telesurtv.net Al menos 22 vuelos fueron suspendidos en el aeropuerto internacional de la Ciudad de México.

Center for Biological Diversity (2024-02-29). Legal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells. indybay.org GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific…

The Xerces Society (2024-02-29). Eastern Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Area In Mexico Drops Precipitously. indybay.org MEXICO CITY, February 7, 2024 — The annual census of monarch numbers at the overwintering sites in central Mexico was released today by World Wildlife Fund-Mexico and partners. It revealed that in just one year, the presence of monarch butterflies in their Mexico wintering grounds dropped by more than half, from 2.2 hectares to 0.9 hectares.

Reuters (2024-02-29). China's BYD looking for Mexico EV plant location, Americas CEO Stella Li says. scmp.com The Shenzhen-based EV maker expects to choose a location for the plant, which is set to have a production capacity of 150,000 cars annually, by the year-end.

Kristian Hernández, Karen Rodriguez, Scheer Post. (2024-02-29). When Migrant Children Disappear, Many Cases Remain Unsolved. popularresistance.org Culpeper, Virginia — Jessica Mariela Domingo-Méndez skipped breakfast the morning of Jan. 20, 2023, and ran out the front door of her sister's house to catch the school bus. The 17-year-old never returned home. | Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt's home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. | Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his sponsor for dinner on Dec. 4, 2021, before going to bed. That was the last time the sponsor saw him. | "She just left. She didn't say anything," said Jessica's older sister, Patricia Perez-Méndez (No re…

Chris Walker (2024-02-29). Arizona Republicans Advance Bill Allowing Property Owners to Kill Migrants. truthout.org Republicans in the Arizona state legislature have advanced a bill that would grant property owners the right to shoot and kill anyone who trespasses on their property, so long as they claim they were doing so in self-defense. House Bill 2843 expands the state's current "Castle Doctrine" law. That statute allows individuals to shoot and kill any person who breaks into their home. |

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2024-02-27: News Headlines

Victoria Torres, Orinoco Tribune. (2024-02-27). President Of Mexico Fights Back Against New York Times Slander. popularresistance.org The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticized the US news outlet The New York Times (NYT) and stressed that journalists of NYT and other imperialist media outlets consider themselves "a divine race" that cannot be touched, "not even with a rose petal," despite the fact that they spread slander with impunity. | "You, with all due respect, do partisan journalism, because you are biased in favor of groups with vested interests, you are too close to de facto political and economic power," AMLO said on Friday, February 23, during a tense exchange with Jesica Zermeño, journalist of Univision, during…

Javier Arana Villasusa (2024-02-27). Mexican deputies to expand parliamentary meetings with China. plenglish.com Mexico City, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) Marcela Guerra proposed to her peers in China to resume the parliamentary dialogue between Mexico and China and institutionalize bilateral meetings, the communications department informed today.

teleSUR, JGN (2024-02-26). Presidente mexicano critica censura de la plataforma YouTube. telesurtv.net YouTube tuvo una "actitud prepotente y autoritaria", aseveró López Obrador en un mensaje publicado en su cuenta de la red social X.

teleSUR (2024-02-27). Mexico Urges US To Regularize Migrants' Legal Status. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena highlighted the importance of Mexican migrant workers to the U.S. economy, and again urged Washington to regularize their legal status. | RELATED: | Mexicans working in the U.S. contribute over US$324 billion annually to the nation's economy in such essential sectors as agriculture, services and construction, Barcena said, adding that "the regularization of Mexicans is not unprecedented.

teleSUR, MS (2024-02-27). Encuentran 113 restos óseos en una fosa clandestina en México. telesurtv.net Según el informe publicado el lunes, los restos fueron encontrados cerca de Los Cabos, en el extremo sur de la península de Baja California.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2024-02-27). Asesinan a tiros a precandidato a alcaldía de Michoacán, México. telesurtv.net El médico Reyes Zavala, se postulaba por primera vez para alcaldía de Maravatío, cuya presentación oficial de candidatura sería el próximo 29 de febrero.

teleSUR (2024-02-26). Miguel Zavala, Candidate for Mayor Shot Dead in Mexico. telesurenglish.net The candidate for mayor of Maravatío, Miguel Zavala, was shot dead this Monday in the state of Michoacán. | RELATED: | Upon entering a hospital, the politician was shot in his vehicle by armed men, according to preliminary reports. | He received all medical attention, but died instantly. Meanwhile, the perpetrators fled the scene. | Maravatío police and members of the Attorney General's Office appeared at the crim…

latintimes (2024-02-27). Four Months After Hurricane Otis, Mexico Welcomes Some of the Best Players in the World at the Acapulco Open. latintimes.com Out of the participants, 11 of them are currently ranked in the ATP top-20, with four of them included in the top-10…

Reuters (2024-02-27). Biden and Trump to visit US-Mexico border on same day. scmp.com US President Joe Biden will travel to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday. On the same day, former president Trump will visit Eagle Pass in Texas, a Trump aide said.

Editor (2024-02-27). When Migrant Children Disappear, Many Cases Remain Unsolved. scheerpost.com

latintimes (2024-02-27). How the Influx of Migrants is Impacting the Budgets of some of the Largest Cities in the U.S. latintimes.com

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