Mexico: Millions Embezzled During Peña Nieto's Administration
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
Mexico's authorities reported that irregularities in projects worth US$30.2 billion were detected during President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration (2012-2018). | RELATED: | Mexico: Fugitive Former Pemex Executive Arrested in Spain | The Public Function Secretary Irma Sandoval said that irregularities were identified in 2019 projects, which generated…
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Mexico: Family Says Gov't Failed To Protect Murdered Girl
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-18
Relatives of a seven-year-old girl murdered in Mexico said Monday the government had failed to protect her despite their pleas for help, while President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blamed the crime on neo-liberal economics. | RELATED: | Women Glitter Mexico City to Protest Rape, Gendered Violence | Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett went missing on Feb. 11. Her body was discovered over the weekend inside a plastic garbage bag in Mexico City's Tlahuac neighborhood, only days after another mur…
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Mexican Police Assaults Relatives of Ayotzinapa Killed Students
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-17
Local police in the Mexican town of Tuxtla Gutierrez in the southern state of Chiapas, threw tear gas at relatives of the 43 killed students of Ayotzinapa, as well as students of the Mactumactza School, as they protested demanding justice. | RELATED: | Mexico: Nationwide Protests Against Ingrid Escamilla's Femicide | The demonstrators blocked the roads with relatives of the 43 students who disappeared six years ago, demanding justice since the judicial procedure has been conteste…
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We Talk About One U.S.-Backed Coup. Hondurans Talk About Three
Meghan Krausch | commondreams.org | 2020-02-17
Honduran migrants walk near Esquipulas, Chiquimula departament, Guatemala, on January 16, 2020, after crossing the border in Agua Caliente from Honduras on their way to the United States. (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/honduras_image_caravan_850_567.jpeg …
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Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government
Ellen Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is less than a month into his term and yet there are already disturbing signs that his administration will side with global mining corporations against indigenous communities fighting to protect their land and water. | The clearest …
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A Boom Time for U.S. Sanctions
Kathy Gilsinan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-17
The United States, as of this writing, has 7,967 sanctions in place. | Treasury Department data show them in many sizes. There are sanctions on individual people, like the Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman; on companies, like Cubacancun Cigars …
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I am tired of holding other worlds in my fist
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-02-14
In November 2019, the Bolivian army–with a nudge from the shadows–told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and then seek asylum in Argentina. Jeanine àÅñez, a far-right politician who was not in the line of succession, seized power; the military, the fascistic civil society groups, and sections of […] | Source…
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Entrevista con lideresa estudiantil Sandinista Rosalía Bohórquez
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-02-12
En enero unos periodistas de °Lucha y Resiste! participaron en el Encuentro Mundial Antiimperialista en Caracas, Venezuela. Allí hicieron entrevistas con delegados de varios países. Esta es una entrevista con una lideresa del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) y una miembro(a) de la UNEN – la Unión Nacional de Estudiantes de Nicaragua. Este es su mensaje al pueblo trabajador y progresista de los Estados Unidos. | Rosalía Bohórquez: Mi nombre es Rosalía Bohórquez, nicaragàºense y miembro del Frente Sandinista para la Liberación Nacional (FSLN). Igualmente soy estudiante y miembro de la UNEN…
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Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy marks one year, leaving tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Mexican border towns
splcenter.org | 2020-01-29
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