2023-09-05: News Headlines

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-05). Mexican right finalizes presidential candidate for 2024 polls, ruling Morena to announce candidate on September 6. peoplesdispatch.org Former senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the National Action Party (PAN) was chosen as the presidential candidate of Mexico's right-wing opposition alliance, Frente Amplio por México, for the June 2024 elections…

Franc Contreras (2023-09-04). What is Mexico's plan for socio-economic development? america.cgtn.com Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivered his fifth State of the Nation address on Friday, touting his administration's achievements. | He spoke for more than an hour, providing specifics he says show that Mexico is on the right path toward economic and social development. | CGTN's Franc Contreras reports.

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-09-05). Ordenan a Ejército mexicano conservar reportes sobre Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net El Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes señaló que el Ejército ha ocultado varios reportes.

WSWS (2023-09-04). Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike. wsws.org The unions are seeking to divide North American auto workers, facilitating moves by the companies to offset the impact of any strike action.

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-09-04). Ordenan a Ejército mexicano conservar reportes sobre Ayotzinapa. telesurtv.net El Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes señaló que el Ejército ha ocultado varios reportes.

WSWS (2023-09-04). Mexican autoworkers kept in the dark on looming US-Canadian auto strike. wsws.org Instead of organizing a joint struggle of workers across North America to prevent the ramping up production abroad to undermine a strike, the union bureaucracies seek to divide workers.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-09-04). The Kit Carson Obelisk: Santa Fe's Cult like Worship of a Genocidal Human Trafficker and Murderer. itsgoingdown.org Historical analysis and context of the Kit Carson obelisk that was once again toppled in so-called Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Kit Carson obelisk located in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Santa Fe was knocked down again (after first being toppled in 2020) on August 31st, 2023, according to local news reports. This…

teleSUR, jaa, JGN (2023-09-05). Accidente de helicóptero deja tres muertos en México. telesurtv.net La entidad de Protección Civil local detalló que esta aeronave cayó sobre un campo de maíz y se incendió.

Staff (2023-09-04). Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora on Coping with Trauma from Being Detained & Undocumented in U.S. democracynow.org Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora discusses the roots of his memoir Solito, which details his odyssey as an unaccompanied 9-year-old child through Guatemala and Mexico to reunite with family in Arizona. "After surviving that nine-week journey, surviving the United States as an undocumented person was perhaps the main reason why I became a writer," Zamora says. He describes how he works to cope with trauma from his experiences, and how he was inspired to become a writer when he was exposed to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda as a high school student in California.

teleSUR, rzr, DRL (2023-09-04). Ataque armado deja cuatro muertos en Guanajuato, México. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas de emergencia recibieron una denuncia por detonaciones de arma de fuego en una vivienda de la colonia La Ciudadela.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-09-04). Oposición de México oficializa a candidata a comicios de 2024. telesurtv.net Se trata de Xóchitl Gálvez. Recibió el certificado que la acredita como candidata por el Frente Amplio por México, que integra a los partidos PRI, PAN y PRD.

Lara-Nour Walton, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-09-05). Making Monsters: How Media Encourage Hatred Of Immigrants. popularresistance.org The problem is not simply that media buy into sensationalist accounts of immigration. When the news amplifies anti-immigration hysteria, asylum seekers are drained of their humanity. In the public imagination, they are no better than monsters. As long as the US continues to manufacture conditions ripe for mass migration in Latin America, news readers must come to grips with how today's journalism coaxes Americans into hating migrants. Only then can we begin to treat immigration rightfully—as a natural part of human history, to be celebrated rather than feared.

Staff (2023-09-04). "The Great Escape": Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S. democracynow.org As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers who are hired by corporations to clean up after hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are increasingly on the frontlines of the climate crisis. | For Labor Day 2023, we are rebroadcasting an interview with author and organizer Saket Soni. His book, The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America, focuses on hundreds of Indian workers who were brought to the United States with false promises and subjected to grueling working conditions at a shipyard in Mississippi. When one of those workers called Soni in 2006 for help, it set…

WSWS (2023-09-04). Fascist mobs terrorise migrants in Cyprus while police turn blind eye. wsws.org The ruling elites everywhere are enacting the most savage anti-immigration policies and scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers for society's ills.

WSWS (2023-09-04). Fascist mobs terrorise migrants in Cyprus while police turn blind eye. wsws.org The ruling elite everywhere, no matter the political colouration of the parties and state leaders involved, are enacting the most savage anti-immigration policies, and scapegoating refugees and asylum seekers for society's ills.

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