2023-10-08: News Headlines

Amanda Yee, People's Dispatch. (2023-10-08). Biden Backs Out On Campaign Promise, Set To Expand US-Mexico Border Wall. popularresistance.org On Thursday, October 5, the Biden administration announced that it would be expanding the South Texas border wall in order to deter migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. In a sweeping move of executive power, Biden waived 26 federal laws—including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act—to facilitate the construction of 20 additional miles of the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley, an area which has seen 245,000 "illegal" crossings in the current fiscal…

teleSUR, odr, JCM (2023-10-08). Sismo de magnitud 6.0 sacude Oaxaca, México. telesurtv.net El Servicio Sismológico Nacional (SSN) reportó que el epicentro se localizó en Oaxaca, a 12 kilómetros al noroeste de Matías Romero.

Mouris Salloum George (2023-10-07). México sediento, y menos lluvias. globalizacion.ca La escasez de agua en el territorio nacional empeora. El año 2024 se perfila con mayores complicaciones, como resultado de que el presente registró un 60% menos de precipitaciones pluviales. La prolongada sequía que viene azotando al país abarca ya…

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-10-07). Mueren 18 migrantes tras accidente vial en Oaxaca, México. telesurtv.net Fiscalía General de Oaxaca reportó como fallecidos a dos mujeres, tres menores de edad y 13 hombres.

UNM Native American Studies Faculty (2023-10-07). The University of New Mexico Statement of Solidarity: No Honor in Onate's Violence. indybay.org This is the second time a shooting occurred at a peaceful rally against an Oñate statue. The first occurred two years ago in 2021 near Old Town in Albuquerque, when another unprovoked gunman shot and injured a peaceful protester. Here on the UNM main campus, we are pushing for the renaming of Oñate Hall. We should not honor the well-known legacy of violence and trauma.

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Cuba notes imperialism's inability to bend the truth. plenglish.com Mexico City, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuba noted in Mexico the inability of the U.S. imperialism to bend the truth, at the International Seminar "The Parties and a New Society.".


Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-10-08). Panama's SENAFRONT rescues nearly 500 irregular migrants. plenglish.com Panama City, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) In the last two months, Panama's National Border Service (SENAFRONT) rescued 499 irregular migrants abandoned in the Darien jungle, an official statement referred on Sunday.

Didier Fassin, Anne-Claire Defossez (2023-10-07). Comment] Displaced people's perilous journeys: border violence as a public health issue. thelancet.com The 21st century has seen displacement of migrants and refugees unprecedented since World War 2. As of the end of 2022, of the 108 million people who had to leave their homes because of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations, 62 ∑5 million were internally displaced, 35 ∑3 million were refugees, and 5 ∑4 million were officially asylum seekers.1 However, the number of people still in transit in search of protection or a better life is unknown. Whether they are Venezuelans trying to reach the USA, Senegalese trying to reach the Canary Islands, or Ethiopians trying to reach Saudi Arab…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-10-07). Finaliza Cumbre Europea sin acuerdo sobre migración. telesurtv.net El desacuerdo sobre el reparto de cuotas voluntarias de acogida de migrantes puso de relieve los desacuerdos sobre cómo hacer frente a la crisis del Mediterráneo.


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