Editor (2022-01-10). NYC Enacts Law Allowing Over 800,000 Immigrants to Vote in Local Elections. scheerpost.com Electoral workers wait inside a school in Manhattan during early voting in the New York City mayoral election on October 23, 2021. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images) | By Jessica Corbett / A New York City law granting more than 800,000 lawful permanent residents the right to vote in local elections took effect Sunday after the recently elected mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, declined to veto it. | The New York City Council had voted 33-14—with two abstentions…

teleSUR, SH (2022-01-10). México reporta los primeros tres casos de flurona. telesurtv.net México es el segundo país de América Latina que ha reportado casos de flurona en el 2022.

sputniknews (2022-01-10). Norway Finds Education Gaps Between Immigrants, Ethnic Norwegians. sputniknews.com In Norway, immigrants have been found to do worse on standardised national tests, and a smaller proportion of them pursue an upper secondary education or higher education altogether.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-01-09). Residents of Mexico City living with extreme weather threats. america.cgtn.com As the world enters 2022, climate change and its effects on the globe are ever more present problems that need facing. And in Mexico, where the effects are already being felt more strongly, the response of the government and society is more vital than …

WSWS (2022-01-09). UK first European country to record 150,000 official COVID deaths. wsws.org Only the US, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru have recorded more deaths. The UK has a population of just 68.4 million. Except Peru, other countries recording more deaths than Britain all have substantially larger populations.

Juan Cole (2022-01-09). How New Mexico just became the Saudi Arabia of Wind. zcomm.org Central New Mexico has the potential to be a wind powerhouse…

_____ (2022-01-09). On Contact: Islamophobia, Race And Global Politics. popularresistance.org Islamophobia is not defined solely as anti-Muslim sentiment. It is not limited to hate speech and hate crimes, racial stereotypes, or discrimination against Muslim men and women. Islamophobia, in its most pernicious and deadly form, is embodied in the wars waged by the United States in the Muslim world, as well as the laws and internal security structures that turn Muslims in the United States into "the other." These laws include the criminalization of migrants, allowing Americans to justify the violent and illegal treatment of the undocumented, and the wholesale surveillance of Muslim communities. It includes th…

Staff (2022-01-08). Argentina Assumes Pro Tempore Presidency of CELAC. orinocotribune.com Argentina has assumed the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) for the year 2022, announcing its vision to strengthen the unity of the region and to further advance regional integration. | Argentina will replace Mexico as the president state of CELAC after the latter had been in charge of the organization for more than a year, as meetings and elections had been postponed in the midst of the pandemic. | During the plenary session of the 22nd Summit of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the CELAC, which was held this Friday, January 7, at the San Martín Palace in Buenos A…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-01-08). Venezuelan Government and Opposition to Resume Mexico Talks? orinocotribune.com A statement issued by the Venezuelan hard right opposition's Unitary Platform (PU) expresses their willingness to return to the dialogue table that had been underway in Mexico City last year. The talks were being mediated by the Kingdom of Norway, with the accompaniment of the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | Through the statement published on social media, the extreme right delegation of the Unitary Platform stressed that the agenda that had been discussed in the negotiations is "more timely and urgent than ever." | PU is thus trying to minimize the harm done to Venezuelan diplomat Alex S…

Franc Contreras (2022-01-08). Mexico sees record numbers of asylum seekers in 2021. america.cgtn.com Natural disasters and political turmoil in Latin America led to a huge number of people fleeing their homelands in 2021. Many, hoping to reach the United States, are passing through Mexico. Officials there say record numbers of migrants are seeking asylum.

Hyeseon Jeong (2022-01-08). Australia's systemic migrant labour exploitation exposed. greenleft.org.au Much has been said about the rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Australia but the Migrant Workers Centre has data showing it is even worse. Hyeseon Jeong reports.