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2024-03-01: News Headlines

latintimes (2024-03-01). Mexico Election Race Heats Up As Two Women Vie For Presidency. latintimes.com Campaigning officially begins Friday for elections likely to produce Mexico's first woman president — a watershed for a nation with a long tradition of macho culture.

teleSUR, JGN (2024-03-01). Canciller mexicana participará en VIII Cumbre de la Celac. telesurtv.net Bárcena participará, en representación del presidente López Obrador en la VIII Cumbre de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la Celac.

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.

Amy Goodman (2024-03-01). Biden and Trump Both Push Anti-Migrant Policies in US-Mexico Border Visits. truthout.org Joe Biden and Donald Trump both visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, where the two leading presidential candidates each pitched anti-immigration measures to further militarize the border and restrict asylum. Meanwhile, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law set to go into effect that would give police the power to arrest migrants they suspect of entering the U.S. |

Center for Biological Diversity (2024-03-01). Legal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells. indybay.org GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific…

Staff (2024-03-01). "Just Being Racist": Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits. democracynow.org Joe Biden and Donald Trump both visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, where the two leading presidential candidates each pitched anti-immigration measures to further militarize the border and restrict asylum. Meanwhile, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law set to go into effect that would give police the power to arrest migrants they suspect of entering the U.S. without authorization.‚Ä®For more, we speak with Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, one of the groups challenging this Texas law. "Clearly, Texas has become a battlegrou…

The Xerces Society (2024-03-01). 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.

Agence France-Presse (2024-03-01). Ex-Canada PM Brian Mulroney, father of North American free trade, dead at 84. scmp.com Brian Mulroney made his political mark in the 1980s with the signing of a groundbreaking free trade agreement with the United States that later expanded to include Mexico.

Aarathi Prasad (2024-03-02). Perspectives] Ngozi Erondu: pursuing justice, equity, and dignity in global health. thelancet.com Infectious disease epidemiologist Ngozi Erondu was born in St Louis, MO, USA, to Nigerian parents—her father a dentist and her mother a teacher "from a lineage of educators". A dual citizen, she says "growing up in an immigrant family, most of my formative years were always spent around the Nigerian community. It wasn't until I left the US and worked abroad that I started identifying as American." After living in London, UK, for nearly a decade and working in disease epidemiology and surveillance across Asia and Africa, she is now based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where she is Technical Director at…

Economic Policy Institute (2024-03-01). Immigrants Are Not Hurting U.S.-Born Workers — Six Facts To Set the Record Straight. indybay.org Immigration is contributing to strong economic growth—with future immigration forecast to boost real gross domestic product by 2% over the next 10 years—as well as increasing government revenue. Immigrants are also complementing U.S.-born workers by contributing to overall population and workforce growth.

newarab (2024-03-01). Palestinian-American Justin Amash announces US Senate bid. newarab.com Justin Amash, a former US Representative from western Michigan whose parents are Palestinian and Syrian immigrants, has The 43-year-old former congressman, who represented Grand Rapids from 2011 to 2021, shared his news on X, formerly Twitter, one month after

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-03-01). Guardacostas de EE.UU. retornan a Cuba 19 migrantes irregulares. radiohc.cu La Habana, 1 mar (RHC) El Servicio de Guardacostas de Estados Unidos devolvió a Cuba 19 migrantes irregulares, que habían participado en una salida ilegal del país, informó el Ministerio del Interior.

WSWS (2024-03-01). Biden appeals to Trump to support anti-immigrant bill: "Join me" wsws.org After months of campaigning for president on the basis that Trump represented a mortal threat to democracy, in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, Biden pleaded with the aspiring dictator to "join" him in supporting fascistic anti-immigrant legislation that greatly expands the border police and grants the president authority to "shut down" ports of entry.

newarab (2024-03-01). Evacuated Moroccan villagers swim to Ceuta, fleeing poverty. newarab.com Dozens of Moroccan migrants On Monday, 26 February, approximately 100 migrants succeeded in breaching the border waves barrier separating Bilionch from Ceuta after enduring more than thirty-six hours of swimming. | "A majority (40) of the newcomers ar…

Reuters (2024-03-01). Joe Biden and Donald Trump trade blame at US border in duelling election-year visits. scmp.com Trump described an influx of immigrants as a 'Biden invasion', while the US president criticised Republican lawmakers for rejecting a bipartisan border deal.

WSWS (2024-03-01). Biden appeals to Trump to support anti-immigrant bill: "Join me" wsws.org After months of campaigning for president on the basis that Trump represented a mortal threat to democracy, in Brownsville, Texas on Friday, Biden pleaded with the aspiring dictator to "join" him in supporting fascistic anti-immigrant legislation that greatly expands the border police and grants the president authority to "shut down" ports of entry.

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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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