2024-08-29: News Headlines

newleftreview (2024-08-29). Tony Wood: Mexico in Flux. newleftreview.org Against the rightward trend of the Old World, countries in Latin America continue to favour governments of the left. The resounding mandate for Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico's presidential election confirms Morena's hegemony within the new party system. Where exactly on the political map should its project be placed?

Nick Corbishly, Naked Capitalism. (2024-08-29). Three Amigos No More? popularresistance.org Just a week ago, we wagered that the US and Canadian embassies would soon begin piling pressure on Mexico as the outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO) seeks to pass sweeping constitutional reforms to its mining laws, energy laws and judicial system, among other things, in his last month in office. Just two days later, the US Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, sent a communique warning that the proposed judicial reforms could have serious consequences for the US' trade relations with its biggest trade partner: | Based on my lifelong experience supporting the rule of law, I believe popular direc…

TASS (2024-08-29). Mexican embassy confirmed death of Mexican national in Ukraine. tass.com It was confirmed that Carlos Jesus Gonzalez Mendoza was not a soldier of the Mexican armed forces, the Mexican foreign ministry said…

María Candela (2024-08-29). Freno a una insolencia. radiohc.cu El gobierno mexicano reaccionó enérgicamente a expresiones consideradas injerencistas de las embajadas de Estados Unidos y Canadá, y estableció una pausa en sus nexos con esas sedes diplomáticas.

ICRC (2024-08-29). Mexico: A regional exhibition honours the family members of missing people who died searching for their loved ones. icrc.org

Maria Calvo (2024-08-29). Culmina gira por México Compañía de Teatro Infantil de Cienfuegos. radiohc.cu Cienfuegos. 29 ago (RHC) La Compañía de Teatro Infantil Abrakadabra, de Cienfuegos culmina su gira por la Tercera Edición del Festival Internacional Chavito Festín, que inició el pasado día 14 y finaliza este 29 de agosto en la ciudad Nezahualcóyotl de México.

María Candela (2024-08-29). Culmina gira por México Compañía de Teatro Infantil Abrakadabra, de Cienfuegos (+Fotos y Audio). radiohc.cu Cienfuegos, 29 ago (RHC) La Compañía de Teatro Infantil Abrakadabra, de Cienfuegos culmina su gira por la 3ra Edición del Festival Internacional Chavito Festín, que inició el pasado día 14 y finaliza este 29 de agosto en la ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, de México.

teleSUR, MER (2024-08-29). Presidente Maduro conversa con mandataria electa de México. telesurtv.net Ambas autoridades ratificaron los lazos de hermandad entre México y Venezuela, así como su disposición en fortalecer la Celac.

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-08-29). Bahamas devuelve a Cuba 16 migrantes ilegales. radiohc.cu La Habana, 29 ago (RHC) Las autoridades de Bahamas devolvieron este martes a 16 cubanos que habían salido ilegalmente del país por vía marítima y fueron interceptados, informó el Ministerio del Interior (Minint).

newarab (2024-08-29). Gulf states protest Netflix's 'The Goat Life', ignore kafala. newarab.com Audiences in The nearly three-hour film portrays the hardships of a Malayali Indian migrant worker who was coerced into working without pay as an isolated goat herder in Saudi Arabia, sparking considerable backlash from many in the kingdom who accuse it of misrepresenting the country. |

newarab (2024-08-29). Tunisia arrests Italian for building irregular migrant boat. newarab.com The 45-year-old who was not named "works in a boat building factory", Farid Jha, spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Monastir, a coastal city in east-centra…

Tareq Saghie, Labor Notes. (2024-08-29). Worker Coops Bring Undocumented Workers Into The Labor Movement. popularresistance.org How can immigrants without work authorization avoid being hyper-exploited, and instead find work where they have some autonomy and collective power to raise standards? A movement that has been incubating in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, might offer some answers. | Sunset Park boasts one of the highest concentrations of worker cooperatives in the United States. | This business model, brought to the neighborhood by the Center for Family Life, guarantees all members standard and legal wages, a voice in their company's governance, and control over their schedules. Since members are business owners, not employees, they also…

Dave Kellaway (2024-08-29). Not all deaths at sea are equal. internationalviewpoint.org Dave Kellaway reports from Italy, and reflects on the media coverage of the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily compared to the way the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean are usually reported | – | / |

aljazeera (2024-08-29). In Venezuela's diaspora, protests erupt against Maduro's contested election. aljazeera.com Migrants and refugees are using their political might abroad to pressure Venezuela to release complete election results.

Hugo GABBERO (2024-08-29). Greece: Continued judicial harassment of migrants' rights defender Panayote Dimitras. fidh.org The recent summons by the Athens Magistrate marks a new development in Mr Dimitras' long history of judicial harassment, this time also prospecting the criminal prosecution of his wife, constituting a major violation of their right to defend human rights as well as of the recently adopted European Union (EU) anti-SLAPP Directive. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) urges the Greek authorities to put an immediate end to this practice of harassment and to (…) | – |

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2024-08-28: News Headlines

newleftreview (2024-08-28). Tony Wood: Mexico in Flux. newleftreview.org Against the rightward trend of the Old World, countries in Latin America continue to favour governments of the left. The resounding mandate for Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico's presidential election confirms Morena's hegemony within the new party system. Where exactly on the political map should its project be placed?

Human Rights Watch (2024-08-28). Mexico: Flawed Inquiry on Soldiers' Alleged Killing of Child. hrw.org Click to expand Image | An undated photograph of Heidi Pérez. | © Cristina Pérez | (Mexico City) — The Mexican Attorney General's Office has failed to properly investigate allegations that soldiers shot and killed a 4-year-old girl in August 2022, Human Rights Watch said in a report, including visual evidence, published today.The report, "Who Killed Heidi Pérez?" details the serious omissions and errors committed by prosecutors leading the investigation. The Attorney General's Office failed to take basic steps to corroborate the military's version of events, despite irregularities in the evidence pr…

teleSUR, MER (2024-08-28). Presidente Maduro conversa con mandataria electa de México. telesurtv.net Ambas autoridades ratificaron los lazos de hermandad entre México y Venezuela, así como su disposición en fortalecer la Celac.

Gloria Rubac (2024-08-28). Victory for immigrant rights organization in Houston. workers.org Activists with a longtime immigrant rights organization in Houston celebrated a victory on Aug. 23 after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that tried to revoke the group's nonprofit status and shut it down. Cesar Espinosa speaks at Houston immigrant rights protest. (WW PHOTO: Gloria Rubac) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . . . |

Gloria Rubac (2024-08-28). Victory for immigrant rights organization in Houston. workers.org Activists with a longtime immigrant rights organization in Houston celebrated a victory on Aug. 23 after a judge dismissed a lawsuit that tried to revoke the group's nonprofit status and shut it down. Cesar Espinosa speaks at Houston immigrant rights protest. (WW PHOTO: Gloria Rubac) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . . . |

Nava J. Thakuria (2024-08-28). Assam : Where Indigenous People Confront Illegal Migrants. pressenza.com Even the middle-aged Assamese nationals remember that Assam agitation was initially propagated as 'Bohiragata Kheda Andolan' (literarily meaning agitation to deport outsiders) and later, redefined as an agitation against illegal migrants (from East Pakistan/ Bangladesh) by the intellectuals and media barons based in Guwahati. After decades, the issue of outsiders (read non-Assamese Indians) came alive with an incident in Sibsagar of eastern Assam, where a community was compelled to apologize for a crime committed by some individuals (belonging to that group). The accused individuals, who physically assaulted a mi…

Hugo GABBERO (2024-08-28). Greece: Continued judicial harassment of migrants' rights defender Panayote Dimitras. fidh.org The recent summons by the Athens Magistrate marks a new development in Mr Dimitras' long history of judicial harassment, this time also prospecting the criminal prosecution of his wife, constituting a major violation of their right to defend human rights as well as of the recently adopted European Union (EU) anti-SLAPP Directive. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) urges the Greek authorities to put an immediate end to this practice of harassment and to (…) | – |

newarab (2024-08-27). 100s of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta. newarab.com Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Videos broadcast on Spanish media over the weekend showed Spanish police intercepting migrant…

Julia Conley (2024-08-27). Trump-Appointed Judge Halts Protections for Undocumented Spouses. truthout.org Immigrant rights advocates said Monday that they were "deeply troubled" by Trump-appointed judge's ruling that brought the Biden administration's protections for undocumented spouses to a grinding halt, just a week after officials began taking applications from couples who wanted to take part in the Keeping Families Together program. Siding with 16 Republican-led states that sued over the… |

Hugo GABBERO (2024-08-27). Greece: Continued judicial harassment of migrants' rights defender Panayote Dimitras. fidh.org The recent summons by the Athens Magistrate marks a new development in Mr Dimitras' long history of judicial harassment, this time also prospecting the criminal prosecution of his wife, constituting a major violation of their right to defend human rights as well as of the recently adopted European Union (EU) anti-SLAPP Directive. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) urges the Greek authorities to put an immediate end to this practice of harassment and to (…) | – |

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