Raping Words After Raping Women
Malú Huacuja del Toro | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-30
On the Feminist Glitter Revolt in Mexico City Let's put it this way — I am not someone who has no idea how is it to be raped in Mexico City with no chance to get any help from the police, let alone legal resources and a fair trial, so this issue is very close…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/30/raping-words-after-raping-women/

Justice for José Antonio: Family Demands Accountability for Mexican Teen Killed by U.S. Border Agent
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-30
Nearly seven years ago, 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was killed in Nogales, Mexico, by U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, who fired his gun from the U.S. side of the border. The teenager — who was unarmed — died face-down on the sidewalk just a couple of blocks from his home. Border Patrol has for years been plagued with hundreds of allegations of abuse and unnecessary use of deadly force, including the cross-border killings of at least six people on Mexican soil. Most cases are not investigated, and border agents are rarely criminally charged for using violent force. After nearly fiv…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/30/jose_antonio_elena_rodriguez_border_patrol

Family of Mexican Teenager Slain by Border Agent Awaits SCOTUS Ruling to Determine If They Can Sue
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-30
This fall, the Supreme Court will decide whether the parents of Sergio Hernández Gàºereca, a 15-year-old Mexican teen killed by a Border Patrol agent in 2010, can sue the American agent in a U.S. federal court. It's been nearly 10 years since Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. shot across the El Paso-Juárez border and struck Hernández Gàºereca in the head. The central question in the case is whether a Mexican citizen killed on Mexican soil by a U.S. border agent is protected by the U.S. Constitution — allowing for the family members of victims to file civil lawsuits. If the Supreme Court rules in…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/30/scotus_case_border_patrol_killings_mexico

War on the Mexican border: How did it happen?
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-30
immigrant rights Barry SheppardIssue 1235 United States US-Mexico border wallAugust 30, 2019What became the United States was first a series of white British — "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" (WASP) — settler colonies. | Besides starting the…
greenleft.org.au/content/war-mexican-border-how-did-it-happen

The Grayzone's Anya Parampil on Fox: US regime change policy fuels migration crisis
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-29
On Fox News, Anya Parampil explained how the US coup in Honduras and bipartisan support for the corrupt, right-wing President…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/29/the-grayzones-anya-parampil-on-fox-us-regime-change-policy-fuels-migration-crisis/

Trump's Asylum Policies Could Get People Killed
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-08-29
In an April roundtable on U.S.-Mexico border security, President Trump called asylum seekers and their stories a "scam." "They're not afraid of anything … and they say ' I fear for my life,' " he said, according to The Daily Beast. "It's a scam, it's a hoax." Trump also claimed, according to CNN, that " the system is full," and t…
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Palestine to Sue Honduras for 'Recognizing' Jerusalem as Israeli Capital
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-29
Palestinian Foreign Ministry Riyad al-Maliki announced the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will submit a formal complaint to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres against Honduras, over the latter's decision to open a diplomatic office in Jerusalem. | RELATED: | UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Seeks Donations as Funding Slips | The C…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestine-to-Sue-Honduras-for-Recognizing-Jerusalem-as-Israel-Capital-20190829-0032.html

Guatemala: Anti-corruption Body Departs, Says 'State Is Captured'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-29
The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) presented Wednesday its final activity in the country. The house that served as the commission headquarter for 12 years will be demolished. | RELATED: | Son, Brother of Outgoing Guatemalan President Acquitted of Graft | While CICIG employees removed dozens of boxes, cartons, and papers, the U.N.-sponsored body presented its last activity in the form of a report called "Guatemala: a captured State." | The docu…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Anti-corruption-Body-Departs-Says-State-Is-Captured-20190829-0028.html

Counting deaths for dollars: The rise and fall of Nicaragua's 'human rights' organizations
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-25
In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan opposition "human rights" NGOs inflated the death toll during the 2018 coup attempt….
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/25/deaths-for-dollars-nicaraguas-human-rights-organizations/

Escuelita àìscar Romero in Philadelphia builds unity in the face of anti-immigrant terror
Neri Felipe | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-23
The Escuelita àìscar Romero, a program of the Philadelphia branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation which primarily serves recently arrived Central American children, just concluded its first summer camp.
liberationnews.org/escuelita-oscar-romero-in-philadelphia-builds-unity-in-the-face-of-anti-immigrant-terror/

Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution is still thriving, after 40 years
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-22
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal reports from Managua, Nicaragua on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/22/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-40th-anniversary/