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Mexico Begins Flying, Busing Migrants Back to Honduras
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-22
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico

Migrant caravan shrinks at Guatemala-Mexico border amid deportations
rt.com | 2020-01-22
The number of migrants stuck at the Guatemala-Mexico border continues to dwindle as detentions chip away at what remains of the latest caravan, AP reports. | The first buses of migrants left Tecun Uman, Guatemala overnight to repatriate migrants to their countries. On Tuesday, Mexico began flying and busing hundreds of migrants who had crossed into the country back to Honduras. | Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recognized the success of his government's strategy on Wednesday, noting that many of the migrants had begun to voluntarily return to their countries. | US Department of Homeland Security…
rt.com/newsline/478914-migrant-caravan-guatemala-mexico/

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-01-21
Some 6,000 Home Depot workers in Mexico were put on strike alert to press for pay and benefits demands, while the United Steelworkers has continued its isolation of 3,200 forestry workers in the Canadian province of British Columbia who have been on strike since July 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/21/wrkr-j21.html

Mexico Guarantees Entry Conditions For The Migrant Caravan
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-20
The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM), announced this Monday that authorities will guarantee the entrance of Central American migrants to their country, obeying Mexican laws regarding the treatment of migrants. | RELATED: | Migrant Caravan Gathers on Guatemala Border To Enter Mexico | The INM explained…
telesurenglish.net/news/mexico-guarantees-conditions-of-entry-for-the-migrant-caravan-20200120-0010.html

Bipartisan NAFTA 2.0 Is Still Fatally Flawed
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-01-20
Congress passed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) almost unanimously. It contains improvements over the original NAFTA, but still puts corporate interests over those of ordinary citizens, says Jacobin's Nicole Aschoff.
therealnews.com/stories/bipartisan_umca_fatally_flawed

The Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump's Border Wall
William deBuys | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-20
A new Wild West has taken root not far from Tombstone, Arizona, known to many for its faux-historical reenactments of the old West. We're talking about a long, skinny territory

Honduras Officially Designates Hezbollah a Terrorist Entity
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-20
The Honduran government has formally declared Lebanon's Hezbollah organization a "terrorist organization", as they attempt to mirror the U.S. government's foreign policy. | RELATED: | Honduran Migrant Caravan Repressed On Guatemala Border Crossing | "We declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization and will include it in the registry of persons and institutions linked to acts of terrorism and its financing," said Luis Suazo, Honduras' deputy security minister. | Hezbollah, which…
telesurenglish.net/news/Honduras-Officially-Designates-Hezbollah-a-Terrorist-Entity–20200120-0003.html

Venezuela Strengthens Cuba, China, Iran Ties Despite Guatemala Rupture
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-01-20
Cuba and Venezuela have reportedly signed more than 1,400 agreements since 2000.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14769

Venezuela Strengthens Cuba, China and Iran Ties Following Guatemala Row
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-01-20
Cuba and Venezuela have reportedly signed more than 1,400 agreements since 2000.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14769

Migrant Caravan Gathers on Guatemala Border To Enter Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-19
Thousands of Central Americans gathered Sunday at the border between Guatemala and Mexico, with the aim of crossing into Mexican territory on Monday. | RELATED: | Mexico's President Assures Continuation of Social Programs | The migrants gathered at the Tecun Uman camp in Guatemala have decided to regroup after small groups managed to cross the border into Ciudad Hidalgo in Mexico on Saturday. | According to Guatemala's National Institute of Migration, it is estimated that 821 Hondur…
telesurenglish.net/news/migrant-caravan-gathers-on-guatemala-border-to-enter-mexico-20200119-0015.html

Mexico's President Assures Continuation of Social Programs
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-19
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday that his administration will continue to guarantee social programs that seek to improve the lives of all Mexicans. | RELATED: | Mexico Halts Migrant Caravan by Closing Border With Guatemala | During the inauguration of a new concrete road in the Mixe region in the state of Oaxaca, AMLO assure…
telesurenglish.net/news/amlo-assures-the-continuation-of-mexican-social-programs-20200119-0013.html

Interpretation Crisis at the Border Leads to Deportation of Mayan-Language Speakers Seeking Refuge
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-17
As the U.S. continues to use hostile policies to stop people from seeking refuge and asylum in the United States, we look at a key problem that is preventing migrants from getting due process, and in many cases getting them deported: inadequate interpretation for indigenous asylum seekers who speak Mayan languages. Guatemala has a population of 15 million people, and at least 40% of them are indigenous. In the past year, a quarter of a million Guatemalan migrants have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border. At least half of them are Mayan. Many speak little or no Spanish. This is the focus of a new report in…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/17/a_translation_crisis_at_the_border

4 Years Seeking Justice: Daughter of Slain Indigenous Environmental Leader Berta Cáceres Speaks Out
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-01-17
In Honduras, a new report by the Violence Observatory at the Honduran National Autonomous University says that at least 15 women have been murdered in the first 14 days of this year. Violence against women, LGBTQ people, indigenous leaders and environmental activists has skyrocketed in Honduras under the U.S.-backed government of President Juan Orlando Hernández. The report comes nearly four years after the Honduran indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead inside her home in La Esperanza, Honduras, by hired hitmen. Last month in the capital of Tegucigalpa, seven men were sentenced to up to 50…
www.democracynow.org/2020/1/17/berta_caceres_laura_caceres_interview