2020-03-14: Social Media Postees

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Venezuela Takes Action Against COVID-19 Amid the US Blockade
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-14
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro Thursday announced that the health system is "on permanent alert," although there are no Covid-19 cases in this South American country so far. He also reported that landing of flights from Europe, Colombia, and Panama will …
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-takes-action-against-covid-19-amid-us-blockade/5706283

Canada Ratifies New Trade Agreement with United States, Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-14
The Canadian House of Commons and Senate Friday approved the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), shortly before Parliament adjourned until April 20, a decision that was made as a result of the COVID-19 spread. | RELATED: | US, Canada, and Mexico Sign Trade Deal Again to Replace NAFTA | The last step will be likely completed on Saturday when Canada's Governor-General Julie Payette, who exercises the functions of Head of State, signs the text ratified…
telesurenglish.net/news/Canada-Ratifies-New-Trade-Agreement-with-United-States-Mexico-20200314-0002.html

Trudeau exploits coronavirus crisis to strengthen Canada-US imperialist alliance
wsws.org | 2020-03-14
The Liberal government and opposition parties finalized adoption of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade deal aimed at laying the basis for trade war and military conflict with China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/trud-m14.html

Guatemala bars travel from US & Canada as Washington reluctant to halt deportations despite coronavirus concerns
rt.com | 2020-03-14
Guatemala has expanded a travel ban on those arriving from countries hit hardest by Covid-19 to include the United States and Canada, the country's president said, amid worries that deportations from the US are driving the crisis. | After stepping up measures to contain the outbreak earlier this week

Mexican coronavirus tally increases to 26: health ministry
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Mexico has registered a rise in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 26 from 15 a day earlier, the Mexican health ministry on Friday.
yenisafak.com/en/news/mexican-coronavirus-tally-increases-to-26-health-ministry-3513975

EEUU y la OEA hacen lobby para liberar a 'presos políticos' en Nicaragua que apuñalan a muerte a sus parejas embarazadas
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-13
Benjamín Norton reporta desde Nicaragua, donde la embajada de los Estados Unidos y la OEA han cabildeado con éxito por…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/13/eeuu-oea-liberar-presos-politicos-nicaragua/

Mexico Considers Limiting Entries From US To Slow Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Mexico would consider mechanisms to control the flow of people entering Mexico from the United States in an effort to limit coronavirus, if necessary, deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Friday. | RELATED: | Indigenous Tribe on US-Mexico Border Aims to Block Trump's wall | Mexico has so far confirmed 15 cases of coronavirus with no deat…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Considers-Limiting-Entries-From-US-To-Slow-Coronavirus-20200313-0015.html

New Coronavirus and Measures That Latin America Govts Have Taken
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
The advance of the new coronavirus in Latin America alerted the governments of the region since already 17 countries have reported confirmed cases. Brazil is the country with the most infected so far but does not yet register deaths like Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, and Guyana. | RELATED: | WHO Characterizes COVID-19 as a Global Pandemic | After the World Health Organization (WHO) told the world about the decision to classify the proliferation of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) as a 'pandemic,'…
telesurenglish.net/news/New-Coronavirus-and-Measures-That-Latin-America-Govts-Have-Taken-20200313-0019.html

US House rams through Nicaragua regime-change bill with zero opposition
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-12
Not one member of the House of Representatives spoke up against a bipartisan bill sponsored by hardliners that ramps up…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/us-house-sanctions-nicaragua/

Claudia Jones School inaugural event in D.C. features Bill Fletcher, Jr
Jamal Rich, Debra Johnson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-12
WASHINGTON–A group of 120 labor, social justice, international solidarity, and local campaign activists gathered at the Nicaraguan Embassy on Feb. 29 for the inaugural event of the newly founded Claudia Jones School for Political Education. Featuring long-time labor and Black liberation activist Bill Fletcher, Jr., the event was co-sponsored by Trabajadores Unidos de Washington D.C. …
peoplesworld.org/article/claudia-jones-school-inaugural-event-in-d-c-features-bill-fletcher-jr/

Media malfunction as Sanders notes positive aspects of Latin American socialism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-11
When 60 Minutes (2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government, while noting that after the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched "a massive […] | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/11/media-malfunction-as-sanders-notes-positive-aspects-of-latin-american-socialism/

A Case Study of Corporate Media Disinformation
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-11
Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian "election interference," on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender's Manufacturing the Enemy: …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/a-case-study-of-corporate-media-disinformation/

Nicaragua: After two years of crisis, more than 100,000 have fled the country
news.un.org | 2020-03-10
Over the past two years, more than 100,000 people in Nicaragua have sought asylum abroad, reportedly fleeing persecution and human rights abuses, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/03/1059051

Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2020-03-06
When 60 Minutes ( 2/24/20) asked Sen. Bernie Sanders about his past support for aspects of Cuba's socialist revolution, as well as for Nicaragua's 1979–90 leftist Sandinista government, Sanders responded by saying he opposes what he described as the "authoritarian" features of the Cuban government, while noting that after the 1959 revolution, Cuba launched "a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?" | News organizations seem…
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Deportation is a death sentence, and our government's hands are bloody
splcenter.org | 2020-03-03
Deadly violence is inescapable for hundreds of returned Salvadoran migrants. This small, Central American country is the murder capital of the world.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/03/deportation-death-sentence-and-our-governments-hands-are-bloody

Jim Benvie, Former Militia Spokesman, Violated Conditions of Bond
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-02-27
Former United Constitutional Patriots (UCP) militia spokesman James (Jim) Christopher Benvie has violated the terms of his bond as he awaits trial in New Mexico.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/02/27/jim-benvie-former-militia-spokesman-violated-conditions-bond

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