Human Rights Watch cabildea por sanciones letales contra Nicaragua y Venezuela, mientras arrecia la crisis de Covid-19
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-20
Human Rights Watch está orgullosamente asumiendo el crédito por sanciones devastadoras contra Nicaragua, mientras busca escalar la guerra económica en…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/human-rights-watch-sanciones-nicaragua-venezuela/

El Salvador: Bukele Imposes Total Closure of Municipality
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele implemented the closure of the Puerto de La Libertad municipality. The measure was imposed after several videos appeared on social media networks showing street crowding in La Libertad. | RELATED: Latam: COVID-19 Puts Imprisoned Environmental Defenders at Risk | "Everyone will have to be in their homes and 100% of businesses closed, until further notice," Bukele tweeted. The president also posted on his Facebook official profile: "no one shal…
telesurenglish.net/news/el-salvador-bukele-imposes-total-closure-in-municipality-20200420-0008.html

Guatemala: Discrimination Against Domestic Workers Rises
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
Guatemalan domestic personnel are more vulnerable to the COVID-19 economic and social impact than other workers due to their livelihood and labor conditions. | RELATED: | Guatemala: Social Organizations Dennounces Massive Layoffs | According to the Union of Domestic, Maquila and Related Workers' (Sitradom) president, Floridalma Contreras, domestic workforces are predominately women who are under no legal employment ways. From the 550 members of the union, the majority are illiterat…
telesurenglish.net/news/Guatemala-Discrimination-Against-Domestic-Workers-Rises-20200420-0005.html

Latin America Surpasses 100,000 Infections From COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
Latin America reported this Sunday more than 100,000 people infected with the new coronavirus, with Brazil being the country most affected by the pandemic. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Arrive in Honduras to Fight COVID-19 | With 210 million inhabitants, Brazil has 38,654 infections and 2,462 deaths, according to local media. | Despite the high number of deaths and infections, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced Friday his intention to reopen trade and borders. | The second most aff…
telesurenglish.net/news/latin-america-surpasses-100000-infections-from-covid19-20200420-0001.html

Canada: Gunman Dressed as Police Kill 16 People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
The deadliest shooting in Canadian history occurred this weekend in the province of Nova Scotia after a gunman killed 16 people, including a police woman, local media reported. | RELATED: | Canada Ratifies New Trade Agreement with United States, Mexico | Gabriel Wortman, 51, was identified as the killer. He attacked his victims within 12 hours. | Wortman committed his first murder on Saturday afternoon in the town of Potapique. There, several bodies were found inside and outsid…
telesurenglish.net/news/canada-gunman-dressed-as-police-kills-16-people-20200420-0006.html

Workers strike across Ciudad Juárez, Mexico amid increase in COVID-19 deaths in factories
wsws.org | 2020-04-20
The strikes part of a growing international resistance involving workers across Europe and the US against nonessential work as the pandemic continues to spread out of control.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/20/ciud-a20.html

Love Thy Neighbor: One Woman's Fight for Her Husband
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-19
Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

Cuban Doctors Arrive in Honduras to Fight COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-19
Cuban doctors and Honduran specialists studying on the island arrived at Tegucigalpa Sunday as part of Cuba's medical missions across the world to fight the novel coronavirus. | RELATED: | Solidarity vs. Sanctions in Times of a Global Pandemic | "Right now, we're seeing that health personnel is making us sick, health personnel who are insufficiently qualified, health personnel who definitely have to be replaced because they are fatigued," Honduran Health Minist…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuban-Doctors-Arrive-in-Honduras-to-Fight-COVID-19-20200419-0007.html

Mexico Prohibits Cremation of People Killed by COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-18
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador administration Friday prohibited the cremation of unclaimed bodies who died because of COVID-19. | RELATED: | Protests Follow Deaths at US Factories in Mexican Border Town | This decision obeys the Law on the Forced Disappearance and Search of Persons, which establishes that "corpses or remains of persons…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Prohibits-Cremation-of-People-Killed-by-COVID-19-20200418-0002.html

S.D. Gov. Noem has blood on her hands after Smithfield outbreak
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-17
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.–Augustín Rodríguez, 64, arrived on time for every one of his shifts, never absent a day at Smithfield Foods here, where he labored for 20 years. Rodríguez, who came from El Salvador, continued to go to work at the UFCW-organized plant after he developed a fever and cough because he had to work to …
peoplesworld.org/article/south-dakota-gov-noem-has-blood-on-her-hands-after-smithfield-outbreak/

The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries
Tamara Pearson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-17
I'm squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being deported from the United States, he has been hiking the streets of Mexico City trying to find somewhere to stay. But all the refuges are closed due to the pandemic, including the one we're sitting outside of, where I volunteer. He has run out of insulin for his diabetes and says he can't walk any more.
counterpunch.org/2020/04/17/the-self-centered-rich-country-response-to-pandemics-and-crises-is-wrecking-poor-countries/

As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-13
Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change-coronavirus-nicaragua/

Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-08
Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

Millions of Women in Mexico Join "Day Without Us" Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
"In Mexico it's like we're in a state of war; we're in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed"
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