2020-04-25: News Headlines

RT (2020-04-25). Masked staredown: Boxers face off in Nicaragua while wearing FACE MASKS as event goes ahead in Central America (PHOTOS). rt.com Despite the global sporting lockdown, there is one sporting event set to take place this weekend, with a boxing card set to take place Saturday night in Nicaragua. | The eight-bout fight card, which will feature a bout between local fighters Gabriel Escalante and Mario Mairena, will take place in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. | Also on rt.com | | And the two boxers made weight and faced off in front of the cameras, while wearing face masks.

Louis Proyect (2020-04-24). Smithfield and Our Troubled Future. counterpunch.org In 2009, there were suspicions that a Smithfield plant in Perote, Mexico might have triggered the Swine Flu epidemic. It was small potatoes compared to COVID-19. Only 1000 people were infected, with 68 deaths. The Mexico City newspaper La Jornada quoted health officials who concluded that the original carrier was in the "clouds of flies" that thrived in Smithfield's manure lagoons.

teleSUR (2020-04-24). Guatemala: President Giammattei Reaches 100 Days in Office. telesurenglish.net Guatemala's RELATED: | In this period, the conservative president has focused his efforts on recovering the trust of citizens in the sta…

Tara Lohan (2020-04-24). Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We're on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes. commondreams.org The U.S. Coast Guard conducts a controlled burn of oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, which exploded on April 20, 2010 and spilled 168 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. (Photo: Justin E. Stumberg / U.S. Navy via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/lohan_deepwater_horizon_-_edited_480_320_2.jpg

Ben Norton (2020-04-19). Corporate media spreads fake news claiming Nicaraguan President Ortega is dead — then he gives a fiery speech condemning US militarism. thegrayzone.com International media outlets spent weeks falsely implying Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega died of coronavirus… until he gave a televised speech…

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

Jessica Corbett (2020-04-04). Millions of Women in Mexico Join "Day Without Us" Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence. zcomm.org "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"

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