Salvadoran Officials Reject Quarantine Extension
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-17
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, extended the state of emergency in the country on the grounds of stopping the spread of Covid-19. | RELATED: | El Salvador: Pot-Banging Against Bukele's Pandemic Management | The state of emergency, approved on April 30 by the Legislative Assembly, expired on Saturday night, so, under the protection of an article of the Civil Protection Law, the government extended it for another month. | The decree empowers the government to use funds f…
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Obamagate Shows Biden Is Inadequate in Challenging Trump
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-16
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is coming under increasing pressure, led by what President Donald Trump is calling "Obamagate." This comes as Mexico has requested to finally clarify the affair with the secret sale of American weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Mexico is asking for the case to be clarified after almost ten years. | In this secret operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, weapons from the U.S. were sold to Mexican drug cartels. The U.S. claimed that about 2,000 automatic weapons were sold to Mexicans so that the Barack Obama administration could follow thei…
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"The Wuhan of the Americas": U.S. Deports COVID-19-Positive Immigrants to Haiti & Guatemala
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-15
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says "U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are 'unconscionable,'" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar.
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Massive protests in El Salvador against President Nayib Bukele
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-05-15
Salvadorans are protesting over the lack of food and economic aid to poor and unemployed people, the shortage of personal protection equipment for health workers, and the delay in the return of people stranded abroad…
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US Deports COVID-Positive Immigrants to Haiti and Guatemala, Spreading Virus
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-05-15
The United States continues to deport thousands during the coronavirus pandemic, causing a dangerous spread of COVID-19 to Central America and the Caribbean. We speak with Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat, who says "U.S. deportations to Haiti during coronavirus pandemic are 'unconscionable,'" and go to Guatemala City for an update from reporter José Alejandro García Escobar. | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOODMAN: We turn now…
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El Diego: the Two Lives of Maradona
Tony McKenna | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-15
22 June 1986. A world cup quarter-final is about to play out in the Estadio Azteca stadium at the heart of Mexico City. Under the billowing blue skies and the streaming sunlight the pitch is shadowless and pastel green. The teams line up. The English in white. The Argentinians in blue. As the Argentine anthem plays, the camera moves across the team, before lingering momentarily on the solemn, stormy features of the captain

U.S. global prison model: white supremacy on display
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-05-14
The United States has institutionalized white supremacist violence at home and abroad through its use of police and prisons. This does not come as revelation, but as a call to action. Whether we examine photographs coming out of El Salvador's prisons, or surveillance software used by U.S. police and Immigration . . . | Continue reading U.S. global prison model: white supremacy on display at Workers.org…
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Guatemala: Doctors Demand Better Working Conditions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-05-14
Guatemalan health workers demanded May 13 better working conditions, medical supplies, and biosafety equipment. | RELATED: | Guatemala Receives Migrants Deported from US | According to local news media, doctors in the station hospital located in Industrial Park sai they don ¥t have necessary equipment and health supplies to cover their daily necessity. | As they said, authorities gave them trash bags as makeshift protective suits. Furthermore, they stated food portions are not e…
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In the hearts and minds of Nicaraguan people Augusto Sandino, °presente!
| workers.org | 2020-05-14
By Camilo Mejía Nicaraguan-born antiwar organizer and Iraq war resister Camilo Mejía gave a talk on Feb. 21 at the United National Antiwar Coalition meeting at The People's Forum in New York. Below is an excerpt from his remarks in tribute to General Augusto Nicolás Calderón de Sandino y José . . . | Continue reading In the hearts and minds of Nicaraguan people Augusto Sandino, °presente! at Workers.org…
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Georgia politicians, activists demand action for poultry workers
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-05-13
Gainesville, GA – COVID-19 virus is spreading quickly among poultry workers and their families in Georgia. In Hall County, northeast of Atlanta, there is a hotspot with over 2000 cases and 29 deaths as of May 12. With roughly 16,500 workers employed by 14 chicken plants across Georgia, and most immigrant families living with two or three generations in one house, the situation is code red. There needs to be an emergency response from the government and the corporations. | Chicken processing is dirty, demanding and dangerous work done mainly by immigrants from Mexico, many of whom are women. The big corporations,…
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