Daily Archives: March 24, 2020

2020-03-24: News Headlines

Jared Olson (2020-03-24). Honduras's Deadly Water Wars. thenation.com Honduras's Deadly Water Wars…

WSWS (2020-03-24). Trump continues to spend billions on border wall construction amid coronavirus pandemic. wsws.org Rather than marshal all available resources to fight the pandemic, huge sums of money are being directed to construct of 150 miles of border wall in Arizona, New Mexico and California.

Stephen Sefton (2020-03-24). UNHCR Lies About Nicaragua — Standard Western Reporting. globalresearch.ca On March 10th this year,

sputniknews (2020-03-24). Long Road To Justice: CIA's Allies In Guatemala On Trial For Indigenous Tribes Genocide. sputniknews.com During the Cold War the CIA was obsessed with keeping communism out of Latin America. In the 1970s and 1980s the agency backed right-wing regimes in Guatemala which carried out genocidal attacks in indigenous groups which supported left-wing rebels.

teleSUR (2020-03-23). El Salvador: First Covid-19 Quarantine Arrests Announced. telesurenglish.net Journalists and human rights activists from El Salvador have announced more than 250 arrests after official Nayib Bikele, Salvadorean President, decreed an official quarantine. | RELATED: | Between other measures to restrain Covid-19, only one member per family could buy supplies like food or medicines. Also, only public servants who are related to food delivery, transportation, and other basic services are allowed to go out. | In the first…

Michael Edison Hayden and Hannah Gais (2020-03-20). As White House Contemplates Coronavirus Asylum Ban, Hate Groups Urge Trump to Seize the Moment. splcenter.org The Trump administration took steps to block asylum seekers from entering the U.S.-Mexico border amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This nativist policy course has been pushed by anti-immigrant pundits and hate groups from the time the crisis started to unfold.

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

Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Christopher J Gregory (2019-12-20). [Comment] Balancing sensitivity and specificity of Zika virus case definitions. thelancet.com In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Raquel Burger-Calderon and colleagues1 characterise the clinical profile of Zika virus infection and assess the performance of WHO and Pan American Health Organization case definitions in a large paediatric cohort from Nicaragua. They show that Zika disease primarily manifests with undifferentiated fever or afebrile rash, and that the occurrence of symptoms increases with age. As a result, Zika in children is likely to be missed by recommended case definitions more frequently than in adults.

2020-03-24: Social Media Postees

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Trump continues to spend billions on border wall construction amid coronavirus pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-24
Rather than marshal all available resources to fight the pandemic, huge sums of money are being directed to construct of 150 miles of border wall in Arizona, New Mexico and California.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/24/bord-m24.html

Honduras's Deadly Water Wars
Jared Olson | thenation.com | 2020-03-24
Honduras's Deadly Water Wars…
thenation.com/article/world/honduras-mine-conflict/

Long Road To Justice: CIA's Allies In Guatemala On Trial For Indigenous Tribes Genocide
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-24
During the Cold War the CIA was obsessed with keeping communism out of Latin America. In the 1970s and 1980s the agency backed right-wing regimes in Guatemala which carried out genocidal attacks in indigenous groups which supported left-wing rebels.
sputniknews.com/world/202003241078689975-long-road-to-justice-cias-allies-inguatemala-on-trial-for-indigenous-tribes-genocide/

El Salvador: First Covid-19 Quarantine Arrests Announced
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-23
Journalists and human rights activists from El Salvador have announced more than 250 arrests after official Nayib Bikele, Salvadorean President, decreed an official quarantine. | RELATED: | Salvadoran Assembly Passes Law of Reconciliation | Between other measures to restrain Covid-19, only one member per family could buy supplies like food or medicines. Also, only public servants who are related to food delivery, transportation, and other basic services are allowed to go out. | In the first…
telesurenglish.net/news/–el-salvador-covid19-quarantine-arrests-denounced-20200323-0001.html

As White House Contemplates Coronavirus Asylum Ban, Hate Groups Urge Trump to Seize the Moment
Michael Edison Hayden and Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2020-03-20
The Trump administration took steps to block asylum seekers from entering the U.S.-Mexico border amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This nativist policy course has been pushed by anti-immigrant pundits and hate groups from the time the crisis started to unfold.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/23/white-house-contemplates-coronavirus-asylum-ban-hate-groups-urge-trump-seize-moment

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/