(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…
(2020-04-20). El Salvador: Bukele Imposes Total Closure of Municipality. telesurenglish.net 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: "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…
(2020-04-20). Guatemala: Discrimination Against Domestic Workers Rises. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…
(2020-04-20). Workers strike across Ciudad Juárez, Mexico amid increase in COVID-19 deaths in factories. wsws.org 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.
(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…
(2020-04-19). Love Thy Neighbor: One Woman's Fight for Her Husband. dissidentvoice.org 
Aspire not to have more, but to be more. — Oscar Romero Counting your lucky stars is many times a matter of perspective. I am so honored to have traveled to El Salvador in 1984. I was not happy with the death and destruction I witnessed. I met beautiful people there. However, there was rampant …
(2020-04-19). Cuban Doctors Arrive in Honduras to Fight COVID-19. telesurenglish.net 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: | "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…
(2020-04-18). Mexico Prohibits Cremation of People Killed by COVID-19. telesurenglish.net Mexico's RELATED: | This decision obeys the Law on the Forced Disappearance and Search of Persons, which establishes that "corpses or remains of persons…
(2020-04-17). The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries. counterpunch.org 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.
(2020-04-16). Headlines for April 16, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Pushes to Reopen Economy by May as Doctors and CEOs Object, 22 Million U.S. Workers File for Unemployment in Just Four Weeks, Tax Loopholes in Coronavirus Relief Bill to Overwhelmingly Benefit the Wealthiest, New York Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 11,500 as Governor Orders Wearing of Masks in Public, Medical Workers Demand More Safety Measures as COVID-19 Deaths Mount, Michigan Protesters Defy Social Distancing Rules, Demanding End to Quarantine, Mexico Faces Shortage of Medical Workers as COVID-19 Spreads, French Aircraft Carrier Evacuated as Nearly 700 Sailors Test Positive for COVID-19, Swedish COVID-19 Ca…
(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,…
(2020-04-08). Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages. thegrayzone.com Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
(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"