Daily Archives: December 26, 2020

2020-12-26: News Headlines

Online News Editor (2020-12-26). Internationally acclaimed activist fears for Mexico's environment. laprensalatina.com By Sergio Adrian Angeles Queretaro, Mexico, Dec 25 (efe-epa).- Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo, proclaimed "Mexico's Hero" by Global Citizen for her tireless defense of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, tells Efe that she is deeply concerned about the health of the environment in her country. At 67, she continues directing the organization she founded …

_____ (2020-12-25). 2020 Latin America And The Caribbean Tn Review: The Pink Tide May Rise Again. popularresistance.org The balance between the US drive to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, tipped portside by year end 2020 with major popular victories, including reversal of the coup in Bolivia and the constitutional referendum in Chile. Central has been the persistence of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution against the asphyxiating US blockade, along with the defiance by Cuba and Nicaragua of US regime-change measures. | The grand struggle played out against the backdrop of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, impacting countries differently depen…

teleSUR (2020-12-25). Salvadorans Reject Bukele's Delegitimizing Speech in El Mozote. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's human rights defenders Thursday rejected the delegitimizing speech President Nayib Bukele gave last week in El Mozote, scene of the largest massacre that occurred during the Salvadoran war (1980-1992). | RELATED: | He presented his government as the only one interested in clarifying the events in El Mozote, where 986 people, including 558 children, were murdered in 1981. | "I am angry that El Mozote i…

A Guest Author (2020-12-25). U.S. attempts 'soft coup' in Cuba. workers.org By Rosa Miriam Elizalde From Resumen English Dec. 10 ‚àí Invasions get bad press — those close-ups of foreign boots marching over a beach or a neighborhood like El Chorrillo in Panama in 1989, where they still don't know the total number of people who the U.S. troops killed. After . . . |

Vijay Prashad (2020-12-24). Colombia's President shows his disdain for democracy and Venezuelans. mronline.org On December 8, a Conviasa flight prepared to take off from Caracas, Venezuela, for Mexico City. It planned to carry 200 election observers and journalists who came to Venezuela from a range of countries to monitor the National Assembly elections that were held on December 6.

WSWS (2020-12-23). Death toll rises to 11 at General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico. wsws.org José Luis H., who worked in the plant's car body area, was the last confirmed death, on December 19. The plant's Human Resources manager, who had overseen the firing of workers for challenging the lack of protections against COVID-19, also died earlier this month.

Orinoco Tribune (2020-12-23). US Attack: Treasury Department Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba and Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca The US imposed sanctions on three Cuban entities and three Nicaraguan citizens, the US Treasury Department reported today. | The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department sanctioned the Cuban companies Grupo de Administración Empresarial, Financiera Cimex and Kave …