Daily Archives: December 29, 2020

2020-12-29: News Headlines

Ralph Nader (2020-12-29). Recidivist Criminal and Constitutional Outlaw Trump Rushes to Pardon Criminal Lawbreakers. counterpunch.org Serial lawbreaker Donald J. Trump is embarking on the most sordid presidential pardon spree in American history. He has already pardoned convicted crooks, thieves, and violent outlaws. Trump's pardon lawyers are frantically assembling more MAGA besotted individuals and groups to be pardoned wholesale. The number may climb into the hundreds. The queue is long. Trump

Prensa Latina (2020-12-29). Cuban doctors will begin treating COVID-19 patients in Panama. mronline.org The dozen of Cuban medical brigades recently arrived in Panama will be deployed to the places assigned to fight COVID-19.

teleSUR (2020-12-28). Mexico Not Not Grant Long-Term Contracts for Oil Import-Exports. telesurenglish.net Mexico's Energy Ministry (Sener) on Monday announced that it will no longer allow 20-year import-export contracts that were granted to oil enterprises. | RELATED: | Contracts will only be granted for up to five years and will be conferred in accordance with policy objectives such as energy security and sovereignty. | Sener's new guidelines establish that a five-year authorization may be extended again for the same…

Danica Jorden (2020-12-28). Honduras: Caravan of the Damned. zcomm.org Over 500 people who lost everything in Hurricanes Eta and Iota set out from the San Pedro Sula bus station on Thursday, December 10, 2020…

Hugo Turner (2020-12-27). Guatemala: War and Revolution. globalresearch.ca The CIA coup to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 would put the nation of Guatemala on the path to a nightmare future of poverty, war, and genocide. The United States would reshape Guatemala's intelligence military and police to fight a …

C.M. Lewis (2020-12-27). The Stunning Workers' Victory in New Mexico That You Haven't Heard About. zcomm.org New Mexico made it way easier for workers to form a union. Here's what it means…

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…

John Horning (2020-12-25). Oil and Gas is Costing New Mexico Dearly. counterpunch.org There's no denying the climate crisis is taking a terrible toll on New Mexico, putting the state's health, clean air and water, and its economic sustainability at risk. In spite of this, oil and gas industry lobbyists from Washington, D.C. would have us believe that anyone working to defend the climate and protect the state's

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 . . . |