(2021-04-21). Manifest Destiny? U.S. Immigration 'Crisis' a Bipartisan Toxic Legacy. strategic-culture.org Migration is here to stay regardless of fences or chicken coops used for vetting migrants as labor, and the corruption of gangsterism will continue to normalize itself with the U.S. corporatist state. | Since Joe Biden took over the White House nearly three months ago, a recurring controversy dogging his administration is the plight of migrants crossing the southern border from Mexico. In the following interview, Randy Martin gives his take on the subject as a seasoned observer and campaigner based near the border. He says much of the political heat on the subject recently is being generated by the bitterly divis…
(2021-04-21). China, Mexico pledge enhanced cooperation to promote ties. ecns.cn China's top legislator Li Zhanshu on Tuesday held talks via video link with Oscar Eduardo Ramirez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico's Senate, and both sides pledged enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations.
(2021-04-20). Panama: Activists Reject Non-Guilty Verdict for Lawmaker Arias. telesurenglish.net Protesters took to the streets in Panama to reject a Supreme Court's rule exonerating Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) lawmaker Arquesio Arias over the crime of rape and aggravated lewd acts against two women. | RELATED: | On Monday, women's rights activists gathered at the Parliament headquarters to demand justice shouting "violator" and "we are tired of corruption." | "We are tired of impunity, of abusers a…
(2021-04-20). Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims. orinocotribune.com 
By Whitney Webb — Apr 16, 2021 | The Biden administration is now housing unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in Texas and California. Some of these bases have been plagued for years by record sexual abuse claims, one with the highest in the nation. All of them suffer from dangerous environmental contamination. | Over the first few months of 2021, the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border has exploded. Due to the policies of the Obama, Trump and now Biden administrations, many of those migrants, particularly unaccompanied minors, remain housed in increasingly controversial "overflow facilities."
(2021-04-20). UNICEF reports sharp rise in migrant children in Mexico. news.un.org The number of migrant children reported in Mexico has increased sharply, jumping from 380 to nearly 3,500 since the beginning of the year: a nine-fold rise, the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, reported on Tuesday.
(2021-04-20). AMLO Gets Vaccinated: 'It Protects Us All'. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. | At the end of his daily morning news conference, Lopez Obrador removed his suit jacket and a military nurse administered the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in his left arm. | RELATED: | "It doesn't hurt, it helps a lot and it protects us all," he said. "And once again I am calling on the elderly so…
(2021-04-20). Dominican Republic & Guatemala Label COVAX Facility 'A Failure'. telesurenglish.net Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei and The Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader on Tuesday described as a "failure" the fund for the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility. | RELATED: | "The vaccine delivery system promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) is inefficient," Gianmmattei stressed during his speech at the Ibero-American Business Meeting in Andorra. | He also called it irrespons…
(2021-04-20). Atlantic Hurricane Season to Be Above Average This Year. telesurenglish.net The Colorado State University (CSU) forecasts an "above-average" 2021 Atlantic hurricane season due to favorable temperatures in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. | RELATED: | The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team predicted 17 named storms during the upcoming hurricane season lasting from June 1st until November 30th. At least eight of these storms might become hurricanes, and four of them could develop into a…
(2021-04-20). México — Los avances agroecológicos de la Cuarta Transformación. globalizacion.ca El 8 de septiembre de 2016 fue un día trágico. Ese día Enrique Peña Nieto, presidente del país, declaró glamoroso en un evento masivo que él era un consumidor cotidiano de la Coca Cola. Sus palabras fueron festejadas con aplausos…
(2021-04-20). Nicaragua's Exports Grow 12.8% in 2021 First Quarter. telesurenglish.net Nicaragua's Finance Minister Ivan Acosta confirmed good economic performance in the first quarter of this year after his country registered a 12.8 percent growth in its total exports. | RELATED: | He also pointed out that the Central Bank's international reserves were reaching historic numbers at around US$3.3 billion, which represents a US$600 million increase compared to March 2018. | Furthermore, public invest…