_____ (2021-03-27). New Global Alliance Defends UN Charter. popularresistance.org A new alliance called the "Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations" has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners. Representatives of the alliance reside fully in the Global South. Nations spearheading the initiative include the DPRK, Iran, Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent, and the Grenadines, Syria, Venezuela, and Palestine in addition to the largest of the developing countries, Russia and China.
teleSUR (2021-03-26). Argentina Forbids Flights From Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. telesurenglish.net Argentina's Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero on Thursday announced the suspension of flights from Brazil, Mexico, and Chile starting on Saturday. | RELATED: | The decision seeks to avoid a COVID-19 surge by containing the circulation of new strains, one of which is the P.1 variant originated in Manaus, Brazil. | Argentines returning from abroad will get tested for COVID-19 on three occasions. People who test positive will have to un…
teleSUR (2021-03-26). Globalink | Could VP Harris Solve Biden's Border Crisis?>. telesurenglish.net More unaccompanied children at the US-Mexico border, increasing COVID19 infections … Turning a blind eye to the Human Rights issues, Democrats and Republicans are wrangling over who is to blame for the problems.
_____ (2021-03-26). Nicaragua Rebuffs Attacks At Human Rights Hearing. popularresistance.org Nicaragua was one of the first countries in Latin America to give constitutional rights to its | Indigenous peoples and its laws to protect their territories are justly famous (especially the | Autonomy Law of 1986 and the Demarcation Law of 2003). Some 40,000 Indigenous families live in | areas that are legally owned and administered by over 300 Indigenous communities, covering almost | a third of the country. Governmental recognition of land rights was the first step in tackling | incursions by non-Indigenous settlers from western Nicaragua and the violent conflicts they | sometimes produce.
WSWS (2021-03-26). US officials visit Mexico to organize intensified assault on asylum seekers. wsws.org The essence of the measures is to tighten the US imperialist stranglehold over Central America, which has been the main historic cause of the poverty and violence underlying mass migration.
teleSUR (2021-03-26). El Salvador Tightens Penalties for Illegal Migration Promoters. telesurenglish.net El Salvador's Congress on Thursday approved a law against human trafficking, which increases aggravating circumstances and penalties for this crime. | RELATED: | The new norm applies to people who use communication technologies to promote migration evading migratory controls. | It also increases the penalties to up to 12 years of imprisonment and authorizes the closing of organizations or companies promoting this offense. | Ag…
teleSUR (2021-03-26). Globalink | Guatemala's Airport Remains Closed Due To Volcanic Ash. telesurenglish.net The Pacaya volcano in Guatemala has been erupting for weeks. The local airport remained close due to strong volcanic ash.
RT (2021-03-26). Plain sailing for meme-makers: Jokes flood in as 'Ever Given' re-float in Suez Canal FAILS and more tugboats called in. rt.com 
Memes based on the awkward situation in which the 'Ever Given' cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal finds itself continue to flood the internet, as efforts to re-float the vessel fail and more tugboats are called in to help. | The Panama-flagged container ship became lodged sideways in the canal — one of the world's busiest shipping lanes — on Tuesday, after it veered off course in high winds. | However, efforts to re-float the vessel on Friday were "not successful," and two tugs will now arrive to assist on Sunday, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, which manages the ship, said in a statement. | Also on…
Staff (2021-03-26). Headlines for March 26, 2021. democracynow.org Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Sweeping Bill to Suppress African American Vote , Georgia Lawmaker Arrested on Felony Charges for Knocking on Governor's Office Door in Protest, President Biden Says U.S. Unlikely to Honor May 1 Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline, U.S. COVID-19 Cases Rise as Biden Doubles Vaccine Goal to 200 Million Shots in 100 Days, Mexico's Official COVID-19 Death Toll Tops 200,000; True Toll Could Be 50% Higher , ISIS-Linked Prisoners in Syria Face Conditions That Amount to Torture, Says Human Rights Watch , Netanyahu Fails to Clinch Israeli Election as Extreme-Right Party Gains Seats, Suez Canal Bl…
Mouris Salloum George (2021-03-26). México — Otra reunión en la cumbre, para acabar como el parto de los montes. globalizacion.ca Todo estaba preparado para una reunión concluyente con los gobernadores en Palacio Nacional. ‚Äé Se trataba de firmar un Acuerdo Nacional para la Democracia, en el que los principales actores del proceso electoral, del lado del gobierno, se comprometieran, bajo…
teleSUR (2021-03-26). Mexico Closes Chichén Itzá Over Masks-Less Tourists. telesurenglish.net Mexican authorities warned on Friday that tourists in the Yucatan Peninsula refuse to wear face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This as the region prepares for a surge of visitors in the coming weeks. | RELATED: | According to the acting police chief of Quintana Roo Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez tourists are the most undisciplined individuals. "It was truly frustrating to see hundreds of people walking around without…
MEE staff (2021-03-26). Suez Canal: US navy to assist with freeing ship stuck in critical waterway. middleeasteye.net 
Suez Canal: US navy to assist with freeing ship stuck in critical waterway | Assessment team expected on Saturday to advise authorities on freeing the stuck container ship, CNN reports | Fri, 03/26/2021 – 17: 45 | Rescue teams have been working for days to dislodge the Panama-flagged ship by removing sand and mud from around the port side of the vessel's bow (AFP photo/HO/Suez Canal) | The US navy plans to ass…
teleSUR (2021-03-25). Bolivia and Mexico Align Positions on the OAS. telesurenglish.net A joint statement by the presidents of Mexico, Andrés M. López Obrador, and Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, expresses, concerning the Organization of American States (OAS), that they "will not tolerate interference in internal affairs." | The position of both presidents came on the occasion of the official visit that Arce has been making since yesterday to Mexico and in which the role played by the OAS—especially its Secretary-General, Luis Almagro, who has been accused of contributing to the political and social crisis which led to the coup against the then Bolivian president Evo Morales—emerged.
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2021-03-25). For Sunday Shows, Border Is 'Political Crisis,' Not Humanitarian Emergency. fair.org 
Increasing numbers of migrants are attempting to cross the US/Mexico border, and unaccompanied children and teenagers are exceeding the capacities of government-run detention facilities. The right has declared a crisis, and national corporate media have largely followed suit. Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas appeared on five of the six Sunday Beltway talk …
Carmen Rodríguez (2021-03-25). Government-Inspired Attacks on Female Journalists in El Salvador are Increasing. counterpunch.org Journalism in El Salvador is experiencing levels of hostility not seen since the 80's, during the country's bloody civil war. Threats, persecution, and false accusations against journalists are increasing in a country that paid for its young and fragile democracy with over 75 thousand lives. For the first time in the 29 years since the
RT (2021-03-25). Thought double face masks & goggles were enough? Enter NOSE MASKS. rt.com 
Mexican researchers have solved the problem of eating and drinking while keeping the mouth-space hermetically sealed against viral contamination. A new mask design blocks nasal exhalation, supposedly saving the wearer and others. | Restaurant patrons thoughtlessly breathing out while unmasked have long been the bane of the restaurant owner's existence, preventing the once-lucrative establishments from returning to their status as the social hubs they were once considered prior to the onset of the 'new normal.' | But with the arrival of Covid-19, no face mask was considered protective enough — stores even…
Suez Canal: Egyptians in neglected village thrust into limelight by ship crisis | Residents of Manshiyet al-Rugola have struggled for years as the world's wealth passed them by. Now the Ever Given has put them on the map | Mon, 03/29/2021 – 09: 16 | A farm vehicle is seen in a field as the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' is lodged behind it impeding traffic across Egypt's Suez Canal on 2…
