Daily Archives: April 1, 2021

2021-04-01: News Headlines

Eduardo Ibarra Aguirre (2021-04-01). México — De antígenos, vacaciones y pronósticos. globalizacion.ca Seis semanas de baja en las tendencias en todos los renglones que se miden desde hace un año en relación al SARS-CoV-2, virus que genera la enfermedad covid-19, pero dentro de la llamada segunda ola aunque algunos países se encuentran…

Sameena Rahman (2021-04-01). Life in prison: New York trial exposes alliance between U.S. government, right wing drug kingpin. liberationnews.org The United States claims to be waging a "war on drugs" internationally, but is perfectly content to ally itself with drug kingpins if they agree to submit to Washington's dictates.

teleSUR (2021-04-01). Mexico: President AMLO Rejects US Report on Press Freedom. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday condemned a recent report by the U.S. Department of State (DoS) that pointed out lack of press freedom in the country. | RELATED: | "We do not give our opinion on human rights violations in the U.S. We are respectful. We cannot comment on what happens in another country," AMLO said. | The report accused the state-owned news agency NOTIMEX Director Sanjuan…

_____ (2021-04-01). Nicaragua And The Western Human Rights Industry. popularresistance.org Every area of reporting has become increasingly shaped by corporate funding either directly or else indirectly, via government bodies strongly under corporate influence. The Western intellectual managerial classes have generally abandoned basic reporting standards. This is self-evident to anyone who has tried to challenge false received wisdom in relation to NATO country aggression against sovereign nations from Cuba and Venezuela to Libya and Syria. | Western organizations and institutions claiming to be accountable and transparent are not — neither UN bodies nor regional institutions like the Organization…

Ricardo Orozco (2021-04-01). México — MORENA: Notas sobre el partido y sus afrentas. globalizacion.ca En la medida en que los comicios más grandes en la historia del México contemporáneo se aproximan, la disputa política entre el Instituto Nacional Electoral, por un lado; y el partido político con representación legislativa mayoritaria en el Congreso General,…

teleSUR (2021-04-01). Panama Detects Nine Cases of Brazilian COVID-19 Strains. telesurenglish.net Panama's Gorgas Memorial Institute Director Juan Pascale confirmed nine patients with the SARS-CoV-2 strains originated in Brazil. | RELATED: | The P.1. and P.2. strains have been detected in community transmission cases in San Francisco, Don Bosco, Parque Lefevre, and San Miguelito. | The Health Ministry warned that the P.1. variant is the most contagious and reduces vaccines' effectiveness by 30 percent. | At least two patients with these strain…

Aviva Chomsky (2021-04-01). Biden's Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen. thenation.com Biden's Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen…

Manuel Pérez Rocha Loyo (2021-04-01). México — La Cuarta Transformación y los derechos de los inversionistas extranjeros. globalizacion.ca Si la 4T desea sacudirse el yugo del neoliberalismo y reclamar la soberanía nacional, que mire a Pakistán. Ese país asiático está por derogar la mayoría de sus tratados bilaterales de inversiones (TBI), que lo atan de manos para el…

RT (2021-04-01). Got to bee kidding me: Shopper's car hijacked by 15,000-strong swarm during 10-min shopping trip (PHOTOS). rt.com Firefighters can sometimes be called upon to rescue cats stranded in trees but one off-duty ladderman went above and beyond the call when he removed a massive swarm of bees which had hijacked a man's car. | The incident took place at the Albertsons supermarket on Sunday, March 28 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. One hapless shopper had ducked inside to pick up some groceries and, 10 minutes later, he found quite a few more new occupants of the car he had borrowed from a friend than he anticipated, as photos from the scene show. | www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2956398727965999&id=1674411762831375&

Raul Diego (2021-03-31). Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Carry the Carrot and Stick in Central America. mintpressnews.com WASHINGTON — The White House

Eds. (2021-03-31). A message of love and life from Cuba to Mexico. mronline.org President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez notes the impressive work of the third group of medical professionals from the Henry Reeve Contingent returning from Mexico, after joining the COVID-19 battle there. | March 31, 2021 | Newswire…

teleSUR (2021-03-31). Mexico: Pre-Pandemic Economy Recovery by Beginnings of 2022. telesurenglish.net Mexico's authorities estimate that the economy might reach pre-pandemic levels within a year, the Ministry of Finance reported on Wednesday. | RELATED: | The country has faced its deepest recession since 1930 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the economy seems to be recovering quickly since the Ministry upgraded its forecast from a 4.6 percent growth to 5.3 percent in 2021. | Actualmente gastamos más de 470 mil…

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-03-31). Protests break out after femicide of Salvadoran migrant Victoria Salazar in Mexico. peoplesdispatch.org Several national and international feminist groups and human rights organizations have condemned Victoria Salazar's murder as well as the racist, classist, misogynist and xenophobic discrimination that reigns in Mexico…

W. T. Whitney (2021-03-31). Stopgap Methods Won't Fix Migration Challenge. counterpunch.org The continuing press of migrants from Mexico and Central America arriving at the U.S. southern border has forced the Biden administration to send Vice President Kamala Harris south on a negotiating mission. According to The New York Times, "She will work with the leaders of Central American governments." Armed with "billions of dollars," she will seek collaboration in "reducing the violence and poverty" that predispose to migration.

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