2023-05-23: News Headlines

Marc Steiner, Bret Gustafson (2023-05-23). 'For us, extractivism is lethal': The ongoing colonial violence of resource extraction in Latin America. therealnews.com From the defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, and the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, to the historic election of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and the return of Lula in Brazil, left-leaning governments are changing the political landscape of Latin America. However, even more progressive parties and ruling coalitions have failed to rein in the violence of the resource extraction economy and the domineering power of international capital flowing through mining, drilling, and deforestation operations across the hemisphere. Indigenous and environmenta…

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Director Of TeleSur To Receive Journalism Award In Honduras. telesurenglish.net Patricia Villegas, Colombian journalist and director of the TeleSUR network, will receive this Wednesday, May 24, one of the "Mártires de la Resistencia" journalism awards from the hands of the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro. | Related: | During the gala, Villegas will receive the "Wendy àÅvila" award, in honor of the young woman who dedicated herself to the struggle against the coup d'état against Manuel Zelaya…

Janice Rothstein (2023-05-22). De cómo una marimba me dio una lección de patrimonio cultural. peoplesworld.org °La cultura de la gente importa! Y necesita la protección del pueblo. La primera vez que aprendí esto fue en la Nicaragua sandinista de la década de 1980, pero es universal, incluso aquí en los EE. UU. Fue en la década de 1980 cuando estaba tratando de traer una marimba de madera casera de Nicaragua …

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Mexico: Work Visa Program to Be Presented for Central Americans. telesurenglish.net On Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that a program will be presented by Mexico this week, aimed at offering temporary visas to Central Americans. These visas will permit them to work on public infrastructure projects within the country. | Related: | During his routine press briefing, López Obrador emphasized that the implementation of these projects necessitates a larger workforce, consi…

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-05-23). Cubans in Belize recall international medical aid's 60th anniversary. plenglish.com Belmopan, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuban health collaborators in Belize, headed by their Embassy in this country, on Tuesday recalled the first time Cuban physicians and nurses rendered their services to other countries 60 years ago.

teleSUR- hvh, JCM (2023-05-23). ONU rechaza renovación del régimen de excepción en El Salvador. telesurtv.net "El gobierno no puede pisotear el derecho a un juicio justo en nombre de la seguridad pública", señaló el informe.

Daniel Kersffeld (2023-05-23). Ucrania intenta una contraofensiva política en Latinoamérica. globalizacion.ca Con la presentación del canciller Dmitró Kuleba, invitado estelar de la IXa Cumbre de Jefes de Estados y/o Gobierno de la Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC), realizada en Guatemala del 8 al 12 de mayo, comenzó formalmente la contraofensiva…

Fight Back (2023-05-23). FRSO Political Program now available in Spanish. fightbacknews.org The Spanish translation of the political program of Freedom Road Socialist Organization is now available as a paperback book. We hope that this new translation will help to bring revolutionary ideas to a wider audience, including the Chicano liberation and immigrant rights movement. | FRSO is an organization that recognizes the existence of the Chicano nation of Aztlán and sees its struggle for liberation as an important part of our strategy for revolution in the United States. The introduction to our program states, | "In 1846, the U.S. launched a war that resulted in the theft of northern Mexico and the exten…

Gerardo Villagrán del Corral (2023-05-23). øPara quién espía en México el software espía israelí Pegasus? globalizacion.ca El subsecretario de Derechos Humanos, Población y Migración de la Secretaría mexicana de Gobernación, Alejandro Encinas, fue espiado en repetidas ocasiones: su teléfono celular fue infectado varias veces con el software espía israelí Pegasus, incluso el año pasado, cuando estaba…

Final Straw (2023-05-23). Final Straw: Mutual Aid At The Border in Tijuana with El Comedor. itsgoingdown.org Long-running anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw speaks with El Comedor, an anarchist mutual aid project based out of Tijuana, Mexico. Listen and Download HERE This week, we're sharing a recent chat with Devi Machete, an anarchist involved in the Tijuana mutual aid project known as Contra Viento y Marea Comedor which distributes…

teleSUR, SH (2023-05-23). Expiden nueva orden contra exsecretario de Seguridad de México. telesurtv.net La FGR señaló que García Luna y sus socios obtuvieron recursos a través de 10 contratos irregulares por 285 millones de dólares.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-05-23). Más de 41 mil migrantes deportados por EE.UU. y México en 2023. telesurtv.net En los primeros tres meses de 2023 se registraron 11.557 casos menos que los 52.925 deportados contabilizados en igual etapa de 2022.

Victor M. Toledo, Resilience. (2023-05-23). Community Radio And Social Power. popularresistance.org If we are facing a crisis of civilization and therefore need a civilizational transformation, a total paradigm shift, then everything that decentralizes, localizes, makes society horizontal and empowers must be disseminated and celebrated. | We are talking about amplifying social power in the face of economic (capital) and political (State) powers, since social power is the only way to overcome the tremendous social and environmental crisis that humanity is suffering today. | Participatory communication is one of the phenomena that has grown exponentially not only in Mexico, but in much of the world. If the Inter…

teleSUR (2023-05-22). AMLO 'Persona Non Grata' – Peruvian Congress Commission. telesurenglish.net The Foreign Relations Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved on Monday the motion declaring Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 'persona non grata.' | RELATED: | "With 11 votes in favor, the Foreign Relations Commission approved the motion that rejects the statements of the president of Mexico, Andres López Obrador, and declares him persona non grata," the Congress said via Twitter. | It added that…

Alasdair Baverstock (2023-05-22). Mexico to increase semiconductor manufacturing. america.cgtn.com During the COVID-19 pandemic, semiconductor chips were negatively impacted causing a global shortage in supply chains for electronics.

teleSUR (2023-05-22). Panama: Former President Martinelli to Be Prosecuted on Tuesday. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Judge Baloisa Marquinez is expected to set up the "New Business" hearing, in which former President Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) and 20 others will be tried for the purchase of a media publisher with public funds. | RELATED: | The trial hearing should have been installed on April 17. On that occasion, however, the defense managed to postpone the hearing in a case whose trial was called in December 2022.

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