Daily Archives: April 1, 2023

2023-04-01: News Headlines

teleSUR, lss, JDO (2023-04-01). Defienden en Honduras transición energética a favor de las mayorías. telesurtv.net Sesiona en Tegucigalpa el Seminario Internacional "Las alternativas populares de energía: un reto posible para la Transición Energética Justa".

El Faro English (2023-03-31). Taiwan Jilted by Central America. latinorebels.com The president of Taiwan traveled today to Guatemala to shore up its last allies in the isthmus after Honduras decided to shift its support to China earlier this month. While the U.S. warns of Beijing's growing influence in Central America, the region is not buying the Cold War framing.

Javier Suazo (2023-03-31). Honduras-China: No hay marcha atrás. globalizacion.ca Los países de la región centroamericana le apostaron a un tratado de libre comercio con EEUU, el RD-CAFTA, pero todo parece indicar que también le apostarán a tratados bilaterales de comercio con China, aunque el objetivo estratégico buscado no sea…

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-03-31). Presidenta de Honduras realizará visita oficial a China. telesurtv.net El anuncio se produce cuatro días después de que Honduras estableciera lazos diplomáticos con el gigante asiático.

John Perry (2023-04-01). The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. covertactionmagazine.com Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," …

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition (2023-04-01). Expertos en derechos humanos piden la retirada de un informe sesgado de la ONU sobre Nicaragua. globalizacion.ca Alfred de Zayas, ex Experto Independiente de la ONU sobre el Orden Internacional, se unió a otros especialistas en derechos humanos para condenar un informe de "experto" sobre Nicaragua publicado el 2 de marzo por ser poco profesional, parcial, incompleto…

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Popular Resistance. (2023-03-31). Human Rights Experts Call For Withdrawal Of Biased UN Report. popularresistance.org Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, has joined other human rights specialists in condemning an "expert" report on Nicaragua published on March 2nd as being unprofessional, biased, incomplete and concocted to justify further coercive sanctions that will damage Nicaragua's economy. Such unilateral coercive measures have been condemned by the General Assembly year after year, most recently in Resolution 77/214 of December 2022 and by the Human Rights Council in Resolution 49/6. | The report, by a "group of experts" selected by the UN Human Rights Council, claims that Nicaragua's gov…

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition (2023-03-31). Human Rights Experts Call for Withdrawal of Biased UN Report on Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-03-31). Canciller nicaragàºense reafirma apoyo a la seguridad de Rusia. telesurtv.net Denis Moncada realiza visita de trabajo a la capital rusa, la cual se extenderá hasta este viernes.

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-01). Denuncian hostigamiento a defensores de DD.HH. en Guatemala. telesurtv.net Consideran que el Estado promueve la criminalización y la judicialización para acallar las voces contra el saqueo, la impunidad y la corrupción.

teleSUR, YSM (2023-04-01). Realizan la Huelga de Dolores en Guatemala. telesurtv.net A 125 años del primer desfile bufo del Viernes de Dolores, se celebró la tradición con carrozas y comparsas.

It's Going Down (2023-04-01). Mexico: Resistance and Repression in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. itsgoingdown.org The vultures of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and nation-states continue to circle over the Indigenous and campesino communities and lands of so-called southern Mexico. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the latest feeding ground. There, a multiplicity of national and international state and private interests seek the imposition by any means necessary of the Interoceanic Corridor of…

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-04-01). Arrestan a responsable de quemar un centro migratorio en México. telesurtv.net La funcionaria no reveló el nombre ni la nacionalidad del acusado de prender fuego a los colchones de la celda que compartía con 67 hombres más.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-01). Mexico's AMLO Calls Out US 'Oligarchy' At Biden's 'Democracy' Summit. popularresistance.org AMLO strongly implied that the United States is an oligarchy, not a real democracy. He argued that the government needs to challenge the power of the economic elites if it truly wants to be democratic. | López Obrador opened his speech warning, "Many of the great crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of God or in the name of democracy". | "In some countries, the oligarchy reigns with the faàßade of democracy", he said, not so subtly referencing his northern neighbor. | "How can we talk about democracy if there is no separation of economic power and political power?" AMLO asked. | He added…

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-03-31). US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling. nationofchange.org Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat."

Derrick Broze (2023-03-31). Mexico Battles U.S. Government and 'Mr. Monsanto' to Protect Food Sovereignty. thelastamericanvagabond.com Despite legal threats from the U.S. government, Mexico's government plans to go forward with a partial ban on imports of genetically modified corn. On Wednesday Mexico's National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) hosted an online webinar laying out the science behind the nation's decision to ban imports of Genetically Modified corn. The webinar itself

Diego Estebanez García (2023-03-31). The Fight of the Maya Against the Mayan Train in Mexico. latinorebels.com President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made completing the Mayan Train, a project that looks to connect parts of the Yucatán Peninsula and drive tourism in remote areas, has met with increasing resistance from the Indigenous people of the region.

The Associated Press (2023-03-31). Mexico: Arrest Orders Issued for 6 in Migrant Detention Center Fire. latinorebels.com A Mexican court issued arrest orders Thursday for six people in connection with the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility this week in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, according to the federal prosecutor leading the investigation.

teleSUR, rzr, SH (2023-04-01). Unicef alerta del aumento del paso de niños migrantes por Panamá. telesurtv.net En los dos primeros meses del año cruzaron la selva de Darién, con rumbo hacia Estados Unidos unos 9.700 infantes.

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