Daily Archives: June 18, 2023

2023-06-18: News Headlines

teleSUR, nama, YSM (2023-06-17). Declaran alerta roja por sequía en 140 municipios de Honduras. telesurtv.net El Niño ocasionará escasez de lluvias, sobre todo en junio y julio, lo que afectará al centro y sur de Honduras.

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-06-17). Asesinan a otro líder ambientalista de Guapinol, Honduras. telesurtv.net El hecho ocurrió sobre las 10H30 (hora local) cuando dos hombres armados ingresaron a la vivienda de Domínguez.

John Perry (2023-06-18). Masaya in Flames — Five Years Afterwards. orinocotribune.com By John Perry — Jun 15, 2023 | During the attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018, Masaya was one of the cities most affected by the violence and by the widespread use of roadblocks to control the streets, many manned by armed youths. The violence began on April 18 and lasted until July 17, when police and Sandinista volunteers moved in to clear the roadblocks. Overall, in Masaya some 36 people died during the coup attempt, including three police officers (and two more were trapped and murdered after the coup attempt ended). Randall, the subject of this article, lives in Monimbó, the neighborhood or "barrio" whe…

John Perry, The Grayzone. (2023-06-17). Nicaragua Rebuilds: Five Years After US-Funded Terror Was Defeated. popularresistance.org Masaya, Nicaragua — The story begins a month before the incident I'm about to describe. I live in the city, and I'd written in my diary that "Saturday, May 12th must be counted as the worst day in Masaya since the earthquake in 2000." | During the previous night, opposition vandals had destroyed the house of the former deputy mayor, then went on to set fire to the town hall, an old colonial building that also housed Masaya's Museum of the Heroes and Martyrs of the Revolution. Opposition roadblocks which had sprung up in Masaya's streets in April had been cleared in early May, often by local people, but they…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-17). El Salvador week with Central American games and twisted politics. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) The week that ends today in El Salvador was colored by the final offensive to guarantee the 24th Central American and Caribbean Games, and the crooked policies that cast a shadow over the 2024 presidential elections.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-17). Armed group captured in El Salvador. plenglish.com A message on social networks from the Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, indicated that the group of five men was seized during the police operation on the Tepecoyo highway, La Libertad, with three firearms, four cell phones, the vehicle in which they were transported, and five thousand dollars in cash. | Villatoro published photographs of the detainees and the intervention of the vehicle, accusing the individuals of being "remnants of an armed group in Tepecoyo", linked to the Mara Salvatrucha MS 13. | The captured subjects profile as active members of the MS13 gang, they will be prosecuted in…

teleSUR- hvh, DRL (2023-06-17). Asesinan a fiscal de mesa electoral en Guatemala. telesurtv.net La fiscal fue asesinada junto a su esposo tras haber asistido a una reunión de capacitación de fiscales de mesa.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-18). Third heat wave in Mexico of over 40 degrees and nine deaths. plenglish.com Mexico City, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) The third heat wave in Mexico continues without giving way to the typical coolness so longed for now in the country, and maintains temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius in 23 states with nine deaths.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-06-18). López Obrador viajará a Chile para homenaje a Salvador Allende. telesurtv.net A principios de 2023, López Obrador dio a conocer que preparaba una gira por América del Sur, que, además de Chile, contempla estancias en Colombia, Brasil y Argentina.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-06-18). Sube a 9 número de fallecidos por ola de calor en México. telesurtv.net El secretario de Salud del nororiental estado de Tamaulipas, Vicente Joel Hernández Navarro, señaló que un campesino de 61 años murió por la ola de elevado calor.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-06-17). Union triumph overhauls Mexican billionaire Larrea mines. plenglish.com Mexico City, Jun 17 (Prensa Latina) Today, union leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia described the United States demanding the Mexican government review of the San Martín mine owned by billionaire businessman Germán Larrea as a "great triumph" for the mining union.

Phoebe Ashley-Norman, Jessamy Bagenal (2023-06-17). Perspectives] Political complicity in junk food industry tactics. thelancet.com Fear and opportunity partly underpin the tactics of the beverage and food industries. Sales of sugar-sweetened beverages, for instance, have fallen by about 25% during the past 20 years in many high-income countries (HICs). To counteract such a decrease in sales in HICs, companies have focused their attention on opportunities in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is the backdrop to Eduardo J Gómez's compelling book Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies, which looks at six country case studies from China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and S…

teleSUR, dcdc -DRL (2023-06-17). Acaban partido de fútbol México – EE.UU. por gritos homofóbicos. telesurtv.net La Concacaf asegura que este comportamiento ha sido "durante mucho tiempo un problema para la Federación Mexicana de Fútbol, que ha sido multada en repetidas ocasiones".

teleSUR, nama, YSM (2023-06-17). Asciende a ocho cifra de muertos por ola de calor en México. telesurtv.net La Secretaría de Salud detalló que del 3 al 10 de junio se notificaron 69 golpes de calor por temperaturas extremas.

Shawn Yuan (2023-06-17). World Report] Migration needs are increasing at the Darién Gap. thelancet.com More people than ever are attempting the dangerous land crossing from Colombia to Panama, increasing the need for medical care. Shawn Yuan reports from Panama.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-06-17). Panama reports over 2,000 dengue cases. plenglish.com According to the Health Ministry (MINSA), 233 patients have showed warning symptoms and seven were reported as seriously-ill. | MNSA ¥s report stated that out of the total number of dengue cases, 1,060 are women and 998 are men. | Among regions most hit are Colon (east) and Bocas del Toro (west); in addition to the metropolitan region of Panama city, the district of San Miguelito and Panama West and Panama North. MINSA reiterated its call to the population to keep their homes and workplaces clean; check the screens of doors, windows and look under the sinks, as these are sites where dengue-transmitting mosqui…

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