Monthly Archives: September 2023

2023-09-29: News Headlines

Editor (2023-09-29). Max Blumenthal: Where Did It All Go Wrong for the Internet? scheerpost.com

Jeunes anticapitalistes (2023-09-29). "The world needs to be aware that human rights are being trampled on in Nicaragua" internationalviewpoint.org "Denounce Ortega to international organizations. Call on human rights organizations. Drive support campaigns." | – | / |

Jeunes anticapitalistes (2023-09-28). "The world needs to be aware that human rights are being trampled on in Nicaragua" internationalviewpoint.org "Denounce Ortega to international organizations. Call on human rights organizations. Drive support campaigns." | – | / |

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). BRICS Expansion Indicates World Tired of US Hegemony – Nicaraguan Top Diplomat. sputnikglobe.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The expansion of BRICS indicates that the world is tired of US hegemony and imperialism, Nicaraguan Foreign Affairs Minister Denis Moncada told Sputnik.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-29). Canada Honoring Nazi Veteran Can Be Seen as 'State Crime' – Nicaragua. sputnikglobe.com UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The incident involving the honoring of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament can be viewed as a state crime, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada told Sputnik.

guest author (2023-09-30). 'Wuthering Heights' at four summits. workers.org A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. X: @sergioro0701 Translation: John Catalinotto. The title of this article alludes to an extraordinary . . . |

guest author (2023-09-29). Cuatro 'Cumbres borrascosas'. workers.org El autor es consultor y analista internacional venezolano, y fue Director de Relaciones Internacionales de la Presidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y Embajador de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en Nicaragua. El título de este artículo alude a una extraordinaria novela escrita por Emily Brontà´ a mediados del . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-28). Protests against mining concession given to Canadian company intensify in Panama. peoplesdispatch.org Since early August, Panamanian trade unions, Indigenous groups, and people's movements have been taking to the streets in different parts of the country in rejection of a concession contract signed in March between the government of President Laurentino Cortizo and Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of the Canadian multinational mining company First Quantum Minerals Limited. | The contract allows the mining company to continue operations at one of Central America's largest open-pit copper mines, Cobre Panamá, for 20 years, with the possibility of extending the period for another 20 years. It also authorizes the com…

Bay Area CISPES & SHARE-El Salvador (2023-09-29). Saturday 10/7: Human Rights Abuses & Political Persecution in El Salvador. indybay.org Romero Room inside Buler A. Toler Hall on University of San Francisco's campus. Full address: 2345 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 | For drivers: Street parking only; arrive early to find a spot, either on Fulton, Parker, or Golden Gate Ave.

Bay Area CISPES & SHARE-El Salvador (2023-09-28). Saturday 10/7: Human Rights Abuses & Political Persecution in El Salvador. indybay.org Romero Room inside Buler A. Toler Hall on University of San Francisco's campus. Full address: 2345 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 | For drivers: Street parking only; arrive early to find a spot, either on Fulton, Parker, or Golden Gate Ave.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-09-29). Reinstituyen proceso de transición presidencial en Guatemala. telesurtv.net Alejandro Giammattei reiteró que "el 14 de enero del año 2024, tal y como lo manda nuestra Carta a Magna, entregaré la banda presidencial al presidente electo para un nuevo ciclo de cuatro años".

The Lancet (2023-09-30). Editorial] Immigration reform in the USA: health must come first. thelancet.com The International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Missing Migrant Project found that 2022 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and identified the USA—Mexico border as the most dangerous overland migration route in the world. The perilous journeys migrants are forced to make expose them to a vast array of health risks. Difficulties in reporting along these clandestine routes mean that the true scale of the challenges migrants experience rarely makes headlines, but the USA's consistent focus on deterrence exacerbates the complex health demands of migration and needlessly exposes vulnerable populat…

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-29). Cuba was invited to Mexico's International Anthropology Book Fair. plenglish.com Mexico, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will be the guest country at the 34th International Anthropology Book Fair (FILAH), scheduled from October 5 to 15 at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-29). Parents of the 43 missing students demand trial of Enrique Peña Nieto. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) The parents of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, missing since 2014, lifted the sit-in they held for eight days in front of Military Camp 1-A and demanded the prosecution of former president Enrique Peña Nieto.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-09-29). Grupo de Puebla celebra en México su IX Encuentro. telesurtv.net El foro instalará en la cita su agenda internacional progresista para combatir el hambre, los bloqueos económicos y la crisis climática.

Editor (2023-09-28). "This fight is Global": Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers. mronline.org From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW's fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

sputnikglobe (2023-09-28). Ancient Mayan Grave Uncovered During Rail Project Construction in Mexico. sputnikglobe.com The grave, which could be more than 1,000 years old, was unearthed alongside the construction of the multibillion-dollar Maya Train project in southern Mexico.

Franc Contreras (2023-09-29). Mexican transportation company halts freight trains migrants use to go north. america.cgtn.com The U.S. and Mexican governments are coordinating strategies in hopes of decreasing the flow of migrants. Still, large numbers of them continue making their way north through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States. | CGTN's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City.

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-29). Mexico receives more than 14,800,000 foreign tourists by air. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) Mexico received 14,876,000 foreign tourists by air from January to August, 8,2 percent more compared to the same period in 2022, the Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco, informed today.

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-09-28). Permanent Conference of Parties condemns attack on Cuban Embassy. plenglish.com Mexico City, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL) strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the Cuban Embassy in Washington, in United States.

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-28). Lopez Obrador denounces complicity in Ayotzinapa crime. plenglish.com Mexico, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday charged that there was a network of complicity around the State assassinations of the 43 Ayotzinapa students-teachers.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-09-28). Mexican film La Pasión según Berenice to be screened in Cuba. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The award-winning and internationally acclaimed Mexican feature-length film "La Pasión Según Berenice" (The Passion of Berenice, 1976) will be screened in Havana on Thursday as part of the promotion of movies produced in Mexico.

teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2023-09-28). México convoca una reunión para discutir sobre migración. telesurtv.net La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones advirtió este miércoles de que el flujo "sin precedentes" de personas atravesando las Américas requiere de una mayor colaboración entre los gobiernos de Centroamérica…

Erika Schelby (2023-09-29). The Beef Industry is Destroying the American West and Worsening the Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation's first federally approved wilderness of more than 500,000 acres around the headwaters of the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, he did not anticipate that this priceless pristine land would be invaded by cattle. This problem would take root around

Jeff Abbott (2023-09-29). Nine Years After Ayotzinapa, There Is Still No Justice for the Families. progressive.org In 2014, forty-three students disappeared in Mexico. The full story of what happened to them remains unknown.

teleSUR (2023-09-29). President AMLO and Blinken to Address Drug Trafficking Issues. telesurenglish.net Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet on October 5 in Mexico City during a high-level meeting on drug trafficking. | RELATED: | The meeting comes at a time of crisis due to the trafficking and consumption of fentanyl in the United States, just a few weeks after the extradition of the Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. | Blinken will travel acco…

teleSUR (2023-09-29). Puebla Group Holds Its 9th Meeting in Mexico. telesurenglish.net From Friday to Sunday, the Puebla Group will hold its 9th Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, where former presidents and progressive Ibero-American intellectuals will present foreign policy proposals. | RELATED: | More specifically, the Group will analyze its international agenda to fight hunger, economic blockades, the climate crisis, and deglobalization. | Other topics under debate will be the creation of a Latin American commo…

teleSUR, hvh, JDO (2023-09-28). Retoman debate legislativo sobre contrato minero en Panamá. telesurtv.net El debate será retomado tras la conclusión de la etapa de consultas en las comunidades y la visita a la empresa.

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2023-09-25: News Headlines

Alexander Rubenstein, Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. (2023-09-25). Trial Of Honduran Ex-President Reveals Washington's Protection Of 'Narco-State'. popularresistance.org "Juan Orlando effectively operated Honduras as a narco-state, acquiring political power through narcotics-fueled bribes and maintaining it by allowing the free flow of drugs through Honduras," US government prosecutors alleged in a May 1 motion filed in the Southern District of New York. | Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment targeting Hernández on April 21, 2022, the same day that Honduras extradited him to the US. He currently faces three drug and weapons smuggling charges in the Southern District of New York, including one count of conspiracy to import cocaine to the United States. His trial begins this…

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-24). San Vicente y las Granadinas plantea reestructuración de la economía global. telesurtv.net En la jornada de debates del 78 periodo de sesiones de la Asamblea General de la ONU, Gonsalves llamó a levantar las sanciones contra Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-09-24). Cuban duo Buena Fe is highly acclaimed in El Salvador. plenglish.com San Salvador, Sep 24 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban duo Buena Fe gave a concert on Saturday that was described as unforgettable by fans who packed the Ellacuría auditorium at the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador.

Franz Hinkelammert, Matthias Hui & B Dietschy (2023-09-24). Making the Kingdom of God Present. indybay.org Freedom does not come from the market. Rather, in socialist terms, we need a market to which we are free. What we have, on the other hand, is a market that dictates everything. Our Mrs. Merkel says that democracy must conform to the market. What we have developed in our work in Costa Rica runs exactly the opposite way: the market must conform to democracy.

Allan Fisher (2023-09-25). Sunday 10/8: El Salvador Anti-mining and Human Rights Struggle Report. indybay.org 14 Pera Drive, Watsonville.


Luis Linares Petrov (2023-09-25). El Salvador faces complex problems. plenglish.com A recent study conducted by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) showed that El Salvador needs to invest 5.3 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year to solve the losses caused by climate change, which is equivalent to 1.6 billion dollars. | According to the study, El Salvador's GDP could be reduced between nine and 12 percent in 2050 if there is no investment response to the current challenges. | The climate will harm agriculture above all, and if climatic phenomenon, such as El Niño, continue to impact the country without an adequate response, by 2050 the agricultural yield of beans w…

Allan Fisher (2023-09-24). Sunday 10/8: El Salvador Anti-mining and Human Rights Struggle Report. indybay.org 14 Pera Drive, Watsonville.

Alasdair Baverstock (2023-09-24). BYD launches affordable EV in Mexico. america.cgtn.com Electric mobility is fast becoming the preferred mode of transportation around the world, with sales of electric vehicles growing yearly. | A leading market is China, where eight million EVs were sold in 2023, more than double that of any other global region. But Chinese EV technology is becoming available in other markets too. | CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock reports.

Tanya Wadhwa, People's Dispatch. (2023-09-25). Parents Of Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students Begin Indefinite Sit-In. popularresistance.org On Thursday, September 21, parents of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College, who disappeared in September 2014, demonstrated in front of the Military Camp No. 1 in the capital Mexico City. | Carrying large banners that read "Where are our children?", "We are missing 43", and "Because they were taken alive, we want them back alive," among others, the parents demanded that the Mexican Armed Forces hand over all available information about the mass kidnapping and disappearance of their loved ones. | The parents and relatives of the students, with the help of students from different rural colleges…

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-09-25). Grupo armado secuestra a alcaldesa del municipio mexicano de Cotija. telesurtv.net La alcaldesa no tenía guardaespaldas, a pesar de que ya había recibido amenazas por parte del CJNG.




teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-24). México propone en la ONU cambiar paradigma del desarrollo. telesurtv.net "El actual modelo de desarrollo global es insostenible" declaró Alicia Bárcena durante su intervención.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-09-24). Cancilleres de Rusia y México se reúnen en la ONU. telesurtv.net Las conversaciones entre Serguéi Lavrov y Alicia Bárcena comenzaron con recuerdos de la lucha por los derechos de los fumadores en la ONU.




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