Oraily Madruga Rios (2024-01-24). Costa Rican experts say Covid-19 cases are still under expectations. plenglish.com San Jose, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) Costa Rican health authorities explained that the domestic number of Covid-19 cases is within the expected situation, when analyzing the epidemiological behavior of the disease.
Luis Linares Petrov (2024-01-24). El Salvador faces complex elections. plenglish.com San Salvador, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador faces a complex electoral scenario despite surveys and expert opinions, assuming the victory of the Nuevas Ideas party and its candidate Nayib Bukele, on February 4th.
Jeff Abbott (2024-01-23). Guatemala Marks Twenty-Seven Years of 'Peace' Amid Rollbacks. progressive.org The right has long sought to undermine the peace accords, but it has grown worse in the past decade.
teleSUR, nbb, DRL (2024-01-24). Venezuela y México firman acuerdo en materia petrolera. telesurtv.net El Memorándum se alcanza tras varios encuentros entre ambas delegaciones este mes de enero…
Alasdair Baverstock (2024-01-23). See the perilous journey migrants take to get to the U.S. america.cgtn.com Continuing our look at the migrant crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico, and the dangers migrants face along their journeys, CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock reports now on one of the greatest perils: Those final steps to cross the border itself. | The Rio Grande, running from El Paso, Texas, to the Atlantic Ocean, it marks more than half of the 3,000-kilometer U.S. Mexico border. | Defended with razor wire, military tanks and a floating border wall, it is also the front line of a migration crisis that saw a record two-and-a-half million undocumented migrant encounters in fiscal year 2023. | Tragedy on the Rio Grande…
Chris Walker (2024-01-23). Despite SCOTUS Ruling, Abbott Promises to Fight Fed Removal of Border Razor Wire. truthout.org The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court's injunction on federal action to remove razor wire installed by Texas state officials last fall on a stretch of the state's border with Mexico. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) ordered the razor wire to be installed in October to deter migrants from crossing a 29-mile stretch of land along the Rio Grande River. Migrant rights organizations have said… |
Project Censored (2024-01-23). The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2024. projectcensored.org State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Independent newsweeklies—from the North Bay Bohemian and Random Lengths News in California, to the Santa Fe Reporter (New Mexico), and the…
teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2024-01-23). México celebra fallo de Corte en EE.UU. contra fabricantes de armas. telesurtv.net La demanda de México es la primera que un Estado extranjero presenta en contra de la industria ante los tribunales de Estados Unidos.
The current high-pitched ideological battle over undocumented immigration at the US-Mexico border overlooks a deeper problem: the failure of the legal immigration system to provide enough visas for the large number of unskilled workers seeking jobs in the low-skill sectors of the US economy. The jobs are clearly there, which is why so many workers