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25Nov

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Mexico

Mexico’s LeBaron Massacre and the War That Will Not Cease

by LAURA CARLSEN Photograph Source: Zapata – CC BY-SA 4.0 Just as the post-mortem analyses of the botched capture and release of El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman, was dying down, Mexico suffered another atypical act of violence. The execution of three women and six of their children in the state of Sonora shocked the public in Mexico and the United States, where the family held dual citizenship, and once again put President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the defensive. Murder by organized crime, the presumed culprit, is the stuff of daily news here since the drug war was launched in late 2006. But the massacre of women and children, members of a powerful and well-known agribusiness family, in a remote area on the border of Chihuahua and Sonora where they have lived for a centur...

30Oct

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Mexico, USA

I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw.

By Ashoka Mukpo Global Research, Two weeks ago, I traveled to northern Mexico along with Mexican photographer Guillermo Arias to meet with asylum-seekers who’ve been trapped at the southern U.S. border by Trump Administration policies. Neither of us was prepared for what we saw there. We visited two cities – Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros – to track down people who had been placed into the deceptively misnamed “Migrant Protection Protocols” that have slammed America’s door shut to people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. Before we arrived, we wondered whether the stories we’d read of kidnappings, assaults, and despair were as widespread as they sounded. It didn’t take long for us to get our answer. There is – right now, at this very moment – a humanitarian...

22Feb

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Trump’s Wall & National Emergency Declaration Coming

NOVANEWS By Dr. Jack Rasmus Global Research Just leaked today that Senator McConnell, Trump’s echo, has indicated that Trump will declare a national emergency today, even as he signs a compromise bill with Pelosi and the Dems to fully fund his Wall. Mainstream media thinks this is big time news. Comes as a surprise. But I predicted it back on January 7, 2019 in a tweet @drjackrasmus.com. To quote myself in response to talk whether Trump will declare a national emergency to get his way on the Wall: “Can (and will) Trump declare national emergency to fund his wall? Yes and Yes. Dem Congress in 1976 law gave him wide powers. 100s laws since say which. He’ll move $ from Defense budget to wall. Dems to be outmaneuvered again. US slouching further toward dictatorship” Pelosi and Dems...

15Feb

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Mexico, USA

Trump’s Wall & National Emergency Declaration Coming

NOVANEWS By Dr. Jack Rasmus Global Research Just leaked today that Senator McConnell, Trump’s echo, has indicated that Trump will declare a national emergency today, even as he signs a compromise bill with Pelosi and the Dems to fully fund his Wall. Mainstream media thinks this is big time news. Comes as a surprise. But I predicted it back on January 7, 2019 in a tweet @drjackrasmus.com. To quote myself in response to talk whether Trump will declare a national emergency to get his way on the Wall: “Can (and will) Trump declare national emergency to fund his wall? Yes and Yes. Dem Congress in 1976 law gave him wide powers. 100s laws since say which. He’ll move $ from Defense budget to wall. Dems to be outmaneuvered again. US slouching further toward dictatorship” Pelosi and Dems...

6Oct

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Election Landslide Raises Hopes for Mexican Labor

NOVANEWS Members of the miners union take part in a demonstration in support of Mexican Senator Napoleon Gomez Urrutia during the inauguration of the new legislature in Mexico City, on August 29, 2018. Gomez Urrutia, a controversial mining leader, appeared Monday to swear in as senator for Morena, the party of Mexican leftist President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.PEDRO PARDO / AFP / GETTY IMAGES BY: Jeff Hermanson The landslide victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) in the Mexican presidential election in July has raised workers’ hopes for a revitalized and democratized labor movement. Independent unions have formed a new federation. They hope to win progressive labor law reform and finally end the reign of corrupt, pro-employer unions. The coalition led by...

28Sep

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Surprising Role Mexico Played in World War II

NOVANEWS Most may not think of Mexico as contributing to the Allied effort, but it contributed key resources, as well as fighting power. By: John Allen If you ask people to name the victorious Allied Powers in World War II, Mexico isn’t usually a name that comes to mind. But after declaring war against the Axis in mid-1942, Mexico did contribute to the Allied victory in important ways. Despite long standing tensions with the United States, Mexico would become a valuable ally to its northern neighbor, ramping up its industrial production and contributing vital resources to the Allied war effort. In addition, thousands of Mexican nationals living in the United States registered for military service during World War II. Mexico’s own elite air squadron, known as the Aztec Eagles, flew...

24Sep

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The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcommandante Marcos

NOVANEWS by BEN DANGL Reviewed: The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. By Subcommander Marcos. Introduction by Nick Henck. Translation by Henry Gales. (AK Press, 2018). Beyond the city streets and markets of San Cristóbal de las Casas, steep roads wind into the misty mountains of Chiapas, past the Mexican state’s military outposts, and toward the autonomous communities of the Zapatistas, a movement which erupted onto the world stage on January 1st, 1994. That day, they proclaimed their resistance to centuries of exploitation and abuse, and denounced Mexico’s entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). As Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos explained then, “NAFTA is a death sentence for the indigenous people.” Fourteen years later, in one ...

23Sep

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Students in Mexico rise up against political repression

NOVANEWS By Adan Plascencia UNAM main campus in Mexico City. Photo: Abel Pardo López On September 3, students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) organized a peaceful rally outside the Dean’s office in Ciudad Universitaria, the location of UNAM’s main campus in Mexico City. Soon after rallying, the students were attacked by criminal gangs known as porros with knives, steel poles, stones, molotov cocktails, fists and firecrackers. The attack left 13 injured, one with an ear cut-off. Two students were gravely injured: Joel Meza Garcia, 21 years old, who was treated for right kidney injury, broken nose, head trauma and bruising in various parts of his body; and Emilio Aguilar Sanchez, wounded with a sharp object in his left gluteus and a damaged hypogastric artery. ...

17Aug

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Mexico’s New President Reaffirms Commitment to Nationalize Oil Resources

NOVANEWS During his campaign, Lopez Obrador said he wanted to ‘reactivate’ the state’s role in petrol production. Protesters hold candles by a sign that reads in Spanish “Enough already!” outside the headquarters of the government-run PEMEX oil company in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2017, after Mexico’s government stopped subsidizing and regulating prices for gasoline and diesel. Marco Ugarte | AP By teleSUR Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) reaffirmed that his administration will spend more than US$2.63 billion to bring the state’s oil refinery company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), up to date. AMLO said he plans to update the six Pemex refineries in order to reduce imports and increase the country’s crude production quality. The president-elect, who wil...

15Aug

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Mexico’s New President Reaffirms Commitment to Nationalize Oil Resources

NOVANEWS During his campaign, Lopez Obrador said he wanted to ‘reactivate’ the state’s role in petrol production. Top Photo | Protesters hold candles by a sign that reads in Spanish “Enough already!” outside the headquarters of the government-run PEMEX oil company in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2017, after Mexico’s government stopped subsidizing and regulating prices for gasoline and diesel. Marco Ugarte | AP by teleSUR Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) reaffirmed that his administration will spend more than US$2.63 billion to bring the state’s oil refinery company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), up to date. AMLO said he plans to update the six Pemex refineries in order to reduce imports and increase the country’s crude production quality. The president-el...