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11Aug

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Mexico, USA

Mexico’s Ban Advances Broader Fight to End Fracking in North America

NOVANEWS A fracking rig overlooks a vast valley in Northern Colorado.GRANDRIVER / GETTY IMAGES; EDITED: LW / TO BY: José Luis Granados Ceja Mexico City — Those who have been fighting fracking describe hydraulic fracturing rigs as harbingers of death and destruction, and with good reason. Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, has become synonymous with the contamination of the air, land and water, and for this reason, communities throughout the continent have persistently resisted, fighting by every means possible to stop the practice. The effort by grassroots activists to take on multinational oil and gas companies is a classic example of a battle between David and Goliath. But opponents of fracking recently had cause to celebrate. On August 1, 2018, Mexi...

29Jul

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Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine Affairs, Venezuela

Why Did Latin America Stop Standing up for Palestine?

NOVANEWS CECILIA BAEZA (L-r) Sara Netanyahu and her husband, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, applaud as Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and his wife, Hilda Patricia Marroquin, open the Guatemalan Embassy in Jerusalem, May 16, 2018. Guatemala became the first country to follow in the footsteps of the United States’ deeply controversial move, breaking with decades of international consensus. (RONEN ZVULUN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 44-45 Special Report By Cecilia Baeza WHILE MOST OF THE WORLD rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to move the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, some Latin American leaders have supported it enthusiastically. This may come as a surprise to many;...

24Jul

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Mexico

Mexico Leads In Violence Against Girls, 7,000 Minors Missing

NOVANEWS Reports disclose that approximately 3 minors are killed daily. | Photo: Reuters FILE Approximately three minors are killed daily. Mujica explained that many disappearances are related to organized crime or linked to family conflicts. More violence is being experienced by children in the Mexican states Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Quintana Roo and Tlaxcala, than in other regions, executive secretary of the National System for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents (Sipinna), Ricardo Bucio Mujica, said. RELATED: Mexico: 'Three Children Murdered Every Day,' Says Rights Group Christian Skoog, a representative of the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) in Mexico, noted that the violence experienced by children and adolescents is widesp...

10Jul

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Mexico, Venezuela

Mexico's New FM: Regional Policy on Venezuela Obeys US Agenda

NOVANEWS Marcelo Ebrard, appointed by Lopez Obrador as his foreign minister, pledged Mexico will stick to its non-interventionist tradition. By TeleSUR English Marcelo Ebrard looks on as Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announces him as foreign minister during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico July 5, 2018. (Reuters) Mexico will stick to its “non-interventionism” foreign policy towards Venezuela and Nicaragua and avoid any aggressive stance which normally responds to “an agenda promoted by the United States,” said the future foreign affairs minister Marcelo Ebrard. In interview with Radio Formula on Monday, Ebrard explained the new government will respect its long-time tradition and avoid any form of interventionism in international aff...

9Jul

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Mexico’s Leftist President-Elect Promises Sweeping Changes

NOVANEWS BY Amy Goodman Democracy Now! In a landslide, voters have elected Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be Mexico’s next president. The former mayor of Mexico City — who is known as AMLO — will become Mexico’s first leftist president in decades. On Monday, López Obrador and President Donald Trump discussed immigration and trade in a phone call. Trump called on Mexico’s president-elect to collaborate on border security and NAFTA, telling reporters, “I think he’s going to try and help us with the border. We have unbelievably bad border laws, immigration laws, the weakest in the world, laughed at by everybody in the world. And Mexico has very strong immigration laws, so they can help us.” We speak with John Ackerman and Irma Sandoval in Mexico City. Irma Sandoval i...

11May

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Mexico

Murder and Violence Plague Mexico’s Elections

NOVANEWS By Kent Paterson NMPolitics.net A Cinco de Mayo tweet by Mexican journalist Ricardo Alemáninsinuating that presidential frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left-leaning Morena party could be assassinated created an uproar in Mexican media and on social media outlets: “A fan killed John Lennon. A fan killed Versace. A fan killed Selena. Let’s see when, lefties,” it read. Although Alemán quickly erased the tweet and rendered an apology, arguing in a video posted on his Twitter account that his statement had been misinterpreted and distorted, a torrent of outrage poured forth. The communicator lost two jobs and wound up in a heap of political and legal trouble. Personalities from across the Mexican political spectrum, including López Obrador campaign chief Tatian...

16Apr

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Mexico

Zapatista Women Inspire the Fight Against Patriarchy

NOVANEWS By Shirin Hess, Waging Nonviolence Zapatista women take the stage to deliver their speeches collectively from each Caracol, or administrative center. (Photo: WNV/Shirin Hess) Dawn had only just broken over the mountains. While most of the women and children on the camping grounds were still asleep, others were already wide awake, huddling together in the first rays of sunlight and drinking coffee. To a casual observer, this place might have seemed similar to any mainstream festival campsite. A distinguishing factor, however, was that there wasn't a single man in sight. The sign on the main entrance left no one in doubt that only women and children were welcome at this event: "Men not permitted to enter." Women's participation in Mexico's 25-year-old Zapatista National Liberat...

13Jan

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Mexico, USA

The US Is Meddling in Mexico’s Election by Accusing Russia of Doing So

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Oriental Review US National Security Advisor McMaster claimed that Russia is meddling in the upcoming Mexican elections. This explosive news was shared by Reuters, which in turn was reporting on a mid-December video of a speech that McMasters gave to the Jamestown Foundation and which was just posted on a Mexican journalist’s Twitter account over the weekend. In it, one of the US’ most influential security figures says in relation to the unsubstantiated claims of Russian interference in foreign elections that “you’ve seen, actually, initial signs of it in the Mexican presidential campaign already”, but to Reuters’ credit they added that he didn’t elaborate on this afterwards and even cited an expert who remarked that “so far, it’s just speculation”. ...

29Dec

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Mexico

Jailhouse Interview: Denied Asylum, Mexican Reporter Emilio Gutiérrez

NOVANEWS Jailhouse Interview: Denied Asylum, Mexican Reporter Emilio Gutiérrez Faces Death If ICE Deports Him Watch Full Show GUESTS Emilio Gutiérrez Soto award-winning reporter who is fighting his deportation to Mexico as he is being held in a U.S. detention center in El Paso, Texas. Eduardo Beckett immigration lawyer for journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto. LINKS Emilio Gutierrez accepts John Aubuchon Award at 2017 NPC Fourth Estate Award We look at the danger facing journalists in Mexico and how the U.S. has responded to one of them. This week, Mexican journalist Gumaro Pérez Aguinaldo was assassinated in the southern state of Veracruz, becoming at least the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico so far this year. Reporters Without ...

15Oct

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Canada, Mexico, USA

Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse

NOVANEWS By Ethan Earle Socialist Project Featured image: A North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Logo. (Source: Nicoguaro / Wikimedia Commons) First published by GR in July 2017 Many on the Left have been deeply critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) since before it was fast-tracked into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Now, President Donald Trump’s current plan to renegotiate NAFTA is poised to make the massive trade deal even worse. In late May, a loose coalition of civil society groups gathered in Mexico City to discuss this upcoming renegotiation. Participants included the AFL-CIO, Canadian Labour Congress and over one hundred other labour, environmental, and immigrant rights organizations from across Mexico, the United States an...