Daily Archives: August 19, 2022

2022-08-19: News Headlines

Ana Perdigón (2022-08-19). Historic 'Border Agreement' Meeting Held to Discuss Renewal of Venezuela—Colombia Diplomatic Relations. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, August 18, the second day of the "Border Agreement" meeting was held, an event attended by Venezuelan and Colombian authorities, and businesspeople who seek to reach agreements for the commercial reopening between Venezuela and Colombia. | The Border Agreement meeting was held at the Casino Internacional hotel in Cúcuta, Colombia, where recently appointed ambassadors Félix Plasencia of Venezuela and Armando Benedetti of Colombia were joined by more than 200 businesspeople from both countries. | The meeting was organized by the Colombian-Venezuelan Chamber, the Chamber of Venezuelan-Colombian Econom…

TeleSUR, DRL (2022-08-19). Se incrementa en 52% la deportación de migrantes a Honduras. telesurtv.net Más de la mitad de esas deportaciones se han producido desde Estados Unidos seguido de México, según autoridades locales.

_____ (2022-08-18). Nicaragua: Tomabu Community Builds Agroecology And Food Sovereignty. popularresistance.org This past week, I visited the community of Tomabu in the department of Estelí. It is a small campo community with an incredibly curvy and uneven dirt road that leads to the top. Upon arrival, we were warmly greeted by Dolores and Bernardino in their home, where they shared with us that Dolores was born in the community and they have been campesinos/campesinas their entire lives, currently working with 4 manzanas of land, and that the community's main crops are corn and beans | Dolores and Bernardino have one of the ATC's projects behind their home — cama profundas, as they are called in Spanish — a de…

TeleSUR (2022-08-18). Commission: No Evidence 43 Missing Students in Mexico Are Alive. telesurenglish.net The disappearance of 43 students from the teachers' normal school in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, southern Mexico, since the night of September 26, 2014, "was a State crime," and there are no indications to affirm that the students are alive; the Truth Commission on the case said Thursday at the National Palace, the seat of the Executive. | The Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior (SG), Alejandro Encinas, speaks during a press conference today, at the National Palace in Mexico City…

Splcenter (2022-08-17). 'Second Chances': Racist law preventing citizenship for Black immigrants leaves man fighting his case from afar. splcenter.org

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