Mexico
(Español) Tributo a Rius, ícono cultural de la historia moderna de México
(Español) Se ha ido el gran caricaturista, pero ha pasado a ser inmortal. Deja más de 100 libros sobre temas políticos diversos, contados con una original mezcla de monos, fotos y textos.
Guest Workers Fired After Protest. Also, Mexican Cartoonist Rius Dies.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 PROGRAM # 8128 12:00 PM PST. Guest Workers Fired After Protest. Mexican guest workers who joined a strike to protest the death of a berry picker were fired by their employer, Sarbanand Farms in Sumas, WA. The workers, who were recruited under the H2A program and were working with an expired work […]
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 PROGRAM # 8125 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. The program opens with a review of the news about the leakage of the transcripts of the phone call between presidents Trump and Peña Nieto in which Trump tells the Mexican president: “Stop saying Mexico won’t pay for the wall.” Radio listeners called and […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 28 PROGRAM # 8120 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Considering the lack of reliable official records regarding the number of missing persons, and after discovering a growing number of clandestine graves, which already amount to a total of a thousand seventy-eight counted in 19 states, the Diocesan Center for Human Rights decided to […]
Denied Asylum in the United States, Haitians Put Down Roots on the Mexican Border
Nearly 4,000 Haitian refugees are trapped in Tijuana on the Mexican border. Unable to gain asylum in the United States due to President Trump’s immigration policy, many have decided to establish themselves in Mexico.
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FRIDAY, JULY 21 PROGRAM # 8115 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Due to crimes against humanity, more than 100 organizations asked the International Criminal Court to initiate an investigation on Coahuila and make a statement on the violence in that state. For the past 9 years, there has been a number of incidents of bloodshed, […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 14 PROGRAM # 8110 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Despite videotapes that show how Lesvy Berlin was beaten by her partner before her body was found dead on the university campus, the judge assigned to the case validated the suicide version and accused the assailant of voluntary manslaughter, claiming he did not prevent […]
(Español) Atrae la Suprema caso de contaminación del Río Sonora por el Grupo México
(Español) “No estamos condonando responsabilidad a ninguna empresa, como tampoco podemos estar estancados en un lamento… El fideicomiso no está en funciones, no tiene ninguna operatividad, aunque la gente siga necesitándolo”: Wenceslao Cota Montoya, delegado de la Secretaría de Gobernación en Sonora.
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FRIDAY, JULY 7 PROGRAM # 8105 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. In the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, police authorities do not investigate allegations of disappearance of women and girls. According to the lawyers of the victim’s families, when there is evidence to find the disappeared persons, or to prosecute their captors, the police destroys it. […]
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FRIDAY, JUNE 30 PROGRAM # 8100 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Nearly eight years after the assassination of Mariano Abarca Robledo, who led the resistance against mining in his community, the Canadian company Blackfire Explorationhas resumed the extraction of barite in the municipality of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, reported their relatives. In view of this, and since […]