Mexico
Boycotting Berries.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10. PROGRAM # 7583 12:00 PM PT Boycotting Berries. Representatives for organized berry laborers from the San Quintin Valley tour the U.S. holding the berry giant Driscoll’s co-responsible for unfair labor conditions in this agro-export enclave in Northern Mexico. They visited the United Nations in New York and today they stop in San […]
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7. PROGRAM # 7582 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. A report from the news agency AP revealed that a text message sent from Rubén Espinosa’s cell phone indicates that the photojournalists, who was killed alongside four women, was alive at 2:13 p.m. The Mexico City prosecutor said the multi-homicide occured between 12 and […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 31. PROGRAM # 7577 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. With the consent of the Mexican government, the Spanish company Mareña Renovable is preparing to install a wind farm with 132 wind trubines, invading part of the urban area of Juchitán, Oaxaca. Opposing organizations say this project will displace people and affect the almost […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 24. PROGRAM # 7572 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. The drug cartel Los Caballeros Templarios, continues to operate in the state of Michoacan, and has the protection of police, according to self-defense commanders Luz and Evangelina, who traveled to Mexico City after hearing a rumor that the leader of the self-defense movement, Dr. […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 17. PROGRAM # 7567 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. The escape of drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera “El Chapo” has caused distrust and disdain of the Mexican government to grow. Citizens who participate on this edition say that corruption is among the highest officials and the escape of “El Chapo” only distracts Mexicans […]
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FRIDAY, JULY 10. PROGRAM # 7562 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Mexico needs to conserve its energy resources to produce food, because the growing drought in the southwestern United States will make the country reduce its farm production by 40 percent, affecting 47 million Mexicans who do not have enough to eat, warns a social […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JULY 3. PROGRAM # 7557 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. The group of international experts investigation the disappearance of 43 teacher’s college students said that almost half of their requests for information have not been answered by the Mexican government, four months after the investigation began. They emphasized that they have not been able […]
Migrant Hero.
THURSDAY, JULY 2. PROGRAM # 7556 12:00 PM PT Migrant Hero. The public television network PBS is featuring online a short film on Hugo Morales, a Mixtec Indian who went from migrant farmworker as a child to Harvard graduate and to creator of the Latino radio network in US public broadcasting. The producer of the […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26. PROGRAM # 7552 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. When former president Lázaro Cárdenas expropiated Mexico’s oil in 1983, the Mexican people chipped in to pay the indemnization to foreign companies. Seventy-seven years after this epic accomplishment, filmmaker Sergio Olhovich is asking Mexicans to fund the filming of the movie “1938, Cuando el […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19. PROGRAM # 7547 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. A conversation with journalist Lourdes Encinas about her book “49 Razones Para no Olvidar” (49 Reasons Not to Forget), in which she chronicles the fire that occurred at the ABC Childcare in Hermosillo, Sonora. Six years after the tragedy in which 49 children died […]