Democrats Called on to Deliver on Immigration Reform – Two weeks after the new deadline set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to approve President Biden’s economic agenda, immigration reform remains stalled. As Democratic negotiators prepare a third proposal to the Senate Parliamentarian, which would offer temporary permits but not a route to citizenship, immigrant advocates are ramping up pressure and warn that if they Democrats do not deliver reform, they could pay for it at the polls next year. José López Zamorano reports from Washington.
California Strengthens Insurance Protections for Wildfire Victims – For the second year in a row, California is experiencing a devastating wildfire season that has been affecting rural populations in the north of the state. To protect homeowners, the state’s Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, in conversation with Chelis López, says he ordered insurance companies not to cancel their residential coverage and to offer broader coverage to those who live in higher risk areas. of forest fires. Listen to the full interview in the archives of Línea Abierta for Monday, October 11, at radiobilingue.org
Hit by the Pandemic, Guatemalan Mayas Criticize their Abandonment by Government – Guatemala has the lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination in Latin America, and the Delta variant is hitting hardest the rural indigenous Mayan population. Health officials in the United States placed the impoverished country in Code Red, warning citizens not to visit. To search for answers, María Martin recently visited Santiago Atitlán, an indigenous population on the shores of Lake Atitlán, in western Guatemala. She brings us this report.
