The Guardian • Mexico
Farmworkers need families, not deportation and exploitation
During the Trump administration, the US deported an average of 275,725 people per year, almost the same number of workers – 257,667 – brought by growers last year to labour in US fields.
Read moreMaduro warns of plot to destroy dialogue from Colombia and US
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced the attempts by Colombia and the United States to boycott the dialogue process between the government and the opposition.
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Issue #2042
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Air traffic came to a virtual standstill on the 17th February with around 2340 flights cancelled. The strike affected almost 300,000 passengers. Germany’s flag...
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Issue #2045
President Biden’s new discriminatory immigration policy
On 2nd February 2023, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that of the 998 children detained at the US-Mexico, border under the President...
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Issue #2045
GLOBAL BRIEFS
IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA: The two countries reached an agreement that includes the resumption of diplomatic relations and re-opening of diplomatic missions within two months. They...
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Issue #2158
Ireland to Lesotho – Trump’s tariffs hit hard
In April 2025 President Donald Trump introduced so-called ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, triggering the worst two-day drop in US stock market history, erasing trillions in value....
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Issue #2046
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HONDURAS: The President of Honduras has announced that the country will seek to establish diplomatic relations with mainland China instead of Taiwan. The Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2194
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BOLIVIA: Bolivia’s legislature has passed a law granting President Rodrigo Paz the authority to use the military to clear roadblocks set up by anti-government protesters....
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Issue #2079
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SAUDI ARABIA: An Arab-Islamic emergency meeting hosted by Saudi Arabia on 11 November called for an end to the war in Gaza, and rejected Israel’s...
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Issue #2169
GLOBAL BRIEFS
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: US troops arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to conduct military exercises over several days. The first troops arrived aboard the destroyer USS...
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Issue #2099
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths has welcomed the results of local elections which “landed a red card to the Tories and a warning...
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Issue #2209
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CHINA: China has said it opposes “illegal” US sanctions against Iranian airlines. The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier warned that “all the Iranian airlines...
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Issue #2116
Zapatista’s 30-year struggle
The announcement of the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) agreement between Mexico, Canada and the USA came into force on 1 January 1994. That...
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Issue #2144
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MEXICO: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected US President Trump’s proposals to send US troops to Mexico to help her administration fight drug trafficking. Speaking at...
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Issue #2179
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SOUTH AFRICA: China and South Africa have signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal. The agreement, expected to be finalised by the end...
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Issue #2205
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Baden-Wurttemberg Governor Cem Ozdemir have called for the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be banned. The...
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Issue #2207
Sheinbaum government pursues failed neo-liberal policies: Mexican Communist leader
The social democratic government of Claudia Sheinbaum is continuing the same failed neo-liberal policies of the previous administration, said Angel Chávez, member of the Political...
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Issue #2184
The overwhelming force of global solidarity with Cuba
Fifty tons of diverse products arrived from Mexico and Brazil. This was in addition to the aid arriving via the “Our America to Cuba Convoy,”...
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Issue #2123
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GEORGIA: In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, fireworks marked the ruling party’s victory in the parliamentary elections on 26 October 2024. Voter turnout was 56...
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Issue #2177
The Sandinista Revolution – A Global Latin American History
Nicaragua has the distinction of having had the last communist revolution of the twentieth century. Many English speakers if they think about Nicaragua at all,...
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Issue #2193
GLOBAL BRIEFS
US: United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth discussed key foreign policy issues for Washington at a defence summit in Singapore. Among other things he...
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Issue #2050
DINGO
The governments of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries met to discuss the best ways to jointly counter the inflationary wave sweeping the world which...
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Issue #2051
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SUDAN: Doctors Central Committee has reported that the number of people killed in clashes between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rose...
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Issue #2141
Tariffs blackmail will backfire
On 2 April, US president Donald Trump imposed sweeping, so-called “reciprocal tariffs” ranging from 10% to 50% on almost all nations based on the US’s...
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Issue #2095
Agreements that strangle democracy
“Where there is water, there is life. Without it, where are we going to live?” asks Leobardo Sierra, a 48-year-old Wayuu Indigenous leader from Colombia...
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Issue #2133
Greenland’s destiny – How the US took over Danish West Indies
Since the 19th-century the United States has claimed Manifest Destiny to support its brutal occupation and wars against Mexico and elsewhere. This grab of foreign...
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