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Latin American States Given Credit for Condemnation of Aggression against Iran
Tasnim News Agency
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June 30, 2025
Issa Kameli, the assistant foreign minister and director general of the Americas Department at the Foreign Ministry of Iran, appreciated the responsible and principled positions adopted by the majority of the Latin American countries --including...
Why is Journalist's Day celebrated across Latin America?
LatAm Journalism Review
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July 3, 2025
They go by names such as National Journalist Day, Press Day, or Journalist and Media Worker Day. And they’re observed on the date the first national newspaper was printed, the date journalists were killed for criticizing dictatorships, or the date...
Immigration activists hold TPS town hall for South Florida Haitians
CBS 4 Miami - Florida
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A group of activists in North Miami gathered to discuss resources and strategies for South Florida's Haitian community, just days after the Department of Homeland Security announced that Temporary Protection Status (TPS) would end for the hundreds...
Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government
EJIL: Talk!
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July 3, 2025
In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right of indigenous peoples to establish autonomous territorial entities with their own...
Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial
Global Investigative Journalism Network
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July 3, 2025
Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the choices are sometimes as stark as choosing jail,...
Dream to nightmare: Illegal immigrant from Haryana duped by agent; returns after 15-month US ordeal
The New Indian Express
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From there, Vishal’s ordeal began in earnest — a gruelling journey that took him from Brazil to Colombia, then through Panama’s deadly jungle routes. “I walked for four days through the Panama forest, climbed three mountains, waded through...
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Everglades immigration detention center opposed
South Florida Times
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July 3, 2025
“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ”: Pushback seeks to stymie efforts to establish facts on the ground, with first arrivals expected imminently following Tuesday’s visits by Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. PHOTO COURTESY OF...
“Danger Is At The Door:” A Latina Therapist on Counseling a Community Threatened By ICE
MindSite News
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July 3, 2025
Mara Sammartino of First-Gen Therapy in Vacaville, California In more than 10 years as a therapist, Mara Sammartino, a bilingual licensed clinical social worker, has had a front-row seat to the impact of federal immigration policy – and the first...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for migrants called a ‘sinful initiative’
OSV News
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July 2, 2025
MIAMI (OSV News) — Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention...
Coalition urges appeals court not to end humanitarian immigration program
Capital District Times - New York
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July 2, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James has co-led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in submitting a brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The brief requests the court to maintain an order preventing the federal...
Nicaragua and Mexico Unemployment Rate Drops to 2.7%, the Lowest in America
teleSUR
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June 28, 2025
Banana production in Nicaragua. Photo: X June 28, 2025 Hour: 3:32 pm In May 2025, Nicaragua and Mexico recorded, according to official figures, one of the lowest unemployment rates on the continent, at 2.7%. RELATED: Nicaragua and China Break...
Nicaragua: Ex-Military Officer Gets 50 Years for Treason
Havana Times
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June 28, 2025
Aníbal Rivas Reed was sentenced while in forced dissapearance Aníbal Martín Rivas Reed, Nicaraguan political prisoner and former military officer. //Photo: Taken from social media. The family of the former military officer denounces cruel...
Lawfare strikes again: Rogue judge ignores SCOTUS, shields 500,000 from Trump's immigration crackdown
The Blaze
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July 2, 2025
Another district judge sought to block the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts by preventing the Department of Homeland Security from stripping Temporary Protected Status from over 500,000 immigrants, despite the administration's...
Haitian congregations relieved after judge blocks Trump’s attempt to deport migrants
Religion News Service
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July 2, 2025
(RNS) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end temporary protected status for Haitian migrants before it is set to expire in February 2026. In his Tuesday (July 1) ruling, New York-based Judge Brian Cogan said...
The Media construction of a Threat: Scapegoating the Latinx ...
Modern Ghana
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Historically as well as contemporarily, immigration has been a key and extremely polarizing issue in American political discussion and discourse at all levels of US society. Certain leaders have maintained more open and accepting immigration...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Venezuelan media spotlight Vietnam’s two-tier local government system as turning point
People's Army Newspaper
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RadioMundial, a key state-run broadcaster representing the voice of the Venezuelan government and people, aired a detailed segment titled the two-tier local administration: a historic turning point for the people. The report emphasized that the...
How Trump’s immigration policies target Mass.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. Immigration has been Donald Trump’s top issue since his political career began. When Trump launched his first presidential run, he described Mexican migrants as “rapists” and...
Cuba appreciates Nicaragua and Bolivia’s denunciations of US measures
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 2, 2025
Through the social media platform X, the foreign minister expressed his gratitude to co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as well as to the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation and its revolutionary people for their...