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Migrants raped and trafficked as US and Mexico tighten borders: Charity
Feb 12, 2020 10:31Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
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At least 200 killed or abused after being deported by US: HRW
Feb 05, 2020 10:16At least 200 people have been either murdered or abused and sexually assaulted after the US deported them back to El Salvador as US President Donald Trump continues crackdown on “illegal aliens.”
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Mexico deports hundreds of migrants to Honduras
Jan 30, 2020 08:15Mexico's government has returned hundreds of Hondurans back to their country after it largely halted a caravan of undocumented Central Americans migrants who waded across a river into Mexico.
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Children go missing as US-bound refugees clash with Mexican forces
Jan 21, 2020 09:02Mexican forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American refugees as they tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States.
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Guatemala cuts ties with Venezuela in kowtow to US
Jan 17, 2020 09:01Guatemala's newly-elected President Alejandro Giammattei has severed diplomatic relations with Venezuela, a move that was swiftly censured by the government in Caracas for being an act of subservience to the US administration.
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Police fire tear gas at migrants near Honduras-Guatemala border
Jan 16, 2020 08:47At a border crossing between Honduras and Guatemala migrants travelling to the US were tear-gassed by police on Wednesday (January 15).
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Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon
Jan 01, 2020 19:05"The 8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade. That’s 24,000 square miles, or about 10.3 million American football fields", says Liberty Vittert, the professor of the practice of data science at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis in a news report titled: Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon. This news report has been published in the Truthout website.
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End of disastrous 2019, start of unpredictable 2020
Jan 01, 2020 10:52Wednesday marks the start of the year 2020 of the Christian Gregorian calendar that was ushered in at midnight in the West and in societies influenced by western culture.
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Mexico says Bolivian regime harassing diplomatic personnel after granting of asylum to Morales
Dec 26, 2019 08:13Mexico says the Bolivian regime is “harassing” and “intimidating” its diplomatic personnel in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, in what seems to be retribution for the granting of asylum by Mexico to former Bolivian president Evo Morales.
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Bolivian regime issues arrest warrant for ex-president Morales
Dec 19, 2019 07:49The Bolivian regime has ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales, who has been in exile since his forced resignation last month, after the interim government accused him of sedition and terrorism.