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Message from the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the 85th anniversary of the expropriation of the country’s oil industry.

Rally held on Saturday, March 18, in Mexico City’s Zócalo square.

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Friends:

This is a commemoration of the expropriation of the oil industry and it is a national event. Participating here today are residents of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Jalisco, Chiapas, Chiapas, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Mexico City, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán, and Zacatecas.

Long live Mexico!

Friends:

Unlike Francisco I. Madero, who, in order to realize his beautiful democratic ideal could not or did not consider it indispensable to strengthen his ties with the people, especially with the Zapatista peasants, General Lázaro Cárdenas did not hesitate to rely on those from below to make his transformation a reality.

The general's strategy can be summarized in three important and consecutive actions:

First, he distributed land to the peasant farmers and helped the workers.

Then, he helped them organize.

And, finally, with this social base he was able to carry out the expropriation of the oil industry and other national assets that Porfirio Díaz had handed over to private interests, mainly foreigners.

The top priority of the Cardenista strategy was to attend to the economic and social demands of peasant farmers and workers. The president knew that the only way to gain the backing of the people was to act decisively in favor of their demands. Consequently, from the beginning of his government, a program of land distribution was launched; the peasant farmers mobilized throughout the country requesting that they be given land through the expropriation of large estates or providing them with deeds for state land.

In a short time, the distribution of land to peasant farmers transformed the structure of Mexican agriculture. The revolutionary importance of the Cardenista land distribution policies can be measured with a key piece of data. In the first three years of his administration, 9,764,000 hectares were given to 565,216 peasants, which vastly surpassed the amount of land that had been distributed since the Revolution.

By the end of Cardenas’ administration, 10,651 ejidos (1) had been established, comprising a total of more than 18 million hectares and benefiting more than one million indigenous families, impoverished peasant farmers, and rural day laborers.

The peasants unquestionably saw Cárdenas to be a faithful representative of the revolutionary cause. The agrarian reform ensured the loyalty of many people to the Cardenista government and from that point the alliance between peasant farmers and the State was established.

At the same time, during the Cárdenas years, workers felt that their labor rights were guaranteed. With strict adherence to the law, Cárdenas respected the economic struggle of workers for better wages and working conditions. His measures in this field consisted of making the formal content of Constitutional Article 123 (2) a reality.

From the beginning of his government, the labor movement began engaging in intense activity aimed at winning its demands; it was even able to freely exercise the right to strike.

By the middle of the president’s six-year term in office, peasant farmers and workers identified Cárdenas as the defender of their interests. The first part of Cardenas' strategy had been successful; the President's approach and solidarity with the most vulnerable social groups resulted in the support and adhesion of the majority to the government's policies.

The political organization of workers and peasant farmers as a second link in the Cardenista strategy also developed with intensity and enthusiasm.

First, most of the national industrial unions were established. The Mexican Workers’ Confederation, the CTM, was founded on February 24, 1936. Although the organization's declaration of principles stated, and I quote, that 'the Mexican proletariat will fundamentally fight for the total abolition of the capitalist system,' its leaders accepted the president's proposal and agreed on the need to first achieve the country’s political and economic liberation. In accordance with these principles, the workers' movement resolutely supported the government in its struggle for national sovereignty.

On July 9, 1935, President Cárdenas recommended that the organization of Mexico's peasant farmers take place. With this in mind, the agrarian community leagues were created in all states of the country and their integration with the unions of rural wage earners resulted in the establishment of the National Peasant Confederation, the CNC.

The organization and political mobilization of the masses made it possible to advance in the aim of asserting our country’s economic independence, and thus with the expropriation of the oil companies, national assets and resources that had been in the hands of foreigners since the Porfiriato (3) began to be returned to the nation.

This strategy could not have succeeded without the exceptional qualities of a noble and just man such as General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río.

Politics is not only rationality, but also, like other activities in life, requires mystique and convictions. Political processes are more complex than what rationalist intellectuals assume; political processes also involve factors such as luck, the brilliance of leaders and the sentiments of the people.

General Cárdenas, unlike careerist or elite politicians, professed a sincere and deep love for the people. Just as there is no one with the democratic aspiration of Madero, neither has there ever existed in Mexico a president as close to the downtrodden or as convinced of the cause of social justice as General Cárdenas.

For example, in 1935, when he was already president, already in power, Cárdenas wrote the following in his notes:

'To put an end to the miseries experienced by the people is above all other interests'.

And he maintained: 'Living amid the needs and anguish of the people, one will easily find the way to remedy them'.

Although he also confessed that he had been able to see the true moral background of many public servants. 'When I observe in their faces the disgust sparked by the poor peoples’ demand for assistance or justice, then I think more,' he lamented, 'of the endless tragedy of our own people.’

For young people who want to devote themselves to the noble profession of politics, what is most important is love for the people.

In addition to being a true humanist and possessing other virtues, General Cárdenas knew how to navigate his times with precision. Politics, among other things, is time management, a question that is usually essential and defining.

A few days before announcing the expropriation of the oil industry, he wrote in his notes that, on the highway near Cuernavaca, he’d walked and talked for more than an hour with his teacher, friend and compañero, General Francisco J. Múgica. I’d like to quote General Cárdenas when he says:

'We considered the circumstances that could arise if governments such as those of England and the United States, interested in backing the oil companies, pressured the Mexican government with violent measures. But we also took into account that the threat of a new world war is already present due to the provocations of Nazi-fascist imperialism, and that this would stop them from attacking Mexico in the event that the expropriation was decreed.'

Among other reasons, and taking advantage of this circumstance, on March 18, 1938, the oil industry expropriation was launched. At eight o'clock in the evening, General Cárdenas informed his cabinet of this historic decision and, two hours later, in a radio address to the nation he announced the step taken by the government in defense of Mexico’s sovereignty, returning to the nation the oil wealth that, as the General himself wrote, 'imperialist capital had been utilizing to keep the country humiliated.'

In four articles, the expropriation decree establishes that the following assets would become assets of the nation: machinery, installations and other fixtures and property of the foreign oil companies, for which compensation would be paid in accordance with Article 27 of the Constitution and the corresponding law.

The oil expropriation was supported by the majority of the people. Photos of the time show the presence of predominantly humble people, indigenous men and women, peasant farmers, workers, teachers, employees, and members of the lower middle class.

It was the common people who supported and cooperated with the government to raise the compensation due to the foreign oil companies. How could we forget that so many poor women donated goats and turkeys for this purpose and even got rid of the meager jewelry they owned!

In those days, from the city of Oakland, California, migrant worker Cástulo Prado composed the lyrics and music of the Corrido del Petróleo and sent it to the president with the instruction that the government allocate any royalties from the work to the compensation fund. One of its verses reads as follows:

'Lázaro Cárdenas says, serene and carefree: in the course of 10 years, everything will be paid, I have the Mexican people of which I have no doubt. From the youngest to the oldest, they all offer me their help. In the Mexican woman there is patriotism and pride, she gives up her jewelry to offer them for coins.'

In addition to this massive and overwhelming popular support, the Cárdenas government had another favorable circumstance. At that time Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a great statesman and one of the finest presidents that country has ever had in its history, was governing the United States. Let’s recall that when Roosevelt entered the White House on March 4, 1933, the United States was experiencing one of the worst crises in its history and that, as president, Roosevelt knew how to deal with that crisis successfully and very soon restored hope to his people, which made him one of the greatest politicians of the 20th century.

As for his foreign policy, let’s recall that, in a memorable speech, which is the antecedent of the principles of the UN, on January 6, 1941, Roosevelt laid out four basic freedoms for the world: the right to freedom of speech, the right to freedom of worship, the right to live free from want, and the right to live free from fear.

Roosevelt's presidency applied the ��good neighbor policy’ with the countries of the Western Hemisphere. At that moment, the principles of economic and political cooperation were defined, the sovereignty of Cuba and Panama was recognized, and the U.S. military withdrawal from Nicaragua and Haiti was ordered. It is not by chance that the great poet Pablo Neruda called Roosevelt a titan of the struggles for freedoms, a tremendous president.

The authenticity of his good neighbor policy was most clearly demonstrated in the respect for the sovereignty of our country. During Roosevelt's three presidential terms, relations between Mexico and the United States were exceptionally good.

In the days following the oil industry expropriation, General Cárdenas acknowledged Roosevelt’s role in a letter:

'My government’ -wrote the general- ‘feels that the attitude assumed by the United States of America, in the case of the expropriation of the oil companies, once again affirms the sovereignty of the peoples of this hemisphere that the statesman of the most powerful country in the Americas, the most esteemed President Roosevelt, has been supporting with such effort'.

Cástulo Prado, the poet we have already quoted, a people’s poet, also left testimony of the upright attitude, the grandeur, and the respect shown by the president of the neighboring country. Cástulo's verses read:

'The millionaires asked for intervention. They went to the United States to lodge their complaint -it looks to us, it looks to us, it looks to us- they went to the United States to lodge their complaint so that from there they would move to protect their companies. Roosevelt told them: 'Gentlemen, I can do nothing about it, the Mexican government has fulfilled its duty.'

The good results of this policy had much to do with the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Joseph Daniels, who acted with wisdom and skill in the most difficult years of relations between the two countries. His position on the oil conflict is summarized when he maintained that President Cárdenas was right in promoting the policy that the wealth of the subsoil should become part of the Mexican economy and that the oil crisis was due to the systematic refusal of foreign companies to modify their vision, since, Daniels pointed out, they felt that Mexicans were born to enrich foreigners and that God placed important natural resources in Mexico to increase the fortunes found in the coffers of the exploiters and concession holders.

But the companies were not as conscientious and respectful as U.S. politicians. The nationalization process had to confront the boycott, pressures, and acts of sabotage promoted and financed by the foreign oil companies.

In Mexico, the oil industry expropriation caused deep uneasiness among a minority, especially among the wealthy of the time, in middle-class sectors, and in most of the media.

It is interesting, and this is a lesson, to point out that historically the right wing always regroups when a democratic change is sought and becomes intolerant and even violent when it comes to social demands in favor of the people and the nation asserting its control.

Let us remember that the overthrow of President Madero, our Apostle of Democracy, was backed by the intervention of the U.S. Ambassador, but was carried out by domestic right-wing groups which had previously promoted a campaign of hate and discredit consisting of ridiculing the President, President Madero, in the newspapers to the point of treating him as a madman and a spiritualist.

The same thing happened when the expropriation, although it did not directly affect national private interests, served to bring together all the discontent of conservative groups opposed to the agrarian, labor, and educational policies of General Cárdenas.

In this climate, on September 17, 1939, the National Action Party was founded. It was founded as a reaction to the oil industry expropriation. I say this here in the Zócalo because I am not lying, I am speaking the truth.

In 1940, all these reactionary trends manifested themselves very strongly in the presidential election. The right-wing opposition was such that General Cárdenas had to act cautiously, and possibly that influenced him to support the candidacy of Manuel Ávila Camacho and not that of General Francisco J. Múgica, with whom he had more ideological affinity and who represented a greater certainty of continuity and deepening of the social and nationalist policy.

It has always been said that the general did not choose Múgica because of the risk of foreign intervention. However, as we have seen, at that time Roosevelt, who had demonstrated his respect for national sovereignty, was governing and World War II was about to break out, a situation that contributed to dissipating the threat of a U.S. intervention.

In my opinion, what most influenced the decision was the internal political circumstances, that is, the belligerence of the right-wing groups. Remember that, even though he’d decided in favor of the candidacy of Manuel Avila Camacho, who held moderate positions, the presidential election was complicated and violent.

The opposition candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán, had the support of important right-wing groups and a sector of the Army. Even the PAN, which did not run a candidate for the presidency, openly supported him.

At the end of the day, 30 dead and 127 wounded were reported. However, shortly after, Almazán gave in and his supporters, businessmen and right-wing politicians came to an understanding and made a pact for concessions and benefits with the new Ávila Camacho administration.

From then on, the authentic revolutionary ideal and actions for the benefit of the people began to be abandoned, although it must be acknowledged that this alliance between political and economic power perhaps avoided civil war and maintained social peace.

If under Porfirio Díaz, the peace of the graveyard prevailed, after President Cárdenas’ government, the peace of compromises and corruption was established.

In this brief history there are major lessons, the main one being that only with the people, only with the support of the majority, can a popular transformation be carried out to enforce justice and confront the reactionaries who oppose the loss of privileges.

For this reason, today we once again declare, we exclaim from the rooftops: no zigzagging, let us remain anchored in our principles, let us reaffirm the decision and the course we have taken since the administration began. No half measures: we in Mexico will never allow a minority to impose itself at the expense of the humiliation and impoverishment of the majority.

That is why, in our government, corruption is being fought. There is an austere government, without luxuries, and all the savings are used to finance well-being programs, such as pensions for the elderly, support for people with disabilities, single mothers, peasant farmers and fishermen, scholarships for students from poor families, Internet for All, housing improvement and construction programs, collateral-free loans, fertilizer, and guaranteed prices for the country's small producers, the Bank of Well-Being, the promotion of education and universal and free public health care.

This year more than 25 million people will receive direct support totaling 600 billion pesos (4). In other words, out of 35 million households in the country, 71 percent will receive the benefits of at least one of the social programs.

With this policy of attention to the neediest, the most vulnerable, and especially to young people, we have also been able to reduce federal crimes by 33 percent, homicides by 10 percent, vehicle theft by 38 percent, general robberies by 20 percent, huachicol (5) by 92 percent, femicides by 28 percent, and kidnappings by 76 percent.

By the same token, the savings from not allowing corruption or budgetary waste have enabled us to avoid contracting more debt. We have not requested additional debt since we have been in office.

And at the same time, without increasing the public debt in real terms, taxes have not been increased, the price of gasoline, diesel, gas, and electricity have not risen. There has even been a decrease in the price of these energy resources.

There has also been an increase in public investment, as has not occurred in many years. This year we will spend more than one trillion pesos (6) on public work projects. That is, we will continue building highways, bridges, trains, airports, hospitals, universities, markets, sports facilities, seawalls, and natural, recreational, and ecological parks.

And we are carrying out something very important: an extensive project to recover and restore historical and archeological sites of our ancient and splendid cultures and civilizations.

Public finances are strong, the national economy is booming. Last year the Mexican economy grew even more than the economies of China and the United States.

There are an unprecedented 21,747,000 workers enrolled in the health system. This figure of 21,747,000 workers in the formal economy has never been reached before.

In addition, an average wage of 525 pesos (7) per day has been achieved for these workers in the formal economy, something that had never occurred before.

The unemployment rate last January was 2.9 percent, the lowest since 2005.

We are carrying out public work projects. Right here we are refurbishing the Metro line that collapsed.

We are, of course, building the Toluca-Mexico City train line, the Maya Train, the Transisthmic Train and many, many other public works projects.

What is happening?

After many years, we managed to get the United States to offer temporary work visas. Canada was already doing this and the United States did not accept it. Now with President Biden’s change of policy it was achieved, but they are taking skilled workers, ironworkers, welders, who are needed here for the works projects. We are going to make a small modification, because Mexico comes first and then foreign countries, but this shows how much demand there is for jobs in the country.

During the time we have been in office, the minimum wage has increased by 90 percent in real terms, and on the border it has more than doubled.

Do you remember what the lying technocrats used to say? That if wages were increased, there would be inflation. That's all a bunch of nonsense. That is not true. Of course, we have to improve wages responsibly, to strengthen the domestic market, as we are doing, and thus achieve well-being for our people.

The stock market, corporate and bank profits are posting good numbers.

The Banco de México’s reserves have increased by 15 percent, 200 billion dollars in bank reserves.

Foreign investment has climbed to previously unseen figures.

This has also occurred with remittances from our migrant countrymen and women. Thank you very much, fellow countrymen and women. Last year these remittances practically reached 60 billion dollars; this year they are going to exceed 60 billion dollars.

This is very important, because this money gets to the most remote communities, to 10 million families who benefit from them, and with this money the regional economy, commerce and other economic activities are reactivated.

It is also important to emphasize that the peso is the currency that has most appreciated in the world in relation to the dollar, something that has not occurred for more than 50 years.

We have also directed our resources and efforts to achieve food self-sufficiency and energy self-sufficiency. In the latter, as reported here by the Ministry of Energy and the Director of Pemex, we can be certain that oil sovereignty is being guaranteed. Next year we will not be buying gasoline, diesel or other oil products abroad; we will be processing all of our raw materials.

The Federal Electricity Commission, the public company in charge of managing the electricity industry, has been strengthened.

And recently lithium, a strategic mineral used in manufacturing batteries for electric cars and storage systems for clean energy, was nationalized.

It fills me with pride to be able to recall -I apologize for taking so long, but I am about to finish- it fills me with pride to be able to recall today, March 18, that, despite the policy of granting concessions that prevailed before we came into office, we were able to remove a long chapter from the Free Trade Agreement that compromised our oil and put in its place a small paragraph, which I am going to read to you.

It says: 'The United States and Canada recognize that Mexico reserves its sovereign right to reform its Constitution and domestic legislation, and Mexico has the direct, inalienable, and imprescriptible ownership of all hydrocarbons in the subsoil of the national territory.'

My friends:

I am convinced that we will continue to receive the support of the people to consolidate the first stage in the transformation of our country.

I am also convinced that whichever candidate wins the poll to become the candidate of our movement will apply the same policy in favor of the people and in favor of the nation.

Continuity with change is assured. There is nothing to fear. Of course, we have to remain united, always looking towards the future and the happiness of our fellow men and women. This means working from below and with the people, and without neglecting the strategy that we rightly call the revolution of consciences to keep advancing in the change of mentality so as to continue politicizing our people and thus have an increasingly aware population. In this we have made considerable progress, as Mexico is one of the countries with the least political illiteracy in the world.

With that awareness we will continue, with that collective consciousness we will continue to counteract the dirty war, the slander campaigns and the attempts at manipulation that will continue to be waged, because our adversaries and their media, sold out, rented or in the hands of the members of the conservative and corrupt block, have no other choice. But at the same time we must have faith in the wisdom and loyalty of the people, the people do not betray.

Let’s recall that the victory of the reactionaries, as Juarez said, is morally impossible. We are finding that the idea and practice of exalting Mexican humanism is electrifying and is reaching the consciousness of millions of people. I base my optimism on this.

And even though it is more dangerous to underestimate the strength of one’s adversaries than to overestimate it in politics, I maintain that no matter what they do, the oligarchs will not return to power; an authentic and true democracy will continue to prevail in our beloved Mexico.

Friends:

I cannot fail to mention that in the past few days some U.S. legislators, accustomed to seeing the mote in their brother's eye, but not seeing the beam in their own, in a propaganda ploy -we would say here in colloquial language grilla or intrigue- and for electoral, politicking purposes, argued that, if we did not stop the trafficking of fentanyl to the northern border, that they were going to propose to the Congress of their country that U.S. soldiers occupy our territory to confront organized crime.

First, I want to make it clear that this is no longer the time of Calderón or García Luna, that this is no longer the time of shady links between the Mexican government and U.S. government agencies. Now there is no simulation, organized and white-collar crime is truly being fought, because there is no corruption, no impunity, and there are no complicit relationships with anyone.

But what is most important is that from here, from this Zócalo square, the political and cultural heart of Mexico, we remind those hypocritical and irresponsible politicians that Mexico is an independent and free country, not a colony or a protectorate of the United States, and that they can threaten to perpetrate any offense, but we will never, ever allow them to violate our sovereignty and trample on the dignity of our homeland.

Cooperation yes, submission no; interventionism no.

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Oligarchy!

Crowd response: No!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Corruption!

Crowd response: No!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Racism!

Crowd response: No!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Freedom!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Democracy!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Honesty!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Social justice!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Equality!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Sovereignty!

Crowd response: Yes!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Long live the expropriation of the oil industry!

Crowd response: Viva!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Long live the workers and technicians of the national oil industry of yesterday and today!

Crowd response: Viva!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Long live General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río!

Crowd response: Viva!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Viva Mexico!

Crowd response: Viva!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Viva México!

Crowd response: Viva!

PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR: Viva México!

Crowd response: Viva!

Translator’s Notes:

1) Ejidos – semi-communal farmland

2) Constitutional Article 123 enshrines labor rights

3) Porfiriato - The period of Porfirio Díaz's presidency of Mexico (1876–80; 1884–1911), an era of dictatorial rule

4) US$31.89 billion

5) Huachicol – the massive theft of fuel from pipelines and refineries

6) US$53.16 billion

7) US$27.91

Translated by Pedro Gellert

México City, March 18, 2023

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Russia launches barrage of 45 drones over Ukraine as Kyiv changes more military leaders (AP) Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage Sunday, officials said, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continued the reshuffle of his war cabinet as the war enters its third year. In a statement, the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down 40 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones over nine different regions, including on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Kyiv. The attack targeted agricultural facilities and coastal infrastructure, officials for Ukraine’s southern defense forces wrote on Telegram. They said that a strike in the Mykolaiv region had injured one person, sparking a fire and damaging residential buildings.

525 million (WSJ) The projected size of China’s population by the end of the century, researchers estimate. That’s a precipitous drop from today’s 1.4 billion people. Beijing miscalculated its way to a baby bust with its one-child policy. The sometimes brutal enforcement and decades of propaganda about the benefits of a small family created a hard-to-change mindset, while the traditional preference for sons meant many couples who could have only one child preferred a boy. Now the number of women of childbearing age is shrinking quickly and not all of those who can have kids want to.

55 dead in Philippines landslide that buried a village (AP) At least 55 people died and 32 were injured in one of the southern Philippines’ deadliest landslides in recent years, the government of Davao de Oro province said Monday. Search and retrieval operations are still underway for dozens more missing after the landslide that took place Tuesday night on the southern island of Mindanao in the mining town of Maco, some 600 miles south of the capital, Manila. The death toll is expected to rise as the government verifies more dead and missing. A local official said during a live-streamed news conference late Monday afternoon that of the bodies that have been recovered, five remain unidentified and that 51 people are still unaccounted for. The landslide swept away three buses and a jeepney carrying miners and buried a village, according to authorities. The region was inundated by floods in the past week, hampering rescue operations.

Young Israelis block aid to Gaza while IDF soldiers stand and watch (Washington Post) It’s approaching 1 a.m. Yosef de Bresser, 22, is in the thick of planning. He fields calls from the car as it zips along dirt roads just outside southern Gaza near Egypt. “Are people there?” he asks. Around 40, he’s told. He taps out a WhatsApp message to rally more: “We sleep tonight in Kerem Shalom and block aid and fuel to Hamas!” Before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and the war that ensued, Kerem Shalom was the main commercial crossing between Israel and Gaza. Today, it’s one of just two entry points for lifesaving food and medicine to the besieged enclave, where aid agencies say civilians are on the brink of famine. But De Bresser and his three companions are determined to keep any trucks from getting through, and they aren’t bothered if innocents suffer: “War is war,” De Bresser shrugs. The United States didn’t care about civilians when it blew up Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “Who gives his enemy aid?” The Israel Defense Forces—ostensibly, at least—have made Kerem Shalom a closed military zone since late January. But there are no checkpoints at night, making it easier to bring in busloads of protesters. Inside, they shake hands with soldiers and begin to line up their tents.

Israeli forces rescue 2 hostages in dramatic Gaza raid that killed at least 67 Palestinians (AP) Israeli forces rescued two hostages early Monday, storming a heavily guarded apartment in the southern Gaza Strip and extracting the captives under fire in a dramatic raid that was a small but symbolically significant success for Israel. The operation killed at least 67 Palestinians, including women and children, according to Palestinian health officials in the beleaguered territory. The raid was celebrated in Israel as a victory in the sluggish battle to free the hostages, with more than 100 captives still held by Hamas and other Gaza militants, and briefly lifted the spirits of a nation still reeling from Hamas’ cross-border raid last year. But in Gaza, where civilians have borne a staggering toll since the war erupted on Oct. 7, the operation unleashed another wartime tragedy, with many Palestinians killed or wounded.

Media casualties in the Israel-Gaza war (Washington Post) Some 85 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war. The rate of journalists killed in the conflict, about five a week, is the highest since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records over 30 years ago. All but seven of the 85 killed were Palestinians.

Egypt is threatening to void its decades-old peace treaty with Israel (AP) It was a warm handshake between the unlikeliest of statesmen, conducted under the beaming gaze of President Jimmy Carter. Sunlight streamed through the trees at Camp David, Maryland, as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin solidified a landmark agreement that has allowed over 40 years of peace between Israel and Egypt. It has served as an important source of stability in a volatile region. That peace has held through two Palestinian uprisings and a series of wars between Israel and Hamas. But now, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to send Israeli troops into Rafah, a city in Gaza on the border with Egypt, the Egyptian government is threatening to void the agreement. If Egypt were to nullify the agreement, it could mean that Israel can no longer rely on its southern border as an oasis of calm. Bolstering forces along its border with Egypt would no doubt challenge an Israeli military already thinly stretched. But it would bear serious ramifications for Egypt as well. Egypt has received billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance from the U.S. since the peace agreement.

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“Bikers” fill the streets of Puerto Peñasco; they leave a good economic impact

Thousands of motorcyclists participated last weekend in the “Rocky Point Rally” event PUERTO PEÑASCO, Sonora.- With extravagant motorcycles adapted and adorned with drawings, of “Spider-Man”, “Chuky”, skulls, among others, until yesterday afternoon, thousands of “bikers” participated in the “Rocky Point Rally 2023” , leaving a great economic benefit to Puerto Peñasco, reported Lizette Daniela…

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Visita Toño Astiazarán Pabellón Ambiental, Reciclacentro y áreas para turistas en Bahía de Kino

El Ayuntamiento de Hermosillo organiza atractivos y actividades de entretenimiento para familias en Semana Santa como el Pabellón Ambiental, Set de Fotografía, 100 Mexicanos Dijeron y lucha libre

*Hermosillo, Sonora; 6 de abril, 2023.-* Una invitación a disfrutar las actividades que el Ayuntamiento de Hermosillo ha organizado para residentes y visitantes en Bahía de Kino extendió el Presidente Municipal, Antonio Astiazarán al constatar las labores que personal de Servicios Públicos ha preparado para Semana Santa.

Junto al director de Servicios Públicos Municipales, Sergio Pavlovich Escalante, recorrió diversos puntos en Bahía de Kino para ser testigo de los trabajos previos de limpieza, el funcionamiento del Reciclacentro ubicado en el Museo Étnico de los Seris en la carretera 100 y las actividades de entretenimiento organizadas para el disfrute de las familias.

Además de apreciar los atractivos naturales característicos de Bahía de Kino, como su playa y la vista a la Isla Alcatraz, las familias podrán disfrutar del Set de Fotografía y el Pabellón Ambiental elaborado con material reciclable, también una ecocancha de voleibol, área de juegos para niñas y niños, plogging de playa, el concurso 100 Mexicanos Dijeron y un espectáculo de lucha libre.

“Es muy importante para nosotros el tema de la limpieza. Queremos que Bahía de Kino se distinga, como lo ha venido haciendo con nuestro comisario de Bahía de Kino, Jorge Fuerte Fuentes, como lo está haciendo también Miguel Alemán. Que se vea bonito, limpio, ordenado y eso implica un esfuerzo muy grande que estarán ustedes haciendo durante todo este tiempo”, agradeció al personal.

El Reciclacentro recibirá envases de Tetra Pak, carteras de huevo, cartón, papel, frigolit, hielo seco, poliestireno, latas, vidrio, botellas pet y HDPE. Además, se han realizado distintos trabajos, como poda de palmeras, para preservar la buena imagen de la localidad.

Reiteró que la sana diversión y esparcimiento se realizarán con las medidas de seguridad necesarias para que tanto hermosillenses como visitantes puedan disfrutar sus vacaciones de Semana Santa en esta playa popular rica en cultura, gastronomía y paisajes.

“Esto significa un sacrificio muy grande que ustedes hacen a diario. Me siento muy orgulloso como Presidente Municipal. Muy agradecido de que estos días nos den su tiempo, porque al final de cuentas son días familiares que ustedes están sacrificando y es cosa que mucho les agradecemos”, concluyó Toño Astiazarán.

*Programa para viernes, sábado y domingo*

*Viernes 7 de abril:*

• Rally Recreativo: 10:00 am a 12:00 pm en área de palapas

• 100 Mexicanos Dijeron: 12:00 a 2:00 pm en Museo de los Seris

• Semana Santa Yaqui: procesión, Séptimo Konti y Viernes de Crucifixión: todo el día en Coloso Alto, Revolución, La Matanza, El Ranchito, Amapolas y Coloso Bajo

• Recorridos Trolebús Centro Histórico y Villa de Seris: salidas en la Plaza Zaragoza a las 4:30 pm, 6:00 pm y 7:30 pm

*Sábado 8 de abril:*

• Limpieza de Playa Bahía de Kino: 8:00 am inicio en Pabellón Ambiental (poste 119) y concluye en palapas

• Rally Deportivo: 10:00 am en el área de palapas

• Recorridos Trolebús Centro Histórico y Villa de Seris: salidas en la Plaza Zaragoza a las 4:30 pm, 6:00 pm y 7:30 pm

• Recorrido Trolebús Hermosillo a Casa de los Duendes: salida desde la Plaza Zaragoza a las 5:00 pm y 7:00 pm

• Lucha libre: 5:00 pm en el área de palapas en Bahía de Kino

• Semana Santa Yaqui: Sábado de Gloria, procesión, quema de máscaras (12:00 pm), fiesta de venado, pascola y velación todo el día en Coloso Alto, Revolución, La Matanza, El Ranchito, Amapolas y Coloso Bajo

*Domingo 9 de abril:*

• Semana Santa Yaqui: Domingo de Resurrección, Corrida de los Santos 5:00 am a 1:00 pm en Coloso Alto, Revolución, La Matanza, El Ranchito, Amapolas y Coloso Bajo

• Víactiva, actividades Acuáticas: 5:00 pm en Plaza Zaragoza

• Recorridos Trolebús Centro Histórico y Villa de Seris: salidas de la Plaza Zaragoza a las 4:30 pm, 6:00 pm y 7:30 pm

• Recorridos Trolebús Hermosillo a Casa de los Duendes: salida de la Plaza Zaragoza a las 5:00 pm y 7:00 pm

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Circuito Bronco y NORRA Mexican 1000 en abril.

Espectacular luce abril para el off road con eventos internacionales como el rally NORRA Mexican 1000, Sonora Rally o Circuito Bronco que acaparan atención e interés en Ensenada, Hermosillo y La Paz. Del 14 al 16 de abril los seriales VORRA y SNORE alistan sus carreras, Prospector 250 en Yerrington, Nevada en el caso de los primeros y Battle Of The Primm en Primm, Nevada en los segundos,…

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Pablo Quintanilla comienza el Sonora Rally con tercer puesto en la Etapa 1, Tosha Schareina primero

El piloto chileno Pablo Quintanilla comenzó de buena forma el Sonora Rally en la primera etapa de mayor duración al terminar tercero a 41 segundos de la punta. El ganador del día fue el español Tosha Schareina, que se estrenó al mando de una Honda fuera de la estructura oficial. Nacho Cornejo anotó la P16 a casi 9 minutos luego de tener que abrir ruta por los resultados del prólogo.

“Este fue sin duda un buen día para mí. No ha sido un día fácil, la primera parte de la etapa ha tenido mucha navegación en la vegetación ya que a veces ha costado ver la pista. Traté de encontrar un buen ritmo y, sinceramente, me sentí bien. No es fácil ir rápido porque un error puede ocurrir en cualquier momento. Montar a buen ritmo fue realmente la clave. Estoy encantado de estar en un nuevo escenario y tener muchos espectadores en el camino también lo hace especial” declaró Quintanilla luego de completar la etapa.

El Top 5 de la etapa detrás de Schareina lo completaron Daniel Sanders, Quintanilla, Matthias Walkner y Sam Sunderland.

Clasificación General - Etapa 1 de 5

Tosha Schareina (Honda) 2:17:57

Daniel Sanders (GasGas) +0:54

Pablo Quintanlla (Honda) +1:29

Matthias Walkner (KTM) +2:18

Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna) +2:21

Adrien van Beveren (Honda) +2:28

Ricky Brabec (Honda) +2:52

Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) +2:53

Sam Sunderland (GasGas) +3:24

Ross Branch (Hero) +5:07

#Pablo Quintanilla #Tosha Schareina #Sonora Rally #W2RC #FIM W2RC #Nacho Cornejo #Mundial de Rally Raid #Honda HRC #Honda Racing

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RALLY SONORA 2023-Resultado SS3 CARROS

1-202-Yazeed AL RAJHI\Michael Moor ,Toyota GR Hylux T1+, T1+ ,3h27min22s

2-205-Sebastiam Halpern\Bernardo Graue, Mini Cooper T1+ , T1+ , 3h30min31s

3-201-Nasser All Attyah\Matheu Baumel, Toyota GR Hylux T1+, T1+,

3h31min17s

4-204-Guerlain Chicheret\ Alex Winocq, Prodrive Hunter T1+, T1+, 3h32min06s

5-203-Juan Cruz Yacopiani\Daniel Oliveras,Toyota GR Hylux T1+, T1+, 3h35min51s

Geral Após SS3

1-201-Nasser All Attyah\Matheu Baumel, Toyota GR Hylux T1+, T1+,6h 34 min36s

2-202-Yazeed AL RAJHI\Michael Moor ,Toyota GR Hylux T1+, T1+ ,6h37min27s

3-205-Sebastiam Halpern\Bernardo Graue, Mini Cooper T1+ , T1+ ,6h39min42s

4-204-Guerlain Chicheret\ Alex Winocq, Prodrive Hunter T1+, T1+, 6h40min19s

5-208-Dennis Krotov\Konstantin Zhiltov,Minbi Cooper T1+, T1+, 6h48min19s

Creditos Imagens do Autoesporte.PT

Sebastien Loeb, teve que abandonar porter quebrado o carro numa vala,e também pelo navegador Fabian Lurquin ter tido ferimentos fisícos.

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#w2rc #rally sonora #cobertura #t1+#Youtube #rally

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Slightly disrupted day four of the Sonora Rally 2023 https://www.totalmotorcycle.com/slightly-disrupted-day-four-of-the-sonora-rally-2023/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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SIEMBRA

A Sequel to Narcos

Chapter 5: What is evidence worth?

Title: What is evidence worth?

Rating: 18+ (M)ature

Warnings: Cursing, heavy emotions

Word Count: 2500

Pairing: Javier x Female OC, Male OCs x Female OCs

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A/N: This, my dear readers, is a dialogue heavy chapter.

“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”

“Sit,” Javier pulled a chair out for Thomas before tossing the folder on the desk.

“You read through all of them already, Professor?”

“Yea,” he shuffled through the first research paper until he found his red-inked annotations. “This.”

Thomas inched over the stack of books to take a look. “General Guitierrez Rebollo…”

Javier continued to shuffle through a few more papers and placed them side by side for Thomas to review. “Sonora Governor…and Carrillo Fuentes?” He looked his student over with curiosity.

“That’s right. All tied to the Juarez Cartel. According to some sources, Carrillo Fuentes gave the General a luxury apartment in Mexico City after he was appointed ‘Anti-drug Czar.’ And over there,” his finger traced over the map, “The Sonoran government has allegedly provided protection for Carrillo Fuentes.”

It was evident Thomas had subsisted on caffeine for the past two weeks. He couldn’t keep his hands from shaking nor could he refrain from speaking so fast. There was a ketchup stain on his t-shirt that Javier couldn’t stop looking at.

“I’ve got a timeline here somewhere,” he looked through his notebook. “I’m just trying to fill in the gaps.”

“Thomas!”

He jumped as Javier called his name.

“I’ve read through all of this. It’s…solid work. But…Look, I didn’t ask you last time, and it’s been bothering me ever since. Where are you getting all this information? The sources, the names of DFS officers? Information on certain members of the Juarez Cartel, for Christ’s sake, are you in on something?”

“Am I in on something?”

Javier paced in front of the bookshelf, scratching his cheek. “I know I told you to bring me all you’ve got, but…What you are doing is setting yourself up to get killed.”

“Can I ask you something, Professor?”

“That’s what I’m getting paid for.”

“Do you have any family in Mexico?”

“A few aunts and uncles, some cousins.”

“Do you ever think about how this drug war affects them?”

“Ha, alright look,” he made no effort to disguise the mockery in his voice. “Get some sleep. You sure could use it. All of this…I’m sorry to break it to you, but as solid as it is, won’t make a damn difference here or in Mexico. Do yourself a favor and find a new area of focus.”

“Is that a no?”

“Thomas, Texas…is really all I know.”

•••

Thomas Hirsch was a kid accustomed to rejection. His father left him at a young age in pursuit of a new life in California, and it was something that he learned to accept early on.

Despite being one of the most articulate students in his major, he couldn’t afford to take one of the more prestigious unpaid internships because he had to pay what wasn’t included in his scholarship. His mom’s job as a teacher wouldn’t cover all the expenses, but it did set the foundation for his agile mind. Javier's attempt to dissuade him from his research had failed. It only made him want to work harder, and he was more than willing to piss off his professor in the process.

“Look what I got!” Angie’s high-pitched voice flooded his ears.

“Let me guess, I smell…churros!”

She planted a small kiss on his lips, tasting the remnants of coffee.

“Figured you could use something sweet now.”

He was sitting on the floor of their shared apartment with a typewriter on his lap and a stack of files surrounding him.

The sugar melted on his tongue, and he smiled at her with churro-stuffed cheeks. Thomas and Angie had been dating for three years. He knew he fell in love with her on day one. It sounds cheesy, but he swears it’s true. During his third semester, he and a few classmates organized a rally to protest certain changes in the asylum policy of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Out of the fifty that signed up to join him, only five did. Angie was one of them. While some passersby boo-ed Thomas or laughed at him, Angie listened from a corner under the shade of a tree. She stayed after everyone left, and then, she just walked over to him, and helped him carry his posters, microphone, and bags. From that moment on, they were inseparable.

“Did you get a chance to call your brother?”

She moved some of his books aside and sat on the floor next to him. “He said the reporter is willing to meet with you, but with a few conditions. First, you only quote him by his pseudonym. Second, you have to show him what you write before you hand it over to any faculty member.”

“And you’re sure Anibal is okay with this?”

“Yea. I asked him if mami y papi had any idea about all this, but he said no. He doesn’t want to tell them. I’m worried though, I mean... be real with me, a reporter from Mexico City shows up at our cantina…and –“

“How do you know he’s from Mexico City?”

“Anibal could tell from his accent…and by the way he dressed…and his mannerisms.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s not hard to tell what part of Mexico a Mexican is from, mi amor.” She laughed. “But Anibal says he trusts him. Says that he isn’t out here hyping shit up…that he’s building an entire case on Amado Carrillo Fuentes.”

“Your brother said something else though…when he last called me with information about the Juarez Cartel… that the reporter sometimes went to the cantina with an older partner?”

“A drunk from what I hear…”

“You think Anibal can tell the reporter to come to campus? Wouldn’t hurt to have access to the library stacks. When in doubt…seek the books…Hasn’t failed me once.”

•••

Jenny chewed on her pen as she waited for Chucho to pick up.

“Hi there, pop! How’s your mornin’ lookin’?”

“Jenny! Hi mija! Caught me just in time. Was puttin’ my boots on to head downtown. Everything okay?”

“Everythin’s just fine. I was callin’…and I hope it’s not too brash of me, but…you think I could stop and take a look at Mrs. Peña’s recipes?”

Chucho looked at the empty rocking chair on the porch.

“I’d be happy to pull em out of the attic. Should have em ready for you by the time you’re out of work.”

While Javier could devour a chicken fried steak, she could tell that he didn’t get the same satisfaction from eating it as he did when he ate his aunt’s barbacoa. She knew she’d never be able to cook an authentic Mexican dish, but it’s the thought that counted… maybe food is the key to this man’s heart.

What Jenny would later learn from Chucho, as they talked over a cup of black coffee that evening, was how Little Javi would sometimes hide his lunch at school because he was worried that some of the kids would make fun of his traditional homecooked meals.

One time, during his first year of high school, he gave everyone at home the silent treatment. Over dinner, he confessed that some classmates called him a cholo on the school bus. Javier never fought them, never threw a punch, but there was a change in his attitude.

There was a marked difference between the boy on the ranch and the boy in class. On the ranch, he’d whistle to his mother’s Jose Jose records. On the route to school, he’d head rock to Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog or the Eagle’s Take it Easy. He had two identities, but he was firm in calling himself a Texan because that way, he wasn’t confronted with the nagging sensation that he had to pick one identity over the other.

Jenny raised her eyebrows upon discovering that Javier’s first love wasn’t whiskey, but tequila. No one else knew it, but the father and son would sip the drink during the long summer nights after Mama Peña settled in for the night. In the seventies, however, the drink was still considered inferior, unworthy of sophistication. So when the eighteen year old went off to college, he opted for a domestic drink, and over the years his palette got used to whiskey.

Chucho sighed as he shared these stories, knowing that Javier would be upset if he heard him recounting those memories. As a father, he always let his son make his own choices…even if they’d end up biting him. People learn through experience, and Chucho hoped that Javier had been bitten enough to learn what was good for him. But Javier wouldn’t hear any of it. Frankly, he was fed up of hearing the same thing over and over under people’s hushed breaths – will he ever settle down? Will he ever give his father grandchildren?

As if there was nothing more to life than marrying and having children, as if somehow, he was less of a man because of it. It was easy to judge a man they didn’t know. There were many things in his past that he regrated, many choices he wouldn’t let go, but living an independent life was not one. Deep down he knew that maybe he would commit to a woman... if he truly loved her…if he actually found her.

All the women in his life shared something tangible – whether they were beautiful or erotic, kind or vengeful – Javier could describe what he felt towards them or for them – lust or protectiveness, fondness or exhilaration. But he hadn't found the woman that left him without the words to describe the intangible emotions of his heart. So he never settled down.

The more Chucho looked at Jenny, the more a sadness swelled within him. She was a good girl, but there was something about good girls that Javier chose to forgo. Solitude was cruel. It was something Chucho learned after his wife’s passing, and he feared his son’s choices would lead him to that same destiny. But Javier could accept solitude, what he couldn’t accept was conformity.

•••

The flies entered through the hole in the rusted window screen. There was a nauseating smell coming from the butcher shop as the humid Texas air blew towards Cesar’s second floor. Eduardo dialed the apartment in Coyoacan, hoping that she hadn’t already taken off.

“Alo?”

“Soy yo…”

“Desgraciado!” Ximena spit out.

“Cariño, please listen. Please, just…”

“Do you know how many times I’ve had to lie on your behalf! Los pinche periodicos haven’t stopped writing about you. I’ve even had several stations follow me around campus, hoping to get a word out of me.”

“What did you say to them?”

“The same thing I tell my father and everyone who asks me about you…that I have no damn clue. That I haven’t spoken to you since you quit your job lecturing at UNAM and writing for the newspaper."

“What are they saying about me? Your family?”

“Papa wants me to break up with you. He says…he says this is bad for business. He’s worried that the hacienda is going to get mal de ojo. That you’ve fucked up your chances to advance in your writing career.”

“And what did you tell him?”

Silence.

“Ximena, what did you tell him?”

“What did you want me to tell him?”

“The same things you told me when we walked around, hand in hand, in Puerto Vallarta… how upset you were to see the farmers’ lands razed to the ground, how you felt like a traitor to your own country, living in wealth, as those around the hacienda barely had enough to feed an entire family.”

Ximena slammed her balcony doors and sat at the edge of her bed. She was graduating in a few hours. Most of her belongings were packed, ready to be sent back to Guadalajara.

“You don’t think I still feel like that? I swear to god, Eduardo. I really thought we would make a change. I fell in love with you for that reason. I fell in love with you because you were like an ember that refused to die with the fire. Pero por Dios…look what it’s cost you.”

“Mi amor, this is my life’s work.”

“Yea, and what do you think my life’s work is? Now the hacienda is also my responsibility. I’m returning to Guadalajara this week. I don’t have the luxury to dream of a better country anymore. The hacienda is all I have now… and it’s the one thing I see surviving as this drug war continues.”

“So what are you saying? That you’ve given up on me?”

“Of course I haven’t but…what you wrote, it doesn’t just target el General. It targets everyone connected to him. There’s a lot of people right now throughout Mexico scrambling to cover their tracks.”

“Let them scramble! One day or another, this all has to end.”

She rubbed her eyes, smudging the black eyeliner onto the sides of her face. “Eduardo, don’t you think enough Mexicans have died? Or perhaps…you want to be a martyr? Because all of this writing, all of this talk about a social revolution, it won’t make a damn difference. You...you could've been here today....instead God knows where the hell you are, whispering into the phone, sacrificing your life for something that…has gotten much harsher than either of us can fathom...”

The animosity in her voice hurt him more than his own exile. He could’ve endured months, perhaps years in Texas if it meant that she’d receive him with open arms. But her callousness, her abandonment of those dreams they once shared, were enough to rip his heart apart.

“Ximena, when we first met, what did you tell me?”

“Eduardo, what does that have to do with any of this?”

“Just answer me. Do you remember the quote?”

“…Matamos lo que amamos. Lo demás no ha estado vivo nunca (We kill what we love. The rest has never before been alive).”

“Why did you quote Rosario Castellanos? I’ve never quite been able to stop wondering after all these years we’ve been together…”

“You were so fond of quoting the male heroes of the revolution that you left out the women every time you lectured."

“But why that specific quote?”

Before she could answer, Cesar pulled the chord from the wall.

“Que chingadas haces, cabron? No international calls!”

“Hijo de tu madre!” Eduardo could have punched him, but the anger in him disseminated into tears, cutting his ability to breathe or utter another word.

He hadn’t been able to wish his girlfriend congratulations on her graduation day and he was faced with the realization that the woman he loved didn’t think his life's work would make a damn difference.

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Translations:

Soy yo – it’s me

Alo? – Hello?

Desgraciado! – signifies displeasure with someone, that they betrayed or upset you; literally means disgraced

Cariño – dear

Los pinche periódicos – the damn newspapers

Que chingadas haces? – what the hell are you doing?

Hijo de tu madre – literally son of your mother, but is actually intended as SOB

Cholo - said as an insult; referring to a young Mexican American man associated with street gangs.

Mal de ojo - equivalent to 'evil eye'

Introductory quote by Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet

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Monday, March 22, 2021

Under Biden, A New Kind of Family Separation (Politico) The door to the U.S. has been shut tight to asylum seekers since last March, when the Trump administration issued an order at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic that every migrant—child or adult—would be immediately “expelled” back to Mexico or their home country if they attempted to cross the border, without even a chance to make a case that the persecution they face qualifies them to stay. After he took office this year, Joe Biden kept the policy largely in place, but began to admit unaccompanied minors even while continuing to expel both adults and children who enter with families. Since the shift in policy, some parents and guardians have made the devastating decision, calculated only out of desperation, to send their children off ahead of them, alone, to cross the border. The result is a new form of family separation—but instead of happening at the hands of federal agents in American government facilities, it’s taking place family by family. The fact that minors won’t be expelled like everyone else has rapidly spread by word of mouth across the length of the border. And while many families choose to stick together, the pressure to separate weighs heaviest on the most vulnerable—families who fear death, whether from persecutors who have followed them to the border, or from extreme hunger. One immigration official said, “This kind of information spreads like wildfire: If you hear about a child successfully making it, and your kids are desperate or sick or in danger, there are a lot of reasons why you would make that incredibly difficult decision.”

US businesses near border struggle with boundaries’ closure (AP) Evan Kory started calling brides in Mexico’s northern Sonora state last March, asking if they wanted to get their wedding gowns from his Arizona store just before the U.S. closed its borders with Mexico and Canada because of the coronavirus. His namesake shop in the border town of Nogales was popular among brides-to-be in northern Sonora for its large, affordable inventory, said Kory, the third-generation proprietor. Located steps from the border fence, Kory’s has been in business for half a century but has been closed for a year because of the pandemic, with its main customer base—Mexican day-trippers—largely unable to come to the U.S. and shop. In border towns across the U.S., small businesses are reeling from the economic fallout of the partial closure of North America’s international boundaries. Restrictions on nonessential travel were put in place a year ago to curb the spread of the virus and have been extended almost every month since, with exceptions for trade, trucking and critical supply chains. Small businesses, residents and local chambers of commerce say the financial toll has been steep, as have the disruptions to life in communities where it’s common to shop, work and sleep in two different countries.

Miami Beach mayor declares emergency as ‘wall-to-wall’ crowds descend on city, sparking virus fears (The Week) Miami Beach, Florida, Mayor Dan Gelber on Saturday declared a state of emergency, set an 8 p.m. curfew, and closed roads in the entertainment district as large crowds arrived in the city, sparking fears of another coronavirus surge. Law enforcement officials said people flocked to Miami Beach because they were looking for a place with fewer pandemic restrictions—Florida reopened earlier than most states—but city leadership thinks it’s gone too far, The New York Times reports. “Too many people are coming, really, without the intention of following the rules, and the result has been a level of chaos and disorder that is just something more than we can endure,” Gelber told CNN, adding that at night the city “feels like a rock concert, wall-to-wall people over blocks and blocks.” Raul Aguila, the interim city manager, said “you couldn’t see pavement, you couldn’t see grass.”

Eruption of Iceland volcano easing, not affecting flights (AP) The eruption of a long-dormant volcano that sent streams of lava flowing across a small valley in southwestern Iceland is easing and shouldn’t interfere with air travel, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said Saturday. The eruption is “minor” and there were no signs of ash or dust that could disrupt aviation, the agency said. In 2010, an eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland sent clouds of ash and dust into the atmosphere, interrupting air travel between Europe and North America because of concerns the material could damage jet engines. More than 100,000 flights were grounded, stranding millions of passengers.

Protesters Across Europe Clash With Police Over COVID-19 Lockdowns (NPR) Anger at restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic swept into the streets of Europe on Saturday. German police used water cannons, pepper spray and clubs on protesters rallying over the coronavirus lockdown in the town of Kassel in central Germany where demonstrators numbered some 20,000. Protests against government measures to rein in the pandemic were also reported in Austria, Britain, Finland, Romania and Switzerland. Protesters held placards that read, “Fear Westmonster, Not the Virus, and “Stop Destroying Our Kids’ Lives” as they marched in central London along Oxford Street, the Embankment and Parliament Square before heading up to Whitehall.

Europe’s COVID-19 setbacks risk another summer travel washout (Reuters) Europe’s airlines and travel sector are bracing for a second lost summer, with rebound hopes increasingly challenged by a hobbled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, resurgent infections and new lockdowns. Airline and travel stocks fell on Friday after Paris and much of northern France shut down for a month, days after Italy introduced stiff business and movement curbs for most of the country including Rome and Milan. The setbacks hit recovery prospects for the crucial peak season, whose profits typically tide airlines through winter, when most carriers lose money even in good times. Airlines that have already racked up billions in debt face further strain that some may not survive without fresh funds.

Massive religious gathering worries India as COVID-19 cases surge (Reuters) India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly four months. The ministry said up to 40 people were testing positive for COVID-19 daily around the site of the weeks-long Mahakumbh that began this month and peaks in April in the Himalayan holy town of Haridwar, next to the Ganges. The festival is held only once every 12 years. Organisers have said here more than 150 million visitors are expected, as many Hindus believe bathing in the river during this period absolves people of sins and bring salvation from the cycle of life and death.

Myanmar Protesters Answer Military’s Bullets With an Economic Shutdown (NYT) Bank tellers’ windows are gathering dust. Cargo at the port sits uncollected. And in grand government ministries in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, stacks of documents are curling in the humidity. There are few people to process all the paperwork. Since the military seized power in a coup last month, an entire nation has come to a standstill. From hospitals, railways and dockyards to schools, shops and trading houses, much of society has stopped showing up for work in an attempt to stymie the military regime and force it to return authority to a civilian government. While demonstrators continue to brave bullets—at least 220 people have been killed since the Feb. 1 coup, according to a local group that monitors political imprisonments and deaths—the quiet persistence of this mass civil disobedience movement has grown into a potent weapon against the military. For all the planning that went into the putsch, the generals seem to have been utterly unprepared for the breadth and depth of resistance against them. The effect of millions of people refusing to do their jobs has been dramatic, even if the military is built to withstand pressure. Up to 90 percent of national government activity has ceased, according to officials from four ministries.

N. Korean diplomats leaving Malaysia after ties are severed (AP) North Korean diplomats vacated their embassy in Malaysia and prepared to leave the country Sunday, after the two nations cut diplomatic relations in a spat over the extradition of a North Korean criminal suspect to the United States. Ties between North Korea and Malaysia have been virtually frozen since the 2017 assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Two days after Kuala Lumpur extradited a North Korean man to the U.S. to face money laundering charges, a furious North Korea on Friday announced it was terminating ties with Malaysia. Malaysia denounced the decision and in a tit-for-tat response, gave North Korean diplomats 48 hours to leave.

Strong quake shakes Japan; minor injuries, no major damage (AP) A strong earthquake struck Saturday off northern Japan, shaking buildings even in Tokyo and triggering a tsunami advisory for a part of the northern coast. No major damage was reported, but several people had minor injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey put the strength of the quake at magnitude 7.0 and depth at 54 kilometers (33.5 miles). The shaking started just before 6:10 p.m. The quake was centered off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, in the country’s rugged northeast, which was heavily damaged during the huge earthquake and tsunami of 2011 that left more than 18,000 people dead. The strong temblor caused a temporary blackout in some areas and suspended bullet train services in the area, according to the East Japan Railway Co.

Wary Philippines says 200 Chinese vessels at disputed reef (AP) The Philippine government expressed concern after spotting more than 200 Chinese fishing vessels it believed were crewed by militias at a reef claimed by both countries in the South China Sea, but it did not immediately lodge a protest. A government body overseeing the disputed region said late Saturday that about 220 Chinese vessels were seen moored at Whitsun Reef on March 7. It released pictures of the vessels lying side by side in one of the most hotly contested areas of the strategic waterway. The reef, which Manila calls Julian Felipe, is a boomerang-shaped and shallow coral region about 175 nautical miles (324 kilometers) west of Bataraza town in the western Philippine province of Palawan. It’s well within the country’s exclusive economic zone, over which the Philippines “enjoys the exclusive right to exploit or conserve any resources,” the agency said in a statement. China, the Philippines and four other governments have been locked in a tense territorial standoff over the resource-rich and busy waterway for decades.

Heavy rains in Australia’s east bring worst floods in 50 years (Reuters) Heavy rains along Australia’s east coast over the weekend have brought the worst flooding in half a century in some areas, authorities said on Sunday, forcing thousands to evacuate and damaging hundreds of houses. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the downpour across the state, Australia’s most populous with 8 million people, was worse than initially expected, especially for low-lying areas in Sydney’s northwest. People in parts of Sydney’s northwest were ordered to flee their houses in the middle of the night as fast-moving waters caused widespread destruction. Late on Sunday, about another 1,000 people were asked to evacuate, after Berejiklian said that some 4,000 people may be asked to leave their houses.

Pope Struggles to Contain Conservative-Liberal Tensions in Catholic Church (WSJ) Pope Francis is struggling to manage powerful bishops in the U.S. and Germany, two groups at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, as he tries to advance his progressive agenda without jeopardizing the unity of the Catholic Church. The election of President Biden, a progressive Catholic whom some U.S. bishops want to censure for his support of abortion rights, has exacerbated longstanding tensions between the pope and the largely conservative American episcopate. U.S. church leaders have resisted promoting the pope’s priorities of social and economic justice and care for the environment over opposition to abortion and defense of religious freedom. On the left, the pope is trying to rein in German bishops who—encouraged by the pope’s liberalizing gestures on topics including sexuality, ecumenism and the role of women—are pressing for changes that go further than Pope Francis is comfortable with, and that conservatives warn could cause a schism. Each country presents “a different set of issues, a different set of struggles but I think some of the underlying dynamics are the same,” said Adam DeVille, a professor of theology at Indiana’s University of Saint Francis. “In both cases, the pope I think is really trying to say, ‘come on guys, let’s rein it in here, let’s get back into the same lane all together.’”

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