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Fear of Leaving and Not Returning to Nicaragua
Havana Times
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July 14, 2025
The anxiety of a forced Exile Nicaragua has become a prison for many Nicaraguans, who at the same time fear leaving and finding themselves in forced exile. // Photo art: CONFIDENCIAL When traveling outside of Nicaragua, many face the fear of not...
Deep Dive: Guatemala’s Manufactured Indigenous Water Crisis
Inkstick Media
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July 11, 2025
A new Human Rights Watch report, “Without Water, We Are Nothing,” documented Guatemala’s severe water crisis and its disproportionate impact on Indigenous communities, particularly women and children. Despite having more freshwater per capita than...
The economics of organics: opportunities and uncertainty in 2025
Fresh Plaza
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July 11, 2025
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the annual Organic Produce Summit was held in Monterey, California. Thursday morning was filled with educational sessions with one of them covering the economics of organics. Walt Duflock of Western Growers...
Superbook Brings Hope to Children in Guatemala
CBN News
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In the heart of Guatemala, where many families face daily struggles with poverty and limited access to resources, a special event brought light, laughter, and the love of God to a group of children who needed it most. As part of a mobile medical...
The extreme violence behind the international trade in drugs
The Catholic Herald Online
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July 11, 2025
Whoever argues that drug use is essentially a victimless crime, or simply the right of the autonomous individual to please him or herself, may be ignorant of the violence that underpins the trade. Drugs cartels have, for instance, pushed Mexico...
Lakeland leaders create strategy to spur economic growth of Memorial Boulevard
WFTS Tampa Bay - Florida
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July 10, 2025
LAKELAND, Fla. — Lakeland leaders are looking to make major economic improvements to Memorial Boulevard, one of the city's busiest roadways. When Evon Reaves opened Mama's Southern Soul Food in Lakeland two years ago, he wanted to fill a void in...
From Guatemala to Gaza, genocide denial thwarts justice
The Electronic Intifada
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July 10, 2025
Ana Maria Monjardino The Electronic Intifada 10 July 2025 A poster in Guatemala City shows a Guatemalan and Palestinian woman holding hands. It reads “Stop the genocide. Solidarity with Palestine.” CPR UrbanaDistorting the historical narrative is...
Inmigrantes
Valley Courier - Colorado
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By DAVID LENDERTS Imagine what it must be like to move from your homeland to a new country, leaving behind familiar skies, land and climate; leaving behind familiar social customs, cuisine, family, friends, and even, in many cases, language. For...
Social media dessert phenomenon now available at Massachusetts flea market
MassLive - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
SPRINGFIELD — When Noe Yolindo Ambrocio-Perez collided with a concrete pole in mid-May, an affidavit in federal court says he carried a Guatemalan identification card and had an open container of Modelo beer in the van he was driving. The...
ICE deports Iowa parishioner to Guatemala homeland as supporters pray for his release
OSV News
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July 10, 2025
(OSV News) — Hours after a July 6 prayer vigil that Bishop Dennis G. Walsh of Davenport, Iowa, led for immigrant construction worker Pascual Pedro Pedro, Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities deported the 20-year-old West Liberty, Iowa,...
U.S.A. shuts down Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
DGR News
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July 9, 2025: Tuesday (July 8, 2025), Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles...
Boston’s best cheap eats: 19 places to grab a bite for $20 or less
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Dining out in Boston can feel like getting politely mugged (or, occasionally, impolitely mugged). But for a city with a notoriously expensive dining scene, there are a number of lower-cost, high-value delights, from hand-pulled noodles to...
Names make it tough to ignore human impact of news
The Times Republican - Iowa
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One longtime truism of journalism is “Names make news.” That shorthand stems from the fact people better understand the significance and context of news when they learn about events and issues through the eyes and experiences of people they know...
ICC and WCO release trade facilitation recommendations for enhanced integrity at borders
World Customs Organization
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US$1.2 to US$1.5 trillion. That's the staggering annual cost of bribery alone – equal to roughly 2% of annual global GDP. But bribery represents just one facet of corruption's devastating impact. The true cost runs far deeper, undermining the very...
Manifesto of the Feminist Anti-Carceral Network of Latin America
It's Going Down
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July 14, 2025
The following manifesto documents the formation, organization, politics, and methodologies of the Feminist Anti-Carceral Network of Latin America. Originally published in Spanish on Desinformémonos, it was translated by Scott Campbell. Faced with...
Man sentenced in deadly DUI crash, victim's family flies in from Guatemala
ABC 30 - California
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July 10, 2025
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Nearly nine months after a deadly DUI crash in Fresno County, the driver has accepted a plea deal. Thousands of miles from her home in Guatemala, a devastated mother confronts the man responsible for her son's death....
Taiwanese leader said to be planning US ‘stopover’ that’s set to anger Beijing
South China Morning Post
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July 15, 2025
Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te is planning a US “stopover” trip in August that could take him to New York and Texas en route to South America, sources said, a move that is bound to anger Beijing. On Monday, Paraguayan President Santiago...
5 Tips For When It Is Time To Quit
Forbes
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HAMBURG, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 10: A Team of nine women and one man set a world record of the longest ... More distance running in high heels on a treadmill in thirty minutes at Holmes Place on November 10, 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by...
Landscaper dies after being electrocuted in Oakland Park
NBC 6 Miami - Florida
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July 14, 2025
A landscaper was killed in Oakland Park on Monday after he was electrocuted, his employer said. According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to reports of an electrocution in the 1700 block of Northeast 39th Street. Deputies said...
Two Guatemalans Died After Rockfall Caused by Earthquakes
teleSUR
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Destruction caused by earthquakes in Guatemala, July 8, 2025. X/ @azucenau July 9, 2025 Hour: 7:52 am On Wednesday, the Guatemalan government confirmed the deaths of two men who were traveling in a vehicle when it was crushed by a giant boulder...