Tag Archives: Política
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PROGRAM # 8544 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings news and analysis on Mexican developments. Photo: Blog de Gina/Facebook For more information about Linea Abierta click here To visit Linea Abierta audio archives go to archivosderb.org
Fairness in the Fields. Also, The Call for a Green New Deal.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 PROGRAM # 8542 12:00 PM PT Fairness in the Fields. Democratic US legislators introduced the Fairness for Farm Workers Act to end the exclusion of farm workers from federal labor protections such as overtime pay and minimum wage. At the same time, advocates in New York push for a state law granting […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 PROGRAM # 8541 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The lawyer of 25 undocumented former Trump employees charge the president with criminal conspiracy to violate immigration and trafficking laws and a US legislator urges the FBI to investigate the case and protect the witnesses. Also, as hundreds of Central American migrants arrive to […]
El Salvador: New President. Also, Venezuela in the Crosshairs.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 PROGRAM # 8540 12:00 PM PT El Salvador: New President. Former San Salvador mayor Nayib Bukele was elected president in El Salvador with promises to combat corruption and violence, and stop mass migration. Bukele, who is credited with revitalizing the historic city downtown, built his reputation as a “millenial leader” through intense […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 PROGRAM # 8539 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. While in October 2018 the government of Guerrero eliminated the state law that recognized community police as legal, these law enforcement agencies will continue operating in the 240 towns where they operate, reported a regional leader who spent four years in prison for commanding […]
Self-Driving Cars: Caution. Also, Basic Income for All.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 PROGRAM # 8538 12:00 PM PT Self-Driving Cars: Caution. The arrival of self-driving robot cars and trucks is being praised as a tremendous technological advancement that is radically changing transportation. However, a civil rights group warns that without rules for the industry, this technological revolution will bring hell to people of color […]
State of the Union. Also, Texas Voters Purge.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 PROGRAM # 8537 12:00 PM PT State of the Union. After being delayed for one week over the shutdown fiasco, President Trump delivers his State of the Union speech. While calling for compromise and cooperation, Trump went on the attack demanding from Congress an end to investigations and money for the border […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 PROGRAM # 8536 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. On the day of the State of the Union speech, this program airs a report on the status of the wall negotiations in Congress, on Trump’s expected remarks about his fight with Democrats over the wall, his threats of another government shutdown or get […]
The Impact of the Citizenship Question.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 PROGRAM # 8535 12:00 PM PT The Impact of the Citizenship Question. As Trump lawyers urge the Supreme Court to let the Census ask everyone about their citizenship, demographic experts surveyed hard-to-count communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley to study the likely impact of the citizenship question on Latino immigrant response to […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 PROGRAM # 8534 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. More than 1500 corpses of people who were stored in the morgue of Jalisco were incinerated without being taken DNA samples thus preventing that someday these remains could be identified and claimed by their relatives. This measure adopted by the Jalisco state government since […]
