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Mexico's Populist Landslide
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Katie Linthicum ~ LA Times ~ July 1, 2018
A new era in politics in Mexico could have profound implications there - and in the U.S.
In Mexico's election on Sunday, voters sent a message: They're fed up with the country's rampant corruption, escalating crime and sluggish economy. In a landslide, they selected leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as their next president. AMLO, as he is known, had run and lost twice before, but this time his campaign struck a chord - and delivered another victory in the march of populism, which has gained traction not only in the U.S. but also Europe, albeit mostly on the right. Lopez Obrador is expected to be less deferential to Washington than his predecessors, but what that means for U.S.-Mexico relations is unclear. Among the many foreign leaders offering congratulations: President Trump.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won Sunday's presidential election by a landslide, ushering in a new era in Mexican politics that could have profound implications for the country's domestic and international policies - including its relationship with the United States.
Lopez Obrador's projected margin of victory was 31 percentage points - the largest in Mexico's recent electoral history. His opponents conceded before any actual results were released, based on exit polls showing the firebrand populist's commanding lead.
AMLO llama a la reconciliación y al combate contra la corrupción
Por Redacción ~ El Universal ~ 1 de Julio 2018
El abanderado de la coalición de Morena, PT y PES, "Juntos Haremos Historia", Andrés Manuel López Obrador, agradeció a quien votó por él, a quien no votó por él y a los tres candidatos que reconocieron este domingo su triunfo electoral, luego de que el conteo rápido le diera alrededor del 50% según el último corte del INE del día.
Luego de salir de su casa campaña a las 19:45 horas, quien fuera tres veces candidato a la presidencia se dirigió a un hotel ubicado en la zona centro de la Ciudad de México.
Ahí, en su primer mensaje luego de cerrarse las casillas, llamó a la reconciliación y a poner por encima de intereses personales el interés superior y el interés general. "La patria es primero", dijo, ante el aplauso de sus simpatizantes.
"El nuevo proyecto de nación buscará establecer una auténtica democracia, no apostamos a construir una dictadura abierta ni encubierta, los cambios serán profundos, pero se darán en apego al orden legal establecido, habrá libertad empresarial, de expresión, de asociación y de creencias, se garantizarán todas las libertadas individuales y sociales, así como los derechos ciudadanos y políticos consagrados en nuestra Constitución".
En cuanto al tema económico, prometió que "el nuevo gobierno mantendrá disciplina financiera y fiscal, se reconocerán los compromisos contraídos con empresas, bancos nacionales y extranjeros", y explicó que "los contratos del sector energético por particulares serán revisados para prevenir actos de corrupción e ilegalidad". Leer Más
'They Reached In and Tore Out a Piece of My Heart'
By Julia Preston ~ Politico ~ June 20, 2018
LOS FRESNOS, Texas- On the border, a father must choose between fighting for a new life and seeing his son again. The first day after they were caught hiding in tall grass near the Rio Grande, before they were separated, the Honduran father and his 7-year-old son were detained in an air-conditioned Border Patrol station. After a night in the thick heat of borderlands summer, the boy was shivering, and he asked his father insistently to hold him to keep him warm.
That was what the father, Mauricio Posadas Andrade, recalled in the days after border officers pried his son away from him on June 12, and after he was confined with dozens of other migrant parents in a detention center near Brownsville. For 10 days he had no communication with his namesake son, Mauricio, and no idea where he was. Seized with insomnia, Posadas imagined that the boy had been taken back to the Border Patrol "icebox" and was freezing there without him.
The relief was powerful 10 days later when he was summoned by a guard to a phone and heard his son's small voice. Now at least he knows the boy is safe, in a climate-controlled federal children's shelter in Phoenix.
What Posadas doesn't know is when he will see his son again. The detention center near Los Fresnos, the benignly named Port Isabel Service Processing Center, has been designated by the Department of Homeland Security as a hub for migrant parents in the whipsawing crisis created by the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy for people who crossed the border illegally. Read More
WORLD PREMIERE: Advance Parole (2018)
A DACA-mented immigrant's plight to re-establish Advance Parole to be able to reunite with her family in times of hardship.
Watch the full feature in English with Spanish subtitles:
Watch the full feature in English-only with no subtitles:https://vimeo.com/273236805
For more information on Advance Parole, visit: www.advanceparole.org
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In the midst of the chaotic political debate regarding the termination of DACA and the uncertain legal state of Dreamers, lies the suspension of a little-known immigration provision called Advance Parole, which has caused an unacknowledged humanitarian crisis for many Dreamers and their families ever since. In the past, DACA recipients were allowed to take short trips for humanitarian, educational or employment purposes. This is how the CMSC took 160 Dreamers to Mexico since 2014, but this is no longer the case and the consequences have been devastating.
Mayra Garibo, a Senior at CSU Dominguez Hills and a DACA recipient, could not attend her dad's funeral when he passed away in Mexico early this year. She applied for humanitarian Advance Parole and was denied twice. Mayra was unable to pay the last respects to her beloved father whom she had not seen in 17 years. Now one of her grandparents has cancer and she wants to see him and take care of him before it is too late. But given the administration's heartless decision to suspend Advance Parole for Dreamers, Mayra has to choose between her family in Mexico and her life in the United States.
The film Advance Parole follows Mayra Garibo's efforts and leadership to challenge the system and pave the way not only for her to reunite with her family in Mexico, but also to prevent Dreamers from suffering a humanitarian and emotional crisis as she endured when her father passed away early this year.
Estreno Premier de Documental: 'Advance Parole':
Mayra Garibo, una Dreamer beneficiaria de DACA solicita el re-establecimiento de Advance Parole por razones humanitarias para poder reunirse con su familia en momentos difíciles por la muerte de su padre y la condición de salud precaria de sus abuelos.
Entre el caos del debate político sobre la eliminación de DACA y el precario estado legal de los Dreamers, se encuentra la suspensión de una provisión de DACA poco conocida y llamada Advance Parole (Permiso de Viajero), la cual ha causado una crisis humanitaria para los beneficiaros de DACA y sus familias en el exterior del país. En el pasado, a los beneficiarios de DACA se les permitía realizar viajes cortos con fines humanitarios, educativos o de empleo. Este fue el permiso que el CMSC uso para llevar 160 Dreamers a México, pero ya no es posible y las consecuencias han sido devastadoras.
Mayra Garibo, en cuarto año de su licenciatura en CSU Dominguez Hills y una beneficiaria de DACA, no pudo asistir al funeral de su padre cuando falleció súbitamente por un accidente en México a principios de este año. Ella solicitó un permiso de Advance Parole humanitario y fue rechazada dos veces. Mayra no pudo darle el último adiós a su amado padre, a quien no había visto en 17 años y solo pudo ver por teléfono su misa fúnebre. Ahora su abuelo tiene cáncer y su abuela esta delicada por una grave operación y Mayra quiere ver a sus abuelos y cuidarlos antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Pero dada la despiadada decisión de la administración de Trump al suspender la provisión de Advance Parole para los soñadores DACA-mentados, Mayra se ve forzada a elegir entre su familia en México y su vida en los Estados Unidos.
El documental Advance Parole sigue la trayectoria y liderazgo de Mayra Garibo para desafiar el sistema y allanar el camino no solo para reunirse con su familia en México, sino también para evitar que otros Dreamers sufran una crisis humanitaria y emocional como la que ella tuvo que aguantar cuando su padre falleció a principios de este año.
Para más información sobre Advance Parole, visit: www.advanceparole.org
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