El Magonista | Vol. 11, No. 36 | NOV. 23, 2023

Clint Hill remembers President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as if it happened yesterday. At the age of 91, the event still plays like a movie in the former Secret Service agent’s mind.

“I have this sense of guilt. I should have been able to do more than I did,” he told documentary filmmakers.

Hill is one of the voices featured in “JFK: One Day in America,” a new three-part series from National Geographic premiering Nov. 5 in advance of the 60th anniversary of the president’s death on Nov. 22, 1963.

The documentary also includes interviews with several other eyewitnesses including a fellow Secret Service member, a co-worker of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and journalists who were waiting to cover the jail transport of Oswald and witnessed his murder instead. 

“We weren’t sure how many people would actually still be around, to be honest,” director Ella Wright said.

Several key sources have died throughout the intervening years, and it wasn’t clear what the remaining eyewitnesses — many of whom are in their 80s or 90s — might be willing or able to share.

But most of the people producers reached out to agreed to interviews, producer Charlotte Rodrigues reported, with several of those interviews lasting seven hours or longer.

“They still feel it and think about it and, actually, they’re incredibly vivid in their recall of it. They’re incredibly emotional about it still,” executive producer David Glover added. “That leads to a very intense documentary and, in a way, their age just adds to that intensity rather than diminishing from it... READ MORE

By Albert Bender | People's World | NOV. 21, 2023 | Photo By Steven Senne

Once again, we approach another Thanksgiving holiday (or Un-Thanksgiving or Thanks-taking Day—take your pick depending on who you are). There is the mythology we’ve all been taught: happy generic Native Americans sitting with equally happy Pilgrims over a long table filled with the finest delicacies the land had to offer in a sumptuous feast “fit for a king,” to use an old Anglo-Saxon expression. The air is filled with good-natured banter, the sounds of the first Thanksgiving. That is the image depicted in much of mainstream society’s pop culture.

Then there is the real story: the anguished, ear-piercing screams of hundreds of Indigenous women and children as they are ruthlessly cut down by sword-wielding soldiers, shot down by merciless Pilgrims, burned alive in the fire of their own dwellings. The wanton slaughter continues until untold numbers are unspeakably slain. These are the real sounds of the first Thanksgiving.

The year is 1637, the year that saw the true story of the first Thanksgiving.

The false narrative is a very comfortable one that has been perpetuated in mainstream history books, in schools, in advertising and marketing, and in the media for more than a hundred years.... READ MORE

By Mexico News Daily Staff | Mexico News Daily
NOV. 20, 2023 | Photo by Andrea Murica

Today marks the 113th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, a critical event in Mexico’s history that helped shape the country’s modern political and social structures.

Here are the basics you need to know about the Mexican Revolution.

When was the Mexican Revolution?
The Mexican Revolution was an armed conflict that began in 1910 as a rebellion against General Porfirio Díaz’s prolonged rule. However, it quickly escalated into a civil war with various factions vying for control of the revolution. An estimated 2 million people died in the conflict, which continued until 1920. 

Why is Revolution Day on Nov. 20?
When President Porfirio Díaz was elected for another term in 1910, former candidate and liberal leader Francisco I. Madero launched a plan to overthrow him.

The plan had a main motto: “Effective suffrage, no re-election.” It demanded labor rights and land distribution, which were sought after by social groups against Díaz.

According to the Chronology of the Revolution by the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Revolutions of Mexico (Inehrm), the plan called for an armed struggle on Nov. 20, from 6 p.m. onwards, in which all citizens of the Republic were called to take up arms to overthrow Díaz... READ MORE

Por Omar Barrientos Nieto | El Pais | NOV. 18, 2023 
Foto Cortesia de Archivo Fotográfico Díaz, Delgado y García

Desde distintas trincheras, las soldaderas combatieron contra los más de 30 años de dictadura porfirista

No se puede contar la historia de la Revolución mexicana sin incluir la participación de mujeres que también lucharon por la democracia. Desde antes de la proclamación del Plan de San Luis, de Francisco I. Madero, las mujeres ya sumaban esfuerzos para poner punto final a los más de 30 años de dictadura porfirista. Las hermanas Carmen y Natalia Serdán fundaron clubes antirreeleccionistas; y las periodistas Elisa Acuña y Juana Belén Gutiérrez publicaron editoriales contra Porfirio Díaz. Las mujeres también sumaron fuerzas en el frente de batalla; lo hicieron como soldaderas o adelitas. Se dedicaron a distribuir armas, municiones, a curar enfermos y heridos, y a dirigir partidas de soldados en la lucha armada contra el ejército federal.

Mujeres En El Inicio De La Revolución Mexicana
Las elecciones de 1910 pusieron en la urna dos propuestas políticas: el continuismo de Porfirio Díaz y el “sufragio efectivo, no reelección” de Francisco I. Madero. El candidato del Partido Antirreeleccionista fue encarcelado semanas antes de la jornada electoral, acusado de pronunciar discursos contra Porfirio Díaz. Madero escapó de prisión y se refugió en San Antonio, Texas. Desde el otro lado de la frontera proclamó el Plan de San Luis Potosí, convocando al levantamiento armado contra la dictadura para el 20 de noviembre de ese mismo año.

La lucha contra el régimen de Díaz inició de forma anticipada en Puebla. La familia Serdán fue la primera en dirigir sus fusiles contra la dictadura. Luego de que el gobernador del Estado, Mucio Martínez, descubriera la conspiración, las hermanas Carmen y Natalia Serdán comenzaron a distribuir armas y municiones desde la Portería de Santa Clara. Ocultaron los fusiles en sus vestidos y los llevaron a su hogar. Desde ese lugar dispararon contra los más de 400 soldados que encabezaron el asalto contra la familia. Tras el enfrentamiento, murieron Máximo y Aquiles Serdán. Carmen y María del Carmen, la madre de todos ellos, fueron encarceladas... READ MORE

Por Nadia Cantu | AZ Central | NOV. 17, 2023 | Foto Por Marco Ugarte

El 20 de noviembre en México es fecha de festejo.

Se conmemora el aniversario de la Revolución Mexicana con desfiles en todas las ciudades del país donde estudiantes y empleados gubernamentales participan y disfrutan de la celebración.

Desde 1936 hasta la fecha se realiza el Desfile del 20 de Noviembre en la Ciudad de México en el que participan contingentes deportivos que pertenecen a instituciones gubernamentales.

Según el sitio oficial del Gobierno del Estado de México, la Revolución Mexicana se dio cuando Francisco I. Madero proclamó el Plan de San Luis en 1910 conminando a los mexicanos a levantarse en armas contra el Porfiriato.... LEER MAS

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has a few goals he wants to achieve as a result of millions of dollars his department has invested in the last few years into multilingual education.

“More students that graduate with the seal of biliteracy, more dual language programs, more teachers who are certified to teach bilingual education. These are some of the indicators that we’re going to look at to see if it’s finding success,” Cardona said in an interview with Education Week.

On Nov. 16, he hosted a national convening in-person and online to promote the “Being Bilingual is a Superpower” initiative led by the department’s office of English language acquisition, or OELA.

The event highlighted some of the latest work from the department that is focused on supporting English learners and broadening access to multilingual education for all students... READ MORE

Univision has found itself at the center of a growing controversy after a recent interview with former President Trump that critics have blasted as too friendly.

The interview that aired Nov. 9 was noticeably warm, and Trump received little pushback as he gave false or misleading statements on border security and immigration policies he instituted as president.

Backlash from certain corners of the Latino community was swift, including calls for more balanced reporting and an outright boycott of the television network ahead of the 2024 election.

Latinos are considered a crucial voting bloc — and largely up for grabs — in next year’s election, likely to be a rematch between Trump and President Biden. Although Latino voters have historically favored Democrats, the Republican Party in recent years has made significant progress in courting their votes.

The exclusive interview with Trump therefore raised significant alarms within the Democratic Party and its allies that the leading Republican candidate was making unchecked claims to important swing voters... READ MORE

After former President Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2017, beneficiaries of it experienced significantly higher levels of distress and post-traumatic stress diagnoses than their non-DACA counterparts, according to a new study from Rice University.

President Joe Biden has pledged to preserve DACA, but its future remains uncertain. As a result, stress is prevalent for those who benefit from the program, the researchers wrote.

The article "Anti-immigration policy and mental health: Risk of distress and trauma among deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients in the United States" has been published in a recent edition of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. The study examines the association between immigration legal status and distress from the announcement of DACA's termination among individuals affected by the loss of the program.

Approximately 40% of the 233 individuals surveyed met the clinical cutoff for psychological distress. Lead author Luz Garcini, assistant professor of psychological sciences and interim director of community and public health at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice, noted that DACA recipients had significantly higher levels of distress, even when compared to non-DACA immigrants with unauthorized immigration legal status... READ MORE