Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/18847f0d572f/mexicos-economy-is-sustained-by-us-remittances-remember-marco-antoniofirebaugh-and-happy-birthday-aoc
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
“The amount of U.S. remittances is more than what we spend to serve the poor” – Mexico's President López Obrador
By: Redacción, El Financiero – 10/09/2020
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador commented this Friday that the remittances sent by Mexican migrants to the country are greater than what his administration allocates to the poor.
"Remittances win over us. Never has Mexico allocated so much money to attend to the poor than we have, and in any case, the amount of remittances is more than what we destined to attend to the poor, " he said in his daily morning press conference.
In total, he added, the federal government directly grants about 600 billion pesos for support, scholarships and pensions, but remittances are higher... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
"Es más el monto de las remesas que lo que nosotros destinamos para atender a los pobres" – López Obrador
Por: Redacción, El Financiero – 10/09/2020
El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador comentó este viernes que las remesas enviadas por los migrantes mexicanos al país son mayores a lo que su administración destina a los pobres.
"Las remesas nos ganan incluso a nosotros. Nunca se había destinado tanto dinero para atender a los pobres y de todas maneras, de todas formas, es más el monto de las remesas que lo que nosotros destinados a atender a los pobres", aseguró en su conferencia matutina.
En total, añadió, el Gobierno federal otorga de manera directa cerca de 600 mil millones de pesos para apoyos, becas y pensiones, pero las remesas son mayores... Leer Artículo Completo
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Not even COVID-19 reduces U.S. remittances to Mexico, as they increase 9.3% in August 2020
By: GUILLERMO CASTAÑARES, El Financiero – 10/01/2020
The sending of money by compatriots to Mexico increased 9.3 percent August 2020, and thus maintaining the good pace presented despite the global pandemic due to coronavirus.
According to data from the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), remittances in the period from January to August of the current year were $26,395 billion dollars, compared to $24,138 billion dollars registered during the same period last year. On the eighth month of the year, $3,574 billion dollars were sent by Mexicans in the U.S... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Ni el COVID tumba las remesas a México, avanzan 9.3% en Agosto
By: GUILLERMO CASTAÑARES, El Financiero – 10/01/2020
El envío de dinero por parte de los connacionales hacia México aumentó 9.3 por ciento a tasa anual a agosto y con lo que mantienen el buen ritmo presentado pese a la pandemia mundial por coronavirus.
De acuerdo con datos del Banco de México (Banxico), las remesas en el periodo de enero a agosto del año en curso fueron de 26 mil 395.7 millones de dólares, frente a los 24 mil 138.41 millones de dólares registrados el mismo periodo del año pasado. Tan solo en el octavo mes del año, se registraron 3 mil 574 millones de dólares enviados por parte de los connacionales... Leer Artículo Completo
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Why U.S. Latinos are today’s 8th Largest Economy in the World?
The 2020 U.S. Latino GDP Report by the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), is a groundbreaking publication intended to reshape the perception of Latinos as part of the U.S. economy, in comparison to the world’s economic markets.
“The report shows that, during 2018, the nearly 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. generated the world’s eighth largest gross domestic product (GDP),” said Matthew Fienup, Executive Director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University, one of the report’s co-authors. “The GDP is the total value of all goods and services produced by a region in a given year.”
At an estimated $2.6 trillion, the U.S. Latino GDP would be larger than the GDP’s of Italy, Brazil, or South Korea, and just slightly behind India’s GDP. The GDP growth rate summarizes the performance of an economy. By that measure, the U.S. Latino GDP has the third-fastest growth rate of the world’s top ten GDPs, faster than the overall U.S. GDP. From 2010 to 2018, only China and India had faster GDP growth rates.
The report notes that just as aging Baby Boomers are leaving the U.S. work force, young Latinos are stepping up to fill those vacancies. These young Latino workers are also becoming highly educated. The number of Latinos with a bachelor’s degree or higher is growing about three times as fast as the number of non-Latinos with a bachelor’s or higher degree... Read Full Report
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Biden to shift US-Latin America policy
By TRACY WILKINSON, MOLLY O’TOOLE, L.A. TIMES – OCT. 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — A Biden White House is likely to dramatically shift U.S. policy in Central and Latin America away from President Trump’s laser focus on stopping immigration and return to the more traditional diplomatic tools of building democratic governments, fighting corruption and respecting human rights — changes that won’t be welcomed by some of the region’s leaders.
In contrast to Trump, Biden says that the best way to reduce illegal immigration to the U.S. is to fight the root causes, such as violence and poverty in countries to the south — problems that have only deepened because climate change is destroying crops and the coronavirus crisis is depleting economies... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Para Biden los Latinos son el futuro de Estados Unidos
Por: EFE , La Opinión – 09 de Octubre 2020
WASHINGTON – El candidato demócrata a la Casa Blanca Joe Biden aseguró este viernes que los latinos, que representan casi 20 % de la población en Estados Unidos, son el “futuro” del país, y consideró “ridículo” continuar con las políticas del presidente y su rival electoral republicano, Donald Trump.
“No estoy tratando de ser diligente, no intento ser amable, ustedes son el futuro del país. Hablo en serio, realmente lo son”, afirmó Biden durante un discurso en un evento con líderes de la comunidad hispana en Las Vegas (Nevada)... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
CMSC'S DREAMERS STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Angélica (Utah) - Advance Parole Voices
Angélica, an immigrant from Utah, tells her Advance Parole Story, and how the conditional travel permit made an impact in her life and advanced her academic career.
Advance Parole Voices is a 1-2 minute video series that educates about, and advocates for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole travel authorization for DACA recipients. The series features stories and testimonies from participants of the Winter 2020 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, and also Dreamers who have been denied the travel authorization since the Trump Administration suspended the provision on September 5, 2017.
Please share this video and donate to our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole.
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Commemorate Indigenous People’s Day and Marco Antonio Firebaugh and AOC’s Birthdays:Who was Marco Antonio Firebaugh and why we should honor him?
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Watch this short documentary about Marco Antonio Firebaugh
By Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos and Mayra Castro
Almost 14 years since the lamented passing of Marco Antonio Firebaugh at the age of 39, he is being timely remembered by participants of the California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program for his landmark Assembly Bill 540 legislation, and numerous accomplishments during his trailblazing career.
While Marco Antonio Firebaugh’s legacy reflects a wide range of undertakings, foremost was his dedication to serving the most vulnerable and the underrepresented, and above all, he stood up for immigrants and working families... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Indigenous Peoples Day: Gaia’s Lament, A Call to Awaken
By: Rafael Jesús González, Dragonfly Press, DNA Ezine August 2020
Art: Transitions by Roberta Young (Pastels, graphite and crayon)
It would seem that the fevered Earth in her delirium has generated antibodies in the form of a crowned virus to cure herself of the cancer that humankind has become upon her body. Forest fires rage on the Amazon, in Australia, in Siberia, in California, everywhere. More frequent and ever more disastrous hurricanes and floods wreak death in all the continents. The poles warm and glaciers melt. The oceans rise. Each day more and more of our relations the other animals, the plants become extinct. Humankind’s hubris has created the tragedy of the Anthropocene.... Read Full Article
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
October 13th is AOC’s birthday!
We know that there’s a lot going on right now, especially with the general election just 22 days away. But even as we power through the work that must be done, it is important to enjoy the moments of joy along the way.
That’s why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' team is putting together a card for Alexandria – to show how many people are proud of what we’ve done, and what we will do... Sign the card here
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
12 de octubre: China pudo haber “descubierto” América antes que Colón
Por: BBC News Mundo , La Opinión – 09 de Octubre 2020
En oposición al consenso historiográfico, esta historia dice que flotas encabezadas por dos almirantes chinos, Zhou Man y Hong Bao, habían navegado desde África hasta la desembocadura del río Orinoco, en la actual Venezuela, y que luego habían bajado por toda la costa del continente hasta el estrecho de Magallanes en el año 1421. Es decir, 71 años antes del viaje de Cristóbal Colón.
Estos almirantes habían sido entrenados y dirigidos por el gran navegante chino de la época: el eunuco musulmán Zheng He. Y ahora, estas figuras históricas están siendo evocadas por la alta cúpula del gobierno chino para reafirmar los reclamos globales de la potencia asiática... Leer Artículo Completo
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
RECENT NEWS:
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Empatan Muñoz Ledo y Delgado en encuesta para dirigir Morena (La Jornada)
El Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) notificó ayer que hubo empate técnico entre los diputados Porfirio Muñoz Ledo y Mario Delgado en la encuesta para renovar la dirigencia nacional de Morena, por lo que se tendrá que realizar un tercer sondeo, sólo con la participación de estos dos aspirantes... Leer Más
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Former Attorney General Jeff Session and other top Justice Department officials were "a driving force" behind President Donald Trump's child-separation policy at the US-Mexico border, a new draft report from the department's inspector general said, according to The NY Times... Read More
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Trump’s Overhaul of Immigration Is Worse Than You Think (New York Times)
It was a kind gesture to some 6,000 Filipinos who, in their youth, had fought with American armed forces in World War II and had been granted U.S. citizenship decades later. In 2016, when the veterans were in their 80s and 90s, the Obama administration agreed to allow some of their relatives in the Philippines to come to the United States before they completed the long wait for formal admission... Read More
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/18847f0d572f/mexicos-economy-is-sustained-by-us-remittances-remember-marco-antoniofirebaugh-and-happy-birthday-aoc
