Politics

“I’m also here as a Mexican-American woman from a working-class family.”

At a press conference on February 1, the Mexican president said his government would embrace what he called “Franciscan poverty” if it would “transfer funds to the people” and achieve “development, jobs and welfare.”

Welcome to Macondo.

“El Paso has never been one of the most ‘dangerous cities’ in the country, and our safety and security has long been a point of pride,” the Texas Democrat wrote.

“The story of PROMESA is the story of deepening poverty in Puerto Rico.”

Happening now.

In a scenario that has become increasingly common in elections throughout the hemisphere, an outsider candidate who distanced himself from the political establishment emerged triumphant.

The vote came immediately after Mayor Arturo Garino shared his accounts about a Wednesday meeting with Border Patrol.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The struggle for power resurged this year when congress leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president, saying Nicolás Maduro’s re-election in May was fraudulent.

I find it unfortunate that Abrams chose the word “compassionate” to describe what I saw during my reporting on Obama’s border and immigration practices.

Just read the writing on the wall.

Lo que dijo Xavier Becerra el martes.

Come on, Chris. It’s 2019.

“We refuse to sit back and watch how Wall Street destroys Puerto Rico.  Expect more protests and public mobilization to resist this abuse,” said Julio López Varona, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD).

The organization also said that 61% of Americans opposed deportation of all undocumented individuals.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — The agreement involves more than $17 billion worth of government bonds backed by a sales-and-use tax.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Maduro, for his part, stood defiant, accusing the United States of preparing a coup in the South American country and rejecting a U.S.-backed effort to send emergency food and medicine into his country.

“Nayib has the capacity to makes us dream of a different country,” one of his supporters told Latino Rebels on Sunday.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Speaking from behind a podium decorated with Venezuela’s presidential seal, Juan Guaidó told supporters he would keep his opposition movement in the streets until President Nicolás Maduro stopped “usurping” the presidency.

The only way that Nora Phillips —defender of the powerless, protector of immigrant children and families— was flagged as a security risk to anyone is the gross abuse of power.

What the VP is saying these days.