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Indigenous Groups in Argentina Protest Lithium Extraction on Their Land

We understand there are multinational companies that come and take the lithium from Argentina but leave nothing behind.

The US will accept asylum applications from migrants in Mexico, a country that in turn will establish a “multipurpose international space”.

Claudia Camila from Venezuela took our photo of the day “Balloons”, in Caracas, Venezuela.

In Nicaragua, the Ortega regime retained & cancelled passports & imposed restrictions on the entry/exit of his critics & political opponents.

We feature Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, Senegalese Seckou Keita, & Venezuelan Gustavo Ovalles with a NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023).

Twenty-seven former Latin American presidents expressed their concerns over attacks to one of the most important pillars of democracy.

“The site of the study, the streets that we have seen before, of Iguala, on September 26 and 27, show that government forces were present.”

In Venezuela, the paramilitary have limitless power to exercise violence. They operate anonymously, with no controls or regulations…

Today’s featured artist is Calma Carmona from Puerto Rico with an NPR Tiny Desk performance (2021).

The Maduro gov. is already working to prevent the free expression of the popular will through the vote in the presidential elections of 2024.