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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

A Guatemalan Mother Could Lose Her Daughter, Because She’s an American

A Guatemalan migrant separated from her daughter at the border has been told she faces the possible loss of her parental rights, in part because her daughter was born in the United States.

El plan Trump obligaría a los solicitantes de asilo a esperar en México mientras se procesan sus casos

Los centroamericanos que llegan a los cruces fronterizos de EE. UU. en buscan asilo en los EE. UU. tendrán que esperar en México mientras sus peticiones se procesan bajo nuevas medidas que la administración de Trump está lista para implementar, de acuerdo con los documentos de planificación interna…

In the Trump era, a lighter shade of Latino can make life easier – Los Angeles Times

The day after President Trump’s election in 2016 — according to Documenting Hate, a project that tracks bias incidents around the country — a student reportedly told a seventh-grade girl in Clarksburg, W.Va., “You’re going back to Mexico now.” The girl’s father is Native American and she is not of Mexican descent. Her skin is darker, the report noted. Later that month, a woman reported that she was in line at a grocery store in Austin, Texas, when an older man picked up a newspaper with a picture of a Latino man. “Trump is going to get rid of you people,” she said he exclaimed before shaking the paper at her. The woman was white, but had darker skin. For many Latinos, the Trump era has hammered home the privilege, or lack thereof, that comes from being the light-skinned güero or dark-skinned prieto of the family.

Source: In the Trump era, a lighter shade of Latino can make life easier – Los Angeles Times

Thousands of Cuban doctors leave Brazil after Bolsonaro’s win

Hate and foolishness have consequences.

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Cuba has begun pulling out 8,300 doctors working in poor and remote regions of Brazil after far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro demanded contract changes to programme

Cuba has begun withdrawing 8,300 doctors working in some of the poorest regions of Brazil, prompting fears that indigenous villages, small towns and isolated rural communities could soon be left without medical care.

The move came after Brazil’s far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro threatened to cut relations with Cuba and modify the conditions of a five-year-old agreement between the two countries and the World Health Organisation. The growing row offers a worrying sign of how the former army captain may handle diplomacy after assuming office on 1 January.

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Hillary Clinton’s chilling pragmatism gives populism a free pass | Nesrine Malik

Turning right did not win the White House and will not turn away racists!

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Calling on Europe’s leaders to ‘get a handle on migration’ is no counter to populists – it’s more like an endorsement

Ever since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in 2016, her insistence on staying in the public eye has been viewed with a particular kind of intolerance. Some on the right have turned her into a symbol of everything they hate, to be demonised at their rallies. Others, on the left, abhor her refusal to cede space to a newer generation, hanging in the air like a bad smell, a constant memory of the moment it all went wrong. But Hillary Clinton will not go away, and that is a very good thing. Not because she should remain on the scene, fighting the good fight against the forces of reaction, but because with every interview and public appearance she is revealing in the most helpful way the pointlessness of her politics.

Related: Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists

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The Brexiteers’ ‘take back our waters’ pledge is meaningless hype | John Lichfield

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There is no offshore El Dorado. Any ‘betrayal’ of the fishing industry is by the UK government and big business, not the EU

Fishing, which represents 0.05% of the economy, is the only UK industry to merit its own sections in the Brexit agreements that Britain has negotiated with Brussels. Car industry? No mention. Banking? See “services”. No other British industry has provoked such polarised debate since the draft withdrawal agreement and the political declaration were published.

We are told that Theresa May has betrayed the British fishing industry. We are also told that she fought hard to protect its interests from the rapacious French and Danes. We are told that she kicked the whole can of fish down the road until 2020. Which is correct? Answer: a bouillabaisse of all three.

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