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Dictatorship in Nicaragua arrests two more priests and two laywomen
Catholic News Agency
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August 12, 2024
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2024 / 17:32 pm Following last week’s exile of seven priests to Rome, the Nicaraguan dictatorship has arrested two more priests and two laywomen in Estelí and Matagalpa, both dioceses officially led by Bishop Rolando...
President of Nicaragua highlights the resistance of Cuban Revolution (+Photo)
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 14, 2024
During a speech last night on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the foundation of the Naval Force of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces, the president recalled that the Cuban Revolution shook Latin America, and then the Sandinista Popular...
Two priests arrested in Nicaragua, according to opposition and press
Global Happenings
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August 12, 2024
The Nicaraguan government has not yet made a statement, but it has been at odds with the Catholic Church since 2018 because it holds it responsible for the protests against Daniel Ortega’s regime in 2018 Montage: Reproduction/Social NetworksDenis...
Ayanna Pressley addresses immigration policy and reproductive rights in recent statements
Bean Town Times - Massachusetts
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July 12, 2025
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who has represented Massachusetts’ 7th District in the U.S. Congress since 2019, recently addressed several pressing policy issues and acknowledged her office’s interns in a series of social media posts. Pressley,...
Trump’s Immigration Policy Falls in Line with Racist U.S. History Towards Immigrants
L.A. TACO - California
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July 13, 2025
This is a guest post from Abraham Marquez, which was originally shared on his Substack. President Trump started his second term exactly where he left off in 2021, waging an everyday psychological and physical war on immigrants. Joe Biden's...
At least 9 priests abducted by Nicaraguan dictatorship in last 2 weeks
Catholic News Agency
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August 7, 2024
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2024 / 15:38 pm At least nine Catholic priests have been “violently” abducted by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua since July 26, lawyer and researcher...
How does science die? – @aredacao
Brytfmonline
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August 13, 2024
The crisis of democracy is on the agenda. Not a day goes by without newspaper articles on the subject. With each coup, electoral fraud, or constitutional change in this or that country, new analyses emerge, books are published, podcasts are...
5.0-magnitude quake hits near coast of Nicaragua -- GFZ
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted near coast of Nicaragua at 1238 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 59.5 km, was initially determined to be...
NGO denounces arrests of at least 12 Catholic priests in Nicaragua
Global Happenings
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August 4, 2024
The Nicaragua Nunca Mais collective revealed that, in the last 48 hours, police operations took place in parishes in the Matagalpa department, in the north of the country; the government did not comment EFE/ Jorge Torres President Daniel Ortega...
Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!
CounterPunch
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July 11, 2025
Central Texas floods. Still from video posted to X. “Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it’s a right fucking pain in the arse.” – Ricky Gervais While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those...
Mad about Science: Western Tanager
Sandpoint Reader - Idaho
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August 13, 2024
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Astute bird-watchers and casual backyard feeders may have the occasional good fortune to witness a brilliant feathered neighbor darting between the branches: the western tanager. This bird is relatively common...
Open letter on technology-enabled political violence in Venezuela
IFEX
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August 6, 2024
The crisis in Venezuela has seen a significant deployment of the surveillance and control apparatus that the state has built up over recent years. This apparatus has been repeatedly denounced by civil society and organizations defending internet...
Prominent priest reportedly abducted by dictatorship in Nicaragua
Catholic News Agency
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July 30, 2024
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 30, 2024 / 17:02 pm Father Frutos Constantino Valle Salmerón, administrator “ad omnia” of the Diocese of Estelí in Nicaragua, has been “abducted, interrogated,” and placed under surveillance in a Catholic Church formation...
Lawler to Haitians facing deportation: Get status straightened out now
The Journal News - New York
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For hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. and thousands in Rockland, permission to stay in the U.S. ends this fall. "The situation on the ground (in Haiti) is too dangerous, not just for Americans but for Haitians," said Lawler, noting...
Series | The Dictatorship has expelled more than 23% of the clergy in Nicaragua since 2018
La Prensa
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August 1, 2024
LA PRENSA presents a new installment in the series of articles that will provide an in-depth portrayal of the dictatorship’s persecution of the Catholic Church. The articles will not be published consecutively but will document this dark period of...
U.S. research stations in Peru and elsewhere preparing for biowarfare?
People's World
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July 31, 2024
U.S. government (public domain) The U.S. government began preparing for biological warfare during World War II. Biological weapons were employed during the Korean War against North Korea and China. President Nixon in 1969 ended the U.S. use of...
Internationally recognized Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory leader dies
AgriLife Today - Texas
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July 25, 2024
Konrad Eugster, DVM, Ph.D., executive director emeritus of the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, TVMDL, died July 21. Eugster was the second TVMDL director, serving from 1980 to 2002 – the longest tenure of a director in agency...
The Year Arms Contractors Stopped Sponsoring Pride
Inkstick Media
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July 10, 2025
This year, corporations across the country have quietly pulled their sponsorship from local pride parades. Companies that once faced criticism for surface-level allyship — changing their logos to rainbow colors during Pride month, for instance —...
U.S.A. shuts down Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
DGR News
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July 9, 2025: Tuesday (July 8, 2025), Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles...
Vulgarity of Money
Dissident Voice
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July 10, 2025
Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...