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A Latino folktale about how death brings meaning to life, Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca, Mariachi Sol De Mexico a Merry-Achi Christmas, Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores with ¡Vivelo!

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

 

The show takes place at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts over Halloween and Día de los Muertos. Attendees are invited to don their best costume for our special Halloween night show on Oct. 31st or come dressed in your best Calaca at any performance for a chance to win a special prize.

Adapted from Mercedes Rein & Jorge Curi’s Death and the Blacksmith (El Herrero y la Muerte) by Chilean Playwright and Bay Area resident Carlos Barón, Death and the Artist is directed by BATCO Co-Founder Marcelo Javier.

With Latino culture at the heart of this creative adaptation, BATCO’s musical dramedy juggles past and present conversations around life, death, inequity, and immigration, touching on moral questions we all face.

Death and The Artist about immigration, life, death, moral questions & other issues from the heart of the Sanctuary City of San Francisco in the historic Mission District, now facing increasing gentrification.

Through Nov. 3, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street.

 

Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca at Z Space

The creators of Antigona, the internationally-acclaimed, flamenco-infused adaptation of Sophocles’s “Antigone,” return to San Francisco with their hit program Entre Tú y Yo (“You and I”) to be presented at Z Space.

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Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Noche Flamenca Artistic Director Martín Santangelo and lead dancer Soledad Barrio, Entre Tú y Yo explores through dance the possibilities afforded and constraints imposed by relationships. Joined by some of Spain’s most celebrated flamenco artists, legendary dancer Soledad Barrio stars in this evening-length program of duets, solos, and ensemble works.

From Saturday, Nov. 3 through 16, at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. For information zspace@zspace.org, tickets: 415-626-0453, price Range: $25 to $70.

 

Mariachi Sol De Mexico a Merry-Achi Christmas

Mariachi Sol De Mexico was founded by fifth-generation mariachi Jose Hernandez in 1981, with the goal of introducing mariachi music to audiences all over the world.

The show A Merry-Achi Christmas offers a fusion of traditional holiday spirit with the color of Mexican and American Christmas celebrations. The first mariachi ensemble to be nominated for a Grammy, Mariachi Sol de Mexico’s original rhythms, fresh sounds, and inspiring ideas have energized the world of mariachi for over thirty years. Mariachi Sol De Mexico in A Merry-achi Christmas will be presented at 3 p.m. and 7:30. p.m., Friday, Nov. 29 at the Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. For more information and tickets ($35-$45), the public may visit www.hammertheatre.com or call (408) 924-8501.

 

Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores with ¡Vivelo!

Hammer Theatre Center presents a spectacular celebration of Mexican culture performed by award-winning Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores in “¡Vívelo!”.

Dancers Jóvenes Zapateadores draw inspiration from traditional folkloric, contemporary, Spanish, and African dance, in a vivid performance accompanied by renowned musical group Son Luna that immerses spectators in the vibrant regional dance styles and music of Mexico’s Son Jarocho region.

Directed by dancer, musician, and choreographer Ernesto Luna Ramírez, Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores will perform “¡Vívelo!” 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5 at the Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. For more information and tickets ($30-$45), the public may visit www.hammertheatre.com or call (408) 924-8501.

 

 

The Aragón orchestra is rewarded in New York, Gente de Zona, Ednita Nazario, Canaval in San Miguel

by the El Reportero’s news services

 

The SOB’s Sounds of Brazil Club was the New York stage for the celebration of the Cuban Orquesta Aragón, for the 80th anniversary of its constitution in the city of Cienfuegos and the sound that distinguishes it from the rest of the musical groups of the Island.

In that recreational-cultural installation of the district of Manhattan, local musicians identified with the musical genres of Cuba, interpreted with taste the guaracha Pare Cochero, by Marcelino Guerra and El paso de Encarnación, by Richard Egües.

Sweet Plantain and Tipica 73 groups versioned other themes of the legendary Aragón orchestra, which could not attend the tribute to receive the Venceremos Víctor Jara Award, which the Cuban ambassador to the UN, Humberto Rivero, picked up again.

The stimulus is the second time it is granted, after being granted to the Puerto Rican-American pianist and composer, Eddie Palmieri, who also acted in recognition of the popular orchestra founded by Orestes Aragón in 1939.

The announcer Marysol Cerdeira, host of the program With Latin flavor, in the radio station WBAI, in addition to being among the main promoters of the tribute, highlighted the great historical influence that the Aragon orchestra has, when it manifested to the public that filled the Club SOB’s Sounds of Brazil: «Thank you for putting the world to dance».

 

Gente de Zona about to finish tour in the US

Gente de Zona assail digital platforms and other super international successes are pointed out with the release of Lo Que Tú Y Yo Vivimos, a collaboration with Brazilian artist Gusttavo Lima.

In just two weeks, the video of Lo Que Tú y Yo Vivimos has surpassed 10.7 million views on YouTube and continues to grow fiercely. Filming took place during a presentation in Brazil leaving, for the joy of the masses, the first visit of GDZ to Brazil.

“What You and I Live” is part of the most recent album of Gente De Zona entitled Otra Cosa. It also has the participation of Mau and Ricky, Zion and Lennox, El Chacal, Kelvis Ochoa, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Franco de Vita, El Micha, Silvestre Dangond, Farina and Ana Mena.

Gente de Zona is about to complete a successful tour of the United States with “Another Thing Tour” where they have put to sing and dance to more than ocho cities of the nation, calling its end in the cities of Tampa and West Palm Beach Tickets available through gdzofi-cial.com.

Ednita Nazario Promises More Music in 2020, Releases ‘No Pienso Volver’

With more than 40 years in music, Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario still has a lot to give — in fact, she is working on her 25th album and on Thursday (Oct. 31), she is releasing No Pienso Volver (I Don’t Intend to Return).

No Pienso Volver is a song that came to me and I was anxious to introduce it to fans,” Ednita Nazario tells Billboard. “The images were beautiful when the director, Diego Andrade, made the presentation of what the video would be.”

The song is the first single from Ednita’s forthcoming album, which will be released in 2020. “Next year I come back with new music, tour plans and more,” added Nazario.

(Source: Suzette Fernández)

 

San Miguel prepares for a whole month of carnivals

The traditional Mail Parade will open activities on Nov. 3

The typical parties in honor of the Queen of Peace, in the municipality of San Miguel, will begin on Sunday, Nov. 3 and end on Saturday 30 with the great carnival, that is, a whole month of carnivals, fairs and celebrations, which you can enjoy the Migueleños as well as the hundreds of tourists that attract these parties.

Max Campos, manager of the celebrations committee, said that for this year’s celebrations more activities will be carried out, but they will be made with the same budget with which those of 2018 were scheduled.

 

Rising up against the oligarchs does not equal socialism

There are “people’s” groups all over the world who advocate the overthrow of the men at the top – the oligarchs – who control nations

 

by Jon Rappoport

 

These people’s groups want to install socialism as the answer to oligarchy.

That’s preposterous.

The Oligarchs—bankers, mega-corporate CEOs, financiers, government leaders, intelligence agencies—collude to cut out competition so they can stand alone at the summit of the mountain. And they call this arrangement SOCIALISM. They PROMOTE socialism. They’ve staked out OWNERSHIP of socialism worldwide.

In other words, the “people’s” groups, who claim to be battling for a better world, are doing the Oligarchs’ bidding. Unconsciously, or on purpose.

Useful idiots.

Socialism has never been about toppling power-hungry leaders. Its pretension of equality and share-and-care is a cover for totalitarianism by the few, for the few.

Karl Marx, while predicting a coming utopia on Earth, expressed the absolute need for a “transition” phase called the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”

Of course, that was a partial misnomer. The “dictatorship” part was correct, but the proletariat would never run it. They would labor for it. They would look up from ground level at the leaders who were supposedly their friends and guardians—and soon realize they’d been taken in by a long con. There was no transition government. There was just the same old Oligarchy under another name, that’s all.

From Gary Allen’s 1971 classic, None Dare Call It Conspiracy:

“We are being socialized in America and everybody knows it. If we had a chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the man in the street…he might say: ‘You know, the one thing I can never figure out is why all these very, very wealthy people like the Kennedys, the Fords, the Rockefellers and others are for socialism. Why are the super-rich for socialism? Don’t they have the most to lose…?’ In reality, there is a vast difference between what the promoters define as socialism and what it is in actual practice. The idea that socialism is a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get the people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collectivist government. While the insiders [Oligarchs] tell us we are building a paradise on earth, we are actually constructing a jail for ourselves.”

When a mega-corporate CEO, whose company is in deep financial trouble, magically secures a giant loan through a crony, and when that corporation continues to pollute the land and destroy lives, and while the government agency that should be hauling off the CEO to prison sits on its hands, that’s socialism in practice. That’s the real thing.

The government may not officially own such corporations, as in the classical definition of socialism, but at the top, the government and the biggest corporations are cooperating, as one. It’s a distinction without a difference.

Why don’t more people understand all this?

Because their minds are clouded with propaganda and feel-good New Age oatmeal. Because they’re convinced that believing in something that sounds good on the surface (“a better and more just world for all”) is enough, is a pinnacle of achievement for them. And since they’re told this belief is socialism, they’re for it.

They will fall for any program on that basis. If pernicious medical experts assure them that mandated mass vaccination will protect the planet from disease, they will snap up that vision in a minute. “A healthy Earth for everyone.” It must be true. It feels right.

A while back, I published an astonishing statement made by the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio: “What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too…Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That’s a world I’d love to see, and I think what we have, in this city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on one level. They’d love to have a very, very powerful government, including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their day-to-day reality.”

The control of private property, from above, is of course one of the tenets of socialism.

Oligarchs, who promote their brand of socialism, who are also Globalists (no nations, no borders), want to sweeten their pot through floods of immigrants. No, they’re not thinking about “doing good.” They have propaganda operatives who spout that line.

They’re thinking about how they can blur and erase all sorts of distinctions surrounding private ownership of private property—and instead, disruptively resettle immigrants, make them dependent on the State, sink property values, and induce more and more citizens to accept the idea that “everything belongs to everybody.”

This gibberish phrase actually means: the Oligarchs own it all.

This is their premise and their goal.

They mean business, literally and figuratively.

On a much lower level, scratch the surface of any self-proclaimed socialist who happens own a home, and watch what happens when you demand he turn that home over to “the people.” He suddenly becomes a raw naked capitalist. He rails against the State.

The State—to whom, when the pressure is off, he claims every citizen should swear allegiance, so that money and property and services and goods and energy and every necessity and luxury of life can be managed, for the benefit of all.

(Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed, Exit From The Matrix, and Power Outside The Matrix).

Survival medicine: Home remedies for digestive problems, the flu and stress relief  

by Isabelle Z.

 

If you’ve come to distrust conventional medicine, you’re not alone. The questionable side effects and poor efficacy of these drugs have many people turning to alternative treatments. While home remedies are certainly a more attractive option right now, they could become downright essential in a collapse situation. Now is the perfect time to start learning how to address common problems without heading for the pharmacy.

Home remedies are natural, inexpensive, and generally safe, but perhaps one of their biggest draws is how accessible they are. In fact, there’s a good chance you already have the things you need to heal in your kitchen.

Digestive problems

One of the most common health complaints people have is digestive upset. Just one meal can be enough to throw you off your game for a few days. Not every digestive problem is quite as dramatic, however; flatulence is a pretty regular occurrence, especially for those who eat a lot of plant foods.

If you’re experiencing the discomfort of flatulence, a cup of sage tea will be your best friend. If you steep a tablespoon of sage leaves in a cup of boiling water for five minutes, you’ll be amazed at the results.

According to Prepper’s Will, a tea made with a teaspoon of sweet anise seeds will also do the job and tastes a lot better if you’re a fan of licorice, although this tea will have to steep for ten minutes.

Stress

If there’s one problem that’s even more common than flatulence, it’s stress. A hectic lifestyle combined with a lack of sleep is a recipe for a weakened immune system and sickness.

Rosemary can calm you down and help you get to sleep. It’s great at soothing your nerves and relieving stress headaches, and it can even help migraines. It also helps fight inflammation.

Make a tea of rosemary and drink it around an hour before bed if you’re stressed. All it takes is one cup of water and a teaspoon of fresh or dry rosemary leaves. After boiling for five minutes, leave it to steep for five minutes more and then strain it, adding honey if desired.

Colds and the flu

The flu might make you feel pretty miserable, but the medications doctors often prescribe for the flu can leave you feeling far worse – not to mention all those side effects. Ditto for the common cold, where medicine can make you feel drowsy or loopy without giving you much in return in the way of relief.

Thyme is a great option when you’re dealing with a cough as it serves as a cough suppressant. Gargling with thyme can provide sore throat relief, and it can also sooth an upset stomach so you can keep your food down.

To make thyme syrup, leave half a cup of the dried herb in a pint of hot water for 20 minutes. Strain, add half a cup of honey, and then heat gently until the honey dissolves. Prepper’s Will recommends taking two tablespoons of this syrup a few times per day.

Horseradish is also a good choice for colds as it can loosen up phlegm in your chest and head. It can cleanse your body of toxins, raise your energy and help heal sore throats. Take some when you feel a cold setting in to stop mucus from building up in your sinuses; it’s also good for the flu and lung congestion.

You can make a tea by steeping 10 grams of fresh horseradish with 5 grams of fresh ginger in 200 milliliters of boiling water for 20 minutes. Drink warm a few times per day.

These are just a few examples of the many ways herbs and other home remedies can address common health problems, and they often do it a lot more safely and effectively than anything your doctor will give you. This knowledge can help you the next time you’re sick, and it will be invaluable in times when getting professional help is out of the question. (Natural News).

Sources for this article include:

PreppersWill.com

Health.HowStuffWorks.com.

Doctors: migrants are victims of abduction, rape, torture at southern border

Doctors Without Borders, UN criticize Mexico for not protecting migrants’ rights

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned of increased violence against migrants and refugees on Mexico’s southern border.

In a report published Wednesday, MSF said that teams working in Tenosique, Tabasco – which borders Guatemala – have reported an increase in kidnappings and an escalation of violence against people who have entered Mexico en route to the United States.

MSF staff providing medical and psychological care have heard accounts from migrants of abductions, torture, extreme violence, cruel treatment and sexual assault for extortion purposes, the report said. The violence begins as soon as migrants cross the border into Mexico from Guatemala, it added.

The organization said that in less than a month it has treated 11 migrants in Tenosique who were victims of kidnapping and torture, a figure that is the same as the total number of kidnapping cases treated by MSF in the same town in the first eight months of the year.

“What we are seeing is an exponential growth in the number of kidnappings in this area and an increase in the cruelty and the torture methods used by criminal groups … said Gemma Pomares, MSF’s head of medical activities in Tenosique.

“MSF has provided medical support in Tenosique … for four years. While violence has always been a reality of the migration route north from Guatemala through Mexico, extortion and this level of extreme violence have been more pervasive in dangerous cities closer to the U.S. border, and has not been so prevalent, until now, in southern areas,” she added.

Migrants have been shot, stabbed and subjected to sexual abuse and torture including electric shocks to the genitals and anus, Pomares said. Several migrants told MSF that they were forced to watch as their companions were raped.

A number of migrants said they had been taken to abandoned houses where they were forced to remove their clothes before being tied up outside for hours in high temperatures.

They were left there until they provided phone numbers of family members, presumably so that criminal groups could demand extortion payments.

MSF warned that the federal government’s policies of “criminalization, persecution, detention and deportation, in order to contain migratory flows to the U.S., have forced migrants to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes.”

As a result, more migrants are exposed to criminal groups that “operate with impunity throughout the region and in particular on the route from Guatemala to Tenosique,” the organization said.

To stave off a tariff threat from United States President Donald Trump, the government agreed in June to deploy the National Guard to increase enforcement against illegal migrants. Migrant advocates have previously warned that the move would cause migrants to take more dangerous routes to the northern border.

Sergio Martín, MSF’s general coordinator in Mexico, said “it was a just matter of time before the high levels of violence against migrants and refugees that our teams have seen on the northern border, moved to the south of the country.”

He added, “… what we are seeing are the humanitarian consequences of the tightening of immigration policies, designed to inflict greater suffering on the thousands of people desperately escaping for their lives.”

Jan Jarab, the Mexico representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, also criticized the government’s immigration policy this week, stating that it was a backward step from earlier efforts to protect migrants’ rights.

When the federal government first took office it made an “attempt” to treat migrants humanely and respect their rights, Jarab said at a regional immigration forum in Mexico City.

“… But given the international circumstances [Trump’s tariff threat] it only survived a few months and today we have migrants locked up again,” he added.

The UN official said that he has concerns about the conditions in Mexico’s migrant detention centers, many of which are overcrowded, and said there have been cases in which children’s rights have been abused.

Ana Saiz, president of the migrant advocacy organization Sin Fronteras, said there are an estimated 150,000 migrants in 53 immigration stations across the country and an additional 50,000 people who are waiting in Mexico for their asylum claims in the United States to be decided.

To appease the United States, the government also agreed to an expansion of the so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy that forces migrants who entered the U.S. via Mexico to return to this country until immigration courts rule on the validity of their asylum claims.

A number of organizations, including MSF and Human Rights First, have warned that the policy subjects migrants to a number of dangers in Mexico’s border cities.

The latter group said 343 cases had been identified in which asylum seekers returned to Mexico had been “violently attacked or threatened.”

Some migrants reported they had been kidnapped or raped.

Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said that President Trump was “using every tool available to address the humanitarian crisis at the border” and that “Remain in Mexico” was “an essential part of these efforts.”

He insisted that he was “confident in the program’s integrity.”

Some observers have concluded that Mexico’s concessions to the United States on immigration policy have turned Mexico into Trump’s long-promised border wall.

Saiz, the migrants’ advocate, claimed that never before has Mexico had “such a violent policy towards migrants.”

Source: Newsweek (en), Europa Press (sp), La Jornada (sp)

 

Engine maker Cummins prepares to shift operations to Mexico

The shift is to meet new regional content requirements in the US, Mexico and Canada trade agreement

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

United States automotive manufacturer Cummins has confirmed that it will move some of its operations from China, India and Brazil to Mexico.

The decision was made to meet stipulations in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and to respond to tariffs recently imposed by the United States.

Cummins Latin America vice president Ignacio García said that once the USMCA enters into force, the heavy transport industry will be obliged to increase its regional content from 62 percent to 75 percent over a seven-year period.

This stipulation is forcing supply companies to move operations currently in China and other countries outside of North America to within the treaty’s signatory nations.

García said the process will also include moving some production from the United States to Mexico, such as its filters division, for which Mexico is seen as more productive than its neighbor to the north.

“We’re moving lines of filtration production from the U.S. to Mexico and expanding the plant in Ciudad Juárez in order to meet demand for diesel fuel injection in the Americas,” said García. “The tariffs levied by the U.S. on Europe and China are helping this process; it makes companies look to Mexico as a place where they can relocate production lines to supply the U.S. market.”

“We’re currently at 62 percent regional content, but this will rise to 75 percent. Looking at the constituent parts, there are the smelting plants in Brazil and Germany, steel crankshafts in Brazil, copper radiators from China, and fuel components that come from India, and we’re analyzing all those products.”

The U.S. company already has two plants in Mexico, one in Ciudad Juárez and the other in San Luis Potosí. Its operations in Mexico are primarily involved in refurbishing, while its U.S. plants produce new motors.

However, a new niche for Cummins in Mexico is the production of filters and fuel systems for the whole world. It also has plants for fuel injection gas treatment, crankshafts and high-powered engines.

“We have to maximize the potential of these plants,” said García. He stated that the demand in China will continue to rise, but it is necessary to increase regional production in North America.

“We have seven years from the beginning of the USMCA. There’s still time, but we have worked with companies in China, India and Brazil in order to begin to understand how to open plants in Mexico and the U.S. and move product.”

Source: El Economista (sp)

 

Textile firm leaves Mexico for greener (cheaper) pastures

The Canadian company expects to reduce production costs significantly

 

Canadian textile giant Gildan Activewear has announced that it will move its Mexico operations to countries where it can take advantage of cheaper production costs.

The move will cost 1,700 jobs in Mexico.

The company will relocate its manufacturing to cheaper production centers in Central America and the Caribbean. It is also building a large complex in Bangladesh to meet demand for the Chinese and European markets.

“Upon analyzing our future cost structure, we feel that we can lower costs significantly by limiting our facilities,” CEO Glenn Chamandy told analysts.

Mexico has seen its competitive manufacturing capacity eroded after a series of threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, the Bloomberg news agency reported.

However, Mexico has made a strong effort to focus on more sophisticated operations in recent years, becoming an important production center for the automotive industry and attracting investment in the aviation sector.

Based in Montreal, Gildan Activewear created a global textile production chain that includes everything from thread to ready-to-wear clothing, which allowed it to compete with other industry giants like Fruit of the Loom and Hanes.

The company’s two facilities in Mexico came with its acquisition of Alstyle Apparel, a U.S. company that, like Gildan, sold personalized shirts and sweaters.

The company currently sees growing opportunities in the private brands market, as retailers look for their own proprietary brands, according to experts.

Source: El Financiero (sp).

Bipartisan House deal opens path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant farmworkers

Proposal eases some restrictions on agriculture industry, while requiring farmers to verify workers’ status

 

by the El Reportero’s wire services

 

A bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed on a deal easing restrictions on foreign agricultural workers, including a path to citizenship for the more than one million farmworkers estimated to be in the U.S. illegally.

However, in exchange, the agricultural sector will be required to verify the legal status of their workers.

The legislation announced Wednesday by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif) and Dan Newhouse (R., Wash.) has the support of 24 Democrats and 20 Republicans in the House. It marks a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, particularly on immigration, where Republicans have generally not supported a citizenship path for any undocumented immigrants, and Democrats are increasingly loath to support new enforcement measures.

The bill could reach the House floor as soon as late November, a House Democratic aide said. But its fate is less certain in the Senate.

The administration has issued regulations loosening restrictions on foreign agricultural workers. Farmers participating in the seasonal guest-worker program are no longer required to take out classified ads in newspapers seeking workers. Instead, they are only required to post job notices online, which is cheaper. The administration also allows farmers to pay most foreign workers less than the minimum required for domestic employees.

The accord also would provide a path to citizenship for the more than one million farmworkers estimated to be already living in the U.S. illegally. Farmworkers who can show they have spent at least three months in the previous two years working in agriculture can apply for a new five-year visa, which would require continued work in the sector for the visa’s duration.

Workers who have lived in the country for at least 10 years could apply for a green card if they work four more years in the industry. If a farmworker has been in the industry for less than 10 years, they must put in an additional eight years to become eligible for a green card. Green-card holders are eligible to become U.S. citizens, typically after five years.

Source: Wall Street Journal.

 

President of Panama meets López Obrador in Mexico

The president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, will meet this Wednesday with his host of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the National Palace.

The president of Panama arrived at the capital last night and was greeted at the Benito Juárez International Airport by the Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maximiliano Reyes Zuñiga.

This noon Cortizo will go to the National Palace where an official welcoming ceremony will take place. At the end of the ceremony, he will meet with President López Obrador and around 13:30 there will be a lunch in honor of the visitor from Panama.

The Panamanian president expressed in social networks that with his visit he seeks to establish bonds of mutual cooperation and attract investment that translates into more jobs for his fellow citizens.

 

Mexico optimistic with trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assessed the approval of the Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) as beneficial for Mexican economy.

The economic integration of these three countries in North America will favor foreign investment, said the head of state, highlighting in the national case, the increase in domestic consumption and oil production.

Before the press gathered at the National Palace, López Obrador mentioned his government’s strategy to boost development, create jobs and welfare, as well as strengthen the popular economy.

He offered details of the progress of the works at the Santa Lucia airport and the Isthmus corridor, in addition to the increase in oil production.

During his speech, he highlighted the definition of private initiative projects, as well as the arrival in the country of foreign investment and foreign trade, ‘which is coming in as never before’, which in the third quarter of the year was the largest in history.

Together with members of the negotiating party, López Obrador said that the treaty ‘is a good agreement for the three countries’ and highlighted the ambitious nature of the tripartite exchange in environmental matters.

Hunger strike and work stoppage in Santa Rita Jail continues to third day

by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee – Oakland

A hunger strike and work stoppage which began on Wednesday, October 30 inside Santa Rita Jail has continued through Friday, November 1. Since Wednesday, the number of individuals refusing to report to work assignments, meals, and jail programs has grown to over 300, according to attorney Yolanda Huang. All kitchen workers are on strike, she says, prompting threats from Santa Rita staff who claim that no one will receive food if the strike continues.

 

Santa Rita depends on unpaid labor from inmates to produce 16,000 meals a day for its own operations, as well as for other jails across the Bay Area. Huang reports that women inmates are now being forced to work in the kitchen, despite the fact that many do not have medical clearance to handle food. This will only exacerbate the public health issues which prompted the strike in the first place, she argues. Detainees report that they are served food that is spoiled and nutritionally poor. Poor sanitation and lack of access to cleaning supplies has led to “swarms of gnats” in communal areas.

 

The jailwide strike originated in Housing Unit 31, where a man died on Saturday, October 26. While the jail claims that the man died in booking, detainees allege that the man was in serious medical distress that remained unaddressed by guards until the man stopped breathing. Detainees who called for help were moved to the yard “so that there would be no witnesses,” says Huang. The attitude of guards inside Santa Rita is that “if you are in pain, if you are suffering, then you are a criminal and you deserve it,” she says. Nine people have died in Santa Rita custody in 2019 already.

The Audit Ahern Coalition is calling for a complete audit of the Alameda County Sheriff’s budget and administration of Santa Rita Jail. In addition, Attorney Yolanda Huang argues that supervisors should hold a public forum with Sheriff Ahern and conduct an independent investigation into conditions inside the jail. Advocates are calling on the community to contact the Sheriff’s Office and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to ask that detainees not be punished for engaging in the strike.

 

Demands of the strike include:

 

  • Better and more nutritious food, that is not spoiled nor served in unsanitary ways
  • An end to price-gouging for commissary, phone calls, and video visitation
  • More changes of clothing and laundry access
  • Cleaning supplies
  • Access to lawyers and legal library
  • Daily exercise and recreation time

 

HaSon Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores with ¡Vivelo!, Día de los Muertos SF Symphony

by the El Reportero’s news services

 

Hammer Theatre Center presents a spectacular celebration of Mexican culture performed by award-winning Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores in “¡Vívelo!”.

Dancers Jóvenes Zapateadores draw inspiration from traditional folkloric, contemporary, Spanish, and African dance, in a vivid performance accompanied by renowned musical group Son Luna that immerses spectators in the vibrant regional dance styles and music of Mexico’s Son Jarocho region.

Directed by dancer, musician, and choreographer Ernesto Luna Ramírez, Son Luna y Jóvenes Zapateadores will perform “¡Vívelo!” 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5 at the Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. For more information and tickets ($30-$45), the public may visit www.hammertheatre.com or call (408) 924-8501.

 

Día de los Muertos Community Concert – SF Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony’s vibrant Day of the Dead celebration, features traditional Latin American music and culture, dazzling guest artists, colorful festivities, and fun-filled events for the entire family.

Colombian stars Monsieur Periné, a Latin Grammy Best New Artist winner, is an internationally renowned Latin American band. The group explores the cultural roots of diverse Latin American sounds by fusing them with jazz, pop, and swing.

Welcome to the San Francisco Symphony’s twelfth annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration! We are happy to celebrate with you at this festivity, which has grown to be a time-honored tradition.  

This year we present an exhibit that shows how the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos has influenced Pan-American artists’ visions about death and the way they honor the memory of their departed loved ones. The artwork and activities in the lobbies include elements from the movie Coco, such as its iconic guitar and the alebrijes (fantastical Mexican creatures).

Arrive an hour early to enjoy live music, captivating altars, and folk art.

SF Symphony, Nov 2, at 11am VIP, 2 p.m. show, 201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco.

 

Live Canelo Álvarez vs Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev’s

Canelo Alvarez (51-1-2, 34 KOs) will take on a new challenge as he moves into the 175-pound weight class in a 12-round  fight against Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (34-3-1, 29 KOs) for Kovalev’s WBO Light Heavyweight World Title. This highly anticipated bout and its co-featured fights will be broadcast live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas to big screens across the nation. A full undercard will be shown prior to the main event.

 Canelo will now look to make history again by becoming the second Mexican boxer to hold a world title in the light heavyweight division. The pound-for-pound king will at the same time join an elite group of four-division world champions from Mexico.

The undercard for this event will feature a full night of action. Rising superstar Ryan Garcia (18-0, 15 KOs) of Victorville, Calif. will face “Ruthless” Romero Duno (21-1, 16 KOs) of Cotabato City, Philippines in the 12-round co-main event.

 Two of the most exciting and popular female boxers in the sport today will finally settle their heated rivalry as Seniesa “Superbad” Estrada of East Los Angeles, Calif. and Marlen Esparza of Houston, Texas battle for the vacant Interim WBA Flyweight Title.

 Blair “The Flair” Cobbs a fan-favorite native of Philadelphia, will fight for the vacant NABF Welterweight Title against Carlos Ortiz of Torreon, Mexico.

Live in U.S. Movie Theaters on Nov. 2.

Hundreds of clowns get together to have a few laughs in Mexico City  

Conference of Laughter organized by Brotherhood of Latin Clowns

 

by the El Reportero’s news services

 

Hundreds of clowns gathered at Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution on Wednesday to celebrate the 24th annual International Conference of Laughter.

The nearly 450 professional jesters hailing from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru, the United States and other countries used the conference to speak out against violence, as well as to exchange ideas to use in their acts back home.

Organized by the Brotherhood of Latin Clowns, the four-day event hosts seminars and workshops in which professional clowns can hone their craft and stay up to date on the latest costumes, makeup, oversized shoes, wigs and magic tricks.

As they danced and cracked jokes for curious spectators, the clowns hoped their actions here and at home would compel people to smile and laugh more, rather than resort to anger and violence.

Mexico has a rich clown culture and the profession is popular among street performers. The Latin American Clown Association reports that there are around 10,000 registered professional clowns in the country.

As further testament to the popularity of clowning around in Mexico, the U.S.-based organization Clowns Without Borders (CWB), which works to bring laughter to people in areas of crisis, has more projects in Mexico than any other country in the world.

In March 2019, CWB held a five-day event in Tijuana, hosting workshops and performing for migrants stranded there. The organization primarily works with indigenous communities in Chiapas.

Sources: Telediario (sp), News First (sp)

 

Filmmaker documents stories of victims of violence and impunity

Relatives offer harsh accounts of how unbridled violence has taken sons and daughters, sisters and fathers

 

The documentary Soles Negros (Dark Suns) by Canadian filmmaker Julien Elie, now being shown in Mexican cinemas, is an attempt to shine a dark light on the pervasive violence driven by unchecked impunity.

The film focuses on the victims of this violence, taking on the topics of femicides in Ciudad Juárez and México state, assassinations of journalists, the forced disappearances of the 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, the 2011 San Fernando massacre of 72 migrants and the ruthless force of the drug cartels.

https://youtu.be/UHQf9RAH9lM

“I wanted to make a movie about femicides,” said Elie about his inspiration for the film, “but upon seeing the violence in the whole country… it seemed important to me to portray the terror [in all its forms].”

Soles Negros premiered on Sept. 27, and is now being shown in commercial and independent theaters across the country.

The relatives of the victims of each one of these stories offer harsh accounts of how the country’s unbridled and rising violence has taken from them their sons and daughters, sisters and fathers. The camera focuses on their faces as they recount their journeys on the often endless road to justice and the strength they have to keep going.

Source: Sin Embargo (sp).

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