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By Sarah C. Beasley Canadian Youth Climate Leaders. From davidsuzuki.org One of the Earth’s most precious resources are youth leaders from many countries who are mobilizing to vocally share their demands regarding climate change. This diverse group includes Indigenous climate activists, who are rallying and protesting for their very survival and cultural future. “Indigenous” means produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environments. It also means innate or inborn. Whether one is newly immigrated to a given region or has lived there for...

and last updated 2021-04-12 00:43:25-04 GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Three students at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UWGB) have recently started a podcast highlighting members of Northeast Wisconsin’s Latino community. Meet the students involved with this podcast: Kelly Lamas is a junior double majoring in Spanish and social work with an emphasis in child welfare. Valerie Juarez Valerie Juarez Valerie Juarez The students say they were initially approached by one of their professors from the Spanish department asking them to take on this project. They say their professor got th...

Reuters The Drug Enforcement Administration's latest report on illicit drugs and drug trafficking details what the agency says is cartel influence in the US. Security experts and cartel operatives in Mexico dispute the DEA's depiction, however, arguing the links are more tenuous than the DEA describes them.  Ciudad Juarez, MEXICO — The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released its annual National Drug Threat Assessment, in which it maps out the states where Mexican drug cartels have gained "influence." Asked about that depiction of cartel pres...

Ulysses S. Grant was none to pleased with French presence in Mexico.  Here's What You Need to Remember: The withdrawal of French forces soon led to the fall of Maximilian’s cardboard government. In June 1867, Juarez and the nationalists captured the Austrian pretender and, despite a last second appeal for mercy from the American government, executed Maximilian before a peasant firing squad. The continued presence of a handpicked French puppet emperor in Mexico, which had so worried the Lincoln administration during the Civil War, remained a sore point with American political and military ...

A report published by the Congressional Research Service on April 2 concluded that Mexican drug cartels have “exploited” the COVID-19 pandemic and “remain the primary source of heroin and fentanyl trafficking into the United States.”