2023-12-21: News Headlines

teleSUR, nbb, JGN (2023-12-21). Presidente de Nicaragua resalta histórica asociación con China. telesurtv.net Ortega recordó a Xi que Nicaragua fue el primer país de Centroamérica en abrir relaciones con Beijing en la década de 1980.

ecns.cn (2023-12-20). China, Nicaragua upgrade bilateral ties to strategic partnership. ecns.cn China and Nicaragua announced on Wednesday they agreed to upgrade bilateral relations to the strategic partnership, vowing to expand bilateral trade and bring their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) into force as soon as possible.

Sharon Zhang (2023-12-20). Report: Current Congress on Track to Pass Fewest Laws of Any Congress in Decades. truthout.org The current Congress has passed the least laws of any other congressional session in modern history in its first year of operation, a new analysis finds. The 118th Congress, marked so far by utter chaos in the GOP-controlled House, has only passed 20 bills that were signed into law by President Joe Biden, according to data from data analytics company Quorum and reported by Axios. By contrast… |

David Bacon (2023-12-21). Biden Is Paying Growers to Replace Farmworkers With Bracero Contract Labor. truthout.org On September 22, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would begin paying growers to use the notorious H-2A contract foreign labor (or guestworker) program. Tapping into $65 million from the American Rescue Act, the USDA will pay between $25,000 and $2 million per application to defray the expenses of recruiting migrant workers from three Central American countries… |

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