Franc Contreras

Senior Freelance Correspondent reporting in English for @CGTNAmerica • Documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental justice, food and water issues.

[Franc Contreras @FrancMex]

🎥 Big news from the 2023 World Film Festival in Cannes 🇫🇷
Winner 🏆

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@_MarianaE_ Desde la perspectiva de este corresponsal, estás haciendo un excelente trabajo, presentando las noticias a la nación, estimada Mariana Escobedo. Te felicito mucho.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Julian Assange has just celebrated his first birthday in freedom after many years of persecution. The government was forced to admit in court that his only crime was journalism, and that no one had ever come to harm from it.

That's called winning.

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Rescue efforts continue in wake of New Mexico wildfires https://t.co/faU6zsM4uD

[Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo @Claudiashein]

Aquí les comparto los perfiles de quienes me acompañarán en las secretarías de Salud; Función Pública; Energía; Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano; e Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes.

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[Relaciones Exteriores @SRE_mx]

📸 El personal diplomático de @EmbaMexEcu ya viaja de vuelta a México desde Quito.

Países amigos y aliados de nuestra embajada apoyaron para velar por la integridad de las personas mexicanas, a través de su acompañamiento en el recorrido hasta el aeropuerto de la capital ecuatoriana.

¡Agradecemos a las y los embajadores de Alemania🇩🇪, Panamá🇵🇦, Cuba🇨🇺, Honduras🇭🇳, el presidente de la Cámara Ecuador-México y el resto del personal diplomático por su solidaridad con el pueblo de México!

🇲🇽🤝🌎
#DiplomaciaContundente

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It was the night before Mexico‘s presidential campaign kick-off and all through the plaza. Sola poca gente, La Gente, La Raza. En vivo Panorámica del Zócalo de la Ciudad de México https://t.co/zhUzmJlse1 via @YouTube

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Aeroméxico will canceled or delayed more than 100 flights while it inspects its fleet of 19 Boeing 737 Max-9 jets. The decision follows a dangerous blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines jet of the same model Friday in the United States. @cgtnamerica

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Amazing news! Turn Back South was just selected by San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival via https://t.co/UoRpqyEZzi!

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Our nonfiction short essay film, "Turn Back South" was just selected by San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival via https://t.co/UoRpqyEZzi! -

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@joselevelasquez @anniecanizares @sip_oficial @CNNEPrensa Excelente! Muchas felicidades!

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@MurphyWoodhouse Why?

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Enrique Dussel, one of our greatest philosophers in Latin America, passed away last night. His contributions to decolonial and Marxist thought and philosophy of liberation will continue to inform our interrogations of colonialism, imperialism, & capitalism. Rest in Power.

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HURRICANE AFTERMATH.

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — At least 43 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, the governor of hard-hit Guerrero said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb. @cgtnamerica

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NEWS • UNITED NATIONS https://t.co/mmSuVVfrGP

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@_MarianaE_ ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials raised the death toll to 39 on Saturday from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country’s southern Pacific coast including the resort city of Acapulco early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm.

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RIP Terence Davies, 1945-2023

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Turmoil in Guatemala.

[Michelle Mendoza Muñoz @mmendoza_GT]

🚨🚨🚨🚨ATENCIÓN🚨🚨🚨🚨
ALEJANDRO GIAMMATTEI QUIERE IMPONER ESTADO DE EXCEPCIÓN ESTE VIERNES A LAS 3 DE LA TARDE.

💥LA MISMA CONSUELO PORRAS ANDA HACIENDO ALARDE DE QUE ELLA TIENE BIEN ALINEADOSA LOS 3 ORGANISMOS DEL ESTADO.

💥Y HASTA LE ANDA AVISANDO A SUS TEABAJADORES QUE NO SE PREOCUPEN, QUE YA EL SÁBADO REGRESAN A SUS OFICINAS PORQUE EL PRESIDENTE YA LE DIJO QUE LOS VA A DESALOJAR.

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Mexico’s president said Monday that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blamed U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx. AP

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CINEMA

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Shards of Moon (Bi Gan, 2023)

Watch it alongside new shorts by Terence Davies, Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, and many more — all streaming free courtesy @FilmfestGent: https://t.co/rTR4YY3BR6

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Me celebrating another year in journalism