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Marginalization and discrimination towards people with disabilities are accentuated by a pandemic in ... NVI News This was stated by Flavia Anaud, general coordinator of the Piña Palmera Center , AC, a place that offers rehabilitation and care with a focus on ...
| Marginalization and discrimination towards people with disabilities are accentuated by a pandemic in ... This was stated by Flavia Anaud, general coordinator of the Piña Palmera Center , AC, a place that offers rehabilitation and care with a focus on ... |
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Marginación y discriminación hacia personas con discapacidad se acentúan por pandemia en la Costa
SAN PEDRO POCHUTLA.- La situación de marginación y discriminación que enfrentan de forma cotidiana las personas con discapacidad, se ha acentuado de forma considerable desde la prevalencia por la pandemia por coronavirus, lo que representa retos aún mayores para su inclusión social y búsqueda del respeto de sus derechos en un entorno comunitario.
Así lo sostuvo Flavia Anaud, coordinadora general del Centro Piña Palmera, A. C., lugar que ofrece rehabilitación y atención con un enfoque de inclusión y derechos humanos a personas con discapacidad de comunidades de la Costa y Sierra Sur desde hace 36 años y cuya sede se ubica en Zipolite, Pochutla.
Información asequible, educación sin exclusión
En el marco del Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, que éste año la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) conmemora bajo el lema “Un día para todos”, Anaud sostiene que a la falta de inclusión social y acceso a oportunidades de desarrollo pleno; ahora éste sector suma retos aún más específicos ante la falta de información asequible a las familias sobre la COVID-19 y dada la desigualdad que permea ante las nuevas condiciones que plantea la educación a distancia.
“Hacen falta explicaciones sencillas y en su idioma para que las familias con discapacidad puedan aplicar los protocolos relacionados a la enfermedad; asimismo se vulnera el acceso a la educación porque ahora con la imposición del estudio virtual, la mayoría de las familias no pueden pagar la cuota de internet, lo que las deja rezagadas y discriminadas”, explicó la entrevistada.
Difícil acceso a la salud
En el mismo tenor, detalló, el acceso a la salud y atención médica se ve mermado por lo difícil que resulta para las personas con discapacidad acudir a un centro de salud ante padecimientos distintos al coronavirus, en un espectro de edades y discapacidades diversas.
Los retos para las personas con discapacidad se intensificaron con la pandemia, lo que obliga a revisar qué podemos hacer en lo subsecuente en cada uno de los rubros, agregó.
Piña Palmera focaliza esfuerzos
En cuanto al trabajo que realiza Piña Palmera, Flavia Anaud, señaló que aunque el centro y su calendario de actividades no se detuvieron, la pandemia los obligó a tomar todas las medidas sanitarias pertinentes para evitar contagios y se realizó una atención más personalizada en comunidades para continuar con las actividades de inclusión y rehabilitación.
Actualmente la organización Piña Palmera atiende a poco más de 500 personas de diferentes edades y discapacidades (física, intelectual, auditiva, visual y psicosocial) de la Costa y Sierra Sur de Oaxaca con procesos de rehabilitación y terapia física, así como con actividades tendientes a la inclusión social, con información, capacitación, concientización y sensibilización de personas con discapacidad y sus familias.
Mexico News Today Friday, December 4, 2020
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Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays Published on Thursday, December 3, 2020
The Programa Paisano launch in Tijuana on Wednesday.
Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen
No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays
Despite a Covid-19 travel ban across the Mexico-United States land border, Mexico’s Programa Paisano got up and running yesterday for the winter season, preparing to welcome home an expected 500,000 Mexican nationals for holiday visits.
The year-round program’s mission is to facilitate the transit of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. and Canada while they visit their home country. The program has special campaigns during the summer and winter, the busiest times of the year for Mexicans living abroad to come back to visit. In 2019, it served 4 million people. This year, it has so far served 600,000, a decrease which officials attribute to the pandemic.
Many of those visitors, living permanently in the United States and Canada, are expected to cross the land border into Mexico which, by agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, is supposed to be closed in both directions to all but essential travel until at least December 21 in order to slow the spread of Covid-19.
But officials with the National Immigration Institute (INM) say it would be impossible to stop Mexicans coming home to see family during the holidays.
“You can’t prohibit a Mexican from exercising his right to return to his home country,” said commissioner Francisco Garduño, adding that the institute will be taking all necessary health safety measures at the border.
Last month, Mexico surpassed 1 million Covid-19 cases. Virtually every state in the country is at least at yellow status on the national coronavirus stoplight map.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently called for “prudence” and encouraged Mexicans to avoid border crossings between Mexico and the U.S. for reasons of recreation, tourism, or “the celebrations that traditionally take place in these months,” but the tone seemed far from authoritative.
“We know that despite the recommendation, they are going to cross the border, so we have to be ready to attend to the needs of migrants who may come to visit their families,” said Luis Gutiérrez, head of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, a federal agency.
While crossing into the U.S. is generally agreed to be vigilantly monitored to make sure travelers have a valid reason to enter, many report that the situation is not the same going in the opposite direction. In recent months, citizens and lawmakers alike in border states have called upon Mexico to enforce the travel ban supposedly in place. That the Programa Paisano will carry on more or less as usual seems indicative that the situation is not likely to change.
Certainly, at INM’s official launch of the program’s winter campaign this week in Tijuana, attitudes seemed welcoming and even encouraging of Mexicans coming home for the holidays: officials played an upbeat video featuring President López Obrador, who highlighted the contributions of Mexican migrants during times of uncertainty, implicitly referring to billions of dollars in remittances that Mexicans send home each year.
“We are going to protect you and care for you because you are Mexicans, because you are coming to your country, because you help us; and in these times, more than ever, you are supporting us. You deserve the best of treatment, to be received like heroes — our migrant countrymen,” said López Obrador in the video.
As of October 31, Mexicans working abroad, mainly in the U.S., had sent home nearly US $30 billion.
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune (sp)
Friday, December 4, 2020
D O M I N G O S D E L A S U N S E T Waiting for you at La Casa beach bar-zipolite 🥘 SPANISH FOOD 🍻 PAELLA SANCHEZ 👌 🌞 Sunday 22 🔥 16:00 hrs 📍 Zipolite Beach 🌅 ⚡️ Beats by De†mon Tkdsks & Fonky Omar ⚡️
Waiting for you at
La Casa beach bar-zipolite
SPANISH FOOD 
PAELLA SANCHEZ 
Sunday 22 
16:00 hrs 
Zipolite Beach 
Beats by De†mon Tkdsks
& Fonky Omar 
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Andayvé - Zipolite desde el Aire. Los colores y montañas... Facebook Zipolite desde el Aire. Los colores y montañas de nuestros mares mexicanos. _ Fotografía @andayve_ Team member @oscarq_hdz #andayve ...
| Andayvé - Zipolite from the Air. Colors and mountains ... Zipolite from the Air. The colors and mountains of our Mexican seas. _ Photography @andayve_ Team member @oscarq_hdz #andayve ... |
Zipolite from the Air.
The colors and mountains of our Mexican seas.
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