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La amistad entre rusos y noruego en Kirkenes se remonta a la liberación del pueblo por el Ejército Rojo, en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aquí, funcionarios de ambos países conmemoran el 70 aniversario del acontecimiento.
Los compradores rusos llenan sus supermercados, los barcos rusos se amontonan en su bahía y sus museos celebran al Ejército Rojo. Sin embargo, el pequeño pueblo de Kirkenes no queda en Rusia, sino en Noruega.
Es una pequeña burbuja de amistad transfronteriza en un país miembro de la OTAN. Ahora, el despido de un conocido periodista local deja a la vista la fragilidad de esta relación especial.
La salvaje y desolada costa del Océano Ártico es un entorno ideal para el periodista Thomas Nilsen, especializado en temas ambientales. Con pelo canoso pero con una intensidad juvenil, delgado y fuerte, es del tipo de personas a las que les va la vida al aire libre.
Nada le gusta más que explorar las ensenadas rocosas y los bosques pantanosos que se extienden entre el lejano norte de su nativa Noruega hasta la adyacente península rusa de Kola. Los recorre a pie, en esquí, en lanchas o canoas.
Ha sido un activista ambiental y guía para viajes de aventura además de periodista. Pero todo su trabajo ha implicado juntar y acercar a rusos y noruegos.
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Thomas Nielsen fue sorpresivamente despedido de su periódico.
Nilsen vive en el pequeño pueblo de Kirkenes, donde hasta hace poco editaba un periódico en Internet, el Barents Observer, con la misión de derribar las barreras en una región que fue una de las más peligrosas y sensibles durante la Guerra Fría.
Submarinos rusos con ojivas nucleares aún tienen sus bases justo al otro lado de la frontera.
Kirkenes se ha convertido en lo que Nielsen califica como “un laboratorio de contactos Este-Oeste”.
Ciudadanos de ambos países disfrutan de la posibilidad de viajar a través de la frontera sin necesidad de visa. Los rusos compran en Kirkenes pañales, ropa y una amplia variedad de alimentos, gracias a lo cual contribuyen a la bonanza de la economía local. Algunos incluso se han mudado al pueblo para vivir y trabajar.
Mientras tanto, los noruegos van a Rusia a comprar combustible barato y vodka, a cortarse el cabello y a consultas con el dentista.
“Esto es: norte alto – tensiones bajas”, dice Nilsen para referirse a la política del gobierno de Noruega para la región. “Es un eslogan, pero también es algo muy serio para Noruega, porque Noruega es un país muy pequeño. Somos cinco millones de habitantes y somos vecinos del país más grande del mundo”.
Ahora algunos temen que esa relación está en riesgo y, en parte, están preocupados por lo que ocurrió con Thomas Nilsen.
El mes pasado, él fue repentinamente despedido de su cargo de editor del Barents Observer durante un pleito con sus propietarios, un grupo de consejos locales del norte de Noruega, sobre libertad editorial.
El desacuerdo surgió, según Nilsen, de la cobertura que el diario hacía sobre Rusia, particularmente por un artículo que él escribió durante la crisis de Ucrania criticando la creciente mano dura del presidente ruso Vladimir Putin sobre medios de comunicación y organizaciones no gubernamentales.
“El jefe de la directiva me llamó a su oficina y dijo: ‘estás despedido, por favor, recoge tus cosas y abandona la oficina al final del día’. Estoy muy frustrado por el hecho de que algo así haya ocurrido en Noruega en el año 2015”.
En Noruega, un país que se enorgullece de su libertad de prensa, el incidente se convirtió en un asunto de impacto, en especial después de que la empresa de radiodifusión estatal, NRK, asegurara que el servicio secreto ruso, el FSB, había exigido la remoción de Nilsen.
Una acusación que negó airadamente la embajada rusa en Oslo. Pero Nilsen asegura que el cónsul general de Rusia en Kirkenes le dijo: “Hay algunos hechos en el Barents Observer que no tienen del todo contento a Moscú”.
Nilsen dice no creer que un político noruego pueda recibir órdenes de Rusia. “Es más la estupidez de los dueños porque no quieren dañar una relación fronteriza tradicionalmente buena”.
Los dueños del diario dicen que el despido de Nilsen no tuvo nada que ver con la cobertura de Rusia y que nunca han estado en contacto con funcionarios rusos.
No obstante, queda el interrogante de si la compleja red de vínculos fronterizos podrá sobrevivir la actual tensión Este-Oeste, tras las sanciones de Occidente contra Rusia y la prohibición de Moscú a las importaciones de alimentos de Occidente.
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La alcaldesa Cecilie Hansen se crio a poca distancia de la frontera y cruza con frecuencia a Rusia.
La amistad de los vecinos se remonta al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando las tropas soviéticas liberaron a Kirkenes de la ocupación alemana.
La escritora Olaug Bye Gamnes, que ya tiene 80 años, recuerda viéndolos llegar en octubre de 1944, cuando era una niña de nueve años. “Los considerábamos nuestros salvadores”, afirma.
“Durante el año que se quedaron, proveyeron a la población de comida. Iban hasta Rusia para traerla. No desalojaron a la gente de sus casas, como sí lo hicieron los alemanes. Ellos mismos se quedaban en carpas y dejaban que la población ocupara lo que quedaba de los edificios”.
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Los nazi ocuparon Kirkenes y construyeron búnkeres para repeler a los ejércitos aliados.
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La escritora Olaug Bye Gamnes recuerda el avance del Ejército Rojo a Kirkenes, cuando era niña.
Más tarde, durante la Guerra Fría, las relación se congeló. La saliente alcaldesa de Kirkenes, Cecilie Hansen, se crio a poca distancia de la frontera, pero no la cruzó hasta que tuvo 14 años.
Ahora va a Rusia regularmente y, el año pasado, 320.000 rusos cruzaron a Kirkenes. Para darles la bienvenida, muchos avisos están escritos en ruso, especialmente en los tres centros comerciales del pueblo.
Hansen señala que ellos compran alcohol caro en Noruega, mientras que los noruegos compran sus bebidas alcohólicas en Rusia.
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Muchos avisos en Kirkenes están escritos en rusos.
“Los rusos confían en los productos noruegos pero cuando vamos a Rusia a nosotros no nos importa. Mientras sea barata y tenga un alto contenido de alcohol no nos importa qué tiene adentro”, afirma.
Lo que es vital para la economía local es la cooperación en los sectores de petróleo y gas.
Una empresa noruega, Norterminal, organiza el traslado de petróleo ruso a buques cisterna occidentales en el fiordo de Kirkenes, porque resulta poco rentable que los tanqueros rusos -hechos para romper el hielo del Ártico, trasporten el crudo más hacia el occidente.
Aunque el comercio de petróleo no está directamente afectado por las sanciones, sí lo está la cooperación técnica en el sector. Eso ha estancado los proyectos de desarrollo de los vastos yacimientos recientemente descubiertos en el mar de Barents.
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Odd Arne Haueng, de la empresa Norterminal, reconoce las dificultades que se han dado en el sector de cooperación técnica.
“El desafío ahora con las sanciones es el declive por el que están pasando muchos negocios”, comenta Odd Arne Haueng de Norterminal. “Y si se va a emprender algún negocio, se tiene que estar preparado para lo que venga. Muchos empresarios simplemente se dan por vencidos”.
Menos rusos han llegado a Kirkenes este año. La alcaldesa Hansen, dice que se debe en parte por la devaluación del rublo pero también puede ser por un creciente ambiente antioccidental al otro lado de la frontera.
Los pescadores noruegos que solía exportar a Rusia se han llevado lo peor de las sanciones en represalia de Moscú.
Sin embargo, todavía prospera un negocio en Bugoynes, al oeste de Kirkenes, donde cangrejos gigantes -algunos de 1,5 metros- son empacados y transportados vivos a algunos de los restaurantes más exclusivos del mundo, bajo la supervisión de un biólogo marino, Roman Vasiliev.
Este tipo de cangrejo fue introducido originalmente en la región, en los años 1960, por científicos soviéticos y considerado entonces por los noruegos como una especie invasora que estaba destruyendo el ecosistema.
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El cangrejo gigante fue inicialmente introducido por los rusos.
Un tiempo después, los pescadores locales se dieron cuenta del valor que representaba su pesca. “Yo los llamaría un regalo de Rusia a Noruega”, indica Vasiliev, aunque reconoce que los animales, que fácilmente pueden aplastar el dedo de una persona, son peligrosos.
“Luchan hasta la muerte. ¡De alguna forma se parecen a los rusos!”, ríe. Es una broma, por supuesto, pero en el actual clima político es un poco incómoda.
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El biólogo marino ruso Roman Vasiliev llama el cangrejo “un regalo de Rusia a Noruega”.
Thomas Nilsen, el periodista, ahora está montando una publicación online propia para cubrir la actualidad de la región.
Acusa a las autoridades rusas de “crear desconfianza contra Occidente” y rechaza cualquier sugerencia de que lo los medios noruegos debieran mantener el silencio en cuanto a los problemas en Rusia en aras de las buenas relaciones.
No obstante, espera que cualquier frialdad entre los gobiernos ruso y noruego no dañe la amistad transfronteriza que la gente que vive en el lejano norte alto ha forjado.
“Este laboratorio aquí comprueba que la cooperación es importante“, asegura. “Eso es especialmente cierto en tiempos problemáticos, cuando soplan vientos fríos entre el Este y el Oeste”.
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Kuwait City – The Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria takes place this Wednesday (15), in Kuwait City, but on Tuesday (14), humanitarian help entities and governments had already announced donations they will be making this year for the population affected by the civil conflict in Syria. In an event prior to the start of the conference, held in the Kuwaiti capital city, Arab charity institutions have committed to donating US$ 400 million for the assistance of the Syrian population.
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Syrian children are threatened by polio
According to information of the government run Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), the resources shall be used for helping refugees abroad and people dislocated within Syria itself due to the war. The meeting was promoted by the International Islamic Charitable Organization, which is based in Kuwait.
According to Kuna, entities in Kuwait shall donate US$ 142 million, the British Islamic Charity Organization has announced a donation of over US$ 80 million, the Red Crescent of the United Arab Emirates shall be donating more than US$ 35 million and the Thani Foundation, of Qatar, offered US$ 15 million.
Also according to Kuna, the European Commission, executive body of the European Union, released this Tuesday that it plans on donating more than 160 million euro to meet basic needs, ensure education for the children and support neighboring countries who receive Syrian refugees.
The EU commissioner for International Cooperation, Kristalina Gerogieva, said she is “encouraging additional donations from the international community.” According to her, so far the EU has donated 2 billion euro for humanitarian aid for the Syrian population. The EU commissioner in charge of European Neighborhood Policy, Stefan Fuel, added that the bloc managed to encourage the donation of 400 million euro last summer alone. The conflict in Syria has been going on for almost three years.
Further donations were announced by other countries. Bahrain, for example, has declared it shall contribute with US$ 20 million, Finland with 7 million euro and Indonesia with US$ 500,000. The information is from news websites from these countries.
Last year, Brazil sent US$ 500,000 for Syrian aid, and a new sum is to be donated in 2014. “Brazil believes it is important to offer humanitarian assistance, but the war must end,” observed the head of Business at the Brazilian embassy in Kuwait, João Tabajara Júnior.
On January 22 there shall be a second Syria Peace Conference, in Switzerland, in the city of Montreux, where representatives of the president Bashar Al Assad regime and the opposition are expected to face each other.
Polio
The United Nations (UN), which is organizing the conference this Wednesday together with the Kuwaiti government, has announced that they must raise US$ 6.5 billion this year to keep up the humanitarian help for Syrians affected by the conflict.
Many UN agencies involved in this work are announcing their needs this year. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pledging US$ 150 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) another US$ 178 million, and the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) another US$ 835 million.
The harsh Syrian winter and diseases are some of the greatest concerns. According to Unicef representatives in Kuwait, since October last year there have been 17 cases of poliomyelitis in Syria, which had not registered cases of the disease since the 1990s. A vaccination campaign was started last week in an attempt to offer immunization for all children under the age of five.
In all, there are fifteen UN agencies working in Syria, with the support of 18 international partner NGOs. These are the entities that need resources. One of them is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which accepts donations on their websites www.unhcr.org (in English) and www.acnur.org (in Portuguese).
Uno de los cargos menos visibles, pero más difíciles del equipo de comunicaciones de la Casa Blanca quedó vacante esta semana. Andy Hemming renunció a su cargo de director del equipo de respuesta rápida de la Presidencia.
Hemming, de 31 años, quien dejó su puesto a principios de la semana, como informó la publicación especializada Politico, tenía la labor de destacar y promover la cobertura favorable que el gobierno recibe en medios tradicionales, esos mismos que el presidente Donald Trump suele atacar e insultar como “fake news” o “deshonestos”.
Con seguridad, esa pugna permanente entre el presidente y la prensa haría muy difícil para Hemming identificar noticias “positivas” sobre la acción oficial para hacerlas circular entre otros medios y los opinadores profesionales que suelen usar las televisoras, una labor que suelen hacer todos los gobiernos.
La verdad es que desde la Casa Blanca se ha estado promoviendo más noticias negativas sobre los demócratas y otros factores opuestos al presidente Trump que cosas favorables hechas por el gobierno.
A mediados de julio, por ejemplo, Hemming destacó un trabajo del The New York Times en el que se analizaba cómo los demócratas estaban bloqueando las nominaciones enviadas por el mandatario para ocupar cargos en la administración pública y en tribunales federales.
Éxodo continuo
Aunque Hemming no ha comentado con ningún medio hasta ahora las razones de su partida, la Casa Blanca ha informado que la decisión se tomó “de mutuo acuerdo”, al tiempo que la portavoz presidencial Sarah Huckabee le deseó “lo mejor” en su próximo destino.
En condiciones normales, un cargo tan específico dentro del equipo de prensa no recibiría tanta atención, peor se trata de una deserción más a pocos meses de empezada la presidencia desde que en julio la fugaz pasada de Anthony Scaramucci por la Casa Blanca, se saldó con la salida de Spicer, el jefe de gabinete, Reince Priebus, y finalmente el mismo Scaramucci, tras solo diez días como jefe de comunicaciones.
La semana pasada el estratega jefe Steve Bannon dejó su cargo, al igual que Scaramucci, como parte de la reestructuración del equipo que trabaja con el presidente que acometió el nuevo jefe de personal, John Kelly.
En semanas pasadas, Vice News informó que el presidente recibía dos veces al día una carpeta con las informaciones positivas sobre él y su gobierno salidas en los medios, aunque en aquel momento el renunciante secretario de prensa, Sean Spicer, calificó la información de “ridícula”, aunque dijo que no hablaría sobre los materiales que se comparten con el mandatario.
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A day ago, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax looked like he might survive politically. Now, his odds look much weaker.
Until today, Fairfax faced one compelling, but not contemporaneously corroborated, allegation of sexual assault from Vanessa Tyson, a liberal feminist professor whom he met at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Given that he was sandwiched in the gubernatorial succession between two separate Democrats accused of wearing blackface, he might have survived. For the better part of a week, it’s been a three-way stalemate among a governor publicly lambasted by the entire Democratic party, his almost equally aggrieved third-in-line state attorney general, and Fairfax, on whom Democrats have largely maintained radio silence. After all, thought many Democrats, why stand up for the black feminist professor levying a serious assault allegation against the black lieutenant governor when they could stick it to the boring old white men instead?
Well, silence won’t suffice much longer. A second woman, Meredith Watson, has come forward with an allegation that Fairfax raped her in a “premeditated and aggressive assault” when they were both classmates at Duke University. The possible death knell for Fairfax’s political (and maybe legal) fate? Watson told people of the incident at the time, and they have now gone on the record to confirm that not only did she allege rape back then, but that she specifically named Fairfax.
Earlier this week, I deemed Tyson’s allegation credible — due to the undisputed fact that she and Fairfax did have an encounter of some sort at the time and place she alleges — but not yet reaching the preponderance of the evidence. After all, she didn’t tell anyone about her assault until 2017, and the press hadn’t interviewed any of them to determine whether her story was consistent.
Watson’s allegation, on the contrary, is about as watertight as two-decade-old account can be without an actual rape kit or video evidence. Barring the emergence of any extraordinary exculpatory information, Watson’s allegation, especially combined with Tyson’s, probably fulfills the standard of “preponderance of the evidence.”
To the untrained eye, Fairfax now looks more likely to have raped at least one woman, and maybe two. He’s not qualified for the governor’s mansion, let alone civil society. It’s time for him to resign, and far past time for Democrats to start standing up for women, not just when it’s politically expedient for them to do so.
Newly released bodycam video shows a black man being stunned, dragged and punched by Louisiana state troopers before he died in custody following a high-speed chase.
“I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene, 49, can be heard telling the white officers as he was zapped with a stun gun after failing to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation outside of Monroe.
Footage of the arrest on May 10, 2019, was obtained by the Associated Press after authorities refused to release it for two years.
In the full 46-minute clip, one trooper can be seen wrestling the unarmed Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf——.”
“I’m sorry!” Greene can be heard wailing as another trooper uses a stun gun on his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f—king hands behind your back!”
The footage also shows Greene briefly being dragged facedown by another trooper after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.
An officer seen dragging Ronald Greene after his arrest.Louisiana State Police via APThis image from video from Louisiana State Trooper Dakota DeMoss’ body-worn camera shows troopers holding up Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived on May 10, 2019, outside Monroe, Louisiana.Louisiana State Police via APTroopers holding Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived.Louisiana State Police via APAn officer pushing Ronald Greene down on the ground with his foot.Louisiana State Police via AP
He is then left unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as the troopers used sanitizer wipes to get the blood off their hands and faces, video shows.
“I hope this guy ain’t got f—king AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.
Several minutes later, Greene is seen limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face.
It’s unclear what exactly caused Greene’s death, but the case has drawn backlash — after authorities initially said Greene died when he crashed his vehicle into a tree.
His family has also filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging troopers “brutalized” him and “left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest.”
Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, on Wednesday blasted the troopers.
“They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned,” she said. “He didn’t have a chance. Ronnie didn’t have a chance. He wasn’t going to live to tell about it.”
Lee Merritt, an attorney representing Greene’s family, said the footage “has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it.”
“He apologized in an attempt to surrender,” Merritt said.
Family members of Ronald Greene listen to speakers as demonstrators gather in Washington, DC, on Aug. 28, 2020.Michael M. Santiago/Pool via APLouisiana Master Trooper Kory York was suspended without pay for kicking and dragging Ronald Greene (pictured).Courtesy of the Greene family via APMona Hardin (center left at podium), mother of Ronald Greene, speaks at a news conference outside the Louisiana Capitol.AP Photo/Dorthy Ray
Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the footage, saying the “premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and … undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.”
The bodies of 10 people have been recovered after an oceanfront condominium building suddenly buckled and collapsed on Thursday, June 24, in Surfside, Florida.
Workers continued, in relentless 12-hour shifts, sifting through the rubble and listening for signs of life in the search for possible survivors. As the search for survivors continues, authorities have begun to release the identities of the deceased.
The first victim to be identified; her 15-year-old son was pulled alive from the wreckage
Stacie Fang, 54, was the vice president of Customer Relationship Management Conference, a company that produces an annual event in Chicago for customer relationship management retail and marketing executives. She had worked at the Surfside-based firm for 12 years.
A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Department told the New York Times that Fang had been pulled from the wreckage of the condo and taken to Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead of blunt force trauma.
Fang’s teen son is a sophomore, junior-varsity baseball player at a local high school, according to Miami’s WSVN. The boy was rescued by a man who was walking his dog near the building at the time of the collapse.
The couple would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in July
Antonio, 83, and Gladys, 79, lived in unit 903 in the South tower. The couple was among a group of older Cubans who lived in the condo complex.
Their son, Sergio Lozano, said if there’s any solace in their deaths, it’s in knowing the two “went together and went quickly.”
Sergio was able to have dinner with his parents just hours before the collapse Thursday morning. He lives in the Champlain Towers sister condo building across the way and could see his parents’ place from his balcony.
The couple is survived by their sons, Sergio and Antonio Jr., grandson Brian and other family members.
The father of two said he wanted his life to mean something
Manuel LaFont, 54, once told a reporter, “When I die, I want to say that my life meant something. I want to help people. I want to do something good in this world.”
LaFont grew up in Houston before moving to South Florida. He owned condo unit 801 and was hailed as a devoted father, a coach and a business consultant, according to the Miami Herald.
LaFont’s ex-wife said on social media she had picked up their two children, Mia, 13, and Santi, 10, at Champlain Towers only hours before the collapse.
According to the Miami Herald, Manny LaFont could often be found on the baseball diamond, playing with his son, whose team — The Astros at North Shore Park — he coached. Together, they shared a passion for the game. He told Adriana he planned to take Santi fishing soon.
LaFont worked at Lindsay Transportation Solutions, where he led a roadway safety division. He also was a parishioner at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach.
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Fernando Leanes, representante de la OMS/OPS en el Perú, explicó que existen procedimientos de seguridad que deben seguirse al momento de colocarse los trajes de protección.
Existe todo un protocolo solo para la colocación de los trajes de protección que debe usar el personal de salud en contacto con pacientes enfermos del virus del ébola. ¿Este equipo es vulnerable al contagio?
El epidemiólogo Fernando Leanes, representante de la OMS/OPS en el Perú, recordó que se debe de respetar a “rajatabla” cada uno de los procedimientos de seguridad al momento de colocarse los trajes de protección.
Precisó que se trata de un ejercicio que debe ser dominado de memoria, y el protocolo incluye que haya dos personas para que se supervisen una a la otra al momento de colocarse los uniformes. “Muy bien que en el Perú ya se está al personal sobre esto”, destacó en RPP Noticias.
Sobre el posible contagio de un segundo caso de ébola en Estados Unidos, en la persona de un trabajador sanitario pese a que habría respetado todas las medidas de seguridad, el especialista consideró que el caso debe ser evaluado y esclarecido por las autoridades de ese país.
“TEMOR EXAGERADO E INFUNDADO”
Fernando Leanes remarcó que “no hay que generar alarma” y afirmó que “hay un temor exagerado e infundado” sobre la transmisión del ébola, pues -explicó- la enfermedad se transmite fundamentalmente por contacto con sangre, heces y vómitos. En tanto que el contagio es mucho menor, dijo, por contacto con la saliva, orina, leche materna o semen a través de las relaciones sexuales.
No obstante, insistió en que en el día a día hay que estar precavidos, por ejemplo, si alguien vomita en el auto o cuando hay vehículos de transporte público sin ventilación, algo que muchos no consideran un riesgo.
“Nadie debe manipular heces de una persona enferma o el vómito sin protección adecuada. Se deben usar guantes,y lavarse las manos con los guantes puestos antes de sacárselos”, indicó.
Refirió que la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ya ha dado las medidas protocolares de prevención ante el ébola, pero recalcó que cada país por una cuestión política y ante el “estrés social” de la población, puede adoptar medidas de prevención adicionales, como ya lo viene haciendo el Perú en los aeropuertos.
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul — who will take over for Gov. Andrew Cuomo early Tuesday — was working with Long Island officials Saturday as Hurricane Henri loomed, her office said.
“She is on Long Island today and toured areas and discussed storm prep plans with local officials in Southampton,” spokeswoman Haley Viccaro said in an email. “The lieutenant governor is also actively involved in the communications and response.”
Hochul tweeted that she also took part in a call with President Biden, Cuomo and Northeastern governors about federal storm prep. “President stressed full federal government cooperation & commitment. @RedCross & @fema are offering their assistance,” she said.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spent the day on Long Island as officials prepare for Hurricane Henri.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Viccaro said Hochul was coordinating with state and federal agencies to assist and manage the response to the storm.
“She continues to be on the Island and will be involved in the recovery effort moving forward,” Viccaro said.
Three days before he steps down amid a sexual abuse scandal, Cuomo defensively dismissed a question about Hochul’s role in preparing for the first hurricane to target Long Island since 1985 during an afternoon press conference on the storm in which he announced a state of emergency declaration.
“I am the governor today and I am in charge,” Cuomo said.
People fill up on gas at a gas station on August 21, 2021 in Westhampton, New York ahead of Hurricane Henri.Stephanie Keith/Getty ImagesA boat is driven to higher ground in Hampton Bays, New York in preparation for Hurricane Henri’s landfall.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Department leaders placed unusual restrictions on the National Guard for the day of the Capitol riot and delayed sending help for hours despite an urgent plea from police for reinforcement, according to testimony Wednesday that added to the finger-pointing about the government response.
Maj. Gen. William Walker, commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, told senators that the then-chief of the Capitol Police requested military support in a “voice cracking with emotion” in a 1:49 p.m. call as rioters began pushing toward the Capitol. Walker said he immediately relayed the request to the Army but did not learn until 5:08 p.m. that the Defense Department had approved it. Guard troops who had been waiting on buses were then rushed to the Capitol, arriving in 18 minutes, Walker said.
The hourslong delay cost the National Guard precious minutes in the early hours of the rioting. Walker said he could have sent personnel within 20 minutes of getting approval. It also stood in contrast to the immediate authorization for National Guard support that Walker said was granted in response to the civil unrest that roiled America last spring as an outgrowth of racial justice protests.
Mindful of criticism that the response to those demonstrations was heavy-handed, military officials expressed concern about the optics of a substantial National Guard presence at the Capitol, as well as concerned that such visuals could inflame the rioters, Walker said. Another military official who testified said that then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller wanted to make the decisions of how the National Guard was used following criticism last spring.
“The Army senior leadership” expressed to officials on the call “that it would not be their best military advice to have uniformed Guardsmen on the Capitol,” Walker said.
The Senate hearing is the latest about what went wrong on Jan. 6 as national security officials face questions about missed intelligence and botched efforts to quickly gather National Guard troops that day as a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters laid siege to the Capitol. The hearings have spelled out how police inadequately prepared for the Trump loyalists; that FBI warnings about the threat of violence did not reach top police officials; and that requests for aid were not promptly answered.
“We in the FBI want to bat 1,000, and we want to not have this ever happen again,” said Jill Sanborn, the bureau’s top counterterrorism official and one of the witnesses. “So we’re asking ourselves exactly the questions that you’re asking: Is there a place we could have collected more (intelligence)? Is there something we could have done?”
Meanwhile, the Capitol Police disclosed the existence of intelligence of a “possible plot” by a militia group to breach the Capitol on Thursday. The revelation, coming as the acting police chief was testifying before a House subcommittee, differed from an earlier advisory from the House sergeant-at-arms that said police had no indication that any such violence was planned.
Much of the focus on Wednesday’s Senate hearing centered on communications between the National Guard and the Defense Department. Walker described an “unusual” directive that required Pentagon approval before deploying a specialized 40-member “quick reaction force” and before relocating personnel from one traffic intersection to another.
As chaos escalated on Jan. 6, then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund asked him for National Guard help in a frantic call and then again on a call with Army officials, who said they did not “think that it looked good” to have a military presence.
“The response to the request took too long, so I think there needs to be a study done to make sure that never happens again,” Walker said. “It shouldn’t take three hours to get a yes or no answer.”
That account was consistent with the recollection of Robert Contee, the acting chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department, who told senators at a separate hearing last week that he was “stunned” over the delayed response. Contee said Sund was pleading with Army officials to deploy National Guard troops as the rioting escalated.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said during a break in the hearing that senators “certainly will have questions” for Miller and for former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
“Whether that’s going to require testimony or not, I don’t know, but it’s definitely going to require an opportunity to ask them questions about their view, from their perspective, of why this decision-making process went so horribly wrong,” Blunt said.
At last week’s hearing, officials who were in charge of security at the Capitol blamed one another as well as federal law enforcement for their own lack of preparation as hundreds of rioters descended on the building, easily breached the security perimeter and eventually broke into the Capitol. Five people died as a result of the rioting.
So far, lawmakers conducting investigations have focused on failed efforts to gather and share intelligence about the insurrectionists’ planning and on the deliberations among officials about whether and when to call National Guard troops to protect Congress.
Thousands of National Guard troops are still patrolling the fenced-in Capitol, and multiple committees across Congress are launching investigations into mistakes made on Jan. 6. The probes are largely focused on security missteps and the origins of the extremism that led hundreds of Trump supporters to break through the doors and windows of the Capitol, hunt for lawmakers and temporarily stop the counting of electoral votes.
Congress has, for now, abandoned any examination of Trump’s role in the attack after the Senate acquitted him last month at his impeachment trial on a charge of inciting an insurrection.
Lawmakers have grilled law enforcement officials about missed intelligence ahead of the attack, including a report from an FBI field office in Virginia that warned of online posts foreshadowing a “war” in Washington. Capitol Police leaders have said they were unaware of the report at the time, even though the FBI had forwarded it to the department.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the report was disseminated though the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies.
Though the information was raw and unverified and appeared aspirational in nature, Wray said, it was specific and concerning enough that “the smartest thing to do, the most prudent thing to do, was just push it to the people who needed to get it.”
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, in testimony last week, conceded there were multiple levels of failures in the riot but denied that law enforcement failed to take seriously warnings of violence before the insurrection.
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Associated Press writers Ben Fox and Michael Balsamo in Washington contributed to this report.
The Caldor Fire isn’t the only thing running wild through California.
Video from an evacuated Lake Tahoe tourist city showed dumpster-diving bears and other wild critters making the most of deserted streets — as the wildfire raged just miles away.
The town would usually be full of summer visitors.RMG News
The animals were filmed Tuesday as they casually meandered through the mostly empty South Lake Tahoe, a resort city that would usually be bustling with summer tourists.
The bears nonchalantly rummaged through dumpsters, scattering food around them, and calmly crossed empty streets, with coyotes also seen strolling about.
A coyote roams free in Lake Tahoe.RMG News
That afternoon, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Henry Herrera had told KGO-TV that the Caldor Fire was just 3 miles outside of South Lake Tahoe, which had been evacuated Monday, at least of its human occupants.
Roughly 22,000 residents had jammed the city’s main artery for hours after they were ordered to leave, with officials saying only a handful of residents defied the evacuation order.
Two firefighters create a fuel break as the Caldor Fire burns near homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.AP
By Wednesday, thick smoke had enveloped the city as firefighters scrambled to keep the wildfire at bay amid low humidity, dry fuel and gusts up to 30 mph.
With Post wires
The bears nonchalantly rummaged through dumpsters, scattering food around them, and calmly crossed empty streets.RMG News
Eight people were killed in Atlanta last Tuesday. We have no shortage of explanations, including the perpetrator’s version, which many refuse to accept. Eros, rebranded and vilified as sex addiction, inspired a homicidal atrocity. Is that just a beard for anti-Asian violence?
Untangling the suspect’s motive isn’t easy when race and sex are competing to dominate the narrative. Six of the dead are women of Asian descent, yet the shooter told police he wasn’t motivated by racial bigotry.
Did the suspect visit Asian spas because he had some kind of hang-up about Asians, or is America more Asian than we realize? Surely our presence in every aspect of American life increases the likelihood that people from all backgrounds now interact with Asian America on a regular basis. His visits to Asian-run spas might be unremarkable had he been less violent or less white. In the U.S., interactions and relationships involving Asian women and non-Asian men sometimes attract prurient attention. It’s happening as we speak, inspiring clickbait, eye rolls, perhaps even a cottage industry of analysis and accusation. One accusation making the rounds is that the killer, 21 years old and white, is in denial about race. I think this misses the point.
His goal was primarily sexual, not racial purity. According to law enforcement and a former roommate, he spoke of porn and the end of temptation. His language, apocalyptic yet banal, sets a familiar tone.
Novelist Steph Cha writes that the face of anti-Asian violence has always been white. It’s the face of a system that devalues and scapegoats Asians.
Despite my Asian background, I find his disavowal of racism strangely credible. Like a lot of people, I’ve experienced bias and ethnic profiling, but I’ve also been a sex worker, and I have encountered more prejudice, more name-calling, more fear, anger and hostility in connection with my sex work than regarding my race. And because I’m a writer too, the author of novels about a call girl, there’s the hate mail. The most memorable outbursts have been odd letters of denunciation from Asian American readers exposing the underbelly of identity politics.
White supremacy is lately defined as America’s “original sin” — a confusing term that recalls St. Augustine reading Genesis so we won’t have to. Original sin has traditionally reeked of sexual knowledge and desire. Now it’s been laicized and racialized — a moral stain that blots out all others.
Asian identity is not well defined in a country where race has been understood as Black or white, but after a wave of attacks against Asians provoked by the pandemic and the former president, it has become a unifying force both within and outside the community. Atlanta’s Black mayor, a white president and a multiethnic vice president with a South Asian name have tried to unite us in the face of another incomprehensible mass shooting by focusing on the increase in these bias crimes over the past year. Flags have been lowered to half-staff.
There are conventions and common manners for dealing with racial violence, and sometimes they transcend party lines. For most public figures, there’s a sanitizing playbook on race, bloodshed and gun violence. The impact of sexual distress is harder to discuss — and not only because of puritanism. Sexuality is surprising, unpredictable; part of being an adult is pretending to have sex figured out. There is sometimes more shame in sex than in race.
Race is public and sex private, but the Atlanta shootings have upended this arrangement. Racialized feelings are beginning to look like more of a taboo than sexual obsessions. The killing of an Asian American is described as a hate crime, while killing a sex worker is seen as a mental health issue. The scarlet R demotes Nathaniel Hawthorne’s scarlet letter A to a venial sin, now standing for (masculine) addiction rather than (female) adultery. Racism is stigmatized, while sex is pathologized. This new chapter in American life requires a closer reading.
The author of “Gold Diggers,” a novel set in Atlanta’s South Asian community, mourns the security she once felt among strip malls that are now crime scenes.
“Sex addiction” is seen by many as empty psychobabble, a daft metaphor at best, dangerously weaponized on “a really bad day.” The rehab center the shooter attended offers “clinically effective and Christ-centered” treatment for this nebulous condition, in essence a medicalization of Christian morality. To me, the doctrine of sex addiction is the erotic equivalent of race science. And yet the killer’s belief is probably sincere: News accounts portray his spa visits as an addict’s relapse, as if sexual contact were a liver-destroying chemical. He may have been confused by appetites that are normal in 21-year-old males.
Robert Aaron Long has something in common with serial killer Ted Bundy (who blamed his own violence on pornography), and his religious faith shouldn’t be ignored. He brings to mind Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, who thought murdering sex workers was doing God’s will. We should take the disavowal of racial motives more seriously and reconsider our own assumptions.
Mainstream Americans, including many Asian Americans, are quick to blame racism yet unready to discuss an older hatred — what my French friends call “la putophobie” (a term more pleasing to the eye than the clunky compound “whorephobia”). It’s the last acceptable form of hate speech, someone once told me, and persists within minority communities where being a good immigrant is conflated with sexual virtue. Speculation about the spas where the massacre occurred is fed by prejudice. Amplified by so-called antitrafficking voices, this prejudice is dangerously toxic.
Fueled by religious fanaticism and illiberal forms of feminism, by punitive laws and tabloid headlines, this bias breeds self-loathing in young men who should be learning how to nurture, not extinguish, the varieties of human connection. Will the U.S. flag, flying at half-staff for our Atlanta dead, make a difference? I hope so.
For many Asian Americans, the killings further fueled fears about anti-Asian hatred that has mounted over the last year as police and advocacy groups have reported record numbers of hate crimes and harassment.
Quan, author of three novels including “Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl,” is a regular guest on RTHK Radio 3 in Hong Kong.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
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