El canciller aclaró que la inmunidad para Nadine Heredia como funcionaria de la FAO no alcanzará a las leyes peruanas. | Fuente: RPP
El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Ricardo Luna, aclaró en RPP Noticias que la ex primera dama Nadine Herediano contará con inmunidad ante las leyes peruanas, pese a que ha sido nombrada directora de la oficina de enlace de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO).
“Mi padre ha sido funcionario de Naciones Unidas durante 40 años y nunca ha tenido inmunidad. El concepto de inmunidad para un funcionario internacional sustrae a esa persona de la jurisdicción del país extranjero donde cumple sus funciones, en ese caso estaríamos hablando de la jurisdicción de Suiza. Eso significa que permanecen sujetas a la legislación y jurisdicción nacionales”, comentó en Ampliación de Noticias.
La historia. La designación de Nadine Heredia como funcionaria de la FAO apareció en un boletín informativo de ese organismo fechado el 21 de noviembre. El documento destaca la hoja de vida de la exprimera dama y su anterior nombramiento como embajadora de la quinua en el 2012. La designación fue firmada por el director de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, quien fue funcionario en el gobierno del expresidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Heredia viajó la noche de este martes a Madrid, España, en un vuelo de Iberia que partió a las 9:05 p.m. del aeropuerto Jorge Chávez.
Nadine Heredia trabajará como funcionaria de la FAO. | Fuente: Andina
Luna también aclaró que no era función del embajador Roca-Rey en Suiza reclamar por el nombramiento como dijo el congresista Jorge del Castillo en RPP Noticias, ya que era un proceso interno. “No corresponde al embajador ante Suiza reclamar, porque no tiene ninguna injerencia sobre los organismos internacionales con sede en Ginebra. El nombramiento corresponde a la FAO, en Roma, ante el embajador de Perú en Italia (Luis Iberico). Él no tenía que haberse enterado porque el proceso se realizó de forma autónoma”.
Correos.Del Castillo reveló correos entre Nadine Heredia y el director de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, que datan del 22 de febrero, 11 de marzo, 15 de marzo y 21 de marzo del 2016. En las comunicaciones, la líder del nacionalismo habló del proceso de selección para el puesto y dijo que no quería sacar constancia de sus estudios superiores para no “alertar a opositores”.
Un correo entre Graziano y Heredia que data del 21 de marzo. | Fuente: RPP
José Graziano y Nadine Heredia cuando ella era primera dama. | Fuente: Andina
HANOI (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday he would not be in Vietnam meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump if he was not prepared to pursue the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
In answers to reporters’ questions during his meeting with Trump, Kim also said he would welcome the idea of putting a U.S. liaison office in the North’s capital, Pyongyang.
Reporting by Jeff Mason, writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Lincoln Feast
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that beginning May 19, New York State will adopt the CDC’s “Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People” for most business and public settings. Consistent with the CDC guidance, Pre-K to 12 schools, public transit, homeless shelters, correctional facilities, nursing homes, and healthcare settings will continue to follow State’s existing COVID-19 health guidelines until more New Yorkers are fully vaccinated.
“New Yorkers have worked hard over the last year to prevent the spread of COVID and keep each other safe,” Governor Cuomo said. “That work has paid off and we are ecstatic to take this next step in the reopening of our beautiful state. The people of New York and visitors alike should take solace in the lifting of mask requirements, but be respectful of those who may still feel safest wearing their mask in public and business owners who may still ask patrons to don their mask. We are ever closer to our better, safer New York. We are New York tough and we have proven it.”
To implement the CDC’s guidance, New York State will be revising the following reopening guidelines to take effect on May 19:
Business Mask Rules
Given that the CDC has advised that fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear masks and over 52 percent of New Yorkers over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated, the State will authorize businesses to continue to require masks for all in their establishments, consistent with the CDC guidance. In most settings, vaccinated individuals will not be required to wear a mask. Unvaccinated individuals, under both CDC and state guidance must wear masks in all public settings.
The Department of Health strongly recommends masks in indoor settings where vaccination status of individuals is unknown. Mask requirements by businesses must adhere to all applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
This recommendation will apply across commercial settings, including retail, food services, offices, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services, among other settings.
Business Capacity Rules
As previously announced, most business capacities — which are currently based upon percentage of maximum occupancy — will be removed on May 19. Businesses will only be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required social distance of 6 feet.
However, given that the CDC has advised that fully vaccinated individuals do not need to maintain social distance, businesses may eliminate the 6 feet of required social distancing, and therefore increase capacity, only if all patrons within the establishment — or a separate designated part of the establishment — present proof of full vaccination status. Proof of full vaccination status can be provided by patrons through paper form, digital application, or the State’s Excelsior Pass.
For areas where vaccination status of individuals is unknown and for patrons who do not present proof of full vaccination status, the required social distance of 6 feet still applies until more New Yorkers are fully vaccinated. This change will apply across all commercial settings, except the exempt settings outlined by the CDC.
Small- and Large-Scale Event Rules
Small-scale events will be able to apply the revised business mask and capacity rules. Specifically, for events below the State’s social gathering limit of 250 indoors or 500 outdoors, event venues will be able to require masks for all patrons — and DOH strongly recommends masks in indoor settings where vaccination status is unknown — and social distancing of 6 feet will be required between parties of attendees, unless all attendees present proof of full vaccination status. Unvaccinated people should still wear masks.
For large-scale events that exceed the State’s social gathering limits, event venues will only be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required distance, as follows:
Unvaccinated attendees and attendees who have an unknown vaccination status must be spaced 6 feet apart in assigned sections. Masks will be required in indoor event settings, except while seated and eating or drinking.
Fully vaccinated attendees may be spaced directly next to one another at 100 percent capacity instead of 6 feet apart in assigned sections that are designated solely for fully vaccinated individuals. Masks are optional. Venues must verify vaccination status to take advantage of reduced social distancing requirements.
Children under the age of 12 who are not yet vaccine eligible, and under the age of 16 who have not yet been able to be vaccinated, may accompany and be seated with a vaccinated adult in a fully vaccinated section.
Proof of full vaccination status can be provided by attendees through paper form, digital application, or the State’s Excelsior Pass.
For large-scale events, proof of recent negative COVID-19 test result for attendees who are over the age of four remains required for unvaccinated attendees in indoor event settings above the State’s social gathering limit but will become optional in outdoor event settings.
Today’s announcement builds on Governor Cuomo’s recent measures to further reopen the economy given significant progress in vaccinations and sustained reduction in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. As of yesterday, 62 percent of New York’s adults had received at least one vaccine dose and 52 percent had completed their vaccine series.
Additional details on the State’s New York Forward reopening guidance updates will be available here.
El cadáver de un hombre con sus piernas y brazos vendados fue colgado este lunes de un puente en una autopista de Iztapalapa, en la capital de México.
La aparición del cuerpo del hombre de unos 25 a 30 años -con un impacto de bala en la cabeza y el rostro cubierto con una máscara- evidencia el fuerte incremento de homicidios registrado este año en la ciudad de unos 9 millones de habitantes.
Pero lo más preocupante es que lleva hasta la Ciudad de México una práctica común de las bandas criminales ligadas al narcotráfico que se disputan el control de otras regiones del país.
De acuerdo con la información que han dado las autoridades de la ciudad, a unos metros del lugar donde fue colgado el cuerpo, se localizó una cartulina con una advertencia, que será analizada por personal especializado y saber si tiene alguna relación con el hecho.
Según datos del Gobierno, los homicidios aumentaron un 21% en los primeros ocho meses de este año, a 566. Ese porcentaje ubicó la tasa de asesinatos en Ciudad de México en su nivel más alto desde igual lapso de 1998, de acuerdo a un análisis de The Wall Street Journal.
Asimismo, ese número superó con creces el incremento del 5% que anotó la tasa de homicidios en todo el país, lo que complica al Gobierno del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, golpeado por la fuga del poderoso narcotraficante Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Probable presencia de cárteles
Algunos expertos han dicho que el aumento en la tasa de homicidios en la capital mexicana se debe en parte a una mayor actividad de los cárteles de la droga allí, lo que ha sido desestimado por las autoridades.
De acuerdo al informe del diario estadounidense, que citó un reporte de la Agencia Antidrogas de Estados Unidos (DEA por su sigla en inglés), cárteles como el del Golfo, Sinaloa y Los Zetas “han establecido su presencia en la capital”.
En esa misma línea, la revista Proceso dijo que a inicios de septiembre, el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación colocó tres mantas frente a ministerios públicos del Distrito Federal. En uno de los mensajes, ese cártel aseguró que viene “por la plaza”.
Una reciente investigación de Proceso halló además que desde 2010 han aparecido “narcomantas” en la capital, algunas de las cuales habrían sido puestas por Los Zetas, el Cártel de Sinaloa y el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación.
El Distrito Federal también ha sido sacudido recientemente por casos de violencia que han estremecido a sus habitantes, como el asesinato del fotógrafo Rubén Espinosa y cuatro mujeres a plena luz del día en un apartamento, el 31 de julio pasado, que aún no ha sido esclarecido.
Las autoridades han dicho que el aumento en la tasa de homicidios en la capital es temporal y han enfatizado que allí no opera el crimen organizado.
El Distrito Federal cuenta con unos 90,000 efectivos policiales, un número mucho mayor al de la policía estatal de estados vecinos.
En otras partes del país, una mayor presencia de los cárteles de la droga ha tenido un impacto devastador.
En Acapulco, la llegada del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación ha disparado la tasa de homicidios. Actualmente, esa ciudad registran 2.5 muertes violentas al día.
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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.
China needs to do more than just buy more U.S. goods before the two countries strike a permanent trade deal, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday.
“If we can complete this effort — and again, I say’ if’ — and can reach a satisfactory solution to the all-important and outstanding issue of enforceability, as well as some other concerns, we might be able to have agreement that does turn the corner in our economic relationship,” Lighthizer said.
“We can compete with anyone in the world, but we must have rule, enforced rules, that make sure market outcomes and not state capitalism and technology theft determine winners.”
Lighthizer’s testimony comes after President Donald Trump pushed back a key early March deadline for the U.S. and China to strike a trade deal. Trump cited “significant progress” for pushing back the deadline. The Chinese also agreed to buy up to $1.2 trillion in U.S. goods, CNBC learned through a source.
“Let me be clear,” Lighthizer testified. “Much still needs to be done both before an agreement is reached and, more importantly, after it is reached, if one is reached.”
“It has to be specific, measurable; it has to be enforceable at all levels of government.”
Wall Street has worried about increasing trade tensions between China and the U.S. for most of last year as investors gauged the potential impact of tariffs on the global economy.
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Thirty-five House Republicans on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump this week urged Republican lawmakers to oppose it, saying in a statement: “Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left.”
The result underscores the ongoing division within the GOP over Trump’s role in and influence over the party’s direction, with many Republicans who had criticized the former president for his role in the events of January 6 — including Rep. Liz Cheney — breaking ranks to vote in favor of establishing a commission.
The bill passed by a vote of 252-175 and was opposed by GOP leadership, Insider’s Grace Panetta and Charles Davis reported.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke out against the bill, saying the commission “does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America,” and House Republican leadership on Tuesday also tried to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against it, Punchbowl News reported.
The 35 House Republicans who broke ranks to vote in favor of the bill, GovTrack.us showed:
French Hill, Arkansas
Steve Womack, Arkansas
David Valadao, California
Carlos Gimenez, Florida
Maria Salazar, Florida
Mike Simpson, Idaho
Rodney Davis, Illinois
Adam Kinzinger, Illinois
Trey Hollingsworth, Indiana
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
Meijer Peter, Michigan
Fred Upton, Michigan
Michael Guest, Mississippi
Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska
Don Bacon, Nebraska
Chris Smith, New Jersey
Andrew Garbarino, New York
Tom Reed, New York
John Katko, New York
Chris Jacobs, New York
David Joyce, Ohio
Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio
Stephanie Bice, Oklahoma
Cliff Bentz, Oregon
Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
Tom Rice, South Carolina
Dusty Johnson, South Dakota
Van Taylor, Texas
Tony Gonzales, Texas
Blake Moore, Utah
John Curtis, Utah
Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington
Dan Newhouse, Washington
David McKinley, West Virginia
Liz Cheney, Wyoming
“I’m happy to put a light on all the facts and timelines,” said Rep. Don Bacon, ABC News reported, before his vote in favor of the bill. The list was first reported by CNN.
The bill is meant to establish a 10-member bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 riot and publish a report by December 31 with “findings regarding the facts and causes of the attack.” Five members are expected to be chosen by Democratic leaders in the House and five members are expected to be chosen by GOP leaders.
One year ago, we were looking forward to a safer and sounder 2021.
The Food and Drug Administration had granted emergency authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19.
A new presidential administration was poised to take office in the next month, armed with a commitment to bring together a nation cleaved by four years of divisive policymaking.
It was not to be.
For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain
Instead of unity and immunity, this year has brought us stupidity and insanity on an unimaginable scale. In the categories of public health, education policy, fiscal policy and investment options, we appear to have taken leave of our collective senses.
Certainly there are other years or periods in which stupidity or heedlessness brought civilization in general close to eradication.
Consider 1914, when most of Europe dived hellbent to war for no discernible reason. (Read Barbara Tuchman’s book “The Guns of August” for the full horrific picture.) The Dark Ages were a period benighted by scientific ignorance.
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Some individual countries and national leaders stand out for tempting fate, to their and their citizens’ misfortune. Britain in 1938 under Neville Chamberlain. Russia’s warmongering with Japan in 1904-1905. Louis Napoleon poking a stick into the Prussian bear’s cage in 1870-1871. Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait in 1990.
The perpetrators of some of these errors might assert in their defense that they were brought low by circumstances they didn’t know at the time.
But America in 2021 can’t plead that it didn’t know. Didn’t know that vaccines representing stupendous scientific achievements were the solution to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Didn’t know that Donald Trump wasn’t joking when he demanded that government officials overturn a fair presidential election? Didn’t know that bitcoin, NFTs, SPACs and meme stocks were destined, even designed, to take unwary investors to the cleaners?
Of course we knew, and know. We don’t seem to care.
In reviewing the most intellectually demoralizing events of 2021, I’ll leave aside a few discrete outbursts of asininity.
The job-gain narrative is competing with the inflation narrative in assessments of the economy, and the inflation narrative is winning.
Or the shameful behavior of congressional Republicans, who cowered in safety during the Jan. 6 insurrection, pleading with Trump to help quell the riot, only to claim ever since that the violence of the crowd was no big deal.
Or the posting of Christmas cards by politicians showing their families hoisting assault weapons, as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) did just four days after a gunman killed four students at a Michigan high school. He was followed by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
The pandemic is surely the focus of the most obtuse and ignorant public reactions and state and local policy responses to any crisis in American history. It’s as if the grown-ups have all been beamed up, and we are left in the hands of people like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. (I am paraphrasing a line from the great pandemic movie “Together.”)
In any rational world, the refusal or failure by some 50 million adult Americans to take a vaccine of known efficacy against a deadly disease would be inexplicable. But this is not a rational world, and the situation is even worse.
Vaccine refusal is seen in many benighted corners of the United States not merely as the exercise of personal choice for personal reasons but as a means of showing moral superiority over the vaccinated.
A conservative critic of anti-pandemic measures writing from rural southwest Michigan for the Atlantic bragged absurdly and selfishly, “I am now closer to most of my fellow Americans than the people, almost absurdly overrepresented in media and elite institutions, who are still genuinely concerned about this virus.”
Are inflation fears unreasonable? It depends on how you’re spending your money.
The author may think he’s remote from virus concerns, but that’s not the case at a hospital visited by CNN in Lansing, Mich., which can’t be much more than 100 miles from his location and where “the latest COVID-19 surge is as bad as healthcare workers there have seen.”
How did it come to pass that Americans, who almost uniformly are inoculated against at least a half-dozen serious diseases in childhood, chose this moment to refuse a spectacularly effective shot against one of the most dangerous diseases to arise in their lifetimes, out of pure ignorance?
Its effectiveness is scarcely disputable: The Commonwealth Fund estimates that the vaccine averted about 1.1 million American deaths from COVID-19 and more than 10.3 million hospitalizations this year.
The answer lies in politics.
Trump drew the line first, dismissing social distancing steps and refusing to speak up for vaccination. He established these steps as partisan choices, and his political acolytes followed him over the cliff.
DeSantis has been a leader in this descent into the Inferno. He’s chosen to make Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and America’s most respected authority on the pandemic, a target of partisan calumny. He’s appointed a vaccine doubter as his state’s top public health official.
What is the outcome? Florida currently ranks eighth-worst among states in its COVID-19 death rate, with more than 62,000 Floridians having perished from the virus. Of the seven states with worse records, six are red states like Florida.
Corporate America has not showered itself in glory. On Dec. 18, Boeing announced that it was dropping its requirement that all U.S. employees be vaccinated. Its explanation was that a federal judge had blocked the enforcement of a federal executive order that employees of government contractors be vaccinated.
This is absurd. Nothing in the ruling required Boeing to drop its requirement. The company announced its step back just as the Omicron variant was about to produce a surge in infections. The pusillanimity of American corporations on this subject continues to astound. (The Times, which is owned by a physician and biomedical entrepreneur, is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 31.)
Banks and the right wing know Saule Omarova may be an effective regulator, so they’re absurdly attacking her as a communist.
To its credit, on Dec. 17 the Biden White House issued an uncompromising warning about the dangers of remaining unvaccinated.
“For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said. “So, our message to every American is clear…. Wear a mask in public indoor settings. Get vaccinated, get your kids vaccinated, and get a booster shot when you’re eligible.”
Investment follies
In May, I asked whether we were experiencing a peak in investment absurdity. The examples then were bitcoin, dogecoin and nonfungible tokens (NFTs), as well as meme stocks, the prices of which were not tied to sober reflections about their issuers’ business prospects but to internet-fueled speculation.
Assets like these, which are priced in accordance with the “greater fool” theory (they have no intrinsic value beyond what you can cadge from a bigger fool than yourself), have only proliferated since then. Or perhaps it’s only the absurdity that has ballooned.
NFTs, for instance, are tradable digital files that confer no ownership to anything but the digital file, which may be an image of an object that is actually owned by someone else. Someone has parodied the NFT market by purporting to sell NFTs of images of individual Olive Garden restaurants, but it’s the kind of parody that gets at the essential truth of the target.
You don’t get to own the restaurant or the photo. You don’t get a discount on menu items or a guarantee that the photo is even accurate. You supposedly get to own something on the Non-fungible Olive Garden Metaverse, whatever that is, and you can try to find a greater fool to sell it to.
NFTs generally don’t confer ownership of the underlying asset or even the digital representation of the asset. The market doesn’t exist for any reason except to produce activity to suck in greater fools.
The best clue that there’s something hinky about these markets is that the Trump family is going all in. A purported media company started by Donald Trump, for instance, is merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.
Wall Street is enticing investors with SPACs — funds that won’t say what they’re buying.
As I reported, the deal promptly came under the scrutiny of financial regulators. In any case, no discernible business plan of any substance has emerged for the Trump company. People appear to have invested because of his name.
Now Melania Trump has gotten into the act, hawking NFTs of paintings of her eyes—”an amulet to inspire,” the pitch says, though obviously you don’t get to own the eyes or even the original watercolor.
Software developer Stephen Diehl, an established skeptic of these things, writes that we are entering upon “a hustler’s paradise … where the market now provides a financial token game for every meme, every celebrity, every political movement, and every bit of art and culture.” The old saw applies about how if you’re looking around the poker table and can’t identify the mark, it’s you.
Inflation and Build Back Better
Republicans and conservatives have never cottoned to spending on programs that assist the middle and working class. President Biden’s Build Back Better program was destined to get their backs up.
How could they attack a program that provides for universal prekindergarten education, assistance with child care, caps on the price of drugs such as insulin and better access to healthcare? Simple: Raise the old bugaboo of inflation.
That’s been the approach of Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who recently announced — via Fox News, of course — that he couldn’t support the plan in any way. He’s since backed off a bit from his adamantine opposition, but the core of his position was concern that the measure would add to inflation.
As we’ve reported, that’s just wrong. Not even former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who sounded an inflation alarm about the pandemic relief package enacted this year, thinks it applies to this measure. The provisions of Build Back Better are paid for and represent investments in the economy, so they’re anything but inflationary.
The SPAC craze may have peaked with Trump’s bizarre pitch for a right-wing media company.
Indeed, Wall Street views Manchin’s resistance as an economic negative. According to MarketWatch, Goldman Sachs cut its growth forecast for the first quarter of next year to 2% from 3%, for the second quarter to 3% from 3.5% and for the third quarter to 2.75% from 3%.
That’s not counting the direct impact of Build Back Better on Manchin’s own state, which is among the poorest in the nation and one in which government programs are crucial. That’s well understood on the ground: The United Mine Workers union publicly urged Manchin to reconsider his opposition to a program that would have “a meaningful impact on our members, their families, and their communities.”
Much more happened in 2021 that prompts one to hold head in hands. To be fair, however, there were also glimmers of hope.
Biden on Dec. 21 announced steps to strengthen the country’s response to the Omicron variant, including mobilizing troops to help staff overwhelmed hospitals, opening thousands of vaccine sites and sending 500 million free testing kits to households. The Build Back Better plan is not entirely dead, and a revival effort will start in January.
Whether 2022 will be as stupid and insane as 2021 won’t be known until we can view it in a rearview mirror 12 months from now. We can only hope.
El autogolpe del 5 de abril de 1992 llegó a las portadas de medios internacionales como The New York Times de EE.UU. o El País de España.
Este miércoles se cumplieron 25 años del autogolpe de Estado de Alberto Fujimori del domingo 5 de abril de 1992. Esa noche, el Gobierno desplegó a las Fuerzas Armadas para tomar control del Congreso, el Poder Judicial y también intervino medios de comunicación. La noticia llegó a la prensa de España, Estados Unidos y otros países de Latinoamérica.
El País informó sobre el autogolpe en su portada dos días después, el 7 de abril. “Fujimori suprime la democracia en Perú por decreto y con apoyo militar. El golpe institucional convierte al presidente en un dictador civil”, tituló el diario español. El medio europeo también destacó que su entonces corresponsal en Lima, Gustavo Gorriti, fue detenido.
La cadena Univisión fue una de las pocas que grabó imágenes de lo ocurrido en las calles de Lima durante el autogolpe. | Fuente: Univisión / YouTube Esteban Valle Riestra
“Democracia suspendida”. El mismo 7 de abril, The New York Times informó sobre el autogolpe con los títulos “Perú suspende la democracia citando una revuelta” y “Tropas rodean el Congreso y patrullan Lima”. Clarín también le dedicó su portada con tres titulares: “Fujimori arrestó a los principales políticos”, “EE.UU. corta la ayuda militar y política” y “El Parlamento anunció la destitución del presidente”.
Según imágenes compartidas por La República, dos medios chilenos informaron el 6 de abril y en primera plana sobre el golpe de Alberto Fujimori. La Tercera enfocó la noticia por el rechazo internacional a lo ocurrido: “Fujimori se adueña del Perú. El mundo condena ‘golpe karateca'”. La Época tituló “Dictadura civil impone Fujimori”
El 5 de abril de 1992, Fujimori anunció la instalación de un “Gobierno de Emergencia y Reconstrucción Nacional”, que implicó la disolución del Congreso y la intervención del Poder Judicial. El Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura, el Tribunal Constitucional, el Ministerio Público y la Contraloría también fueron reorganizadas. El evento se recuerda como un autogolpe de Estado.
Según Fujimori, la decisión era justificada: con la toma y posterior reforma de las instituciones, se recuperaría la gobernabilidad y se superaría la crisis económica del momento. Además, se combatiría de manera más efectiva el terrorismo. La radical medida, apoyada por el 82% de la población, permitió la detención de opositores y la intervención de medios de comunicación.
Manchester police have created a tip line and rewards are being offered for information about a 7-year-old girl who was last seen in 2019.
Police Chief Allen Aldenberg urged anyone who knows anything about the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery to tell police what they know.
“Help us find this little girl,” he said. “Someone knows something. Do what is right and call in. I cannot emphasize this enough. Someone out there knows something.”
Anyone with information is asked to call 603-203-6060. Manchester Crimeline is offering a reward of $2,500, and business owners Dick Anagnost and Arthur Sullivan are offering a $10,000 reward for tips.
Aldenberg was visibly emotional as he called on people to call in with any tips, even if they’re of sightings from years ago.
“Somewhere out there, this little girl is in need of help,” Aldenberg said. “And I need your help in helping us to find her safe.”
Investigators said they have talked with many of Harmony’s family members but declined to elaborate on which ones.
Aldenberg confirmed that Harmony was in the child welfare system in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and that it was New Hampshire’s Division of Children, Youth and Families that notified police last week that Harmony was missing and last seen two years ago.
Aldenberg said it’s notable that it took so long for Harmony’s disappearance to be noted.
“It’s a question that I have asked that hopefully at some point along with this I get an answer to,” he said.
On Sunday, investigators spent hours at a home at 77 Gilford St. in Manchester, Harmony’s last known address. The home has a new owner who police said is cooperating with allowing police to scour the property for clues.
“We are two years behind the power curve and where Harmony should have been and who she should have been with, she’s not with them,” Aldenberg said.
The chief said a team of detectives is working on the tip line around the clock. He said about two-dozen tips have come in so far.
Aldenberg asked people to avoid social media conjecture and instead call or text the dedicated tip line with any information, even the smallest detail.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that New York is continuing to flatten the curve as the state may be at the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The [total] number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex,” Cuomo said at his daily coronavirus briefing where he displayed that the current number of hospitalizations is at 18,654. New York City has 64 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations while Long Island has 22 percent. Intubations were negative 26 Friday, a decrease that the governor called a good sign.
The governor had originally called for 140,000 beds and 30,000 ventilators based on projections. New York’s previous hospital capacity was 53,000 beds, which has since increased to 90,000 beds.
He said Friday the temporary hospitals at the Javits Center and the U.S. Navy Ship Comfort – which are staffed with federal personnel – “are an overflow relief capacity valve” that will not have to be used if the hospitalization rates continue to stay low, but hospitals have been told that they have those facilities at their disposals should they need them.
As of Friday night only 332 patients have been moved to these facilities that have a combined capacity of 3,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, according to a report by the New York Post.
Cuomo took a shot at conspiracy theories for why governments closed down in light of projections missing the mark by wide margin, calling those ideas “corrosive.”
“There are no political conspiracies here. All the projection models have basically said the same thing…All the experts have higher projection numbers than we actually experienced and they all said caveat government action could flatten the curve but we don’t know what governments will do and we don’t know if people will even listen to what governments will do,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo said he has kept politics out of the coronavirus response, commending President Donald Trump for being “responsive to New York’s needs.” The governor also stated that he is “not running for anything…I am the governor of New York and that’s where I’m going to stay.”
“I have no political agenda, period. I’m not running for president. I’m not running for vice president. I’m not running anywhere. I’m not going to Washington. I’m staying right here,” he said to shut down any qualms or misgivings.
The governor said that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who earlier in the day announced that city schools would be shut down for the remainder of the academic year, could not make that decision “without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region.”
“I understand the mayor’s position…and we may do that, but we’re going to coordinated sense with the other localities. It makes no sense for one locality to take an action that’s not coordinated with the others,” Cuomo said of de Blasio’s decision.
New York currently has 180,458 confirmed cases and 8,627 deaths. There were 783 novel coronavirus deaths in the state Friday, after losing 777 people Thursday.
“These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain, especially this week. All 783 individuals and families are in our thoughts and in our prayers,” Cuomo said.
As for when this pandemic will end, Cuomo quoted Winston Churchill to say that New York is possibly facing “the end of the beginning” with regard with the pandemic, adding: “This was a beginning phase. We are all trying to figure it out, we are all trying to adjust, but it is the end of that beginning.”
The governor urged New Yorkers to continue to abide by social distancing guidelines, as he said the current outlook of the pandemic is a “product of our actions.”
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