“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.
MEXICO CITY—Smugglers have been packing U.S.-bound migrants into trucks such as the one in the fatal crash that killed dozens in southern Mexico to avoid stepped-up inspections of passenger buses, human-rights workers said.
The out-of-control trailer truck that crashed Thursday into a pedestrian bridge in southern Chiapas state carried more than 160 migrants, mostly Central American migrants who were being smuggled to the U.S., Mexican authorities said. There were at least 55 migrants killed and 104 injured.
Snapchat está expandiéndose a las noticias, según informó el blog On Media de Politico.com. Según reportan, el periodista de la CNN Peter Hamby ha sido reclutado por el servicio de mensajería como jefe de noticias.
“La televisora está caracterizando la transferencia de Hamby como un cambio de rol dentro de la CNN, lo que es verdad en tanto la televisora tiene una asociación con Snapchat le permitirá seguir contribuyendo tanto en vivo como en Internet en el 2016”, señala Dylan Byers de On Media.
El rol de Hamby sería estar a la cabeza de una función titulada Snapchat Stories que ayuda a crear historias mediante videoclips.
Además estará a cargo de Snapchat Discover, una función similar para noticias y entretenimiento como CNN, Vice y National Geographic revelada en enero de este año.
Pero principalmente el rol de Hamby será dar credibilidad a las noticias que se publican en Snapchat.
“Snapchat es una de las más emocionantes compañías jóvenes en el mundo. Ellos tienen una grande y creciente audiencia, y hemos visto que Discover es un gran logro. Estas historias y grandes eventos en vivo, tanto en lugares en el país y en el exterior, el potencial que tienen para llevar a los usuarios a nuevos lugares – podemos ver una aplicación con las noticias”, indicó Hamby en una entrevista el lunes.
BOSTON — In 1850, a Swiss-born Harvard University professor commissioned what are believed to be the earliest photos of American slaves.
The images, known as daguerreotypes and taken in a South Carolina studio, are crude and dehumanizing — and they were used to promote racist beliefs.
Among the photographed: an African man named Renty and his daughter Delia. They were stripped naked and photographed from several angles. Professor Louis Agassiz, a biologist, had the photos taken to support an erroneous theory called polygenism that he and others used to argue African-Americans were inferior to white people.
Now, a woman who claims to be a direct descendant of that father and child – Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great granddaughter of Renty – is suing Harvard over the photos.
She’s accused Harvard of the wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of the images, ignoring her requests to “stop licensing the pictures for the university’s profit” and misrepresenting the ancestor she calls “Papa Renty.”
The university still owns the photos. Lanier, who resides in Connecticut and filed the suit against Harvard in Middlesex County Superior Court on Wednesday, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages from Harvard. She’s also demanding that the university give her family the photos.
In an interview with USA TODAY, Lanier said she’s presented Harvard with information about her direct lineage to Renty since around 2011 but the school has repeatedly turned down her requests to review the research.
“This will force them to look at my information. It will also force them to publicly have the discussion about who Renty was and restoring him his dignity.”
The suit, which lays out eight different legal claims, cites federal law over property rights, the Massachusetts law for the recovery of personal property and a separate state law about the unauthorized use of a name or picture for advertising purposes.
It also singles out the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, arguing that Harvard’s ongoing possession of the photos “reflects and is a continuation of core components or incidents of slavery.”
“For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering – it’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family,” Lanier said.
Who was Renty?
She called Renty a “proud man who, like so many enslaved men, women and children, endured years of unimaginable horrors.”
“Harvard’s refusal to honor our family’s history by acknowledging our lineage and its own shameful past is an insult to Papa Renty’s life and memory.”
The suit further claims Harvard has “never sufficiently repudiated Agassiz and his work.”
Harvard did not immediately return a request for comment shortly after the suit was filed.
Lanier is represented by the law firms of national civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump of Florida, who has worked high-profile cases for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, as well as Connecticut-based attorney Michael Koskoff.
The photos taken in 1850 of Renty, Delia and 11 other slaves disappeared for more than a century but were rediscovered in 1976 in the attic of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
One of the photos of Renty, showing him waist-up as he looks defiantly into the camera with a straight face, has four decades later turned into an iconic image of slavery in the U.S.
The lawsuit argues that Harvard has used the Renty images to “enrich itself.” The image is on the the cover of a 2017 book, “From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography and the Power of Imagery,” published by the Peabody Museum and sold online by Harvard for $40.
According to Lanier’s attorneys, Harvard requires that people sign a contract in order to view the photos and pay a licensing fee to the university to reproduce the images.
“These images were taken under duress and Harvard has no right to keep them, let alone profit from them,” Koskoff said. “They are the rightful property of the descendants of Papa Renty.”
He accused Harvard of not wanting to tell the “full story” of how Renty’s image was seized – against the will of slaves for a professor who sought to “prove the inferiority” of the black race.
“Harvard continues to this day to honor him, and that’s an abomination,” Koskoff said.
The suit tries to chart how Lanier, a former chief probation officer in Norwich, Connecticut, has on multiple occasion sought to engage the university about the photos to no avail.
How the lawsuit began
Her attorneys say it began in 2011 when she wrote a letter to Harvard’s president at the time, Drew Faust, whose “evasive response” did not provide an opportunity to discuss returning the photos to Lanier’s family.
Five years later, she said she reached out to the student-run Harvard Crimson newspaper, but that its editor relayed that the story had been “killed” due to concerns by the Peabody Museum.
In the university’s use of the images, plaintiffs contend that Harvard has “avoided the fact that the daguerreotypes were part of a study, overseen by a Harvard professor, to demonstrate racial inferiority of blacks.”
“When will they not condone slavery and finally free Renty? Because their actions denote something different than what they might say,” Crump said of Harvard.
“We are trying to tell as many people throughout America, and especially black people, that Renty does deserve the right to have his image. He was 169 years a slave, but based on this lawsuit, we sought to make sure he would be a slave no more.”
Agassiz was considered one of the greatest biologists and geologists in the world in the mid-19th century. But his record has become problematic over time. He was an opponent of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. And in fiercely subscribing to polygenism, he held the now-debunked belief that white people and African-Americans came from different species.
The photos he commissioned were taken by J.T. Zealy in a studio in Columbia, South Carolina. He published them a month later in an article titled “The Diversity of Origin of the Human Races.”
Agassiz’s legacy still lives on at Harvard. He founded the school’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and his wife Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, also a Harvard researcher of natural history, was founder and the first president of Radcliffe College, now the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. There’s a street in Cambridge named after Agassiz and a Harvard theater, the Agassiz House.
Lanier has spent years researching and talking to genealogical experts who she said have validated her ancestry.
Lanier said she began studying her lineage after her mother died in 2010 to follow up on family stories she heard about Papa Renty. She worked with Boston genealogist Chris Child, who is known for tracing ancestors of Barack Obama, according to a 2018 article in the Norwich Bulletin.
“It was a journey,” she said. “It was important to my mother that I write this story of who Papa Renty was down and to do a family tree.
“I made a promise to my mother,” she added.
According to the newspaper, Lanier said that she believes she can trace her great-grandfather, named Renty Taylor and then Renty Thompson, to a plantation near Columbia, South Carolina, owned by Benjamin Franklin Taylor. This is where the photos are believed to have been taken.
She said she started providing Harvard evidence that she’s a descendant of Renty but that the school has been “non-responsive.” “Most importantly, I want the true story of who Renty is to be told. That’s all I’ve ever asked for.”
The Bulletin quoted Pamela Gerardi, the Peabody Museum’s director of external relations, who described the photos as “extremely delicate” and well cared for.
“We anticipate they will remain here in perpetuity,” she said at the time. “That’s what museums do.”
Thousands of migrants illegally crossing border from Mexico to U.S. every month.
The number of migrants apprehended at America’s southern border skyrocketed last month to levels not seen in over a decade, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection reporting nearly 133,000 arrests in May.
The number surpassed 144,000 when counting migrants deemed inadmissible — more than a 30 percent increase from the prior month and double the influx recorded at the beginning of the year.
“We are in full-blown emergency,” a CBP official said Wednesday.
The number of apprehensions was the highest monthly total in more than 13 years. In April, authorities recorded 99,304 arrests.
The latest figures could embolden President Trump amid tense negotiations with Mexico over the immigration crisis.
Last week, in an effort to force Mexico to do more to “stop the invasion” of migrants into the U.S., the president vowed to impose a new 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports. The tariffs, set to go into effect on June 10 absent an agreement, would increase over time, reaching 25 percent by Oct. 1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 144,000 migrants at the U.S. southern border in May. (CBP)
So far in fiscal 2019, which began last October, border officials have apprehended 593,507 migrants—a number higher than the total apprehensions in each of the past five fiscal years.
“We are bursting at the seams,” a CBP official told reporters Wednesday. “It is unsustainable and can’t continue.”
Administration officials insisted the CBP is unable to house this many people.
“When we have 4,000 in custody, we consider it high, when we have 6,000, it’s a crisis,” an official said. “Right now, we have 19,000 in custody. It’s just off the charts.”
CBP officials told reporters Wednesday that the crisis is forcing the agency to divert resources, which is contributing to longer waits on the border for both recreational and commercial travel.
Typically during the late spring and summer months, there is a drop-off in migration due to the heat, but CBP officials said this week they have not seen any evidence of that so far.
The Trump administration for months has warned of a humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump, earlier this year, even declared a national emergency on the southern border in a bid to divert billions of dollars toward the construction of his long-promised border wall.
But he opened a new phase in the debate with his tariff threat against Mexico.
The announcement came after more than 1,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at once last month by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents near the U.S.-Mexico border—the largest ever group of migrants ever apprehended at a single time, sources told Fox News.
The group of 1,036 illegal immigrants found in the El Paso sector included migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, according to sources.
There were 58,474 families apprehended last month, according to CBP. In March, the agency said that there was an increase of nearly 106 percent over the same period last year.
Since the president announced the tariffs, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dispatched his foreign relations secretary to Washington in an effort to negotiate a solution with the U.S.
Obrador said he expects “good results” from the upcoming talks in Washington and reportedly suggested he is open to reinforcing efforts to stem illegal immigration. Obrador said that Mexican officials plan to convey to the Trump administration what they have been doing to stop illegal immigration, and added that they are open to additional measures “without violating human rights.”
On Wednesday, Mexico’s foreign minister was slated to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House.
“.@SecPompeo, @DHSMcAleenan, & I will meet shortly with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs @M_ebrard at the @WhiteHouse. We have a crisis on our Southern Border. @POTUS has made clear that Mexico must do more,” Pence tweeted Wednesday ahead of the meeting.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Mexican officials prepared to intercept a group of another 1,000 migrants who said they aimed to reach the U.S. southern border to request asylum. Many of the migrants say they’re fleeing gang violence, oppressive extortion, and corruption in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Fox News’ Sarah Tobianski and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
La Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico (Asppro) anunció hoy los estudiantes participantes para el Buró de Noticias 2016, un proyecto educativo establecido en 2013 que ofrece una oportunidad de práctica profesional a los alumnos de los programas de comunicación del País para mostrar sus mejores habilidades periodísticas durante la Semana de la Prensa y la Cuarta Convención del gremio este verano.
Este año se ha retomado la tradicional Semana de la Prensa, en la cual se celebrarán diversos foros a partir del 1 de agosto. Esta culminará con la Convención COPE 2016 pautada para los días 5 y 6 de agosto en el Distrito de Convenciones de San Juan.
El presidente de la Asppro, Juan Hernández, anunció que los ocho estudiantes seleccionados son Marieunise Sánchez y Erik F. Medina Nieves, de la Universidad del Turabo; Brayan Burgos López y Gianverlys Santos Colón, de la Pontificia Universidad Católica; Gabriel Acevedo Torres, de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón; Viviana Tirado Mercado, de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo; y Génesis M. Ibarra Vázquez y Giovanna P. Garófalo Morales, de la Universidad Interamericana en Bayamón.
La Asppro agradeció la mentoría de la profesora María Vera Hernández, de la Universidad del Turabo, y la comunicadora de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, Jalibeth Rodríguez Rivera. También colaboraron en la selección de candidatos, los profesores Ruth Hernández, de la Interamericana, y Mario Roche, de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. El Buró estará dirigido, igual que los pasados tres años, por el veterano periodista Rafael Matos. Cuenta además con el apoyo del Taller de Fotoperiodismo.
“Los estudiantes seleccionados demostraron niveles superiores de habilidad en el uso de herramientas narrativas de noticias digitales, buen manejo de visuales y sonido, así como destrezas en el empaque de distintos elementos informativos”, dijo Hernández.
Por su parte, Matos detalló que la competencia de estos ocho alumnos demuestra la excelente labor docente que realizan sus profesores en las escuelas de comunicación en Puerto Rico. Similar a los tres años anteriores, el nuevo equipo de trabajo obtendrá una experiencia única durante la convención y les abrirá las puertas a futuras oportunidades de trabajo al darse a conocer y enriquecer su portafolio profesional.
La función principal del Buró de Noticias cubrir y difundir las actividades de la Semana de la Prensa a través del uso de medios digitales de la web y redes sociales.
Matos destacó que “los estudiantes ya han comenzado a trabajar, junto a sus mentores, con reportajes de fondo sobre los diversos temas que del COPE 2016. Sus reportajes convención se transmitirán durante la noche de premiación”. Los estudiantes recibirán varios talleres de parte de los profesionales y serán presentados en un evento previo a la Semana de la Prensa.
“El grupo escogido demostró mucha pericia informativa con sus proyectos para la web y un gran entusiasmo participativo en la convocatoria. En total, sometieron 12 trabajos multimedia para evaluación.Es una buena muestra de la productividad de nuestros estudiantes de comunicaciones”, dijo Vera.
Mientras, Rodríguez indicó que “esta experiencia va más allá del salón de clases”.
“Se trata de una plataforma en donde los futuros comunicadores se enfrentarán a historias reales en el campo. Todos los contenidos generados por los practicantes serán publicados diariamente, en tiempo real, en el portal del Buró de Noticias. Manejarán, además, las plataformas de redes sociales de la Asppro y serán protagonistas de la adrenalina noticiosa”.
Hernández les recordó a los profesionales de las noticias que el cierre de la convocatoria del Premio Nacional de Periodismo es este jueves 30 de junio en el Taller de Fotoperiodismo.
Both Democrats and most news media are yelling as often as they can that there is no border “crisis,” even though they spent the last year telling everyone there was and even though they had no problem explicitly calling it a “crisis” in 2014, when the situation was the exact same as it is now.
“We now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the borer that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all,” then-President Barack Obama said in the Rose Garden in 2014. “In recent weeks we’ve seen a surge of unaccompanied children arrive at the border, brought here and to other countries by smugglers and traffickers.”
“Last month, 20,000 migrant children were illegally brought into the United States — a dramatic increase,” he said. “These children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs.”
The only difference is how the media are covering it.
The Washington Post on July 12, 2014, referred to “the current crisis on the Southwest border, where authorities have apprehended tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children since October …” The story’s lead author was Karen Tumulty, now a columnist for the Post, who completely dismissed the idea of any crisis at the border this week.
“We are headed to this extraordinary situation where the president declares a state of emergency, which does not exist, and the law does not really explain what we do if the president manufactures an emergency,” she said Tuesday on MSNBC.
On June 5, 2014, a New York Times article began, “This is what it looks like when an immigration system is overwhelmed by tens of thousands of women and children from Central America.” It further noted that, “The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been ordered to coordinate efforts to contain the crisis.”
The Times editorial board this week, however, said that the crisis is actually “in the Oval Office.”
The border crisis didn’t change between 2014 and now. The only thing that changed was who’s in the White House and how the media are reporting on it.
Not only is Haiti’s presidency vacant after the assassination, it also has two rival prime ministers and a Parliament that is not functioning. Three men have come forward to stake a claim to leadership of the country, which was already rife with gang violence and hobbled by poverty.
The U.S. delegation met jointly Sunday with both the interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, and with Ariel Henry, the man Mr. Moïse named to succeed Mr. Joseph as prime minister only days before he was assassinated. A third aspirant to power, the Senate president, Joseph Lambert, was also at the meeting.
Ms. Psaki said the White House was still reviewing Haiti’s request that it send troops to help stabilize the county. “But as of right now,” she said, “the U.S. has not committed to having any sort of presence on the ground.”
Dr. Sanon was born in 1958 in Marigot, a city on Haiti’s southern coast, and graduated from the Eugenio María de Hostos University in the Dominican Republic and the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., according to the Florida Baptist Historical Society.
According to public records, Dr. Sanon is also licensed to practice both conventional medicine as well osteopathic medicine, an area in which doctors sometimes provide therapies like spinal manipulation or massage as part of their treatment.
Dr. Ludner Confident, a Haitian-born anesthesiologist who practices medicine in Florida, said he got to know Dr. Sanon while both were working for the Rome Organization, a nonprofit aid group in Haiti, in the years before an earthquake devastated the country in 2010. The quake destroyed Dr. Sanon’s clinic, according to a 2010 article in the Baylor Line, a campus magazine at Baylor University in Texas.
“He is a pastor,” Dr. Confident said about Dr. Sanon. “He’s a man of God, wanting to do things for Haiti.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s lavish state banquet for President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump got underway Monday evening at Buckingham Palace with the usual reciprocal toasts as a clutch of Trump and royal relations looked on from a magnificent table in the palace ballroom.
In addition to the queen, dressed in white and adorned with ruby and diamonds, the Trumps were joined at the white-tie-and-tiaras dinner by Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and by Charles’ son, Prince William and his wife, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.
Melania Trump wore an ivory silk crepe gown with silk tulle details by Dior Haute Couture, plus over-the-elbow white gloves. Her hair was pulled up and back in an elegant chignon.
Duchess Kate wore a gown by Alexander McQueen, plus the Lover’s Knot tiara, and earrings loaned by the queen.
Also at the dinner: Trump’s four adult children, Donald Trump Jr.; Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner; Eric Trump and his wife, Lara; and Tiffany Trump.
Trump and the queen offered toasts to enduring friendship and values between the two nations, followed by their respective national anthems.
Earlier, the presidential couple toured historic Westminster Abbey, where British royals are crowned, wed and buried, as the first day of the Trumps’ state visit to Britain continued Monday.
The Trumps’ visit to the Abbey also included a solemn laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, first interred in 1920 in the central aisle of the Abbey.
The presidential couple were accompanied by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II; he will be their main escort during three days of hobnobbing with the royals during the state visit, only the third offered to an American president by the queen during her 67 years on the throne.
Next, the Trumps arrived to take tea with Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, at Clarence House, the Prince of Wales’ London home.
The Trumps arrived at Buckingham Palace Monday just after noon, local time, to meet Queen Elizabeth and be treated to the kind of royal pomp-and-ceremony the president loves receiving and the British love staging.
Kicking off Monday’s visit, the Trumps arrived by helicopter, which touched down in the gardens of the palace.
The queen greeted President Trump after he ascended the palace stairs with Prince Charles at the West Terrace of Buckingham Palace. Melania walked behind with Duchess Camilla. The queen wore a big smile as she greeted the president with a handshake, wearing a mint suit and matching hat. She then acknowledged Melania, and the three royals walked inside with the president and first lady.
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Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family welcomed President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump with “The Star Spangled Banner.” USA TODAY
For the occasion, Trump wore a navy suit with a bright periwinkle blue tie. His wife twinned with the duchess – both wore white. Melania Trump wore a Dolce & Gabbana knee-length skirt suit with a contrasting navy collar, belt and shoes that coordinated with her wide-brimmed boater-style hat by one of her favorite designers, Herve Pierre, according to her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham.
When the fivesome returned outside, they took in a performance of “The Star Spangled Banner,” the Trumps with hands over their hearts.
Trump, accompanied by Prince Charles, then inspected the guard of honor, as he did with the queen in 2018.
Following a private lunch with the monarch and other royals, including Prince Harry, the queen, in a floral frock, led the Trumps in a review of the Royal Collection of American-themed items. Harry was present, as were Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, both who serve as advisers to the president.
Earlier, the two were spotted by photographers gazing out the window of the palace.
The three-day state visit is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. It is the second meeting between Queen Elizabeth and President Trump.
As she has done for hundreds of foreign visitors, including former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in 2011, the 93-year-old monarch is set to put on an impressive show, deviating slightly from a pattern set down during her years on the throne.
According to Buckingham Palace, Trump will not meet Prince Harry’s American wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, who expressed some disdain for Trump prior to her 2018 marriage.
As per usual, he’ll meet with the prime minister, Theresa May, who resigned last Friday and is scheduled to leave No.10 on June 7, after she failed to persuade Parliament and her own Tory party to approve a Brexit deal to take the U.K. out of the European Union.
Over half of Londoners are opposed to Trump’s visit to Britain’s capital, according to a recent poll by research firm YouGov and Queen Mary, University of London. Although nationwide: 46% to 40% think the visit should go ahead.
When Trump visited London last year as part of an ordinary working visit an estimated 250,000 people protested on the streets of central London. Anti-Trump activists who oppose his divisive policies from immigration to abortion rights are planning for similar numbers this time. There will be smaller protests around the country.
And remember the Trump baby balloon? The phone-wielding, diaper-wearing inflatable that flew above London when Trump visited in July? The team behind it told USA TODAY that the giant orange blimp will again take to the skies, on Tuesday, in Parliament Square.
Trump tweeted that Khan was “a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.”
“Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job − only half his height,” Trump added.
The presidential family headed to Bedminster, N.J. retreat on June 29, 2018. First lady Melania Trump, wearing flowered jeans and yellow heels, was accompanied by son Barron and her mother, Amalija Knavs, with daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, in the background, board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Manuel Balce Ceneta/ AP
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent part of their long weekend in Florida, staring Feb. 16, 2018, visiting Broward Health North hospital in Pompano Beach, Fla., following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., three days earlier. They were accompanied by Dr. Igor Nichiporenko, left, when they met with medical staff. Andrew Harnik, AP
First lady Melania Trump wore a bright red coat by Calvin Klein for her cookie-making visit to the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health, where she met Amber Negrete, 8, right seated, Annie Ribas, 9, left, and Katherine Faughn, 6, center seated. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
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En las noticias más leídas del día, la tercera ronda de renegociaciones del TLCAN concluyó con las primeras aproximaciones a los temas complicados, entre ellos las Pymes. Marcas de ropa y accesorios dejaron atrás el interés de obtener ganancias propias y se unieron a las acciones para apoyar a las comunidades afectadas por terremoto y de los estadounidenses, 13% considera a su presidente como un incompetente o ignorante.
1. Pymes, primer capítulo cerrado rumbo a TLCAN 2.0
México, Estados Unidos y Canadá anunciaron que finalizaron la negociación del capítulo de Pymes y lograron “avances significativos” en el texto consolidado para actualizar el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte.
Los negociadores avanzaron significativamente en varias áreas mediante la consolidación de propuestas de texto, cerrando brechas y acordando elementos del texto de negociación, informaron en un comunicado conjunto.
Pymes, primer capítulo cerrado rumbo a TLCAN 2.0. Ver nota.
2. Se concretan las amenazas de Donald Trump en la tercera ronda del TLCAN
Durante la tercera ronda de las renegociaciones del TLCAN, las amenazas de Donald Trump se concretaron, ya que pretenden reinventar y violar el comercio, aseveró Ildefonso Guajardo, secretario de Economía, quien se comprometió ante industriales de que “México no aceptará ninguna condición que nos ponga atrás de lo que ya hemos venido logrando”.
Al participar en la Reunión Anual de Industriales, el funcionario informó que “en la mesa de negociación no hay campo en el que Estados Unidos no quiera reinventar lo que hoy funciona perfectamente para las tres economías”, entre ellos el sector agropecuario.
Se concretan las amenazas de Donald Trump en la tercera ronda del TLCAN. Ver nota.
3. Ayudar a México está de moda
Mientras conmemorábamos el sismo del 19 de septiembre de 1985, México se vio nuevamente cara a cara con un sismo de 7.1 grados que sacudió al territorio mexicanos. Luego de los daños devastadores que resultaron del sismo, ayudar en México se volvió una constante en las marcas de moda, que aprovecharon para darse a conocer mientras ayudaban.
Diversas marcas mexicanas se han dado a la tarea de ayudar con lo que mejor saben hacer, camisetas, tenis y joyería especialmente para apoyar a los damnificados. Las marcas de ropa mexicana como Primario, Loly In The Sky, Hangers y Mancandy vieron en el sismo una oportunidad de ayudar mientras se daban a conocer.
No es novedad que Donald Trump ha nombrado con apodos a sus adversarios, entre ellos a Hillary Clinton, a quien bautizó como “Hillary la tramposa”. Recientemente arremetió contra el “hombre cohete”, Kim Jong-un, quien en respuesta eligió la palabra “dotard” (que literalmente se traduce como “viejo lunático”) para referirse a Trump.
Pero, ¿cuál es la imagen que tienen los estadounidenses sobre su presidente? Una encuesta de Washington Post-ABC News lo averiguó a través de un sondeo realizado a 1,002 adultos.
La pregunta concreta fue la siguiente: “Para usted, ¿qué palabra describe mejor a Trump?”. El ejercicio es interesante porque los encuestados mencionan la primera palabra que les aparece en su cabeza no es la que el presidente de Estados Unidos se imagina. ¿Quieres saber qué dijeron?, entra a la nota completa.
WikiLeaks has made multiple disclosures over the past decade, including one in March 2017 when the group released what it said were CIA technical documents on a range of spying techniques.
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WikiLeaks has made multiple disclosures over the past decade, including one in March 2017 when the group released what it said were CIA technical documents on a range of spying techniques.
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To its supporters, the WikiLeaks disclosures have revealed a wealth of important information that the U.S. government wanted to keep hidden, particularly in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This included abuses by the military and a video that showed a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq on suspected militants. Those killed turned out to be unarmed civilians and journalists.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, now under arrest in Britain, has often argued that no one has been harmed by the WikiLeaks disclosures.
But many in the national security community say the leaks were harmful to a broad range of people. However, they generally say the damage was limited and has faded since the first big WikiLeaks dump in 2010, which included hundreds of thousands of classified documents from the U.S. military and the State Department.
Chelsea Manning, a former Army private, spent seven years in prison for leaking the documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning, who was freed two years ago, was taken back into custody last month when she refused to testify before a grand jury in a case involving WikiLeaks and Assange.
P.J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman when the WikiLeaks story erupted in 2010, said those most at risk were civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq who were secretly passing information to the U.S. military.
“A number of people went into hiding, a number of people had to move, particularly those civilians in war zones who had told U.S. soldiers about movements of the Taliban and al-Qaida,” he said. “No doubt some of those people were harmed when their identities were compromised.”
WikiLeaks has made multiple disclosures over the past decade, including one in March 2017 when the group released what it said were CIA technical documents on a range of spying techniques.
This revealed ways that a state-of-the art television could serve as a listening device even when it was turned off.
Larry Pfeiffer, the CIA chief of staff from 2006 to 2009, said these kinds of breaches can impose long-term costs, though they can be difficult to quantify.
“It informs the potential enemies of a technique we use, that they can now develop countermeasures against,” Pfeiffer said.
This also forces the spy agency to go back to the drawing board, he added.
“Once invalidated, it now creates situations where the U.S. intelligence community is going to have to expend resources and going to have to spend both dollars and people to develop new methods,” said Pfeiffer, who now heads the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence at George Mason University.
On the diplomatic front, WikiLeaks shared many examples of U.S. diplomats writing in unflattering terms about foreign leaders, causing the U.S. embarrassment.
But more importantly, said Scott Anderson, a former State Department lawyer who served in Iraq in 2012 and 2013, some of these countries have vulnerable opposition leaders and human rights activists who were quietly in contact with U.S. diplomats. These private, sensitive discussions suddenly became public with the WikiLeaks dumps.
“That can really chill the ability of those American personnel to build those sorts of relationships and have frank conversations with their contacts,” said Anderson, now at the Brookings Institution.
Anderson notes that the U.S. still has a program to issue visas to Afghans and Iraqis to the U.S. in return for the help they provided — and in recognition of the danger they face.
Crowley pointed to the impact of leaks that upset former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
“We had an ambassador in Libya, and we had to remove him from his post because he was directly threatened by Moammar Gadhafi’s thugs,” Crowley said.
Some countries, Crowley added, took a much more relaxed approach to the disclosures, even when they were criticized in the documents.
“One foreign minister told the U.S. secretary of state, ‘You know, don’t worry about it. You should see what we report about you,’ ” Crowley recalled.
Many of the assessments today are similar to the one offered nine years ago by Bob Gates, who served as defense secretary when the WikiLeaks disclosures took place.
“The fact is, governments deal with the United States because it’s in their interest. Not because they like us, not because they trust us and not because they believe we can keep secrets,” Gates said. “Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest.”
Greg Myre is a national security correspondent. Follow him @gregmyre1.
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