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Según la Asociación ALS, casi dos millones de donantes nuevos.

Expresidentes, cantantes, deportistas, estrellas del cine y de la televisión y miles de personas comunes y corrientes. El desafío viral de la cubeta de hielo sigue generando adeptos alrededor del mundo.

También sigue generando millones de dólares en donaciones para combatir la esclerosis lateral amiotrófica, conocida por las siglas ALS o la enfermedad de Lou Gehrig, una de las enfermedades degenerativas más graves.

La Asociación ALS, la organización con base en Estados Unidos a donde los participantes envían el dinero, informó este martes que ha recibido US$88,5 millones desde finales de julio, mientras en el mismo periodo del año pasado esa cifra fue de US$2,6 millones.

“Hace apenas una semana, las donaciones llegaban a US$22,6 millones”, aseguró la entidad con sede en Washington. “En sólo siete días, las donaciones se han disparado en un promedio de US$9 millones al día”.

Según la asociación, este dinero ha provenido tanto de donantes existentes como de casi dos millones de personas nuevas.

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Participantes y críticas

Uno de los participantes famosos en Estados Unidos fue el expresidente George W. Bush.

En las últimas semanas, el desafío de la cubeta de hielo se ha convertido en un fenómeno popular en las redes sociales, impulsado por la participación de conocidas figuras de la política, los deportes y el espectáculo.

En Estados Unidos, la lista incluye al expresidente George W. Bush, al canante Justin Bieber, al multimillonario Bill Gates, al fundador de Facebook Mark Zuckerberg o al basquetbolista LeBron James.

El desafío se ha realizado en varios del países del mundo. En Tailandia terminó mojado el exprimer ministro Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Por otra parte, algunos han preferido no mojarse, como el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, quien entregó a cambio una donación.

El desafío también ha generado críticas de quienes consideran que trivializa una enfermedad delicada, quienes se quejan por el desperdicio de agua o quienes advierten de posibles riesgos contra la salud.

Así mismo, opositores del aborto en Estados Unidos, incluyendo líderes del clero católico, han desalentado la participación porque la Asociación ALS apoya la investigación de células madre embrionarias.

Como esas células se obtienen de un embrión que luego se descarta, los grupos provida consideran que el proceso destruye la vida humana.

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An extraordinary image has emerged that appears to show hundreds of Afghans packed into a US military cargo plane, in a desperate attempt to flee Kabul after the fall of the capital to the Taliban.

The picture obtained by US defence and security news site Defense One is believed to show 640 people crammed into a C-17 Globemaster III, among the highest number of people ever carried in such an aircraft.

US defence officials reportedly said the passengers – among them women and children – on the flight were safely evacuated from Kabul to Qatar on Sunday.

Around 640 Afghans are believed to have travelled in the US military aircraft Photograph: Courtesy of Defense One

The flight had not intended to take such a large load but some panicked Afghans pulled themselves on to the C-17’s half-open ramp, Defense One reported.

The flight was one of several that was able to take off with hundreds on board, and others may have carried even more passengers.

The desperation of many other Afghans was seen at Kabul airport on Monday, as people clung to the side of moving military planes and at least two apparently fell to their deaths from the undercarriage soon after takeoff.

Video footage showed hundreds of people running alongside a military carrier as it travelled along the runway.

Afghans climb on to plane during takeoff in attempt to flee Taliban – video

The airport – secured by the US military – was the only feasible route out after the Islamist group took control of the country’s land borders.

But US forces had to shut down the airport on Monday in an effort to contain the chaos and crowds. The airport reopened in the early hours of Tuesday, a US general said, adding that US personnel were now in charge of air traffic control.

With Agence France-Presse

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/afghanistan-striking-image-appears-to-show-640-people-fleeing-kabul-in-packed-us-military-plane

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Elmer Cáceres Llica, ex alcalde de Caylloma, se encuentra detenido en la comisaría de Cerro Colorado, tras denuncia formulada por una joven.








El exalcalde de la provincia de Caylloma y actual candidato a la Presidencia Regional de Arequipa, Elmer Cáceres Llica, se encuentra detenido en la comisaría de Cerro Colorado por una denuncia de violación sexual.

La detención del candidato regional se produjo la noche del lunes ante la denuncia realizada por la joven Y.M.H. , de 18 años, quien acusó a Cáceres de secuestrarla y ultrajarla sexualmente en su departamento, ubicado a unas cuadras de la Plaza Las Américas.

La joven y el candidato fueron sometidos esta madrugada a los exámenes en el Instituto de Medicina Legal de Arequipa y posteriormente trasladados a la comisaría donde permanecen para las investigaciones del caso.

Carlos Vega, amigo de la joven y militante de Vamos Perú, indicó que el candidato Cáceres Llica la acosaba con mensajes de texto obscenos, incluso la amenazaba de muerte.

Asimismo, precisó que la joven contó a la policía que el exalcalde la interceptó la mañana del lunes y la subió a la fuerza a su vehículo para trasladarla a su departamento, donde la mantuvo hasta las 21:30 horas.

“Como amigos y partidarios de Vamos Perú exigimos justicia, ya que este no sería el único caso en el que está implicado el candidato”, detalló el joven militante.

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No todos los miembros de ISIS son radicales yihadistas.

Conforme Irak se suma en una espiral de violencia e inestabilidad después del avance a la velocidad del rayo de las fuerzas del Estado Islámico de Irak y el Levante (ISIS, por sus siglas en inglés), surgen preguntas sobre qué es exactamente lo que tiene este grupo para que se haya convertido en la amenaza más seria para Irak desde que Estados Unidos y sus aliados derrocaran al presidente Sadam Hussein en 2003.

Se sabe que ISIS lo forman individuos que lograron combinar la religión, la política y los conocimientos militares para crear una potente fuerza que barrió a soldados iraquíes que decidieron huir y ejecutaron a aquellos lo suficientemente estúpidos para quedarse atrás.

Estos métodos, junto con la aplicación de la Sharia –la ley islámica- que incluye actos extraños como cortar la electricidad para evitar que la gente vea la televisión, le ha dado al grupo una reputación temible.

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ISIS como instrumento

Es más, ISIS ha inspirado a extremistas de todos los tipos a unirse a su operativo en Siria e Irak a través de las redes sociales y mediante una campaña de propaganda masiva que apunta a sus objetivos yihadistas.

Pero es difícil confirmar en qué medida el movimiento cuenta de verdad con yihadistas de línea dura.

Es justo decir que el tamaño real del elemento yihadista en las operaciones de ISIS en Irak es menor de lo que muchos suponen.

Sin duda, como sucede en Siria, a menudo ocurre que muchos individuos integrados en movimientos extremistas los usan como un instrumento para sus propios intereses, adoptando la indumentaria y las maneras de un radical islamista comprometido como un camino hacia objetivos políticos más grandes.

El caso de Irak no es distinto. Amparándose en la yihad hay un bloque amorfo de diferentes actores que se han unido en una alianza bajo el cartel de ISIS.

Los Peshmerga son los miembros del ejécrito kurdo.

Muchos de sus miembros han retornado de la guerra en Siria para unirse a la batalla por ciudades y pueblos clave en Irak.

Si bien la inestabilidad en Irak tiene conexión con el conflicto sirio al otro lado, y muchos de los individuos que combatieron para ISIS en Siria ahora están presentes en Irak, la insurgencia iraquí está más centrada en resolver los problemas de la fracturada política de Irak que en los objetivos de grupos islamistas más radicales.

En una reciente entrevista con el Daily Telegraph, el miembro de la tribu Batta y líder del Ejército Islámico de Irak, Ahmad al Dabash, declaró: “Todas las tribus sunitas se han unido contra el primer ministro de Irak, Nuri al Maliki.

“Hay sectores del ejército, miembros del partido Baaz de la época de Sadam Hussein, clérigos… todos han salido contra la opresión que han estado sufriendo”, añadió.

Desapego extendido

Calificar lo que ocurre en Irak como el producto de los deseos maníacos de un grupo de fanáticos religiosos es ignorar la desigualdad social palpable que existe en Irak.

En mi viaje por el país en días recientes, me ha impresionado el nivel de privación que algunos ciudadanos iraquíes soportan.

En la mayor parte hemos sido capaces de mantener nuestras posiciones, pero no ha sido fácil. ISIS está bien armado y bien entrenado

Peshmerga kurdo

El grupo de combatientes que ha barrido Irak hasta situarse a 60km de la capital, Bagdad, no es un grupo yihadista nihilista con miras a un califato islámico.

Es un levantamiento más general de grandes grupos de comunidades desapegadas en todo el norte y oeste del país y un producto de años de exclusión social, mala gobernabilidad y corrupción del gobierno iraquí.

Los militantes de ISIS han superado de forma consistente a las fuerzas militares más establecidas en Irak.

En el frente militar, la revelación ha sido el relativamente fuerte desempeño de los militantes de ISIS contra fuerzas militares más establecidas.

Funcionarios con los que he hablado dentro de las fuerzas de seguridad kurdas –los Peshmerga– señalaron que el nivel de entrenamiento de ISIS es alto y que sus propias fuerzas han tenido problemas en algunas ocasiones para mantener posiciones claves alrededor de la ciudad de Kirkuk.

“En la mayor parte hemos sido capaces de mantener nuestras posiciones, pero no ha sido fácil. ISIS está bien armado y bien entrenado”, me dijo un funcionario de seguridad kurdo el martes.

Expertos consideran que ISIS tiene más capacidad militar que el ejército iraquí.

Alianza tentativa

Estas actuaciones son consistentes con la afirmación de que militares importantes afines a Baaz coordinan operaciones militares de ISIS, algo que fue confirmado en mis conversaciones con funcionarios de seguridad en Kirkuk el miércoles.

Es una extraña alianza –la confluencia de objetivos de los baazistas seculares pro-Sadam e islamistas radicales puede parecer antiética- y finalmente puede suponer la perdición del movimiento.

Se dice que los individuos que combaten del lado de ISIS están desilusionados con las políticas excluyentes del primer ministro iraquí Nuri al Maliki.

La esperanza en la sede del gobierno de Irak es que pronto, cuando el ejército de Irak –junto a 300 expertos estadounidenses y milicias respaldadas por Irán- empiece a frenar el avance de ISIS, el ánimo de los insurgentes empezará a decaer y las grietas en su formación tan diversa comenzarán a aparecer.

Por ahora, sin embargo, la alianza se mantiene, y en el avance de ISIS hacia Bagdad, los combates se intensificarán con el lanzamiento por parte del asediado gobierno iraquí de una ofensiva para contrarrestar su arremetida.

A largo plazo, si Bagdad no entiende que la necesidad de una reforma política es tan importante como reforzar la seguridad, en ese caso los problemas de Irak pueden durar mucho tiempo.

*Michael Stephens es vicedirector de RUSI Qatar, actualmente escribe un blog desde Irak y el Kurdistán iraquí en “RUSI The Iraq Crisis: Dispatch from the North” (La crisis de Irak: informes desde el norte).

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Former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the National Institutes of Health of trying to suppress his department’s investigation into the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic, as until recently theories that the pathogen leaked from a Wuhan, China lab were often viewed as conspiratorial.

On “The Ingraham Angle,” Pompeo remarked that outside of typical pushback within his own department from people who didn’t like him or President Donald Trump, he was also dealing with “internal debate” from the National Institutes of Health.

“[NIH] folks were trying to suppress what we were doing at the State Department as well,” he said.

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, an Obama appointee, recently said on Fox News’ “The Story” that he never ruled out a lab leak, but that it matched astrobiologist Carl Sagan’s mantra of “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Pompeo also said Anthony Fauci, who runs the NIAID under the NIH umbrella, sounded like he was spreading Chinese government talking points in daytime interviews earlier Thursday:

“To hear Fauci this morning talk about how the Chinese have an interest in us discovering what happened is just crazy talk. The Chinese have a deep interest in covering it up. They have done so pretty darn effectively,” he said.

Fauci, 80, voiced “the exact same theories that the Chinese Communist Party has presented for over a year now,” said Pompeo, adding that such corollaries appear ill-timed:

“He implies good faith for the Chinese Communist Party: We are on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square [incident] For Dr. Fauci to go out and think the CCP cared that there were people in Wuhan who were dying… is just naïve beyond all possible imagination.”

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Pompeo went on to back up reporting from Vanity Fair that said a State Department official named Miles Yu, who can speak Mandarin, was actively translating and “mirroring” documentation on the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s website in order to compile a dossier of questions about its research to the secretary.

Pompeo praised Yu, a former commander at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., saying that what Yu reported was “pretty clear.

“When I received that [dossier] it was in early May [2020]. I was on TV talking about what I could get declassified at that point. We worked diligently to get them to declassify more,” he said.

“[Then-DNI Director John Ratcliffe] was a great partner in trying to do that. But there were folks all over the community who did not want to talk about this … who did not want the world to know the Chinese Communist Party was in the process of covering up several million losses of life,” the former Kansas congressman said.

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A U.S. Army veteran is being held without bail, accused of plotting an attack to avenge the killing of Muslims. Mark Domingo, 26, faces terrorism-related charges after his arrest in an FBI sting. Prosecutors say he planned to set off a bomb in Long Beach, California, on Sunday.

Authorities say the infantryman who served a combat stint in Afghanistan recently converted to Islam and was quickly radicalized, reports CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti.

The investigation began after the FBI saw an apparent online post from Domingo, saying: “America needs another Vegas event” to give “a taste of the terror they gladly spread all over the world” – referring to the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people.

He also allegedly sought “retribution” for last month’s mosque killings in New Zealand.

Federal prosecutors say Domingo claimed Americans should be punished for attacks on Muslims around the world. Investigators believe he worked alone on this apparent terror plot for two months and said he was under constant surveillance leading up to his arrest.

“Sometimes we get asked, what keeps you up at night. This is a case that keeps us up at night,” said Ryan Young, special agent for FBI task force.

Investigators said the arrest of Domingo prevented revenge-fueled bloodshed.

“Law enforcement was able to identify a man consumed with hate and bent on mass murder and stop him,” U.S. attorney Nick Hanna said.

Prosecutors allege Domingo planned to detonate a bomb Sunday at a white nationalist rally in Long Beach, California. But he was arrested Friday after taking possession of what he thought was an IED from an undercover FBI agent, while scoping out a spot in a park to plant the bomb. The explosive was a dummy.

“Mr. Domingo said that he wanted to kill Jews as they walked to synagogue… at other times he said he wanted to kill and target police officers,” Hanna said.

James Domingo said he thought his brother’s religious conversion helped him cope with personal issues. “I am speechless at this,” he said, adding, “I thought maybe my brother finally found some sort of guidance in this world.”

Authorities said Domingo had no prior criminal record. If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.

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Independent Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashAmash calls McCarthy incompetent, dishonest after ’60 Minutes’ interview The Memo: Will impeachment create an even more polarized nation? GOP lawmaker clarifies he doesn’t back impeachment after voicing support for inquiry MORE (Mich.) on Sunday hit Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyAmash calls McCarthy incompetent, dishonest after ’60 Minutes’ interview ’60 Minutes’ correspondent presses McCarthy on impeachment inquiry GOP battens down the hatches after release of Trump whistleblower complaint MORE (Calif.) over an interview the Republican House leader did about the impeachment inquiry against President TrumpDonald John TrumpAmash calls McCarthy incompetent, dishonest after ’60 Minutes’ interview GOP lawmaker blasts Trump for quoting pastor warning of civil war over impeachment ’60 Minutes’ correspondent presses McCarthy on impeachment inquiry MORE.

Kevin McCarthy again displays his unique brand of incompetence and dishonesty,” Amash tweeted along with a video of the interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

In the interview, McCarthy was pressed by host Scott Pelley on the July 25 phone call between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump pressed Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenAmash calls McCarthy incompetent, dishonest after ’60 Minutes’ interview GOP lawmaker blasts Trump for quoting pastor warning of civil war over impeachment ’60 Minutes’ correspondent presses McCarthy on impeachment inquiry MORE and his son Hunter Biden, according to a partial transcript released by the White House.

Amash left the Republican Party on July 4 after coming out in support of impeachment following the release of former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerFox News legal analyst says Trump call with Ukraine leader could be ‘more serious’ than what Mueller ‘dragged up’ Lewandowski says Mueller report was ‘very clear’ in proving ‘there was no obstruction,’ despite having ‘never’ read it Fox’s Cavuto roasts Trump over criticism of network MORE‘s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mueller laid out 10 potential cases of obstruction of justice by Trump, and Amash determined that at least some of them reached the threshold for impeachment.

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Troubles are mounting for a Texas website used to report violators of the state’s extreme anti-abortion legislation after the site was forced offline by two different web hosting platforms.

The site ProLifeWhistleblower.com was removed from its original web host by the provider GoDaddy on Friday before being suspended by its new host, an agency known for providing services to far-right groups.

“For all intents and purposes it is offline,” Ronald Guilmette, a web infrastructure expert, told the Guardian. “They are having technical difficulties. My personal speculation is that they are going to have trouble keeping it online moving forward.”

As of Tuesday, ProLifeWhistleblower.com redirects to Texas Right to Life’s main website.

Created by Texas Right to Life, an evangelical Christian group, the site allowed people to anonymously submit information about potential violations of the new law – which makes it illegal to help women in Texas access abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy.

In recent days, internet users have protested against the site by flooding it with false reports, memes and even porn in the hopes of rendering it less effective.

The website’s difficulties were compounded when GoDaddy, which provides the servers where the website lives, said the site had violated its privacy policies that bar the sharing of third-party personal information including data related to medical issues such as abortion.

The site was then moved to Epik, according to domain registration data first reported by Ars Technica. Epik is known for its “anything goes” attitude towards web hosting, servicing sites that other companies have deplatformed elsewhere for hate speech and other content violations – including 8chan, Gab and Parler.

According to reports from the Daily Beast, Epik contacted the website about potential violation of its own rules concerning the collection of medical data about people obtaining abortions.

“We contacted the owner of the domain, who agreed to disable the collection of user submissions on this domain,” it said in a statement to the Daily Beast.

Epik representatives did not respond to a message seeking comment on Tuesday. As of the time of publishing at 2pm PST on Tuesday, Epik remained the host for ProLifeWhistleblower.com, according to domain registration data available online, although the site does not appear to be operational.

A Texas Right to Life spokeswoman, Kimberlyn Schwartz, said on Tuesday that the website was in the process of moving to a new host, but was not yet disclosing which one.

The original website allowed anyone to submit an anonymous “report” of someone illegally obtaining an abortion, including a section where images can be uploaded for proof.

“Any Texan can bring a lawsuit against an abortionist or someone aiding and abetting an abortion after six weeks,” the website reads, and those proved to be violating the law liable for a minimum of $10,000 in damages.

Schwartz said they were working to get the tipster website back up but noted that in many ways it was symbolic since anyone can report a violation. And, she said, abortion clinics appear to be complying with the law.

“I think that people see the whistleblower website as a symbol of the law but the law is still enforced, with or without our website,” Schwartz said, adding, “It’s not the only way that people can report violations of the law.”

Rebecca Parma, Texas Right to Life’s senior legislative associate, said they expected people to try to overwhelm the site with fake tips, adding “we’re thankful for the publicity to the website that’s coming from all of this chatter about it.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/07/texas-abortion-whistleblower-website-forced-offline

The son of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi says no settlement discussions have taken place and suggested that financial compensation to the family did not amount to an admission of guilt by Saudi rulers.

Salah Khashoggi described King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as “guardians to all Saudis.”

“Acts of generosity and humanity come from the high moral grounds they possess, not admission of guilt or scandal,” he said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday.

On April 1, the Washington Post reported the writer’s children were given “blood money” in the form of million-dollar homes and monthly payments after Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year.

The Post, quoting Saudi officials speaking anonymously, reported the payments were approved by King Salman.

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In an exclusive interview set to air during Fox News’ ‘All-American New Year’ special Monday night, President Trump suggested that only Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “psychiatrist” knows whether she thinks she can win the White House in 2020.

Warren announced Monday she is filing paperwork to launch an exploratory committee for president, becoming the first candidate to take the major step toward a 2020 run for the presidency.

Fox News’ Pete Hegseth asked Trump whether Warren really thinks she could make him a one-term president.

“Well, that I don’t know,” Trump responded. “You’d have to ask her psychiatrist.”

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Warren, a liberal firebrand who rose to prominence during the 2008 financial crisis, angered many top Democrats and Native American groups in October by releasing inconclusive DNA test results in response to Trump’s claims that she repeatedly lied about her heritage to obtain affirmative-action benefits in the course of her academic career.

The Cherokee Nation responded to the results at the time by asserting that “a DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship.” And Kim TallBear, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, remarked that Warren’s “very desire to locate a claim to Native American identity in a DNA marker inherited from a long-ago ancestor is a settler-colonial racial understanding of what it is to be Native American.”

“Elizabeth Warren will be the first,” Trump told Hegseth in the phone interview. “She did very badly in proving that she was of Indian heritage. That didn’t work out too well.”

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According to Warren’s DNA analysis, “the vast majority” of Warren’s family tree is European and there is “strong evidence” she has Native-American ancestry “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.” As reported by the Boston Globe, this means she could be between 1/64 and 1/1,024 Native American.

“I think you have more than she does, and maybe I do too, and I have nothing,” Trump said, referring to tribal heritage. “So, we’ll see how she does. I wish her well, I hope she does well, I’d love to run against her.”

Trump repeatedly has derided Warren for claiming she has Native American ancestry. At a rally in July, he joked that he would pull out a heritage kit during a hypothetical presidential debate with Warren and slowly toss it at her, “hoping it doesn’t hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs probably two ounces.”

Separately, Trump again invited top Democrats to join him in Washington to resolve the ongoing partial federal government shutdown — but he signaled that a border wall is an essential element of any deal.

One bipartisan proposal to end the shutdown that has been floated among key senators is to provide $5.7 billion in funding for the border wall, as well as a congressional reauthorization of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for those brought to the U.S. illegally as children, along with some other immigration provisions. There also has been talk about a special allowance for some classes of Central American refugees to be granted more robust asylum statuses.

“I’m in Washington, I’m ready, willing and able. I’m in the White House, I’m ready to go,” Trump said. He added that Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “can come over right now, they could’ve come over anytime.”

The president emphasized that he canceled his plans to spend Christmas and New Year’s Day at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida because of the partial shutdown, and signaled that he remains concerned about the approximately 800,000 federal workers who are affected by furloughs and understaffing.

“I spent Christmas in the White House, I spent New Year’s Eve now in the White House,” Trump said. “And you know, I’m here, I’m ready to go. It’s very important. A lot of people are looking to get their paycheck, so I’m ready to go whenever they want.”

He added: “No, we are not giving up. We have to have border security and the wall is a big part of border security. The biggest part.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Alex Pappas contributed to this report.

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BOSTON – Four miles from the Cambridge home of Elizabeth Warren, more than 10,000 people turned out in freezing temperatures Saturday for an outdoor Bernie Sanders rally at Boston Common, three days before Massachusetts’ 91 delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday.

With former Vice President Joe Biden the favorite to win Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, Sanders looked ahead to Super Tuesday, where he has an opportunity to build a significant overall delegate lead. He was in Springfield, Massachusetts, Friday night and will be in Virginia on Saturday evening before heading to Los Angeles on Sunday.

“As some of you may know, the establishment is getting very nervous about our campaign,” said Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, taking the stage after musician Béla Fleck warmed up the crowd with the banjo. “And tonight, they’re going to turn on the TV and they’re going to find that 10,000 people came out to the Boston Common, and they’re going to become even more nervous.”

The Sanders campaign later said more than 13,000 people attended.

South Carolina primary:Pivotal South Carolina could reshape the Democratic race heading into Super Tuesday

In Massachusetts, Sanders is going for a knockout punch against Warren, a U.S. senator from the state, and delegates that once seemed improbable given her home-state advantage. But Sanders, the national Democratic frontrunner, has surged into first place in recent Massachusetts polls, topping Warren 25% to 17% in a survey released Friday by WBUR. They were followed by Pete Buttigeig, 14%; Mike Bloomberg, 13%; and Biden, 9%.

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If President Donald Trump’s high-stakes trade talks at the G-20 summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping are a bust, the ongoing trade war could become a potent issue for Democrats in the 2020 election.

Trade talks between the world’s two largest economies stalled out last month, and some experts and administration officials are predicting that Trump’s meeting with Xi on Saturday could rekindle the negotiations. A senior White House official told CNBC that Trump might agree to a truce in the trade war without asking for very much from Xi in that meeting.

But current and former administration officials have cautioned that a deal with China likely won’t come at the G-20 itself. Trump has also threatened on multiple occasions to levy duties on $300 billion in Chinese goods that are imported to the U.S., which would result in taxes on nearly all U.S. imports of Chinese products.

The Trump administration has slapped tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods. China has responded with $110 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods, as the two sides grapple over issues including trade deficits, alleged Chinese intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers.

U.S. tariffs on China and other sources have reportedly already raised prices on some goods. The Becker Friedman Institute of Economics at the University of Chicago, for instance, found that the price of washers and dryers rose by 12% in response to tariffs levied in 2018.

Taxing all imports from China would do the same for many more products — and that could be a liability for Trump’s reelection chances.

Trump has long touted the benefits of tariffs as a way to bring companies back to the U.S. and make tax revenue. But tariffs also raise costs on American families by hundreds of dollars: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that tariffs imposed 2018 led to an annual cost of $419 for the typical household.

When Trump hiked tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25% in May after the trade talks broke down, that annual cost shot up to $831 per year, according to the New York Fed.

Trump could open himself up to more attacks from Democrats on tariffs as the 2020 election nears. And while it was hardly the main focus of the first presidential debates, some candidates have already lashed out.

“The tariffs and the trade war are just punishing businesses and producers and workers on both sides,” entrepreneur Andrew Yang said during the Democratic primary debate Thursday night.

China’s retaliatory tariffs, which hit a wide variety of agricultural products, are already deeply affecting U.S. farmers in states that Trump won in the 2016 election.

Yang recalled an interaction he had with an Iowa farmer “who said he spent six years building up a buying relationship in China that’s now disappeared and gone forever. And the beneficiaries have not been American workers or people in China. It’s been Southeast Asia and other producers that have then stepped into the void.”

The White House in May rolled out a $16 billion farm and ranch aid package for those affected by the trade war. Trump assured farmers that his tariffs on Chinese imports would cover the cost.

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared to be citing the New York Fed’s analysis when he knocked Trump’s tariffs at the debate Thursday night. “Tariffs are taxes. And Americans are going to pay on average $800 more a year because of these tariffs,” Buttigieg said.

“Folks who aren’t in the shadow of a factory are somewhere near a soy field where I live. And manufacturers, and especially soy farmers, are hurting,” Buttigieg added.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/28/if-trump-cant-make-a-deal-with-xi-rising-tariff-impact-could-help-democrats.html

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Trump ganó holgadamente en Nevada.

La campaña presidencial de Donald Trump parece a veces un desafío a la lógica.

Por más que insulte a cada vez más grupos de la sociedad estadounidense, su popularidad crece.

A veces, aparentemente, entre los mismos insultados.

La última paradoja es la de su desempeño en la primaria del partido republicano en el estado de Nevada, llevada a cabo este martes, en la que ganó holgadamente.

Trump ha dado prioridad en su campaña a estigmatizar a los inmigrantes indocumentados mexicanos, calificándolos de criminales y violadores y su promesa original de campaña es edificar una muralla fronteriza, pagada por los mexicanos.

Y muchos suponían que esta actitud iba a sepultar cualquier aspiración que tuviera entre el electorado hispano.

Pero una encuesta de boca de urna revelada a los medios el martes estimó que Trump ganó también entre los votantes republicanos latinos del estado. Esto pese a enfrentarse a dos candidatos republicanos latinos, Ted Cruz y Marco Rubio.

34.451

personas votaron por Trump en los caucus, lo que equivale a:

  • 1% de los habitantes del estado

  • 0,001% de la población de EE.UU.

Trump casi dobló a Rubio en las preferencias de los latinos republicanos de Nevada, con 45% contra 28% del cubano estadounidense. Cruz aparecía más atrás aún con 18%.

“¿Saben de lo que estoy realmente contento? Estoy de número 1 con los hispanos“, dijo el magnate y aspirante a la presidencia poco después de conocer los resultados.

Lo que lleva a que muchos analistas colectivamente se rasquen la cabeza y se pregunten: ¿por qué casi uno de cada dos republicanos hispanos en Nevada parece haberse inclinado por un candidato que ha sido acusado de agitar la xenofobia contra ese grupo étnico en particular?

Y más importante aún, ¿es indicativo esto de lo que puede ocurrir en las elecciones generales si Trump llega a obtener la nominación del partido republicano?

Los peros

Haber obtenido parte sustancial del voto latino republicano de Nevada en las circunstancias de esta campaña y después de sus agresivas declaraciones contra los mexicanos es un logro electoral indiscutible para Trump. Pero hay que hacer algunas salvedades que matizan el resultado.

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“La encuesta no fue sobre todos los latinos de Nevada, sino con latinos que se identifican como republicanos”, dice a BBC Mundo Mark Hugo Lopez, director de investigación hispana en el Pew Research Center, un centro de investigación en tendencias de opinión en Estados Unidos. “En Nevada, la mayoría de los hispanos son demócratas”, aclara Mark Hugo Lopez.

Los hispanos republicanos de Nevada son un grupo muy pequeño. Constituyen apenas el 8% de los participantes en las primarias republicanas de ese estado. En contraste, en las primarias del partido demócrata que tuvieron lugar el sábado pasado, casi 20% del electorado era hispano.

Es una situación que se repite en el resto del país, donde la mayoría de los votantes hispanos son demócratas, no republicanos. En la última elección parlamentaria de 2014, por ejemplo, 62% de los latinos votaron demócrata, frente a 36% por los republicanos.

Por lo que en una elección general, si el candidato republicano fuera Trump, se esperaría que la mayoría de los hispanos en el país votaría contra él por el solo hecho de ser simpatizantes del partido contrario, el demócrata. Eso sin entrar a considerar siquiera sus opiniones sobre la inmigración.

También hay cuestiones metodológicas que despiertan dudas en los resultados divulgados el martes.

El principal interrogante se origina en el tamaño tan pequeño de la muestra de votantes latinos a partir del cual se están sacando conclusiones.

2.700

(cifra estimada)

  • 6.000 hispanos en los caucus republicanos (8% del total)

  • 45% votaron por Trump

Cerca de 75.000 republicanos participaron en las primarias del martes en Nevada, de los cuales aproximadamente 8%, unos 6.000, son latinos.

De ellos, el 45%, o sea cerca de 2.700 personas, son hispanos que votaron por Trump en Nevada, según la encuesta que han citado los medios.

Y, teniendo en cuenta que el electorado hispano en todo el país puede llegar a 27 millones de personas, sacar conclusiones para esa comunidad a partir de una muestra tan pequeña, de menos de 3.000, personas puede ser exagerado.

Más aún, indican expertos, el sondeo de boca de urna citado por Trump para reclamar su triunfo sobre los hispanos no consultó a todos los votantes latinos en ese estado, sino a una muestra que pudo abarcar a apenas 130 personas hispanas, según lo ha dicho el profesor David Lamore, experto en estudios electorales de la Universidad de Nevada, en el sitio web Latino Decisions, lo que da un margen de error importante en los resultados de la encuesta.

Mientras que Ali Valenzuela, profesor de la Universidad de Princeton, le señala a BBC Mundo otro posible problema metodológico. “Las encuestas a boca de urna casi nunca hacen preguntas en español, lo que crea sesgos en los resultados específicamente para los latinos”, señala el experto.

Es decir, el triunfo de Trump entre los latinos republicanos puede no haber sido tan abultado en la realidad.

Y al sumar los votos de los latinos que votaron en la primaria demócrata con los que votaron en la republicana, la imagen que se obtiene de la popularidad de Trump es distinta.

“Hubo 15,960 votos latinos por democrátas en Nevada. De un total de 18.608 votos latinos en Nevada, aproximadamente 14% apoyaron a Trump”, le dice Valenzuela a BBC Mundo.

Un caso comprobado

En cualquier caso, e independiente de las cuestiones técnicas, los resultados de Nevada indican que un hispano simpatizante de Trump no es un imposible lógico.

Y los avances de Trump entre los latinos no son un fenómeno que se limite a Nevada.

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La campaña de Trump ha roto muchos tabúes de la cultura política estadounidense.

“Hay otras encuestas anteriores que indican que un número entre 15% y 20% de hispanos adultos en el país está de acuerdo con Donald Trump o tiene una opinión favorable de él”, indica Mark Hugo Lopez, del Centro Pew, a BBC Mundo.

En una manifestación a favor de Donald Trump en octubre pasado en Miami en la que BBC Mundo estuvo presente, cientos de hispanos, muchos de ellos cubano-estadounidenses, abarrotaron un lujoso hotel de propiedad del candidato para expresar su devoción a esta controversial causa política.

Como Isabel Millas, que nació en Cuba y vive en Miami desde 1961. En octubre pasado le decía a BBC Mundo que le daba toda la razón a Donald Trump en su posición sobre la inmigración. “Aquí no puede entrar gente indocumentada porque uno no sabe quiénes son”, aseguraba.

Al tiempo que otro miembro hispanoparlante del público exclamaba: “Este país se ha vuelto un desastre, entra todo el que quiere por la frontera”. Y aseguraba que Trump ha dicho “lo que el pueblo quiere oír”.

Castillos de naipes

La verdad es que muchos de los análisis tradicionales sobre política estadounidense se han derrumbado como castillos de naipes al enfrentarse al huracán de la candidatura de Trump.

Los latinos no son los únicos insultados por el polémico potentado que le han entregado resultados electorales distintos a lo esperado.

Apenas la semana pasada, los observadores asumían que la enorme población de militares retirados que habita en el estado de Carolina del Sur le iba a cobrar a Trump en las primarias de ese estado un comentario ofensivo anterior.

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Trump encabeza las encuestas nacionales entre los republicanos.

El candidato había difundido una declaración casi sacrílega en la cultura política estadounidense al hablar mal de un ex prisionero de guerra, el excandidato presidencial John McCain, quien pasó años en una carcel vietnamita después de haber sido derribado su avión y que es visto como un héroe en su país.

Pero Trump lo criticó por haberse dejado alcanzar por el fuego enemigo.

Y, sin embargo, el multimillonario político ganó holgadamente en Carolina del Sur, con muchos exmilitares entre sus más expresivos admiradores.

Al final, tanto entre los latinos, como entre el resto del público estadounidense, hay personas que se han dejado seducir por el embrujo de un fenómeno de masas indiscutible que llena estadios, satura redes sociales y, efectivamente, gana elecciones.

Y sin duda, los democratas que contaban con el apoyo incondicional de las minorías étnicas como una muralla contra el avance de Trump deben estar repasando muy bien sus estrategias en una elección que cada vez ofrece más sorpresas.

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Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s aides want him to read his way out of trouble.

If you can believe it, the aides’ strategy for helping him survive his “blackface scandal” involves assigned reading, including Alex Haley’s book Roots and an essay written by the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, according to BuzzFeed News.

It’s the whitest solution to a blackface problem that only the whitest of whites could have devised.

Northam stands credibly accused of having once attended a party in the mid-1980s dressed either in blackface or Ku Klux Klan regalia, according to an old yearbook uncovered first by the right-wing news site Big League Politics.

At first the governor apologized for the yearbook photo. Then he backtracked, after his apology failed to kill the controversy, by denying any involvement in the photo. Northam then held a press conference wherein he maintained he couldn’t possibly be the man in blackface because he “vividly” remembers looking different the one time he dressed in blackface to impersonate Michael Jackson for a dance competition.

So his defense for wearing blackface was that it was a different sort of blackface.

This all really happened, even the part where Northam nearly “moonwalked” for reporters.

Suffice it to say, the governor has had a rough go of it, looking like both a supremely incompetent fool and a baby boomer racist. He has refused his own party’s many calls for his resignation, and he has even floated the idea of becoming an independent just so he can stay in office. But if you thought this couldn’t get any more ridiculous, the governor’s staff is here to disabuse you of that notion. Via BuzzFeed News:

His office has begun to explore how it might recalibrate Northam’s legislative agenda to focus closely on race and equity … The move would mark a brazen attempt to hang onto his office by shifting the conversation away from Northam’s admission of having once worn blackface and his denials that he is featured in the racist yearbook photo, either as the person in blackface or the person in a Klan outfit. Northam’s policy team is looking at crafting a set of proposals based on the premise that the governor’s mistakes have rendered him keenly aware of inequity and the lack of justice faced by black Virginians 400 years after the first African people arrived in the Commonwealth, at Point Comfort, in 1619.

The centerpiece proposal is not complete in its scope or in terms of what it will seek to accomplish. But there are many possibilities being considered for a broad platform: increasing resources for affordable housing; setting new, more equitable standards in small business procurement; implementing programs that expand economic opportunity for entrepreneurs; pumping money into public services like education and transportation.

Then comes the really embarrassing detail [emphasis added]:

This is like something lifted directly from a “South Park” episode. Northam should just pay an indulgence to Jesse Jackson and get it over with already. This also seems like the lazy man’s way of familiarizing oneself with the black community. (“Isn’t there a book I can just read?”)

The amazing thing is: There’s no way that we’ve hit rock bottom with what’s happening now in Virginia. It surely will get worse or weirder from here.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/virginia-governor-to-learn-black-sensitivity-by-going-back-to-somebody-elses-roots

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El comercio de América Latina con Rusia viene desde la década de 1930.

Tal vez con la excepción de los cubanos de la época de la Guerra Fría, los latinoamericanos nunca hemos pensado mucho en los productos rusos a la hora de satisfacer nuestras necesidades de consumo cotidiano.

Pero que no haya muchos productos rusos en el supermercado de la esquina no quiere decir que el comercio con Rusia sea poco importante para nuestras economías.

Los países de América Latina han dedicado grandes esfuerzos en la última década a diversificar los destinos de su comercio, tras años marcados por su dependencia de EE.UU.

Han tenido éxito con China, que se ha convertido en el principal socio comercial de varios actores de la región, pero menos con Rusia.

Esto pese a que, desde mediados del siglo XX Moscú ha buscado aumentar, por razones tanto políticas como económicas, su presencia comercial en la región.

Hoy ese comercio se manifiesta en productos tan diversos como aviones de combate rusos llegados a Venezuela o vino uruguayo con destino a Rusia.

Un país que, sorprendentemente, se convirtió en los últimos años en el destino clave para el vino tannat de Uruguay, con exportaciones que alcanzaron 20 millones de litros anuales.

  • Brasil Exporta a Rusia US$3.800 millones anuales (1% del total de sus exportaciones). En comparación, exporta a China US$40.000 millones

  • Venezuela Importa de Rusia US$393 millones (1% del total de sus importaciones). En comparación, importa de Estados Unidos US$10.000 millones.

El intercambio entre América Latina y Rusia no llegará en el futuro próximo a niveles del comercio con China, un país con una población casi diez veces mayor que la de Rusia.

Pero sigue en aumento y representa un motor importante de crecimiento para varios países latinoamericanos.

“Ha habido una relación comercial entre América Latina y Rusia desde los años 30”, asegura a BBC Mundo Serguei Brilev, subdirector de la televisión estatal rusa, quien es además, a título personal, el presidente del Instituto Bering-Bellinghausen para Las Américas (IBBA), una ONG basada en Montevideo que promueve el intercambio económico entre Rusia y América Latina.

“Ha sido una relación bastante estable. Es distinta al comercio que existe entre Rusia y el resto de Occidente. Entre Rusia y Europa, por ejemplo, ha sido mayoritariamente en torno al petróleo ruso, mientras que en el caso latinoamericano se trata más, por ejemplo, de comprar turbinas para hidroeléctricas, los troleybuses o, en los últimos años, la maquinaria militar”, señala Brilev.

Diez veces menor

El comercio de Rusia con la región ha saltado desde US$3.000 millones en 2000 a cerca de US$24.000 millones en 2013, según reporta el diario británico Financial Times.

Un monto que es cerca de diez veces menor al que se tiene con China, pero que va en aumento.

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El vino chileno abunda en los supermercados rusos.

“América Latina ha usado también el ‘hueco’ creado por las sanciones occidentales contra Rusia y las contrasanciones rusas contra la Unión Europea en materia de alimentos”, le recuerda Brilev a BBC Mundo.

“Por ejemplo, los quesos europeos que han desaparecido en el mercado ruso se han sustituido por los quesos argentinos, uruguayos y brasileños. El salmón noruego se ha sustituido por salmón chileno”.

Hoy en día, asegura Brilev, el vino malbec argentino o el merlot y el cabernet-sauvignon chileno son infaltables en los supermercados rusos.

Aviones civiles

Del lado latinoamericano también se están abriendo mercados para nuevos productos rusos.

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“Mientras las ventas de aviones civiles rusos estuvieron limitadas en el periodo soviético a Cuba, ahora se están expandiendo a otras naciones”, dice el experto ruso.

“Paradójicamente en algunos sentidos Rusia y America Latina son competidores. Brasil, por ejemplo, produce aviones Embraer, mientras que Rusia produce aviones muy similares llamados Sukhoi Superjet“, recuerda.

Sin embargo, la aerolínea mexicana Interjet usa ya 20 de los aviones rusos en su flota.

Y Nicaragua está “activamente negociando” para compras similares de aviones, agrega Brilev.

Globalización y distancia

Claramente, el flujo comercial con Rusia ha estado particularmente concentrado en algunos países.

“Brasil por su tamaño y el rol que juega en el grupo BRICS (de las potencias emergentes que incluye a Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) es uno de los más destacados en este comercio entre Rusia y la región, dice Brilev.

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Rusia y China son competidores en algunos aspectos del mercado latinoamericano.

Pero en otros países, aunque con menor tamaño absoluto, las exportaciones a Rusia juegan un papel importante proporcional al tamaño de su comercio.

“En Paraguay por ejemplo, hubo un momento en que exportaba el 90% de su carne al mercado ruso”, recuerda el presidente del IBBA.

Mientras que Venezuela destaca por las enormes compras militares que se hicieron a Rusia desde la llegada al poder del fallecido presidente Hugo Chávez.

A la hora de evaluar el potencial de estas relaciones económicas con Moscú, muchos comparan lo que se ha logrado con Pekín.

“China y Rusia son también competidoras en algunos aspectos, como por ejemplo, la venta de turbinas para hidroeléctricas”, recuerda Brilev.

¿Llegará algún momento el intercambio económico con Rusia al nivel del que se da con China?

Brilev acepta que, dadas las diferencias de tamaño en la población, y por el ende en el tamaño del mercado, entre China y Rusia, será difícil que las ventas latinoamericanas a Rusia igualen las que se dan a China.

“No hay que temer a la globalización y a las distancias“, puntualiza en todo caso Brilev, para asegurar que hay mucho espacio para crecer en esta avenida distinta para el intercambio comercial latinoamericano, la que conduce a Moscú.

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Japón aguarda hoy con incertidumbre noticias sobre el periodista nipón secuestrado en Siria por el grupo Estado Islámico (EI) sin que de momento se haya informado de nuevos avances sobre su liberación, después de que ayer expirara el ultimátum dado por el grupo yihadista. Mientras, en Jordania, el ejército indicó que esperaba pruebas  que demuestren que el piloto capturado se encuentra con vida. 

Ayer terminó el plazo fijado por el EI para que  Jordania liberara a una mujer condenada por terrorismo a cambio del piloto jordano, Maaz al Kasasbeh, y el rehén japonés Kenji Goto, a los que la  organización yihadista tiene en su poder y amenaza con matar.

Los extremistas capturaron a Goto, un periodista independiente, probablemente a finales de octubre, y al piloto Maaz al Kassasbeh, el 24 de  diciembre, después de que su F-16 se estrellara en una zona de Siria donde  llevaba a cabo un ataque contra el EI. 

Sin embargo Ammán exige una prueba de vida y la puesta en libertad de Al Kassasbeh,  antes de liberar a la prisionera Sajida al Rishawi. Según los expertos, la combatiente iraquí es importante para el EI por sus  vínculos con Al Qaeda en Irak, pero también porque el grupo yihadista pretende que los demás actores lo vean como a un Estado. 

Por otro lado, en Japón, el ministro portavoz del Gobierno nipón, Yoshihide Suga, insistió en rueda de prensa en que los funcionarios que están trabajando en el caso “están haciendo todo lo que pueden, paso por paso, para liberar al periodista Kenji Goto”.

El propio Suga expresó hoy la frustración del Ejecutivo nipón, que no ha recibido nuevas noticias del EI, y lamentó que el grupo radical forzara en la víspera a la mujer de Goto a implorar públicamente por su vida bajo amenaza de asesinarlo. 

El padre del piloto jordano tambien hizo ayer un llamamiento al EI para que libere a su hijo. 

La semana pasada, coincidiendo con el viaje del primer ministro nipón, Shinzo Abe, a Oriente Próximo, el EI envió un primer vídeo en el que le exigió que pagara 200 millones de dólares a cambio de no asesinar a Goto, capturado en octubre, y a otro ciudadano nipón, Haruna Yukawa, que fue ejecutado el pasado sábado.

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Karla Adam, Devlin Barrett, Miriam Berger, Abha Bhattarai, Jacob Bogage, Amanda Coletta, Tim Craig, Simon Denyer, Eva Dou, Ruth Eglash, Thomas Heath, Meryl Kornfield, Louisa Loveluck, Katie Mettler, David Montgomery, Loveday Morris, Siobhán O’Grady, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Christopher Rowland, Missy Ryan and Felicia Sonmez contributed to this report. Adam and Loveluck reported from London; Coletta reported from Toronto; Eglash reported from Jerusalem.

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The killers of Ahmaud Arbery were led to their cells in handcuffs on Friday to begin their life sentences, as rifle-toting members of the New Black Panther Party protested outside the Georgia courtroom. 

Travis and Gregory McMichael were both sentenced to life without parole for the February 2020 murder, while their neighbor William Roddie Bryan, 52, – who filmed the murder – will be eligible for parole. 

The trio were later seen being led away from the courtroom in handcuffs – the McMichaels never to be seen in public again. 

Travis McMichael was shackled by the ankles as well as being handcuffs; the other two men were just handcuffed. 

During the sentencing hearing, heavily-armed members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside, raising their fists in a show of support for the Arbery family.

Members of the black nationalist group, which is also anti-white and anti-Semitic, also congregated outside the courthouse during closing arguments, leading the defense lawyers to call for a mistrial and accuse them of intimidation.

Along with banners showing Ahmaud Arbery’s face, the group also carried black and white coffins with mannequins inside them that feature the names of black men killed by police, such as George Floyd and Trayvon Martin.  

The NBPP was founded in 1989 and is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The group is not affiliated with the original Black Panthers from the 1960s, and members of the original Panthers have accused the NBPP of the misappropriation of their name, both in public statements and in legal action. 

Travis McMichael, 36, (left) and his father Gregory, 66, were handcuffed as they were led from court on Friday to begin their sentences

William Bryan, the 52-year-old neighbor of the McMichaels, is seen being led away. He too was sentenced to life, but unlike the McMichaels he has the possibility of parole

A member of the New Black Panther Party is seen outside the Glenn County courthouse on Friday

The heavily-armed NBPP members marched outside the courthouse on Friday as the trio were sentenced for Arbery’s killing

Arbery’s parents asked a judge to sentence his killers to life without parole on Friday at a courthouse in Georgia, saying they ‘lynched him in broad daylight’ and targeted him when he felt most ‘free and alive’. Pictured are members of the NBPP

The NBPP flag is hoisted aloft as the party members march in front of the Georgia courthouse

Members of the NBPP raise their fists to show support for the Arbery family during Friday’s sentencing

Judge Timothy R. Walmsley did not specify how long he would have to spend in prison – prosecutors asked that he spend at least 15 years behind bars. Typically, the minimum in Georgia is 30 years. 

In handing down his sentence, Judge Walmsley called the murder ‘chilling’ and ‘disturbing’. He talked about the ‘terror’ Arbery must have felt for the five minutes the men chased him in their pick-up trucks with a shotgun and revolver. 

‘As we all now know based on the verdict that was handed down in this courtroom, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered. It’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy on many, many levels.

‘On February 23, 2020…a young man with dreams was gunned down in this community. As we understand it, he went for a run and he ended up running for his life.’ 

To emphasize how long the five-minute chase must have felt for Arbery, the judge sat silently for a minute in the courtroom. 

‘That one minute represents a fraction of the time that Ahmaud Arbery was running in Satilla Shores. The chase that occurred, occurred over a five minute period. 

‘When I thought about this, I kept coming back to the terror that must have been in the mind of the young man running through Satilla Shores,’ he said. 

‘He was hunted down and shot and he was killed because individuals took the law into their own hands.’ 

Travis McMichael, left, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for shooting dead Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 

Gregory McMichael, Travis’s 66-year-old father, will also die in prison under the life without parole sentence

William Roddie Bryan, the 52-year-old neighbor who filmed the murder, was sentenced to life but he has been given the possibility of parole. Prosecutors asked that he have to serve at least 15 years behind bars 

Judge Timothy Walmsley on Friday called the killing ‘chilling’ and ‘disturbing.’ He talked about the ‘terror’ Arbery must have felt as the men chased him in their pick-up trucks for five minutes 

He then recited some of the comments made by the McMichaels after the shooting to prove that it was a ‘callous’ execution, and said they never showed any remorse. 

‘Remorse is something that’s felt and demonstrated. In this case, getting back to the video, after Ahmaud Arbery fell, the McMichael’s turned their backs. They walked away. This was a killing. It was callous and it occurred because confrontation was being sought. 

‘The most violent crime in Satilla Shores was the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. 

‘The record speaks for itself. Greg McMichael tried to establish a narrative. He said he was ‘trapped like a rat.’

Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, U.S. on February 23, 2020,one year on

‘He said, ‘stop or I’ll blow your f*****g head off.’ 

‘He told Travis ‘you have no choice’. He also said, ‘If I could have gotten a shot at the guy, I would have shot him.” 

Unlike the father and son, Bryan appeared to show some remorse in the days and weeks after the killing, he said. 

However all three acted as vigilantes, chasing down Arbery and then murdering him because they were ‘seeking confrontation.’  

‘Taking the law into your own hands is a dangerous endeavor. Ultimately with regard to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery it holds us all accountable. At a minimum his death should force us to consider expanding our definition of what a neighbor may be and how we treat them. 

‘I believe that assuming the worst in others, we show our worst character. Assuming the best in others is always the best course of action. Maybe those are the grand lessons of this case,’ the judge said.

There were celebrations outside the court as the sentences were read aloud.  

Earlier, Arbery’s parents asked a judge to sentence his killers to life without parole on Friday at a courthouse in Georgia, saying they ‘lynched him in broad daylight’ and targeted him when he felt most ‘free and alive’.  

On February 23, 2020, they chased Arbery, a 26-year-old black man, through a street in Satilla Shores. They said they thought he was a burglar. Travis pulled the trigger, with his father nearby. Bryan filmed the entire incident on his phone. 

In November, they were all convicted of murder – which carries a mandatory life sentence. Prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty.  

Gregory and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William Brian Jr were found a guilty of murder in state court on November 23 by a panel of 11 white jurors and one black juror. In compiling that jury pool, 1,000 people in the mostly-white Glynn County were called. Pictured: The moment Arbery was shot by Travis McMichael

Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper Jones celebrates as she leaves court with her family on Friday after her son’s killers were sentenced to life behind bars without parole

Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones, center, speaks with supporters after Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick 

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 23, 2021 a woman holds portraits of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd during an event in remembrance of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper Jones (left) and father Marcus (right) asked a judge to impose the maximum sentence possible for his killers – life without parole

Arbery’s father Marcus spoke first, telling the court: ‘The man who killed my son has sat in this courtroom every day next to his father. I’ll never get the chance of sitting next to my son ever again. Not at a dinner table, not at a holiday, not at a wedding. I pray that no one in this courtroom has to do what we had – bury their child.’ 

Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper Jones, pleaded: ‘They were fully committed to their crimes – let them be fully committed for the consequences.’ 

‘MY SON’S KILLERS HAVE NO REMORSE’ – AHMAUD ARBERY’S MOTHER’S VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT 

I want to speak directly to my son. This verdict doesn’t bring you back, but it does help bring closure to this very difficult chapter of my life.

I made a promise to you the day I laid you to rest. I told you I loved you and someday, somehow I would get you justice.

Son, I love you as much today as the day you were born. Raising you was the honor of my life and I am very proud of you.

Your honor, these men have chosen to lie and attack my son and his surviving family. They have no remorse and do not deserve leniency. 

This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity or mistaken fact. They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community they chose to treat him differently when they couldn’t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him.

My young son, he was born on mothers’ day of 1994. He had a smile so bright it lit up the room. He was a greedy baby and it seemed like he was always searching for something to stick in his mouth. 

He was always a loving baby who seemed to never tire of cuddling, hugs and kisses He loved. He never hesitated to tell me, his sister Jasmine or brother Marcus, and we loved him back, He was messy. He sometimes refused to wear socks.

I wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before he went out for his jog that day. I guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered.

My family is going to miss Ahmaud, his jokes, impersonations, his warm smile. These men deserve the maximum sentence for their crimes. Ahamud never said a word to them. He never threatened them, he just wanted to be left alone.

They were fully committed to their crimes – let them be fully committed for the consequences.

I’m standing here before you asking you to please give all three defendants who are responsible for the death of my son, the maximum punishment in this court which I do believe is life without bars without the possible chance for parole. 

She also referred to her son’s toenails on the day of the murder – something that was brought up during the trial in by a defense attorney who stoked outrage by referring to his ‘long, dirty toenails’. 

Wanda, on Friday, said: ‘I wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before he went out for his jog that day. I guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered.’  

She then pleaded with the judge: ‘Your honor, I am standing here before you today as the mother of Ahmaud Arbery asking you to please give all three defendants who are responsible for the death of my son, the maximum punishment which I do believe is life without bars without the possible chance for parole.’ 

The men’s lawyers are asking that they be granted parole after 30 years. Prosecutors have asked the judge not to grant any of the men parole. 

Cooper Jones spoke about Ahmaud as a ‘loving’ baby who ‘never seemed to tire of cuddles, hugs and kisses.’

His father Marcus told how he loved to run more than anything because it made him feel ‘free’. 

‘Not only did they lynch my son in broad daylight but they killed him when he was doing what he loved more than anything – running. 

‘That’s when he felt most alive. Most free. And they took all of that from him.

‘When I close my eyes, I see his execution over and over. I’ll see that for the rest of my life.  

‘When I became a father my life became bigger than me, it became bigger than me about my family, protecting him, protecting my boy. I know in my head that there is nothing I could have done that day to have saved my son. 

‘To save him from this evil and hate. My heart is broken and always will be.

‘If I could trade places with Ahmaud, I would in a heartbeat but I can’t’. I’m standing here to do what he can’t – that is to fight for him. His memory, his legacy and to tell you who he was. 

‘That’s the one thing you didn’t hear in this courtroom. More than anything else, you should know who my boy was.

‘We love our son and we will never have him with us to celebrate anything. Thanksgiving, Christmas…his birthday his killers should spend the rest of their lives thinking about what they took from us. 

‘It should be behind my bars.

‘Me and my family have got to live with this for the rest of our lives. They should stay behind those bars the rest of their lives. They didn’t give him a chance.’  

Ahmaud’s mother spoke directly to him, saying: ‘This verdict doesn’t bring you back. But it does help bring closure to this very difficult chapter of my life. 

‘I made a promise to you the day I laid you to rest. 

‘I told you I loved you and someday, somehow I would get you justice. 

‘Son, I love you as much today as the day you were born.

‘Raising you was the honor of my life and I am very proud of you.’ 

She said none of the killers showed remorse for their actions, and deserved to die in prison.  

‘They have no remorse and do not deserve leniency. This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity or mistaken fact. 

‘They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community. 

‘They chose to treat him differently. 

‘And when they couldn’t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him.’   

Arbery, a 25-year-old avid jogger, was running through the mostly white residential neighborhood of Satilla Shores on the afternoon of Feb. 23 when the McMichaels decided to grab their guns, jump in a pickup truck and give chase. 

The younger McMichael would later testify to the jury they had a hunch Arbery might be fleeing a crime.

Bryan joined the chase in his own pickup truck after it passed his driveway, and pulled out his cellphone to record Travis McMichael firing a shotgun at Arbery at close range. 

Arbery had nothing on him besides his running clothes and sneakers.

The video caused outrage when it emerged months later and it became clear that none of the men involved had yet been arrested after a local prosecutor concluded the killing was justified. 

Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones wipes a tear from her eyes while listening to her daughter’s impact statement to Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley

Ahmaud Arbery’s sister Jasmine Arbery wipes a tear from her eyes while listening to her mother’s impact statement to Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley during the sentencing of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William ‘Roddie’ Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, on January 7, 2022 in Brunswick, Georgia

Ahmaud Arbery’s father Marcus Arbery, center, sits in the courtroom with other family members during the sentencing of Greg McMichael, his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William ‘Roddie’ Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse

William Roddie Bryan, 52, arrives at court in Brunswick, Georgia, on Friday to be sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery 

Travis McMichael, 35, arrives in court in shackles on Friday morning to be sentenced for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. He will be at least 65 before he gets out of prison

Gregory McMichael, 66, is shown arriving at court for the 10am sentencing hearing

Gregory McMichael makes his way into court on Friday to be sentenced to life in prison

‘The day has finally come that we will get justice. 

‘The day my family an I have prayed for… it has finally come.’ 

Defense attorneys then pleaded with the judge not to sentence the men to the harshest possible term. 

Gregory McMichael’s attorney, Laura Hogue, called him a ‘man of goodness’ and referred to the killing as a ‘five minute chase that ended in tragedy.’

‘Greg McMichael is a good man. He is not a perfect person but none of us are. 

‘The choices he made as a young man, all the way through to the rest of his life, to serve, not to acquire wealth, but to quietly go through the business of choosing career options to help other people. 

‘I say without hesitation he remains a man of goodness,’ she said. 

Three white men guilty of Ahmaud Arbery faced 27 charges between them – this is what each of them mean

COUNT 1 – MALICE MURDER

This is defined as causing a person’s death with deliberate intention without provocation and ‘where all the circumstances in the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart’. 

Travis McMichael – Guilty

Gregory McMichael – Not guilty

William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – Not guilty  

COUNTS 2, 3, 4 AND 5 – FELONY MURDER 

This applies when a death is caused in the course of committing another felony whether or not the killing was intentional or unprovoked. 

Travis McMichael – Guilty on all counts

Gregory McMichael – Guilty on all counts

William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – Guilty on three counts, not guilty on one counts

COUNT 6 and 7 – AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 

Under Georgia law this is an assault using a deadly weapon. Count six refers to the shotgun used, count 7 refers to the two pickup trucks, driven by Gregory McMichael and William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, used to box Arbery in.

Travis McMichael – Guilty 

Gregory McMichael –  Not guilty on count 6; Guilty on count 7

William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – Not guilty on count 6; Guilty on count 7 

COUNT 8 –  FALSE IMPRISONMENT  

This is when a person ‘arrests, confines, or detains’ another person without legal authority. 

Travis McMichael – Guilty 

Gregory McMichael –  Guilty

William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – Guilty

COUNT 9 – CRIMINAL INTENT TO COMMIT A FELONY

This refers to performing ‘any act which constitutes a substantial step’ toward the intentional commission of a crime  

Travis McMichael – Guilty 

Gregory McMichael –  Guilty 

William ‘Roddie’ Bryan – Guilty 

Ahmaud Arbery’s father Marcus Arbery arrives at court on Friday for the sentencing. He spoke briefly before the hearing, telling reporters he is a ‘different man now’

Ahmaud Arbery’s family and friends arrive at the courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, on Friday morning 

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