Después de 14 años de mezclar la formalidad que requiere la presentación de las noticias con un trabajo menos sobrio y más relajado, como una revista matutina, Patricia Figueroa tiene un norte claro y dejó de ser parte de Noticias Repretel.
La peruana, conductora de Giros, se dedicará totalmente a ese programa que se transmite de lunes a viernes de 7:30 a. m. a 10 a. m.
La salida de Figueroa coincide con una serie de cambios que el canal de La Uruca oficializará la tarde de este viernes, según comentó a Viva el presidente de Repretel, Fernando Contreras.
Figueroa, de 46 años, confirmó su salida al periódico La Teja, aunque dijo que fue ella quien tomó la decisión de marcharse.
“Yo no estaba en Giros la semana completa y hace un tiempo me pidieron que llegara todos los días. Entonces, después de pensarlo bastante, decidí renunciar a las noticias y quedarme solo con la revista”, aclaró.
La presentadora dijo sentirse contenta a pesar de que pasó tanto tiempo en el noticiero del 6.
“Siento que ya con las noticias es misión cumplida, fue mi casa por 14 años”.
Agregó que se da en un momento en que la lucha por conquistar a los televidentes está encendida.
“Nosotros tenemos bastante rato de estar liderando la franja matutina. Ahora Buen Día volvió con otro equipo tratando de hacer algo diferente, es un reto bonito y el gran ganador será el televidente porque nos exige a todos a dar mucho más”, comentó.
Reporting was contributed by Peter Baker, Elisabetta Povoledo, Steven Erlanger, Alissa J. Rubin, Alexandra Stevenson, Livia Albeck-Ripka, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Daniel Victor, Sui-Lee Wee, Annie Karni, Marc Santora, Megan Specia, Vindu Goel, Elian Peltier, Jason Horowitz, Emma Bubola, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Jorge Arangure, Matthew Futterman, Elaine Yu, Amy Qin, Alan Rappeport, Emily Cochrane, Karen Zraick, Sandra E. Garcia, Scott Cacciola, Sopan Deb, Brooks Barnes, Noah Weiland, Sheri Fink, Mike Baker, Monika Pronczuk, Melissa Eddy, Roni Caryn Rabin, Donald G. McNeil Jr., Andrew Keh,and Katie Thomas.
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Tens of millions of Indians have voted on the first day of a general election that is being seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Indians in 20 states and union territories cast their ballots in 91 constituencies.
The seven-phase vote to elect a new lower house of parliament will continue until 19 May. Counting day is 23 May.
With 900 million eligible voters across the country, this is the largest election ever seen.
Some observers have billed the vote as the most important in decades and the tone of the campaign has been acrimonious.
Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a historic landslide in the last elections in 2014. He stakes his claim to lead India on a tough image and remains the governing BJP’s main vote-getter.
But critics say his promises of economic growth and job creation haven’t met expectations, and India has become more religiously polarised under his leadership.
The BJP faces challenges from strong regional parties and a resurgent Congress party, led by Rahul Gandhi. Mr Gandhi’s father, grandmother and great-grandfather were all Indian prime ministers. His sister, Priyanka Gandhi, formally launched her political career in January.
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Mr Modi has made national security a key election issue
How has voting gone on day one?
The Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament, has 543 elected seats and any party or coalition needs a minimum of 272 MPs to form a government.
Hundreds of voters began to queue up outside polling centres early Thursday morning for the first of seven days of voting over six weeks. Their concerns ranged from jobs and unemployment to India’s role in the world and national security.
Many, like Dashami Majumdar, a 23 year old with two children, were focused on local issues – namely “better roads”.
“Nobody tells me who to vote for, my vote is mine, my vote is my independence,” she told the BBC in Cooch Behar, in West Bengal.
Another voter there, Shzina Bibi, a 28-year-old housewife with two children, said she was looking at what the political parties, not individual candidates, would do for Indian society.
“We need more communal peace in India. We need to live together with more tolerance,” she said.
But in some places, voters were furious to find they were not on the rolls. In the southern state of Telangana, Shobhana Kamineni was distraught to find that she was not able to cast a ballot.
“This is a crime against me as a citizen and I will not tolerate it,” she told BBC Telugu.
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A little boy clutches his father outside a polling booth in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh state
In Baghpat, a constituency in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, scores of Muslim and Dalit (formerly “untouchable”) voters also complained that their names were missing.
Violence also flared in several places. Two people died in separate clashes at polling stations in southern Andhra Pradesh state.
In central Chhattisgarh state, suspected Maoist rebels detonated an IED device near a polling booth at about 04:00 local time (22:30 GMT) – no injuries were reported.
It is mind-bogglingly vast – about 900 million people above the age of 18 will be eligible to cast their ballots at one million polling stations. At the last election, voter turnout was about 66%.
No voter is meant to have to travel more than 2km to reach a polling station. Because of the enormous number of election officials and security personnel involved, voting is taking place in seven stages between 11 April and 19 May.
More than 140 million people were eligible to vote in the first phase of the election on Thursday.
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Indian lambadi tribeswomen at a polling station in southern India
The states and union territories that went to the polls were: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep.
Polling in some states, such as Andhra Pradesh and Nagaland, will conclude in one day. But other states, such as Uttar Pradesh, will hold polls in several phases.
India’s historic first election in 1951-52 took three months to complete. Between 1962 and 1989, elections were completed in four to 10 days. The four-day elections in 1980 were the country’s shortest ever.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and his sister Priyanka Gandhi, come from a political dynasty
What are the key issues?
Hundreds of millions of Indians have escaped poverty since the turn of the millennium but huge challenges remain.
Under Mr Modi, the world’s sixth-largest economy appears to have lost some of its momentum. Although annual GDP growth has hovered at about 7%, unemployment is a major concern.
Farm incomes have also stagnated because of a crop glut and declining commodity prices, which have left farmers saddled with debt.
Unsurprisingly both parties have targeted the rural poor in their campaign manifestos. The BJP has promised a slew of welfare schemes for India’s farmers, while Congress has promised a minimum income scheme for the country’s 50 million poorest families.
National security is also in the spotlight this election after a suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group killed at least 40 paramilitary police in Indian-administered Kashmir in February. India then carried out unprecedented air strikes in Pakistan.
Since then, the BJP has made national security a key plank in its campaign.
Laclau había sido invitado por el agregado cultural de la embajada argentina en España, Jorge Alemán, para brindar una conferencia esta tarde. Laclau había iniciado el día bien temprano con un paseo por las calles de Sevilla y un baño en la pileta, cuando se produjo el infarto que provocó su muerte.
El filósofo había nacido en Buenos Aires el 6 de octubre de 1935 y residía en Londres desde 1969. Laclau tuvo una destacada actividad intelectual y en los últimos años reivindicó el concepto de populismo, pensándolo como una forma favorable al sistema democrático, contrariamente a su significado tradicional, como degradante de ese sistema de gobierno.
“Cuando las masas populares que habían estado excluidas se incorporan a la arena política, aparecen formas de liderazgo que no son ortodoxas desde el punto de vista liberal democrático, como el populismo. Pero lejos de ser un obstáculo, el populismo garantiza la democracia, evitando que ésta se convierta en mera administración”, señalaba el politólogo.
Considerado un referente postmarxista desde los inicios de su carrera, se había graduado en 1964 como licenciado en Historia en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y luego se doctoró en la Universidad de Essex, Inglaterra. En ese país vivía junto a su actual esposa y desarrolló buena parte de su actividad intelectual y académica.
Actualmente dictaba clases en la Universidad de Esexx sobre teoría política. Sus hijos, Santiago y Natalia, residen en Argentina y habrían decidido traer los restos de su padre de regreso al país.
Entre los textos más relevantes que publicó se encuentran La Razón Populista, de 2005, Debates y Combates, de 2008 y Hegemonía y estrategia socialista, de 1987, junto a Mouffe. Tras el golpe de Estado de 1955, llamado Revolución Libertadora, Laclau formó el grupo Contorno, junto con Eliseo Verón, entre otros intelectuales, fue ayudante del sociólogo Gino Germani y creador, junto a José Luis Romero, de la materia Historia Social en la facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA. En los 70 recibió una beca para estudiar con el historiador marxista Eric Hobsbawn.
“No entity could receive legitimacy without the support, endorsement of his excellency Ahmad Massoud, because he is the source of legitimacy today,” said Ali Nazary, who represents Mr. Massoud in the United States.
Mr. Massoud, the 32-year-old son of a legendary mujahedeen commander who led the fight against repeated Soviet offensives in the 1980s, is leading the resistance to the Taliban from the same valley from which his father operated.
But the struggle faces long odds, with resistance fighters surrounded by the Taliban and armed with dwindling supplies and no visible outside support. While Mr. Massoud has sought to position himself as the leader of the anti-Taliban battle, Amrullah Saleh, who was the vice president in the toppled government and is a former head of the National Directorate of Security and a former associate of the elder Massoud, last month proclaimed himself Afghanistan’s legitimate president.
Mr. Nazary said that “we are asking the United States to provide material support for our efforts, which would include shipment of offensive weapons,” and also not to give recognition to the Taliban.
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Mr. Nazary, who was involved in arranging the contract with Mr. Stryk, said they chose him because he was not part of “the establishment in D.C.,” which Mr. Nazary accused of appeasing the Taliban. He added that Mr. Stryk “truly believes in us and the Afghan people no matter how it affects his reputation.”
Mr. Stryk has represented a range of clients facing fraught legal and public relations problems, including Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s former president who is accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a state oil company she once headed. And he had represented the government of the former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, which had faced American sanctions for human rights abuses and corruption, as well as the administration of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, which the United States considers illegitimate, and a witness in the Russia investigation who pleaded guilty last year to possessing child pornography and sex trafficking a minor.
Un hombre de 76 años y otro de 62 han fallecido como consecuencia de la gripe A. El de mayor edad, que se encontraba ingresado en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) del Hospital Miguel Servet de Zaragoza, es la primera víctima mortal de esta patología en Aragón.
Este enfermo, que no constaba como vacunado de gripe, estaba aquejado, además, de varias patologías crónicas previas y había ingresado en la UCI del hospital en estado muy grave. En la comunidad aragonesa, 43 personas continúan ingresadas por este virus, de ellas 18 en unidades de cuidados intensivos, la mayoría en hospitales de Zaragoza y nueve en la provincia de Teruel, mientras que Huesca continúa sin registrar ningún ingreso.
La víctima de 62 años ha fallecido en el Hospital Sierrallana, en Torrelavega (Cantabria), como consecuencia de las complicaciones derivadas del virus de la gripe A N1-H1. La muerte se produjo el pasado sábado, 11 de enero, pero se ha conocido este martes después de que el Laboratorio de Microbiología del Hospital Valdecilla confirmara que se trata de este subtipo de virus, causante de casi el 80% de los casos graves de gripe que se producen en España.
Según ha informado el Gobierno de Cantabria, el paciente había ingresado en el Hospital Tres Mares de Reinosa el 25 de diciembre, con un cuadro de dificultad respiratoria causado por una neumonía bilateral. Dos días después, y ante la mala evolución de su estado clínico, fue trasladado al Hospital Sierrallana, donde permaneció ingresado en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos hasta su fallecimiento.
Sanidad ha confirmado este martes a través de los análisis realizados por el Laboratorio de Microbiología otros cuatro casos de pacientes ingresados en Valdecilla por las complicaciones asociadas a este subtipo de la gripe, lo que eleva a seis el número de personas que permanecen ingresadas.
Tres de ellas están hospitalizadas en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) y las otras tres en planta. En cinco de los casos, el diagnóstico es de neumonía bilateral. En la UCI, han ingresado este martes una mujer de 47 años y un varón de 45, que se suman a uno de los enfermos que ya estaban hospitalizados en este servicio, un varón de 57 años con mala evolución de su estado.
Otras tres personas están hospitalizadas en planta, una de ellas, una mujer de 38 años, procedente de Cuidados Intensivos; y dos varones de 41 y 82 años. En todos los casos, el Laboratorio de Microbiología de Valdecilla ha confirmado que se trata del subtipo H1-N1.
En todos los casos en los que se ha podido realizar la comprobación, se ha constatado que los pacientes no estaban vacunados. Así, Sanidad ha constatado que dos de las personas que permanecen ingresadas no estaban vacunadas, a pesar de pertenecer a grupos de riesgo (ambos son enfermos crónicos).
El subtipo H1-N1 es más virulento porque produce un mayor número de complicaciones, principalmente insuficiencia respiratoria, y agrava los síntomas, con fiebre más alta y mayor postración, lo que con frecuencia requiere ingreso en UCI. Además, causa más enfermedad en niños y adultos jóvenes que en personas mayores.
Este subtipo se detectó por primera vez en la pandemia de 2009 y desde entonces, como sucede normalmente tras una pandemia, circula cada año durante la temporada grupal. Por eso, en la composición de la vacuna recomendada para esta temporada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud están incluidas tres cepas, correspondientes a los dos subtipos de la gripe A (H1-N1 y H3-N2) y un subtipo de la gripe B.
La Dirección General de Salud Pública recomienda que ante un cuadro gripal que no cede con los medios habituales antitérmicos y analgésicos, fiebre alta que se mantiene y mayor deterioro del estado general se acuda a los servicios sanitarios, sobre todo en el caso de personas mayores de 60 años y grupos de riesgo -mujeres embarazadas, enfermos cardiópatas, patología respiratoria crónica, obesidad, enfermedades metabólicas o pacientes inmunodeprimidos-.
“One of the biggest ways climate change is affecting us is by loading the weather dice against us. Extreme weather events occur naturally; but on a warmer planet many of these events are getting bigger, stronger, and more damaging,” Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and the Nature Conservancy, said in an emailed statement. “They’re affecting our health, the safety of our homes, the economy, and more.”
Arnold van den Bergh, who died in 1950, has been accused on the basis of six years of research and an anonymous note received by Anne’s father, Otto Frank, after his return to Amsterdam at the end of the war.
The note claims Van den Bergh, a member of a Jewish council, an administrative body the Germans forced Jews to establish, had given away the Frank family’s hiding place along with other addresses used by those in hiding.
He had been motivated by fears for his life and that of his family, it is suggested in a CBS documentary and accompanying book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan, based on research gathered by the retired FBI detective Vince Pankoke and his team.
Pankoke learned that Van den Bergh had managed to have himself categorised as a non-Jew initially but was then redesignated as being Jewish after a business dispute.
It is suggested that Van den Bergh, who acted as notary in the forced sale of works of art to prominent Nazis such as Hermann Göring, used addresses of hiding places as a form of life insurance for his family. Neither he nor his daughter were deported to the Nazi camps.
Anne Frank hid for two years in a concealed annexe above a canalside warehouse in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam before being discovered on 4 August 1944, along with her father, mother, Edith, and sister, Margot.
The young diarist was sent to Westerbork transit camp, and on to Auschwitz concentration camp before finally ending up in Bergen-Belsen, where she died in February 1945 at the age of 15, possibly from typhus. Her published diary spans the period in hiding between 1942 and her last entry on 1 August 1944.
Despite a series of investigations, the mystery of who led the Nazis to the annex remains unsolved. Otto Frank, who died in 1980, was thought to have a strong suspicion of that person’s identity but he never divulged it in public.
Several years after the war, he had told the journalist Friso Endt that the family had been betrayed by someone in the Jewish community. The cold case team discovered that Miep Gies, one of those who helped get the family into the annexe, had also let slip during a lecture in America in 1994 that the person who betrayed them had died by 1960.
There were two police investigations, in 1947 and 1963, into the circumstances surrounding the betrayal of the Franks. The son of the detective, Arend van Helden, who led the second inquiry, provided a typewritten copy of the anonymous note to the cold case reviewers.
The author of the new book, Sullivan, said: “Vanden Bergh was a well-known notary, one of six Jewish notaries in Amsterdam at the time. A notary in the Netherlands is more like a very high-profile lawyer. As a notary, he was respected. He was working with a committee to help Jewish refugees, and before the war as they were fleeing Germany.
“The anonymous note did not identify Otto Frank. It said ‘your address was betrayed’. So, in fact, what had happened was Van den Bergh was able to get a number of addresses of Jews in hiding. And it was those addresses with no names attached and no guarantee that the Jews were still hiding at those addresses. That’s what he gave over to save his skin, if you want, but to save himself and his family. Personally, I think he is a tragic figure.”
“The American people have a right to hear what the man who did the investigation has to say and we now know we certainly can’t rely on the attorney general who misrepresented his conclusions,” Schiff said on “This Week” Sunday. “So he is going to testify.”
Schiff also defended potential contempt charges against members of the administration, which he acknowledged would lead to a battle in the courts.
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PHOTO:Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb 28, 2019.
“We’re are going have to use that device if necessary, we’re going to have to use the power of the purse if necessary,” he said. “We’re going to have to enforce our ability to do oversight.”
Speaking later on the show with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said that the investigations have all been “politically motivated.”
“One of the things that Adam Schiff and the other partisans don’t understand is that if you’re accused of a crime by a grand jury and they don’t indict you, the prosecutor doesn’t go all over town saying we thought he did this, we thought he did this, this is all the evidence,” he said.
Paul went on to say that he thinks “most Americans would disagree,” with the hundreds of federal prosecutors who say that President Donald Trump would be prosecuted if he weren’t president. “People are horrified by the idea that you could put someone in jail for obstructing justice on something where you didn’t commit the crime.”
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PHOTO:Sen. Rand Paul talks to reporters as he heads to the U.S. Capitol for the weekly Republican policy luncheonin Washington, D.C., March 05, 2019.
Days after Trump asserted executive privilege over the Mueller report, both Schiff and Paul were asked to defend past comments on former President Barack Obama’s use of executive privilege.
“There are categorical differences,” Schiff said. “So, first, the Obama administration made dozens of witnesses available to the Congress, provided numerous thousands of documents. … But here, the Trump administration has decided to say a blanket no; no to any kind of oversight whatsoever, no witnesses, no documents, no nothing, claiming executive privilege over things that it knows there is no basis for.”
Paul was asked to reconcile past comments calling Obama “a king” for asserting executive privilege with his support of Trump’s move.
“I opposed the president when he unconstitutionally — Obama tried to make DACA or immigration law without Congress, I also opposed President Trump when he tried to spend money that wasn’t appropriated,” he said. “So I think I’m entirely consistent in saying no president should be king, that includes my president.”
A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday revived in 26 states a Biden administration Covid-19 vaccine mandate requiring millions of U.S. healthcare workers to get vaccinated if they work in federally funded facilities.
In a rare win for President Joe Biden’s pandemic strategy, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that a lower court only had the authority to block the mandate in the 14 states that had sued. The appeals court ruled that the lower court was wrong to impose a nationwide injunction.
Biden’s mandate requires that healthcare facilities get staff vaccinated against the coronavirus or lose federal funding.
The mandate remains temporarily blocked in 24 states — the 14 states involved in the case reviewed by the New Orleans appeals court and 10 states where the mandate was blocked by a separate Nov. 29 ruling.
Most U.S. healthcare workers have been vaccinated by choice.
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Cientos de personas se reunieron el martes en la noche en el casco antiguo de Bruselas para rendir tributo a los fallecidos en los atentados.
Poco a poco, se va sabiendo más de las víctimas y sobrevivientes de los ataques del martes en Bruselas.
Las dos explosiones en el aeropuerto de Zaventem y una detonación en la estación de metro Maalbeek, reivindicadas por el autodenominado Estado Islámico, dejaron al menos 31 personas muertas y más de 250 heridos.
Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 37, fallecida
La primera identidad de una víctima fatal que fue confirmada fue la de la peruana Adelma Tapia Ruiz, de 37 años, quien estaba en el aeropuerto con su marido, belga, y sus hijas gemelas de 4 años (los tres sobrevivieron).
La muerte de Tapia fue confirmada por el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de su país.
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Tapia iba a tomar un vuelo a Nueva York, donde iba a encontrarse con sus hermanas, y planeaba regresar a Perú este año, antes de abrir un restaurante peruano en Bruselas.
El hermano de la víctima, Fernando Tapia Coral, dijo en una entrevista que el marido se salvó porque salió con sus hijas del área de la explosión poco tiempo antes que ocurriera y luego no pudo encontrar a su esposa.
El hombre quedó herido, una de las niñas recibió heridas de esquirlas en un brazo y la otra salió ilesa.
En Facebook, el hermano de Tapia calificó la muerte de su hermana como algo “incomprensible“.
“Es muy complicado describir el dolor que estamos sintiendo en casa, pero como el hermano mayor, sé que tengo que hacerlo”, escribió en su cuenta.
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La peruana estaba en el aeropuerto con su esposo y sus hijas, pero a ellos no les pasó nada.
“Es difícil entender la forma en la que el destino arrebata la vida de un ser querido, pero incluso más incomprensible es no ser capaz de estar cerca de ella en la tragedia”, agregó.
“Descansa en paz, hermanita y fuerza a todos aquellos que te conocieron. Nos costará mucho asimilar que no te veremos más en la corta vida que tuviste”.
Tapia dijo que su hermana iba a tomar un vuelo a Nueva York, donde iba a encontrarse con sus hermanas, y que planeaba regresar a Perú este año, antes de abrir un restaurante peruano en Bruselas.
Adelma llevaba nueve años viviendo en Bélgica y se había casado hace casi 8 años con un ciudadano de este país.
Sebastien Bellin, 37, herido
El ministerio de Salud de Bélgica dijo a la BBC que, hasta el momento hay más de 250 heridos.
Una de las primeras imágenes que circuló de estos afectados fue la de Sebastien Bellin, que también estaba en el aeropuerto de Bruselas al momento de los ataques.
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La víctima Sebastien Bellin se quedó cerca de una hora en el suelo del aeropuerto de Bruselas y perdió mucha sangre, pero ya se encuentra estable.
Bellin, es un jugador profesional de baloncesto de origen brasileño y que llegó a ser seleccionado con Bélgica, fue fotografiado con sangre alrededor de su pierna.
Una de las explosiones lo lanzó dos metros por el aire y le provocó heridas en su pierna izquierda y su cadera derecha, según su padre, Jean Bellin.
Jean, que vive en California, se dio cuenta de que su hijo había estado en los ataques cuando vio su foto circulando en internet.
“Mi hijo está bien, considerando las circunstancias”, le dijo Jean a CNN. “Tuvo su primera cirugía hoy. Como se quedó cerca de una hora en el suelo del aeropuerto de Bruselas, perdió mucha sangre“.
“Lo estabilizaron y ahora va a pasar por otra operación. Hablé con él dos veces. Está evidentemente afectado”, agregó.
Misioneros mormones, heridos
Cuatro misioneros mormones quedaron heridos en el aeropuerto, dijo su iglesia.
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Mason Wells, de la izquierda, estuvo también en los atentados de Boston y París.
Tres de ellos están grave. Uno de ellos, Mason Wells, de 19 años, ya había sido testigo de otros ataques: en 2013, estuvo a solo una cuadra de la explosión en Boston, y el año pasado estuvo en París en los atentados de noviembre.
Los dos otros misioneros, originarios de Utah, Estados Unidos –Richard Norby, de 66 años, y Joseph Empey, de 20- fueron heridos seriamente, dijeron voceros de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días.
Una cuarta mormona, Fanny Clain, sufrió heridas menores.
El padre de Wells, Chad Wells, dijo que su hijo estaba mareado y cansado después de una cirugía, pero bien.
“Creo que esto lo hará una persona más fuerte… Quizá la experiencia de Boston estuvo ahí para ayudarlo a superar esta experiencia”.
El misionero Empey fue atendido por quemaduras de segundo grado en sus manos, rostro y cabeza, dijeron sus padres Court y Amber Empey en un comunicado. También fue operado por heridas causadas por esquirlas en sus piernas.
“Hemos estado en contacto con él y él está agradecido y de buen ánimo”, dijo la familia.
Más heridos
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La policía belga busca a este sujeto, uno de los tres sospechosos de los ataques en Bruselas.
El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Ecuador, Guillaume Long, confirmó en su cuenta de la red social Twitter que otro de los heridos es Jimmy Ernesto Montenegro Rosero también quedó herido de gravedad en Maalbeek
Dos trabajadores de cabina de Jet Airways, una aerolínea india, quedaron heridos en el aeropuerto, según el New York Times.
Radio Caracol, de Colombia, informó que Carlos Felipe Duque Gómez, de 42 años, fue otro de los afectados.
Duque, ingeniero y residente de Bogotá, llevaba una semana en la capital belga por motivos laborales.
Este se encontraba en el aeropuerto y quedó con un brazo fracturado y quemaduras en el rostro, según su hermano, Juan David Duque Gómez.
Otro colombiano, Mauricio Villegas, estaba con Duque en el aeropouerto y también sufrió heridas.
David Dixon, 51, desaparecido
David Dixon, un programador británico de Nottingham, ha estado desaparecido desde los ataques. Dixon solía viajar en el metro de la capital belga, pero el martes no llegó a trabajar.
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David Dixon, desaparecido desde el martes, tiene un hijo de siete años.
Sus parientes y familiares no han podido ubicarlo. Se piensa que es el único británico que todavía está desaparecido, ya que se sabe que otros cuatro quedaron heridos.
La pareja de Dixon, Charlotte Sutcliffe, que también vive en Bruselas, ha estado recorriendo hospitales con la esperanza de encontrarlo, dijo Simon Hartley-Jones, un amigo de ambos a la BBC.
Hartley-Jones dijo que la pareja había vivido en Bruselas por casi 10 años y que tienen un hijo de siete años. Todavía tienen una casa en Nottingham y regresan regularmente, agregó.
Describió a Dixon, originario de Hartlepool, como un “un hombre increíble que ama profundamente a su hijo”. El hijo se estaba quedando con amigos y no sabía que su papá estaba desaparecido, añadió.
La hermana de Sutcliffe, Marie, planea viajar a Bruselas para ayudar con la búsqueda, Dijo a la BBC: “No todo el mundo ha sido identificado todavía entre los heridos, así que solo hay que esperar, aunque que es muy angustiante”.
Sabrina Fazal, 24, desaparecida
Los amigos de Sabrina Fazal, una estudiante belga de enfermería, dicen que estaba en el metro cuando los terroristas atacaron y no han podido comunicarse con ella desde entonces.
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El teléfono de Fazal fu encontrado cerca a la estación de metro Maalbeek, pero no dentro, por lo que sus familiares piensan que puede estar herida.
Ella tiene un niño de un año llamado Heyden, que se está quedando con su abuela. La pareja de Fazal, Jonathan Selemani, la ha buscado en los hospitales de Bruselas con ayuda de un amigo.
Este amigo dijo a la BBC que el teléfono de la mujer fue encontrado cerca de la estación de metro Maalbeek, pero no dentro. “Pensamos que puede estar herida”.
Otro amigo de Fazal dijo a la BBC que la joven tiene un hijo de apenas un año.
Raghavendran Ganesan, desaparecido
Raghaven Ganesa, un empleado de la empresa tecnológica india Infosys, está desaparecido según su compañía.
El hermano de Ganesan, que normalmente vive Bombay pero se encuentra en Alemania, le dijo a la BBC que no han podido contactarlo desde la mañana del martes.
“Hablamos con él por última vez a las 8:55 am. Desde ahí no hemos podido contactarlo. Sus amigos lo han buscado en todos los hospitales de la ciudad. Pero tenemos esparanzas”.
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La familia de Raghavendran habló con él por última vez el martes a las 8:55 a.m.
Hermanos de Nueva York
La mañana de los ataques, dos hermanos de Nueva York, Sascha y Alexander Pinczowski, estaban en el aeropuerto hablando por teléfono con parientes, cuando la llamada se cortó.
La familia dice que no ha podido contactarlos desde entonces.
Amigos de Aline Bastin, una mujer belga de 29 años, han pedido información por Facebook. “Probablemente estaba en el metro durante los ataques. Estamos buscándola desesperadamente”, escribió uno de ellos.
Olivier Delespesse está desaparecido después de viajar como todos los días a través de la estación Maalbeek. “No tenemos ninguna noticia de un amigo que va a Maalbeek”, escribió un conocido de Delespesse.
La información de otros muertos o heridos sigue siendo limitada.
La modelo se dejó ver durante un concierto acompañada de un integrante de Combate.
Luego de anunciar su rompimiento con Sebastián Lizarzaburu, la guapa Vania Bludau se dejó ver, durante un concierto, acompañada de un integrante de Combate.
La revista Magaly TeVe publicó unas fotografías de la modelo junto a Hugo García. En una de ellas se les ve tomados de la mano, despertando rumores de un posible romance.
Según la mencionada revista, Vania aclaró que Hugo, de 21 años, es solo su amigo.
Como se recuerda, la integrante de “Calle 7” descartó reconciliación con el popular “hombre roca” y dijo que si los vuelven a captar juntos, será por cuestiones de trabajo.
Maputo — The European Union election observation mission, which observed the 16 October general elections in Mozambique, has accused the publicly owned television channel TVM, and the pro-government daily “Noticias” of serious bias in their coverage.
The final report from the EU mission carries an analysis of press coverage of the election campaign, concluding that TVM’s reporting on the campaign was “clearly tendentious” in favour of the presidential candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, Filipe Nyusi. 64 per cent of TVM’s presidential campaign coverage was devoted to Nyusi, 19 per cent to Daviz Simango, candidate of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), and 17 per cent to Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo.
The TVM coverage of the political parties was also unbalanced – 56 per cent of the time went to Frelimo, 22 per cent to Renamo, 17 per cent to the MDM and five per cent to minor parties.
The imbalance was truly startling when it came to TVM panel discussions – overwhelmingly the guests TVM chose to invite were pro-Frelimo, and hostile to both opposition parties. The EU Mission report divided the tone used in these talk shows into positive, negative and neutral. It found that all the mentions of Nyusi were positive, while nothing positive was said about the other two candidates.
80 per cent of the mentions of Dhlakama in these programmes were negative and 20 per cent neutral. For Simango, the TVM panels were unrelentingly hostile, with 100 per cent negative mentions.
As for “Noticias”, the EU report found that 60 per cent of its presidential coverage went to Nyusi, 23 per cent to Dhlakama and 17 per cent to Simango. For the parties, 60 per cent of the coverage went to Frelimo, 14 per cent to the MDM, 12 per cent to Renamo and an astounding 14 per cent to the gaggle of 27 minor parties most of whom ran no campaign at all.
The report found Radio Mozambique and the main independent media group, SOICO, much fairer in their coverage. Thus in the presidential campaign, 39 per cent of the Radio’s coverage went to Nyusi, 33 per cent to Dhlakama and 28 per cent to Simango. But Nyusi was always the first candidate mentioned in the radio newscasts.
The EU mission thought that the radio’s coverage of the parties was also “reasonably balanced” – although Frelimo took 47 per cent of the time, compared with 23 per cent each for Renamo and the MDM and seven per cent for others.
The SOICO television channel, STV, was clearly making a serious attempt at balance.
The Report found that 41 per cent of its presidential campaign coverage went to Nyusi, 32 per cent to Simango and 27 per cent to Dhlakama. As for the parties, STV gave 37 per cent of the time to Frelimo, 33 per cent to Renamo, 28 per cent to the MDM and two per cent to the minor parties.
The coverage by the SOICO daily paper, “O Pais”, came close to equality between the three presidential candidates: Simango received somewhat more coverage than either of his opponents, with 37 per cent, compared to 33 per cent for Nyusi and 30 per cent for Dhlakama.
As for the parties, “O Pais” gave 39 per cent to Renamo, 38 per cent to Frelimo, 16 per cent to the MDM, and seven per cent to the most serious of the minor parties, the PDD (Party for Peace, Democracy and Development).
Twice in just a few hours Saturday, President Trump and his representatives offered textbook examples of the fog-making rhetorical response known as the non-denial denial.
Asked during a Fox News interview whether he was a Russian agent (as the FBI suspected, according to a blockbuster New York Times story), Trump harrumphed, “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written, and if you read the article you’ll see that they found absolutely nothing.” (Trump gave a more direct denial on Monday.)
A few hours earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had this reply to a Washington Post article that found that Trump had concealed notes of his meetings with Russian president Vladimir Putin from even his closest advisers: “The Washington Post story is so outrageously inaccurate it doesn’t even warrant a response. The liberal media has wasted two years trying to manufacture a fake collusion scandal instead of reporting the fact that unlike President Obama, who let Russia and other foreign adversaries push America around, President Trump has actually been tough on Russia.”
Like all non-denial denials, both responses were forceful, even emotional in tone. But neither really answered the question.
That’s exactly how a non-denial denial (or NDD, if you will) is supposed to work. It suggests the speaker is responding forthrightly, without really confirming or rejecting the claim.
NDDs aren’t technically lies, but they are evasive and obfuscating. By seeming to dispute a statement without actually doing so, an NDD can raise doubts about the veracity of a damning statement. They have the added benefit of letting the non-denial denier off the hook if and when more facts emerge that confirm the original report. The denier, after all, never actually said the initial report was wrong, so he or she can’t be called on a blatant lie later.
Sarah Sanders, above, in December, issued a “non-denial denial” in response to a Washington Post inquiry over the weekend. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In addition to their many inaccurate, misleading and baseless statements, Trump and his representatives have been frequent practitioners of the NDD:
●When The Post reported that Trump had told lawmakers in a private meeting last January that he opposed admitting more immigrants from “shithole countries,” White House spokesman Raj Shah issued a statement that neither denied nor confirmed the comment. “Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation,” Shah said.
●Following news reports that Trump intended to replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with John Bolton in March, Sanders tweeted, “Just spoke to Potus and Gen. H.R. McMaster. Contrary to reports, they have a good working relationship. There are no changes at the NSC.” There weren’t then; Bolton replaced McMaster four days later.
●McMaster himself provided non-denial cover for the White House after The Post reported last year that Trump had leaked details of a classified operation against the Islamic State during an Oval Office meeting with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. “The story that came out tonight, as reported, is false,” he said, adding, “At no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known.” But the story never said Trump disclosed nonpublic military operations or discussed “intelligence sources or methods.” McMaster’s statement never cited anything specific in the story that was false.
The “non-denial denial” phrase itself appears to have entered the lexicon during the Watergate era of the mid-1970s.
Several sources credit the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee with coining it in reaction to statements made by President Nixon and his spokesman about The Post’s reporting.
“As best as I can recall, Bradlee was the first to use the ‘non-denial denial’ language,” said Bob Woodward, who along with Carl Bernstein reported those stories.
At one point, Woodward said, the White House said The Post’s sources were a “fountain of misinformation,” but did not specifically challenge the reported facts. “I recall when I first heard [the phrase], I thought, ‘Ah, Bradlee was giving language to precisely what was happening.’ ”
Woodward said the most artful NDDs are issued with “such force, language and outrage that it sounds like a real denial.” What’s more, as with Trump, the Nixon White House mixed non-denials with outright denials, creating the impression that his administration was actually denying everything.
The Trump White House pushed back on Woodward’s most recent book, “Fear,” with its own nonspecific NDD regarding the book’s many anecdotes about infighting and chaos among Trump’s top officials. In a statement upon the book’s release in September, Sanders said, “This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the President look bad.” (Trump and former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly did, however, issue more specific denials).
As a rhetorical device, NDDs are an updated version of the “red herring” fallacy, the notion that an irrelevant topic is introduced in an argument to divert attention from the original issue, said Edward Schiappa, a professor of comparative media studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In other words, he said, “it’s just another in a long line of strategies of evasion.”
Trump isn’t unique in this, said Dana L. Cloud, a communication and rhetorical studies professor at Syracuse University. “One need only think of Bill Clinton’s reductionist use of a definitional argument when claiming that he did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky,” she said. “It is not a set of tactics unique to Trump or any particular political party.”
But Trump’s NDD’s tend to fit a pattern, said Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M who specializes in American political discourse. His strategy typically involves a combination of denying knowledge of an accusation; denying associating with the people allegedly involved; asking what the victim did to deserve his or her fate; and accusing his accusers, “which is an appeal to hypocrisy.”
As such, Trump’s non-denial denials are different in kind and manner than earlier presidents, according to Rosa A. Eberly, a rhetoric professor at Penn State, because they assert “de facto negative evaluations” of most democratic institutions. “I don’t see [rhetoric of this kind] as an effective strategy for the long game of democracy,” she said.
Trump, Woodward said, “has taken the old Nixon strategy of making the issue the conduct of the press, not the conduct of the president, to new strategic heights. And some of it is working.”
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