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Según los testigos, antes de comenzar el ataque al hotel, uno o dos coches bomba estallaron.

Llegó a su fin el asalto en un hotel de Burkina Faso por supuestos atacantes islamismas que dejó al menos 20 muertos, según informó el gobierno este sábado.

Sin embargo algunos informes aseguran que en un hotel cercano continúan los enfrentamientos.

El ministro del Interior señaló que en total 126 personas fueron liberadas del Hotel Splendid en Uagadugú, la capital de la nación en el occidente de África.

Indicó que tres atacantes murieron durante la operación de las fuerzas de seguridad del país apoyadas por fuerzas especiales francesas.

El presidente de Francia, Francois Hollande, condenó el “detestable” ataque en la antigua colonia francesa.

La organización extremista Al Qaeda en el Maghreb Islámico (AQMI) declaró que llevó a cabo el ataque, según analistas.

Este mismo grupo realizó un ataque en noviembre pasado en un hotel en la capital de Mali, Bamako, que dejó 19 muertos.

Lea: Buscan a tres sospechosos del ataque en hotel en Mali

Los hombres armados y enmascarados entraron al conocido hotel el viernes tomando rehenes y haciendo explotar al menos un vehículo.

En respuesta, fuerzas de seguridad iniciaron un asalto para capturar a los atacantes y rescatar a los rehenes.

El grupo atacante respondió con disparos a las fuerzas de seguridad al ingresar al hotel, una parte del cual estalló en llamas.

Según testigos citados por medios locales, los atacantes hicieron explotar uno o dos coches antes de ingresar al edificio.

Al Qaeda

La organización SITE, que analiza las actividades de grupos yihadistas, indicó que AQMI está detrás del ataque.

pero afirma que los responsables son miembros del grupo Al Murabitoun, que está basado en el desierto del Sahara en el norte de Mali y está integrado por combatientes leales al veterano militante argelino Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

El mes pasado el grupo extremista anunció que se uniría a AQMI.

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Según testigos citados por medios locales, los atacantes hicieron estallar al menos un coche antes de ingresar al edificio.

Belmokhtar, un comandante que tiene un solo ojo que combatió contra las fuerzas soviéticas en Afganistán en los 1980, perteneció a AQMI pero se separó de la organización tras divisiones con los líderes.

El yihadista ha sido declarado muerto en numerosas ocasiones. La última vez fue tras un ataque aéreo de EE.UU. el 14 de junio en Libia. Pero su muerte no fue formalmente confirmada.

El hotel

El hotel Splendid es popular entre turistas y diplomáticos que viajan desde occidente y también es usado por el personal de Naciones Unidas.

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En los alrededores del hotel atacado se podía ver a miembros de los cuerpos de seguridad armados.

Un trabajador de un café cercano afirmó a la agencia France Presse que “varias personas” fueron asesinadas en el establecimiento hotelero.

Se sabe que un restaurante cercano también fue atacado.

“Todavía estamos en un contexto de fragilidad política, así que creo que el momento de este ataque es significativo”, le dijo a la BBC desde Uagadugú Cynthia Ohayon, analista de la organización International Crisis Group.

“El país tiene fronteras largas con Malí y Níger, y sabemos que hay grupos armados presentes en la frontera, por lo que esto se veía venir”, concluyó.

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MT- Noticias comunitarias 07.29.15

Vea la presentación final de Henry IV.

Henry IV de Shakespeare

Únase a la Compañía de Teatro Moose Hall para la presentación final de Henry IV como parte del Festival Shakespeare de Inwood en Inwood Park el sábado 1° de agosto a las 7 pm.‎ El festival fue concebido y desarrollado por Ted Minos y sus colaboradores como una manera de llevar teatro y música profesional gratuita a la comunidad del norte de Manhattan.

El espectáculo tendrá lugar en Inwood Park Peninsula en la calle 218 e Indian Road.

Para más información, por favor llame al 212.567.5255 o envíe un correo electrónico a mooselist@moosehallisf.org.

Little Red Riding Hood

Visite la Biblioteca de la calle 125 el miércoles 5 de agosto a las 4 pm para una presentación especial de Little Red Riding Hood.

Presentada por la productora Puppets to Go, esta versión actualizada ofrece un giro totalmente nuevo en el clásico en el que tanto el lobo como caperucita, aprenden algunas lecciones valiosas en el camino a casa de la abuela.

La Biblioteca de la calle 125 está situada en el No. 125 de la calle 224 este.

Para más información, por favor llame al212.534.5050. 

Vea la historia de la ciudad en esta exposición de la casa de muñecas.

Casas Stettheimer

Uno de los artefactos más populares del museo, la casa de muñecas de Carrie Walter Stettheimer, está ahora en exhibición en el Museo de la Ciudad de Nueva York. En esta exposición, la obra de Stettheimer entrelaza la moda y el estilo de Nueva York durante la era dorada en miniatura. Stettheimer trabajó en la casa de muñecas de 12 habitaciones por casi dos décadas, creando muchos de los muebles y las decoraciones a mano. Los estilos varían de habitación en habitación, sin embargo, los empapelados, los muebles y los accesorios son todos característicos del período posterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial en Nueva York.

El Museo de la Ciudad de Nueva York se encuentra en el No. 1220 de la Quinta avenida.

Para más información, por favor llame al 212.534.1672o visite www.mcny.org

El concierto tendrá lugar en el paseo del parque.

Concierto de jazz

Únase al Fideicomiso del Parque Fort Tryon, a Parques NYC y a la familia Michels en el concierto anual conmemorativo de jazz en honor al fallecido concejal Stan Michels, realizado por la empresaria teatral local Marjorie Eliot y su conjunto el sábado 1 de agosto de 1 a 4 pm. Michels representó al norte Manhattan en el Ayuntamiento durante 24 años, de 1978 a 2001. Fue presidente de la Comisión de Protección del Medio Ambiente y defensor de parques, asignando más de $50 millones de dólares para mejoras en los parques de Washington Heights, Inwood y Harlem, incluyendo casi todos los parques infantiles en el distrito. El concierto tendrá lugar en el paseo, al costado del Jardín Heather con vistas al río Hudson.

Para más información, por favor llame al212.795.1388 o envíe un correo electrónico a info@forttryonparktrust.org.

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Defense minister rejects attempt by “subversive movement”

The events appear not to have triggered a broader military revolt. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino on Twitter rejected what he called an attempt by a “subversive movement” to generate “panic and terror.”

The ruling socialist party chief, Diosdado Cabello, said most of Caracas was calm and called on government supporters to amass at the presidential palace to defend Maduro from what he said was a U.S.-backed coup attempt. About a dozen government supporters, some of them brandishing firearms, gathered at the presidential palace, answered the call.

“It’s time to defend the revolution with arms,” Valentin Santana, head of a militant group, said in a video posted on social media as he brandished an automatic rifle.

Meanwhile, Guaidó said he would release a list of top commanders supporting the uprising in the coming hours.

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Por ese expediente, la ex mandataria denunció en julio del año pasado a Bonadio, a Stolbizer y a la abogada de la diputada, Silvina Martínez, por una supuesta connivencia entre ellos. Cristina Kirchner sostuvo que Bonadio le dio a la legisladora una planilla de movimientos bancarios, dólares, cajas de seguridad e integración de sociedades de su familia que había sido secuestrada en un procedimiento ordenado por el mismo juez en el estudio de Víctor Manzanares, histórico contador de los Kirchner, y que era reservada. Stolbizer dijo que obtuvo esa información en fuentes anónimas.

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    Morris said by spearheading innovative partnerships and leveraging resources from ASU, tribes and community organizations, she hopes that Inno-NATIONS will create a “collision community,” causing a ripple effect of economic change in tribal communities.

    The first collision takes place with the inaugural learning lab series, “Beyond Buckskin: Beyond Online” on March 1 followed by “Protection in All Directions: A Fashion & Resistance Awareness Event” on March 4. The latter will include discussions, multi-media discussions and a fashion show highlighting local Native American designers including Jared Yazzie of OxDX.

    Both events are free and take place at The Department in downtown Phoenix.

    Inno-NATIONS will also launch a three-day pilot cohort with approximately 20 Native American businesses starting in June.

    “Beyond Buckskin” features Jessica Metcalfe, a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Dartmouth graduate and entrepreneur, who grew a small online store into a successful boutique on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

    The store promotes and sells Native American-made couture, streetwear, jewelry, and accessories from more than 40 Native American and First Nations artist, employing tribe members from the Turtle Mountain community.

    ASU Now spoke to Metcalfe to discuss her work.

    Jessica Metcalfe

    Question: We’ve seen Native American fashion emerge and evolve. How did you get into the business?

    Answer: I was writing my master’s thesis in 2005 and my advisor at the time had told me about some research she had done, which looked at Native American fashion in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She had wondered if I was interested in picking up where her research left off. I looked into it and found that there were these breadcrumbs, little bits here in there, that something had been going on in the past 60-70 years, but hadn’t been looked at as a collective movement.

    Through my doctoral dissertation, what I discovered was that Native American fashion has gone through waves of acknowledgements by the broader public, but what we’re experiencing now is perhaps the biggest wave yet.

    You have designers like Patricia Michaels out at New York’s Style Fashion Week and the Native Fashion Now traveling exhibit touring the country, so there’s really a lot of exciting things happening lately. It’s coming from a collective movement. Designers basically grouping together to share costs but also to put together more events to cause a bigger ruckus.

    Q: How did you build your online store into a brick-and-mortar business?

    A: I first launched a blog in 2009 as an outlet for my dissertation research, and wanted to share it with more people and to also get more stories and experiences. My readers kept asking where could they see and buy these clothes? At that time, there wasn’t an easy way to access functions like a Native American Pow Wow or market in order to do that.

    I had established a rapport with designers through my research and writing. They saw what I was doing through the blog and then a question popped into my head. “How would you feel about creating a business together?” There were 11 initial designers who said they needed the space, and I worked with them to sell their goods online. We just now opened our design lab on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. We are creating a system where we can meet demand and maximize a need in Indian Country.

    We employ Native Americans from ages 15 to 22. There aren’t a whole lot of opportunities for people that age on the reservation. They either work at the grocery store or the gas station. One of them is interested in film and photography and so they run our photo shoots. Another person is interested in business entrepreneurship, and they get to see how an idea goes from concept to execution.

    Q: The subtext is that this isn’t just about fashion but, history, representation and cultural appropriation?

    A: Our clothing is just more than just objects. It’s about how the material was gathered, what the colors represent, what stories are being told and how does that tie into our value system. One of the things I often discuss is the Native American headdress. Our leaders wear them as a symbol of their leadership and the dedication to their communities. These stories are a way to share our culture with non-Natives and protect our legacy for future generations.

    Q: Why is it important for Native American businesses to branch out into other cultures?

    A: Native American people desperately need to diversify their economic opportunities on and off the reservations. Up until recently, people haven’t thought of fashion or art as a viable career path.

    A recent study conducted by First Peoples Fund that found a third of all Native American people are practicing or are potential artists. That is a huge resource we already have in Indian Country and we need to tap it and develop it, and push for Natives in various fields to look at themselves as entrepreneurs and launching businesses.

    Now, Native American people have an opportunity to make a positive impact in their local communities by reaching people through their art and sharing our culture with the rest of the world.

    Source Article from https://asunow.asu.edu/20170228-univision-arizona-asu-cronkite-school-partner-air-cronkite-noticias






    Más noticias








    18 Feb 2016 / 08:50 PM / / 2016-02-18

    Estas son las noticias más leídas en LAPRENSA.HN









    San Pedro Sula, Honduras

    No te pierdas por nada del mundo, un resumen de las noticias que han causado mayor impacto e interés para nuestros lectores de LAPRENSA.HN este jueves 18 de febrero.

    Honduras: Jorge Faraj gana la presidencia de la CCIC. Lea la noticia.

    Multimedia: Joven hondureña “poseída” dice que es el demonio. Mira el video.

    La joven de 15 años presentó comportamientos extraño después de regresar de una iglesia.

    Sucesos: Arrebatan a bebé de las manos de una madre en Tegucigalpa. Ingrese a la nota.

    Internacional: El duro mensaje del Papa Francisco a Donald Trump. Lea la noticia.

    Relatos: Hondureño narra cómo encontró el hombre de su vida en EUA. Conoce su historia.

    Salud: Honduras registra 16 mil casos del virus del Zika. Conozca las cifras.

    Tecnología: WhatsApp podría suspender tu cuenta si haces esto con tu chat. Entérate.

    Espectáculos: La alfombra magenta de Premios Lo Nuestro. Mira la fotogalería.

    Deportes: ¿Qué prefiere Cristiano, un penal o un tiro libre? Mira lo que respondió.

    Polémica: “Que Trump no se haga ilusiones de su estúpido muro” le dice Felipe Calderón a Trump. Conoce los detalles.

    Insólito: Graban la pelea de unos recién casados al salir de la iglesia. Mira la grabación.




    Diario La Prensa,Noticias virales,Videos virales,Hondureños,Donald Trump,Papa Francisco,Felipe Calderón,Noticias de Honduras,Joven hondureña poseida,









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    NASA

    The whole world is burning, The New York Times, CNN, and mainstream media outlets around the world have declared in recent days.

    The Amazon could soon “self-destruct” reports The Times. It would be “a nightmare scenario that could see much of the world’s largest rainforest erased from the earth,” writes Max Fisher who notes, “some scientists who study the Amazon ecosystem call it imminent.”

    “If enough [Amazon] rain forest is lost and can’t be restored, the area will become savanna, which doesn’t store as much carbon, meaning a reduction in the planet’s ‘lung capacity,’” reports The New York Times.

    It’s not just the Amazon, though. Africa, Siberia, and Indonesia are also apparently going up in smoke. Claims The New York Times, “in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame. Arctic regions in Siberia are burning at a historic pace.”

    Any reader of the New York Times and other mainstream media outlet would be forgiven for believing that fires globally are on the rise, but they aren’t.

    In reality, there was a whopping 25 percent decrease in the area burned from 2003 to 2019, according to NASA.

    Between 2003 and 2015, the area burned in Africa declined by an area the size of Texas (700,000 square kilometers or 270,000 square miles.

    And against the picture painted by celebrities and the mainstream media that fires around the world are caused by economic growth, the truth is the opposite: the amount of land being burned is declining thanks to development, including urbanization.

    That’s because the amount of land being converted into ranches and farms has been going down, not up, and because more of it is being done with machines than with fire.

    For the last 35 years, the world has been re-foresting, meaning new tree growth has exceeded deforestation. The area of the Earth covered with forest has increased by an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined.

    Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.

    Much of the re-forestation is occurring in deserts and tundra that had been barren, thanks to human-led reforestation initiatives, such as in China and Africa, and because of global warming. Warmer temperatures are what have allowed forests to grow in tundra.

    Mainstream journalists botched this story. They should have known about the decline in burning since scientists published a major study in Science in 2015.

    NASA promoted the Science article and wrote an update confirming a continuation of the decline in fires on August 20, 2019.

    And yet mainstream journalists have continued to push the apocalyptic framing in their coverage of fires in Amazon and Africa and attempted to link them to climate change.

    Consider how The New York Times misrepresented global fires earlier this week. “Their increase in severity and spread to places where fires were rarely previously seen is raising fears that climate change is exacerbating the danger,” wrote Kendra Pierre-Louis.

    But this is wrong. In truth, the climate-fire nexus brings good news: the decline in area burned has offset much of the risk of increased fire from global warming, according to Doug Morton, co-author of the 2015 Science study and a forest scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute.

    “When land use intensifies on savannas, fire is used less and less as a tool,” said Niels Andela of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “As soon as people invest in houses, crops, and livestock, they don’t want these fires close by anymore. The way of doing agriculture changes, the practices change, and fire disappears from the grassland landscape.”

    “Climate change has increased fire risk in many regions, but satellite burned area data show that human activity has effectively counterbalanced that climate risk, especially across the global tropics,” Morton said. “We’ve seen a substantial global decline over the satellite record, and the loss of fire has some really important implications for the Earth system.”

    “Regions with less fire saw a decrease in carbon monoxide emissions and an improvement in air quality during fire season,” notes NASA. “With less fire, savanna vegetation is increasing—taking up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”

    But you wouldn’t know it from the apocalyptic pronouncements of the New York Times, CNN, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rep., Alexandria Ocasio-CortezMadonna, Senator Bernie Sanders, French President Emmanuel Macron, Senator Kamala Harris who still spread and have not deleted their wrong photos and information they have spread about the Amazon.

    The New York Times‘ Kendra Pierre-Louis even repeats the “lungs of the world” myth in her August 28 story.

    Celebrities and the mainstream news media have advanced an apocalyptic narrative of fires in places like the Amazon as violent intrusions on nature. This picture is false.

    “Fire had been instrumental for millennia in maintaining healthy savannas, keeping shrubs and trees at bay and eliminating dead vegetation,” says the senior author of a major Science paper about the decline of fires, Jim Randerson of the University of California, Irvine.

    In truth, the decline in burning raises new challenges. “For fire-dependent ecosystems like savannas,” Morton said, “the challenge is to balance the need for frequent burning to maintain habitat for large mammals and to maintain biodiversity while protecting people’s property, air quality, and agriculture.”

    As for the myth that the Amazon is the “lungs of the Earth” providing “20% of the world’s oxygen,” it appears to have been invented by a Malthusian Cornell University scientist in 1966, according to the George Mason University environmental philosopher, Mark Sagoff.

    “In the 1960s, when ‘lungs of the earth’ was the big reason to save the rain forest,” Sagoff told me yesterday, “I got interested in it as a scientific question. I found no evidence that any tropical rainforest contributes to the net oxygen budget of the world.”

    Sagoff sent me a 1966 an article by Cornell University scientist LaMont C. Cole in the journal BioScience. In it, Cole claimed that, as a result of burning  fossil fuels, “the oxygen content of the atmosphere must start to decrease.”

    That claim was incorrect and debunked as early as 1970 by climatologist Wallace S. Broecker writing for Science in June 1970.

    “In almost all grocery lists of man’s environmental problems is found an item regarding oxygen supply,” wrote Broeker. “Fortunately for mankind, the supply is not vanishing as some have predicted.”

    Broeker wrote his article because the mainstream media had been spreading Cole’s myth. “Hopefully the popular press will bury the bogeyman it created,” Broecker said. 

    Sadly, it didn’t. Little wonder that public trust in the news media has been declining for many years and most Americans today say they do not trust it.

    The good news for the news media is that 69% of the public say that trust can be restored. A good start would be for CNN, The New York Times, and other media outlets to correct their inaccurate coverage, and start covering the Amazon and fires issue fairly and accurately.

    Source Article from https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/08/30/forget-the-hype-forest-fires-have-declined-25-since-2003-thanks-to-economic-growth/

    Motel 6 has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit that accused several Washington state locations of sharing personal guest information with U.S. immigration officials.

    The budget motel operator illegally shared the personal information of about 80,000 customers for more than two years, resulting in a “targeted” ICE investigation into guests with Latino-sounding names, the Washington state attorney general’s office announced Thursday.

    The office said operators at seven Washington locations had voluntarily shared their guest lists with ICE agents between February 2015 and September 2017, without requiring a warrant.

    “Each time Motel 6 released a guest list, it included the private information of every guest at the hotel without their knowledge or consent, violating their expectation of privacy,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office said in a statement. “The Motel 6 guest information disclosures led to significant harmful consequences, including the detention and deportation of many guests and the suffering of their families.”

    (Julie Dermansky/Corbis via Getty Images) Soap on sink at a Motel 6, a low cost budget hotel chain located in cities across the United States.

    Some guests were approached by ICE agents and detained at Motel 6 properties, while others were detained a few days after their hotel stay, according to the office.

    One man was taken into custody at a Seattle location, where he was staying for one night to wrap Christmas presents for his four children, officials said.

    “ICE agents approached him in the hotel’s parking lot, detained him and deported him some days later. His wife had to retrieve the presents and his other belongings from the Motel 6 after his arrest,” the attorney general’s office said. “The man was the sole provider for the household, and his wife is currently struggling to support their toddler and four other children.”

    Motel 6, which has more than 1,400 U.S. locations, admitted that at least six had shared personal guest information with ICE. Investigators later discovered that a seventh location had shared guest lists with ICE.

    The personal information released included customers’ names, driver’s license numbers, passport or green card information, room numbers, guest identification numbers, dates of birth and license plate numbers.

    Motel 6 and parent company, G6 Hospitality, acknowledged the settlement in a statement to ABC News late Sunday.

    “The safety and security of our guests, which includes protecting guest information, is our top priority, and we are pleased to be able to reach resolution in this matter,” a company spokesperson said. “As part of the agreement, Motel 6 will continue to enforce its guest privacy policy, which prohibits the sharing of guest information except in cases where a judicially enforceable warrant or subpoena is present, or local law requires this information.”

    The company said it implemented a system to ensure corporate oversight and compliance in cases where law enforcement requests are made.

    ABC News’ Christopher Donato contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://abcnews.go.com/US/motel-pay-12m-settle-lawsuit-sharing-guest-info/story?id=62239566

    Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said President Trump deserves credit for breaking the mold of U.S. foreign policy and trying to personally persuade North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to dismantle the Hermit Kingdom’s nuclear weapons program because it could yield historic possibilities.

    “His boldest move … is likely his personal efforts on the issue of North Korea. President Trump has, in fact, used the past year to place his imprint on a problem spanning more than six decades,” Christie wrote in his profile of Trump for Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2019.

    “The President believes that only personal diplomacy can solve this crisis. The President’s supreme confidence in his own ability to persuade others to make a deal is now the basis for American denuclearization policy toward North Korea,” he said.

    Trump has attended two summits with Kim in the past year. They met in Singapore in June 2018 and Vietnam in February, with neither ending in an agreement for North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program. Despite that, Christie said Trump’s approach could still work.

    “President Trump deserves great credit for daring to try to personally persuade Chairman Kim to join the family of nations. This approach holds the possibility for history–making changes on the Korean Peninsula to make us all safer,” he said.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chris-christie-dishes-on-trumps-boldest-move

    La lucha contra la difusión en internet de las llamadas fake news llega a una nueva fase. Facebook anunció la semana pasada un acuerdo con organizaciones de comprobación de datos. Tan pronto como un usuario marque una noticia como falsa, la red social la enviará para su comprobación a sus socios. La idea de combatir los rumores con enlaces a fuentes fiables no es nueva. Desde febrero de 2016 el portal alemán Hoaxmap lo hace con las noticias acerca de los refugiados. Su fundadora, Karolin Schwarz, nos cuenta por qué se difunden este tipo de noticias y cómo reconocerlas.

    Deutsche Welle: ¿Cómo surgió la idea de Hoaxmap?

    Karolin Shwarz: Durante mi trabajo como voluntaria en un campo de refugiados fui testigo casi a diario de los rumores infundados difundidos sobre ellos por la extrema derecha neonazi en internet. Pensé: ‘Tenemos que demostrar públicamente que los rumores y noticias falsas se utilizan conscientemente para envenenar el discurso político’. Queremos llamar la atención sobre la importancia de comprobar los hechos. Hasta la victoria de Trump no se le había prestado mucha atención.

    Karolin Schwarz, fundadora de hoaxmap.com, lucha contra la difusión de noticias falsas contra los refugiados.

    Los rumores y noticias falsas se difunden frecuentemente más que sus desmentidos. ¿Hay excepciones?

    Un ejemplo es el de la noticia de que un refugiado había robado en una tienda. El propietario, rápidamente, colgó un letrero en su negocio diciendo que el supuesto incidente no era cierto. Y lo publicó en las redes sociales. Su publicación se difundió más que la propia noticia. Pero casos como este son raros.

    Un estudio reciente muestra que la mayoría de los alemanes todavía apoya la política de acogida del gobierno, aunque una creciente minoría difunda esas noticias falsas.

    Es cierto. Y a la gente radicalizada es difícil convencerla con hechos. Viven en una realidad paralela en la que los medios tradicionales no cuentan. Ni siquiera necesitan Facebook para difundir su propaganda. Se informan en sus propias webs de extrema derecha, como el portal ruso VK.com, utilizado por muchos neonazis alemanes. Sus seguidores no se plantean la veracidad. Tratamos de llegar en cambio a quienes dudan de la credibilidad de una noticia o de una fuente.

    Una importante víctima fue Jürgen Kasek, jefe de Los Verdes en Sajonia.

    Sí, en julio pasado Pegida lo acusó a través de Facebook de estar detrás de un ataque a uno de sus miembros y difundió hasta su dirección. Hubo grupos de gente que fueron hasta su casa y lo amenazaron violentamente. También recibió 200 mensajes de odio en Facebook. Tras eso, la rama local de Pegida, que borró el mensaje inmediatamente, dijo que se abstendría de lanzar tales acusaciones. Pero el caso fue preocupante, porque muestra que un rumor propagado en cuestión de minutos puede fácilmente acabar con heridos.

    ¿Qué similitudes y diferencias ha visto entre Alemania y los Estados Unidos respecto a los rumores y noticias falsas?

    En ambos países hay páginas de extrema derecha, así como particulares, que difunden noticias falsas. En los dos países parece haber una parte importante de la población a la que no le importa lo más mínimo la verdad. Y a ambos lados del Atlántico hay políticos interesados en difundir esas noticias sin preocuparse en comprobarlas. Pero, al contrario de lo que pasa en Alemania, en Estados Unidos muchas veces se hace sólo para ganar dinero. Allí la práctica está más extendida, pero temo que aquí siga creciendo.

    Imagen extraída de hoaxmap.org donde muestra la distribución geográfica de las 435 noticias falsas localizadas por el portal desde febrero en Alemania.

    ¿Cómo se pueden desenmascarar mejor los rumores?

    En principio se debería cuestionar la veracidad de las historias que se oyen sobre algunas esquinas. La pregunta por detalles como la fuente de la información suele ser suficiente para exponer la falsedad de un rumor. También se deben cuestionar documentos sospechosos, como las cartas con las que, supuestamente, se pedía a los residentes dejar sus casas para los refugiados. Y lo mismo con las fotos, como las que los mostraban revolviendo en la ropa, como si de un saqueo se tratara. Se tiene la intención de dar la falsa impresión que ellos, los refugiados, no respetan el apoyo que se les presta.

    Karolin Schwarz estudió Antropología. Profesionalmente, ha trabajado durante siete años como Community Manager. Por Hoaxmap.org fue nominada este año para el premio Grimme Online.

    Source Article from http://www.dw.com/es/portal-alem%C3%A1n-busca-desenmascarar-noticias-falsas/a-36853486

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    La policía está investigando las causas de la muerte de Loalwa Braz.

    La cantante brasileña Loalwa Braz, vocalista del grupo Kaoma e intérprete de la famosa canción Chorando se foi (Llorando se fue) que hizo popular internacionalmente el baile de la lambada, apareció muerta este miércoles 19 de enero.

    Su cuerpo calcinado fue hallado en un vehículo cerca de su casa en Saquarema, a unos 100 kilómetros de Río de Janeiro, según medios locales.

    Braz tenía 63 años y la policía está investigando las causas de su muerte.

    Según la cadena O Globo, dos hombres fueron vistos cerca de su domicilio. Sin embargo, no hay evidencia de que estén relacionado con la muerte de Braz.

    La cantante nació en Río de Janeiro y cantaba desde los 13 años. Vivió en Francia hasta 1985 y luego volvió a Brasil, donde permaneció hasta ahora.

    Juicio por plagio

    El grupo Kaoma estaba formado por siete personas de origen francés y brasileño.

    En 1989 lanzaron Chorando se foi, que popularizó el género de la lambada, también conocido como el “baile prohibido”.

    La canción vendió millones de copias en todo el mundo.

    Sin embargo, el tema era un plagio de “Llorando se fue”, compuesta por los hermanos bolivianos Ulises y Gonzalo Hermosa en 1981 e interpretada por el grupo Los Kjarkas, también boliviano.

    En 1989, este último demandó a Kaoma en Francia por los derechos de la canción y el juicio terminó dos años después, con un fallo favorable para los bolivianos.

    Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-38682135

    via press release:

    NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

    “MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

    Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

    Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

     

    “‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

    “Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

    Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/