About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by “Havana syndrome”, the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the mysterious set of ailments that include migraines and dizziness.
Burns, tapped by Joe Biden as the first career diplomat to serve as CIA chief, said in a National Public Radio interview that he had bolstered his agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the syndrome and what is responsible.
He confirmed that among other steps, he had tapped a senior officer who once led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head a taskforce investigating the syndrome, and said he had tripled the size of the medical team involved in the investigation.
The agency also had shortened from eight weeks to two weeks the time that CIA-affiliated people must wait for admission to Walter Reed national military medical center, he said.
“It’s a profound obligation, I think, of any leader to take care of your people and that is what I am determined to do,” Burns told NPR in his first interview since becoming CIA director in March.
Havana syndrome, with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, migraines and memory lapses, is so named because it first was reported by US officials based in the US embassy in Cuba in 2016.
Burns noted that a US National Academy of Sciences panel in December found that a plausible theory was that “directed energy” beams caused the syndrome.
There was a “very strong possibility” that the syndrome was intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, he said, adding that he was withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation.
President Trump has finally stopped banging his head against “THE WALL” and turned his attention to our absurd asylum law, which has led to the near collapse of our whole immigration system, such that we ever had a “system.”
It’s going to come with a legal fight that the White House may very well lose, but it’s the fight the country needs. Even in defeat, there will be some success in just having elevated the issue so that people can see the wreckage at our southern border created by our immigration law’s gaping asylum hole.
The White House announced Monday that it was directing federal agencies to adjust how they manage asylum claims so that they can be adjudicated quicker and so that migrants flooding the system aren’t simply turned loose upon arrival to enjoy their stay.
The directives put a 180-day deadline on deciding asylum cases (they can currently last up to years); place fees on asylum applications (which are now free to whoever shows up and says the magic word); and withhold work permits from asylum applicants who did not enter the United States through a legal port of entry (i.e. illegal border crossers, which make up the vast majority of asylum claims).
Word got out south of the border a long time ago that anyone who wants to take their chances in America needs only to float 50 feet across the Rio Grande, hit the U.S. bank, and find a border agent to claim asylum. Chances of getting to stay are nearly 100% for those who bring children. So that’s what they do, putting children’s lives at risk in the process.
When I went to the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas border earlier this year, I watched what appeared to be a young mother, who was from Guatemala, and seven very young minors in her company. They sat on the side of the road, a few feet from the river that they had crossed, and waited for an agent to find them in order to claim asylum.
On the river bank, I looked to the other side and there were dozens of people, waiting their turn to make the crossing and do the same.
The system functions exactly as the law says it should. It’s broken for us, but it works very well for those gaming it.
The immigration legal backlog is at nearly 1 million cases, a number that will only increase without a policy fix. Trump’s directive is at least a look in the right direction.
Democrats in Congress and the ones running for the 2020 presidential nomination are all too happy to keep things the way they are. But it’s not clear that their voters want the same thing.
A new Washington Post poll found that 35% of Americans now say the border situation is in a “crisis,” an 11-point increase from January. That bump was seen across the board by party, but the biggest jump came from Democrats. In January, just 7% of that party’s voters said there was a crisis at the border. In the new poll, it’s 24%.
The asylum loophole is creating a crisis. The White House is doing the right thing by trying to close it.
La lucha incesante por encontrar aquellos seres queridos que una vez los grupos armados se llevaron y no se volvió a saber nada de ellos, volvió a sentirse ayer en el país al conmemorar el Día internacional de la desaparición forzada.
Madres, hombres y niños salieron a reclamarles a esos actores que devuelvan vivos a los que un día se llevaron, o en su defecto, que digan dónde fueron sepultados sus cuerpos para terminar con la incertidumbre de no saber dónde y por qué se los llevaron.
En la Fiscalía y la Unidad Nacional para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas (UAV) reposan denuncias sobre 45.630 personas de las cuales no hay noticia. Al llevarse a punto de comparación —y toda comparación es odiosa y más tratándose de las víctimas—, el número de desaparecidos equivale a llenar el estadio de fútbol de Medellín.
“Es duro uno tener que levantarse a diario y esperar a tener noticias de nuestros hijos. Uno guarda la esperanza de verlos vivo”, asegura Margarita Rondón, familiar de una víctima desparecida.
El tema de la desaparición debe ser un asunto primordial para el Estado, como lo aseveró al Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica el asesor de la oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas, Guillermo Fernández Maldonado: “no estamos hablando de algo que sucedió en el pasado, es algo que sigue sucediendo, y sobre lo que se debe estar pendiente en cuanto a prevención, investigación y sanción”.
ES NECESARIA LA REPARACIÓN
En datos suministrados por la UAV, el 2002 fue el año con mayor desapariciones. Desde entonces, se observa una disminución (se pasó de 14.094 víctimas entre directas e indirectas en 2002 a 127 registradas en 2014). Los departamentos más afectados son Antioquia (10.855 víctimas), Meta (3.122), Valle del Cauca (1.971), Cesar (1.865), Caquetá (1.812) y Putumayo (1.711).
“Desde el 2013, la Unidad para las Víctimas ha apoyado 45 acciones simbólicas de conmemoración dedicadas a las víctimas de desaparición forzada y sus familiares. El apoyo psicosocial es fundamental para el proceso de sanación y acompañamiento a los seres queridos”, explica Paula Gaviria, directora nacional de la Unidad para las Víctimas.
“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.
Por otro lado, la tarde del último miércoles el congresista Heriberto Benítez presentó nuevas evidencias para respaldar la tacha interpuesta contra la lideresa del partido naranja. En un DVD, el parlamentario entregó una grabación dónde Pedro Espadaro, congresista por Fuerza Popular, reconoce Marco Pichilingüe como el “coordinador provincial de dicha organización en el Callao“.
Rechazo
Artistas y diversos personajes reconocidos se pronunciaron en contra del citado fallo.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators descended on Washington and at hundreds of rallies across the United States on Saturday to demand that lawmakers pass legislation aimed at curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas elementary school.
In the nation’s capital, organizers with March for Our Lives (MFOL) estimated that 40,000 people assembled at the National Mall near the Washington Monument under occasional light rain. The gun safety group was founded by student survivors of the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school.
Courtney Haggerty, a 41-year-old research librarian from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, traveled to Washington with her 10-year-old daughter, Cate, and 7-year-old son, Graeme.
Haggerty said the December 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when a gunman killed 26 people, mostly six- and seven-year-olds, came one day after her daughter’s first birthday.
“It left me raw,” she said. “I can’t believe she’s going to be 11, and we’re still doing this.”
Kay Klein, a 65-year-old teacher trainer from Fairfax, Virginia, who retired earlier this month, said Americans should vote out politicians who refuse to take action in November’s midterm elections, when control of Congress will be at stake.
“If we truly care about children and about families, we need to vote,” she said.
‘ABSOLUTELY ABSURD’
A gunman in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, 10 days after another gunman murdered 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in a racist attack.
The shootings have added new urgency to the country’s ongoing debate over gun violence, though the prospects for federal legislation remain uncertain given staunch Republican opposition to any limits on firearms.
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A woman shouts as she holds a placard during a “March for our lives” rally for gun control in Parkland, Florida, U.S. June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
In recent weeks, a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators have vowed to hammer out a deal, though they have yet to reach an agreement. Their effort is focused on relatively modest changes, such as incentivizing states to pass “red flag” laws that allow authorities to keep guns from individuals deemed dangerous.
U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat who earlier this month urged Congress to ban assault weapons, expand background checks and implement other measures, said he supported Saturday’s protests. read more
“We are being murdered,” said X Gonzalez, a Parkland survivor and co-founder of MFOL, in an emotional speech alongside survivors of other mass shootings. “You, Congress, have done nothing to prevent it.”
Among other policies, MFOL has called for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns and a national licensing system, which would register gun owners.
Biden told reporters in Los Angeles that he had spoken several times with Senator Chris Murphy, who is leading the Senate talks, and that negotiators remained “mildly optimistic.”
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a sweeping set of gun safety measures, but the legislation has no chance of advancing in the Senate, where Republicans view gun limits as infringing upon the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Speakers at the Washington rally included David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and co-founder of MFOL; Becky Pringle and Randi Weingarten, the presidents of the two largest U.S. teachers unions; and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
Two high school students from the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland – Zena Phillip, 16, and Blain Sirak, 15 – said they had never joined a protest before but felt motivated after the shooting in Texas.
“Just knowing that there’s a possibility that can happen in my own school terrifies me,” Phillip said. “A lot of kids are getting numb to this to the point they feel hopeless.”
Sirak said she backed more gun restrictions and that the issue extended beyond mass shootings to the daily toll of gun violence.
“People are able to get military-grade guns in America,” she said. “It’s absolutely absurd.”
The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is deepening as Russian forces intensify their attacks, while food, water, heat and medicine grow increasingly scarce. Some 1.7 million Ukrainians are thought to have fled the fighting and the total could reach 5 million, the EU said.
“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.
A protester uses a shield to cover himself as he faces police in Hong Kong on Saturday.
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Defying a government ban, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the streets of Hong Kong on Saturday and clashed with police in one of the most dramatic and violent days of unrest since June when the protests began.
Perhaps the most striking image from Saturday’s protests has been that of a large fire, blazing across a street in a major shopping district. Protesters created a wall of barricades and set it ablaze.
Earlier on Saturday, police fired tear gas and used water cannons in their attempts to disperse protesters throwing objects and gasoline bombs at the main government headquarters. Protesters also reportedly gathered near the Hong Kong police headquarters.
Some of the protesters called their demonstration early on Saturday a “religious rally” — what NPR correspondent Emily Feng described as an attempt to evade the police restrictions around protests (Police still considered the event an illegal gathering.).
“Throughout the afternoon, protesters alternated between chanting for democratic elections and also singing religious songs,” Feng told NPR’s Weekend Edition. They said they were praying for peace — and also for “sinners.”
Saturday’s demonstrations came on the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s decision to continue vetting all candidates for Hong Kong’s chief executive position. That decision sparked the 2014 “Umbrella Revolution,” which consisted of months of mass pro-democracy protests but ultimately failed to secure direct elections for Hong Kong.
The past three months of protests in Hong Kong were triggered by legislation that would have allowed Hong Kong’s government to extradite people to China for certain crimes — a proposal that critics feared could be used to target outspoken critics of China.
Though Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, responded to protests by suspending the bill in mid-June, protesters continued to demonstrate because the bill has yet to be formally withdrawn. The activists have since expanded their list of demands to include calls for Lam’s resignation, direct elections, an inquiry into police tactics and the unconditional release of all arrested protesters.
Lam has refused or ignored the demands. On Tuesday, Lam said the government was looking into all “legal means to stop violence and chaos” in Hong Kong. This week, China sent additional troops to Hong Kong.
Demonstrators showed out despite that warning — because, as NPR’s Feng reported, “they’re furious at what they see as police brutality, and they’re further galvanized by a wave of arrests of prominent activists and politicians.”
On Thursday and Friday, police arrested three prominent activists — most notably, 22-year-old Joshua Wong, who leads the youth activist group Demosisto. Wong was released on bail and attended Saturday’s protests, NPR’s Feng reported. Three pro-democracy lawmakers were also arrested on Friday, according multiple media reports.
Police in Hong Kong have made over 900 arrests associated with this summer’s protests, but some see these targeted detentions as a shift in strategy. Man-kei Tam, director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, called the latest arrests and the ban on Saturday’s rally “scare tactics straight out of Beijing’s playbook.”
Though police have targeted high-profile activists and pro-democracy thinkers, the protest movement in Hong Kong remains a leaderless movement.
On Sunday, protesters plan to shut down transportation lines into the Hong Kong International Airport for the third time in three months. On Monday, a general strike is set to begin across universities and many other sectors.
“I think when the government go hard, we go hard,” said Isaac Cheng, a vice chairman of Demosisto. “We ask the government, please respond to the five demands as soon as possible. Otherwise, the people may be using some more radical ways or more hard ways to respond to the response of the government.”
Los colores del aeropuerto de Maiquetía son obra del artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Díez.
El aire en el aeropuerto que sirve a Caracas, Maiquetía, ahora tiene precio.
Son 127 bolívares, entre US$2 y US$20 dependiendo la tasa de cambio que se use, que cada pasajero debe pagar por su derecho a respirar aire acondicionado ozonificado.
El impuesto por respirar entró en vigor el 1º de julio, cuando el Instituto Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (IAIM) oficializó su proyecto de ozonificación para “proteger la salud de los pasajeros”.
Se trata de un valor más que los venezolanos tendrán que añadir a los ya costosos boletos que con mucho esfuerzo se encuentran, producto de una crisis económica que ha impactado fuertemente a las aerolíneas, la mayoría de las cuales han reducido sus frecuencias a Venezuela.
“Bioseguridad”
Según el IAIM, en mayo se instaló un servicio de ozonización para “la eliminación de contaminantes en el ambiente y protección de la salud”.
“Los usuarios con vuelos nacionales e internacionales, desde Maiquetía, deberán cancelar este arancel a su aerolínea al momento de chequearse”, dice un comunicado de la entidad aeroportuaria.
Y continúa: “Para este proyecto, la Gobernación del estado Vargas instaló un sistema de bioseguridad y ozonizado en los conductos de aire acondicionado del aeropuerto, lo cual consolida a Maiquetía como el primer aeropuerto de Suramérica y El Caribe en adoptar esta tecnología”.
Entre burlas y críticas
Todos los aeropuertos cobran diferentes impuestos, pero este es el primero en su especie en América Latina, y de ahí la sorpresa de muchos venezolanos al haber conocido la noticia.
Según fuentes del sector, el impuesto tiene como objetivo aliviar el impacto de la crisis.
Algunos, por supuesto, se tomaron la noticia con humor, como el comediante Laureano Márquez, que en una parodia de la Ley “decretó” que “los pasajeros que se nieguen a cancelar dicha tasa (…) deberán salir a las afueras de las instalaciones, agarrar bastante aire y contener el resuello mientras se encuentren en el interior de la terminal”.
Algo parecido acotó el blog de humor El Chigüire Bipolar, que en una parodia de noticia tituló “Aeropuerto de Maiquetía estrena robot que te pone de cabeza y te quita el dinero”.
Por su parte, la cuenta opositora de Twitter @VVperiodistas dijo que “pronto nos cobrarán impuesto por tragar ‘gas del bueno'”, en referencia a los gases lacrimógenos que las fuerzas oficiales usan para dispersar las protestas opositoras.
Crisis de las aerolíneas
Sin embargo, muchos otros recibieron la medida con indignación, pues la ven no solo como un impuesto “absurdo” que puede ser una fuente de corrupción, sino como una prueba de que el aeropuerto internacional más grande de Venezuela está corto de efectivo.
El mensaje del presentador y locutor Daniel Martínez en Twitter resume el pensamiento de muchos: “¿Me explican lo del ozono en Maiquetía? Los baños no tienen agua, el aire acondicionado se daña, hay perros callejeros adentro, pero ¿hay ozono?”
Y es que este aeropuerto, famoso por la obra de colores del artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Diez en el terminal internacional, también parece haberse visto impactado por la crisis que azota a las aerolíneas, pues la frecuencia de pasajeros, ha constatado BBC Mundo, es cada vez menor.
Fuentes del sector le dijeron a BBC Mundo que el objetivo del impuesto por respirar es aliviar el impacto de la crisis, pues la baja de frecuencia de las aerolíneas significa una reducción de los ingresos para el aeropuerto.
Por ejemplo, el recorte de los vuelos de American Airlines en un 80% significa que el aeropuerto pasará de recibir US$80 millones al año a US$10 millones, según Humberto Figuera, presidente de la Asociación de Líneas Aéreas de Venezuela.
A bench stands outside a scorched building as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2021.
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Out-of-control wildfires in northern California are burning homes and again forcing thousands to evacuate.
One of the biggest concerns remains the Dixie Fire, the second largest wildfire in the U.S. It has now burned some 322,000 acres, including much of the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville.
Until recently, the Dixie Fire had been burning in mostly remote wild lands. But that changed dramatically Wednesday as erratic winds sent the flames racing toward whole communities around the popular vacation enclave of Lake Almanor.
By late afternoon, an ominous emergency alert broke into local radio here warning all Greenville, Calif., residents to leave immediately.
“We lost Greenville tonight,” said U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa in an emotional video to his constituents posted to Facebook. “There’s just no words for how us in government haven’t been able to get the job done.”
Only a dramatic change in the weather will stop wildfires like this in an era of climate change. They’re also burning through dense, overgrown forests built up from a legacy of suppressing fires. The Dixie Fire is the latest to rage in this mostly rural part of the Sierra Nevada that’s been traumatized by huge and deadly wildfires since 2018.
Flames consume buildings as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Aug. 4, 2021.
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“It started at the same place the Camp Fire did, that’s all people needed to hear,” says Steve Crowder, the mayor of Paradise, Calif.
His community is still reeling from the Camp Fire in November of 2018, which killed 85 people and destroyed close to 19,000 structures. The Dixie Fire started in the same area, also likely due to downed power lines.
“It really is tough on people,” Crowder says. “It just brings back all kinds of memories.”
Paradise is actually pretty safe — for now
The huge, volcano-like plume of the Dixie Fire can be seen from out the back of Paradise town hall, though so far it’s burning away from it. But people who have moved back in, like Stephen Murray, know that could easily change. Paradise is about 15 miles as the crow flies from where the Dixie Fire started and is still burning.
“Last Thursday, I had my truck packed and I was ready to leave. Even though I rebuilt my home and all that, it’s not worth staying,” Murray says. He didn’t end up leaving for good though, for now. He’s been making a living as a contractor, clearing out debris from burnt out lots. But it’s so dry he can only operate machinery in the early morning due to the threat of sparks igniting more fires.
“Unfortunately the Dixie Fire has put me out of work for the last 20 days,” Murray says.
In the hot afternoon sun obscured by dense smoke, he looks nervously at his neighbor’s abandoned property, overgrown with dry brush.
But even if the Dixie Fire were to blow back this way, the irony is that Paradise today is actually pretty safe, for now. New power lines are being buried underground. Homes are being built to more fire resistant code. And most of the forests are gone because thousands of trees had to be removed.
“This is a safer community and quite honestly one of the safest in the Sierra,” says Jim Broshears, a longtime wildland fire chief who now runs the town’s emergency services.
Residents have their bags packed so they’re ready to leave if they have to
This is of little solace to the thousands of Camp Fire survivors who decided to leave Paradise and put their lives back together elsewhere.
Linda and Bob Oslin moved to a home about 30 minutes away from Paradise after losing everything in the Camp Fire. They were evacuated due to wildfires last summer and figure it’s only a matter of time before they’ll have to leave again.
They have suitcases packed and their essential documents are already in a pickup outside.
“I have my suitcase ready to go and I just live out of my suitcase,” Linda says. “This is our life from … May to December.”
The Oslins know this could soon be their life year round as wildfire “seasons” are now a relic of the cooler past.
“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.
Las oficinas de la agencia “Digital de Noticias Informantes en Red” del municipio veracruzano de San Andrés Tuxtla, que se encuentran a un costado del Palacio Municipal, fueron incendiadas por sujetos aún no identificados.
De acuerdo con la denuncia de los hechos presentada ante el Ministerio Público, la motoneta propiedad del reportero Edgar Alberto Pucheta Villegas, columnista y socio de esta casa editorial, fue arrastrada hasta el interior de las oficinas e incendiada.
El fuego que se originó la madrugada del viernes, afectó también a la financiera Más Kapital, la Constructora Raga y a antenas de grupo Pegaso (Telefónica Movistar), que tienen sus oficinas en el Edificio Calzada.
Pucheta Villegas, presentó una queja en la Comisión Estatal de Atención y Protección a Periodistas, cuyos funcionarios le acompañaron para la denuncia penal correspondiente.
La Fiscalía General del Estado, asignó Fiscal Segundo de la Unidad Integral, Luis Antonio Cárdenas Torres, para atender el caso y tomar la declaración de los posibles testigos.
El propio comunicador, lamentó que el ataque se haya registrado en las cercanías del Palacio Municipal y que los agentes de la Policía Municipal no hayan detectado nada sospechoso.
SAN FRANCISCO, 10 de abril.- La red social Facebook anunció que comenzará a penalizar páginas de figuras públicas, negocios y organizaciones que buscan que los lectores den click en sus vínculos engañándolos, como por ejemplo, al promocionar una fotogalería y enviar al lector a un sitio lleno de anuncios.
Estamos hacienda cambios para asegurar que el contenido no deseado no ahogue el contenido que la gente realmente quiere ver en Facebook de amigos y páginas que les importan”, escribió Facebook en su blog este jueves.
La red social dijo que la medida está destinada a tres tipos de abusos: invitaciones a dar likes, contenido que es republicado muchas veces, y vínculos engañosos.
Algunas publicaciones piden abiertamente que se compara el contenido para así aumentar su exposición, algo que ya no será permitido, según la red social.
Según Facebook, las páginas penalizadas verán disminuida la distribución de su contenido.
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