(CNN Español) – El virtual candidato republicano Donald Trump sigue dando que hablar, mientras la violencia continúa en Siria.
Para iniciar este viernes bien informado, estas son las noticias más destacadas que tenemos para ti:
1 – Entrevista CNN en Español: Fox vuelve a arremeter contra Trump. En una entrevista con CNN en Español, el expresidente mexicano Vicente Fox volvió a criticar duramente al virtual candidato republicano. “Va a morir políticamente por bocón”, dijo Fox.
2 – Ryan dice que no está listo para apoyar a Trump… y este no tarda en contestar: A Trump tampoco le van muy bien las cosas con miembros de su partido: el presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Paul Ryan, se convirtió en el miembro del Partido Republicano de más alto perfil en rechazar respaldar al magnate (al menos por el momento)… y la respuesta de este tampoco se hizo esperar.
3 – Una historia de solidaridad: La comunidad de refugiados sirios en Calgary, Canadá, se está organizando para ayudar a los residentes de Fort McMurray, en Alberta, que han perdido sus casas debido a un enorme incendio forestal. “La gente canadiense nos han ayudado mucho. Es nuestro turno”, dijeron.
4 – Siria: ataque aéreo sobre un campamento de refugiados. Al menos 28 personas, entre ellas muchas mujeres y niños, murieron en un ataque aéreo sobre un campamento en el norte de Siria.
5 – Crimen de honor: Una adolescente en Pakistán fue quemada viva en un llamado crimen de honor ordenado por un consejo tribal por presuntamente ayudar a una pareja a fugarse.
Wilbur Scoville ganhou um Doodle do Google com direito a um jogo que simula o ‘teste da escala quente’ de pimentas. Hoje, o Google celebra o nascimento do químico há 151 anos (1865-1942). Scoville, além de receber a homenagem desta sexta-feira (22), é conhecido por ter inventado um método de avaliação do nível de ardência de vários tipos de pimenta, a famosa Escala de Scoville, disponível abaixo em app.
O Doodle do Google, além de animado, é interativo. No jogo, os usuários devem fazer com que um sorvete acerte a pimenta para acabar com a ardência na boca de Scoville, após o químico prová-la. O leite, muito presente no sorvete, é um dos principais componentes neutralizadores do ardor da pimenta.
Doodle de Wilbur Scoville brinca com jogo que usa ‘teste da pimenta’ (Foto: (Foto: Reprodução/Google))
A cada degustação que Wilbur Scoville prova, uma pimenta diferente e as suas propriedades e curiosidades também são reveladas. Após terminar as “lutas”, que você pode ganhar (e aí desbloquear “novas pimentas” para enfrentar) ou perder (e fazer com que Scoville caia no chão com a boca “pelando”), um sistema de compartilhamento dos resultados do jogo nas redes sociais é exibido.
O Doodle foi produzido pela artista e doodler do Google Olivia Huynh. Para a designer, a melhor parte do trabalho foi desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville. “O conceito de picante é universal, cômico, e foi o que tentei usar para criar esse jogo de luta”, explica Huynh, em post do Google.
“Fiz storyboards de como poderia ser, rascunhos e testamos um protótipo. Depois vieram os cenários e animações. Desenhar as pimentas e as reações de Scoville foram minhas partes favoritas”, conta.
Doodle também é informativo, detalhando tipos de pimentas (Foto: Reprodução/Google)
Escala de Scoville
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville nasceu em Bridgeport, nos Estados Unidos, em 22 de janeiro de 1865 e morreu em 10 de março de 1942. O trabalho do americano como farmacêutico é reconhecido mundialmente: criou o Teste Organoléptico de Scoville, que gerou a já conhecida Escala de Scoville.
Com este método, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville definiu o grau de pungência de vários tipos de pimenta, através da detecção da concentração de capsaicina, substância responsável pela ardência da pimenta.
O teste é um Procedimento de Diluição e Prova. Scoville misturava as pimentas puras com uma solução de água com açúcar, e quanto mais solução fosse necessária para diluir a pimenta, mais alta seria sua picância. Depois disso, o método foi melhorado e foram criadas as unidades de calor Scoville (Scoville Heat Units, ou SHU).
Doodle Wilbur Scoville (Foto: Reprodução/Google)
Uma xícara de pimenta que equivale a 1.000 xícaras de água é uma unidade na escala de Scoville. A substância Capsaicina, que gera a ardência nas pimentas, equivale a 15 milhões de unidades Scoville.
A pimenta mexicana Habanero chega a 300 mil, uma “Red Savina Habanero”, modificada, tem 577 mil, e a Tezpur indiana, 877 mil.
Entretanto, este não foi o único trabalho de Scoville. “The Art of Compounding” (A Arte dos Compostos), de 1895, é um de seus livros, que foi usado como referência na farmacologia até os anos 60.
Scoville também publicou um livro com centenas de fórmulas de perfumes e outras essências, que foi chamado de “Extract and Perfumes” (Extratos e perfumes).
Em 1922, Scoville recebeu o Prêmio Ebert, e em 1929 ganhou a sua Medalha de Honra Remington e o título de Doutor honoris causa em Ciências pela Universidade de Columbia. O pesquisador morreu no dia 10 de março de 1942, deixando mulher e dois filhos.
The governor’s race was one of several where candidates were waiting to concede until after the results were finalized.
New Jersey’s second most powerful lawmaker, Steve Sweeney, who lost his State Senate seat to a relatively unknown Republican candidate, Edward Durr, had not conceded the race as of Monday afternoon. The Associated Press called the race on Thursday morning, as Mr. Durr maintained a 2,298-vote lead over Mr. Sweeney with all precincts counted, and by the weekend it had become a punchline on “Saturday Night Live” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.”
At the heart of the delays were election technology used for the first time in New Jersey, enabling voters to cast ballots early, in person, over nine days.
The system used poll books that required an internet connection; in some cases, poll workers were confused by the new process. (At one polling location, for example, workers had not turned on the Wi-Fi router, an election lawyer said.)
Boards of election across the state also struggled to hire enough people to oversee Election Day voting, leading the state to offer an extra $100 to entice workers.
A spokeswoman for the secretary of state has maintained that the problems were not widespread, but they did lead to long lines at some polling sites, creating frustration that spilled out on Twitter. It also prompted a last-minute effort by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the state’s League of Women Voters to extend voting hours on Tuesday by 90 minutes. A judge rejected their request.
“We ask the Russian side to stop the shelling, return to the cease-fire and allow us to create humanitarian columns so that children, women and the elderly can leave,” she said. She also asked Russia to allow humanitarian aid such as food and critical medication like insulin to reach these cities.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday asserted once again that Moscow, despite ample evidence to the contrary, wasn’t targeting Ukraine’s civilian population and said that Kyiv was deliberately obstructing the evacuation to keep civilians hostage, according to Tass news agency. He added that Kyiv hasn’t yet indicated when Ukrainian representatives would meet the Russian delegation for the third round of cease-fire talks.
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Underlining the severity of the emergency, at least 1.25 million civilians have left Ukraine since Russia invaded 10 days ago, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, sparking what the agency called the largest humanitarian crisis Europe has seen since World War II. The majority have fled west to the European Union. Poland, which borders western Ukraine, had received 787,300 since Feb. 24, including more than 100,000 on Friday, Polish border guards said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. officials had forecast would lead to the capture of capital Kyiv within three days, has run into fierce Ukrainian resistance that caused large Russian losses in troops and equipment. Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday it was holding the line on most fronts and was beginning a counteroffensive. To make up for these setbacks, Russia has increasingly resorted to indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilian areas, particularly in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol.
Russia’s army “has shown its true nature of a terrorist and coward, which is able to attack only the civilian population,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said.
In Kherson, the only Ukrainian regional capital occupied by Russia during the conflict, large protests against occupation forces erupted Saturday on the city’s central square. The regional government building was draped in a huge Ukrainian flag, and flag-waving protesters chanted “shame” at Russian troops, some of whom opened fire in the air, trying to disperse the rally.
At some point, according to footage from the city broadcast on Ukrainian TV, a man climbed atop a Russian armored vehicle, triumphantly waving Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow banner as the vehicle tried to move through the city’s streets.
Kherson is a largely Russian-speaking city. One of the reasons that Russian President Vladimir Putin cited as his justification for the war on Ukraine was the alleged discrimination of Ukraine’s Russian speakers. Most of the Russian shelling that destroyed residential blocks has targeted civilians in the country’s Russian-speaking areas. ́
Ukrainian and Russian delegations would meet for the third round of cease-fire talks only if there is progress in implementing the humanitarian corridors and other agreements reached in prior sessions, a Ukrainian negotiator said. He didn’t expect a quick cease-fire, saying that Mr. Putin believes he is winning—a posture that he said wouldn’t change until the West bans the imports of Russian oil and gas. “We have no illusions here, we are sitting across the table from people who want to exterminate us,” the negotiator said.
Mariupol is a major industrial city and port on the Azov sea, home to some 400,000 people. Volnovakha is a much smaller town to the north. Both belong to Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which Russia no longer acknowledges as part of Ukraine after recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, a statelet Moscow created in one-third of that region in 2014.
The body of a teenager, fatally wounded by shelling, at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, this week.
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A building damaged by shelling this week in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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“Our main task has always been to protect our people. At a time when our hometown is under merciless fire by the occupiers, there is no choice but to allow its residents to leave Mariupol in safety,” the city’s mayor, Vadim Boychenko, said in a message to his constituents Saturday. He also thanked the city’s defenders for repelling nine days of Russian attacks.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s decision on Friday not to interfere in Russia’s air operations over Ukraine was a sign of weakness and division in the Western alliance that had “hypnotized itself” with fear of Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address. He spoke after NATO Secretary-General
Jens Stoltenberg
ruled out involving the alliance in combat operations in Ukraine because such a move could spark a full-scale war between NATO’s members and Russia, which possesses a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.
“All the people who die from this day forward will also die because of you,” Mr. Zelensky said, adding that NATO’s refusal to act had given Moscow a “green light” to bomb Ukrainian cities and villages.
Ukrainian forces patrolling this week in Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port.
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A Ukrainian serviceman taking a break while patrolling on the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday.
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Russia continued pounding residential areas in Kharkiv, Sumy and other Ukrainian cities on Saturday. A Russian shell hit railway cars in the town of Irpin west of Kyiv, making it impossible to evacuate local civilians by rail, local officials said. Heavy battles continued in the area.
One of the Ukrainian cease-fire negotiators, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, said at a news conference Friday in Lviv that Russia was seeking a diplomatic solution because it badly miscalculated the mood of the Ukrainian people. Moscow went to war thinking that only some 20% of Ukrainians are hostile to Russia, and the remaining 80% will welcome their Russian brothers with flowers, he said. In reality, he added, some 98% of Ukrainians are determined to fight the invasion.
In a sign of how Ukrainians are uniting against the Russian invaders, more than 66,000 Ukrainian men living abroad returned to the country to pick up arms since the war began, Mr. Reznikov, the defense minister, said.
Despite setbacks in the north, Russian forces made significant advances in southern Ukraine, fanning from the Crimean Peninsula to take Kherson, as well as the city of Enerhodar that houses Europe’s largest nuclear power station, and the Azov sea coastal cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol. Heavy combat continued overnight on the outskirts of Mykolayiv, a Black Sea city that is on the path to Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port. Russian officials say their military operation is proceeding as planned and achieving the desired results.
Russia drew widespread condemnation after its forces caused a fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Enerhodar before taking control of the area, according to local authorities and international observers. That sparked fears that Moscow’s increasingly indiscriminate war could cause a global environmental disaster. Another nuclear power plant is located near Mykolayiv.
Mr. Podolyak said Kyiv had offered Russia to mutually agree not to conduct combat operations in zones within 30 kilometers of nuclear reactors. Russia didn’t accept that proposal, he said.
Kyiv residents building fortifications on Friday in the capital.
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People waiting to board a train to the Polish border on Friday in Lviv, Ukraine.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in an interview with three European newspapers, called for the establishment of a system to ensure the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear-power plants and monitor radiation levels, adding that the Russian attack on the plant put the entire continent at risk.
The fire, extinguished Friday morning, erupted at the Zaporizhzhia power plant’s training facility, Ukraine’s emergency service said. None of the plant’s six reactors were affected and no radiation leaked, officials said. Both sides said Russian troops at the complex weren’t interfering with the plant’s Ukrainian staff.
The skirmish fanned fears of a repeat of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which sent a vast plume of radioactive steam encircling the world and rendered the region surrounding the plant uninhabitable. Russian forces seized the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, which sits near the Belarus border, on the first day of the war and have since then been holding the staff hostage, preventing shift rotations, Ukrainian authorities said.
The U.S. is rushing shipments of Javelin antitank and Stinger antiaircraft missiles to Ukraine via neighboring countries, including via an airfield in southeastern Poland, according to Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. McCaul is visiting Rzeszow, Poland, with seven other lawmakers in a delegation led by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.), the committee’s chairman.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was also visiting Rzeszow on Saturday, a week ago announced that the U.S. would provide up to $350 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including “lethal defensive assistance” to help Kyiv resist Russian armored and airborne forces.
NATO countries are trying to replenish Ukraine’s stock of weapons in advance of what some officials fear is an effort by Moscow to overrun all of Ukraine and seal its borders.
“Eventually Russia is going to take over the whole country,” Mr. McCaul said, citing one possible scenario for the war.
A senior U.S. defense official said Friday that since Feb. 26, the U.S. had delivered to Ukraine $240 million in weaponry taken from U.S. military stocks.
The administration is asking Congress to provide additional military support to Ukraine. The U.S. has been working closely with Britain, Canada, Lithuania and Poland to coordinate security assistance to Ukraine, the defense official added. All told, 14 countries are providing such security assistance to Ukraine.
Poco más de seis meses después de lanzar el app, la gigante de redes sociales decide suspender la aplicación fruto de una alianza con medios como CNN, FOX Sports, ‘Vogue’ y BuzzFeed.
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.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slams the Biden administration for working with tech companies to unconstitutionally censor COVID content
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Sunday accused the Biden administration of being “in bed with Big Tech,” making the argument that comments made by White House press secretary Jen Psaki last week have only strengthened former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing Facebook and Twitter of censorship.
“I kind of wonder if Jen Psaki is on the payroll of Donald Trump because her press conference strengthened President Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech,” Cruz said in an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “It makes clear that everything we thought about the Biden administration – about their willingness to trample on free speech, to trample on the Constitution, to use government power to silence you, everything we feared they might do, they are doing and worse. And I think that President Trump’s lawsuit got much, much stronger this week.”
As coronavirus cases are on the rise and vaccination rates have slowed in the U.S., the White House launched an effort to crack down on misinformation, starting with a warning from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy that bogus information about coronavirus is an “urgent threat” to public health.
The surgeon general’s office issued a new report titled, “Confronting Health Misinformation,” that makes recommendations for social media platforms to “impose clear consequences for accounts that repeatedly violate platform policies.”
Psaki doubled down on the administration’s relationship with Facebook on Friday and said it is “making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives,” and even added that if a user is banned from one platform “for providing misinformation” that user should be banned from all others.
“We don’t take anything down. We don’t block anything, Facebook, and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform,” Psaki said in defense of the relationship and reported this week that 12 people are to blame for 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.
Speaking with host Maria Bartiromo, Cruz posed a hypothetical situation, suggesting that what Biden is doing now to pressure Facebook to act would strike a more serious chord if, for example, the White House directed a private paramilitary organization to seize Americans’ guns – then signed a law granting that paramilitary group freedom from any civil liability for its actions.
Cruz explained that First Amendment protection apply to government censorship, but comments from the White House illustrate how private companies with a monopoly could also stamp out free speech.
“The Supreme Court has long recognized a line of cases when government uses a private company as a tool, as an arm to implement a government policy – in this instance, when government explicitly asks a private monopoly ‘censor the following speech we disagree with,’ that that private company can be treated as a state actor,” Cruz said.
President Joe Biden accused the tech companies of “killing people” by allowing misinformation to remain on their platforms, comments which drew a quick rebuke from Facebook.
“The White House is looking for scapegoats for missing their vaccine goals,” a Facebook spokesperson told NBC’s Dylan Byers.
Appearing on Fox News before his speech at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, Cruz further accused both the Democratic Party and Big Tech of being “in bed” with the Chinese Communist Party.
“Big Tech is in bed with the Chinese communists,” Cruz said. “Among the biggest funders of the Democratic Party are the giant corporations. And many of the giant corporations, the Fortune 50 and the Fortune 500, are in bed with the Chinese communists.”
His examples included Biden nominating Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his United Nations ambassador despite her making a speech at a Chinese-funded Confucius Institute event, the State Department reversing its policy to ban Taiwanese flags on U.S. government property to appease the Chinese government and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejecting a Green New Deal amendment that would have banned the purchase of electric cars from the region in China where the Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps.
Fox News’ Emma Colton, Marisa Schultz and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
“Nos declaramos en legítima rebeldía”, el video del capitán Caguaripano que se rebeló contra el gobierno de Maduro en Venezuela
Las autoridades de Venezuela buscan a 10 hombres que habrían participado en un ataque perpetrado la madrugada de este domingo contra una base del Ejército en Valencia, Carabobo, un estado del centro norte del país, fugándose con el armamento adquirido allí.
Así lo informó por televisión el presidente Nicolás Maduro, quien felicitó a la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (FANB) por haber retomado el control del Fuerte de Paramacay.
Maduro aseguró que el asalto, que comenzó a las 3:50 hora local, había sido obra de “20 mercenarios”.
Además, dijo que se saldó con dos asaltantes muertos, uno herido y siete detenidos, quienes según los medios locales fueron trasladados a Caracas.
“Entre las 5:00 y las 8:00 hubo combates internos (…) Hubo dos abatidos por el fuego leal a la patria, uno está herido. De estos 10 que quedaron, nueve son civiles y uno es un teniente desertor desde hace varios meses que ha sido capturado y está colaborando activamente”, explicó el mandatario.
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El ministro de Comunicaciones venezolano publicó esta foto en su Twitter.
Horas antes, el almirante Remigio Ceballos, jefe del Estado Mayor conjunto del Comando Estratégico Operacional de la Fuerza Armada, describió el incidente como “un ataque terrorista delictivo paramilitar”.
Por su parte, la FANB informó que la acción “fue ejecutada por un grupo de delincuentes civiles portando prendas militares y un primer teniente en situación de deserción”.
Pese a las detenciones, “parte del grupo logró sustraer algunas armas y está bajo intensa búsqueda“, en la que participa al menos un helicóptero. Además, varios vehículos militares están patrullando las calles de Valencia.
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Al menos un helicóptero participa en la operación de búsqueda de los huidos tras el ataque.
En un principio hubo manifestaciones en la ciudad en apoyo al incidente, pero fueron dispersadas con gas lacrimógeno, según contaron varios testigos.
“Legítima rebeldía”
Mientras, un video que circuló en las redes sociales mostraba a un grupo de hombres vestidos con uniformes militares que afirmaban haber lanzado un levantamiento “para restaurar la democracia” en Venezuela.
En el video del supuesto grupo alzado quien habla se identifica como capitán Juan Caguaripano, y dice ser el comandante de la Brigada 41 en Valencia, Carabobo.
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Caguaripano difundió un video en 2014 en el que protestó contra el gobierno de Maduro.
Afirma declararse en “legítima rebeldía (…) para desconocer la tiranía asesina de Nicolás Maduro”.
“Aclaramos que esto no es un golpe de Estado, es una acción cívica y militar para restablecer el orden constitucional, pero más aún para salvar al país de la destrucción total”.
En 2014, Caguaripano ya hizo un video en el que llamaba a los uniformados a “salvar el país”.
La FANB dijo en el comunicado que un “oficial subalterno” detenido en la operación fue separado del cargo hace tres años “por traición a la patria y rebelión”, por lo que huyó y recibió protección en Miami.
Según el comunicado, los detenidos confesaron haber sido contratados “por activistas de la extrema derecha venezolana en conexión con gobiernos extranjeros”.
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El hecho ocurre un día después de que la nueva Asamblea Constituyente retiró de su cargo a la fiscal Luisa Ortega.
El gobierno acusa a la oposición de estar conspirando para que se produzca una intervención extranjera en un país, que está bajo una grave crisis económica y política.
En el comunicado de la Fuerza Armada se califica el ataque de este domingo como un “show propagandístico, una entelequia, un paso desesperado que forma parte de los planes desestabilizadores”.
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Durante la jornada en Valencia se produjeron enfrentamientos entre manifestantes y fuerzas de seguridad.
Desde las 4:00 de la madrugada
El ataque que denunciaron las autoridades llega un día después de la primera sesión de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, el cuerpo con poderes absolutos controlado por el oficialismo y que la oposición y varios países extranjeros no reconocen, y tras más de cuatro meses de protestas antigubernamentales que han dejado más de 120 muertos.
La periodista Tibisay Romero, presente cerca del fuerte Paramacay, contó a BBC Mundo cómo estaba la situación a las afueras del complejo militar horas después del ataque.
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Los enfrentamientos se produjeron después del ataque a la base militar.
“Una tanqueta de la Guardia Nacional y detrás de ella un pelotón de guardias llegaron y dispararon gases lacrimógenos para dispersar a la gente que estaba concentrada y que gritaba ‘libertad'”, afirmó sobre un grupo de simpatizantes que se acercó al fuerte.
“Desde las 4:00 de la mañana están tirando tiros”, dijo a Romero una vecina del lugar que pidió no ser identificada. La señora afirmó que por su casa pasaron “muchas ambulancias” hacia el cercano complejo militar.
Durante la jornada en Valencia se produjeron enfrentamientos entre manifestantes y fuerzas de seguridad.
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El agente de policía Óscar Pérez aún sigue huido tras su ataque con un helicóptero en el centro de Caracas el 28 de junio.
No es el primer ataque de este tipo en Venezuela. El 28 de junio, Oscar Pérez, agente del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (CICPC), robó un helicóptero y realizó un ataque contra las sedes del Ministerio del Interior y del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) y desde entonces está en paradero desconocido.
The final missing victim in the Surfside condo collapse has been identified, bringing the death toll to 98, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Monday. The announcement comes days after authorities ended their search for bodies at the site and more than a month after the deadly collapse.
“Nothing we can say or do will bring back these 98 angels who left behind grieving families, beloved friends, loved ones across this community and across the world,” Levine Cava said at a press conference. “But we have done everything possible to bring closure to the families.”
While all of the victims who were reported missing have been identified, Levine Cava said the Miami-Dade Police Department is still searching the evidentiary pile “to ensure that all identifiable human remains are recovered.” In total, 242 people were accounted for, she said.
The 98th victim was identified by her family as 54-year-old Estelle Hedaya. Her brother, Ikey Hedaya, told CBS Miami that her remains will be flown to the family’s home in Midwood, Brooklyn, for a Jewish funeral followed by Shiva. Ikey said he had provided DNA samples and had visited the collapse site twice before his sister’s body was identified.
This June 1, 2021, photo provided by Liz Segel shows Estelle Hedaya at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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“She always mentioned God anytime she was struggling with anything,” he told The Associated Press. “She had reached a different level spiritually, which allowed her to excel in all other areas.”
Levine Cava’s announcement marks the end of a weekslong mission to find and identify the victims of the devastating incident, which took place in the early hours of June 24. Rescuers moved millions of pounds of the debris before declaring their search had ended on Friday.
The site of the collapse is now mostly flat. Most of the debris has been moved to a new area, where police are continuing to search through it for victims’ personal items, Levine Cava said.
Levine Cava said she has visited the area where searchers are now reviewing the debris, and described it as “very moving.”
“They are working hours upon hours in the sun, in the rain, and when they find something, it’s a treasure,” she said. “They are doing this with tremendous care and real hope that they can bring things to the family members.”
The Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks to remain in place last month, but it agreed to hear oral arguments on the law today.
The law, banning abortions often before a woman knows she is pregnant is in stark contrast to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability, which can occur at around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
In agreeing to hear the case under such an expedited time frame, the court said that it would focus specifically on the unusual way in which the Texas legislature crafted the law. It also said it will review whether the US Justice Department can challenge the law in court.
Texas officials are barred from enforcing it. Instead, private citizens — from anywhere in the country — can bring a civil suit against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the law.
In court papers, lawyers for the clinics have detailed the impact of the law on women in Texas.
In sworn declarations, abortion providers said the law has had a chilling effect because staff are “plagued by fear and instability” and “remain seriously concerned that even providing abortions in compliance with S.B. 8 will draw lawsuits from anti-abortion vigilantes or others seeking financial gain” under the law’s enforcement provision, which offers at least $10,000 in damages.
Providers in neighboring states said under oath that they have been overwhelmed with patients traveling from Texas seeking abortions. When Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas temporarily blocked the law earlier this month, he said that from the moment it went into effect, “women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution.”
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, however, stayed Pitman’s ruling, allowing the law to go back into effect.
Teachers and students will be back in school on Friday. Both the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) announced the deal.
“This has been a long journey,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted Wednesday. “Unfortunately, I think there’s a lot of harm that has been done to our young people.”
Five of the missed 11 days will be made up, according to City Hall.
Class size was a sticking point in the prolonged labor talks, and the city has committed $35 million annually to reduce student-teacher ratio in K-12 classrooms, the union said.
Chicago’s 360,000 public school students comprise the nation’s third largest school system, trailing only New York and Los Angeles.
The teachers union represents more than 25,000 teachers and support staff. Separately, 7,500 members of the Service Employees International Union Local 73 were also out on strike, but had reached a deal on Wednesday.
“We feel like we achieved a lot of things,” CTU President Jesse Sharkey told reporters. “There are some things we didn’t achieve, but it’s not a day for photo-ops and victory laps.”
Lightfoot invited Sharkey to make a joint announcement, but the union president declined in a sign of the lingering bad blood.
“Frankly, our members are still out there on picket lines,” Sharkey said.
“They don’t need to see me smiling with the mayor when in fact what they need to see is we have a tentative agreement, we have a return to work agreement.”
CORRECTION (Oct. 31, 2019, 6:05 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misspelled the first name of the president of the Chicago Teachers Union. He is Jesse Sharkey, not Jessee.
“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.
The change was caused, in part, by another strained trade relationship that developed under the Trump administration. The Port of Los Angeles’s top trading country is China, and the ongoing trade war between the two nations contributed to a 3 percent decline in trade through the California port in the first four months of 2019.
But some here worry that Mexico could eventually lose patience with the Trump administration’s trade tactics, souring the relationship.
The need for trade with Mexico is readily apparent to Ruben Norton, 36, who runs a sporting goods store with his father just blocks from the border checkpoint. Their business, first opened in 1947, is dependent on that cross-border commerce.
“Without Mexico, this place and Laredo is a ghost town,” Norton said, gesturing around his store. “With everything we’re doing, at what point do we jab them enough that Mexico just gives us the middle finger?”
The end of the tariff threat?
Friday’s announcement did not necessarily indicate the end of tensions.
The U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration states that the two countries would “continue their discussions on the terms of additional understandings to address irregular migrant flows and asylum issues, to be completed and announced within 90 days, if necessary.”
The New York Times reported Saturday that the two neighbors had come to this agreement months ago, leading to allegations the president had manufactured both the crisis and its conclusion.
A White House official confirmed to NBC News that Mexico had already agreed to send troops to its southern border and take U.S. asylum seekers as they wait for their legal cases in the U.S. to proceed, as The Times had reported. In the latest declaration, Mexico will send 600 more soldiers to its southern border and speed up its timeline for other portions of the agreement.
The official noted the White House planned to take a wait-and-see approach, leaving enough room to force another negotiation if the president finds Mexico’s actions ineffective.
The possibility of more negotiations and Trump’s tweet on Sunday that the United States “can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of Tariffs,” offers little comfort to the people of Laredo, where a level of fear and uncertainty continues to linger despite the relief some felt Friday night after the announcement.
“It’s great we don’t have them starting Monday. That’s awesome,” Gonzalez said. “No one has to worry about Monday. I don’t have to worry about Tuesday and Mexico retaliating. But what happens in 90 days? As we get closer, this administration seems to like to do things at the last minute. Every administration likes to do things different, but how do businesses plan for that? It causes chaos.”
This business community has already felt the squeeze of the Trump administration’s tariffs.
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Las diferencias entre Estados Unidos y Cuba en torno a los derechos humanos afloraron rápidamente en la conferencia de prensa.
“Dame la lista ahora mismo de los presos políticos para soltarlos. Menciónala ahora”.
Así respondió el presidente de Cuba, Raúl Castro, a una pregunta que le formuló un periodista durante la conferencia de prensa conjunta que ofreció este lunes en La Habana con el presidente Barack Obama, quien se encuentra realizando una histórica visita a la isla.
Castro, quien no suele hablar con la prensa nacional o internacional, lució visiblemente irritado por la sugerencia del reportero de la cadena CNN Jim Acosta de que en Cuba existen presos políticos.
“Si hay esos presos políticos, antes de que llegue la noche van a estar sueltos”, afirmó el mandatario.
Previamente, el propio Obama había respondido a una pregunta de Acosta, asegurando que él se había reunido en el pasado con cubanos que habían estado sujetos a detenciones arbitrarias.
¿Hay o no presos políticos?
Las declaraciones de Raúl Castro apuntan a uno de los principales temas en disputa entre Cuba y Estados Unidos: las supuestas violaciones de los derechos humanos que se dan en la isla y que denuncian Washington y relevantes organizaciones internacionales.
“Nos oponemos al doble rasero sobre los derechos humanos. Cuba tiene mucho que decir y mostrar en esta materia”, dijo Castro durante su declaración a la prensa, y afirmó que su gobierno defiende los derechos humanos y que “los derechos civiles, políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales son indivisibles, interdependientes y universales”.
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Es algo inédito que Raúl Castro responda preguntas de la prensa en Cuba.
El gobierno cubano insiste en que las personas que organizaciones de derechos humanos consideran presos de conciencia son “espías, terroristas o delincuentes comunes“, y muchas veces los llaman asalariados de Estados Unidos.
Mientras, organizaciones internacionales como Amnistía Internacional (AI) sostienen que el gobierno de La Habana se ampara en términos ambiguos para castigar a los disidentes.
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Integrantes de la organización opositora Damas de Blanco fueron arrestadas el domingo, horas antes de la llegada de Obama.
“Las leyes que tipificaban los ‘desórdenes públicos’, el ‘desacato’, la ‘falta de respeto’, la ‘peligrosidad’ y la ‘agresión’ se utilizaban para procesar o amenazar con procesar, por motivos políticos a opositores al gobierno”, indicó AI en un reciente informe sobre Cuba.
“Las personas críticas con el gobierno seguían siendo objeto de hostigamiento, ‘actos de repudio’ (manifestaciones encabezadas por simpatizantes del gobierno en las que participaban agentes de los servicios de seguridad del Estado)”, se señalaba.
Otro organismo supervisor de los derechos humanos, Human Rights Watch, denunció que entre enero y octubre de 2015 se produjeron 6.200 detenciones arbitrarias, o sea, arrestos breves fundamentalmente encaminados a impedir que los opositores se reúnan y organicen protestas.
Después de la conferencia de prensa de Obama y Castro de este lunes, Ben Rhodes, asesor de seguridad nacional de la Casa Blanca, dijo que Estados Unidos ha compartido con las autoridades cubanas varias listas de presos políticos en los últimos dos años y medio.
Pero según Rhodes, las autoridades de la isla responden que los prisioneros se encuentran detenidos por otros delitos.
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Elizardo Sánchez compila listas de presos políticos desde 1987 y están avalada por Human Rights Watch.
Elizardo Sánchez, presidente de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional, un organismo cubano de supervisión independiente que funciona desde hace décadas, ha compilado una lista de 89 personas presas actualmente por motivos políticos.
Entre ellas hay 11 de los condenados durante la llamada “Primavera Negra” de 2003, que hoy se encuentran bajo licencia extrapenal, pero sobre quienes pesan largas condenas.
En conversación con BBC Mundo, Sánchez mencionó también siete casos de personas residentes en el extranjero y condenadas a más de 20 años de cárcel sin derecho a libertad condicional por llegar a Cuba armados y con planes subversivos. En ninguno de los casos llevaron a cabo sus planes.
“Quizás este es un momento propicio para que el presidente Obama pida la liberación de los prisioneros”, aseguró Sánchez, quien está invitado este martes a una reunión con Obama.
Denuncian arrestos
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Rodiles, de 44 años, creó un grupo de debate llamado Estado de Sats.
Poco después de la conferencia de prensa, Antonio Rodiles, líder del grupo disidente cubano Estado de Sats, era arrestado en La Habana.
“Mi madre me contó que lo arrestaron violentamente hoy de nuevo alrededor de las 2:45 de la tarde, frente al hotel Copacabana, junto a su compañera Ailer González”, le dijo a BBC Mundo su hermana, Gladys Rodiles-Haney, quien reside en Estados Unidos.
Rodiles había sido arrestado brevemente el domingo luego de participar en una protesta pacífica en la calle y fue liberado en la noche.
“Está en marcha una verdadera oleada de represión política desde hace varios días”, aseguró Sánchez.
“Sólo esta tarde han sido detenidas una veintena de personas”, entre ellas Berta Soler, líder del grupo opositor Damas de Blanco y su esposo, Ángel Moya, quien pasó un tiempo preso.
“Obama debe hacer un mejor trabajo”
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Obama tiene previsto reunirse con disidentes el martes en La Habana. Algunos de los invitados estaban detenidos este martes.
Aunque la reacción de Castro a la pregunta sobre los derechos humanos atrapó la atención general, algunos observadores consideraron que el presidente Obama debió reaccionar más enérgicamente.
“Cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama le hable al pueblo cubano mañana, debe hacer un mejor trabajo para abordar los derechos humanos de lo que hizo en la conferencia de prensa de hoy”, comentó José Manuel Vivanco, director para el hemisferio occidental de la organización Human Rights Watch.
“Es hora de ir más allá de los principios abstractos y los específicos de conversación: las detenciones arbitrarias, los sitios web bloqueados, y las leyes utilizadas para castigar la disidencia”, agregó.
Tras las detenciones del martes, la presencia de algunos opositores en la reunión prevista con Obama el martes está en duda.
DORAL, Florida — Hace unas semanas empezó a correr un rumor entre la comunidad hispana del noreste de Miami por medio de mensajes de WhatsApp: agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas estaban subiendo a los migrantes indocumentados a unos autobuses para detenerlos. Parecía que había llegado la “fuerza de deportación” que prometió el presidente Donald Trump durante la campaña.
Eso despertó el miedo entre muchas personas que acudieron a la fuente de información en la que realmente confían: Univisión, la televisora en español que se ha dedicado a monitorear cómo Trump cumple con sus promesas de realizar deportaciones masivas.
Los periodistas de las oficinas centrales de Univisión salieron a las calles, llamaron a sus contactos y analizaron una fotografía del supuesto autobús del Servicio de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE, por su sigla en inglés). Descubrieron que no se estaba realizando una redada; la imagen era de 2014.
Univisión promovió en Facebook y Twitter publicaciones en las que desmentía el rumor; en su sitio web puso un artículo con más detalles y produjo un video para la televisión. Cuando surgió otro rumor en Los Ángeles, unos días después, volvió a hacer lo mismo.
Solo fue un día más de cobertura del gobierno de Trump para Univisión Noticias.
El guatemalteco José Zamora, quien creció bajo amenaza constante por el trabajo periodístico de su padre, es vicepresidente sénior de comunicaciones estratégicas. Credit
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Quizá hayan escuchado el argumento de que esta es una era dorada para el periodismo. En el caso estadounidense, The New York Times y The Washington Post compiten por primicias como si fuera la era de Nixon y Watergate; un público hambriento de información ha disparado las tasas de suscripción y de audiencia televisiva.
Pero esa historia no se puede contar por completo si no incluye a Univisión Noticias, uno de los ejemplos más claros de una organización noticiosa cuyo trabajo ha estado a la altura.
Es la principal fuente de noticias para los hispanos en Estados Unidos —tanto ciudadanos como no ciudadanos— y su audiencia tiene un interés casi existencial en las medidas impulsadas por el gobierno de Trump, debido a sus promesas de quitarle fondos federales a las llamadas ciudades santuario o la revocación del programa DAPA de Obama que protegería contra la deportación a los padres indocumentados de ciudadanos. La noche del 15 de junio, Univisión fue el primer medio en reportar que el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional eliminó DAPA.
Univisión Noticias tiene sus propios antecedentes con el presidente. El conductor mexicano Jorge Ramos fue el primer periodista expulsado de un evento de Trump durante la campaña después de una disputa verbal en una conferencia de prensa en 2015. Para ese entonces la empresa matriz del medio ya había tenido disputas con Trump por sus declaraciones de que México enviaba drogas, crimen y violadores a Estados Unidos (Univisión cesó el contrato para la transmisión de los desfiles de belleza de Trump, mientras este respondió con una demanda y una carta en la que decía que el personal de Univisión ya no puede ir a sus campos de golf).
El resultado de la elección estadounidense hizo que las apuestas fueran mayores.
David Maris, editor fotográfico en Univisión, huyó de Venezuela junto con su esposa, la periodista Tamoa Calzadilla, después de recibir amenazas de muerte. Credit
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“Por un lado, sabíamos que iba a tener un impacto terrible en la comunidad hispana en Estados Unidos”, dijo el colombiano Daniel Coronell, director de la División de Noticias, desde su oficina con vista a la redacción central.
Pero también se dieron cuenta de que las noticias para ellos ahora serían cuestión “de la supervivencia y permanencia de los miembros de la comunidad”. Univisión estaba lista para cumplir con el reto como quizá no lo habría estado hace unos años.
Coronell fue una de las primeras contrataciones del también colombiano Isaac Lee, que en 2010 fue nombrado como director general de Contenidos de Univisión —ahora con un dueño relativamente nuevo, un grupo encabezado por el inversor mediático y donante de campañas demócratas Haim Saban— con la instrucción de construir una redacción más grande y mejor.
En ese momento, la división de informativos dependía en buena medida de programas como “Noticiero Univisión”, con Ramos y María Elena Salinas como conductores, pero fuera de eso “no había reporteo; usaban cables e imágenes y así armaban el noticiero”, dijo Lee.
Primero puso en marcha unidades de investigación y documentales. Por su tiempo como periodista en Colombia, donde su trabajo vinculó a integrantes del Cartel de Cali con funcionarios de alto rango del gobierno y los forzó a renunciar, Lee sabía algo que sus competidores en Estados Unidos no: algunos de los reporteros más valientes habían sido marginados, empujados fuera de sus redacciones o de sus países natales por exponer verdades incómodas.
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Coronell, por ejemplo, huyó hacia Estados Unidos desde Colombia tras recibir amenazas de muerte muy detalladas en contra de su hija de seis años de edad. El vicepresidente sénior de Comunicaciones Estratégicas, José Zamora, se crió en Guatemala ante constantes amenazas por el trabajo de su padre, un periodista que reveló varios casos de corrupción gubernamental. Zamora siguió el ejemplo de su papá al incursionar en el periodismo, pero decidió que Estados Unidos sería un mejor lugar para criar a su hijo por una experiencia en 2003, cuando presuntas fuerzas de seguridad lo retuvieron a él, a sus padres y a sus hermanos durante varias horas. “Pensamos que nos iban a matar”, dijo Zamora.
La mayoría del talento nuevo que ha llegado a Univisión lo ha hecho desde Venezuela, donde el trato del gobierno de Nicolás Maduro hacia los medios y la compra de algunas empresas mediáticas por aliados del presidente ha puesto en peligro a varios reporteros o ha acallado su trabajo.
Entre el grupo están Tamoa Calzadilla, quien perdió su trabajo en Último Noticias tras acusar censura por reportar la muerte de manifestantes presuntamente a mano de las fuerzas de seguridad, y Nathalie Alvaray, quien dejó la misma organización por su frustración con esta.
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Sus contrataciones son parte del esfuerzo más reciente de expandir Univisión y reforzar su enfoque hacia un periodismo digital, bajo la dirección del exsubdirector de El País, Borja Echevarría.
Con un equipo que incluye a 75 personas contratadas durante los últimos dos años, Echevarría ha lanzado nuevas unidades para proyectos de investigaciones especiales, podcasts, periodismo de datos, video pensado para teléfonos móviles y gráficos.
Prácticamente todas las redacciones en las que se lleva a cabo la transición hacia lo digital han construido equipos similares con el fin de producir periodismo de nuevas maneras. Pero en Univisión el esfuerzo es impulsado por una urgencia respecto a su propósito como medio.
Una de sus publicaciones digitales más compartidas este año explica qué papeles deben tener siempre a la mano los migrantes tanto legales como irregulares en caso de redadas o detenciones.
Durante mi visita a la redacción, Almudena Toral, la directora de Video Digital, estaba editando un segmento —animado por un diseñador venezolano recién llegado— que, me explicó, buscaba responder a la pregunta: “¿Qué pasa si el ICE llega a mi casa?”.
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Unos cuantos escritorios después, el equipo de Periodismo de Datos estaba por terminar un análisis estadístico sobre la falta de representantes legales para las personas indocumentadas que se presentan ante jueces migratorios.
Luego estaba el equipo de Verificación de Información, el primero de su tipo que trabaja en español en Estados Unidos. No le ha faltado trabajo, conforme se esparcen falsedades sobre el tema migratorio incluso dentro de agencias del gobierno, como la aseveración de Trump de que votaron millones de indocumentados en noviembre pasado.
Es un ambiente al que muchos periodistas de Univisión dicen estar acostumbrados. Durante la campaña, cuando los partidarios de Trump le gritaban a reporteros que “Dijeran la verdad”, era como lo hacían los simpatizantes de Hugo Chávez, me contó el editor fotográfico David Maris. Lo mismo sucede ahora que Trump es presidente y tiende a atacar a los medios y a quienes trabajan en ellos.
“A cada investigación en Colombia o Guatemala o México”, me dijo Coronell, “le sigue el ‘Este periodista tiene su agenda propia, quiere afectar a mi gobierno’ o ‘Esas son noticias falsas’”.
“Muchos de nosotros ya vimos esta película, solo que estaba en español”.
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Coronell destacó que es importante defender la libertad de prensa y los derechos humanos tal como los reconoce la Constitución estadounidense.
“Es decisivo para nosotros que la gente conozca sus derechos y sus posibilidades”, dijo Coronell. “Y estamos trabajando todo el tiempo para usar herramientas de periodismo de investigación para darle a nuestra comunidad una mejor información”.
Es una comunidad muy expuesta a la desinformación, como los rumores sobre redadas, lo que implica que “la gente no sale de su casa para ir a hacer el súper o para llevar a sus hijos a la escuela”, dijo el presidente de la Federación Hispana, José Calderón. Calificó a Univisión como “un salvavidas”.
Ese papel también desata acusaciones de que el medio es más una organización de activismo que informativa, algo que rechazan en la redacción.
“Cuando se trata de temas relacionados con la corrupción o abusos a los derechos humanos, eres un contrapoder”, dijo Zamora. “Y eso no significa que eres un activista. De eso se trata el periodismo”.
The New York state assembly has authorized its judiciary committee to start an “impeachment investigation” into sexual misconduct allegations brought by six women against Andrew Cuomo.
The panel’s investigation into the New York governor, which would run parallel to one being led by the state attorney general, Letitia James, would be authorized to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and evaluate evidence, said Carl Heastie, the speaker of the state assembly.
“The reports of accusations concerning the governor are serious,” Heastie, a Democrat, said in a statement. The assembly judiciary committee will oversee the investigation, which will have the power to interview witnesses and subpoena documents.
Separately, police in Albany said that they have been notified of the allegations and that these “may have risen to the level of a crime” although this does not mean they have opened a criminal investigation.
An acting counsel for Cuomo said the referral to the police was a “matter of state policy”.
Cuomo, 63, is one of the most prominent Democratic governors in the country and is facing mounting pressure to resign over the allegations, as well as claims that his office under-reported thousands of deaths in nursing homes early in the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Thursday, more than 55 Democratic New York legislators published a letter calling for Cuomo’s resignation. “In light of the governor’s admission of inappropriate behavior and the findings of altered data on nursing home Covid-19 deaths he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need,” states the letter, which was posted on Twitter by one of its signatories, the Democratic assemblywoman Amanda Septimo, of the South Bronx. “It is time for governor Cuomo to resign.”
Cuomo has denied all allegations by the women, most of whom are former aides. The most recent is an unnamed aide who told the Times-Union newspaper on Tuesday that Cuomo had groped her after calling her to the executive mansion last year under the pretext of business.
Cuomo denied the groping accusation, the Times-Union reported on Wednesday, saying “I have never done anything like this” and calling the details “gut-wrenching”. Representatives for Cuomo did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Reuters could neither independently verify the woman’s identity nor her account.
The governor issued a broad apology at a news conference last week for any behavior that made women feel uncomfortable, but he maintained that he had never touched anyone inappropriately.
Heastie, who said he decided to launch the investigation after meeting with fellow Democrats who control the assembly, said last weekend that Cuomo should “seriously consider whether he can effectively meet the needs of the people of New York”.
The list of New York politicians, including Cuomo’s fellow Democrats, calling on the governor to step down has been growing, and on Thursday included the New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, who said Cuomo “just can’t serve as governor any more”.
Cuomo has said he will not resign and has asked the public to await the results of that investigation before making judgment. Some Democrats believe that only the threat of impeachment will force out the governor, who has a history of clashing with his own party and has developed a reputation for aggressive political tactics against those who oppose him.
De Blasio, a longtime political rival of Cuomo, said on Thursday that the latest accusation was disturbing.
“The specific allegation that the governor called an employee of his, someone who he had power over, called them to a private place and then sexually assaulted her, it’s absolutely unacceptable,” De Blasio told reporters. “It is disgusting to me, and he can no longer serve as governor.”
Calls for Cuomo to step down have been mounting since late February, when Cuomo’s first accuser, Lindsey Boylan, a former aide and current Manhattan borough president candidate, published an essay accusing him of making unwanted advances.
The governor has also faced accusations in recent weeks that his administration sought to downplay the number of nursing home residents killed by Covid-19.
Last weekend, the state senate majority leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, called on the governor to resign, saying his governing style created a “toxic work environment” and the sexual misconduct allegations had undermined his ability to lead.
New York state lawmakers warned Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lawyers on Thursday that the Assembly’s impeachment probe into various accusations against the governor is nearing an end and gave him until Aug. 13 to furnish any final evidence.
The request from attorneys for the Assembly Judiciary Committee came two days after a scathing, detailed report that said Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women.
“The Committee’s investigation is nearing completion and the Assembly will soon consider potential articles of impeachment against your client,” read the warning.
The Judiciary Committee launched its impeachment investigation in March, following initial accusations of sexual harassment made against the governor.
Committee staff members were also charged with investigating other allegations of wrongdoing by Cuomo, including whether his staff tried to hide or alter data on coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes and whether he misused state resources to promote a book he wrote about leadership in 2020.
Cuomo and his staff have denied these allegations.
The impeachment probe was conducted parallel to an investigation led by the state Attorney General’s office.
On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the findings of her office’s investigation: a bombshell report that found Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women and retaliated against a former employee who complained publicly about his conduct.
The 165-page report landed like a grenade in Albany and Washington, immediately prompting scores of Cuomo’s fellow Democrats in office, up to and including President Joe Biden, to call for his resignation.
A spokesman for the governor did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
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