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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

Some reporters barred from dinner event

Ahead of the president’s dinner with Kim, some reporters who were supposed to go into the dinner — including ones who asked questions in the previous appearance — were barred from entering.

At first the White House was not going to allow any print pooler reporters into the room, citing sensitivities of shouted questions. But according to the designated print pooler, a Wall Street Journal reporter, photographers protested, and the Journal reporter was allowed into the room. Wire pool reporters were not allowed into the room.

But Sanders appeared to change her explanation, seeming to cite space as the main issue at stake.

“Due to the sensitive nature of the meetings we have limited the pool for the dinner to a smaller group, but ensured that representation of photographers, TV, radio and print poolers are all in the room,” Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “We are continuing to negotiate aspects of this historic summit and will always work to make sure the U.S. media has as much access as possible.”

Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2019-02-27-north-korea-leader-meeting-vietnam-today-live-updates/

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Muchos dirán que, en todo caso, las noticias siempre han sido mentira, pero este fenómeno quizás merece una reflexión que vaya un poco más allá.

Inventar noticias deliberadamente para engañar o entretener no es algo nuevo. Pero la llegada de las redes sociales hizo que las historias reales y las ficticias se puedan presentar de una manera tan similar que a veces es difícil distinguir entre ellas.

Si bien es cierto que internet ha permitido el intercambio de conocimiento a una escala con la que generaciones previas sólo podían soñar, también ha fundamentado lo que el ensayista Jonathan Swift escribió en 1710:

La falsedad vuela y la verdad viene cojeando tras ella”

En Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, una investigación del Pew Centre reveló que el 62% de los estadounidenses adultos reciben noticias a través de las redes sociales, de manera que es cada vez más probable que más de nosotros estemos viendo -y creyendo- información que no sólo no es precisa sino que a veces es totalmente inventada.

Hay cientos de sitios web de noticias falsas, desde las que imitan diarios reales, hasta sitios de propaganda gubernamental, y otras que se mueven por la fina línea que divide la sátira con la desinformación.

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Una historia falsa sobre las elecciones en EE.UU. que asegura que los marihuaneros votan por Hillary Clinton.

Uno de esos medios es The National Report, que se promociona como “la primera fuente de noticias independientes de EE.UU.”, fundada por Allen Montgomery (no es su nombre real).

“Hay veces que es como una droga”, le dijo Montgomery a la BBC.

“Es genial ver cómo el tráfico sube y cómo pescaste a la gente con la historia. ¡Me divierte mucho!”.

Una de las más grandes de esas historias fue sobre una ciudad de EE.UU. que supuestamente estaba siendo acordonada debido a una enfermedad mortal.

Según explica Montgomery, han perfeccionado el arte de hacer que la gente lea y comparta las noticias falsas que The National Report les ofrece.

“El nombre mismo del sitio es parte de la fórmula: tienes que tener un sitio para tus noticias falsas que se vea lo más legítimo posible”.

“Obviamente, el titular es clave. La gente deja de leer después del titular y los dos primeros párrafos, así que si estos suenan como noticias legítimas, puedes hacer lo que quieras con el final de la historia, hasta volverla ridícula”.

Pero, ¿por qué lo hacen?

La respuesta es: serias cantidades de dinero.

Sitios como The National Report atraen publicidad de manera que pueden ser muy lucrativos.

Esas potencialmente abultadas recompensas seducen a los dueños de páginas web a abandonar los chistes satíricos y empezar a producir contenido más creíble que tiene posibilidades de ser más ampliamente compartido.

Y a las agencias de publicidad les interesa eso: que la gente comparta, pues la idea es que más personas vean lo que venden, sin importar si lo ven acompañado de mentiras.

“Algunas de nuestras noticias nos han dado US$10,000. Cuando damos en el clavo e impulsamos esas historias, ganamos miles de dólares”, dice Montgomery.

¿Debe preocuparnos que existan estos sitios de noticias falsas?

Brooke Binkowski de Snopes, uno de los sitios más grandes de chequeo de información que lucha contra la desinformación, piensa que aunque puede que no sea peligroso que circulen una que otra historia falsa su potencial para causar daño aumenta con el tiempo.

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Titular: “Hombre que murió en casa embrujada no fue descubierto por semanas: todos pensaron que era ‘un maniquí muy realista'”… ¿Broma o regalito?

“Hay mucho sesgo de confirmación: mucha gente queriendo probar que su visión del mundo es la apropiada y correcta”, explica.

Y es precisamente eso lo que Allen Montgomery dice que su sitio de noticias falsas trata de explotar: la idea de reforzar las creencias y confirmar con mentiras los prejuicios de la gente.

“Constantemente tratamos de sintonizarnos con los sentimientos que sospechamos que la gente tiene o quiere tener”.

“Recientemente publicamos una historia que decía que a Hillary Clinton le habían dado las respuestas antes de un debate. Ya había algunos rumores sobre eso -todos falsos-, pero ese tipo de titulares entra en la burbuja de los de derecha y son ellos los que mantienen viva la historia”.

El camino de la mentira a la verdad es corto

Craig Silverman, quien trabaja en Buzzfeed liderando el equipo que estudia los efectos de las noticias falsas, explica cuán fácil es que ese tipo de historias terminen siendo reportadas como ciertas en los medios tradicionales.

“Una página de noticias falsas publica un embuste y, como recibe mucha atención en las redes sociales, otro sitio web lo toma, escribe la historia como si fuera verdad y no la vincula a la página de noticias falsas original”.

“Eso provoca una reacción en cadena hasta que algún periodista de un medio creíble la ve y escribe algo sobre ella. Como los periodistas ahora tratan de escribir tantas historias como sea posible y de que esas historias atraigan muchos lectores y atención en las redes, la tendencia es producir más y chequear menos“, dice Silverman.

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Lejos de la verdad. Según el titular, el senador estadounidense Paul Ryan tuvo visiones de un nuevo partido republicano tras probar ayahuasca.

Además, señala Anthony Adornato, del departamento de periodismo del Ithaca College en New York, muchos medios tradicionales no están al día en cuestión de políticas de verificación.

“Es común hoy en día que los medios dependan del contenido compartido pero no todas las salas de redacción tienen una política respecto a cómo autenticar esa información”.

Un estudio reciente dirigido por Adornato en estaciones de televisión locales de EE.UU. reveló que casi el 40% de las políticas editoriales no incluían guías sobre cómo manejar la información de las redes sociales a pesar de que los jefes de noticias admitieron que más del 30% de sus boletines habían reportado información proveniente de esa fuente que luego resultó falsa o imprecisa.

¿Perdimos la batalla contra las mentiras entonces?

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¿Cómo distinguir la información falsa si la escriben como fidedigna?

Según Allen Montgomery, Facebook ya tomó medidas para reducir el impacto de sitios falsos.

“Hemos sido uno de los blancos específicos de los cambios en el algoritmo de suministro de noticias. Han ahogado nuestras historias para que no sean compartidas ni gustadas, y no dudo que estén haciendo lo mismo con otros sitios de noticias falsas”.

“Pero la verdad es que si se trata de algo que produce dinero – y esto lo produce- uno apela a la creatividad“.

Es por eso que Montgomery ahora tiene 9 sitios de noticias falsas por los que mueve el contenido para tratar de burlar la censura de Facebook.

*Parte o todo lo que le dijo a la BBC Allen Montgomery puede ser falso.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-37910450

Con movilizaciones en las principales ciudad, las cuales se llevaron a cabo en calma y sin incidentes, las principales centrales obreras del país adelantan una jornada de paro en Colombia. En Bogotá, sin embargo, al cierre de la jornada se presentaron enfrentamientos en la plaza de Bolívar que dejaron a una uniformada levemente lesionada. 

La protesta nacional fue convocada por un comando de centrales obreras y de pensionados y organizaciones agrarias y sociales. Para la jornada, la Policía  designó a más 9.200 uniformados, encargados de mantener la tranquilidad durante la manifestación. 

“Esperamos cuatro millones de manifestantes en todo el país para llamar la atención del Gobierno sobre la mala gestión del presidente Santos”, dijo el sindicalista Luis Alejandro Pedraza, presidente de la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT).

“Si el Gobierno mantiene su silencio sobre nuestras peticiones, el paro podría ser indefinido”, añadió.

La jornada de movilización es contra el “modelo económico neoliberal regresivo” del gobierno, según una carta pública enviada la semana pasada al presidente Santos por el Comando Nacional Unitario, la organización que reúne a los diversos grupos convocantes.

Entre los principales reclamos las entidades señalaron su descontento por el aumento del salario mínimo por debajo de la inflación, la “absurda y arbitraria” venta de la generadora de energía Isagen en enero, el escándalo de sobrecostos en la refinería de Cartagena, el anuncio de una reforma tributaria “lesiva” para los sectores populares.

Además, denuncian el incumplimiento del Gobierno a los aportes en salud para trabajadores y pensionados, la situación de hambruna de los niños en La Guajira, y el paramilitarismo que “lejos de desmontarse (…) sigue generando muerte y terror”, entre otras reivindicaciones.

En la misma misiva se pidió al gobierno defender el patrimonio de empresas públicas, como la estatal petrolera Ecopetrol, revisar los tratados de libre comercio, no privatizar la salud y la educación y proteger el medio ambiente de los proyectos minero-energéticos.

 

Source Article from http://www.noticiascaracol.com/colombia/paro-nacional-asi-avanzan-las-movilizaciones

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Scott Atlas, President Trump’s special adviser on the coronavirus pandemic, formally resigned from his post on Monday, Fox News has learned.

Atlas, who spoke with the president on Monday, joined the administration in August, and was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE), serving a 130-day detail. Atlas’ role is set to expire this week.

COVID-19 VACCINES WILL BE READY WITHIN 24 HOURS OF FDA APPROVAL, AZAR SAYS

Fox News exclusively obtained Atlas’s resignation letter Monday, which was dated Dec. 1. In it, Atlas touted the Trump administration’s work on the coronavirus pandemic, while wishing “all the best” to the incoming Biden administration.

“I am writing to resign from my position as Special Advisor to the President of the United States,” Atlas said, thanking him for “the honor and privilege to serve on behalf of the American people.”

“I worked hard with a singular focus—to save lives and help Americans through this pandemic,” Atlas wrote, adding that he “always relied on the latest science and evidence, without any political consideration or influence.”

“As time went on, like all scientists and health policy scholars, I learned new information and synthesized the latest data from around the world, all in an effort to provide you with the best information to serve the greater public good,” Atlas wrote. “But, perhaps more than anything, my advice was always focused on minimizing all the harms from both the pandemic and the structural policies themselves, especially to the working class and the poor.”

Atlas, who had been criticized throughout his tenure for calling for a reopening, and saying that lockdowns are “extremely harmful” to Americans, said that “although some may disagree with those recommendations, it is the free exchange of ideas that lead to scientific truths, which are the very foundation of a civilized society.”

“Indeed, I cannot think of a time where safeguarding science and the scientific debate is more urgent,” Atlas said.

Atlas went on to tout his work at the White House, and his work with “several selfless colleagues in designing specific policies to heighten protection of the vulnerable while safely reopening schools and society.”

Atlas pointed to their efforts in increasing and prioritizing “extra personal protective equipment and tens of millions of extra tests to nursing and assisted living facilities,” as well as implementing “more frequent monitoring updates using clinical guidelines to intensify testing,” and instituting outreach to independent seniors in communities.

“We also successfully designed rational guidelines for safely opening schools, a strategic use of the newly developed testing program, and a national stockpile of drugs for future crises,” Atlas wrote.

Shifting to lockdowns he has warned against throughout his tenure, Atlas said they “identified and illuminated early on the harms of prolonged lockdowns, including that they create massive physical health losses and psychological distress, destroy families and damage our children.”

“And more and more, the relatively low risk to children of serious harms from the infection, the less frequent spread from children, the presence of immunologic protection beyond that shown by antibody testing, and the severe harms from closing schools and society are all being acknowledged,” Atlas added.

ATLAS FIRES BACK AGAINST CRITICISMS, SAYS ADVICE BASED ON ‘CURRENT SCIENCE’

Atlas also touted Operation Warp Speed, and the team that “delivered on our promised timelines for new drugs and vaccines.”

“I congratulate you for your vision, and also congratulate the many who did the exemplory work—we know who they are, even though their names are not those familiar to the public,” Atlas wrote.

Atlas went on to wish the best to the incoming Biden Administration.

“I sincerely wish the new team all the best as they guide the nation through these trying, polarized times,” Atlas wrote. “With the emerging treatments and vaccines, I remain highly optimistic that America will thrive once again and overcome the adversity of the pandemic and all that it has entailed.”

Atlas, during his tenure, sparred with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Over the summer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield reportedly criticized Atlas, claiming that “everything he says is false.”

Atlas defended his record and his expertise, and maintained that all of his advice to the president was based on the “current science.”

“I was asked to be an adviser on the coronavirus pandemic to the president of the United States and I was asked to do that because I have a 25-year career at top, elite medical centers, as a doctor and in patient care,” Atlas told Fox News this summer. “I also have a 15-year career in public policy, working on health care policy and integrating my medical knowledge in policy.”

Atlas added that before his arrival to the White House this summer, “that expertise had not been present.”

“I am here because I understand how to translate complex medical science into plain English for the president of the United States and for everyone else in the White House, and derive appropriate public policy from that information,” Atlas said at the time, adding that there is a “false belief” that one “has to be a public health official to understand the facts about the pandemic.”

“The way I advise the president is perfectly consistent with the most appropriate strategy for dealing with this pandemic,” he said. “One, target diligent protection of the high risk and vulnerable populations, and two, open up schools and society.”

Meanwhile, as for a coronavirus vaccine, the Trump administration said deliveries of the vaccine will begin as early as this week, and would be available first for front-line workers, medical personnel and senior citizens.

The president, on Thanksgiving, argued that his opponent, President-elect Joe Biden, should not be given credit for the vaccines, which he referred to as a “medical miracle” before repeating claims of voting irregularities in the 2020 election.

“Joe Biden failed with the swine flu, H1N1, totally failed with the swine flu,” Trump said. “Don’t let him take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me and I pushed people harder than they’ve ever been pushed before and we got that approved and through and nobody’s ever seen anything like it.” 

Trump’s comments came ahead of a Dec. 10 meeting, where regulators at the Food and Drug Administration will review Pfizer’s request for an emergency use authorization for its vaccine developed with BioNTech. 

The latest trial data for Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine, unveiled earlier this month, showed it was 90% effective.

In addition, Moderna said its vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19. AstraZeneca also reported preliminary results that showed its vaccine efficacy ranged from 62% to 90%, depending on the dosage amount given to participants.

According to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the vaccines will be “shipped” within 24 hours of FDA approval and then it would be up to “nursing homes, hospitals, and pharmacies to get that dispensed.” 

“It really could be within days of FDA approval we’ll start seeing vaccines in people’s arms which is frankly incredible,” Azar said Monday.

The United States has reported more than 13.5 million cases of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and more than 267,000 deaths.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-scott-atlas-resigns-special-adviser-trump-coronavirus

La reina Isabel de Inglaterra provocó polémica hoy miércoles a las redes sociales cuando inauguró el nuevo ciclo del Parlamento británico usando un sombrero que se asemejaba a la bandera de la Unión Europea (UE).

Al ofrecer un discurso protocolar en el día en que el gobierno de la primera ministra Theresa May reveló su estrategia para la separación de Reino Unido de la UE, la monarca exhibió un sombrero azul decorado a su vez con flores azules, cada una de las cuales tenía un disco amarillo brillante en el centro.

El sombrero recordaba a la bandera de la UE: una insignia azul que presenta un círculo de estrellas amarillas.

 

La bandera de la Unión Europea. Foto: Archivo

“La reina pronuncia un discurso para referirse a los planes del Brexit vistiendo un sombrero que sospechosamente se parece a la bandera EUROPEA”, tuiteó el diario Daily Mail, una publicación de derecha.

 Otros en Twitter publicaron fotografías comparativas mostrando a la reina Isabel portando el sombrero y una imagen adyacente de la bandera de la UE.

Algunos comentaristas dijeron que fue un acto deliberado de la reina.

“¡Es como si la reina insistiera en conducir (un vehículo) ante el rey saudita! Es una política sutil de la realeza”, dijo en Twitter Simom Hix, profesor de ciencias políticas de la London School of Economics.

En su calidad de jefa de Estado, la monarca británica evita tomar posiciones públicas sobre asuntos políticos.

 

Source Article from http://www.elpais.com.uy/mundo/coincidencia-mensaje-subliminal-polemica-sombrero.html











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President Donald Trump says his administration is ensuring the country knows “this is an actual emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border. (April 5)
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As the Trump administration works to address what it describes as a growing “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said in a court filing that it may take two years for the government to identify thousands of migrant children who were separated from their families. 

The filing Friday outlined the government’s plan to use data analysis and manual reviews to sift through the cases of about 47,000 children who were apprehended by U.S. immigration officials from July 1, 2017, to June 25, 2018, to identify which children might have been taken from family members. It estimated the process “would take at least 12 months, and possibly up to 24 months.” 

Last month, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw expanded the number of migrant families that the government may be forced to reunite under his previous order after an inspector general report revealed that the administration had an undisclosed family separation pilot program in place starting in July of 2017. The ruling was made as part of a lawsuit led by the American Civil Liberties Union. 

Judge: Trump administration may have to reunite thousands of additional migrant families

“The administration refuses to treat the family separation crisis it created with urgency, ” the ACLU said in a statement Saturday. “We strongly oppose any plan that gives the government up to two years to find kids. The government swiftly gathered resources to tear families apart. It must do the same to fix the damage.”

In recent months, the number of families crossing into the U.S. has climbed to record highs, putting severe strains on an already overburdened immigration system. In the past, most of those seeking to illegally cross the border were single, mostly male, Mexican nationals coming in search of work.

More than half are now parents and children fleeing impoverished Central American countries where violent crime is rampant. 

“The numbers are overwhelming right now,” Gregory Archambault, the director of enforcement and removal operations in San Diego for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told The Associated Press. “Everybody is stressed because there are these mass numbers of people.” 

“More and more people now accepting the fact that it’s a real crisis,” acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday during an interview with Fox News. 

Mulvaney said the issues of migrant families and unaccompanied migrant children required congressional action because “there’s legally nothing that the (Department of Homeland Security) can do with the children.”   

Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., said Democrats want to work with the president on a solution.

“Separating children from their families at the border is not humane. It’s not what the United States should be doing, and we continue to see this administration engage in those policies,” Luján said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Friday’s court filing came the same day President Donald Trump declared that there is “indeed an emergency on our southern border,” during a tour of the border in Calexico, California. He cited an upturn in the number of migrants arriving at the border in recent months. 

“It’s a colossal surge and it’s overwhelming our immigration system, and we can’t let that happen,” Trump said.

“We can’t take you anymore. We can’t take you. Our country is full,” he warned those who might attempt to come to the U.S.

Like Trump, Mulvaney applauded Mexico for its apprehension of migrants in recent days, which he claimed was sparked by Trump’s threats to close the border or impose tariffs on Mexico’s auto exports if the country did not do more to stem the flow of northbound migrants.

But despite the White House’s claims that Mexico was apprehending migrants for the “first time in decades,” Mexico has taken hundreds of thousands of migrants into custody in the past four years from the “Northern Triangle” countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Mexico said its numbers in recent months were “about average.” 

“There is no very substantive change,” Mexico’s foreign secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said this week. “There has not been a drastic change.”

Fact check: Trump is wrong on Mexico’s migrant apprehensions

Luján said Trump “continues to use immigration as a distraction.” He questioned whether the Department of Homeland Security was “accurately describing” its apprehension statistics because he said many families were voluntarily turning themselves in to seek asylum status.

“This is not the national security crisis that the president continues to describe,” Luján said. “There is a humanitarian crisis but it’s created by President Donald Trump.” 

Some immigration experts agree with Luján’s assessment. They say Trump’s policies have caused so much chaos along the border that they may be encouraging illegal crossings.

For example, the family separation controversy helped to highlight the fact that families won’t be detained for long in the U.S. if they’re detained at all.

And metering, in which people are asked to return to a busy port of entry on another day to seek asylum, may have encouraged asylum-seekers to cross illegally, said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

“This policy chaos, coupled with a sense that the U.S. government may at some point really shut down the border, has generated an urgency to migrate now while it is still possible,” Selee said.

More: Fourth person in six months dies in ICE immigration detention center

Contributing: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY; The Associated Press

 

 

 

 

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/07/immigration-family-separations-may-take-2-years-identify-children/3393536002/

El origen de la fanesca no ha sido esclarecido del todo, sin embargo, esta comida ceremonial demuestra el sincretismo alimentario de las culturas asentadas en el territorio nacional junto con las costumbres gastronómicas traídas desde España.

La ushucuta -término kichwa que significa ‘granos tiernos cocidos con ají’ sería el plato prehispánico que dio origen a la fanesca, según el Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio de Ecuador.

En la actualidad, este exponente de la gastronomía ecuatoriana, se convirtió en un plato culinario tradicional a escala nacional para la familia, al punto de considerarlo como un elemento que identifica la herencia cultural y sintetiza la diversidad alimentaria.

Revise también: Fanesca, el plato sagrado de Ecuador

Para la preparación de la fanesca, se incluyen múltiples ingredientes de variados sabores y provenientes de distintas zonas, además, su elaboración obedece a todo un entramado social desplegado en un tiempo específico y con la connotación de unir, compartir y construir lazos entre los participantes.

Potaje de Semana Santa

Su tiempo de producción y disfrute se inserta en la Semana Mayor del catolicismo, el cual conmemora la muerte y resurrección de Cristo, y dentro de las festividades andinas del Pawkar Raymi (Fiesta del Florecimiento), incluido el ritual del Mushuk Nina (Fuego Nuevo).

En ambos casos, es el mismo gusto culinario: la fanesca, que es un potaje de 12 granos y legumbres tiernas (fréjol, haba, chocho, choclo, arveja, lenteja, melloco, garbanzo, zapallo, cebolla y sambo) y pescado seco.

Lea aquí: Receta de Fanesca

Los primigenios habitantes de la sierra ecuatoriana la preparaban al cocinar granos con calabazas y con la influencia española, nuevos ingredientes, como las habas, la leche, el queso y el pescado, y técnicas de cocción fueron incluidos.

De esta mezcla de productos, saberes y sabores surge la fanesca, una expresión del mestizaje y diversidad cultural del país. Incluso el término fue incluido y reconocido como un ecuatorianismo por la Real Academia de la Lengua Española en el año 2001.  

En Guayaquil

Algunas de las huecas que prepararán Fanesca, según informó la Empresa Pública Municipal de Turismo, Promoción Cívica y Relaciones Internacionales del Municipio de Guayaquil.

– El Mesón de Don Suco
Calle Luque 203 y Av. Pedro Carbo

– El Pez Volador: Humitas y mazamorra de choclo
Aguirre entre Esmeraldas y José Mascote.

– El Rincón del Café: Humitas
Chimborazo y Argentina.

– El Jardín: Fanesca
Chimborazo y Venezuela. (F)

Source Article from http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2017/04/11/nota/6134269/fanesca-expresion-cultural-patrimonio-gastronomico-ecuador

A United Nations Security Council report released in June estimated that Al Qaeda still had a presence in at least 15 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. The Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released on Wednesday that “the Taliban continued to maintain its relationship with Al Qaeda, providing safe haven for the terrorist group in Afghanistan.”

After Mr. Biden spoke, John F. Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed in a news conference that Al Qaeda had a presence in Afghanistan.

What Mr. Biden said

“We have no indication that they haven’t been able to get — in Kabul — through the airport. We’ve made an agreement with the, with the Taliban. Thus far, they’ve allowed them to go through. It’s in their interest for them to go through. So, we know of no circumstance where American citizens are — carrying an American passport — are trying to get through to the airport.”

This is misleading. Reports from Afghanistan contradict this statement, and other government officials have been more cautious when describing the conditions for American citizens traveling to the airport.

The United States Embassy in Kabul sent a security alert on Wednesday warning American citizens, legal residents and their families that the “United States government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport.”

Asked about Mr. Biden’s claim that no American had been denied access to the airport, Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department, said in a news conference on Friday that the department “has received only a small number of reports from American citizens that their access has been impeded in some way, that they have faced any sort of hardship or resistance, getting to the airport.”

Mr. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, also said in the news conference that he was aware of “sporadic reports of some Americans not being able to get through checkpoints,” but that they were able to get through “by and large.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-fact-check.html

The media told us that President Trump was callous, uninformed, indifferent to facts, unwilling to listen to experts, willing to inflict incalculable damage to our interests — leaving allies abandoned, enemies emboldened and America with its reputation in tatters. 

But now, in a tragic turn of events, so much of what the press said about Donald Trump applies to Joe Biden. 

Biden’s disaster in Afghanistan — which has cost the lives of 13 US service members and scores of civilians — places this dynamic in stark relief. Announcing in April that the US would leave Afghanistan, the president took no cognizance of the actual terms of Trump’s negotiated deal with the Taliban. Whatever its shortcomings, the so-called Doha Agreement regulated the Taliban’s military actions, while requiring good faith negotiations between it and the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani. Given that the Taliban was in breach of Doha, and the required negotiations were unsuccessful, the United States was entitled to leave the pact. It certainly could not be held to any specific evacuation deadline. 

Biden, ignoring all these policy “details” — like Trump was once said to do — simply decreed that the United States would depart Afghanistan by the anniversary of 9/11, no conditions attached. He thereby placed optics over substance, politicizing what is sacred in the process — as Trump was also once said to do. (At the same time, by changing the withdrawal deadline from Trump’s date of May 1 not once but twice, to Sept. 11 and then to Aug. 31, Biden clearly found flexibility in Doha where he wanted it.) 

Members of the US Navy transport the casket of Maxton Soviak, one of 13 troops killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan during the botched US pullout.
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Even as US intelligence warned of the Taliban’s advance, and even as the estimated timetable for its victory was radically foreshortened, Biden and his administration continued to spin. Another way of putting it: They spurned the experts, choosing instead to live inside a bubble of “alternative facts.” 

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby talked about “very capable” and “very sophisticated” Afghan military units, while White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Afghan forces “have what they need.” In a phone call with Ghani, Biden went further still, pressuring the Afghan leader to claim that military conditions were positive “whether it is true or not.” One must wonder: While building false confidence in the Afghan military — the better to blame it later — did Biden ever consider the consequences of giving US citizens in Afghanistan, or our Afghan allies, false confidence in their continued safety? 

Biden’s response to the Taliban’s victory and the Afghan government’s collapse is in line with the caricature the media gave Trump, that of an uncaring leader acting unilaterally in the world. 

Uninformed, indifferent to facts, unwilling to listen to experts. All of what was said about Trump is now true of Biden.
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As chaos ensued in Afghanistan, with American citizens trapped, Afghan allies betrayed, and scenes at the Kabul airport reminiscent of Saigon in 1975, Biden mustered little empathy to go along with all his finger-pointing and fact-ignoring. The president complained of Trump’s Doha deal, which he “inherited,” as if it afforded no opportunity to pivot. He conveniently derided the Afghan military’s “will to fight.” He claimed, fantastically, to “have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.” 

Perhaps Biden missed the speech of Tom Tugendhat, a combat veteran of Afghanistan and chairman of the UK’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. Tugendhat expressed his “grief and rage — the feeling [of] abandonment of not just a country but the sacrifice that my friends made.” Or perhaps the president was unaware of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement, lamenting the “bitter, dramatic, and awful” conquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban. 

As the Afghanistan disaster shows, what the mainstream media said of Trump is true of Biden. And the consequences have only begun to unfold. 

Augustus Howard is a columnist focusing on national politics and foreign policy.

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/09/11/much-of-what-the-press-said-about-trump-now-applies-to-biden/

“The Democrats will never be satisfied, no matter what they get, how much they get, or how many pages they get. It will never end, but that’s the way life goes!” he tweeted Monday.

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Al menos 13 personas murieron en México y 3 en Texas como consecuencia de un tornado.

El fenómeno azotó principalmente la localidad fronteriza mexicana de Ciudad Acuña.

El secretario de Gobierno de Coahuila, Víctor Zamora, precisó que entre los muertos hay tres menores. Además, 88 lesionados permanecen en hospitales.

El tornado volteó vehículos y causó daños en numerosas viviendas en esta ciudad del estado de Coahuila, situada justo en la frontera con el estado de Texas (Estados Unidos).

Los medios locales señalaron que la cifra de muertos podría aumentar según se realiza la búsqueda de personas en las casas afectadas.

“Hay vehículos encima de las casas, hay personas muertas en las calles, es un caos total”, indicó Rosario Ramírez, residente de la localidad, en declaraciones al diario mexicano La Jornada.


La fuerza del tornado estremeció a los habitantes de Ciudad Acuña.


El impacto del tornado se produjo temprano en la mañana, hora local.


Más de 100 autos fueron destruidos, algunos de los cuales fueron localizados en los cerros cercanos a Ciudad Acuña.

Rosario Cano, portavoz del departamento de Interior de Coahuila, indicó que el tornado impactó sobre las 06.40, hora local (11.40 GMT).

Las autoridades, según indicó, están evaluando los daños y coordinando las operaciones de respuesta al desastre.

El subsecretario de Protección Civil, Luis Felipe Puente, declaró que es la primera vez en la historia de Ciudad Acuña que sucede un evento de este tipo.

Tragedia inmediata


El gobernador de Coahuila, Rubén Moreira Valdez, visitó la zona afectada por el tornado.

El presidente municipal de Ciudad Acuña, Evaristo Pérez, dijo que la mayoría de las víctimas estaba fuera de sus casas cuando se presentó el tornado.

“Duró seis segundos, pero con eso tuvo para generar una verdadera tragedia”, dijo a la televisora Milenio.

“Tenemos cientos de casas prácticamente inservibles, muchos lesionados. Hay gente desaparecida, camiones de transporte industrial que cayeron sobre las casas”, añadió el alcalde.

“Hay vehículos que iban por la avenida y que fueron catapultados hacia muchos metros de distancia. Allí es donde ocurrieron varias de las muertes que tenemos”.


El tornado duró apenas 6 segundos pero aun así causó grandes daños.


Los equipos de rescate trabajan para retirar los escombros y buscar personas desaparecidas.


Hay al menos un niño desaparecido y 750 casas están dañadas, 70 de las cuales fueron arrancadas de su base.

Soldados del Ejército ayudan en la búsqueda de personas atrapadas, además que gobiernos de estados vecinos ofrecieron ayuda para auxiliar a los damnificados.


El tornado azotó en la parte surponiente de la ciudad y afectó a cuatro colonias.

Ciudad Acuña se encuentra en el norte de Coahuila, una región donde es frecuente que se presenten estos fenómenos meteorológicos la mayoría en zonas rurales.

Sin embargo, de acuerdo con las autoridades, el tornado de este lunes de categoría 4 es uno de los que mayor daño ha causado en los últimos años.

El presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, ordenó que su gabinete apoye a los gobiernos de Coahuila y la alcaldía de Ciudad Acuña.

Estados Unidos

Las inundaciones que afectaron al sur y partes del centro de Estados Unidos durante el fin de semana causaron al menos tres muertos y una docena de desaparecidos.


Las inundaciones causaron numerosos daños en Texas, donde unas 2.000 personas tuvieron que dejar sus hogares para ir a un lugar más seguro.

Dos personas fallecieron en accidentes relacionados con las condiciones climáticas en Oklahoma y un hombre murió en la localidad de San Marcos (Texas).

En Texas, 12 personas han sido dadas por desaparecidas en las inundaciones causadas por una línea de tormentas que se extiende desde el Golfo de México hasta los Grandes Lagos, informó Reuters.

En algunas áreas se registraron hasta 25 centímetros de agua en 24 horas y se pronostican más lluvias en la región.

Miles de personas se vieron obligadas a dejar sus casas debido a las inundaciones.

El gobernadorde Texas, Greg Abbott, declaró el estado de emergencia en 24 condados del estado.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2015/05/150525_mexico_tornado_acuna_ep

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Kendrick Castillo, 18, was killed in the shooting at his school

A teenager died in a shooting at a Colorado high school – days before his graduation – while charging one of the attackers, his classmates say.

Eighteen-year-old Kendrick Castillo was the only fatality in Tuesday’s assault allegedly by two students near Denver.

Eight other pupils were injured before the assailants were arrested.

The attack took place just 8km (5 miles) from Columbine High School, the site of one of the country’s most notorious shootings 20 years ago.

America’s latest school shooting unfolded at the STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – School Highlands Ranch in an affluent suburb of Denver.

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A school staff member comforts a child after the shooting

‘I wish he had gone and hid’

Classmate Nui Giasolli told US media she was in her British literature class when one of the suspects turned up late and pulled out a gun.

Kendrick lunged at the gunman, “giving us all enough time to get underneath our desks to get ourselves safe, to run across the room to escape”, she said.

John Castillo, Kendrick’s father, described him as “the best kid in the world”, in an interview with the Denver Post.

He said it was not surprising to him that Kendrick was said to have charged one of the shooters as they entered a classroom.

“I wish he had gone and hid,” said Mr Castillo, “but that’s not his character.

“His character is about protecting people, helping people.”

Kendrick was an only child. Mr Castillo said he and his wife are “in a haze”.

The 18-year-old was passionate about science and robotics.

He was going to study at a local college in the autumn, planning to major in engineering, his father said.

Another STEM senior, Brendan Bialy, is also being praised as a hero for helping subdue one of the gunmen.

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Brendan tackled one of the gunmen

Brendan is a recruit for the US Marine Corps but was not trained specifically on active shooter protocols.

Marine Capt Michael Maggitti said in a statement that Brendan’s admirable courage “resulted in the safety and protection of his teachers and fellow classmates”.

Kendrick and Brendan are not the only examples of student heroism recently during a shooting.

Last month at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a 21-year-old student, Riley Howell, died while tackling a gunman, buying classmates crucial moments to escape, said police.

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Devon Erickson, 18, has been named as one of the suspects

How did the Colorado shooting unfold?

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said the attack happened just before 14:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

He told reporters the two attackers came in through an entrance that did not have a metal detector and attacked students in two locations.

Both suspects were pupils at the charter school.

There were around 1,800 students on campus at the time of the attack, Sheriff Spurlock said.

Officers arrived on scene within minutes.

“We did struggle with the suspects to take them into custody,” the sheriff said.

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What is known about the suspects?

Police initially misidentified the younger one – a juvenile not named by police – as male.

“We originally thought the juvenile was a male by appearance,” Sheriff Spurlock said.

He declined to comment on local media reports that the suspect is transgender and transitioning from female to male.

The other suspect has been identified by police as 18-year-old Devon Erickson.

He made his first court appearance on Wednesday, facing one count of first-degree murder and 29 of attempted first-degree murder.

The defendant hung his head as he sat between two lawyers.

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Students and staff wait outside near the STEM School during the shooting

The sheriff said it is not yet clear if anyone was deliberately targeted. Search warrants have been issued for both suspects’ homes.

One student at the school told CBS News Mr Erickson had talked about inflicting harm and sadness.

“I always thought he was just messing around and stuff, but sometimes he did hint at it here and there,” Michael Schwartz said.

One parent, named in local media as Fernando Montoya, said his 17-year-old son was shot three times and wounded.

“He said a guy pulled a pistol out of a guitar case and started to shoot,” Mr Montoya told ABC affiliate Denver 7.

Josh Dutton, 18, told AP news agency he used to be friends with Mr Erickson at a former school but had not seen him in four years.

He said he bumped into Mr Erickson, who was wearing all black, at a railway station on Sunday and he was much thinner and did not seem interested in talking.

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48207677

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Testigos han relatado las escenas de desesperación que vieron cuando el incendio crecía en la Torre Grenfell, en Londres.

Una mujer desesperada tenía a un bebé en sus brazos, recuerda Samira Lamrani, una testigo del devastador incendio que consumió este miércoles un edificio de 24 pisos en Londres, Reino Unido.

Desde una ventana en el “noveno o décimo piso”, la mujer hacía señales mientras sostenía al bebé y pedía ayuda para que alguien lo rescatara.

“Estaba a punto de arrojar a su bebé y pedía que alguien pudiera tomarlo”, así lo contó Lamrani ante las cámaras y el video ha sido reproducido por varios medios británicos.

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Este miércoles se celebraron vigilias en Londres por los afectados.

Sus señales fueron entendidas por un hombre que, después de que la mujer lanzara al pequeño, “corrió y logró atraparlo” en la calle.

Y así se dio el milagroso rescate del menor en el fatal incendio que ha dejado al menos 17 muertos y decenas de heridos.

El incidente ocurrió en la torre de apartamentos Grenfell, en la cual vivían alrededor de 500 personas y que se encuentra en el oeste de la capital británica.

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Se cree que el incendio comenzó en el cuarto piso, pero las causas aún no están determinadas.

“Vi a otros niños siendo arrojados del edificio desde tan alto como el piso 15. Eran pequeños, probablemente entre 4 y 8 años. Vi a tres siendo arrojados”, explicó Lamrani, quien supo que había policías o bomberos intentando atraparlos.

La escena de desesperación se repetía en otras partes, y los relatos del horror vivido se multiplican.

Otra vecina, llamada Zara, también contó haber visto a una mujer arrojar a su hijo, de unos cinco años, desde el quinto o sexto piso para salvarlo de las llamas.

“Lo lanzó por la ventana y creo que está bien”, le dijo a la radio británica LBC.

“Creo que tan sólo debe tener unos cuantos huesos rotos y algunas contusiones”, añadió.

“¡Solo salven a mis hijos!”

Muchos residentes del edificio estaban “en las ventanas, golpeándolas frenéticamente y gritando”, según Lamrani.

“Queríamos tranquilizarlos, diciéndoles que habíamos hecho lo que podíamos, que llamamos al 999 (número de emergencias en Londres), pero obviamente la expresión de la muerte en sus cara”, explicó.

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Según algunos testigos, el incendio se propagó en cuestión de minutos por todo el edificio de 24 pisos.

Tamara, otra testigo del incendio, le dijo a la BBC que también otras personas estaban “lanzando a sus hijos”, pese a que los bomberos les pedían que se quedaran donde estaban.

“¡Solo salven a mis hijos, solo salven a mis hijos!”, gritaban.

Según Tamara, las llamas tomaron el edificio en cuestión de segundos.

“No había mucho que pudieras hacer. Acordonaron la zona y solo se veían las cosas caer desde la parte más alta del edificio”.

Michael Paramasivan dijo a la BBC que habló con una mujer que vivía en el piso 21: “Ella tiene seis hijos, se fue con los seis. Cuando bajó solo había cuatro con ella. Ahora su corazón está roto”.

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Las llamas consumieron casi todo en el interior del edificio ubicado en el centro-oeste de Londres.

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But, as Harry Enten of CNN, among others, has been insisting for some time, the average Democrat is older, more moderate or conservative, and less likely to have a college degree than you’d guess from following Twitter or cable TV.

Source Article from https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/05/18/rich-lowry-what-if-trump/