The group sat inside a stolen Chevrolet pickup when they spotted musician Kyle Yorlets outside his home in Nashville.
They approached Yorlets, 24, and he gave up his wallet, authorities said. They also wanted his keys. Yorlets refused and was fatally shot, a Nashville Police Department investigation has found.
Kyle Yorlets, who was shot and killed Feb. 7. (Matt Blum)
Five minors — two boys and three girls — were charged with criminal homicide Friday in the death of Yorlets, which has shocked the local music community.
They range in age from 12 to 16. Police released booking photos and the names of three of those charged because they are older than 13. The Washington Post does not name suspects under the age of 18 unless a judge or magistrate has ordered that they be tried as adults.
Yorlets was the lead singer and songwriter for Carverton, a pop-punk band whose first album is scheduled for release next month.
“We are in a state of shock and are having to grasp the reality that is now in front of us. We are heartbroken,” the band said in a statement Friday. “Our condolences for his family and loved ones and all the lives that he touched. We will never forget Kyle, and though he is gone too soon his legacy is here to stay.”
Authorities are seeking to try the group as adults. The attorney for the youngest — a 12-year-old girl — said her client has cooperated and did not belong in an adult court, the Tennessean reported.
Assistant District Attorney Stacy Miller disagreed in a juvenile court hearing Friday.
“She didn’t run from there, and she didn’t call the police,” Miller said, according to the Tennessean. “She’s as guilty as they are.”
Police recovered two stolen, loaded pistols after tracking the juveniles to a Walmart. Their involvement in the case started Thursday, as they searched for the 12-year-old, who had run away from home, police spokesman Don Aaron said.
Investigators found Snapchat photos of the girl in a car with other young people and guns, Aaron said, according to the Tennessean.
Yorlets was one of four children raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. His mother, Deb Yorlets, told PennLive that Kyle began singing at a young age.
“He was extremely passionate about music. Everyone who met him was amazed and loved him,” she said. “It’s just so senseless what has happened.”
News of Yorlets’s death spread quickly in the tightknit music community in Nashville, said John Ferguson, the father of a bandmate. Many young upstart musicians work in the food industry, and owners there have reached out to provide food for family gatherings. A memorial service is planned for Monday, Ferguson told The Post on Saturday.
Carverton had released a single and a music video. Their debut album, “Chasing Sounds,” is scheduled for release in late March.
A single, “Try To,” will be played at the memorial service. It is an autobiographical song by Yorlets, said Ferguson, who started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Yorlets’s family.
The band was growing its local presence and was looking forward to the album’s release, he said.
“I told the band, ‘The album shows songwriting maturity,’ ” Ferguson said, thanks in large part to Yorlets.
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.
Here are five questions about the investigation as Mueller’s probe nears its two-year anniversary.
Is Mueller really close to the end?
Trump’s allies and legal advisers have predicted for over a year that Mueller’s investigation was nearing completion, only to be disproven by new charges or investigative maneuvers.
Various news outlets reported this week that the department was prepared to receive Mueller’s report as soon as next week, but a Justice Department official said Friday that would not happen.
Some unresolved matters cause some to believe the conclusion and Mueller’s final report are further off.
Mueller is still wrangling in court with two witnesses over grand jury subpoenas, including a mystery foreign company that has asked the Supreme Court to take up the case. As of January, former Trump campaign aide Richard Gates was cooperating in several ongoing investigations. Stone’s trial is also months away, and it’s possible he could decide to cooperate.
Randall Eliason, a George Washington University law professor and former assistant U.S. attorney, said he’s skeptical the probe is actually nearing its end.
“I’ll believe it when I hear it from Mueller himself,” he said. “We’ve heard this so many times in the past and there is so much out there that still needs to be resolved.”
Legal analysts note that Mueller submitting his final report does not necessarily mean an end to the investigation, given that the special counsel has referred cases to other districts.
“Shutting down the Mueller office is not the same as shutting down the investigation,” said Steven Cash, a lawyer at Day Pitney and former counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Will we see more charges?
Many wonder if Mueller will unveil more charges ± particularly ones that allege Americans were involved in a conspiracy to interfere in the election.
Mueller’s court filings in the cases against Manafort and a Russian troll farm have referenced “uncharged individuals” and ongoing investigations, suggesting prosecutors are pursuing indictments against unknown subjects.
“We could see more arrests,” said Elie Honig, a defense attorney at Lowenstein Sandler and former assistant U.S. attorney. “There either already could be indictments that are under seal or there could be more arrests to come. It’s possible Mueller is preparing one last round of charges.”
Prosecutors are also sifting through troves of electronic evidence seized in searches of Stone’s residences, which could offer new leads or present new evidence of criminal activity.
How will Barr manage the report?
New Attorney General William Barr will decide what parts of Mueller’s report are released.
Barr said during his confirmation hearing that he would release as much about Mueller’s findings as possible in accordance with the law, though he did not commit to releasing it entirely.
Special counsel regulations require Mueller to submit a confidential report to the attorney general when he is finished. After that happens, Barr has broad discretion to decide what to release to Congress and what can be made public.
Legal and national security experts say that sensitive national security information and grand jury material would be redacted from any public report. It is also possible Barr will choose to summarize the findings in his own document to avoid the protected material. CNN reported Wednesday that Barr plans to give a summary to Congress soon after Mueller gives him the report.
Honig also noted that Barr first could share the report privately with the White House, raising the possibility Trump could object to certain portions becoming public by citing executive privilege.
Barr could be subject to handwringing from congressional Democrats if he limits the release of the report, but could also draw Trump’s ire if he reveals unsavory information about the president.
House Democrats are likely to subpoena the report if they believe Barr has not produced enough from it. They could also subpoena Mueller or Rosenstein to testify – setting the stage for high drama on Capitol Hill.
What will the report look like?
Just as Barr has broad discretion over what to reveal, Mueller has freedom in writing it.
The regulations only require that the report explain why the special counsel chose to prosecute certain crimes or decided against bringing other charges. That means the report could be a terse, two-page summary or an elaborate and detailed narrative akin to one of Mueller’s “speaking” conspiracy indictments.
Mueller could choose to include classified and grand jury material in the report or decline to do so in a way that allows more of it to be released to the public. There is also nothing that precludes Mueller from issuing multiple reports.
It remains unclear whether his final documentation will answer the question at the core of the investigation: Did the Trump campaign conspire with Russia to interfere in the election?
Many legal analysts believe that Mueller’s report will be informative and fact-driven and will not resemble the salacious 500-page report from Ken Starr that laid out details of the relationship between then-President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
“It’s going to be very well drafted, it’s going to be very well thought out,” said Cash. “I think it’s going to be a little bit boring. It’s not going to be like the Ken Starr report.”
Cash said the report would echo Detective Sergeant Joe from the series Dragnet: “‘Just the facts, ma’am.’”
What will the end mean for Trump?
Perhaps the most consequential question is what Mueller’s report reveals about Trump and any knowledge he had of his campaign’s contacts with Russians.
Trump has long denied that his campaign colluded with Moscow to meddle in the election and regularly derides the investigation as a partisan “witch hunt.”
It’s no secret Trump is eager to have the investigation wrapped up; he wrote that the probe “must end” in an early morning tweet Friday, describing it as “so bad” for the country.
“And the reason why is very simple: They want this albatross off their neck. They’ve been playing defense for two years. They want to play offense now and show the Democrats’ actions are all about getting Donald J. Trump, not actually finding out what happened about Russian interference during the 2016 election,” O’Connell said.
However, if the report reveals derogatory information about Trump, it could be politically damaging and produce new headaches for the White House. And it could serve as a roadmap for Democrats looking to investigate the president and possibly launch impeachment proceedings.
The conclusion of Mueller’s investigation will also not mean an end to the president’s legal woes. Prosecutors are still pursuing investigations related to the president in other districts, including the Manhattan probe into former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s campaign finance violations stemming from payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump before the election.
Cohen is scheduled to testify – publicly – before Congress next Wednesday.
Three renowned professional alpinists are missing and presumed dead after an avalanche in Canada‘s Rocky Mountains, Parks Canada has said.
Climbing media named the men as American Jess Roskelley, 36, and Austrians David Lama, 28, and Hansjorg Auer, 35, saying they were killed after attempting to climb a challenging route on Howse Peak in Banff National Park.
Parks Canada described the area as “a remote and an exceptionally difficult objective .. [that] required advanced alpine mountaineering skills.”
Canadian authorities did not release the names of the three men but said they were one American and two Europeans and described them as highly experienced professional mountain athletes.
David Lama, Jess Roskelly, and Hansjoerg Auer were among the best—each an incredible mountaineer, partner, & friend who enriched our community immeasurably. They will be deeply missed; may we continue to find inspiration in their ideals & accomplishments. https://t.co/SlA4A88poL
Roskelley was best-known for climbing Mount Everest at age 20 in 2003, making him the youngest person at the time to have climbed the world’s highest mountain.
Lama and Auer were also world-class mountaineers who had climbed some of the toughest routes around the globe.
Parks Canada said in a statement the party was attempting the east face of Howse Peak. The three men probably started their ascent on Tuesday, Stephen Holeczi, Parks Canada visitor safety specialist said.
They were reported overdue on Wednesday.
“Parks Canada visitor safety specialists immediately responded by air and observed signs of multiple avalanches and debris containing climbing equipment,” the statement said.
Holeczi also said there was “strong evidence” that all three climbers were deceased.
There currently is no timeline for when search and recovery efforts can begin, Holeczi said, because of bad weather and the risk of avalanche in the area.
Roskelley’s father, John Roskelley, was himself a world-renowned climber who had many notable ascents in Nepal and Pakistan, mostly in the 1970s; he had joined his son on the successful Everest expedition in 2003.
John Roskelley told The Spokesman-Review the route his son and the other climbers were attempting was first done in 2000.
“It’s just one of those routes where you have to have the right conditions or it turns into a nightmare. This is one of those trips where it turned into a nightmare.”
Perfiles de Opinión, encuestadora dirigida por Paulina Recalde, presentó ayer los resultados de su último estudio, realizado el 11 de marzo pasado, que analizó la intención de voto de cara a la segunda vuelta.
Según la encuesta, el candidato Lenín Moreno superaría por 15,4 puntos a Guillermo Lasso (51,02% a 35,53%).
Moreno vencería en la Costa por 53,40% a 33,68%. Mientras, en la Sierra, el postulante de Alianza PAIS alcanzaría el 48,71% de los votos sobre el 37,06% que obtiene el presidenciable por SUMA-CREO.
En la Amazonía, Lasso aventajaría a Moreno por un estrecho margen: 43,89% a 43,76%.
La firma aseguró que el 86,7% de los ecuatorianos ya habría decidido por quién votar y que el sufragio blanco llegaría a 7,24% y el nulo a 6,21%. (I)
Harvard spokeswoman Rachael Dane resisted the suggestion that Sullivan was losing his post because of his representation of Weinstein, saying the decision “was informed by a number of considerations.”
She noted that the climate review revealed serious concerns about Sullivan’s leadership, but also pointed to complaints about his leadership from fellow staffers that predated the Weinstein controversy and were outlined in a Harvard Crimson story on Friday.
“We’ve partnered with the house on interventions in the past but those measures haven’t really proved sufficient,” she said.
In recent weeks, the angry rift over Sullivan’s dueling behind-the-scenes roles has exploded into public view.
A married couple who works for Sullivan in Winthrop House filed a defamation lawsuit.against the faculty dean of another house over e-mails and texts she sent about them. The lawyer handling the defamation case, George J. Leontire, is a friend of Sullivan’s who worked side-by-side with him on the legal team that got former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez acquitted of double murder charges.
In the defamation case, Leontire has subpoenaed five Harvard faculty members or students, including a reporter for the student newspaper from whom he has demanded all communications regarding Sullivan.
Leontire did not respond to a request for comment Saturday.
Tension continued to rise as faculty members intervened for and against student protestors and students staged an occupation of Winthrop House to “reclaim it as a safe space” for survivors of sexual assault.
On Friday, the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, published a story detailing Winthrop House staffers’ complaints about Sullivan’s leadership dating back several years that described a toxic and hostile environment.
Sullivan and his wife issued a statement saying they would “take some time to process Harvard’s actions and consider our options. “
“We are surprised and dismayed by the action Harvard announced today. We believed the discussions we were having with high level University representatives were progressing in a positive manner, but Harvard unilaterally ended those talks,” they wrote.
“We are sorry that Harvard’s actions and the controversy surrounding us has contributed to the stress on Winthrop students at this already stressful time,” they added.
Finals begin at Harvard on Monday.
Danu A.K. Mudannayake, the student who launched the opposition to Sullivan’s role, said she was gratified that the administration had heard students’ concerns.
“Living in the time of the #MeToo movement and seeing people discredit that and also the [Supreme Court Justice Brett] Kavanaugh trials, I think that’s why this win — even if it is localized to our campus — means a lot for a lot of other people,” Mudannayake said. “It empowers voices that constantly are criticized and pushed down and don’t get given the kind of rights to be heard.”
Since February, students have demonstrated against Sullivan, saying that the role as a high-profile defender of the the leading villain of the #MeToo movement was incompatible with his duties as a faculty adviser who lives and works among undergraduates and sets the tone for their college experience.
Sullivan defenders pushed back, saying that with their sensitivity to an of-the-moment controversy, students were forsaking the principles of the American justice system.
Leontire recently told the Globe that students were unfairly tagging Weinstein’s attorney for Weinstein’s alleged crimes. He likened the current climate to the “Salem witch trials,” saying that anyone associated with #MeToo allegations would be punished, “no matter how they’re connected.”
Mudannayake called such an interpretation “idiocy.”
“Both Sullivan and Leontire do a very good job of making people like myself . . . look like the kind of snowflake-y liberals who want every man to be put in jail for no good reason,” she said.
She said the lawyers were missing her point — that Sullivan is not only a well-known law professor at Harvard, but a resident adviser to students who may have experienced sexual assault.
She noted that she is not protesting against Alan Dershowitz — the Harvard Law professor emeritus now under fire for his role negotiating a plea deal that allowed Florida billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to escape federal sex trafficking charges.
“I don’t have any right to tell a law school professor what they can and cannot do,” Mudannayake said. “There’s just such a huge difference when it comes to being a faculty dean and the roles and responsibilities.”
Mudannayake pointed to the escalating controversy in recent weeks and what she called “open retaliation” for her efforts.
The resident tutors who filed a defamation suit also filed a police report against her for alleged harassment during a dispute in the Winthrop dining hall in which Mudannayake believed one of the tutors was videotaping her. Leontire threatened to file a harassment complaint against her under Title IX, the federal law that guards against sexual and gender discrimination in education, for undetermined reasons.
“Across the country, across the globe we’re experiencing a moment in which there is a lot of momentum on sexual assault and a willingness to speak up,” Mudannayake said. “But there is a lot of resistance too. We just didn’t need that coming from within our homes.”
As faculty deans, Sullivan and his wife supervise a team of other adult staffers in overseeing the undergraduate residential complex where students spend much of their time. Some of the staffers who report to them had raised complaints about Sullivan well before the Weinstein controversy, according to the Friday Crimson story. Those staffers faulted Harvard administrators, including Khurana, for failing to adequately address a toxic climate in the Winthrop House, where they alleged management problems and alleged retaliation against those insufficiently supportive of Sullivan.
More than half of the Winthrop resident tutor staff made a pact to leave the House in protest in 2016, though they ultimately stayed, the Crimson wrote.
The Crimson story also described a January meeting with Winthrop House staff on the Weinstein controversy back in which Sullivan had allegedly berated a Winthrop tutor and accused her of organizing students against him and his wife.
Khurana called his decision to not keep Sullivan and Robinson on as faculty deans “a regrettable situation and a very hard decision to make. I have long admired your Faculty Deans’ commitment to justice and civic engagement, as well as the good work they have done in support of diversity in their House community.”
Sullivan and his wife were the first African-American appointed faculty deans in 2009; another African-American couple has been named since that time.
Sullivan told the New Yorker in March that he believes that some of the attacks against him may be racially motivated.
In that interview, he also resisted criticizing students for their activism against him, instead faulting the administration for responding to it.
“It’s in the nature of students to protest,” he told the New Yorker. “The adults in the room, however, do not have to react in the way that they have.”
WASHINGTON — The Green New Deal has always been a plan to make a plan.
It sets an ambitious goal to move the economy toward net-zero emissions by 2030, but as supporters in Congress eagerly work to build out those plans into real legislation, they’re going to face stiff competition from politicians, activists and think tanks working on their own proposals from a different set of assumptions.
Even among backers of the nonbinding resolution introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., its broad strokes could sow disputes about what the Green New Deal means in practice. Ocasio-Cortez herself described the resolution as a “request for proposals” designed to elicit legislation from multiple lawmakers.
“This is the first chapter of the book,” said Elizabeth Gore, senior vice president of political affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group. “Where you start out on these proposals is not where you end up.”
Potential for conflict
One area where the Green New Deal activists could clash with other environmental groups, lawmakers and other officials are their demands for a suite of “economic justice” policies, which include items like single-payer health care, along with guaranteed jobs and housing.
The Green New Deal resolution mentions these issues in passing, but there’s no party consensus around them and health care is already shaping up as a defining debate in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
“My own view is these energy investments and clean energy investments are going to be considered separately when they get to real legislation,” John Podesta, founder and director of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning advocacy group, told NBC News.
This could lead to confusion down the line. While many Democrats see the Green New Deal economic proposals as general goals, backers on the left see them as a critical component that they say will aid workers affected by the transition away from fossil fuels.
“It isn’t a section of the Green New Deal, it is the Green New Deal,” said Demond Drummer, executive director of New Consensus, a nonprofit that’s advised Ocasio-Cortez and is crafting proposals within the Green New Deal framework that could serve as a basis for legislation.
Many players, many plans
For Ocasio-Cortez and the activists who put the Green New Deal on the top of Democrats’ agenda, the race is on to define the maximalist approach and hold lawmakers to it.
Drummer said that the group’s plan is to produce regular policy proposals through 2019, with a goal of assembling a collection that lines up with all of the Green New Deal’s goals by January 2020.
“It’s not like there’s going to be this magnum opus that’s released in 2020,” he said. “There are some things ready to go now and some things that need to be worked on and revised.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is working on a “comprehensive” climate proposal that “builds on the (Green New Deal) resolution that was introduced and fleshes out a lot of those details,” communications director Josh Miller-Lewis said.
On the activist front, the Sunrise Movement is planning a national tour to promote the Green New Deal. They’ll also keep watch over the politicians working on related proposals, which includes the announced and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, several of whom are co-sponsors of the resolution and are also likely to roll out their own climate plans on the campaign trail. In particular, they hope to maintain the plan’s strict 10-year path toward a clean economy, a goal some allies see as unrealistic.
“If proposals don’t close in on a timeline to get to net-zero emissions in the time the science demands, they’re not the Green New Deal,” said Stephen O’Hanlon, communications director for Sunrise Movement.
Uncertain allies
Democratic leaders have generally praised the Green New Deal’s ambition, but they’re staying neutral on where their congressional members go next on climate legislation.
The resolution has 68 co-sponsors in the House and 11 in the Senate, still well short of a majority of Democrats in either chamber.
“My view is that when there are issues subject to robust debate within the many members of the House Democratic caucus, that it’s best that I don’t weigh in until I have an opportunity to evaluate the particular legislative proposals and have a discussion with all of the interested parties,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., a member of the House leadership team, told reporters last week.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., created a new Select Committee on climate change, but resisted Ocasio-Cortez’s demands to task it with producing a plan for achieving the Green New Deal’s goals. The committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., has said only that the panel will operate “in the spirit of the Green New Deal.”
That leaves it to individual lawmakers and committees to take the lead and Green New Deal advocates may have some allies. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., chair of the powerful Rules Committee, is a co-sponsor of Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution, as is Transportation and Infrastructure chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. His committee could potentially incorporate elements of the Green New Deal into legislation.
“I think you’ll see a different kind of infrastructure bill than you saw in the past,” Podesta said. “There will be more emphasis and reliance on clean energy, more electrification of the transportation sector, more investment in energy efficient buildings.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a prominent policy voice in the progressive caucus, said he expected to see “lots of creative initiatives” under the Green New Deal banner, rather than one major bill. He’s working on legislation designed to boost tax credits for electric cars, an issue he’s pursued in prior legislative sessions.
However, the chair of Energy and Commerce, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., is not a resolution co-sponsor and has sounded some skeptical notes on Ocasio-Cortez’s approach.
In the Senate, Republicans are in control, making movement on major legislation unlikely. But key Democrats are also less warm to the Green New Deal, most notably coal-friendly Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the ranking member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Rival approaches
There’s a fundamental legislative debate shaping up over how to tax pollution, an area where the Green New Deal may represent a more drastic break from prior Democratic plans.
For decades, Democrats across the ideological spectrum have sought to put a price on carbon emissions in order to encourage companies and consumers to adopt more energy-efficient practices.
Markey, the Green New Deal resolution co-sponsor, led a failed 2009 effort to enact cap-and-trade legislation that would set a total limit on pollution and then allow companies to buy and sell emissions allowances between them. It passed the House, but was never voted on in the Senate.
The Green New Deal resolution stays quiet on the topic of carbon taxes, but supporters have often framed their proposal as a rival framework to that approach.
Ocasio-Cortez has said cap-and-trade or carbon taxes could be part of an overall solution, but are “inadequate as the whole answer.” A coalition of environmental groups backing the Green New Deal are explicitly against the concept, with critics on the left arguing carbon taxes will raise prices for consumers and spark a political backlash. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who is weighing a Democratic presidential run, unsuccessfully tried to pass a carbon tax in his state last year and has since urged national Democrats to consider other approaches.
But many economists and environmental groups still back putting a price on emissions and some Democrats see it as an easier bridge to bipartisan support. Versions of a carbon tax enjoy backing from at least some Republicans and major corporations, including oil companies like ExxonMobil and BP, which see it as a way to avoid more intrusive government intervention.
In the House, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., is co-sponsoring a bill with Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., and a group of moderate Democrats to impose a $15-per-ton fee on carbon that rises over time and then pay out the collected revenue to Americans as a dividend.
“We have to create a disincentive,” Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who has not signed onto the Green New Deal, told NBC News. “I favor a carbon fee and dividend, returning the dollars generated right back to taxpayers.”
Another carbon fee bill sponsored by a more progressive coalition of Democrats, Sens. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Reps. David Cicilline of Rhode Island and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, would start the price at $50-per-ton.
Schatz, who is considered an influential policy figure among progressives, has showered praise on the Green New Deal, but did not sign onto the resolution and has said he is working on his own proposals.
For now, the first legislative action on the Green New Deal will come from the Republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is planning a vote on the resolution in an apparent bid to highlight divisions among Democrats, including the 2020 candidates, and lay the groundwork for future GOP attacks.
Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called McConnell’s move a “political stunt” in a speech on the Senate floor and challenged Republicans to release their own climate bills. Schumer has not signed onto the Green New Deal, however.
Benjy Sarlin is a political reporter for NBC News.
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La corbeta rusa Mirazh cruza por Estambul en su ruta hacia Siria.
Quienes se dedican a observar barcos en Estambul se han convertido en una fuente clave de valiosa información geopolítica para diplomáticos y expertos en inteligencia al alertar al mundo sobre las dimensiones que ha tomado la campaña de Rusia en Siria.
Es casi medianoche. Apenas acabo de irme a dormir al final de un largo viaje a esta ciudad, cuando el sonido de mi teléfono celular anuncia que tengo un mensaje.
“Noticias ligeramente malas”, dice.
“Alexander Tkachenko entrará en el Bósforo a las 4:20 am. Muy inconveniente. No hay ninguna garantía de que veamos nada en absoluto”, agrega.
El Alexander Tkachenko es un enorme ferry ruso de pasajeros y vehículos que ha cruzado el Bósforo en muchas ocasiones anteriores, transportando de forma visible en su cubierta camiones militares y otros equipos destinados a Siria.
Puede que esta vez su carga no pueda verse. En todo caso, en esta época del año a las 4:20 am aún falta mucho para que amanezca en Turquía. Aún estará oscuro.
Pero eso no detendrá a Yoruk Isik, quien me envió el mensaje, antes de levantarse de la cama para ir buscar un buen lugar de observación a las orillas del Bósforo, en el corazón de Estambul, con sus binoculares y una cámara con un teleobjetivo.
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Yoruk Isik se dedica a observar y fotografiar los barcos que cruzan el Bósforo.
Estará así preparado para tuitear las noticias sobre el tránsito del barco a muchos de sus ávidos seguidores, entre los cuales ahora se incluyen diplomáticos y analistas de inteligencia alrededor del mundo.
Y me está invitando a acompañarle, aunque advierte: “Me sentiré muy culpable si no hay nada a bordo.
Por supuesto que yo también me levanto. Para eso he venido hasta acá.
Observación de barcos
Bienvenidos al extravagante -pero políticamente cada vez más importante- mundo de la observación de barcos.
Se trata de una altamente colaborativa fraternidad internacional. La mayor parte, aunque no todos, son hombres e Isik es uno de sus miembros más entusiastas y enérgicos.
Es un hombre grande en todos los sentidos de la palabra: parece un oso, es generoso y divertido.
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Yoruk Isik (a la derecha) con su amigo Devrim Yaylali, quien también se dedica a observar barcos.
Y se mantiene en pie tomando tazas de café bien fuerte, que es el tercer amor de su vida después de su esposa y de los barcos, porque no duerme mucho.
“Muchas veces me levanto a las dos, tres o cuatro de la mañana para ver cosas”, dice.
“Sí, es muy doloroso. Destruyo muchos días como este”, agrega riendo.
Es fácil entender cómo comenzó su adicción. En parte se deriva de vivir en Estambul.
El Bósforo, la puerta hacia el Mar Negro para los barcos que vienen del Mediterráneo, no es la única vía en el mundo congestionada con el tráfico de barcos procedentes de muchos países del mundo.
Pero ninguno de estos canales atraviesa el corazón de una ciudad enorme.
Así, los 15 millones de habitantes de Estambul pueden ver una gran cantidad de barcos de guerra, cruceros o cargueros mercantespasar frente a sus narices.
Puntos de observación
Con apenas 700 metros de ancho en su punto más angosto, el Bósforo es tan transitado que para evitar accidentes las autoridades turcas usan un sistema de una sola dirección, cambiando regularmente el sentido de la navegación de acuerdo con la demanda. Los barcos que van hacia el otro lado deben esperar ante sus entradas al norte o al sur.
Isik tiene sus puntos de observación favoritos, la mayor parte de ellos en una de las muchas curvas del estrecho, pero con frecuencia se limita a mirar desde el balcón de su casa.
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El barco USS Porter durante su tránsito por el Bósforo.
“La observación de barcos es un espejo de las relaciones internacionales, de la política, de lo que está ocurriendo ahora“, dice.
“Las guerras comerciales entre Rusia y Turquía, la presencia de Estados Unidos en el Mar Negro dando apoyo a sus aliados de la OTAN o los intentos de Moscú para reinsertarse en Medio Oriente, todo está ocurriendo en mitad de esta ciudad”, agrega.
Isik, quien se gana la vida como consultor en relaciones internacionales, registra el tránsito de barcos de todo tipo.
Uno de los que esperó recientemente en un café junto a la orilla fue el barco de construcción más grande del mundo, el Pioneering Spirit, cuyo tamaño equivale al de seis aviones jumbo, para verlo cruzar el Bósforo en su ruta para ayudar a ensamblar el gasoducto Turkstream frente a las costas rusas.
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Isik informó en Twitter sobre el tránsito del Pioneering Spirit, cuyo tamaño equivale al de seis aviones jumbo.
Es tan grande que el estrecho tuvo que ser cerrado a los demás barcos mientras hacía su travesía.
Pero son los barcos de guerra los que más fascinan a Isik y a su amigo Devrim Yaylali, quien también se dedica a observar barcos y es editor de la web Bosphorus Naval News (Noticias Navales del Bósforo).
Ocupados
Yaylali es economista y ha estado mirando los barcos incluso desde antes de que Isik comenzara a hacerlo, dado que él tenía que cruzar el estrecho para ir al colegio cuando era adolescente, durante la Guerra Fría.
Tenía tanta curiosidad sobre los barcos de guerra soviéticos que un día incluso llegó a faltar a un examen para fotografiar el portaviones Almirante Kuznetsov, que ahora es el buque insignia de la Armada rusa, durante su primer cruce a través de Estambul.
En la actualidad Isik y Yaylali se mantienen cada vez más ocupados, debido al incremento del tráfico marítimo por el Bósforo desde que Rusia se anexionó la península de Crimea, en el lado norte del mar Negro.
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Isik ha informado sobre el tránsito de los barcos rusos en dirección a Siria.
El Kremlin ha estado reforzando sus defensas militares en Crimea y modernizando su flota en el Mar Negro, cuya base está en esa península en el puerto de Sebastopol.
“Rusia ya compró tres nuevos submarinos Clase Kilo y un cuarto está por llegar“, dice Isik.
“Eso demuestra su interés en afianzar su influencia sobre el Mar Negro”, apunta.
Pero la OTAN dijo que responderá con un aumento de su presencia naval en la región.
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Desde la cubierta del barco ruso Filchenkov, alguien también fotografió a Yoruk Isik.
“Más alarmante”
En abril, Isil avistó el destructor británico HMS Daring en su paso por Estambul, un inusual despliegue operacional de la Armada británica en el Mar Negro.
“Para mí, la situación actual es más alarmante que durante la Guerra Fría. Existe la posibilidad de más confrontaciones militares”, afirma.
Pero, por ahora, el mayor riesgo de un enfrentamiento se relaciona con Siria y, desde que Rusia comenzó a implicarse en esa guerra hace casi dos años, Isik y el resto de sus colegas que observan barcos han jugado un papel clave al alertar al mundo sobre la dimensión del compromiso militar ruso allí.
Todos los barcos de Rusia que viajan a Siria desde Sebastopol o desde la otra base rusa en el mar Negro en Novorosíisk deben cruzar a través del Bósforo.
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Isik también informó sobre el paso del destructor británico HMS Daring a través del Bósforo.
En ocasiones, asegura Isik, Rusia parece querer alardear sobre su controversial campaña.
Su imagen más famosa, tomada en diciembre de 2015 y retuiteada alrededor del mundo, era la de un soldado ruso de pie en la cubierta de una lancha de desembarco cargando un lanzamisiles portátil Igla, mientras la embarcación cruzaba por el centro de Estambul.
Los barcos de guerra de Rusia, al igual que los de otras naciones con costas en el Mar Negro, tienen plenos derechos para cruzar el Bósforo en tiempos de paz. El resto de países tienen derechos más limitados.
Pero la imagen, captada poco después de que Turquía derribara un cazabombardero ruso que supuestamente había violado su espacio aéreo, fue considerada como una provocación al punto que Ankara envió a Moscú una nota diplomática de protesta.
“Yo ni siquiera vi el cohete a simple vista, sólo cuando descargué la foto”, dice Isik.
“Al final, no sabría decir si fue algo hecho por orden de Moscú o si solo fue una iniciativa del soldado o del capitán del barco”, añade.
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Un soldado ruso de pie en la cubierta de una lancha de desembarco cargando un lanzamisiles portátil Igla, mientras la embarcación cruzaba por el centro de Estambul.
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Al ver la imagen de cerca se podía ver a un soldado ruso de pie en la cubierta cargando un lanzamisiles portátil Igla
Secreto
En cuanto al Aleksandr Tkachenko, la embarcación por la que ambos renunciamos a dormir, finalmente emergió como se esperaba de la niebla matinal cuando transitaba por una curva del Bósforo, cargado con numerosas hileras de verdes camiones militares Kamaz.
“Estoy bastante emocionado porque el gobierno de Rusia hizo un contrato con este barco hace año y medio. Era secreto, ellos no lo anunciaron y esto muestra su acercamiento a la guerra. Los barcos de la OTAN son más fuertes que la Armada rusa, pero con lo que tienen Moscú lanzó una campaña exitosa a 1.600 kilómetros de Sebastopol”, afirma.
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El Aleksandr Tkachenko, justo al amanecer, transportando camiones militares en su ruta hacia Siria.
“Fui el primero en darse cuenta de que Rusia estaba transportando vehículos militares en embarcaciones civiles y esto mostró, aún más, que están profundizando su compromiso con la guerra”.
Luego pregunta: “¿Entonces, Tim, ahora sientes la emoción de quienes observamos los barcos?”.
“Yo amo el misterio. Cuando vemos un barco cargando cosas del punto A al punto B es como un rompecabezas y, con la ayuda de otras personas que avistan embarcaciones, puedes solucionarlo”, se responde.
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El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump rechazó hoy aligerar sus declaraciones de que desplegará “fuego y furia” en contra de Corea del Norte al recalcar que esa declaración, hecha el martes, quizá no fue suficientemente enfática y que Corea del Norte debería estar “muy muy nerviosa” y que estará en problemas “como lo han estado pocas naciones” si sigue escalando su programa nuclear.
Pyongyang ya había respondido más temprano hoy a las declaraciones de Trump con la amenaza de atacar Guam, un territorio de Estados Unidos en el Pacífico, pues “un diálogo verdadero” no es posible con alguien “despojado de la razón y solo la fuerza absoluta puede funcionar con él”, según el general norcoreano Kim Rak-gyom, comandante de la Fuerza Estratégica del Ejército Popular. Añadió que Trump, quien estaría pasando su tiempo solo en los “campos de golf”, no ha sido capaz de “entender la grave situación”.
Por su parte, los habitantes de Guam han decidido continuar con sus vidas como de costumbre pese a la amenaza. “Todos seguimos con la rutina, aunque sí estamos hablando de la situación”, dijo Josie Sokala, quien vive en Mangilao, en la costa este de Guam.
En medio de los temores por lo que pueda hacer Corea del Norte, los Estados vecinos de Japón y Corea del Sur buscan reforzar su arsenal, mientras que China ve la posibilidad de volverse el aliado confiable en caso de que el respaldo de Estados Unidos se vuelva incierto.
Rafael Márquez dio una conferencia de prensa en la sede del equipo mexicano Atlas, en Guadalajara. Credit
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El Departamento del Tesoro conmocionó ayer a México al revelar un paquete de sanciones contra 22 individuos y 43 entidades que incluyen al futbolista Rafael Márquez y al cantante Julión Álvarez. Ambos, de acuerdo con el Tesoro estadounidense, habrían actuado como testaferros para el cartel del narcotraficante Raúl Flores Hernández. Este está actualmente detenido en un reclusorio de Ciudad de México y enfrenta una solicitud de extradición hacia Estados Unidos acusado de asociación delictuosa.
La noche del miércoles, Márquez sostuvo una conferencia de prensa en la sede de su actual equipo, el Atlas de Guadalajara, en la que dijo: “Aclaro que no y nunca he participado en ninguna de estas organizaciones (en las) que se me han mencionado”. Sin embargo, los señalamientos en su contra –tanto él como su fundación, una escuela de fútbol y dos allegados están en la lista de sanciones del Tesoro– provocaron lamentos en México al tratarse de uno de los grandes héroes del deporte: Márquez ha sido capitán de la selección en cuatro mundiales y ha tenido una carrera exitosa tanto dentro como fuera del país.
En el caso de Julión Álvarez, la situación también despertó críticas, pues el músico de banda se había reunido hace apenas unas semanas con el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto. El mandatario borró ayer una fotografía del encuentro de su cuenta oficial de Instagram.
Quizá es un buen momento para preguntarse: ¿por qué en ocasiones al público se le hace fácil perdonar a los atletas?
El presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro durante una sesión de ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) en Caracas el 8 de agosto, día en que se instaló en el país la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente. Credit
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El martes 8 de agosto quedó instalada formalmente la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente de Venezuela, que se declaró por encima de los demás poderes con sus funciones de reescribir la Constitución de 1999. Compuesta por líderes chavistas, la asamblea seguirá hasta completar el proceso de redactar una nueva carta magna, lo que expertos ven como “otro esfuerzo del gobierno por evitar la salida del poder”.
Pese a las críticas de varios países de la región, de la oposición y de la ONU, lo más probable es que la constituyente siga. ¿Qué implicaciones tendrá eso?
El presidente argentino Mauricio Macri en la Casa Rosada el 8 de agosto Credit
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• El presidente argentino Mauricio Macri dio una entrevista al diario La Nación esta semana de cara a las primarias electorales del domingo en la que, entre otras cosas, dice que su antecesora Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “tiene un problema psicológico” pues no parece reconocer que ya no está en el poder. Fernández de Kirchner es actualmente candidata al senado.
• El subcomandante de la policía de Bogotá William Sánchez fue detenido junto con otros once oficiales señalado por homicidio agravado y es acusado de haber alterado una escena del crimen para hacer parecer que un profesor asesinado en agosto de 2013, Francisco Javier Ocampo, era un delincuente y tenía un arma.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva durante una conferencia de prensa el 13 de julio Credit
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• La justicia brasileña reabrió ayer otra investigación en contra del expresidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, quien ya fue condenado a nueve años y medio de prisión en julio por cargos de corrupción. Se trata de una investigación por el escándalo de mensãlao, según el cual funcionarios de la presidencia de Lula sobornaron a legisladores para que votaran a favor de ciertas medidas. Pese a los cargos, Lula, quien aspira a ser candidato presidencial el próximo año, todavía podría lanzarse.
Sobrellevar el cáncer en Siria
En medio de la guerra civil, los sirios enfrentan varios dilemas como si buscar refugio en otro país o si regresar a sus casas después de que la zona ha sido liberada del control del Estado Islámico. Los efectos de la guerra han sido particularmente pronunciados en los niños, sin mencionar los menores de edad que padecen cáncer.
Sus padres tienen opciones limitadas para el tratamiento, en particular porque el hospital mejor capacitado para tratar casos de cáncer está en una zona de Damasco ubicada cerca de un frente de batalla. Así que, qué es mejor: ¿viajar por un camino en el que podrían ser víctimas de bombas de mortero hacia un hospital que podría ser atacado o esperar en casa y rezar por que termine el conflicto mientras la enfermedad se esparce por el cuerpo de sus hijos?
Cada noche, trabajadores mexicanos cruzan la frontera de forma ilegal desde México a California, donde trabajan de jornaleros rurales en el Valle Imperial de California. Credit
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Los migrantes indocumentados en Estados Unidos han sido vilipendiados por algunas autoridades en ese país, en particular ahora que Donald Trump promueve una política de mano dura, pero nuestro columnista de economía Eduardo Porter afirma que en realidad son más importantes que nunca a modo de mano de obra y como consumidores.
En opinión, por otra parte, Héctor Tobar escribe que es momento de dejar de promover la “pornografía de la inmigración”, en la que se presenta a las personas indocumentadas solo en momentos muy difíciles y vulnerables, como cuando enfrentan procesos de deportación o son separadas de sus familias, y no cuando conviven con sus vecinos o viven su día a día.
• Si planeas ejercitarte esta semana y salir a correr, hazlo acompañado de amigos: los estudios indican que correr es contagioso y que mejoramos nuestro paso y tiempos cuando lo hacemos acompañados de amistades que sean más rápidas.
• Aunque si tu ejercicio es muy extenuante, cuidado con empezar a hacerlo demasiado rápido. En los últimos años se han presentado cada vez más casos de rabdomiólisis, una enfermedad en la que el tejido muscular llega a decaer y que antes solo se presentaba en personas que hacían trabajos físicos muy arduos.
Partidarios de Raila Odinga, el líder opositor, se manifestaron el 9 de agosto en Mathare. Credit
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Las últimas elecciones presidenciales en Kenia, en 2007, desencadenaron una fuerte ola de violencia con más de mil muertos ante acusaciones de fraude a favor del presidente Uhuru Kenyatta. Se teme que los comicios celebrados esta semana lleven a lo mismo: el candidato de la oposición Raila Odinga acusó a Kenyatta, quien fue investigado por la Corte Penal Internacional señalado de haber incitado a la violencia contra los disidentes en 2007, de haber hackeado el sitio web de la comisión electoral.
Faced with significant pressure to prevent the expiration of the unemployment insurance benefit, Republicans worked feverishly to coalesce around a stopgap bill that could extend it, though most proposals unveiled this week would slash the aid and present overwhelmed state systems with a difficult switch that experts say is likely to disadvantage lower-wage workers.
One such proposal, which Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Mike Braun of Indiana tried to push across the Senate floor on Thursday, would have continued the extra jobless aid payments through the end of the year, but slashed the payments to $200 a week from $600 or allow the benefit to replace two-thirds of a worker’s prior income.
Mr. Meadows said President Trump would support a flat, one-week extension of the $600 benefit in order to buy lawmakers time to negotiate a longer agreement. But Democrats rejected an attempt by Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona, to win approval of such an extension, with Mr. Schumer dismissing the effort as “a stunt” on the Senate floor.
“This is disappointing and a political stunt and a game,” Ms. McSally, who is badly trailing her Democratic opponent in Arizona’s Senate race, shot back. “It’s the minority leader who is against this on his path to try to become the majority leader, and that’s unfortunate.”
It could be a good idea, because mortgage rates have never been lower. Refinancing requests have pushed mortgage applications to some of the highest levels since 2008, so be prepared to get in line. But defaults are also up, so if you’re thinking about buying a home, be aware that some lenders have tightened their standards.
What is school going to look like in September?
It is unlikely that many schools will return to a normal schedule this fall, requiring the grind of online learning, makeshift child care and stunted workdays to continue. California’s two largest public school districts — Los Angeles and San Diego — said on July 13, that instruction will be remote-only in the fall, citing concerns that surging coronavirus infections in their areas pose too dire a risk for students and teachers. Together, the two districts enroll some 825,000 students. They are the largest in the country so far to abandon plans for even a partial physical return to classrooms when they reopen in August. For other districts, the solution won’t be an all-or-nothing approach. Many systems, including the nation’s largest, New York City, are devising hybrid plans that involve spending some days in classrooms and other days online. There’s no national policy on this yet, so check with your municipal school system regularly to see what is happening in your community.
Is the coronavirus airborne?
The coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting people as they inhale, mounting scientific evidence suggests. This risk is highest in crowded indoor spaces with poor ventilation, and may help explain super-spreading events reported in meatpacking plants, churches and restaurants. It’s unclear how often the virus is spread via these tiny droplets, or aerosols, compared with larger droplets that are expelled when a sick person coughs or sneezes, or transmitted through contact with contaminated surfaces, said Linsey Marr, an aerosol expert at Virginia Tech. Aerosols are released even when a person without symptoms exhales, talks or sings, according to Dr. Marr and more than 200 other experts, who have outlined the evidence in an open letter to the World Health Organization.
What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
Common symptoms include fever, a dry cough, fatigue and difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. Some of these symptoms overlap with those of the flu, making detection difficult, but runny noses and stuffy sinuses are less common. The C.D.C. has also added chills, muscle pain, sore throat, headache and a new loss of the sense of taste or smell as symptoms to look out for. Most people fall ill five to seven days after exposure, but symptoms may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days.
Does asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 happen?
So far, the evidence seems to show it does. A widely cited paper published in April suggests that people are most infectious about two days before the onset of coronavirus symptoms and estimated that 44 percent of new infections were a result of transmission from people who were not yet showing symptoms. Recently, a top expert at the World Health Organization stated that transmission of the coronavirus by people who did not have symptoms was “very rare,” but she later walked back that statement.
Mr. Schumer, his flip phone ringing in his pocket, spent a portion of his day on the Senate floor, swatting last-ditch attempts by Republicans to push through short extensions of the jobless aid and to try to pin the blame on Democrats for blocking them. He responded with a futile and politically loaded tactic of his own: an attempt to win approval of the $3 trillion stimulus package House Democrats passed in May. Republicans blocked that as well, with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, deriding it as “a totally unserious proposal.”
“The House speaker moves the goal posts while the Democratic leader hides the football,” said Mr. McConnell, accusing Democrats of blocking discussions among rank-and-file lawmakers. “They won’t engage when the administration tries to discuss our comprehensive plan. They won’t engage when the administration floats a narrower proposal. They basically won’t engage, period.”
Comparing negotiations with Republicans to “trying to nail Jell-O to the wall,” Mr. Schumer noted that Mr. McConnell, whose conference remained divided over another relief package, was notably absent from the daily negotiations with administration officials in Ms. Pelosi’s Capitol Hill suite. The time crunch, he said, came because Republicans had “dithered for months” and still had yet to reach agreement on the $1 trillion proposal they had put forward on Monday.
An S&S spokesman declined to make an official statement amid blowback from President Trump, saying only that there is “no change” in the publication date for “The Room Where It Happened.”
Trump has called for his former national security adviser’s memoir to be blocked, claiming it contains classified material.
The yet-to-be-published manuscript played a central role in Senate impeachment discussions this week after the New York Times late Sunday reported Bolton’s claims that Trump told him in August 2019 that the president was withholding $391 million in aid to Ukraine until he had a promise that the powers that be there would launch investigations into Joe Biden, whose son had ties to Ukraine.
Trump on Monday denied he said it. “If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book,” he said.
Bolton lawyer Charles Cooper said he does not believe “The Room Where It Happened” contains classified material but is pushing for an expeditious decision from the National Security Council on its content — even as it remains possible for Bolton to be called to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
Un delfín amaneció ayer muerto en la playa de la comuna San Pablo, en el norte de la península de Santa Elena.
Versiones de los pescadores indican que el espécimen llegó a la orilla muerto con un corte en su aleta caudal también conocida como cola.
Al sitio del varamiento llegaron técnicos del Ministerio del Ambiente, quienes recopilaron evidencias a fin de conocer la causa de la muerte.
La Dirección Provincial no descarta la realización de una campaña de concienciación. En las últimas semanas, en esa provincia se varó una ballena y aparecieron lobos marinos en Santa Rosa y Chanduy. (I)
Los demandantes incluyen a Nueva York, Massachusetts, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, Distrito de Columbia, Hawái, Illinois, Iowa, Nuevo México, Carolina del Norte, Oregón, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont y Virginia.
El fiscal general de Nueva York, Eric Schneiderman, junto con la fiscal de Massachusetts, Maura Healey, y el de Washington, Bob Ferguson, encabezaron esta coalición de 16 fiscales generales en la demanda contra el presidente, que fue presentada en el Tribunal de Distrito Este de Nueva York.
“Uno de los puntos de la demanda indica que Trump ha violado la cláusula de Igual Protección de la Constitución discriminando a los mexicanos, que representan el 78% de los beneficiarios de DACA”, indica el comunicado distribuido por Schneiderman.
“La inmigración es la fuente de vida del Estado de Nueva York. La decisión de la administración Trump de poner fin a DACA es cruel, inhumana y devastadora para los 42,000 neoyorquinos que han podido salir de las sombras y vivir una vida plena como resultado del programa (…) Estos dreamers trabajan duro y pagan impuestos. EEUU es el único hogar que han conocido y merecen quedarse aquí y seguir contribuyendo a nuestra gran nación”, dijo Schneiderman.
Esta demanda llega luego de que el martes, el fiscal general, Jeff Sessions, dijera que el programa conocido como Acción Diferida para los LLegados en la Niñez (DACA) finalizaba y exhortara al Congreso a que en seis meses encuentre una solución legislativa al problema de los dreamers.
DACA fue puesto en vigor mediante acción ejecutiva por el expresidente Barack Obama en 2012. El objetivo era proteger y darles ciertos beneficios iguales al del estatus legal (como trabajar, estudiar, viajar al exterior), a aquellos que fueron llevados a Estados Unidos como indocumentados siendo niños.
Luego del anuncio de Sessions, los acogidos al programa se encuentran en la incertidumbre ya que no se sabe qué les deparará en el Congreso.
Tras el revuelo causado por el anuncio de DACA por parte del gobierno, el presidente sorprendió al enviar un tuit en el que, sin aclarar cómo, afirmaba que volvería a revisar este programa migratorio.
“El Congreso tiene ahora 6 meses para legalizar el DACA (algo que el gobierno de Obama no pudo hacer). ¡Si no pueden, voy a revisitar este problema!”, tuiteó el presidente.
A man was fatally shot Saturday evening near E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, the Minneapolis intersection known as George Floyd Square, where Floyd died in police custody last May.
According to police spokesman John Elder, police got a ShotSpotter notification about 5:45 p.m., and 911 callers reported that two people had been shot and were being brought to the barricades at the area’s entrance. When officers arrived, the victim was already gone.
Police later learned that the victim, a man believed to be in his 30s with a gunshot wound, had been taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died. No second victim appeared, Elder said.
“Officers were met with some interference” when they arrived at the square to investigate, Elder said, without giving further details. He said that officers’ body cameras may provide more information.
Investigators’ initial findings are that the victim and a suspect had a verbal disagreement and the suspect shot the victim before fleeing the area, heading north in a cream or light-colored Suburban with gunshot damage.
“This appeared to be a very directed attack or assault. And we’re unaware of this being a threat to the community,” said Elder. “They had an argument. And so, it appears that there may have been some previous knowledge of one another.”
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