Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new guidelines allowing out-of-state travelers to New York to “test out” of the mandatory 14-day quarantine. Travelers from states that are contiguous with New York will continue to be exempt from the travel advisory; however, covered travelers must continue to fill out the Traveler Health Form. Essential workers will continue to be exempt as well. The new protocol is effective Wednesday, November 4.
“The ship of State is sailing well: New York is the third lowest positivity rate in the nation and New Yorkers should be very proud of what they’re doing. However, travel has become an issue – the rest of the states pose a threat. We’re going to a new plan given the changing facts, and the experts suggest we shift to a testing policy,” Governor Cuomo said. “So there will be no quarantine list; there will be one rule that applies across the country. We bent the curve of this virus by following the data and the science, and we are continuing that approach with these new guidelines.”
For any traveler to New York State from out of state, exempting the contiguous states, the new guidelines for travelers to test-out of the mandatory 14-day quarantine are below:
For travelers who were in another state for more than 24 hours:
Travelers must obtain a test within three days of departure from that state.
The traveler must, upon arrival in New York, quarantine for three days.
On day 4 of their quarantine, the traveler must obtain seek another COVID test. If both tests come back negative, the traveler may exit quarantine early upon receipt of the second negative diagnostic test.
For travelers who were in another state for less than 24 hours:
The traveler does not need a test prior to their departure from the other state, and does not need to quarantine upon arrival in New York State.
However, the traveler must fill out the traveler information form upon entry into New York State, and take a COVID diagnostic test 4 days after their arrival in New York.
Local health departments will validate tests, if necessary, and if a test comes back positive, will issue isolation orders and initiate contact tracing. The local health department must make contact with the state the traveler came from, to ensure contact tracing proceeds there as well. All travelers must continue to fill out the traveler information form upon arrival into New York State to contribute to New York State’s robust contact tracing program.
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado undersheriff who led the search for a Florida teenager whose actions prompted tightened security at Columbine High School ahead of the 20th anniversary of an attack there that killed 13 people said she likely killed herself before police launched a massive manhunt.
Clear Creek County Undersheriff Bruce Snelling told
that Sol Pais, 18, likely killed herself Monday evening. Her body was found in the snowy foothills west of Denver on Wednesday, and it appeared that she had been dead for more than 24 hours.
“She had no idea what occurred from late Monday afternoon to Tuesday when a search for her began and to Wednesday when her body was found,” Snelling said. “The logical likelihood was she was here to end her journey.”
A manhunt was launched Tuesday, the day after Pais traveled from Miami to Denver and bought a pump-action shotgun and two boxes of ammunition. FBI officials said they were concerned that she was planning an attack of her own because she was “infatuated” with the 1999 Columbine shooting.
Columbine, which is marking the 20th anniversary of the attack Saturday, locked its doors for several hours Tuesday as authorities combed the area for Pais, and hundreds of schools in the Denver area canceled classes Wednesday as the manhunt intensified.
Dean Phillips, agent in charge of the FBI office in Denver, said social media posts and comments she made to others led investigators to see her as a credible threat. Pais did not make threats against a specific school, but her history and purchase of a weapon immediately after arriving in Colorado merited a broad response, officials said.
But Snelling said Pais “didn’t have a master plan” to carry out a school shooting.
“She went dark,” he said. “There was no digital footprint anywhere. No phone. No credit card use. To me, that pointed to a near impossibility that this ill-equipped, 18-year-old teenage woman would fly from sea level in Florida to Colorado and then go up into the mountains with plans to go on a killing spree.”
Many questions remain unanswered about Pais, but a friend disputed the contention by authorities that she posed a threat.
Adrianna Pete, 19, painted a complex picture of the teen, saying she was deeply troubled, lonely and often talked about suicide but was also brilliant, kind and a talented artist who loved to draw.
Pete, a college student in Carleton, Michigan, said she met Pais online two years ago through a mutual friend and quickly developed a friendship involving near-daily communication. They met in person twice, once when Pete traveled to Florida and once when Pais went to Michigan.
Pete faulted authorities for overreacting in portraying Pais as a threat based on her activities before her death.
“She never threatened anyone,” Pete said. “There are no credible threats and only assumptions that she was just because the word Columbine was included.”
Pete said Pais had a weird obsession with the Columbine killers but that didn’t mean she was planning an attack. The killers were “someone she could relate to” because they were lonely, not because of their violence, Pete added.
An FBI spokeswoman has not responded to a request for more information on Pais’ background or her Columbine-related comments that sparked the rapid law enforcement response.
Una rotura fibrilar de grado I en el bíceps femoral izquierdo había dejado a Gastón Silva sin actividad en las últimas semanas y se estimaba que fuera baja para la próxima doble fecha de Eliminatorias en la que Uruguay recibirá a Ecuador y luego visitará a Chile.
Pero el defensor celeste se sumó el martes a los trabajos junto al plantel del Granada y hoy estuvo a la orden, en el banco de suplentes, en el encuentro que su equipo empató 1-1 con el Deportivo La Coruña por la Liga de España.
En tal sentido, todo hace indicar que Silva, citado a la selección por el maestro Tabárez, no tendrá ningún problema para vestir la Celeste en la próxima doble fecha de Eliminatorias rumbo al Mundial de Rusia 2018.
Washington (CNN)Video of then-businessman Donald Trump struggling to vote in-person before declaring he would fill out an absentee ballot in 2004 has resurfaced this week amid a new round of unfounded attacks on mail-in voting from the President.
A federal judge in Alaska has reinstated a ban on oil-and-gas drilling in vast swaths of the Arctic Ocean, potentially undermining a central part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand offshore drilling.
Mr. Trump will need congressional authority, according to the ruling, to reopen drilling in Arctic areas and smaller parts of the Atlantic Ocean that the Obama administration put off limits just weeks before President Obama left office. The late Friday ruling invalidates an executive order Mr. Trump issued during…
A man has been charged with five counts of intentional first-degree homicide after a vehicle was driven into a Christmas parade on Sunday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The city’s police chief named him as Darrell E Brooks at an afternoon press conference on Monday. He is accused of killing five people and injuring another 48, including two children who remain in a critical condition.
Daniel Thompson, the police chief, said the suspect was involved in an unspecified domestic disturbance immediately before the parade incident, and that further charges were expected.
Thompson said Brooks “drove right through the barricades” to enter the parade route and raced towards a collision with those entertaining the holiday crowds, including a marching band, a troupe of Dancing Grannies.
Was it a terrorist attack? Thompson said there was no evidence the bloodshed on Sunday was a terrorist attack or that the suspect knew anyone in the parade. The suspect had acted alone, the chief said.
Who were the victims? Tamara Durant and Jane Coolidge, both 52; Leanna Owens, 71; Virginia Sorenson, 79; and Wilhelm Hospel, 82, all died on Sunday.
How many are in hospital? At least 10 children remained in intensive care on Monday afternoon, health officials said. Injuries ranged from broken bones to serious head wounds.
Starbucks launches aggressive anti-union effort as upstate New York stores organize
Richard Bensinger, left, and baristas discuss their efforts to unionize three Buffalo-area stores at the movement’s headquarters in New York. Photograph: Carolyn Thompson/AP
Starbucks has launched an aggressive anti-union campaign as six stores in the Buffalo, New York, area have filed for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in recent weeks. If successful, the stores would be the first Starbucks corporate locations to unionize in the US.
Workers at the coffee chain have reported numerous captive audience meetings, one-on-one talks, store shutdowns, closures, remodelings, and text messages – a mode of contact that was previously used only for emergencies. Dozens of corporate executives have flooded stores with the intent to deter workers from voting to unionize, workers say.
The billionaire former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz visited Buffalo to present a case against unionizing to workers on 6 November and incited criticism for making an analogy to the Holocaust in discussing the company’s mission.
How have the Starbucks Workers United reacted? They filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB on 4 November over Starbucks’ conduct during the union campaign.
Roger Stone and Alex Jones among five to receive Capitol attack subpoenas
Members of the Oath Keepers militia provide security to Roger Stone at a rally on 5 January. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on Monday issued new subpoenas to five political operatives associated with Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and the far-right radio show host Alex Jones, as the panel deepens its inquiry into the Save America rally that preceded the 6 January insurrection.
The subpoenas demanding documents and testimony expand the select committee’s inquiry focused on the planning and financing of the rally at the Ellipse, by targeting operatives who appear to have had contacts with the Trump White House.
House investigators issued subpoenas to the veteran operatives Stone and Jones, Trump’s spokesperson Taylor Budowich, and the pro-Trump activists Dustin Stockton and his wife, Jennifer Lawrence.
Why were they subpoenaed? The chair of the select committee, Bennie Thompson, said the subpoenas aimed to uncover “who organized, planned, paid for, and received funds related to those events, as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress”.
What else are they interested in? They want to know more about Stone’s connection to the Oath Keepers, the militia group he used as his private security detail before several members stormed the Capitol.
Joe Biden intends to run again in 2024, White House confirms
Joe Biden has been keen to quash rumors of a one-term presidency. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
There has been a drop in the president’s polling numbers in recent months, leading some Democrats to speculate he might not seek another four-year term.
“He is. That’s his intention,” said the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, as Biden flew onboard Air Force One for a Thanksgiving event with US troops in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Democrats were rattled by Republican victories in Virginia’s gubernatorial election this month and a narrow Democratic victory in New Jersey.
The statement from the White House follows reports that Biden has been reassuring allies of his intentions to run again, and that he is keen to quash rumors of a one-term presidency.
Biden will be 15 days short of his 82nd birthday on 5 November 2024. He was already the oldest presidential candidate to be elected as commander-in-chief when he beat Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
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The ruling says the arbitrators found Kevin Spacey violated his contract’s demands for professional behaviour. Photograph: Steven Senne/AP
Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind House of Cards more than $30m because of losses brought on by his firing for alleged sexual misconduct, according to an arbitration decision made final on Monday.
At least 45 people including 12 children have died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria hours before daybreak today. The tragedy is the most deadly bus accident in the country’s history.
For the past few months, small municipalities – many without any standing abortion clinics – such as Lebanon and Mason – have outlawed abortion. Though women in those cities can still travel to get an abortion, the bans send an intimidating message.
China’s birthrate has plummeted to its lowest level since 1978 as the government struggles to stave off a looming demographic crisis. The government is under pressure to prevent a potential population decline after decades of interventionist policies and, more recently, high living costs.
Don’t miss this: the female imams taking over an LA mosque
Nurjahan Boulden, Tasneem Noor, and Samia Bano after praying together in Venice, California. Photograph: Anna Boyiazis/The Guardian
In many mosques across the world, women are not even allowedto pray. In some mosques in the US, womenmay enter but are often forcedpray in separate rooms – leading some to call it the “penalty box”. Spiritual leaders that have pushed boundaries – by running mixed congregation or an LGBTQ mosque – have received death threats. But at the Women’s Mosque of America, women are using their sermons to cover previously untouched topics including sexual violence, miscarriage and domestic violence.
Climate check: Want to fight for climate action but feel daunted or powerless? Try this
Insulate Britain activists protest in London, UK. Photograph: Belinda Jiao/Sopa/Rex/Shutterstock
For anyone hoping for some optimism about our planet, the recent Cop26 climate summit left much to be desired. The scale of the crisis can make us feel powerless – and individual action may seem like a drop in the ocean where climate change is concerned. But there are ways to use the affiliations we already have – such as with employers, universities, unions or religious groups – to boost our collective voice for change.
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Un estudio presentado el lunes reveló que los jóvenes hoy consume noticias viralmente a través de redes móviles y sociales en mayor número de lo que se pensaba.
Según el estudio, hecho por pel proyecto Media Insight que es patrocinado por AP-NORC y el Instituto Americano para la Prensa, dos tercios de los participantes reportaron consumir noticias en línea diariamente, y un 40 por ciento de ellos señalaron visitar medios de prensa varias veces al día.
Los temas noticiosos que consumen son de interés civil o personal. Usualmente, las noticias son referidas por amigos o son tendencias populares en redes sociales.
No obstante, los jóvenes utilizan diferentes medios para leer o ver ciertas noticias.
Noticias de importancia política o mundial son vistas en formatos tradicionales o sitios de internet de la prensa establecida, mientras que noticias de entretenimiento son digeridas vía redes sociales como Facebook o Twitter.
Una participante del estudio, Marilú Rodríguez, quien vive en Chicago y tiene 29 años, comentó que de niña su familia veía las noticias en la televisión, pero actualmente su medio preferido es su teléfono celular.
Rodríguez enfatizó que algunos medios de comunicación, en especial la televisión, no proporcionan el tipo de cobertura que ella busca.
“Algunas estaciones de noticias tienen que crecer”, dijo Rodríguez, quien dijo estar frustrada por coberturas no-objetivas y poco serias que muchos medios de televisión presentan.
Opiniones como las de Rodríguez han causado preocupación en medios de televisión, cuya audiencia juvenil ha disminuido progresivamente en los últimos años, según Los Angeles Times.
Por su parte nuevas tecnologías e industrias buscan atraer a los jóvenes y contribuir al cambio de medios periodísticos, incluyendo la televisión.
Adriano Farano, un empresario italiano, recientemente creó una aplicación llamada Watchup que ayudaría a medios de televisión atraer la atención de jóvenes distribuyendo noticias viralmente, usando un sistema de preferencia y librerías parecido a Netflix o iTunes.
El estudio también reveló que el consumo de noticias vía redes sociales y móviles igualmente ha incrementado en generaciones más adultas.
Este artículo incluye información de AP y LA Times.
(CNN)The FBI is asking for the public’s help in finding Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie after a coroner made an initial determination that Petito died by homicide.
CNN’s Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, Leyla Santiago, Gregory Lemos, Rebekah Riess, Eric Levenson, Jennifer Henderson and Andy Rose contributed to this report.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The wife and 4-year-old stepdaughter of an off-duty Harris County deputy constable were wounded early Sunday in a home invasion at their Montrose apartment.
It happened some time after 2 a.m. in the 2200 block of West Dallas near Montrose Boulevard.
The deputy and his family were asleep in their apartment when someone broke in, according to Houston police. The off-duty deputy woke up and confronted the suspect and they exchanged gunfire before he fled the apartment.
The 4-year-old was shot in the arm, and her mother was shot in the leg, according to Houston police chief Troy Finner.
WATCH: HPD Chief Troy Finner outlines what happened
The deputy constable told investigators that he believes he hit the suspect during the shootout, and a blood trail leading away from the apartment was discovered, according to Houston police chief Troy Finner.
The 4-year-old was in surgery at a hospital Sunday morning and was stable. Authorities fanned out in the area as they looked for the man responsible, but he was still on the loose.
“If anyone hears about a suspect going to the hospital, please notify HPD homicide,” Finner said.
ABC13’s Sunday morning report on the shooting from Nick Natario
Authorities did not have a detailed description of the man they were looking for, except that he was dressed in black and may have been around 5 feet 5 inches tall. He was armed with a shotgun and some type of assault rifle, police said.
The deputy constable works for Harris County Precinct 1 and has been with the agency for around three years.
Investigators weren’t yet sure if the deputy constable was targeted or if the intrusion was a random act.
LISTEN: Officers rush to find shooter after home invasion at off-duty deputy constable’s apartment
NUEVA YORK — Dos tercios de los adultos estadounidenses dicen que las noticias falsas están causando “mucha confusión” sobre los hechos básicos de los acontecimientos actuales, de acuerdo con un nuevo estudio del Centro de Investigaciones Pew.
Las noticias ficticias sobre polÃtica han llamado bastante la atención recientemente debido a la posibilidad de que hayan influido en la percepción pública y pudieran haber inclinado la balanza en la elección presidencial de Estados Unidos.
Por otra parte, Facebook anunció el jueves que está tomando nuevas medidas para combatir las noticias falsas en su red social.
Estos son otros hallazgos del análisis:
—Casi un tercio de los participantes del estudio dijeron que ven “muchas veces” noticias ficticias en lÃnea sobre polÃtica. Menos de la mitad dijeron que tenÃan “mucha confianza” en que podÃan detectar las noticias falsas. Otro 45% dijo que se sentÃa “algo” confiado.
—El 45% dijo que el gobierno y los polÃticos tienen “mucha” responsabilidad por la tarea de evitar que las noticias falsas llamen la atención. Alrededor de la misma cantidad de gente, 43%, respondió que esta responsabilidad recae en el público, mientras que el 42% dijo que le corresponde a las redes sociales y a los sitios de búsqueda.
Donald Trump Jr appears to have forgotten one of the cardinal rules of the apostrophe: it comes after the “s” when the possessive noun is plural.
The American president’s son’s forthcoming book, Liberal Privilege, is subtitled “Joe Biden and the Democrat’s Defense of the Indefensible”. Unless Trump Jr is referring to only one Democrat, then the apostrophe needs to shift one place to the right to make the title grammatically correct.
Detail from trailed cover art for Liberal Privilege.
The book is out in August. Trump Jr said on Twitter that he had been working on it “during the last few months of quarantine”, and that he was “blown away by what Biden has gotten away with”.
“Libs,” he added, are “already triggered” by the book.
According to Axios, Trump Jr is self-publishing the new book as “a shot across the bow” to traditional publishers, and “partnered” on it with the Trump Victory Finance Committee’s chief of staff, Sergio Gor.
His girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, an ex-Fox News television personality who is a senior fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, will read the audiobook, and also helped him work on it. Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus last week.
“That’s how we came up with the idea for her to do the audiobook,” Trump Jr told Axios. “We would take turns reading the chapters out loud for flow … Love in a time of Covid.”
Biden’s national press secretary, TJ Ducklo, told Axios that Liberal Privilege was “the latest in a series of desperate and pathetic attempts to distract from the president’s historic bungling of the coronavirus response”.
“Is there anything more on brand than Donald Trump Jr trying to cash in on a book filled with disgusting lies and smears about Joe Biden?” Ducklo added.
Martín Belaunde se escapó de su arresto domiciliario el domingo con la aparente complicidad de varias personas.
Martín Belaunde Lossio, empresario y exasesor del presidente de Perú, Ollanta Humala, fue hasta hace unos momentos el hombre más buscado por Bolivia y Perú.
Fue capturado en Beni (noreste de Bolivia) poco después del mediodía, hora local, en una casa particular donde se refugió. No opuso resistencia y de inmediato fue enviado a La Paz, informaron medios bolivianos.
La noticia fue ratificada por la cuenta de Twitter del Ministerio de Gobierno de Bolivia: “Confirmado, la Policía capturó a Belaunde”.
La Fiscalía peruana lo acusa de “conformar una organización criminal, como jefe de organización, por el caso Antalsis”.
Antalsis era una empresa española para la que Belaunde Lossio presuntamente realizó cabildeo con autoridades peruanas con el fin de conseguirle millonarias licitaciones.
Además se le investiga por presuntos delitos contra la administración pública “en la modalidad de colusión, tráfico de influencias y asociación ilícita para delinquir en agravio del Estado”, según el Ministerio Público peruano.
Belaunde Lossio se trasladó en diciembre a La Paz, Bolivia en busca de refugio y desde el pasado domingo desapareció de aquel lugar hasta que fue ubicado después de pasar cinco días en la clandestinidad.
Las autoridades bolivianas, antes del operativo policial que terminó en su captura, anticiparon que sería entregado a la justicia peruana de inmediato.
El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, compareció en rueda de prensa para hablar sobre la desaparición de Belaunde Lossio.
Búsqueda implacable
La misteriosa desaparición de Belaunde Lossio el domingo 24 de mayo en La Paz, hizo que el presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, prescindiera de su ministro de Gobierno y del comandante de la Policía, mientras que en Perú una avalancha de críticas castigó sin piedad al gobierno por no haber logrado la extradición del excolaborador a tiempo.
El escándalo alcanzó, principalmente, a la primera dama peruana, Nadine Heredia. Frente a las críticas, el presidente peruano ofreció el martes una recompensa por la entrega de Belaunde, a quien llamó “delincuente”. El mandatario rechazó, una vez más, que su administración proteja al ahora detenido y calificó de “insensatos” los ataques contra él y su esposa.
Y eso no es todo.
Desde que Belaunde Lossio abandonó la casa en la que guardaba arresto domiciliario a la espera de su entrega a la justicia peruana, 14 personas en Bolivia fueron involucradas en la fuga.
Un día antes de su detención, el ministro de la Presidencia de Bolivia, Juan Ramón Quintana, anunció una “búsqueda implacable” en una entrevista radial.
La fuga
Martín Belaunde Lossio solicitó refugio en Bolivia el 16 de diciembre de 2014, después de pasar la frontera de Perú sin que la justicia ni la policía de aquel país lo advirtieran.
Desde enero se quedó en una de las casas de Yuliano Arista y de su prima hermana Cloritza Díaz Belaunde, mejor conocidos como el Curaca Blanco y Zulayda, “curanderos espiritistas expertos en la unión de parejas”.
La justicia boliviana había determinado arresto domiciliario para él mientras se resolvía su pedido de refugio y la solicitud de extradición que se tramitó en Lima.
Estos son los objetos hallados en la habitación donde Belaunde Lossio se refugió hasta la desaparición.
Su desaparición se produjo en la madrugada del pasado domingo, 14 días después de que el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Bolivia determinara que el exasesor de Humala debía ser entregado a la justicia peruana.
Un día después del incidente, Hugo Moldiz renunció a su cargo de ministro de Gobierno en Bolivia y su sucesor, Carlos Romero, anunció cambios en los altos mandos policiales para que no se repitan episodios así.
Evo Morales, en conferencia de prensa, dijo que “corrió mucha plata”, dando a entender que los vigilantes de Belaunde recibieron sobornos para dejarlo huir.
“Seis custodios para una persona y que se les escape, es muy raro, lamento muchísimo ese desempeño policial, ojalá ellos que de alguna manera han permitido esta fuga puedan dar con el paradero y lo traigan al señor Belaunde para rendir cuentas”, afirmó a BBC Mundo el presidente del Senado boliviano, José Alberto Gonzales.
En menos de 48 horas, 14 personas quedaron detenidas, sospechosas de haber colaborado en la fuga.
Edgar Fernández, conocido como el lector de cartas del Tarot Ramsés, fue uno de los detenidos por la desaparición de Belaunde que, después de obtener su libertad, conversó con BBC Mundo.
“Vivimos horas de mucho miedo e incertidumbre. Por el hecho de hablar con Martín o visitar esa casa corríamos peligro de perder la libertad. Nueve familiares quedaron detenidos sólo por el hecho de ser familiares”.
En la década del 90, Ramsés fue uno de los testigos clave de un escándalo por narcotráfico que costó la libertad a importantes líderes políticos bolivianos en aquella época.
Después de someterse a un programa de protección de testigos de la DEA en Costa Rica, Ramsés volvió a Bolivia como lector de cartas del Tarot. Su esposa es hija de una sobrina de Belaunde y aquel parentesco le costó la detención a los tres.
La fuga de Belaunde Lossio dio lugar a la detención de al menos 14 personas. En la imagen, uno de los guardias sospechoso de haber ayudado a Belaunde a escapar.
Otro de los detenidos, el empresario y excorredor egipcio boliviano Alí Eid Alí, es acusado de haber prestado uno de los vehículos de su autoventa para que Belaunde escape.
A pesar de la captura de Belaunde, la investigación sobre él persiste y el vehículo fue confiscado.
Los vínculos con la pareja presidencial
A su llegada a Bolivia, Martín Belaunde se declaró perseguido político y dijo que él era “peligroso” para la pareja presidencial de Lima.
La Fiscalía de Perú informó a través de un comunicado que estaba vigente una orden de detención preventiva de 18 meses en contra del exasesor por otro caso conocido como “La Centralita”, una red criminal de desvío de fondos públicos que Belaunde habría cubierto con una de sus empresas.
Además, el pasado febrero, la fiscalía anticorrupción en Lima emitió una resolución en la que dispuso que la primera dama de Perú, Nadine Heredia, y cuatro congresistas también debían ser investigados por el caso de tráfico de influencias conocido como Antalsis.
La relación de Nadine Heredia con Belaunde Lossio se destapó unos años antes, cuando la Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera de Perú halló irregularidades en las cuentas de la pareja de Ollanta Humala y se filtraron los contratos que ella tenía con el exasesor.
Por aquellos vínculos, la primera dama afronta otra investigación por lavado de activos, al no haberse determinado el origen del dinero (US$215.000) depositado a su cuenta de ahorros entre 2006 y 2009.
La pareja presidencial de Perú está también bajo la lupa en el caso de Martín Belaunde Lossio.
El periodista Rodrigo Cruz, que sigue el caso para el diario El Comercio de Lima, explicó a BBC Mundo que la relación de Belaunde Lossio con los Humala arranca en la campaña de las elecciones que Ollanta perdió en 2006.
“Ellos necesitaban de alguien que los ayudara a introducir en los medios su proyecto político. Ese fue Martín Belaunde, empresario, joven de familia acomodada y de ideas de izquierda. El lazo se hace más fuerte con el tiempo. Y más aún cuando empiezan a ingresar bastante sumas de dinero a la campaña”.
Cruz añade que, desde entonces, Nadine es investigada por los sospechosos contratos que contrajo con Belaunde y que habrían sido para “blanquear dinero venezolano que llegaba a su cuenta personal”.
Todo ello motivó, desde el domingo, una ola de críticas de todos los partidos de oposición en Perú que acusaron al gobierno de no actuar a tiempo y facilitar la desaparición de su excolaborador.
A pesar de la detención, en ambos países persiste la guerra verbal entre representantes políticos que se responsabilizan los unos a los otros de haber permitido que Belaunde Lossio desaparezca durante cinco días.
El episodio le costó el cargo a un ministro en La Paz y otro está muy cerca de ser interpelado en Lima.
No serán los únicos. Los siguientes episodios del caso del hombre que fue el más buscado por Perú y Bolivia todavía son un misterio.
El nominado por Donald Trump para secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Rex Tillerson, buscará una transición a la democracia en Venezuela, según su respuesta a preguntas de los senadores que evalúan su confirmación.
“Debemos pedir que se liberen los presos políticos y reforzar las sanciones a los violadores de DD.HH. en Venezuela y a los narcotraficantes”, respondió Tillerson a la pregunta de qué políticas debería llevar a cabo para ayudar a resolver lo que ellos consideran una crisis política que impera en Venezuela.
Estas declaraciones de Tillerson, cuya audiencia de confirmación en el Senado se celebró el pasado 11 de enero, fueron publicadas por la web Latin America Goes Global.
El exjefe de la petrolera ExxonMobil desea “cooperar particularmente con Brasil y Colombia y con organismos multilaterales como la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), para buscar una transición negociada a la democracia en Venezuela”.
Estados Unidos deberá continuar “respaldando un legítimo diálogo que resuelva la crisis política entre el Gobierno de Maduro y la oposición, la cual ahora controla la Asamblea Nacional”.
“Se van a cumplir las sanciones impuestas por el Congreso (…) vamos a continuar apoyando los esfuerzos del secretario general de la OEA, Almagro, en la búsqueda de la invocación de la Carta Democrática Interamericana para promover la normalización de la situación en Venezuela y el restablecimiento de las situaciones democráticas”.
Dos influyentes senadores republicanos, John McCain y Lindsey Graham, anunciaron este domingo que respaldan a Tillerson, lo que confirmaría su cargo.
EVANSTON, Ill. — The body of a woman found on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston on Thursday has been identified as missing transgender rights activist Elise Malary, police confirmed.
Malary’s body was found on the shores of Lake Michigan in the 500 block of Sheridan Square at Garden Park, just blocks from her apartment. She was 31 years old.
Malary had not been seen since March 9 and was reported missing on March 15.
She was known as a prominent activist in the LGBTQ community in the area and had quit her job at the Civil Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s office the day before she went missing.
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