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Adiós al más grande de la TV colombiana – Semana.com

Este martes, en la Clínica del Country del norte de Bogotá, se apagó hacia las 7:50 p. m. la luz de uno de los más queridos presentadores de la televisión colombiana, Fernando González Pacheco.

Pacheco, como le conocían todos los colombianos, había venido sufriendo serios problemas respiratorios, aunque todavía se desconoce la causa cierta de su deceso. Por cuenta de esas complicaciones de salud ya había sido internado en ese mismo centro hospitalario a mediados del año pasado.

Indudablemente él está en la lista del colombianos de todos los tiempos aunque haya nacido en España. Es reconocido desde hace más de 40 años por ser uno de los primeros presentadores de televisión en el país, es recordado por programas como ‘Animalandia’, ‘Charlas con Pacheco’, ‘Compre la Orquesta’, y ‘¿Quiere cacao?’, entre otros.

Se trata de uno de los pioneros de la televisión colombiana, quien, junto a Gloria Valencia de Castaño y Jota Mario Valencia, se convirtió en icono de una televisión que se hacía a pulso y no con la fastuosa tecnología de hoy.

El presidente Juan Manuel Santos expresó su pesar por el fallecimiento de Pacheco: “Lamentamos de veras la muerte de ese gran personaje de la televisión que fue Pacheco. Se nos fue un gran hombre y un gran señor”, trinó en su perfil de Twitter.

Después de más de treinta años de carrera, en los que fue sin discusión el hombre más popular de la televisión, Pacheco se había alejado de la pantalla chica por cuestiones personales y de salud. Pero aunque pase el tiempo, Pacheco siempre será Pacheco, presente para siempre, con su voz ronca y su risa bonachona, en el corazón de los colombianos.

Este fue el despacho de prensa oficial de la clínica:

COMUNICADO DE PRENSA

La Clínica del Country lamenta informar que el señor FERNANDO GONZALEZ PACHECO falleció hoy a las 19:50 luego de haber sido tratado en nuestra institución a causa de una enfermedad crónica que lo venía aquejando desde hacía mucho tiempo.

La Clínica del Country siente la pérdida de esta figura entrañable para los colombianos y expresa sus condolencias sus los familiares y amigos.

11 de febrero de 2014

Entrevistas célebres de Pacheco (Charlas con Pacheco)

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Trump’s Tumultuous Year, From Policy Wins to Impeachment – Wall Street Journal

President Trump ended 2019 with a strong economy, a string of domestic policy achievements—and the notoriety of becoming the third president to be impeached by the House.

The mix of political highs and lows that has characterized Mr. Trump’s presidency was especially pronounced in his third year. He welcomed a special counsel report that found insufficient evidence the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, though it drew no conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice. But his…

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Jurors in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing deliberated between charges of malice murder and felony murder. Here’s what that means – CNN

(CNN)Three men convicted Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery each faced nine possible charges that stemmed from their involvement in the 2020 shooting near Brunswick, Georgia. But the verdicts rendered by the jury on some of the allegations differed.

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CNN’s Alta Spells, Devon M. Sayers, Angela Barajas and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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What Polls Say About David Perdue and Jon Ossoff 2 Weeks Before the Georgia Election – Newsweek

Senator David Perdue and Jon Ossoff are headed for a close election, although polls have shifted in the incumbent senator’s favor in recent days.

Mail-in and early in-person voting for the Georgia runoff election has already begun and there’s just about two weeks until Election Day. With control of the Senate on the line, Democrats and Republicans have a vested interest in the outcome of the race between Perdue and Ossoff and Georgians have already cast about 500,000 ballots.

On average, Perdue has a .8 point lead over his Democratic challenger, according to FiveThirtyEight, a margin that makes for a statistical tie. The most recent poll came out on Thursday from Emerson College and gave Perdue a 3 point advantage, a lead that’s within the poll’s margin of error.

Of the 600 people polled, 51 percent said they were going to vote for Perdue and 48 percent were planning on supporting Ossoff. Democrats have the lead among younger voters and Republicans have an advantage with those over the age of 45.

Given that there are a limited number of voters who plan to cast votes for a Republican in one race and a Democrat in another, Spencer Kimball, Director of Emerson College Polling, suspected one party would win both seats.

If Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock, who is challenging Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler for her seat in a runoff election, oust the two Republicans from office, there will be a 50-50 split in the Senate. This effectively gives Democrats control because Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will cast any necessary tie-breaking votes.

Senator David Perdue has a slight edge over Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff but the race is still too close to call. Perdue addresses the crowd during a campaign rally at Peachtree Dekalb Airport on Monday in Atlanta, Georgia.
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President-elect Joe Biden benefitted from mail-in voting and it turned the tide of the election in his favor. President Donald Trump largely dissuaded voters from casting their ballots by mail, but this time around, the president and vice president have pushed Georgians to vote by any available method.

Emerson’s poll found 61 percent of people who already voted went for Ossoff and 39 percent cast ballots for Perdue. However, 68 percent of those polled who plan to vote on January 5 are planning on casting ballots for Perdue.

One of the top priorities for voters in the Georgia election is the COVID-19 response and in that area, Ossoff leads among voters. The Democratic candidate has been a vocal advocate for a second round of stimulus checks and has hit Perdue for not having the same level of enthusiasm about the measure.

Perdue voted in favor of the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March, but said he opposed direct payments on a personal level.

In November, Perdue received about 80,000 more votes than Ossoff, but because he fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to win an election in Georgia, it forced the race into a runoff. Although he had the advantage in November, nothing is guaranteed come January and pollsters expect the race to come down to the wire.

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Who won, who lost and who cocked up in the EU election – POLITICO Europe

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Impeachment hearings: Pamela Karlan’s epic clap-back at Doug Collins – Vox.com

During the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing on Wednesday, Republicans led by ranking member Doug Collins made it clear almost immediately that their strategy would be to interrupt the proceedings at every available opportunity and dismiss testimony from a panel of law professors as meaningless.

But during her opening statement, one of those law professors — Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor and appellate attorney — made clear that she had little patience for Collins’s tactics in particular.

“Here Mr. Collins I would like to say to you, sir, that I read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because I would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts,” she said. “So I’m insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don’t care about those facts.”

Karlan was responding to comments Collins made in his opening statement, including this shot at her profession:

America will see why most people don’t go to law school. No offense to our professors. But please, really, we’re bringing you in here today to testify on stuff most of you have already written about, all four, for the opinions that we already know out of the classrooms that maybe you’re getting ready for finals in, to discuss things that you probably haven’t had a chance — unless you’re really good on TV of watching the hearings over the last couple of weeks, you couldn’t have possibly actually digested the Adam Schiff report from yesterday or the Republican response in any real way.

Your guide to the Donald Trump impeachment saga

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On Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to approve a report summing up its weeks of investigation, which included scores of hours of testimony both behind closed doors and broadcast to the American public. The report’s conclusion was damning — “that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection” — but easy to anticipate if you’d been paying attention to the two months of the impeachment inquiry.

The opening statements offered by Karlan and three other law professors made it clear why Republicans are focused on procedural distractions and making a mockery of the proceedings instead of defending Trump on the merits: Each of them with the exception of Jonathan Turley explicitly said that based on the record of last month’s witness testimony, they’ve concluded that Trump committed impeachable offenses.

The news moves fast. To stay updated, follow Aaron Rupar on Twitter, and read more of Vox’s policy and politics coverage.

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Odebrecht outranks JBS as Brazil’s most international company – Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)

São Paulo – In 2013, Brazilian companies became more international than in 2012. According to a survey conducted by Dom Cabral Foundation, last year Brazilian companies attained 22.9% of internationalization. In 2012, the rate was 21.3%. The study covered 52 multinational companies and 14 companies which operate abroad via franchises.

The internationalization or transnationality index is the result of three calculations performed by the Dom Cabral Foundation: ratio of assets abroad to total assets; ratio of foreign revenue to total revenue; and ratio of foreign workforce to total workforce.

As per these ratios, construction company Norberto Odebrecht was the most international business in 2013, with a 0.549 score. Next on the list are Gerdau (steel), InterCement (cement), Stefanini (software consulting), Metalfrio (refrigerators), Magnesita (steel), Marfrig (meat), JBS (meat), Artecola (chemicals) and Ibope (statistics institute). This was the first time in the last four editions of the ranking that JBS did not top the list.

The ranking of companies active in the highest number of countries is topped by Stefanini, operating in 32 countries, followed by the electric engine manufacturer WEG, active in 31 countries, the mining company Vale, in 27 countries, bus manufacturer Marcopolo (25) and the bank Banco do Brasil (24).

In revenues, JBS leads the ranking, followed by Norberto Odebrecht, Magnesita, Marfrig and Gerdau. The ranking by assets is topped by Magnesita, followed by the meat plant Minerva Foods, Stefanini, Metalfrio and Gerdau. In the workforce index, the most international company is InterCement, followed by Marfrig, JBS, Metalfrio and Gerdau.

The ranking has shown that the Brazilian multinationals surveyed operate in 89 countries. The United States has the strongest Brazilian presence: 39 companies in total, followed by Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, China, Venezuela, Paraguay, Portugal, Bolivia and the United Kingdom.

Countries and franchises

Among the Arab countries, Brazilian companies are present in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Oman. In Kuwait, Brazilian companies operate via franchises only. The survey shows that in 2013 five Brazilian companies fled Argentina due to its struggling economy. Brazilian companies did not flee Arab countries; in fact Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Lebanon received one new Brazilian company each.

The most internationalized franchise-based company was car rental group Localiza, followed by the natural food store chain Mundo Verde, grooming parlor chain DepylAction, eyewear retailer Chilli Beans, shoe retailer Datelli, clothes manufacturer Hering, fast food chain Giraffas, yoghurt store chain Yogoberry, shoe store chain Arezzo and beauty spa Magrass.

As regards franchises, the index is calculated based on ratio of stores abroad to total number of stores; royalties from foreign operations to total royalties; and revenue from foreign franchisees’ sales in comparison to total franchisees’ sales.

According to the survey, 65.1% of the companies surveyed plan on expanding their operations in countries they already operate in this year, and 55.6% plan on entering new countries. The survey’s coordinator, Sherban Cretoiu, said the companies were more optimistic about sales abroad than domestic sales, which may be related to the slowdown in Brazil’s economy.

*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça

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Evidence that Muslims are Indeed Capable of Democracy (Diário de Notícias … – Worldmeets.us

Tunisian children participate in the
reopening of the Bardo Museum

after a terror attack targeting one of the Arab world’s most successful

democracies killed 21 people, mostly European tourists.

Evidence that
Muslims are Indeed Capable of Democracy (Diário de Notícias, Portugal)

“The
democratic experience of the Arab world remains a fragile one. … Nevertheless,
the Arab world and the Islamic world are not synonymous. … It is not hard to
find examples of democracy in Islamic countries. Turkey is the most obvious,
even if it didn’t make the demanding Index of 24 countries listed by The
Economist as full democracies. Indonesia, Malaysia and Senegal are also the
scenes of competition between parties and pluralism in the media – two
indicators of democracy. What to say about Pakistan, despite having half of its
history marked by generals as presidents? It’s not a lack of parties or an
absence of an alternating government that so bedevil the country, which is also
a reminder that democracy is never perfect.”

By Leonídio Paulo Ferreira

Translated By Brandi Miller

March 26, 2015

Portugal – Diário
de Notícias – Original Article (Portuguese)

On the promise of the Arab Spring, listen to a man born
during the First World War: “We have a much better chance of establishing
– I hesitate to use the word democracy – but some sort of open, tolerant
society, if it’s done within their systems, according to their
traditions.” British scholar Bernard Lewis, nearly a century old, is one
of the most famous Islamologists. Four years ago that
was his response to The Wall Street
Journal when the fall of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt led us to
believe that a wave of democracy was rippling through the Arab world. Lewis’
caution is understandable today, especially a week after Tunisia
suffered an attack designed to undermine the most successful of the Arab
Spring countries – perhaps not by chance where it all began.

“These terrorists in Tunisia were targeting
democracy,” denounced Lina
Ben Mhenni in the Guardian.
In 2011 she became famous as the Tunisian Girl: an account of how an Arab
blogger helped in the fall of Ben Ali.

Mubarak was deposed and arrested shortly after Ben Ali went
into exile in Saudi Arabia. There were free elections and an old Mubarak
opponent, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood,
won. However, the military showed who in Egypt was really in charge and deposed
the first civilian president in the history of the country. The strongman of
the armed forces, General Sissi, then took off his
uniform and was elected. That is how the Arab Spring was synthesized in Egypt,
where the absence of tourists left the economy in tatters – a crisis eased only
by the injection of Saudi and Kuwaiti capital.

After months of a civil war thrown out of balance by a
U.N.-approved bombardment, the forces faithful to Mohammar Qaddafi were
defeated in Libya with the dictator, in power since 1967, killed. If it quickly
became apparent that some of the rebels hesitated between banditry and
al-Qaeda, the victory of liberals in the first elections brought hope. Today,
though, there are two governments, everyone seems to be fighting everybody
else, and a branch of Islamic State is persecuting Christians. A sad synthesis
of the Arab Spring in a Libya with a sparse population and such an abundance of
oil wells that it should be an oasis.

A year after the start of the Arab Spring, Ali Abdullah Saleh negotiated his departure from Yemen. Before that
he was injured in an attack. His deputy succeeded him in February 2012 and was
elected president with promises of democracy, but with the country divided
between tribes and al-Qaeda cells, a Shiite rebellion took power and is now
under attack by Islamic State bombs – another bleak synthesis.

That’s to say nothing of Bahrain, where a popular revolt
against the king was framed by an old rivalry between Shiites and Sunnis and,
facing the threat of Iranian influence, Saudi Arabia quickly sent troops. Nor
will we return to the much-discussed issue of Syria, where an uprising against
Assad transformed into a jihadi revolution that the regime has successfully
confronted for the past four years, particularly since the world has realized
that a secular Arab dictator might be the lesser evil in comparison to the
Islamic State.

Let’s look at how even someone like Tahar
ben Jelloun, the Moroccan author of The Spark – Revolt in the Arab Countries
[L’Étincelle – Révolte dans
les pays arabes], allowed himself
to get carried away with enthusiasm over the Arab Spring:

“The liberating violence of the riots will not be
halted by repression. It is vibrant and creative. It embodies a new generation
of young people, some of whom have lived abroad and who, unlike their parents,
have opened up windows facing the world. They saw how other young people live
and have proven that freedom is synonymous with life. As in a dream, they
suddenly glimpsed that they, too, have a chance to live better, of ending
dictatorships, of regaining their dignity.”

Utopias aside, Tunisia will succeed. Habib
Bourguiba, the father of Tunisian independence, made Tunisia a
modern state. He gave rights to women and opened the country. Tunisians learned
in school that if their society is Muslim, it had older roots, whether Carthage
or Rome which defeated it. It is inspiring that so many people took to the
streets of Tunis after the attack on the Bardo Museum, even if at the
same time they were frightened that thousands of Tunisians have joined the
Islamic State.

The democratic experience of the Arab world remains a
fragile one. Morocco is on the right path and already had a socialist prime
minister. But the king’s role means it is a neutered form of democracy. In
Lebanon the situation is different: political pluralism must coexist with a
constitution that reserves the presidency to a Christian and the government to
a Sunni. As for Algeria, parties exist, elections are held, but generals give
the orders.

Nevertheless, the Arab world and the Islamic world are not
synonymous, and this is the mistake of those with elaborate theories about the
incompatibility of Islam with democracy and who sometimes raise the issue of
the Hijri year, a calendar that begins in 622AD, to
argue that Muslims live in the Middle Ages and therefore never experienced the
equivalent of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment.

It is not hard to find examples of democracy in Islamic
countries. Turkey is the most obvious, even if it didn’t make the demanding
Index of 24 countries listed by The Economist as full democracies.
Indonesia, Malaysia and Senegal are also the scenes of competition between
parties and pluralism in the media – two indicators of democracy. What to say
about Pakistan, despite having half of its history marked by generals as
presidents? It’s not a lack of parties or an absence of an alternating
government that so bedevil the country, which is also a reminder that democracy
is never perfect. A Pakistani newspaper, Dawn,
dedicated an editorial to Tunisia after secular Beji
Caid Essebsi was elected: Tunisia’s
Example was the title.
May the Tunisians, secular and Islamic parties alike such as those from the Ennahda Movement [aka/Renaissance
Party], continue to believe that democracy can be Arab – and for
them to surprise Lewis, aged 98.

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Der Spiegel, Germany: Muslim Protests Show
Limits of Free Speech

Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany: Islam in Turmoil: Religion as ‘Ersatz-Identity’

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Pro-Taliban women rally in Kabul as female civil servants barred from work – The Washington Post

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Últimas noticias de los normalistas desaparecidos en Iguala, hoy 3 de … – StarMedia

Organizaciones civiles comenzaron marcha de Iguala hacia la Ciudad de México. (Foto: Notimex)

La caminata denominada “43×43, ni un desaparecido más” es encabezada por el Consejo Estatal de Organizaciones de la Ciudad de México (CEO-CDMX), la cual es considerada como parte del reclamo social por la desaparición de 43 estudiantes de la Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa.

Pepe Alcaraz, dirigente del CEO-CDMX, expresó que la caminata forma parte de la exigencia para que los estudiantes aparezcan vivos, según informó el diario El Milenio.

Por su parte, Carlos Eduardo Pérez Ventura, líder del CEO nacional, explicó que la caminata “es el inicio de una acción que corresponde al pueblo entero. La ciudadanía deberá de tomar en sus manos la construcción de un México en paz”.

“Los asaltos a mano armada, en casas habitación, a vehículos, secuestros, extorsiones, en una palabra la inseguridad, pasó de ser algo atípico a ser algo típico y común contra la ciudadanía, por lo cual decimos ya basta y como sociedad civil es necesario que ya dejemos la pasividad, la indiferencia y la comodidad de nuestros hogares para ser causa en lugar de efecto”.

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Lunes 3 de noviembre: De Iguala a Buenavista de Cuéllar con 28 kilómetros de recorrido.
Martes 4 de noviembre: De Buenavista de Cuéllar a Amacuzac, con 25 kilómetros.
Miércoles 5 de noviembre: De Amacuzac a Alpuyeca, con 26 kilómetros.
Jueves 6 de noviembre: De Alpuyeca a Cuernavaca Norte, con 27 kilómetros.
Viernes 7 de noviembre: De Cuernavaca Norte a Tres Marías, con 30 kilómetros.
Sábado 8 de noviembre: De Tres Marías a Centro de Tlalpan, con 40 kilómetros.
Domingo 9 de noviembre: De Centro de Tlalpan al Zócalo del Distrito Federal, con 18 kilómetros.

La caminata busca exigir justicia por la desaparición de 43 estudiantes normalistas en Iguala.

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Temperaturas mortalmente bajas siguen azotando a Estados Unidos – Univisión

Los guantes, gorros, bufandas, lentes y hasta máscaras se convirtieron el los accesorio…

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Family finds hidden camera livestreaming in Airbnb – The Independent

A family staying in an Airbnb in Ireland discovered they were being livestreamed by a hidden camera.

The Barkers found the camera concealed in the living room after father of five Andrew tried to connect his phone to the Wifi and saw a device labelled “IP camera”.

“He scanned that device’s ports and found the live video feed,” his wife Nealie told Stuff. “We were all watching ourselves on his mobile phone.”

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The camera was in the lounge, positioned so it had a view of the dining and kitchen area as well.

“We have encountered lots of weird and wonderful things and like to think we take most things in our stride,” added Nealie. “However, this was shocking.”

The Barkers had checked in with their children on 3 March, having paid in full for three nights’ accommodation.

“It was late at night, but we decided fairly quickly we didn’t feel comfortable about staying at the house,” said Nealie.

They immediately left and checked into a nearby hotel.

When the Barkers subsequently asked the Airbnb host about the camera, he refused to answer their questions at first and denied the device’s existence.

However, when Andrew said they could see themselves on the camera, the host “became flustered and hung up”.

He rang back later and said that he had only installed the camera to “protect his asset”.

Nealie said Airbnb’s response was initially “hopeless”: it took weeks to hear back about the outcome of the investigation.

An Airbnb spokesperson said: “We have permanently removed this bad actor from our platform.

“Our original handling of this incident did not meet the high standards we set for ourselves, and we have apologised to the family and fully refunded their stay. There have been over half a billion guest arrivals in Airbnb listings to date and negative incidents are incredibly rare.”

Airbnb has strict policies governing the use of cameras in listings – they are never allowed in bathrooms or bedrooms or to be hidden – and has a zero tolerance stance when it comes to violations.

There have been several high profile cases of holidaymakers finding hidden cameras in Airbnb properties in recent years.

Dougie Hamilton was on holiday with his girlfriend in Toronto, Canada, in 2018 when he found one hidden in a digital clock.

The Scottish holidaymaker told the Daily Record: “We were only in the place for 20 minutes when I noticed the clock. There was just something in my head that made me feel a bit uneasy.

“I took the charger out of it and saw there was a lithium battery in the back. At this point, I slid the front facing off the clock and could see there actually was a camera. The hidden camera was facing into the living area and open-plan bedroom, so it could see everything. We didn’t know if the owner had been watching. It just felt really creepy and we didn’t want to stay.”

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China’s top negotiator may have diminished role in trade talks ahead of dinner with US officials – CNBC

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