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India is home to 200 million Muslims. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they have faced mounting threats to their status in the majority-Hindu country. And on Wednesday, they were walloped by a new worrisome development: The upper house of India’s Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).

The legislation turns religion into a means of deciding whom to treat as an illegal immigrant — and whom to fast-track for citizenship. The bill is being sent to President Ram Nath Kovind for his approval (he will almost certainly sign it), and then it will become law.

At first glance, the bill may seem like a laudable effort to protect persecuted minorities. It says Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who came to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan won’t be treated as illegal. They’ll have a clear path to citizenship.

But one major group has been left out: Muslims.

That’s no coincidence.

The CAB is closely linked with another contentious document: India’s National Register of Citizens (NRC). That citizenship list is part of the government’s effort to identify and weed out people it claims are illegal immigrants in the northeastern state of Assam. India says many Muslims whose families originally came from neighboring Bangladesh are not rightful citizens, even though they’ve lived in Assam for decades.

When the NRC was published in August, around 2 million people — many of them Muslims, some of them Hindus — found that their names were not on it. They were told they had a limited time in which to prove that they are, in fact, citizens. Otherwise, they can be rounded up into massive new detention camps and, ultimately, deported.

So far, this measure affects potentially 2 million people, not all 200 million Muslims in India. However, Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said it plans to extend the NRC process across the country.

Muslims have faced increasing discrimination and violence over the past few years under Modi’s BJP. But the one-two punch of the NRC followed by the CAB takes this to a new level. The country is beginning to look less like a secular democracy and more like a Hindu nationalist state.

If the Indian government proceeds with its plan, in a worst-case scenario we could be looking at the biggest refugee crisis on the planet. The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and the US Commission on International Religious Freedom have all warned that this could soon turn into a humanitarian disaster of horrifying proportions.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill

The CAB is only the latest measure the Indian government has taken to marginalize its Muslim minority (more on this below). This measure is particularly blatant in its discrimination.

The CAB will grant citizenship to a host of religious minorities who fled three nearby countries where they may have faced persecution — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan — before 2015. But Muslims will get no such protection.

The BJP is positioning the CAB as a means of offering expedited citizenship to persecuted minorities. “It seeks to address their current difficulties and meet their basic human rights,” said Raveesh Kumar, a spokesman for the country’s Ministry of External Affairs. “Such an initiative should be welcomed, not criticized by those who are genuinely committed to religious freedom.”

After the CAB passed on Wednesday, Modi tweeted: “A landmark day for India and our nation’s ethos of compassion and brotherhood! … This Bill will alleviate the suffering of many who faced persecution for years.”

In fact, this bill is likely to increase the suffering of many Muslims and is discriminatory on its face, as some of the BJP’s political opposition and several human rights advocates in India have noted.

Shashi Tharoor, whose Congress party opposes the CAB, dubbed it “fundamentally unconstitutional.”

Cedric Prakash, a Jesuit priest and human rights advocate, said in an emailed statement that by “assuring citizenship to all undocumented persons except those of the Muslim faith, the CAB risks … destroying the secular and democratic tenets of our revered Constitution.”

India’s Constitution guarantees everyone equality under the law. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship eligibility, a decision that goes all the way back to the 1940s, when India was founded as a secular state with special protections for minorities like Muslims.

Harsh Mander, a noted rights advocate of Sikh origins, wrote that the CAB represents “the gravest threat to India’s secular democratic Constitution since India became a republic.” He said that if the bill becomes law, he’ll declare himself a Muslim out of solidarity. Meanwhile, he’s also calling for Indians to fight the CAB with a nationwide civil disobedience movement.

Already, protests are underway. In Assam’s capital, authorities have shut down the internet and implemented a curfew. The New York Times reported:

The Indian Army was deployed in the northeastern states of Assam and Tripura as protests grew bigger and more violent. The police were already battling demonstrators over the past few days with water cannons and tear gas. More than 1,000 protesters gathered in the heart of Assam’s commercial capital, Guwahati, yelling: “Go Back Modi!” In other areas, angry men stomped on effigies of Mr. Modi. Crowds set fire to tires and blocked thoroughfares with trees.

As protests against the legislation erupted in different corners of the country, the debate centered on what kind of country India should be.

“The idea of India that emerged from the independence movement,” said a letter signed by more than 1,000 Indian intellectuals, “is that of a country that aspires to treat people of all faiths equally.” But this bill, the intellectuals said, is “a radical break with this history” and will “greatly strain the pluralistic fabric of the country.”

Meanwhile, international human rights organizations are up in arms. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said India is taking a “dangerous turn in the wrong direction,” adding that the US should weigh sanctions against India if it enshrines the bill in law.


Activists from All Assam Students’ Union burn effigies of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others associated with the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
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However, Modi enjoys strong support from the Hindu majority, members of which seem to applaud him even more loudly when he cracks down on Muslims. And the country has swung to the right since he first came to power in 2014. It’s noteworthy that the bill passed not only in the lower house of parliament, where the BJP enjoys a majority, but also in the upper house, where it does not.

Now, the CAB will almost certainly be signed into law. The only hope for those who oppose it is that it will be struck down in court on the grounds that it’s unconstitutional.

Muslims stripped of citizenship may end up in massive detention camps

Exacerbating Muslim Indians’ anxiety about the citizenship bill is the recent rhetoric around the NRC.

Those in Assam whose names do not appear on the NRC have been told the burden of proof is on them to prove that they are citizens. But many rural residents don’t have birth certificates or other papers, and even among those who do, many can’t read them; a quarter of the population in Assam state is illiterate.

Residents do get the chance to appeal to a Foreigners’ Tribunal and, if it rejects their claims to citizenship, to the High Court of Assam or even the Supreme Court. But if all that fails, they can be sent to one of 10 mass detention camps the government plans to build, complete with boundary walls and watchtowers.

The first camp, currently under construction, is the size of seven football fields. Even nursing mothers and children will be held there. “Children lodged in detention centers are to be provided educational facilities in nearby local schools,” an Indian official said.

If the detainees in the camps end up being expelled from India — and that is the government’s plan — this could constitute a wave of forced migration even greater than that triggered by Myanmar in 2017, when hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims were displaced.

And it’s not clear where the newly stateless people would go. Neighboring Bangladesh has already said it won’t take them. All this has induced such intense anxiety that some Muslims are committing suicide.

By undermining the status of Muslims, India is undermining its own democracy

India is known as the largest democracy in the world. But its current government is leading it away from democratic norms.

Modi champions a hardline brand of Hindu nationalism known as Hindutva, which aims to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu history and values and which promotes an exclusionary attitude toward Muslims. UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet recently expressed concerns over “increasing harassment and targeting of minorities — in particular, Muslims.”

Under Modi, vigilante Hindus have increasingly perpetrated hate crimes against Muslims, sometimes in an effort to scare their communities into moving away, other times to punish them for selling beef (cows are considered sacred in Hinduism). And this summer, Modi erased the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, which had previously enjoyed considerable autonomy over its own affairs.

Muslims comprise approximately 14 percent of the national population. and more than twice that in Assam state. In the 2019 Indian election, one of Modi’s central campaign promises was that he’d get the NRC in shape and deal with the Muslim migrants in Assam once and for all. Other BJP members have used dehumanizing language to describe the Muslims there.

“These infiltrators are eating away at our country like termites,” BJP president and home minister Amit Shah said at an April rally. “The NRC is our means of removing them.” Shah has openly said the goal is to deport those who are deemed illegal immigrants.

Last month, Shah said the government will conduct another count of citizens — this time nationwide. This could be used to clamp down on Muslims throughout India, potentially triggering a huge humanitarian disaster.

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Eli Broad made his billions building homes, and then he used that wealth — and the considerable collection of world-class modern art he assembled with his wife — to shape the city around him.

Dogged, determined and often unyielding, he helped push and prod majestic institutions such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art into existence, and then, that done, he created his own namesake museum in the heart of Los Angeles.

With a fortune estimated by Forbes at $6.9 billion, the New York native who made California his home more than 50 years ago flourished in the home construction and insurance industries before directing his attention and fortune toward an array of ambitious civic projects, often setting the agenda for what was to come in L.A.

Active and still looking ahead until late in life, Broad died Friday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Suzi Emmerling, a spokesperson for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, said in a statement. A cause of death was not given.

“We join the city of Los Angeles in mourning the loss of Eli Broad. The city and the nation have lost an icon,” Los Angeles Times Executive Chairman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and his wife, Michele, said in a statement.

“Eli’s life story is an inspiration and a testament to the possibilities America holds,” they said. “The Broads’ support and leadership of the cultural, educational and medical institutions that sustain us have been transformative. Our thoughts are with Edye and their family and we’re forever grateful to her and Eli.”

Civic transformation was “his driving force,” Barry Munitz, a longtime Broad associate and former chancellor of the California State University, told The Times in 2004.

Broad spent millions to endow medical and scientific research programs, including stem cell research centers at UCLA, USC, UC San Francisco and Harvard. He was also a deep-pocketed booster of public education reform who funded charter schools, a training academy for school district executives and, for a dozen years, the annual $1-million Broad Prize for high-achieving urban school districts.

But he left his most visible legacy as a cultural philanthropist and broker, whose money and world-class modern art collection made him a powerful and often controversial force on the local arts scene.

In the late 1970s, he became the founding chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art, and he bailed it out of a financial scandal three decades later with a $30-million grant.

In the 1990s, when the effort to build Disney Hall was falling apart, he took charge of a $135-million fundraising campaign to complete construction in 2003.

That year, he also pledged $50 million to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to build the contemporary art wing that bears his name.

Calling himself a “venture philanthropist,” he expected his benefaction to bring more than a pat on the back and naming rights. He regarded his donations as investments, the success of which he would judge by their returns, whether in the form of scientific breakthroughs, improved test scores or higher museum attendance.

“I am a builder,” the tall, white-haired Broad once told The Times. “I don’t like to preside over the status quo and simply write checks.”

His demands made some potential recipients think twice about accepting money from Broad. “Too many strings,” said the leader of a major Los Angeles nonprofit, who asked not to be named. Others put it less politely. “Eli is a control freak,” Disney Hall architect Frank Gehry said of his former client in a 2011 segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Broad was known not only for aggressive involvement in his philanthropic projects but also for a tendency to withdraw his support when developments failed to go his way. These traits were well known in L.A.’s art world, in which he was an unavoidable force.

“The truth is that Eli is L.A.’s most prominent cultural philanthropist, and if you run a museum in this city you have a relationship with him one way or another,” Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum, where Broad once sat on the board, said in a 2010 Vanity Fair article.

Broad’s relationships with the institutions he enriched were often vexing.

In 2010, as a dominant member of the MOCA board, he steered the museum toward the controversial choice of Jeffrey Deitch, a New York gallery owner from whom he had purchased art, to be its new director. In 2012 he forced the resignation of the museum’s longtime chief curator, Paul Schimmel, who had clashed with Deitch over shows involving celebrity artists such as Dennis Hopper that seemed to pander to popular tastes. Several board members resigned in protest, including Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger and Catherine Opie.

In 2013, with MOCA struggling financially, Broad tried to broker a merger between the museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a match that made little sense to many in the museum world. The proposal died amid sharp questioning by critics, including the New York Times’ Roberta Smith, who wrote: “The combination of the domineering Mr. Broad and unusually passive trustees has forced to its knees one of the greatest American museums of the postwar era.”

At LACMA, Broad insisted that the much-needed modern art wing be called the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and personally recruited architect Renzo Piano to design it and a board to govern it. LACMA agreed to his terms without a solid pledge from the multibillionaire to donate works from the 2,000-piece contemporary art collection he had built with his wife, Edythe.

Just before the 80,000-square-foot building’s formal unveiling in 2008, Broad stunned much of the museum world by announcing that he would not be giving LACMA his treasure trove of Warhols, Rauschenbergs and Lichtensteins. Instead, he said he would lend works to the museum from the private art foundation he founded in 1984, an arrangement that he believed would ensure the art he and his wife had amassed over decades would be seen and not stored away.

His decision brought pointed headlines, such as the one accompanying a New York Times story: “To Have and Give Not.” Time magazine’s Richard Lacayo was most blunt, writing on his blog, “LACMA got screwed.”

Although Broad had said over the years that he would not go the way of Armand Hammer and Norton Simon, he ultimately did decide to build his own museum. He settled on a prime downtown lot adjacent to MOCA and Disney Hall for the Broad, the eponymous museum and art lending library that opened in September 2015, part of his vision to cement Grand Avenue as the cultural heart of L.A.

“We believe we have reinvented the American art museum,” he wrote in a 2019 L.A. Times essay on Los Angeles’ cultural evolution.

Broad was a major architecture patron, who over the years supported projects by many of the world’s top architects, including Zaha Hadid — who designed the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Broad’s alma mater — Cesar Pelli and Richard Meier.

Closer to home, he and his wife made major gifts to UCLA for a fine arts complex and to Caltech for a biological sciences center. He also supplied a $10-million endowment for programming and arts education at Santa Monica College’s performing arts center.

Born in New York on June 6, 1933, Broad was an only child who grew up in Detroit, where his Lithuanian immigrant father, Leon, worked as a house painter before operating several five-and-dime stores. His mother, Rita, was a seamstress who later worked as a bookkeeper for her husband.

The family name was spelled Brod and pronounced like the slang term for a woman, which made young Eli the butt of many jokes. This grew tiresome, so in junior high he added an “a” to his last name and told people “Broad, rhymes with ‘road.’“

“Some of the teasing continued,” he recalled in his 2012 memoir, “Eli Broad: The Art of Being Unreasonable,” “but it didn’t really sting anymore. I had changed myself.”

He graduated with a degree in accounting from Michigan State University in 1954, the same year he married Edythe “Edye” Lawson. In 1956 their son Jeffrey was born, followed three years later by another son, Gary. His wife and sons survive him.

At 20, Broad had become a certified public accountant — one of the youngest in Michigan history. He shared office space with Donald Kaufman, a carpenter-contractor who was married to his wife’s cousin. In 1957 he and Kaufman borrowed $25,000 from Broad’s father-in-law and launched a home-building company, Kaufman & Broad (now KB Home).

Broad had heard of a company in Ohio that beat its competition by building houses without the customary basement. “I didn’t understand why you couldn’t do that in Michigan,” he said in a 2006 Vanity Fair profile. “So we came up with a product, which I modestly called the Award Winner, which sold for $13,740, and vets could move into it for, like, 300 bucks. My idea was if they could move out of garden apartments into three-bedroom houses for less than rent and have equity and the tax benefits, it worked.”

His hunch proved correct. The houses sold quickly, and Kaufman & Broad became the biggest independent builder of single-family homes in the country. The company expanded into Arizona and California. Broad was a millionaire before he turned 30.

In 1963, after Kaufman retired, Broad moved the company from Phoenix to Los Angeles. He and his wife bought a home in Brentwood.

At first, Los Angeles, with geographic sprawl unlike Detroit or Phoenix, baffled him. But gradually he became a master of the metropolis, joining civic boards and elite social circles. Richard Riordan, the venture capitalist and future L.A. mayor, became a close friend.

“Los Angeles is a meritocracy,” Broad told Los Angeles magazine in 2003. “It’s one of the few cities you can move to without the right family background, the right religious background, the right political background, and if you work hard and have good ideas, you’re accepted.”

He got involved in politics, running California Democrat Alan Cranston’s first winning campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1968. Four years later, afraid that Democratic Sen. George McGovern was too soft on the Soviet Union, he served as vice chairman of Democrats for Nixon. Broad later led the successful effort to bring the 2000 Democratic National Convention to Los Angeles.

While he was building Kaufman & Broad, his wife, Edythe, immersed herself in L.A.’s gallery world. Before long her husband became an ardent collector too.

Their first major purchase came in 1972 when they paid $95,000 for a Van Gogh drawing. Broad eventually found modern art more to his liking and began accumulating works by such artists as Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Damien Hirst.

In the late 1970s, he led a campaign that raised more than $10 million to launch a museum dedicated to modern art. With a personal donation of $1 million, he became founding chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art and influenced the selection of Japanese modernist Arata Isozaki to design it.

In 1984, he stepped down as MOCA chair after disagreements with the board but remained one of the city’s most powerful art patrons.

In 1994, Riordan enlisted him to resuscitate the fundraising campaign for Disney Hall, which had been stalled by an economic recession. Riordan and Broad each contributed $5 million to the effort, and with Broad leading the charge the $135-million goal was reached by 1998. Despite a major tiff with architect Gehry, with whom Broad had a troubled history (Gehry designed his Brentwood home but was fired when Broad thought he was taking too long), the concert hall opened in 2003 to jubilant reviews. Broad received the lion’s share of credit for its completion.

His role in reviving the Disney Hall project established him as Los Angeles’ most formidable philanthropist. Los Angeles magazine put him on the cover in June 2003 with the headline, “He has more pull than the mayor, more art than the Getty, and more money than God. Does Eli Broad own LA?”

He acknowledged that people often questioned his motives. He liked putting his name on buildings and always sought the best return on his investments.

In 1995, he purchased a Lichtenstein painting called “I … I’m Sorry” for $2.5 million and paid with his American Express card, reportedly so he could rack up frequent-flier miles. He later donated the miles to California Institute of the Arts in Valencia for student travel. But the real reason for putting a seven-figure tab on his credit card, he said in his memoir, was to keep earning interest on the $2 million until the bill was due.

Strategic planning, as well as keeping a sharp eye on the bottom line, was what got him to the top of two industries. He had taken Kaufman & Broad into the life insurance business in the 1970s, when the housing market was in a slump. In the 1980s, he expanded into annuities and other financial services, which he eventually spun off into a separate company, SunAmerica. In 1993, he stepped down as chairman of Kaufman & Broad to run SunAmerica, his second Fortune 500 company.

In 1999, he sold SunAmerica to American International Group for $18 billion, and he retired in 2000 to become a full-time philanthropist.

Flush with cash from the sale, he committed $2 billion to his philanthropies, including $100 million to create the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which supports school reform. It has spent more than $600 million since 1999 on a variety of initiatives.

As with the arts, Broad demanded a hands-on role in improving education.

He played a prominent role in the development of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s downtown arts high school. He personally helped recruit two superintendents, former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer and veteran educator John Deasy. But his ambitions ranged beyond L.A. and California.

In 2002, his foundation began to fund the Broad Prize, which targeted urban districts with large achievement gaps. It exemplified its founder’s philosophy of tying monetary awards to concrete results such as gains in student test scores. Disappointed in the slow pace of improvement, he suspended the prize in early 2015.

He also founded the Broad Superintendents Academy, the largest training program in the nation for urban school superintendents. Its more than 150 fellows, many of them from business, the military and other fields outside education, undergo a 10-month program heavy on corporate-style management techniques and have gone on to leadership positions not only in Los Angeles (Deasy is a Broad graduate) but also in New York, Chicago and other major city school districts. In 2019, Broad announced he was moving the academy to Yale University.

The wealth and vision that created these initiatives also made Broad a target of scorn by some education experts. One of his most prominent critics was education historian Diane Ravitch, who assailed Broad along with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and others as members of “the billionaire boys’ club” of business titans whose top-down reform efforts weaken the voices of parents and teachers unions.

“His Broadies are leading districts and states,” Ravitch wrote in her blog in 2012. “Some are educators, some are not. Some are admired, some are despised. But the question remains, who elected Eli Broad to reform the nation’s schools? He is like a spoiled rich kid in a candy shop, taking what he wants, knocking over displays, breaking jars, barking orders.”

None of this discouraged Broad. “Our role is to take risks that government is not willing to do,” he told Newsweek in 2011. “The fact that I don’t concern myself about criticism or pushback helps.”

Broad made an offer to buy the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015, saying he believed the papers should be owned by a Californian. His offer, which had reportedly been solicited by Tribune Publishing, was rejected. The newspapers were later purchased by Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles biotech billionaire.

Notoriously impatient — ”Let’s move on” was his favorite way of telling people they were wasting his time — Broad liked to stay busy, multitasking even during his leisure time. The only regret he expressed about an extraordinarily successful life was that he spent too much time building his businesses and not enough time being a father to his sons, neither of whom has sought the public spotlight.

“I was serious, focused, demanding, and not much fun,” Broad wrote in his memoir. “I took the boys with me to tour subdivisions, and now I realize that’s not exactly how kids want to spend their weekends. I missed too many moments.”

“I am unreasonable,” he wrote. “It’s the one adjective everyone I know — family, friends, associates, employees, and critics — has used to describe me…. But I believe that being unreasonable has been the key to my success.”

Woo is a former Times staff writer. Times staff writer Steve Marble contributed to this report.

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La crisis en la autoridad cultural del conocimiento no es propiedad exclusiva de los medios: se aplica a otras instituciones clave de la vida moderna, como la medicina, la ciencia y la educación. Se ha expresado, por ejemplo, en los debates sobre el papel de las vacunas en el autismo, de la que se han hecho eco los medios de comunicación y que ha preocupado a muchos padres, a pesar de las reiteradas declaraciones contrarias de expertos en medicina. También vemos rastros de esta crisis en la ciencia. La controversia de la evolución versus el creacionismo sigue viva y afecta la enseñanza de la biología en muchas escuelas de Estados Unidos, a pesar de la falta de apoyo hacia el creacionismo de fuentes científicas de buena reputación. Instituciones sociales como los medios, la medicina, la ciencia y la educación tenían la capacidad de moderar de manera eficaz la noción propuesta por Robert Park de que “un hecho es solamente un hecho en algún universo del discurso”, y así crear un terreno común entre segmentos diversos de la población. Pero esta capacidad parece ser menos efectiva en estos días que en el pasado.

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Dos aeronaves militares sobrevolaron la población colombiana, según testigos. Es la segunda vez, en menos de una semana, que sucede un hecho similar.

Autoridades de Colombia confirmaron la incursión por parte de los helicópteros, que cruzaron por encima de varias casas y hasta la estación de Policía.

“Tenemos una confirmación de las autoridades militares y además por el corregidor de Paraguachón que se acercó a mi oficina y me confirmó que el hecho es cierto”, dijo Eliécer Quintero, secretario del gobierno de Maicao, en La Guajira.

El funcionario aseguró que “le corresponde al Ejército Nacional cubrir toda el área fronteriza y defender la soberanía de nuestro país”.

En Paraguachón, pobladores señalan que esto hace parte de las provocaciones del Gobierno de Maduro, inmerso en una grave crisis interna y duramente cuestionado por la comunidad internacional.

El sábado pasado, también en la misma localidad, se denunció que miembros de la Guardia Nacional incursionaron, realizaron tiros al aire y lanzaron gases lacrimógenos. El hecho generó una nota de protesta por parte de la Casa de Nariño.

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Un desaparecido en plena campaña electoral. Un Gobierno que reacciona tarde. Una oposición oportunista. Un país sin verdad.

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The vaccine mandate in Los Angeles begins at midnight Monday, and some local businesses are working to adjust.

Claire Risoli, owner of Pocha LA, said her restaurant has to be careful to abide by the rules, but can’t “ruffle feathers” either.

“We just have to play by the rules if we want to play in the game,” Risoli said.

That said, Risoli does not want to have to “police” her customers either.

“It’s definitely a concern. I don’t want to be in the position of having to turn anyone away,” she added.

Some customers, however, are nonplussed by the requirement.

“I’m fine with it. We have three kids. Whenever they wanted to play sports, guess what, they had to have their vaccination stuff. Going to the school, they had to show all that. I’m fine with them requesting that we show that we have vaccinations,” said diner Roland Macias.

For more information about how to provide proof of vaccination, check out KTLA’s guide.

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Irma, uno de los más temibles huracanes registrados en la historia del Atlántico, se dirigía en la noche del sábado hacia el Sur de Florida, con las últimas proyecciones advirtiendo que su peligroso ojo podría pasar por encima de Cayo Hueso en la madrugada del domingo con vientos sostenidos de más de 130 millas por hora.

El huracán, que arrasó varias islas de El Caribe desplazándose en ocasiones con vientos de más de 180 millas por hora, llevó a las autoridades de Florida a ordenar la evacuación de seis millones de personas.

Irma golpeó la costa norte de Cuba en las últimas horas, perdiendo parte de su fortaleza en el proceso y bajando de categoría 5 a categoría 3, pero el Centro Nacional de Huracanes pronostica que se fortalecerá en las próximas horas e impactará Florida como un fenómeno meteorológico de Categoría 4.

Manténgase conectado con el Nuevo Herald para informarse de los próximos pasos de Irma.

Advertencia de Tornado emitida en Broward County

3:46 a.m. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional emitió en la madrugada del domingo una advertencia de tornado para noroeste del condado de Broward y el sureste del condado de Palm Beach, señalando que tormentas severas capaces de producir tornados fueron detectados desde Ocean Ridge hasta Port Everglades.

El servicio dijo que la advertencia tendría vigencia hasta las 4:15 a.m.

La tormenta se trasladaba en dirección noroeste a una velocidad de 30 millas por hora, amenazando las localidades de Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Ocean Ridge, Palm Beach, Pompano Beach, Sunrise, Palm Springs, Tamarac, Wellington, Margate, Lighthouse Point y North Lauderdale.

Otra explosión de transformador interrumpe nuevamente el servicio en Miami Beach

12:02 a.m.: Por segunda vez en la noche del sábado, la explosión de un transformador interrumpió el servicio eléctrico en varios edificios y parte del alumbrado en el puente Venetian Causeway.

El transformador se encuentra ubicado en el lado occidental del West Avenue. Horas antes, otro transformador en la misma avenida explotó dejando una zona más amplia sin luz, pero el servicio fue restablecido diez minutos despues.

— DAVID NEAL

Más de 170,000 hogares sin servicio eléctrico

11:00 p.m.: La compañía Florida Power and Light reportó que más de 170,000 hogares y negocios en Florida habían quedado sin servicio eléctrico producto del mal tiempo provocado por la aproximación del Huracán Irma.

La compañía expresó la probabilidad de que millones de personas podrían quedar sin electricidad, y que algunas zonas podrían padecer la situación por un período prolongado

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FPL agregó que ha conformado el equipo en preparación para atender la emergencia de mayor tamaño en la historia estadounidense, con más de 16,000 trabajadores.

Irma, considerado como el huracán más severo registrado en el Atlántico, tiene previsto impactar el Sur de Florida en la mañana del domingo

— ASSOCIATED PRESS

Vientos huracanados de Irma comienzan a golpear Los Cayos de Florida

10:30 p.m.: El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional reportó a las 10:30 p.m. del sábado que los Cayos de la Florida habían comenzado a sentir los vientos huracanados de Irma, en momentos en que la temida tormenta se aproxima al Sur de Florida.

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El huracán Irma finalmente comienza a girar hacia la Florida

Las imágenes satelitales muestran al huracán Irma pasando por la costa norte de Cuba antes de comenzar a adentrarse en el Estrecho de la Florida el sábado 9 de septiembre de 2017.

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Irma, que descendió a la categoría cuatro después de golpear por horas la costa norte de Cuba, tiene previsto fortalecerse hasta la categoría 4 para cuando alcance Cayo Hueso y la costa suroeste de Florida.

Interrupciones en el servicio eléctrico

10:00 p.m.: Algunos residentes del condado de Miami-Dade comenzaron a sufrir interrupciones en el suministro eléctrico en la medida de que las bandas externas de Irma comenzaban a extenderse sobre el Sur de Florida.

Comentarios recogidos a través de las redes sociales reportan interrupciones en el servicio y explosiones de transformadores en Miami Beach y Sunny Isles Beach, producto de fuertes vientos y lluvias.

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Así están las calles de Miami antes de la embestida del huracán Irma

Los conductores que aún transitan por las calles de Miami para llegar a un sitio seguro antes de la embestida del huracán Irma al sur de la Florida manejan bajo fuertes ventarrones y lluvias.

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Residentes de Miami Lakes también reportan breves interrupciones en el servicio eléctrico.

— JOEY FLECHAS Y CAROL ROSENBERG

CNH advierte sobre los peligros del inminente impacto de Irma

8:00 p.m.: Ed Rappaport, director interino del Centro Nacional de Huracanes, dijo el sábado por la noche que la inminente llegada del huracán Irma a los cayos de la Florida y la costa oeste del estado es “capaz de causar pérdidas de vidas y grandes daños”.

El centro de la tormenta se ha desacelerado, indicio de que ha comenzado su tan esperado giro hacia el norte y los Cayos de la Florida. Rappaport dijo que la marejadas de tormenta en los cayos podría llegar a 10 pies, con olas incluso más elevadas.

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En fotos, esperan llegada de Irma al Sur de la Florida

Los primeros efectos del poderoso huracán Irma se empezaron a sentir en el Sur de la Florida el sábado en la mañana.

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La marejada ciclónica en Tampa podría estar entre los 5 y los 8 pies de altura.

“Podríamos ver a Irma de vuelta a un categoría 4 cuando llegue a los cayos”, dijo Rappaport, con vientos de 100 millas por hora o más al amanecer.

— CHUCK RABIN

Personas abandonan albergues en Miami, otras llegaron el sábado

7:30 p.m.: Los residentes de Miami-Dade continuaron llegando a los albergues en el sábado, pero en algunas localidades, también había gente que regresaba a casa.

Al menos nueve escuelas convertidas en albergue perdieron evacuados el sábado.

Unas 500 personas habían dejado el centro de evacuación en South Dade Middle School a las 7 p.m., dijeron los funcionarios de la escuela, en la que se apiñaban unas 2,000 personas.

Según el superintendente del distrito escolar de Miami-Dade, Alberto Carvalho, varias personas abandonaron también albergues en North Miami Middle School, G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School, W.R. Thomas Middle School y otras cinco escuelas.

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El huracán Irma se mueve sobre la costa norte de Cuba y se dirige a los Cayos de la Florida

El poderoso huracán Irma azotó a Cuba el viernes en la noche y el sábado en la mañana con ráfagas de viento de hasta 260 km/h, antes de degradarse a categoría 4 rumbo a los Cayos de la Florida, según los últimos pronósticos a las 8 a.m. del sábado 9 de septiembre.

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En el norte de Miami, Carvalho dijo que había una línea de personas pidiendo abandonar el albergue porque querían ir a casa y conseguir algo. Sospechaba que no pensaban regresar.

El éxodo parecía haber sido provocado por informes de que el huracán Irma estaba inclinándose al oeste y Miami se ahorraría lo peor de la tormenta.

Después de pasar una noche en pisos fríos de linóleo en albergues superpoblados, algunos parecían dispuestos a negociar la seguridad del refugio por la comodidad de su propia cama.

Y en South Dade, hogar de muchos inmigrantes indocumentados, los temores a la deportación— a pesar de que el condado aseguró que no se pedirían documentos en los albergues—, podría haber empujado a algunos a marcharse.

Carvalho advirtió a los residentes de Miami-Dade de no volver a casa. “A pesar de que no vamos a sufrir un impacto directo, lo peor está por venir”, dijo. “Nuestro consejo es que se quede, que se quede donde está, las condiciones para conducir van a ser malas”.

Sin embargo, el número de personas que llegaron a los albergues él sábado fue mucho más elevado, unas 4,000. Unas 28 mil personas estaban en albergues el sábado en la noche.

—KYRA GURNEY

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Barely more than an hour after it convened a special session called by the Democratic governor to debate gun legislation, the GOP-controlled General Assembly abruptly adjourned without taking any action, stunning hundreds of gun control activists and gun rights protesters who had packed the Capitol.

The Senate gaveled in shortly after noon and at about 1:30 p.m., voted 18 to 20 along party lines to adjourn until November 18 – after a state election in which all 140 legislative seats are on the ballot.

A few minutes later, the House of Delegates followed suit, as Democrats expressed surprise and outrage.

“The Republicans in this state are totally controlled—I mean 100 percent – controlled by the National Rifle Association,” said Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax), who fumed in the marble hallways in the Capitol. “Anybody who doubts that, go take a look where the money is spent and go take a look at their votes.”

He struck a defiant note.

“This is far from over,” he said. “In the end, let me assure you we are going to prevail, one way or another.”

House Minority Leader Eileen Filler-Corn, who had been consulting with Republicans even after the session started about what the rules of engagement would be, was almost shaking with anger.

“Shocking,” she said. “Disturbing. But it’ll be up to the voters in November now… ”

Gov. Ralph Northam (D) said Republicans had abdicated their duty. “I expected them to do what their constituents elected them to do – discuss issues and take votes,” Northam said in a statement. “An average of three Virginians die each day due to gun violence. That means hundreds of Virginians may die between today and November 18…It is shameful and disappointing that Republicans in the General Assembly refuse to do their jobs.”

Before adjourning, Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City) pulled a bill he had filed on Monday that seemed to suggest Republicans might find some common ground with Democrats. His bill would have banned firearms from local government buildings around the state and make any violation a felony. State law now bans guns only in courthouses, and a violation is a misdemeanor.

But Norment faced an intense backlash from members of his own party and the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun rights group, and moments after Tuesday’s session began, he announced he was pulling the bill.

“I do not support — nor will I support — any measure that restricts the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” Norment said.

Minutes after the General Assembly adjourned, Jason Ouimet, acting executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, released a statement applauding the House and Senate Republican leadership and calling the special session “a complete taxpayer-funded distraction.”

Earlier Tuesday, armed militia members and gun control activists had swarmed the grounds and streets outside the State Capitol building.

Men in camouflage, some with holstered handguns dangling from their hips, gathered not far from a heavily female crowd wearing red “Moms Demand Action” T-shirts. Busloads of activists rolled into the city, their passengers bracing for a long day.

By 8:30 a.m. about 150 pro-gun demonstrators, several carrying assault rifles, gathered outside the white-columned building.

Jeff Squires, 57, said he wants legislators to hear firsthand from gun owners who feel under siege.

“It’s an incremental taking-away of rights,” Squires said. “There’s an agenda to take away guns, and this is how they’re doing it. I understand there’s violence. It’s not just with guns, though. It’s people with those guns.”

At the nearby bell tower in Capitol Square, Gov. Ralph Northam (D), in a suit and tie despite the summer heat, addressed an hour-long peace vigil, leading several hundred people in chants of “Enough is enough!” and a call and response of “Why are we here? Votes and laws!”

When Northam ordered the special session in the wake of the May 31 mass shooting in Virginia Beach that left 12 dead, he said he wanted “votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers” to address gun violence in the state, which claimed more victims in 2018 than traffic deaths.

The governor held hands with African American community leaders, and they sang “We Shall Overcome.” He was joined by Richmond’s mayor, Levar Stoney (D), and the city’s police chief, schools superintendent and other officials. Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) also stood with Northam, as did state senators Adam P. Ebbin (D-Alexandria) and Barbara A. Favola (D-Arlington) and Del. Delores L. McQuinn (D-Richmond).

Richmond NAACP President James Minor called on attendees to “support our governor” and his gun control efforts. And he sent a political message in biblical language: “If you cannot do right by the people, if you cannot do right by the children, then ye shall be removed.”

Stoney told the crowd: “There will be a day of reckoning. If not today, then it will be at the ballot box in November.”

This is a pivotal election year in Virginia. All 140 seats in the legislature are on the ballot in November, and Democrats are hoping to take control of both chambers for the first time in more than 20 years. Republicans have a 51-48 edge in the House of Delegates and a 20-19 advantage in the Senate, with one vacancy in each chamber.

That dynamic puts even more heat into the incendiary issue of gun control, which animates the base of each party. National groups, including the pro-gun NRA and the gun control groups Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady and Moms Demand Action, have been focusing on the fight in Virginia.

Democrats filed measures, backed by Northam, aimed at reducing the availability and lethality of firearms. His priorities include a ban on devices that make guns fire faster or hold more bullets, limiting handgun purchases to one per month, instituting universal background checks and allowing courts to seize weapons from someone deemed to be a threat.

On Tuesday, activists on both sides of the issue formed a line that snaked around the Pocahontas State Office Building as they filed in to try to meet with lawmakers before the General Assembly was to convene at noon.

As the pro-gun group headed inside, several members pulled out their gun permits.

“Are you carrying?” a guard asked everyone who filed in, while the metal detector alarms rang again and again as they passed through.

Charles Nesby of Norther Virginia headed into the Pocahontas building with an orange “Guns save lives” sticker on his chest, a red “Make America Great Again” cap on his head and a semiautomatic pistol on his hip. His expectations were beyond low as rode the elevator to the offices of the two liberal Democrats who represent him, Ebbin and Del. Richard C. “Rip” Sullivan Jr (D-Fairfax).

“Waste of my time,” Nesby, 68, predicted on the way up.

Sullivan’s office was closed when Nesby arrived a little before 9 a.m. But three floors up, he had better luck with Ebbin, who not only remembered the email Nesby had sent him but invited him into his office to talk about it.

Ebbin explained his desire for universal background checks, recalling how he visited a gun show and saw how easy it was to buy weapons without one.

“We walked in the gun show, and I said, ‘We do not want to go through a background check, and they said, ‘Go to this booth,’ ” Ebbin said. “They said, ‘Fine, you don’t look like a bank robber.’ ”

Ebbin said he imagined that Nesby has undergone background checks.

“I have a White House top-secret [clearance],” said Nesby, a retired Navy captain who was assistant secretary of veteran’s affairs under president George W. Bush.

As their meeting wrapped up, Ebbin said he would like to get together with him again to discuss gun policy further. Nesby was pleasantly surprised.

“We just had a nice talk with Ebbin,” he told a friend. “He wants to talk afterwards. He did receive my email and actually read it.”

“No!” said the friend, Russ Fisher of Woodbridge.

“Yeah, he was familiar with it,” Nesby said. “I was shocked.”

Republicans who control the legislature have stymied gun control bills year after year and have accused Northam of trying to capi­tal­ize on tragedy for political gain.

Some thought the GOP might concede some ground in the gun debate after Norment filed his bill on Monday. But it caught GOP colleagues off guard and sparked cries of betrayal from the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun rights group.

Several pro-gun activists on Tuesday said they were angered by Norment’s bill, calling it a misguided attempt to find compromise with Northam.

“It wouldn’t have prevented what happened in Virginia Beach,” said David Custer, 51.

More than two dozen pro-gun activists clogged the hallway outside Norment’s sixth-floor office at one point Tuesday morning. The senator was not there, so two aides stepped up to engage them.

“We feel like we were ambushed,” one man told an aide.

Outside on the sidewalk, waiting in a line that by late morning snaked around two sides of the Pocahontas building, John Wilburn fumed.

“I think it’s a backstabbing move,” said Wilburn, 41, a real estate broker who lives in Christiansburg, in the far southwest part of the state. He wore a T-shirt that read, “I carry because I care.”

He summed up legislators this way: “Some of them have character, and some of them are a squish.”

Republicans had filed several measures designed to stiffen penalties for violations of gun laws. Sen. William R. DeSteph Jr. (R-Virginia Beach) introduced bills to increase sentences for brandishing anything that even looks like a firearm at law enforcement officers, for violating a protective order while armed and for concealing a firearm while committing a felony.

Raising mandatory minimum sentences is a route that Northam already has said he opposes, arguing that it disproportionately affects people of color.

At least one other Republican introduced bills aimed at tightening gun laws, although more modestly than the Democratic proposals. Del. Glenn R. Davis Jr. (R-Virginia Beach) proposed a measure that would allow localities to ban firearms in buildings used for governmental purposes, as long as they also included steps such as metal detectors to keep people from sneaking in weapons.

Davis also proposed making it slightly harder to get a concealed-carry permit, eliminating the option to demonstrate competence by taking an online or video test in favor of an in-person demonstration. Davis said he has gotten pushback from the NRA and the Virginia Citizens Defense League.

Davis said he’s looking for middle ground. “Gun safety and protecting the rights conveyed by the Second Amendment don’t have to be mutually exclusive,” said Davis, who noted that he was a competitive shooter in high school. “I think it’s common sense.”

Both sides of the issue have spent the past few weeks rallying public support. The NRA held a series of closed “town hall” meetings around the state, while Northam’s cabinet secretaries hosted more than half a dozen “roundtables.”

Republicans have accused Northam of trying to use the Virginia Beach shooting to rehabilitate his political image. Northam has been under a cloud since February, when a racist photo came to light from his 1984 medical school yearbook page.

He first apologized for the photo, then disavowed it but admitted wearing blackface at an event that same year. Since defying calls to resign, Northam has said he would dedicate his term in office to fighting racial disparities.

Sen. Amanda F. Chase (R-Chesterfield), who this year began wearing a handgun on her hip on the Senate floor, called the session a “political stunt.”

She said it was “a waste of taxpayer money,” given that the GOP-controlled legislature this year already killed gun control bills similar to what the governor is proposing.

In Capitol Square on Tuesday, some gun-toting protesters held aloft images of the photo from Northam’s yearbook, which featured a person in Ku Klux Klan robes and another in blackface at what appeared to be a costume party. Printed atop the blown-up image was, “The man behind the sheet wants your guns.”

Democrats, many of whom called on Northam to resign earlier this year, have rallied around him over gun control, which they believe is popular among Virginians.

Northam wants the legislation to be voted on by the full House and Senate, instead of the usual practice of killing the bills in committees, but prospects seem dim.

Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax), the House minority leader, said she had gotten no assurances from Republican leaders that they would allow floor votes.

“I’m hopeful,” Filler-Corn said. “I commend the governor for moving forward. Doing nothing is not an option.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/gun-debate-hits-full-throttle-in-richmond-as-legislature-convenes/2019/07/09/caf20590-a1d4-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html

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La ciudad empieza a recuperarse tras la histórica tormenta.

Nueva York levantó la prohibición sobre los traslados no esenciales después de sufrir la arremetida de una de las tormentas de nieve más fuertes jamás registradas.

Al menos seis personas murieron mientras en incidentes relacionados con la retirada de nieve, y otras 12 desde el vierne por causas vinculadas a la tormenta.

12 personas murieron en incidentes relacionados con la tormenta, bautizada como “Snowzilla”, en el conjunto de Estados Unidos.

La ciudad empieza a recuperarse horas después de que cayeran los últimos copos de nieve, a última hora del sábado.

Antes, las autoridades de la ciudad se vieron obligadas a suspender el transporte público y clausurar los puentes para evitar daños por una tormenta que afectó a unos 85 millones de personas en todo el país.

Las autoridades también pidieron a los ciudadanos de Nueva York que no salieran de casa.

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La tormenta fue tan importante que el icónico Central Park recibió la mayor caída de nieve registrada desde 1869.

La mayor nevada desde entonces se produjo en febrero de 2006, cuando se acumularon 68,3 centímetros de nieve en la ciudad.

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La gente empezó a salir a la calle este domingo.

Tras finalizar la tormenta, muchas personas salieron a la calle para disfrutar de la nieve y se enzarzaron en una guerra de bolas de nueve en Times Square durante la noche.

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Las autoridades prohibieron todos los traslados no indispensables.

Unos 7.000 vuelos fueron cancelados, la mayor parte en los aeropuertos que sirven a Nueva York y a la capital, Washington D.C.

Se declaró la emergencia en 11 de los estados afectados por el mal tiempo: Nueva York, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Carolina del Norte, Nueva Jersey, Virginia, Virginia Occidental, Maryland, Pennsylvania y el Distrito de Columbia.

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Se les pidió a los ciudadanos que se quedaran en sus casas.

Las consecuencias de la tormenta todavía afectan el funcionamiento de la capital, Washington, donde de momento el metro seguirá cerrado.

El temporal, bautizado como “Snowzilla”, dejó hasta 102 centímetros de nieve en algunos lugares de la costa este de Estados Unidos.

La fuerte nevada comenzó a caer el viernes en 20 estados del país.

Decenas de miles de hogares se han quedado sin electricidad. En Carolina del Norte, unos 150.000 abonados se quedaron sin servicio de luz así como otros 90.000 en Nueva Jersey.

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En Pennsylvania se registraron atascos en la circulación de vehículos de más de 12 horas.

En muchas partes, las carreteras se han vuelto intransitables, al punto que se han reportado atascos de tráfico de más de 12 horas en lugares como Kentucky y Pennsylvania.

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La voz y las informaciones del conocido periodista radial, Gonzalo Corea no estuvieron lejos del dial por mucho tiempo.

Luego de ser separado de su puesto en Noticias Columbia a finales de diciembre, él aceptó la propuesta de la gerencia de Radio Actual (107.1) y asumió la dirección del nuevo producto noticioso del espacio: Noticias Actual , que se transmite de lunes a viernes a las 6 a. m. y 4 p. m. con micronoticieros cada hora.

Con 32 años de experiencia en radio, el periodista aceptó dirigir el espacio y a su vez el compromiso de hacer crecer el noticiero “haciendo periodismo clásico y apoyándose en las nuevas tecnologías”.

“Nuestro lema es informar con respeto y seriedad. Como la vieja guardia pero con el valor agregado de la tecnología”, contó.

Corea admite que este nuevo proyecto –que está al aire desde el 2 de enero– no es algo en lo que estuviera trabajando tiempo atrás, pues hasta hace pocas semanas fungió como periodista para Columbia.

“Luego de la salida de Nora Ruíz, quien fue directora de Noticias Columbia , a mí se me asignó por todo el mes de diciembre coordinar el noticiero; después de eso me dijeron que contratarían a otra persona para asumir la dirección. Ahora asumo este reto en Noticias Actual donde empiezo de cero. Estaré en la dirección y trabajando en el área de mercadeo. Aunque tenemos el apoyo de la emisora, con el espacio hay que comer”, detalló.

Como el noticiero apenas empieza, Corea no percibirá un salario. Su trabajo en el área de mercadeo servirá para buscar publicidad y que el emprendimiento crezca.

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Junto a Gonzalo, trabajará el también conocido Werny Vásquez, quien posee vasta permanencia en el ámbito radial.

El equipo cuenta con varios periodistas que trabajan a través de una redacción virtual y 25 corresponsales a nivel nacional.

Corea mencionó que a sus 55 años asumió este desafío porque el periodismo y la radio “son su pasión”.

“Yo no pienso en pensionarme; esta es mi pasión. Ya mis tres hijos son profesionales, así que mientras Dios me preste vida voy a seguir en esto”, dijo.

Con “buen contenido, conocimiento y competencia sana”, Gonzalo quiere ganarse a la audiencia.

“Con los noticieros radiales en general y con Noticias Columbia que siempre ha estado en primer lugar quiero que tengamos una competencia muy respetuosa. Columbia fue un matrimonio de 14 años de mucho crecimiento. Siempre voy a estar agradecido”, finalizó.





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In an exclusive report for “Hannity,” investigative journalist Sara Carter traveled to Guatemala City, as Vice President Harris was also visiting the Northern Triangle country, and reported that the Guatemalan people do not trust Joe Biden and do not want American taxpayer-funded aid, which they believe will simply add to the corruption in the nation’s government and the might of the already-powerful trafficking cartels.

Carter told host Sean Hannity she spoke to people both in Guatemala City – the capital – and San Rafael, a town farther to the west near Quetzaltenango.

“They can tell you they don’t trust the United States, they don’t trust the funding coming to Guatemala,” Carter said of the people in San Rafael. “They say that it’s 30 years of a broken system that just aids and abets nothing more than the drug cartels and human traffickers and crime and corruption inside the city.”

People in the capital city of Guatemala were no less amused by Harris’ visit, where Carter witnessed civilian activists and other constituencies coming together to protest the Vice President’s arrival and her meeting with President Alejandro Giammattei.

“They belonged to civilian groups, citizen groups, NGOs, saying that they wanted trade, not aid. They did not want to be bribed,” she said.

The groups’ concern in Guatemala City was largely that the millions to trillions in aid the Biden administration plans to send to the country in an attempt to quell the migrant crisis likely won’t be fruitful.

One fear the citizens expressed was that funds allocated to “anti-corruption” agencies could be used to empower those bureaucracies to instead target political opponents and dissidents.

Carter said they feel that the commissions where the money is being allocated could be weaponized and used against political opponents. 

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“This is a very tough time in Guatemala. This is a tough time in Central America. What they are hoping for is some bilateral talks that actually bring trade back to Central America so that we can see and stop the influx of people; migrants leaving this part of the world for the United States,” Carter said.

“They say they are very concerned about this but they’re not going to be able to resolve the problem unless the United States tells the truth and faces the facts, and comes to terms with what’s happening here in the region.”

Recently, Guatemala has been one of the jumping-off points for migrants seeking to transit through Mexico to the United States, at entry points such as Tecun Uman, where they often cross the Suchiate River into the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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Yulimar Mudarra.- Desde el Teatro Teresa Carreño, En el marco de la XV reunión de la Comisión Mixta de Alto Nivel China- Venezuela, se firmaron 22 acuerdos de cooperación entre ambas naciones en materia de inversión, desarrollo económico, vivienda, construcción de obras públicas producción; petrolera, vehículos, computadoras, y celulares.

El presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro, en la clausura de la reunión afirmó que “este es el año de la recuperación económica del país (…) Venezuela lo tiene todo para ser una potencia en América Latina y el Caribe”, y destacó el esfuerzo conjunto para el impulso del desarrollo de la economí

Maduro comunicó que actualmente en Venezuela se están desarrollando 790 proyectos productivos con China de los cuales 495 se encuentran en ejecución, 205 en desarrollo y 90 en arranque.

El Jefe de Estado, informó que para los 22 nuevos convenios se realizará una inversión de 2.700 millones de dólares.

Además, con la firma de los convenios se ejecutarán proyectos para el fortalecimiento de los 15 motores de la Agenda Económica Bolivariana.

Este convenio fue suscrito por Ning Jizhe, vicepresidente de la Comisión Nacional de la Reforma China y presidente de la Comisión Mixta de Alto Nivel China; mientras que por Venezuela, la firma estuvo a cargo del ministro de Planificación, Ricardo Menéndez.

 

 

 

 



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El diario Últimas Noticias presentará desde mañana, lunes 15 de febrero del 2016, un nuevo diseño, volverá a circular en horario vespertino y ofrecerá a sus lectores cinco suplementos que aparecerán a lo largo de la semana.

Volver a circular desde el mediodía, como fue su tradición, le permitirá al Diario presentar las noticias del día a la comunidad quiteña. “En gran medida, el nuevo diseño tiene que ver con esa posibilidad, pues estamos destinando las páginas principales para la información que se produzca en la mañana”, explica Carlos Mora, editor del Diario.

La información más noticiosa hablará primordialmente de Quito, pero también de política nacional y los hechos más relevantes del país y del Mundo.

Se ha procurado también que la navegación sea más sencilla, según explica Samuel Fernández, jefe de Diseño Editorial del periódico. “Tenemos, básicamente, tres secciones principales, la de las noticias, la de deportes y las de entretenimiento, más los nuevos cinco suplementos, que están concebidos para que sean coleccionables”.

Habrá un suplemento cada día. Los lunes el cuerpo principal del periódico vendrá acompañado de cuatro páginas de la revista El jefe eres tú, con información relevante para emprendedores, para empleados y desempleados y para cuidar la economía familiar.

Los martes estará la ya tradicional revista Vida sana, con información sobre prevención de enfermedades, nutrición, ejercicio, belleza y cocina.

Los miércoles circulará En las aulas, con material de trabajo para alumnos, maestros y padres de familia.

El suplemento En la casa aparecerá los jueves, con información práctica sobre decoración, jardinería, manualidades y mascotas.

Y una gran agenda de actividades para el fin de semana se presentará los viernes en el suplemento Ocio & fiesta.

Los sábados, aunque no a modo de suplemento, habrá información de Turismo. Todos los días, por supuesto, habrá información del espectáculo local e internacional.

Esta renovada presentación, a juicio de Mora, es a la vez una reafirmación de los principios que rigen al Diario desde su fundación, el 8 de junio de 1938. “Hay dos cosas que han caracterizado a Últimas Noticias”, asegura.

“Por un lado, su dedicación a los temas de Quito, a su historia, a su gente, con noticias donde los ciudadanos son protagonistas; y, por otro, el uso de un lenguaje muy cercano y coloquial, con sal quiteña. Y así seguirá siendo”.

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  • Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday compared the GOP to the ill-fated Titanic passenger liner.
  • “I think there’s a few of us that are just saying ‘guys this is not good,'” he said.
  • Kinzinger backs Cheney’s criticism of former President Trump’s conduct on January 6.
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois on Sunday likened the Republican Party to the Titanic as House Conference Chair Liz Cheney’s potential ouster from leadership continues to roil lawmakers.

During an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Kinzinger said that the GOP was “in the middle of this slow sink.”

Kinzinger, who was one of 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot, said that Cheney has been steadfast in her condemnation of the former president inciting insurrectionists since that day. She has also rebuked Trump’s continued assertions that the 2020 presidential election won illegitimately by President Joe Biden.

Read more: The House’s history-making top security official talked with Insider about his plan to reopen the Capitol and ensure it will ‘never, ever be breached again’ after the January 6 attack

The congressman then contrasted Cheney’s words to those of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who he said had changed his story since the day of the riot.

“Liz Cheney is saying exactly what Kevin McCarthy said the day of the insurrection,” he said. “She’s just been consistently saying it. A few weeks later, Kevin McCarthy changed to attacking other people.”

Kinzinger said that the GOP must have “an internal look and a full accounting” of what led to the riot and compared the party to the Titanic, the ill-fated British passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean during its maiden voyage in 1912.

“Right now, it’s basically the Titanic,” he said. “We’re in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it’s fine. And meanwhile, Donald Trump’s running around trying to find women’s clothing and get on the first lifeboat.”

He added: “I think there’s a few of us that are just saying ‘guys this is not good,’ not just for the future of the party, but this is not good for the future of this country.”

Earlier this year, Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Trump, was accused of committing “treason” by several of his own family members after publicly blasting the former president for his conduct.

In a fiery letter, which Kinzinger first discussed in an interview with Insider’s Anthony L. Fisher and shared with The New York Times, the family members accused him of abandoning his “Christian principles” and joining “the devil’s army,” which they referred to as Democrats and the media.

In a second letter, the family members accused Kinzinger, who joined the Air Force in 2003, of working against the country by questioning Trump.

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As Ohio Governor Mike DeWine spoke at a community gathering after the Dayton shooting, the crowd erupted in chants of “Do something.”
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DAYTON, Ohio – In the wake of Dayton’s mass shooting Sunday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was shouted down by a crowd of vigil attendees wanting action.

As he took the stage in the Oregon District of Dayton, the location of Sunday’s mass shooting, and commented on the size of the crowd gathered, he was met with chants.

“Do something!” the crowd chanted over and over.

“We’re here tonight because we know that we cannot … we know that we cannot … ease the pain of those families who have lost someone,” said DeWine, a Republican, as the chants grew. “We also know that we want to do something.”

Nine people were killed and 27 injured when a suspected gunman opened fire at the Oregon District. The gunman was killed by police.

DeWine has been working on a “red flag law,” which would permit police or relatives to petition a court to remove guns from people deemed dangerous. Several states passed them after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

But DeWine is trying to thread a needle with Second Amendment advocates concerned about due process rights and a GOP-controlled Legislature that has shown little interest in gun control.

DeWine’s history with firearms-related legislation is mixed. 

In Congress, DeWine’s support of gun control, such as background checks at gun shows, earned him an “F” rating from the NRA. In 2006, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence endorsed DeWine in his U.S. Senate race.

He improved to a “C” in 2014, after his first term as Ohio’s attorney general. 

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But during the GOP primary for governor in 2018, DeWine was not the first choice of gun groups. They preferred his lieutenant governor and one-time rival Jon Husted or even former Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who proudly donned her rifle at a 2018 gun-rights rally on the Statehouse steps.

DeWine and Husted joined forces on the GOP ticket. Husted’s presence eased some gun rights advocates’ fears that DeWine might act like former Gov. John Kasich. Kasich signed every Second Amendment bill that crossed his desk and then suddenly started advocating for gun restrictions. 

In the end, the National Rifle Association endorsed DeWine’s bid for governor over Democrat Rich Cordray, former leader of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“This is a vigil tonight, a vigil for the people we have lost,” Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said. “There will be time for action.”

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