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Biden says he doesn’t want lockdowns and won’t expand vaccine mandates to fight Covid this winter – CNBC
Biden says he doesn’t want lockdowns and won’t expand vaccine mandates to fight Covid this winter – CNBC

President Joe Biden on Thursday said his plan to fight Covid during the winter months will not include new lockdowns or an expansion of the administration’s current vaccination requirements.

“It doesn’t include shutdowns or lockdowns, but widespread vaccinations and boosters and testing a lot more,” Biden told reporters during an update.

“And while my existing federal vaccination requirements are being reviewed by the courts, this plan does not expand or add to those mandates — a plan that all Americans hopefully can rally around, and it should get bipartisan support, in my humble opinion,” the president said.

The administration hopes to increase the number of Americans who have received booster shots by expanding outreach. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will contact the more than 60 million people who are on Medicare, mostly seniors, to remind them to get an additional shot.

The White House plan, unveiled earlier Thursday, comes after at least two cases of the highly mutated omicron variant were detected in California and Minnesota this week. Health officials in the U.S. and around the world are concerned that the variant, which has some 50 mutations, could prove more transmissible and evade protection from vaccines to some degree.

Several European nations have reintroduced restrictions on public life to fight a wave of Covid infection. Austria has instituted a full lockdown, the Netherlands is forcing businesses such as restaurants to close early, and Germany is barring the unvaccinated from most businesses with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies and bakeries.

The White House is asking businesses with 100 or more employees to voluntarily move forward with the administration’s requirements to get their staff vaccinated or tested weekly by Jan. 4. A federal appellate court put the policy on hold pending review last month, citing constitutional concerns. The administration says it’s on firm legal ground and expects to win the case.

Biden said Thursday the administration’s goal is to keep schools open by launching hundreds of family vaccination clinics at community health centers and other locations around the country to make it easier for parents to immunize their kids.

“We want our children in school; we are going to take new steps to make sure it stays that way,” Biden said. “But, again, the best step is to vaccinate your children.”

The plan also includes an expansion of free at-home Covid testing. Americans with private insurance will be reimbursed for the tests, and the administration will distribute 50 million free tests to health centers and rural clinics for people who are uninsured or underserved, according to the president.

Biden said the administration doesn’t believe additional measures are needed at the moment but is developing contingency plans to develop new vaccines and boosters if they’re needed to fight omicron.

“My team is already working with officials at Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson to develop contingency plans for other vaccines or boosters,” Biden said. “And I’ll also direct the FDA and the CDC to use the fastest process available — without cutting corners, for safety — to get such vaccines reviewed and approved if needed.”

The U.S., starting next week, will also require inbound international travelers regardless of vaccination status to get tested 24 hours before their departure. The administration is also extending the mask mandate for domestic flights and public transit until March 18.

“We are in a better position than we were a year ago to fight Covid-19,” Biden said.

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/02/covid-news-biden-says-no-lockdowns-wont-expand-vaccine-mandates-this-winter.html

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US will not lift travel restrictions ‘at this point’ due to spread of Delta variant – The Guardian
US will not lift travel restrictions ‘at this point’ due to spread of Delta variant – The Guardian

The United States will not lift any existing travel restrictions “at this point” due to concerns over the highly transmissible Covid-19 Delta variant and the rising number of US coronavirus cases, the White House confirmed on Monday.

The decision comes after a senior level White House meeting late on Friday. It means that the long-running travel restrictions that have barred much of the world’s population from the United States since 2020 will not be lifted in the short term.

“Given where we are today … with the Delta variant, we will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Monday, citing the spread of the Delta variant in the United States and abroad. “Driven by the Delta variant, cases are rising here at home, particularly among those who are unvaccinated and appear likely continue to increase in the weeks ahead.”

The announcement almost certainly dooms any bid by US airlines and the US tourism industry to salvage summer travel by Europeans and others covered by the restrictions. Airlines have heavily lobbied the White House for months to lift the restrictions and some say the industry may now have to wait until September or later for a possible revision.

The United States currently bars most non-US citizens who within the last 14 days have been in the United Kingdom, the 26 Schengen nations in Europe without internal border controls, or in Ireland, China, India, South Africa, Iran and Brazil.

The extraordinary US travel restrictions were first imposed on China in January 2020 to address the spread of Covid-19. Other countries have since been added, most recently India in early May.

Last week, the US Homeland Security Department said US land borders with Canada and Mexico will remain closed to nonessential travel until at least 21 August – even as Canada said it would begin allowing in fully vaccinated American tourists starting 9 August.

Asked on 15 July at a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about when the United States would lift European travel restrictions, President Joe Biden said he would “be able to answer that question to you within the next several days – what is likely to happen”.

Merkel said any decision to lift restrictions “has to be a sustainable decision. It is certainly not sensible to have to take it back after only a few days.”

Since that news conference, US cases have jumped.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday the seven-day average of new cases in the United States was up 53% over the previous week. The Delta variant, which was first found in India, now comprises more than 80% of new cases nationwide and has been detected in more than 90 countries.

Psaki also cited the fact that last week, the CDC urged Americans to avoid travel to the United Kingdom, given a jump in cases.

The restrictions have brought heavy criticism from people prevented from seeing loved ones and the White House has acknowledged a desire to reunite separated families.

The Biden administration has refused to offer any metrics that would trigger when it will unwind restrictions and has not disclosed if it will remove restrictions on individual countries or focus on enhancing individual traveler scrutiny.

Reuters reported last week the White House was discussing the potential of mandating Covid-19 vaccines for international visitors, but no decisions have been made, sources briefed on the matter said. That idea remains under active discussion, they said.

The Biden administration has also been talking to US airlines in recent weeks about establishing international contact tracing for passengers before lifting travel restrictions.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/26/us-travel-restrictions-covid-delta-variant-white-house

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Los Angeles teachers are on strike, exercising a right not enjoyed by most educators – NBC News
Los Angeles teachers are on strike, exercising a right not enjoyed by most educators – NBC News

The strike by the union of Los Angeles teachers heads into its second day on Tuesday. In doing so, some 30,000 California-based teachers are exercising a right not enjoyed by teachers in most states.

California is among the minority of states that do permit teachers’ strikes even though most states allow collective bargaining and wage negotiations for public school teachers.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, as of January 2014, 35 states and the District of Columbia outlaw striking. Teacher strikes are legal in 12 states and not covered in statutes or case law in three.

In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which was designed to achieve uniform, effective enforcement of a national labor policy. Congress intentionally exempted states and cities from the NLRA, because government employees traditionally didn’t enjoy a right to strike.

Consequently, the protections of the NLRA apply to private employers, rather than public employers, and leaves states free to regulate labor relationships with their public employees. The result is a wide variation of rules that vary drastically from state to state.

As a default rule, public employees have neither the right to strike nor the right to collectively bargain, unless such rights are provided by a state statute.

In California, labor relations between most local public entities and their employees are governed by a state law called the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), which recognizes the collective bargaining rights of public employees. The MMBA imposes on local public entities a duty to meet and confer in good faith with representatives of employee organizations, in order to reach binding agreements governing wages, hours and working conditions of the agencies’ employees.

If negotiations break down, California allows public employees to go on strike to enforce their collective bargaining demands, unless the striking employees perform jobs that are essential to public welfare, like firefighters and law enforcement personnel. The state’s supreme court has long held that strikes by public employees are lawful, unless the strike creates a “substantial and imminent” threat to public health or safety.

Danny Cevallos is a legal analyst for NBC News.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-teachers-are-strike-exercising-right-not-enjoyed-most-n958871

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Notre Dame fire pledges inflame Yellow Vest protesters – Al Jazeera English
Notre Dame fire pledges inflame Yellow Vest protesters – Al Jazeera English

Paris, France – Holding signs that read “What about the poor?” and chanting “Justice for all,” France’s yellow vest protesters, ignoring the displays of unity by the French political class in the wake of the Notre Dame fire, marched through the streets of Paris and other cities on Saturday, vowing to persevere in what they called “Ultimatum 2”.

“These [protests] are very important for social justice,” said Jean-Baptiste Redde at the Saturday protest on Republique Square in central Paris. “We have to help the poor, the disabled people, those who don’t have roofs to live under. It’s important to hold on.”

Hundreds were arrested and dozens injured as violence broke out between demonstrators and police.

The French capital quickly became the epicentre of Saturday’s violence, with 9,000 protesters reported in Paris alone, according to the French Ministry of the Interior, and police sealed off entire sections of the city.

While the protests started out peacefully, almost with a carnival-like atmosphere, violence erupted as thousands of demonstrators approached the Place de la Republique.

People threw rocks at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.



With 9,000 protesters, Paris quickly became the epicentre of Saturday’s violence [Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu]

It was the twenty-third demonstration by the loosely organised, disparate movement that is mainly united in its resentment over the lack of economic equality in France and displeasure with President Emmanuel Macron, whom many see as a “president of the rich”.

The grassroots movement that started on social media has proven to be one of the biggest tests of Macron’s presidency, with protesters refusing to let this week’s fire at Notre Dame pause their demonstrations, even as the president and French political parties put aside politics and halted campaigning for the upcoming European Parliament elections.

In fact, in some ways, the fire on Monday inflamed some protesters because of the hundreds of millions of euros raised immediately afterwards to restore the 850-year-old Notre Dame.


Some of that money was pledged by French billionaires such as French luxury group Kering’s CEO Francois-Henri Pinault and LVMH head Bernard Arnault as well as companies such as French oil giant Total.

“I would like us to get back to reality,” said Ingrid Levavasseur, one of the informal leaders of the movement, speaking on French BFM TV last week.

Levavasseur said it was important to criticise “the inertia of large companies and [billionaires] in the face of social misery as they display their ability to raise a crazy amount of money in a single night for Notre Dame”.

Her comments and others were widely shared on social media. Many agreed.

“If they are able to give tens of millions to rebuild Notre Dame, then they should stop telling us that there is no money to counter social inequality,” Philippe Martinez, head of France’s CGT workers union, told French radio last week.

The sentiment was reflected on the streets of Paris on Saturday.

“Billions should also be given to the poor, to help the environment, to promote biodiversity,” said Redde holding a sign that read, “Millions for Notre Dame – and what about the poor?”

“But Macron and this government only want to help the rich, so we can’t stop.”



Jean-Baptiste Redde at the Yellow Vest protests in Republique square holds a sign reading ‘Millions for Notre Dame – and what about the poor?’ [Jabeen Bhatti/Al Jazeera]

‘A pointless debate’

The fire at Notre Dame, which is revered by all French people – Catholics, Muslims and Jews – as part of France’s cultural and historical legacy, set off a national outpouring of grief.

As a result, the anger at the donations set off a backlash within the government and among the public.

“It is a pointless debate,” said Culture Minister Franck Riester, interviewed on RMC radio. “To say, ‘there’s too much money for Notre Dame and there is need elsewhere’ – of course, there is need elsewhere for healthcare, the fight against climate change. But Notre Dame is not only a collection of old stones. It’s a part of our identity.”

France’s Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner was more pointed.

“The rioters have not been visibly moved by what happened at Notre Dame,” he said angrily, shortly before the ministry announced that France would deploy 60,000 police officers on Saturday and prevent any protesters from getting near Notre Dame and the Champs-Elysees where, in March, they set fire to a bank, smashed the front of a renowned restaurant, and looted stores.

It’s difficult to say the protests are no longer legitimate because of the Notre Dame fire. Life goes on. And so do the yellow vests.

Jean-Michel Aphatie, political commentator

Meanwhile, the public is already growing weary of the protesters – recent polls show support for the yellow vests has dropped by half from 80 percent. An Odoxa poll released on Friday indicated that a slim majority of French wanted the demonstrations suspended.

“I’m tired of this,” a clothing shop owner in the Marais, a major tourist district next to Republique Square, told Al Jazeera privately. “For five months, we have had almost no business – the tourists are not coming here because of the protests.”

Notre Dame even gave pause to some within the movement. Many in the movement on Tuesday called for protests to be delayed in deference to the “national tragedy” at Notre Dame.

‘Too little, too late’

Monday’s fire broke out just an hour before Macron was scheduled to give a televised address detailing a series of policy reforms in response to the yellow vest protesters and their grievances. The speech was cancelled at the last minute and rescheduled for next Thursday.

Even so, copies of the taped speech sent to reporters were leaked. In it, Macron promised to lower taxes for the middle class, reconsider his decision to cut a “fortune solidarity tax” on top earners, and make adjustments to the lowest pensions for inflation.

Macron was also set to announce the closure of the highly prestigious Ecole nationale d’administration, a college that trains public servants. Many have criticised the school as a place reserved for the elite. 



A closed shoe store on Saturday near the busy retail district of the Marais [Jabeen Bhatti/Al Jazeera]

The Odoxa poll showed the majority of French citizens supported these changes. But many yellow vest demonstrators and others continued their chant of “too little, too late” and vowed to continue protesting for weeks to come.

“Pfff – blah, blah, blah,” was the reaction of Catherine Lopis when asked about Macron’s plans.

“I voted for him (Macron) – had no choice but him or [far-right leader Marine] Le Pen. But he isn’t interested in helping anyone other than bankers. Our problems are not his problems so it is easy for him to turn away.”

Jerome Rodrigues, a leader in the movement, said on Saturday the postponement of Macron’s speech was calculated.

“The world stops turning when there is a fire in France?” he wondered during an interview on French television.

“I think it was a government strategy to get some information leaked to buy time to then better sell us his new programme, changes he wants to make that we are denouncing here at the demonstration.”

‘Protesters have a point’

“These protests aren’t going to end any time soon,” said French radio personality and political commentator Jean-Michel Aphatie.

But without concrete goals and a clear leader, Aphatie said the movement is struggling to be effective and bring concrete change.

“The only thing they know for sure is that they want to go out every Saturday to protest,” he said, referring to the fact the protests have run continuously every Saturday since November 17, even though they have grown smaller.

Even so, he added the protest did have legitimacy. The French have seen their purchasing power decline over the years and many are struggling to make ends meet.

“It’s difficult to say the protests are no longer legitimate because of the Notre Dame fire,” Aphatie said. “Life goes on. And so do the Yellow Vests.”

Source Article from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/notre-dame-fire-pledges-inflame-yellow-vest-protesters-190420171251402.html

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India Turns to Vaccinations and Boosters to Avoid Another Surge – The New York Times
India Turns to Vaccinations and Boosters to Avoid Another Surge – The New York Times

The New York State Department of Health is urging parents to get all children who are 5 and older vaccinated, citing a jump in pediatric hospitalizations associated with the coronavirus.

Beginning the week of Dec. 5 through the current week, there has been a fourfold increase in Covid hospital admissions among children in New York City, where the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly, the department said in an advisory on Friday. About half were under the age of 5, and not eligible for vaccination.

The advisory did not give the specific number of New York City’s pediatric Covid hospitalizations, but state data shows that more than 50 children under the age of 5 were hospitalized with Covid across New York as of Thursday.

The jump in pediatric cases is evident in other states as well. The American Academy of Pediatrics reported last week that Covid cases were “extremely high” among those under the age of 18 across the country. Citing data as of Dec. 16, the academy said cases among those under 18 had risen by 170,000 for the prior week, an increase of nearly 28 percent since early December. Pediatric cases are higher than ever before in the Northeast and Midwest, the data show, and all regions of the country have significantly more such cases since schools reopened for in-person instruction this fall.

The New York State advisory reported that during the week that preceded Dec. 19, none of the 5- to 11-year-old Covid patients admitted to the hospital had been fully vaccinated. In the same period, one-fourth of the 12- to 17-year-old hospitalized Covid patients had been fully vaccinated. As of Friday, only 16 percent of the state’s children aged 5 to 11 were fully vaccinated, the advisory said, a proportion that rose to 64 percent for those aged 12 to 17.

“The risks of Covid-19 for children are real,” Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the acting state health commissioner, said in a statement. “We are alerting New Yorkers to this recent striking increase in pediatric Covid-19 admissions so that pediatricians, parents and guardians can take urgent action to protect our youngest New Yorkers. We must use all available safe and effective infection control, prevention and mitigation strategies.”

Overall, cases in the state have spiraled upward this month, driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant. The new variant made up 92 percent of new cases in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate released Monday that grouped the four areas together. There were 32,591 new cases reported in New York on Friday, according to a New York Times database, a stark increase from the 6,644 reported on the last day of November.

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Some public health officials are predicting a continued steep increase in Omicron cases over the next few weeks, followed by a steep decline, similar to South Africa’s experience with the variant.

Dr. Bassett said that parents could help shield children too young to be eligible for vaccination by ensuring that those around them have been vaccinated and received boosters, as well as by wearing masks, avoiding crowds and taking tests.

The department encouraged parents and guardians to be aware of common Covid symptoms in children, including fatigue, headache, trouble sleeping, muscle aches, a cough that becomes productive, sore throat, chills, nasal congestion and a new loss of taste or smell. If a member of the household is exposed to the coronavirus, the advisory said, children should also undergo testing, social distancing and quarantining.

— Todd Gregory

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/25/world/omicron-covid-vaccine-tests

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Asambleísta oficialista Fausto Cayambe falleció de un infarto – El Universo
Asambleísta oficialista Fausto Cayambe falleció de un infarto – El Universo
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Según el Art. 60 de la Ley Orgánica de Comunicación, los contenidos se identifican y clasifican en:
(I), informativos; (O), de opinión; (F), formativos/educativos/culturales; (E), entretenimiento; y (D), deportivos.

Source Article from http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2016/10/30/nota/5884264/asambleista-oficialista-fausto-cayambe-fallecio-infarto

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Who is William Rick Singer, the college admissions cheating scandal’s alleged ringleader? – Fox News
Who is William Rick Singer, the college admissions cheating scandal’s alleged ringleader? – Fox News
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Federal officials detail charges in college admissions cheating scandal

William Rick Singer, founder of for-profit college prep business Edge College & Career Network also known as “The Key,” is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the largest college admissions scams to ever hit the U.S. and went to great lengths — which included pricey fees — to ensure his clients’ demands were met.

Singer, 58, has been called the “ringleader” behind the scheme, purportedly collecting roughly $25 million from dozens of individuals including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin over the course of nearly a decade to bribe school coaches and administrators into pretending their children were athletic recruits to ensure their admission into top tier colleges, prosecutors say.

The Newport Beach, Calif., businessman agreed to plead guilty in Boston federal court Tuesday to charges including racketeering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. As a part of his guilty plea, Singer said he would pay at least $3.4 million to the feds, The Boston Globe reports.

3 OF THE MOST BIZARRE DETAILS OF THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL

On his website for The Key, Singer describes himself as a dedicated father and coach who understands the pressure put on families surrounding college acceptances. The Key calls itself “the nation’s largest private life coaching and college counseling company.”

William Rick Singer, founder of the Edge College and Career Network, pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. 
(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

“As founder of The Key, I have spent the past 25 years helping students discover their life passion, and guiding them along with their families through the complex college admissions maze. Using The Key method, our coaches help unlock the full potential of your son or daughter, and set them on a course to excel in life,” Singer stated online, providing biographies for seven other “coaches.”

Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, reportedly claimed Singer’s clients paid him “anywhere between $200,000 and $6.5 million” for his unique services.

FELICITY HUFFMAN, LORI LOUGHLIN AMONG 50 SNARED IN ELITE COLLEGE CHEATING SCAM, AUTHORITIES SAY

Parents of prospective students conspired with a college entrance consultant to beat the system and ensure their students were admitted or had a better chance to be admitted to certain colleges or universities, including Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

“According to the charging documents, Singer facilitated cheating on the SAT and ACT exams for his clients by instructing them to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the children purport to have learning disabilities in order to obtain the required medical documentation,” the U.S. Justice Department explained, in part, in an online statement.

“Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do.”

— Andrew Lelling

However, that was just one of many ways Singer ensured the students got accepted to elite schools such as Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

“Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do,” Lelling said, adding that it “appears that the schools are not involved.”

Prosecutors say the consultant represented to parents that the scheme had worked successfully more than 800 times.

Singer also served as CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a non-profit he claimed was a charity. Bribery payments were disguised as donations to KWF in sums up to $75,000 per SAT or ACT exam, the Justice Department said, noting that many students didn’t realize their parents had staged anything.

“This is a case where [the parents] flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat the system so they could set their children up for success with the best money can buy,” Joseph Bonavolonta from the FBI Boston Field Office said in a Tuesday news conference.

In total, 50 people — including more than 30 parents and nine coaches — were charged Tuesday in the scheme.

Fox News’ Katherine Lam,Travis Fedschun and The Assocaited Press contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-is-william-rick-singer-college-admissions-cheating-scandals-alleged-ringleader

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Curas villeros rechazan la tapa de la revista Noticias con la imagen de la … – Télam
Curas villeros rechazan la tapa de la revista Noticias con la imagen de la … – Télam

Ambos sacerdotes “no darle trascendencia ni entrar en el juego que proponen” los autores de la publicación.


“Me parece una imagen poco feliz, es una banalización de la festividad de la Semana Santa con fines políticos”, dijo en declaraciones a Télam “Toto” De Vedia, coordinador del Equipo de Sacerdotes para las Villas de Emergencia desde la parroquia de Caacupé, en la villa 21-24 de Barracas.


El cura afirmó que “en la villa se respeta la religiosidad y la gente adhiere mucho y este tipo de imágenes hace mal a los religiosos”.


Por su parte, el padre “Willy” Torre, de la parroquia Cristo Obrero consideró que, frente a la publicación, “lo importante es estar junto a la gente celebrando la festividad de Semana Santa y a lo que aparece en los medios en este momento de Jueves Santo no hay que darle tanta trascendencia ni entrar en el juego que proponen”.

Source Article from http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201404/59833-curas-villeros-rechazan-la-tapa-de-la-revista-noticias.html

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Louisiana man, 71, presumed dead after an alligator attacked him in an area flooded by Ida – NBC News
Louisiana man, 71, presumed dead after an alligator attacked him in an area flooded by Ida – NBC News
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Últimas noticias de los normalistas desaparecidos en Iguala, hoy 3 de … – StarMedia
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”.

Ruta de la caminata

  • 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.

Source Article from http://noticias.starmedia.com/mexico/ultimas-noticias-normalistas-desaparecidos-en-iguala-hoy-3-noviembre-2014.html

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How Gavin Newsom went from landslide victory to fighting for his political survival – Los Angeles Times
How Gavin Newsom went from landslide victory to fighting for his political survival – Los Angeles Times

In the giddy early hours of his landslide victory, California’s governor-elect struck a tone that signaled the grandiosity of his ambitions. “The sun is rising in the west, and the arc of history is bending in our direction,” Gavin Newsom told jubilant supporters on election night in November 2018.

There was some basis for a progressive Democrat’s fizzy confidence. Newsom had trounced his Republican rival with 62% of the vote. He would enter office with a massive budget surplus in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 2 to 1, with supermajorities in both legislative houses.

He had survived a sex scandal as mayor of San Francisco, served eight years in the unglamorous job of lieutenant governor, and weathered claims that he was too ambitious, too slickly handsome, and too patrician-seeming — a supposed son of privilege whose bid for power was greased by his father’s big-money connections.

He had campaigned as a leader of resistance to the Republican White House, and promised that America’s most populous state would serve as an anti-Trump bulwark, as well as a continued engine of industry and innovation. “The future,” he told the election-night crowd, “belongs to California.”

Whether the future belongs to Gavin Newsom, 53, is now an open question. Voters on Sept. 14 will decide whether to cashier the governor before he has even completed his first term, in the second gubernatorial recall election in the state’s history.

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Among likely voters, 47% favor recall, while 50% want to keep him, according to a recent poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies that was cosponsored by The Times. To hold onto his job, Newsom needs one vote more than 50%.

The story of a Democratic governor who finds himself fighting for political survival in a deep-blue state is hard to imagine without COVID-19, which has unleashed fury at leaders around the country.

“This is truly the pandemic recall — there’s no other way to describe it,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California. He said how governors have responded to the pandemic will define their legacies: “For governors elected in 2018, it’s not what they signed up for, but it’s what they’re going to be known for in history.”

Newsom’s early response to the pandemic, including the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order, did not tank his approval rating among registered voters, and in September 2020 an IGS poll put it at 64%.

But by last month it had dropped to 50%. COVID fatigue was pervasive, the Delta variant was spreading, and Newsom — with regular, sometimes confusingly jargon-laden briefings — had made himself the public face of the state’s inconsistent pandemic response.

Apart from high taxes, homelessness and crime spikes, recall ads cite the pandemic-related shutdown of public schools, and billions of tax dollars lost under Newsom to unemployment fraud.

“The person in charge always gets too much credit when things are good, and too much blame when things are bad,” said Dan Schnur, a professor at UC Berkeley and USC and former Republican political consultant. “Most Californians know that Newsom didn’t cause the coronavirus, but he’s taking the lion’s share of the blame for how they feel it’s been handled.”

Newsom’s plight also owes in part to a Sacramento Superior Court Judge’s decision in November. Recall organizers claimed that Newsom’s pandemic shutdowns were hampering their effort to gather the necessary 1.5 million signatures, and the judge gave them four extra months to do so, a ruling Newsom did not challenge.

The same month, Newsom blundered into the French Laundry, a three-star Michelin restaurant in California’s wine country. Photos showed the governor celebrating a lobbyist friend’s birthday at the temple of haute cuisine, unmasked, at a time when he had been urging 40 million fellow Californians to avoid multifamily gatherings.

Caught, Newsom expressed contrition, but the struggling recall effort gained impetus, allowing free-floating misgivings about Newsom to find a focus. An out-of-touch elitist, a hypocrite, a multimillionaire who mingled with lobbyists when he thought people weren’t looking — it seemed an amalgam of his enemies’ caricatures of him.

The incident made “Saturday Night Live,” where an actor playing Newsom was introduced like this: “He’s hated by every single person in California except those 10 people he had dinner with in Napa that one time.”

Newsom had always struggled to combat perceptions that he was born into privilege. His late father, William Newsom, was a state appellate court justice who after retiring became a legal fixer to his friend Gordon Getty, scion of the Getty oil fortune. Getty invested in Newsom’s first business, the PlumpJack Wine and Spirits store, which opened in San Francisco in 1992, and Newsom’s businesses have since blossomed into a hospitality powerhouse of restaurants, hotels and bars.

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed Newsom to the Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and gave him a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a year later.

Newsom later ran for mayor and won. Soon after taking office in 2004, the 36-year-old Newsom became a national figure by ordering the city clerk to issue same-sex wedding licenses, long before it was legal.

Thousands of people married before the state Supreme Court blocked it. Newsom suffered political blowback for years — including from Democrats who claimed he had handed Republicans a culture-war wedge issue — though his supporters portrayed his gesture as one of prescient moral boldness.

“Newsom is clearly somebody who wants to make history,” said Garry South, a longtime political consultant who advised Newsom on his brief 2010 campaign for governor. “This is not somebody who is going to nibble around the edges, and do something 3% better than his predecessor did.”

The telegenic mayor, with the bearing of an ex-jock and hair gelled straight back from a high forehead, provided gossip-page fodder after the collapse of his marriage to his first wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle. He appeared at a gala with a 19-year-old date, a model, who was seen holding a glass of wine. But San Franciscans did not seem especially troubled by headlines like “Mayor McHottie’s New Girlfriend — Half His Age.”

His reputation suffered, however, when he acknowledged that he had had an affair with his appointments secretary, who was married to his deputy chief of staff. He apologized and said he would get counseling for alcohol abuse.

When he ran for governor, his rivals derided him as a “Davos Democrat” and “Prince Gavin,” and Republican opponent John Cox’s campaign put up a website called “Fortunate $on.”

His supporters pushed an alternative narrative — the underdog story of a man with severe dyslexia whose parents split up when he was young, and who was raised by a mother who worked multiple jobs and took in foster kids to pay the bills.

His persona makes him “come off as somebody who is upper crust,” but “he earned the money,” South said. “He gets hit with all of this criticism about high-society, hoity-toity wine bars and all that stuff. But here’s somebody who came from a broken home, lived in basically a roadside motel in Marin County, and through hard work became a multimillionaire. This is not someone who’s inherited his wealth, and that’s one of the misconceptions about him.”

California

California Politics: Who are the recall election’s early voters?

The early ballot return totals look good for Newsom and Democrats. But Republicans are betting on a late-breaking wave of pro-recall votes.

Still, for voters who don’t know much else about Newsom, the French Laundry incident seems to have special staying power.

“The average voter is not going to remember hospitalization rates and viral caseloads, but the impression of their governor going to a fancy restaurant with lobbyists during a shutdown is much easier to process, and much more likely to linger,” Schnur said.

“The most damaging gaffes in politics don’t create new impressions, they reinforce existing ones,” Schnur added. “A lot of voters already felt that he was someone of great privilege who didn’t understand what their daily lives were like. Going to the restaurant reinforced the idea that he could play by a different set of rules than they were permitted.”

As governor, Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions. As a leader of the anti-Trump resistance, he supported a measure requiring Donald Trump to release his tax returns and pulled California National Guard troops from the U.S.-Mexico border.

Newsom lost a useful political foil when voters turned Donald Trump out of the White House, but has worked to frame the recall as the work of Trump-friendly Republicans. His opposition gained a targetable face with the emergence of Larry Elder, a conservative talk-show host, as a front-runner.

“Newsom was having trouble running against Trump because Trump was no longer in office,” Schnur said. “He was having trouble running against the multi-candidate amorphous Republican blob. But Larry Elder is a living, breathing human being who says very controversial things. Newsom couldn’t have asked for anything more.”

If voters choose to recall Newsom, they will pick among 46 candidates. Voters will find no prominent Democrats on the list, because Newsom urged them not to run. It is a risky all-or-nothing strategy.

The last time California held a gubernatorial recall, in 2003, it cost Democratic Gov. Gray Davis his job. Voters were fueled by anger over a car tax and power outages. His replacement, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the last Republican governor to hold office in the state.

“When you run for office, you ought to be aware that the recall law and initiatives have been law for 111 years,” Davis said in a recent interview. “I don’t join the whiners and the moaners and the complainers. That’s just the way California is. That being said, Gavin Newsom had nothing to do with the arrival of the pandemic.”

He added, “I think he’s done a very good job given the hand he’s been dealt.”

Times staff writers Taryn Luna and Phil Willon, in Sacramento, contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-28/newsom-profile-california-governor-recall-election

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Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote – CNN
Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote – CNN

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White House ‘flagging’ posts for Facebook to censor over COVID ‘misinformation’ – New York Post
White House ‘flagging’ posts for Facebook to censor over COVID ‘misinformation’ – New York Post

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday the Biden administration is identifying “problematic” posts for Facebook to censor because they contain “misinformation” about COVID-19.

Psaki disclosed the government’s role in policing social media during her daily press briefing after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on companies to purge more pandemic posts.

The demand for censorship — and Psaki’s admission of government involvement — follows a series of flip-flops from health officials who contradicted themselves throughout the pandemic on issues such as mask efficacy, as well as censorship of claims that later gained credibility, such as the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

“We are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff and also members of our COVID-19 team — given as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue, of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic,” Psaki said.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has spoken out against problematic social posts in regard to COVID-19.
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She added: “We’ve increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General’s Office. We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.”

Psaki added, “it’s important to take faster action against harmful posts … and Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful violative posts.”

Psaki and Murthy, who also spoke at the press briefing, specifically said they are concerned about “misinformation” about COVID-19 vaccines. About 68 percent of US adults have had at least one vaccine shot, according to CDC data, dramatically lowering infection rates in most parts of the country.

Jen Psaki said Facebook needs to take decisive action against the posts.
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Murthy said “we’re asking [social media companies] to consistently take action against misinformation superspreaders on their platforms.”

“Misinformation takes away our freedom to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health misinformation has led people to resist wearing masks in high-risk settings. It’s led them to turn down proven treatments and to choose not to get vaccinated. This has led to avoidable illnesses and deaths,” Murthy said.

Psaki and Murthy would not answer a shouted question about the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser and the government’s top infectious diseases expert, has himself vacillated on COVID-19 information.

Fauci did not promote mask-wearing in February, March and early April 2020 as the respiratory virus spread in the US, despite the historical use of masks to counter airborne viruses and their successful early adoption in East Asia. But Fauci later pushed even wearing two masks at a time.

Psaki added the government has been in close contact with social media companies about “misinformation.”
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Other US health officials initially discouraged wearing masks. Surgeon General Jerome Adams asserted in a now-deleted tweet that masks were “NOT effective” at protecting people from COVID-19 before later saying that they were effective.

Facebook this year stopped censoring posts that claimed COVID-19 may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China due to “evolving” information that bolstered the theory.

Biden in May ordered a 90-day spy agency review of the lab leak theory. At least one spy agency was leaning toward that explanation, according to a statement released by the US intelligence community.

Social media networks have censored other posts before backtracking — notably including Facebook and Twitter censoring The Post’s reporting in October on documents from a laptop formerly belonging to Hunter Biden that appeared to link his father to business pursuits in China and Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump filed lawsuits last week against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, arguing that they are illegally squelching free speech rights on behalf of the government. Trump was banned from the platforms after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

About 68 percent of adults have received at least one shot of COVID vaccine in the US.
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“These companies have been co-opted, coerced and weaponized by government actors to become the enforcers of illegal, unconstitutional censorship,” Trump said.

Trump lawyer John Coale said the suits would prove that the tech companies “are government actors” and that “therefore, the First Amendment does apply” to their actions.

Source Article from https://nypost.com/2021/07/15/white-house-flagging-posts-for-facebook-to-censor-due-to-covid-19-misinformation/

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Judge Slams Gov. Abbott ‘Shamelessly Taking His Orders’ From Trump on Texas Election Audits – Newsweek
Judge Slams Gov. Abbott ‘Shamelessly Taking His Orders’ From Trump on Texas Election Audits – Newsweek

A Texas judge blasted Governor Greg Abbott for “taking his orders” from Donald Trump over the announcement that there would be audits into the state’s presidential election results—which followed a request for a review from the former president.

The Texas Secretary of State announced the audit into the results from Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin counties on Thursday. It came just after Trump urged Abbott to conduct an audit into the state’s election results.

“Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!” the former president wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday. “You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election.”

Following the announcement, some Texas county judges expressed frustration, saying they do not know what the audits entail and that they learned about them through a press release from the office of the secretary of state, The Texas Tribune reported.

“This is a weak Governor openly and shamelessly taking his orders from a disgraced former President. Governor Abbott is wasting taxpayer funds to trample on Texans’ freedom to vote, all in order to appease his puppeteer,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat, told the Tribune.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, a Democrat, also criticized the audit as “politically motivated,” telling the Tribune: “Every time we engage in a conversation about these false allegations, we’re lending credence to the lie.”

Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, a Republican, also told the same outlet “it’s time to move on,” criticizing “conspiracy theorists who want to come up with all these ways” to doubt the election results.

Biden easily won Dallas County with 65 percent of the vote and Harris County with 56 percent. He flipped Tarrant County, winning 49.3 percent to Trump’s 49.1 percent. Trump won Collin County with over 51 percent of the vote.

Trump won statewide by about six points, despite Democratic hopes of flipping the Lone Star State.

In Texas, county judges preside over a wide range of duties. In addition to overseeing judicial matters, they also serve as heads of emergency management. In smaller counties, they may also serve as budget officers, according to the Texas Association of Counties.

Republicans have audited or pushed for audits in states Biden narrowly won—and states won by Trump—amid unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. No evidence has been presented to indicate widespread fraud.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has previously stated support for an audit.

“There is no reason not to do an audit,” Paxton tweeted this summer. “There is no reason not to know the truth of every election. And, certainly, because there are so many questions about this one—maybe even in Texas, we should do the audit.”

A Texas county judge slammed Governor Greg Abbott following an announcement of an audit into the 2020 presidential election. Here, a woman is seen voting in El Paso.
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Meanwhile, results were released last week in Arizona’s months-long and widely-scrutinized election audit in Maricopa County. The review found that Biden won the county by an even larger margin than the pre-audit numbers indicated.

The hand count found Trump won 45,469 fewer votes than Biden, whereas earlier county results showed he lost by 45,109—a relatively small discrepancy of 360.

Last week, Trump also asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to decertify the state’s results, claiming he found 43,000 absentee ballots that violated the chain of custody rules. However, Raffensperger said Friday that Trump “lost the election fair and square.”

Newsweek reached out to the judge’s offices in each of the four counties as well as Abbott’s office for comment but had not heard back by publication. This story will be updated with any response.

Source Article from https://www.newsweek.com/judge-slams-gov-abbott-shamelessly-taking-his-orders-trump-texas-election-audits-1632712

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Tu resumen de noticias: Temer libra cargos de corrupción, prevén escalada en Cataluña y un exministro kirchnerista … – New York Times en Español
Tu resumen de noticias: Temer libra cargos de corrupción, prevén escalada en Cataluña y un exministro kirchnerista … – New York Times en Español

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El presidente brasileño es exculpado

Legisladores de la oposición llegaron el 25 de octubre a la sede del congreso en Brasilia con carteles que dicen “Fuera Temer”.


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El presidente de Brasil Michel Temer, quien hoy fue hospitalizado por unas horas por complicaciones urológicas, tuvo otra buena noticia: las denuncias por corrupción en su contra no avanzarán a un juicio. La Cámara de Diputados brasileña votó hoy para descartar los cargos.

El mandatario estaba acusado de organización delictiva y obstrucción de la justicia por presuntamente haber encabezado un sistema de cobro de sobornos y supuestamente intentar acallar las investigaciones de corrupción que involucran a la estatal Petrobras y la constructora Odebrecht (empresa que que ha causado revuelo en toda la región latinoamericana tras revelarse que tenía un departamento para repartir coimas a cambio de hacerse con contratos y entablar buenas relaciones con ciertos políticos).

Esta es la segunda vez que recaís sobre los diputados brasileños determinar si los cargos contra Temer avanzaban o no, pues también estuvo acusado de aceptar sobornos, aunque acorraló suficientes votos para que el caso no avanzara ante el Supremo Tribunal Federal, el único órgano que puede enjuiciarlo debido a que tiene fuero.

Aplazan decisión

Emilio Lozoya en las oficinas de Pemex cuando era director, en agosto de 2014


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En México, el Senado tenía programado debatir si la reciente destitución del fiscal en materia electoral Santiago Nieto fue legal, aunque la sesión fue pospuesta por que no había suficientes legisladores presentes.

Nieto fue retirado del cargo el viernes de la semana pasada por presuntas irregularidades de conducta, pero la situación está bajo investigación ya que poco antes había denunciado que un poderoso integrante del partido gobernante, el exdirector de la petrolera estatal Pemex Emilio Lozoya, le envió una carta en la que parecía exhortarlo a que dejara de investigarlo.

Lozoya está siendo investigado por denuncias de que recibió dinero por parte de la oficina mexicana de Odebrecht en 2012, cuando estaba a cargo de la dirección internacional de la campaña del ahora presidente Enrique Peña Nieto. El exdirector de Pemex tiene programado comparecer mañana ante la FEPADE, la fiscalía para delitos electorales, por el caso.

Van por una ‘república’

Carles Puigdemont, el presidente de Cataluña


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A días de que el Senado español debata la aplicación del artículo 155 de la Constitución para destituir al gobierno catalán por la crisis independentista, el presidente regional Carles Puigdemont se prepara para hacer declaraciones ante el Parlament en las que se prevé que convoque a nuevas elecciones o que oficialice la declaración de independencia que ha desatado furor y temor alrededor de España.

Puigdemont primero tenía planeado acudir ante el Senado para dar la respuesta a las discusiones, pero al final anunció que no acudirá y se presentará ante el parlamento regional en vez. Después publicó en su cuenta de Instagram una foto de una reunión con integrantes de la coalición gobernante en la que dice: “No perderemos el tiempo con quienes ya han decidido arrasar con el autogobierno en Cataluña”.

No perdrem el temps amb aquells que ja han decidit arrasar l’autogovern de Catalunya. Seguim! #CatalanRepublic

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En vísperas del discurso de Puigdemont y de la reunión del Senado, el vicepresidente catalán Oriol Junqueras dijo en una entrevista que el gobierno español no ha dejado “ninguna otra opción” más que recurrir a la declaración unilateral de independencia para formar “una república”.

Temer a niñas y el temor de ellas

Maryam, de 16 años, escapó tras haber sido secuestrada por milicianos de Boko Haram, que le pusieron un chaleco con explosivos.


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El grupo islamista Boko Haram, con amplia presencia en Nigeria, ha comenzado a utilizar cada vez más a niños y niñas como atacantes kamikaze al forzarlos a ponerse chalecos con bombas.

The New York Times habló con dieciocho niñas que fueron secuestradas por los milicianos que, de algún modo, lograron sobrevivir, al alertar a las autoridades que tenían puestas las bombas o escapar sin detonarlas. Varias de ellas fueron forzadas a usar los explosivos por no querer casarse con los milicianos.

Según Unicef, en lo que va de este año más de 110 menores de edad han sido usados como atacantes suicidas; 76 eran niñas y la mayoría no tenía más de 15 años.

Nigeria se ha vuelto así un lugar que no solo le teme a la insurgencia de Boko Haram, que inició hace ocho años, sino a sus propios niños.

Más en América Latina y el Caribe

• El exministro de Obras y Planificación y diputado argentino Julio de Vido, de los principales secretarios durante los mandatos kirchneristas, acaba de ser desaforado y se entregó a las autoridades como parte de una investigación en su contra por acusaciones de defraudación en una mina de carbón y por el aparente sobrecosto de compras de gas licuado. De Vido también ha sido criticado por el llamado Caso Once, choque ferroviario en la estación del mismo nombre que dejó 51 muertos y 670 heridos en 2012. Un juez había pedido su detención el pasado 16 de octubre. De Vido, quien tiene diabetes, fue trasladado por la tarde del miércoles al hospital penitenciario de Ezeiza.

Pía León, jefa de cocina de Central, el restaurante peruano que ocupó el primer puesto de los 50 Mejores Restaurantes de América Latina en 2014, 2015 y 2016.


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• Los 50 mejores restaurantes de América Latina para 2017 fueron anunciados ayer en una ceremonia en Bogotá, con el peruano Maido –de comida Nikkei– a la delantera, seguido por el también peruano Central, que había sido nombrado el mejor de la región los tres años anteriores. Varias chefs llegaron a la lista en lugares destacados, algo que no siempre había sucedido (de hecho, la jefa de cocina y copropietaria de Central Pia León raramente es mencionada cuando se habla del restaurante que tiene con su esposo, el chef Virgilio Martínez). Leonor Espinosa, del colombiano Leo, fue reconocida como la mejor chef de Latinoamérica.

La lista es una nueva muestra de cómo la alta cocina se ha vuelto uno de los factores que atraen turismo a los países latinoamericanos. Varios integrantes de la lista también aparecen en el de los 50 mejores restaurantes del mundo, entre ellos Central, el mexicano Pujol y el brasileño D.O.M.

Una persona lava las hojas de coca, primero con gasolina y después con agua, para recopilar el extracto en barriles y después acidificarlo y mezclarlo con cemento.


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• Los cocaleros de alrededor de Colombia se preparan para protestas masivas a lo largo del país para manifestarse en contra de la política de erradicación de cultivos. Piden que se implemente en vez un sistema de sustitución voluntaria, como la que forma parte de los acuerdos de paz con las FARC pero que también ha tenido varios tropiezos. La situación con los cocaleros es particularmente frágil en estos momentos después de que una protesta en Tumaco, donde abundan los cultivos de coca, resultara en la muerte de varios civiles, posiblemente a manos de la policía.

En el primer día de regreso a clases desde el huracán María, el 24 de octubre, Heidy L. Rojas usó un abanico hecho de papel para paliar el calor; el colegio no tiene electricidad por lo que no hay aire acondicionado.


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• Ayer fue el regreso a clases en Puerto Rico… o, al menos, en 98 de las 1113 escuelas públicas, que reabrieron sus puertas a un mes del azote del huracán María, que devastó a la isla. Tres cuartos del territorio siguen a oscuras por la falta de electricidad.

La felicidad de Einstein

Dos notas escritas por Albert Einstein en 1922, la segunda de la cual fue vendida en una subasta por 250.000 dólares.


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Albert Einstein tenía muchas fórmulas para temas como la teoría de la relatividad y el efecto de los choques entre hoyos negros, pero la que tenía para la felicidad es sorpresivamente sencilla: “donde hay una voluntad, hay un camino”. Eso dice una de dos tarjetas que escribió a modo de consejo (porque no tenía propina) para un botones en un hotel de Tokio, en 1922, y que acaba de ser subastada por 250.000 dólares. La segunda alcanzó un precio de 1,56 millones de dólares, y dice: “Una vida calmada y modesta conlleva más felicidad que la búsqueda del éxito junto con una inquietud constante”.

De acuerdo con la casa de subastas, cuando el botones llegó a la habitación de Einstein este acababa de enterarse por medio de un telegrama que había sido galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Física.

Una oposición fracturada

Henrique Capriles durante un mitin el 11 de octubre


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El excandidato presidencial y uno de los líderes opositores de Venezuela Henrique Capriles indicó ayer que podría dejar la opositora Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, en una de las señas más claras de las fracturas dentro de la disidencia venezolana. No es la primera vez que la coalición, compuesta por varios partidos de oposición, ha tenido desacuerdos internos, pero estos no habían sido aireados de manera tan pública en la década que lleva como agrupación.

El anuncio de Capriles presuntamente responde a que cuatro integrantes de la MUD juramentaron como gobernadores después de las polémicas elecciones locales del 15 de octubre pasado, que fueron tildadas por la mayoría de la oposición como fraudulentas. Se había indicado que no juramentarían al considerar que hacerlo ante la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, actualmente el órgano con mayor poder en el país, no era legítimo. El partido al que pertenecen esos ahora gobernadores amagó con expulsarlos, algo que Capriles también criticó.

Refriegas republicanas

El senador republicano por Arizona Jeff Flake


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Los roces entre el presidente Donald Trump y algunos integrantes republicanos del Senado estadounidense se atizaron ayer después de que el mandatario cruzara palabras en contra de Bob Corker, quien lo ha criticado desde hace algunas semanas, y Jeff Flake, quien espetó contra la Casa Blanca sin nombrar a Trump.

Flake, al anunciar que no buscaría la reelección, dijo que cuando un comportamiento “descuidado, indignante y no digno emana de la cima del gobierno” es algo “peligroso para una democracia”.

Flake y Corker representan así lo que uno de los corresponsales de The New York Times califica como un “nuevo tipo de caucus de la libertad”: los republicanos que están dispuestos a hablar mal de Trump en público sin temor a represalias políticas, en buena medida porque ya van de salida.

Por otro lado, la demócrata Hillary Clinton de nuevo es parte de la conversación al revelarse que su campaña pagó por obtener información comprometedora en contra de Trump, sobre sus presuntos vínculos con Rusia y supuestos encuentros con prostitutas, que después fue publicada por medios en enero, cuando Trump asumió el cargo.

Los republicanos, en tanto, abrieron dos nuevas investigaciones contra Clinton, por su muy debatido uso de un servidor privado de correos y otra por un acuerdo de venta de uranio a Rusia cuando era Secretaria de Estado.

Un liderazgo ¿nuevo?

Al centro, el presidente Xi Jinping con los seis otros integrantes del Politburó chino


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El presidente chino Xi Jinping reveló hoy a los nuevos integrantes del liderazgo del país, el Politburó, compuesto por siete personas en total. Sin embargo, no se incluyó a personas relativamente jóvenes, una señal de que Xi planea quedarse en el cargo mucho más allá del 2023, cuando termina su segundo mandato, recién por comenzar.

De hecho, durante la más reciente reunión del Partido Comunista Chino, Xi también fue reconocido como uno de los líderes ideológico del partido, casi equiparado con Mao Zedong. Retar a Xi podría entonces implicar ser un hereje.

Pelea pelotera

Clayton Kershaw, de los Dodgers, en la séptima entrada. Kershaw ponchó a once jugadores de los Astros en el primer juego de la serie.


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Con una victoria de 3-1, los Dodgers de Los Ángeles se llevaron ayer el primer partido de la Serie Mundial de béisbol en contra de los Astros de Houston.

El jugador más valioso de los Dodgers fue el lanzador Clayton Kershaw, quien ponchó a once bateadores. Aunque los Astros todavía tienen en su arsenal a Jose Altuve, la gran estrella del equipo. Lee más sobre él.

No leas esto en tu celular

Una nueva ley en Hawái, que entra en vigor hoy, determina que leer esto en un teléfono inteligente mientras cruzas la calle conlleva una multa de hasta 35 dólares. La medida pretende reducir los accidentes de tránsito que involucran a personas distraídas con su celular y se cree que es la primera de su tipo; en ciudades belgas y de otros países ya han establecido carriles especiales para quienes van con la mirada en sus aparatos, pero aparentemente no existían multas por ello sino hasta ahora.

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Third stimulus check update: Some of you are no longer going to get money under new plan for $1,400 payments. – NJ.com
Third stimulus check update: Some of you are no longer going to get money under new plan for $1,400 payments. – NJ.com

President Joe Biden “is comfortable” with demands by some Senate Democrats to cut the thresholds for receiving direct payments under the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Under the proposal that could reach the Senate floor as early as Thursday, individuals earning up to $75,000 and couples earning up to $150,000 still would get a full $1,400 per person payment. But unlike the House-passed bill, the amounts would quickly phase out to where individuals making more than $80,000 and couples making more than $160,000 would not get any money.

The first two rounds of stimulus checks phased out at $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples, meaning that many households who received two rounds of financial help would not get a third.

Biden was fine with the lower thresholds, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during her daily press briefing Wednesday.

“He is comfortable with where the negotiations stand,” Psaki said. “Of course, there are going to be ongoing discussions. We don’t have a final bill, as you know. There will be ongoing discussions. He is comfortable and knows there will be tweaks at the margin.”

But the numbers weren’t final yet as negotiations continued, scuttling plans to try to bring the legislation to the floor on Wednesday. The bill then would go back to the House with eye toward getting it to Biden by March 14, when the current extension of unemployment insurance ends.

“I am confident that the Senate will ultimately reach a compromise that delivers direct stimulus checks to most hardworking New Jerseyans and billions more in aid our state and residents desperately need to get people vaccinated, keep essential workers on the job, safely reopen schools, provide assistance to the unemployed and hungry, support our struggling restaurants and small businesses, and protect renters and homeowners from eviction and foreclosure,” said Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez.

While progressives may have lost on the higher thresholds, they apparently did win on unemployment insurance, where Senate Democrats planned to keep the additional payments at $400 a week, rejecting calls to reduce them to the current level of $300.

“We have to pay attention to the entire package,” said Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st Dist., a vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “I’m going to reserve judgment until the final draft. Im going to bite my tongue for a little bit and see what they come up with.”

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While Republicans remain unified against the legislation, a Monmouth University Poll released Wednesday said the stimulus remained popular with the public.

The bill was supported by 62% of Americans. including one-third of self-identified Republicans, with 34% in opposition. And the $400 unemployment insurance benefits were backed by 67%-30%.

The poll of 802 adults was conducted Feb. 25-March 1 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he wanted to have Republican support.

“We had always hoped that this very important work would be bipartisan,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor. “Regrettably, it seems that too many of our Republican colleagues are resorting to the same, predictable objections they raise about nearly every proposal supported by a Democrat. It almost doesn’t matter what’s in the bill, everything my colleagues oppose is ‘a liberal wish list.’”

But Rep. Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, said there has been no effort to reach across the aisle.

“There has not been a moment of discussion with Republicans,” said Brady, R-Texas, who used the same procedures in 2017 to cut taxes and to try to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no Democratic support. “I challenge anyone to claim with a straight face that this has bipartisan input or consensus at all.”

The legislation includes a massive expansion of the child tax credit and earned income tax credit for lower-income Americans. That would benefit 1.6 million children in New Jersey under age 18 and 354,000 workers without children, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive research group.

“I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the sweeping potential impact,” Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said on a conference call to highlight the proposals. “When these two changes are passed, it really will be one of the most transformative economic policies ever to come out of Washington, D.C., in decades. This will be the greatest cut in child poverty in American history.”

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5 noticias del día: 28 de abril – El Economista
5 noticias del día: 28 de abril – El Economista


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En las noticias más leídas del día, San Lázaro aprobó en lo general un dictamen de las comisiones de Salud y Justicia, con el que se autoriza el uso de la marihuana con fines médicos. Además, debido a sus aptitudes autodidactas, los modelos tradicionales de enseñanza financiera les atraen cada vez menos a las nuevas generaciones.

1. El muro de Trump ya se está colapsando, y no hay ni un ladrillo

Una de las más polémicas promesas de Donald Trump antes de ser presidente era construir un muro en la frontera de Estados Unidos con México.

A la fecha, el dichoso muro cada vez se va alejando más y más de la realidad, los demócratas lo odian. A los republicanos del estado fronterizo no les gusta. Los líderes republicanos del Congreso preferirían no seguir adelante con el proyecto. Podría haber un cierre evitable del gobierno sobre el muro.

Sin embargo, el director de presupuesto del presidente Donald Trump está presionando al Congreso estadounidense para que gaste 1,400 millones de dólares para comenzar a construir su muro a lo largo de la frontera sur entre Estados Unidos y México.

El muro de Trump ya se está colapsando, y no hay ni un ladrillo. Ver nota.

2. Diputados aprueban uso medicinal de la marihuana

El día de hoy, la Cámara de Diputados aprobó las reformas que permitirán el uso medicinal y científico de la mariguana.
El pleno de la Cámara aprobó el dictamen en lo general por 374 votos en favor; siete en contra y 11 abstenciones, en términos de la minuta aprobada por el Senado el 13 de diciembre del 2016.

En la sesión de pleno de la Cámara estuvo presente el señor Raúl Elizalde, padre de la niña Graciela Elizalde Benavides, que requería de un medicamento a base de cannabis para tratar el síndrome de Lennox-Gastaut que padece.

Diputados aprueban uso medicinal de la marihuana. Ver nota.

3. 100 días de Trump en la Casa Blanca

En esta infografía se muestra una encuesta de The Washington Post/ABC, la cual dice que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, se ha convertido en el gobernante estadounidense más impopular de la era moderna. Y aunque en la víspera del cumplimiento de esos 100 primeros días el presidente Trump defendió el cumplimiento de sus promesas de campaña, una mayoría de los estadounidenses consideran que ha logrado poco durante su mandato.

100 días de Trump en la Casa Blanca. Ver nota.

4. Inculcar el ahorro en nuevas generaciones requiere otros métodos

Los más pequeños y sobre todo los adolescentes se caracterizan principalmente por la preferencia en la inmediatez y el corto plazo, lo que complica que tengan buenos hábitos financieros, por lo que lo ideal para inculcar sanas prácticas en el manejo de su dinero es enseñar con el ejemplo y la práctica, concuerdan especialistas.

Seguro ya debes conocer a la Generación Z, los nacidos entre 1995 y el 2015, es curiosa, emprendedora, se enfoca en las nuevas tecnologías y, sobre todo cree en ellas, dejando a un lado lo tradicional, lo cual también incluye la forma de percibir el ahorro y cómo hacerlo”, refiere información de la firma de soluciones financieras Principal.

Si quieres conocer más afondo estos métodos para enseñar a tus hijos a ahorrar, entra en la nota completa.

Inculcar el ahorro en nuevas generaciones requiere otros métodos. Ver nota.

5. 10% del sueldo

Un cartón de Perujo

10% del sueldo. Ver nota.



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Marissa Ashley Mowry, la mujer arrestada en Florida por tener un … – BBC Mundo
Marissa Ashley Mowry, la mujer arrestada en Florida por tener un … – BBC Mundo

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Oficina del Alguacil del condado de Hillsborough

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Mowry enfrenta cargos de abuso sexual.

Cuando tenía 22 años, en enero de 2014, Marissa Ashley Mowry tuvo relaciones sexuales con un menor de 11 años en una casa cerca de la ciudad de Tampa, Florida, en el sureste de Estados Unidos, según las autoridades.

Mowry quedó embarazada y en octubre de 2014 dio a luz a su hijo.

La mujer y el joven padre siguieron teniendo relaciones sexuales “múltiples veces” hasta que este cumplió 14 años, según la Oficina del Alguacil del Condado de Hillsborough, Florida.

Debido a estos hechos, Mowry, ahora de 25 años, fue arrestada el martes, informó la Oficina del Alguacil.

Fue detenida a la salida del parque temático Busch & Gardens, en Tampa, donde trabajaba en un puesto de comida, según los medios estadounidenses.

3 años después

La joven enfrenta cargos de abuso sexual contra una víctima menor de 12 años, de acuerdo con la Oficina del Alguacil.

El menor, que ahora tiene 15 años, “cooperó” con la investigación, le dijo la Oficina del Alguacil a BBC Mundo.

La mujer ha sido acusada recién ahora, tres años después de que supuestamente cometiera el delito, “porque el caso no fue reportado en 2014”, añadió la entidad.

El Registro Estatal de Abuso de Florida recibió un reporte anónimo en abril de 2017 y lo transmitió a las autoridades de Hillsborough, según le contó a BBC Mundo Larry Mckinnon, vocero de la Oficina del Alguacil.

Según le comentó la policía a la prensa, Mowry no tiene abogado por el momento. De ser hallada culpable, podría ir a prisión de por vida, indicó McKinnon.

Por su parte el hijo, que ahora tiene 3 años, vivirá “con un adulto responsable”.

La División de Protección Infantil del condado está colaborando en la investigación del caso, según las autoridades de Hillsborough.

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El kirchnerismo en carne viva: 10 noticias en 10 días que dejaron el modelo al desnudo – Clarín.com
El kirchnerismo en carne viva: 10 noticias en 10 días que dejaron el modelo al desnudo – Clarín.com

Fueron, son, días de locura informativa. Una mezcla de nuevas revelaciones con noticias viejas que pasaron de la denuncia opositora y mediática a la confirmación judicial. Podrá discutirse meses a qué obedece este sprint de fiscales y magistrados que venían a paso cansino durante una década. Por los motivos que fuere, desde que el martes de la semana pasada José López fue pescado in fraganti en un convento revoleando bolsos con plata, aparecieron furibundos estiletazos que dejaron al kirchnerismo en carne viva. 

Aquí, un resumen de las 10 noticias en 10 días que dejaron al modelo desnudo.

1) Martes 14 – El ex secretario de Néstor que revolea bolsos con plata.

Foto: José López, detenido y protegido por fuerzas de seguridad.

​Ni imaginándola, esta historia de corrupción podía tener condimentos tan picantes, al borde del relajo. Un ex secretario de Obras Públicas, que manejó decenas de miles de millones de dólares/pesos en licitaciones, que trabajó con el primer Néstor Kirchner en Santa Cruz y acompañó a Cristina hasta el final de sus días en la Rosada, fue atrapado entrando bolsos con casi 9 millones de dólares. De madrugada.

Presuntamente alterado por una adicción a la cocaína, también llevaba plata de otros países, relojes y hasta una carabina. Su detención hizo implosionar al kirchnerismo duro (o cristinismo). Aceleró el fin político del Frente para la Victoria y es una incógnita aún el impacto judicial.

Imagen de la plata que López quería esconder en el convento de General Rodríguez.

Tras la detención, la película siguió evolucionando: para defenderse, López contrató a una abogada hot, en los allanamientos se encontraron supuestas bóvedas y un obispo tuvo que aclarar que eran tumbas para las monjitas ancianas. La Iglesia también quedó salpicada por los manejos de un cura de apellido Di Monte que manejaba el monasterio. Un ex titular de Cáritas menemista y kirchnerista.

Sin apartarse del rubro cinematográfico, las tardías aclaraciones de Cristina y Julio de Vido para despegarse de su fiel subordinado entraron en el terreno de la comedia. Según la voluntad que muestren el juez (Daniel Rafecas) y el fiscal (Federico Delgado) para avanzar con la investigación de una causa por enriquecimiento sobre López que data de 2008, el caso puede (debería) terminar con más ex funcionarios y empresarios procesados.

2) Miércoles 15 – Pesadillas compartidas

La sucesión de malas noticias judiciales pegó en otro costado del corazón del proyecto. El juez Martínez de Giorgi decidió citar a indagatoria a unos 40 ex funcionarios y dirigentes por uno de los casos de supuesta corrupción más difundidos y polémicos. El desvío millonario de fondos públicos que el Gobierno nacional le había dado a una fundación conducida por Hebe de Bonafini y con los hermanos Schoklender (famosos en los 80 por un caso de parricidio) como cara visible. Era plata para construir viviendas sociales. Era…

En criollo: con la cortina de los derechos humanos, se habrían robado la plata para los pobres. Se habla de desvíos de más de 200 millones de pesos. Entre los citados están desde De Vido y López hasta la propia Bonafini, quien ya insultó al juez y dijo que no irá. También ex gobernadores como Jorge Capitanich (Chaco) y Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero), que se mostraron mejor predispuestos.

3) Domingo 19 – Apareció Pérez Corradi, el prófugo al que no buscaban

Foto: Pérez Corradi, durante uno de los traslados en Paraguay.

Se supone, desde hace varios años, que Ibar Pérez Corradi es el o al menos uno de los autores intelectuales del triple crimen de General Rodríguez, el asesinato de empresarios vinculados al tráfico de efedrina. Estados Unidos tiene un pedido de extradición también por la comercialización de medicamentos. Varios lo vincularon con el ex jefe de Gabinete Aníbal Fernández.

Pero, oh sorpresa, a los pocos días de su detención se confirmó que en agosto de 2015, el entonces secretario de Seguridad de la Nación, Sergio Berni, tenía datos precisos de la ubicación de Corradi en la zona de la triple frontera, en donde se movía a sus anchas para seguir haciendo negocios narco. ¿Por qué no lo mandaron a detener si era el prófugo más buscado de la Argentina?

Según Berni, la culpa fue de un fiscal provincial al que le había pasado los datos. No se recuerda en aquellos meses que el secretario alertara públicamente sobre esa supuesta falla de la Justicia. Curioso, porque Berni, además de hombre fuerte de la Seguridad argentina, había sido coronado como uno de los jefes de Interpol. 

¿Hubo cálculo político? Por lo pronto, lo que es seguro es que el momento era complicado. En agosto se hicieron las PASO, en donde competía justamente Aníbal Fernández como precandidato a la gobernación y se lo acusaba por su supuesta relación con el mundo del tráfico de drogas. Imposible determinar exactamente cómo hubiese caído en esa campaña tumultuosa una detención de Corradi. Seguro no lo beneficiaba. Ni a él ni a Daniel Scioli. 

4) Martes 21 – La abogada exitosa y ¿amiga de jueces?

​Foto: la carta de Báez, de puño y letra, donde compromete a Cristina.

Que sí, que no, que tal vez, finalmente a principios de esta semana Lázaro Báez ratificó que es de su puño y letra la carta en la que compromete a su socia Cristina Kirchner. Allí, el empresario asegura que el juez Sebastián Casanello, el que lo mandó a meter preso por miedo a que se fugue en una causa por lavado de dinero, se juntó al menos una vez con la ex Presidenta.

Báez, que había amagado con dar información al respecto y se calló cuando lo citó una cámara, finalmente se sumó a esta revelación que había hecho su hijo Leandro. Mañana deberá ratificarla ante la Justicia. Es parte de la estrategia de la familia para apartar al magistrado.

Pero además, los abogados de Báez reiteraron esta semana que también tienen una carta de Cristina dirigida al empresario donde la ex Presidenta le sugeriría involucrar a Angelo Calcaterra, el primo de Mauricio Macri, como uno de los beneficiados de la obra pública K. Una suerte de mancha venenosa, que ambos, Cristina y Lázaro, ya batieron como parche de defensa para desmentir lo público: que el santacruceño fue el un licitador privilegiado en estos 12 años.

En paralelo, mientras los Báez salpicaban a la familia Kirchner, un ex titular de la UIA también ponía en palabras un secreto a voces. Héctor Méndez lo hizo a modo de chiste. Dijo que a la obra pública, en la era K, le decían “Movicom: porque iba con el 15 adelante”.

5) Miércoles 22 – El vice que quería la máquina de hacer plata, a juicio

Durante meses, un par de años acaso, Amado Boudou se convirtió en el ícono de la corrupción K. Lo suyo había sido a lo grande: según probó la Justicia, a través de amigos y usando su influencia como ladero de Cristina, el ex disc jockey había presionado para quedarse con la imprenta de billetes privada más grande del país, la tristemente célebre Ciccone.

Y en esta semana de gloria para el kirchnerismo, aún cuando lo suyo quedó algo opacado por el valijero López, Boudou tuvo sus minutos de gloria: el juez Ariel Lijo confirmó que para él este caso ya está para el juicio oral. Al otro día, el fiscal Jorge Di Lello se sumo y avisó que en unas dos semanas daría el paso decisivo.

6) Miércoles 22 – Al final, Milani era represor ilegal

Foto: el día que Hebe de Bonafini lo bancó a Milani.

Una de las contradicciones más fuertes de un modelo de por sí contradictorio había sido la coronación como hombre fuerte de las Fuerzas Armadas de un militar acusado por su actuación en la Dictadura, donde ya entonces comenzaba su carrera en el oscuro rubro de la inteligencia. Igual, César Milani se convirtió en el modelo militar del modelo demoKrático. Al absurdo de que la propia líder de Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, reconocida por su lucha, lo “blanqueó” sacándose fotos con él y reporteándolo para un medio propio.

Parte del escudo protector de Milani, que llegó a manejar con el kirchnerismo aparatos de inteligencia aún superiores a la ex SIDE, se cayó ayer cuando se conoció la noticia de que finalmente el ex jefe del Ejército será indagado por la represión ilegal. Para la historia quedará la defensa que le hizo el bloque K en el Senado, con Miguel Pichetto a la cabeza, cuando hubo que aprobar en la Cámara alta su nombramiento. Otros tiempos.

7) Miércoles 22 – Cine para todos y todas…los que quieran subsidios

Filmus y Coscia, dos de los citados por Bonadio por los subsidios al cine, con Taiana y Cristina en la inauguración de un espacio cultural.

Otro eje fuerte del relato fue la difusión de la cultura y el apoyo estatal a todo tipo de emprendimientos. El cambio de Gobierno, sin embargo, empezó a poner luz sobre algunos excesos. Ya no se trataba sólo de si le habían dado a la compungida Andrea del Boca millones de pesos para una novela de bajo rating. Primero se empezaron a conocer gastos suntuosos e innecesarios (en obras y personal) para la obra emblema del modelo en el rubro: el elogiado Centro Cultural Kirchner.

Y ahora, en estos 10 días frenéticos, el juez más odiado por el kirchnerismo, Claudio Bonadio, citó a indagatoria a los ex funcionarios Daniel Filmus, Gabriel Mariottto y Jorge Coscia, entre otros, en una causa por presuntas irregularidades en “la adjudicación de subsidios para el fomento de las actividades cinematográficas”.

La citación incluyó, por supuesto, gente de la cultura y hasta opositores como Fernando “Pino” Solanas, el cineasta que también recibió subsidios del Incaa. El senador tenía previsto presentar hoy un escrito para decir que, en su caso, no hubo adjudicación directa y maliciosa.

8) Miércoles 22 – Jaime y De Vido van en tren…al banquillo

El dúo más sospechado en Planificación hasta la aparición fulgurante de López no para de cosechar malas nuevas. El ex secretario de Transporte Ricardo Jaime, preso desde hace meses, fue procesado junto con su ex jefe por irregularidades en el manejo de los trenes. La tragedia de Once, en la que están involucrados ambos, se convirtió en el emblema de que “la corrupción mata”.

De Vido, por ahora, viene tocado pero no hundido. Es uno de los últimos diques que un sector (cada vez más chico) del kirchnerismo parece dispuesto a proteger para no llegar a Cristina. El volumen de las denuncias que lo involucran podría generar prontos agujeros a ese escudo.

9) Jueves 23 – La campaña de Cristina y Cobos, financiada por plata de la droga

Foto: Héctor Capaccioli, el procesado ex recaudador para campañas K.

Otra noticia en la que el periodismo fue mucho más rápido que la Justicia. Cuando aún estaban calientes los cuerpos de los asesinados en el triple crimen de General Rodríguez, Clarín mostró en exclusiva los cheques vinculados a uno de esos empresarios que aparecía como aporte en la campaña de Cristina y Cobos 2007.

El escándalo se plasmó en una denuncia judicial a fines de 2008 y hoy, unos 8 años después, el juez Ariel Lijo procesó a Capaccioli, dos ex apoderados más del FpV, un par de empresarios y la esposa de uno de los asesinados en el triple crimen por maniobras de lavado.

Los acusó de aportar poco menos de un millón de pesos en cheques “pantalla” que luego eran cubiertos con plata de origen desconocido. Capaccioli, como superintendente de Salud, beneficiaba supuestamente a esas droguerías (que en algunos casos aparecían en el tráfico de efedrina, la causa de los asesinatos de General Rodríguez) haciendo la vista gorda a controles que debía ejercer como funcionario. Por entonces, era un fiel colaborador del ex jefe de Gabinete, Alberto Fernández.

10) Jueves 23 – Tres jefes de Gabinete hacían la vista gorda con los fondos millonarios del fútbol

Foto: Aníbal Fernández, en mayo pasado, cuando fue a declarar por el Fútbol para Todos.

Cuando ​se presentó en 2009, con aquella frase extemporánea sobre el secuestro de los goles, se prometió que sobrarían los aportes privados al fútbol, que los clubes mejorarían y que incluso quedaría plata para financiar al deporte olímpico.

Un clásico de los anuncios K: los aportes privados no aparecieron ni se buscaron, los clubes empeoraron y no sólo no quedó un mango para el deporte olímpico, sino que el Estado terminó casi cuadruplicando los fondos públicos para sostener la fiesta de propaganda (de 600 a más de 2.000 millones de pesos por año).

Pero además, tras una denuncia de la legisladora Graciela Ocaña, la Justicia empezó a investigar y hoy terminó procesando a tres ex jefes de Gabinete y más de media docena de dirigentes del fútbol, incluido el presidente de AFA (Luis Segura), por las maniobras irregulares con el manejo de fondos.

La Justicia dice tener probada la jugarreta que se hacía con los cheques, a través de financieras recomendadas y amigas, para supuestamente conseguir algún retorno de tanta generosidad.

Perdón Diego, pero en estos 10 días se manchó hasta la pelota.

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Fidel Castro critica que no se divulguen noticias de trascendencia científica – El Nuevo Herald
Fidel Castro critica que no se divulguen noticias de trascendencia científica – El Nuevo Herald

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El ex gobernante cubano Fidel Castro reprochó a las agencias de noticias que no divulguen noticias de “trascendencia”, como el caso de investigaciones científicas relacionadas con el universo.

En un mensaje fechado ayer martes y publicado el miércoles por medios oficiales de la isla, Castro comentó el asunto tras referirse a la repercusión que tuvo la carta que envió al astro del fútbol mundial Diego Maradona, felicitándolo por su programa televisivo “De Zurda” en el canal suramericano Telesur.

“Por supuesto, numerosas agencias lo han mencionado en sus despachos y como norma las reacciones suelen ser las que más se aproximan a los intereses de nuestros adversarios”, indicó Castro, de 87 años y separado del poder desde 2006 por una enfermedad.

“En el mundo de las comunicaciones electrónicas instantáneas, las noticias de las agencias más avanzadas en esas técnicas, las divulgan rápidamente independientemente de su contenido. Existen sin embargo, otras de más trascendencia que ni siquiera se divulgan”, advirtió.

Como ejemplo, Castro cita una información publicada en la web del sitio Rusia Today ayer martes según la cual teóricos británicos del Bosón de Higgs aseguran que el universo no debería existir pues debió haber colapsado en microsegundos tras el Big Bang.

“¿Por qué los que informan a los pueblos no publican una línea de lo que los más importantes centros científicos del mundo conocen de lo que ocurrió o puede ocurrir en el universo?”, se queja Fidel Castro.

La nota del ex mandatario fue divulgada en la prensa cubana junto al texto que escribió a Maradona el pasado lunes, y que ese mismo día fue leído en el espacio “De Zurda” por el uruguayo Víctor Hugo Morales, que comparte la conducción del programa junto al astro argentino.

Según Castro, “los compañeros del Partido (Comunista de Cuba, gobernante), responsables de la divulgación” le sugirieron publicar en la isla la misiva, en la que también envió saludos y felicitaciones a la selección argentina y a Leonel Messi.

“Les respondí que yo prefería hacerlas llegar a Maradona, sin darle publicidad oficial. No por ello debía abstenerme de hacerlo”, señaló.

La carta a Maradona y el mensaje publicado hoy aparecen después de otro texto divulgado a inicios de junio y que marcó la reaparición de Castro en los medios cubanos tras más de dos meses de silencio, a pesar de acontecimientos como la muerte de su amigo el escritor colombiano, Gabriel García Márquez.

Desde que en 2006 una grave enfermedad le obligó a delegar el poder en su hermano Raúl, quien fue confirmado como presidente de país caribeño en 2008, Fidel Castro mantiene un bajo perfil público con esporádicas apariciones y con la publicación, cada vez menos frecuente, de artículos en prensa.

Source Article from http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/06/25/1783436/fidel-castro-critica-que-no-se.html

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Gabbard: Biden acting as ‘judge, jury and executioner’ of border agents is ‘absolutely wrong’ – Fox News
Gabbard: Biden acting as ‘judge, jury and executioner’ of border agents is ‘absolutely wrong’ – Fox News
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Tulsi Gabbard: There is an ‘increasing feeling’ we are ‘losing our democracy’

Former Hawaii congresswoman tells ‘Watters’ World’ that Biden’s remarks about Border Patrol will prevent a fair investigation

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called on President Biden to “apologize” after his vow to punish Border Patrol officers over false “whipping” claims Saturday night on “Watters’ World.” 

Gabbard warned that Biden’s hasty actions to chastise the officers are the antithesis of “innocent unless proven guilty” – undermining the country’s democratic process. “How can they expect to have any kind of fair outcome to an investigation when the president of the United States has already declared their guilt and that they will be punished?” she asked. 

The former congresswoman and presidential candidate expressed concern over the direction of the country after the president quickly laid down the gavel on his own agents. 

ACTING CBP CHIEF ‘SHOCKED’ BY IMAGES OF BORDER PATROL ON HORSES, AS ADMINISTRATION DOUBLES DOWN

“What he essentially did was act as judge, jury and executioner for these Customs and Border Patrol agents on horseback,” she said. 

Gabbard went on to say that the failure to enforce laws could have dire consequences for the country. 

“If we are no longer a country of laws, the increasing feeling that a lot of us have, is that we are losing our democracy and moving closer and closer to what essentially is an autocracy,” she warned. 

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She went on to condemn the powerful elites working with the media and deep state for putting their own interests above the interests of the country. 

“They are getting away with it,” she said. “They are unwilling to sacrifice their interests for the interests of the country.” 

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“They have no business being in positions of leadership at any level in our society because who suffers as a result of this? It’s the American people. It’s our democracy. And they don’t care about the cost and the toll that that takes.”

Gabbard concluded by pointing out what she believes is essential for the country right now: “leadership that puts service above self, that puts the interest of the American people in our country first.”

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