En una sentencia en la que determinó que la Nación tiene la obligación de garantizar la seguridad de sus asociados frente a actos terroristas, pues es “utópico pretender que los ciudadanos tienen el deber de soportar las cargas que su ocurrencia implica”, la Sección Tercera del Consejo de Estado declaró a aquélla patrimonialmente responsable de los daños ocasionados a una congregación religiosa perteneciente a la comunidad de la Madre Laura, tras la destrucción de su convento en un ataque perpetrado en Caldono (Cauca) por guerrilleros de las Farc, en 1999.
El fallo resulta interesante, además, porque al estudiar el acápite de las pruebas aportadas por los demandantes el tribunal precisó que “en relación con la valoración de los recortes de prensa o periódicos que fueron allegados como prueba, se hace necesario reiterar que las noticias difundidas en medios escritos, verbales, o televisivos, en términos probatorios, en principio no dan fe de la ocurrencia de los hechos en ellos contenidos, sino simplemente, de la existencia de la noticia o de la información; por consiguiente, no es posible dar fuerza de convicción a dichos documentos, en tanto que a partir de los mismos no se puede derivar certeza sobre el acaecimiento y las condiciones de tiempo, modo y lugar de los sucesos allí reseñados”.
Con ponencia del consejero Enrique Gil Botero, el Consejo de Estado reiteró una jurisprudencia reciente de la Sala Plena y recordó que “conforme el artículo 175 del Código de Procedimiento Civil y a lo que ha sostenido la doctrina procesal, la publicación periodística que realice cualquiera de los medios de comunicación puede ser considerada prueba documental. Sin embargo, en principio sólo representa valor secundario de acreditación del hecho en tanto por sí sola, únicamente demuestra el registro mediático de los hechos. Carece de la entidad suficiente para probar en sí misma la existencia y veracidad de la situación que narra y/o describe. Su eficacia como plena prueba depende de su conexidad y su coincidencia con otros elementos probatorios que obren en el expediente”.
En ese sentido comentó que las noticias, los reportajes o las crónicas, considerados individual e independientemente, no pueden constituir el único sustento de la decisión del juez. “En la jurisprudencia de esta Corporación existen precedentes que concuerdan con esta posición. Se ha estimado que las publicaciones periodísticas (…) son indicadores sólo de la percepción del hecho por parte de la persona que escribió la noticia”, y que si bien “son susceptibles de ser apreciadas como medio probatorio, en cuanto a la existencia de la noticia y de su inserción en medio representativo (periódico, televisión, internet, etc.) no dan fe de la veracidad y certidumbre de la información que contienen”. Lo anterior equivale a que cualquier género periodístico que relate un hecho (reportajes, noticias, crónicas, etc.), en el campo probatorio sólo puede servir “como indicador para el juez, quien a partir de ello, en concurrencia con otras pruebas regular y oportunamente allegadas al proceso, podría llegar a constatar la certeza de los hechos”.
En ese contexto, las noticias o informaciones que los medios de comunicación obtengan y que publiquen como reportaje de una declaración, no pueden considerarse por sí solas con el carácter de testimonio sobre la materia que es motivo del respectivo proceso, consigna el fallo.
En relación con este último punto, el Consejo de Estado ha indicado que “las informaciones publicadas en diarios no pueden considerarse dentro de un proceso como prueba testimonial porque carecen de los requisitos esenciales que identifican este medio de prueba, en particular porque no son suministradas ante un funcionario judicial, no son rendidos bajo la solemnidad del juramento, ni el comunicador da cuenta de la razón de la ciencia de su dicho”, por cuanto es sabido que el periodista “tiene el derecho de reservarse sus fuentes”.
Así las cosas, concluye el Consejo de Estado, se tiene que no es posible dar convicción a la información difundida en los diferentes medios de comunicación, en cuanto se relacionan con la configuración del daño antijurídico y su imputación, ya que a partir de los mismos no se puede derivar certeza sobre el acaecimiento y las condiciones de tiempo, modo y lugar de los sucesos allí reseñados. Sin que ello suponga desconocer la fuerza probatoria que revisten los recortes de prensa.
Medicare for All holds out the promise of addressing this problem, and finally reaching the elusive goal of universal coverage, by automatically enrolling everybody in the government plan and then using regulation to set prices for doctors, hospitals, and the rest of the health care industry. Typically, such proposals envision people paying for coverage entirely through taxes or income-related premiums, with little or no co-payments, deductibles, and other forms of cost-sharing.
Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.
The video, obtained from Mexican authorities, looks as if it’s from an action movie. The camera follows the armed men as they storm the house, unleash grenades and bullets, and search room to room.
The Friday raid was called “Operation Black Swan,” according to the Mexican show “Primero Noticias.” Authorities decided to launch the raid Thursday after they got a tip about where Guzman was sleeping, the show reported.
Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.
They were met by about one dozen well-armed guards inside who were prepared for a fight, the show said.
The Marines moved from room to room, clearing the house. Upstairs they found two men in one room and found two women on the floor of a bathroom. All were captured, “Primero Noticias” said.
After 15 minutes, the Marines controlled the entire house, according to “Primero Noticias.”
In the end, five guards were killed and two men and two women were detained. One of the women was the same cook Guzman had with him when he was detained a couple years ago, according to “Primero Noticias.”
Eventually the marines determined that the only bedroom on the first floor was Guzman’s and they began pounding on the walls and moving furniture, finding hidden doors, the show said.
His room had a king-sized bed, bags from fashionable clothing stores, bread and cookie wrappers, and medicine including injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and cough syrups, the show said. The two-story house had four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There were flat-screen TVs and Internet connection throughout the house, according to “Primero Noticias.”
The Marines eventually found a hidden passageway behind a mirror, with a handle hidden in the light fixture. The handle opened a secret door, leading down into the escape tunnel, the show explained.
The escape tunnel was fully lit and led to an access door for the city sewage system, “Primero Noticias” said, adding that Guzman had at least a 20-minute head start on the Marines.
The address where Guzman was captured had been monitored for a month, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez has said. According to Gomez, Guzman and his lieutenant escaped through that drainage system.
“Primero Noticias” said it obtained surveillance footage showing Guzman and his lieutenant emerging from the manhole cover, where they then stole two cars to flee, the show said.
Guzman was finally caught when he and the lieutenant were stopped on a highway by Mexican Federal Police, the show said.
Authorities took them to a motel to wait for reinforcement. The men were then taken to Los Mochis airport and transfered to Mexico City.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016.
Guzman is now back in prison as his lawyers fight his extradition to the U.S.
The drug kingpin escaped from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City on July 11, launching an active manhunt. When guards realized that he was missing from his cell, they found a ventilated tunnel and exit had been constructed in the bathtub inside Guzman’s cell. The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the Mexican national security commission, said in July.
Guzman had been sent there after he was arrested in February 2014. He spent more than 10 years on the run after escaping from a different prison in 2001. It’s unclear exactly how he had escaped, but he did receive help from prison guards who were prosecuted and convicted.
Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was once described by the U.S. Treasury as “the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.” The Sinaloa cartel allegedly uses elaborate tunnels for drug trafficking and has been estimated to be responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. through Mexico.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters, 57 percent, disapprove of the job President Donald Trump is doing, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Despite the slide to 39 percent, there is little support for using impeachment to remove the president.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped 5 points, equaling his presidency’s low-water mark, since last week’s release of the special counsel report into the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Despite his sinking poll numbers, however, there is little support for removing Trump through the impeachment process, the poll shows.
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Only 39 percent of voters surveyed in the new poll, which was conducted Friday through Sunday, approve of the job Trump is doing as president. That is down from 44 percent last week and ties Trump’s lowest-ever approval rating in POLITICO/Morning Consult polling — a 39 percent rating in mid-August 2017, in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Nearly 6 in 10 voters, 57 percent, disapprove of the job Trump is doing.
But while views of Trump have tumbled since the publication of Robert Muller’s redacted report, so has support for impeaching him. Only 34 percent of voters believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings to remove the president from office, down from 39 percent in January. Nearly half, 48 percent, say Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings.
The split decision in public opinion — a decline in views of Trump’s job performance but fewer voters wanting Congress to pursue impeachment — mirrors the report itself, which clears Trump and his campaign of criminally conspiring with the Russian government to boost his election but which documents numerous, examples of Trump’s efforts to stymie the investigation.
“President Trump’s approval rating has dipped to its lowest point of his term in the immediate aftermath of the redacted Mueller report release,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. “This week, 57 percent of voters disapprove, and 39 percent approve of the president’s performance — a net approval rating of –18 percentage points, compared with 55 percent who disapproved and 42 percent who approved — a net approval rating of –13 percentage points — one month ago in the aftermath of Attorney General [William] Barr’s summary of the Mueller report to Congress.”
While the report is damaging to Trump in the short term — other post-report polls also show decreases in Trump’s approval rating — it could also paint Democrats into a corner on impeachment. Mueller seemingly kicks the obstruction of justice case on Trump to Congress, and the Democratic-led House is squeezed between a majority of Democratic voters who want impeachment, 59 percent, and slightly more than a third of the electorate that agrees.
For now, most Democrats are treading lightly. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that her conference’s positions “range from proceeding to investigate the findings of the Mueller report or proceeding directly to impeachment.” And most of the party’s presidential hopefuls have steered clear of impeachment, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) being the highest-profile candidate to take the impeachment plunge thus far.
While Democrats in Congress are split on impeachment, most party leaders, including Pelosi, are calling for the House to pull on some of the investigative threads in the Mueller report. Voters are split on whether Congress should continue to investigate whether Trump or his campaign associates and staffers obstructed the investigation: Forty-three percent say Congress should continue to investigate, while 41 percent say it should not.
Nearly three in four Democrats, 73 percent, want Congress to keep investigating, more than the 59 percent who want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. Most notably, independents are split, 39 percent to 37 percent, on whether Congress should keep investigating — but just 31 percent of independents support beginning impeachment proceedings, compared with 44 percent who oppose impeachment.
As for the report itself, roughly a third of voters, 32 percent, say they have seen, read or heard “a lot about it,” while another third, 34 percent, have seen, read or heard “some” about it. The remaining 34 percent haven’t seen much about it or anything at all.
Among those voters who have seen, read or heard at least something about the release of the Mueller report, only 28 percent say they actually read any of the redacted report. Most of them, 73 percent, say they followed news coverage about it.
A plurality of voters, 46 percent, think the investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 presidential election was handled fairly, while 29 percent think it was handled unfairly. There is rare partisan agreement on this question: Forty-eight percent of Democratic voters, 46 percent of Republicans and 43 percent of independents say they think the investigation was handled fairly.
Despite positive grades for the Justice Department, Barr earns lower marks for his handling of the release of information from the Mueller-led investigation. Only three in 10 voters, 30 percent, approve of the way Barr handled the case — less than the 37 percent who disapprove.
Voters were also unsure whether Barr accurately described the contents of Mueller’s report before its release, with 32 percent saying Barr described it very or somewhat accurately, 32 percent saying he didn’t describe it accurately and 35 percent undecided.
Despite Mueller’s report, which “did not establish that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” voters are still split on the question. More than 4 in 10, 41 percent, say they think Trump’s campaign worked with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The same percentage, 41 percent, say they don’t think Trump’s campaign worked with Russia. The remaining 18 percent have no opinion.
The results on this question are little changed over the past six weeks. In mid-March, before Barr’s letter to Congress after he received the report, 43 percent thought Trump worked with Russia, while 37 percent did not. Three weeks ago, between Barr’s letter and the release of the report, the percentage of voters who thought Trump’s campaign worked with Russia had ticked down to 40 percent, while 43 percent did not think his campaign worked with Russia.
While voters are divided on whether Trump’s campaign worked with Russia, only 28 percent say they think Mueller found evidence that Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia — though just a 43 percent plurality say Mueller found no evidence of coordination. Three in 10 voters are unsure.
There is greater agreement on whether Trump tried to impede or obstruct the investigation. A plurality, 47 percent, say he did, while just 34 percent say he didn’t. Nearly 2 in 10 voters, 18 percent, have no opinion.
But many voters appear confused about what Mueller found in his report. Two in 10, 20 percent, say Mueller found that Trump obstructed the investigation, while 16 percent say Mueller found that he didn’t. A plurality, 37 percent, say correctly that Mueller did not make a determination on whether Trump obstructed the investigation, but 27 percent are unsure.
The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll surveyed 1,992 voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna stands next to photos of Mark Steven Domingo during a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday. Federal prosecutors said Domingo had planned to bomb a white supremacist rally as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks but was thwarted.
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U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna stands next to photos of Mark Steven Domingo during a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday. Federal prosecutors said Domingo had planned to bomb a white supremacist rally as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks but was thwarted.
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A U.S. Army veteran with experience fighting in Afghanistan conspired to stage a terrorist attack on a planned white supremacist rally with the intent of inflicting mass casualties in the Los Angeles area, according to federal prosecutors.
Mark Steven Domingo, 26, was arrested last Friday after he received what he believed was a live bomb that he intended to detonate at a Long Beach rally scheduled for Sunday. In fact, the supposed improvised explosive device was delivered to Domingo by an undercover law enforcement officer.
Domingo is charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.
According to an affidavit, Domingo actively discussed with an FBI informant the possibility of attacking several possible sites, targeting Jews, police officers, churches and a National Guard armory before settling on the Long Beach rally.
In online posts, Domingo expressed his support for violent jihad. “America needs another vegas event … something to kick off civil unrest,” he wrote on March 3. That was an apparent reference to the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which the perpetrator killed 58 people before killing himself.
Domingo also expressed a desire to avenge the March 15 mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed. “There must be retribution,” he wrote, according to the affidavit.
Domingo had been deployed to Afghanistan between September 2012 and January 2013.
Mark Steven Domingo, 26, in an undated California Department of Motor Vehicles photo released by the U.S. Justice Department.
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Domingo allegedly purchased 8 pounds of 3-inch nails for the planned IED because, he said, “they would be long enough to penetrate the human body and puncture internal organs,” according to the affidavit.
At one stage of their plotting, according to the affidavit, the informant pressed Domingo for his attack plan, stressing that he didn’t want to get caught.
“Your plan is just to go and get caught. That’s your plan,” the informant allegedly said.
Domingo allegedly replied, “Martyrdom, bro.”
Domingo was taken into custody Friday night as he, the FBI informant and the undercover officer were conducting surveillance at the Long Beach park as part of their final preparations for the planned attack.
Cuando Ángela María Gil recibió el mensaje se sintió pasmada. No podía creer tanta crueldad y decidió movilizarse. A su cuenta de WhatsApp llegó una cadena que advertía que una camada de perros de raza husky siberiano iba a ser sacrificada. Los cachorros serían arrojados a la quebrada de Santa Elena, si a determinada hora los supuestos dueños no alcanzaban a entregarlos, ya que no podían tenerlos.
Ángela Llamó a sus amigos, “sensibles con el tema de los animales”, dice ella; su propósito era conseguirles al menos un hogar de paso, y todos “respondieron positivamente”. Llamó al número del aparente dueño, pero nunca contestó. Se comunicó con su hija que, sorprendida, decidió llamar “al concejal de los animales”. Fue él, Álvaro Múnera, el que les aseguró que era una información falsa.
“Me tocó llamar quienes se habían solidarizado, agradecerles por su amabilidad y contarles que era un mentira. Quedé triste y decepcionada, ese es un muy mal uso de los medios, en este caso para manipular los sentimientos de personas que como yo son animalistas. Una falta de consideración”, cuenta.
Desde el expresidente Barack Obama hasta el Papa Francisco han manifestado su preocupación por el flujo de información falsa que circulan en Internet, la mayoría distribuida por medio de redes sociales como Facebook y servicios de mensajería instantánea como WhatsApp.
Pero el fenómeno de falsos titulares y contenidos que desinforman a las audiencias no es actual, por lo menos así lo cree el director ejecutivo de la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP), Pedro Vaca Villareal. Según él, estos casos se presentan, incluso, desde tiempos anteriores a Internet, “el rumor o titular escandaloso hace parte de la dieta de consumo de información de la gente”, afirma. Lo que sucede ahora, explica el director, es que los flujos de información son más rápidos, igual que los hábitos de consumo de noticias de las personas.
Lo anterior tiene como consecuencia que el titular sea protagónico y provoque a las audiencias. “Si el contenido es interesante van a querer profundizar en él, y no solo se quedará con el titular”, afirma Vaca. Sin embargo, también están quienes únicamente leen titulares, muchos de ellos falsos.
En la avalancha de contenidos noticiosos que circulan en redes sociales, no solo están los rigurosos y verídicos, también están los que le faltan a la verdad, comenta el director de la FLIP. Esos, por ejemplo, fueron protagonistas en las pasadas elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos.
La compañía de mediciones y análisis, Pew research, realizó una encuesta entre el primero y el cuatro de diciembre del año pasado entre 1.002 adultos en ese país para identificar qué tanta distorsión de la realidad producían las noticias falsas en las personas.
Según el informe que publicaron sobre el estudio, la mayoría de los estadounidenses percibe que las noticias falsas están teniendo un fuerte impacto. Dos de cada tres adultos estadounidenses (64%) aseguran esos contenidos causan una gran confusión de los hechos básicos y de los asuntos y eventos de la actualidad.
Para Vaca, la situación en general es preocupante y espera que a futuro los ciudadanos puedan tener la capacidad de distinguir la credibilidad de un medio u otro para no continuar satanizando internet como un espacio que produce falsas noticias.
“Los medios de comunicación no deben producir noticias falsas. Si sucede, puede ser por dos causas: Que la capacidad de los periodistas esté por debajo de la demanda de información que hay en Internet; y la segunda, que ha estado en el periodismo siempre, es que este no es un oficio infalible, se pueden cometer errores. Sin embargo, en ambos casos el periodista y el medio están llamados a rectificar y enmendar esas equivocaciones con sus audiencias”, así lo explica el director de la FLIP.
Los casos anteriores difieren completamente de las plataformas que difunden noticias falsas sin escrúpulo. Ahí, dice Vaca, si es un medio, pierde la vocación y se convierte en una instancia manipuladora que desinforma a sus públicos.
São Paulo – Brazilian companies with innovative, socially impactful, environmentally positive projects are eligible to register for the “2nd Round of Impact Investing” sponsored by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil).
The participating companies will present their projects and products to potential venture capital and private equity investors. These investors acquire minority stakes in private companies to foster their development. Registration has been extended until next Friday (5th).
The investment round is an opportunity for companies seeking capital to introduce themselves to potential investors. Other similar events have been held for services- and export-oriented enterprises.
According to the international business analyst at Apex’s Executive Investment arm, Gilberto Socoloski Junior, the initiative arose out of interest from both enterprises and foreign investors. “There is an appetite for the establishment of investment funds that tend to funnel money into companies that work on the socio-environmental [sector] in emerging countries,” he said.
Socoloski said there is potential for up to US$ 40 billion to be invested into this type of business in Brazil. As cases in point, he mentioned companies that provide microcredit to development in impoverished areas, or ones that work on urban solid waste management.
Companies must be based in Brazil to apply. Both Brazilian and international investment funsd are eligible. The primary focus, however, is on attracting foreigners. According to Socoloski, investors from the United States and Europe are often most interested in projects of this type.
Selection process
To apply, interested companies must fill in a form on the Apex website, outlining their innovative processes or products. Socoloski and two other Apex professionals will select as many as 20 Brazilian companies on the strength of these forms.
Companies that qualify to the second stage of the selection will face an “examination board” in São Paulo on September 22nd and 23rd. Delegates will have 15 minutes to introduce their companies, processes, products and business plans, plus another 15 minutes to respond to inquiries. Following this stage, 12 companies will be shortlisted to introduce themselves to potential investors. The meeting with investors will also take place in São Paulo, on December 3rd.
From the time they are shortlisted until the presentation date, the businesses will receive coaching from Apex technicians to help them hone in on their most important features when it comes to being targeted by investment. At the meeting with investors, the delegates will only have 15 minutes to showcase their projects.
Apex does not intervene in the negotiations once the companies and funds begin interacting. According to Socoloski, negotiations usually take from a year and a half to two years to come to fruition. The companies will be charged no fees, but will have to meet their own costs during the process.
Registration for investors is open until the end of October.
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN)A man and woman missing for two weeks likely died after a car accident in the Dominican Republic, authorities said. Although their bodies were found within days of the accident, family and friends are only now learning what happened to them.
Rosa Flores and Kevin Conlon reported from Santo Domingo. CNN’s Steve Almasy and Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report.
DEKALB COUNTY, GA. — A triple shooting at a DeKalb County grocery store in Georgia has left a cashier dead and a deputy and the gunman injured, ABC affiliate WSB-TVreported.
The shooting happened Monday afternoon at the Big Bear grocery store along Candler Road.
The incident started when a man walked into the store and refused to put on a mask.
“I have a friend who works in this store and I think it was her who got shot and it’s just really sad,” witness Marquisha White said. “I don’t know what the world is coming to — period.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the cashier told Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., 30, of Palmetto, to put on a mask and that’s when the chaos unfolded.
“Tucker left the store without making his purchase, but immediately returned inside. Tucker walked directly back to the cashier, pulled out a handgun and shot her,” the GBI said in a news release.
“The deputy returned fire, shooting the suspect who has also been transported to a local hospital,” said DeKalb County Sherriff Melody Maddox.
The GBI said two DeKalb County police officers arrested Tucker as he was attempting to crawl out the front door of the store.
Fernandes spoke with owner of Big Bear, who did not give his name.
He said he hired and off-duty deputy to help enforce the mask policy at the store.
After Monday’s triple shooting, he said he may not allow customers to carry any guns inside the store anymore.
“How come they carry all the guns in a public place like that?” he asked, calling the practice “bad.”
People who frequent the store say the gunman is well known at Big Bear and they believe he may have some mental health issues.
Tucker was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was last listed as being in stable condition.
Another cashier was also grazed by a bullet. She was treated at the scene.
The deputy was taken to Atlanta Medical Center where he was last listed as being in stable condition.
“For people with blood cancers — lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma — only about half of them respond to an mRNA vaccine,” Harrison said Monday, after Powell’s death. Powell, who served as a four-star Army general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State under George W. Bush, died Monday from the coronavirus.
While the overwhelming majority of Americans dying from COVID-19 right now are unvaccinated, the virus still is claiming victims from the 2% of people who are immunocompromised by other conditions — such as cancer or organ transplants — as well as by drugs that treat other illnesses, like inflammatory bowel disease, Harrison said.
“Somebody is giving them COVID. Somebody is killing us,” Harrison said. “The surest way to decrease that is for people to get their vaccinations.”
Among the immunocompromised, the vaccine may well be protective, especially with a booster shot, Harrison said. But only about half of patients with blood cancer develop antibodies in response to the vaccine, he said — and only one-third of transplant recipients do.
Harrison, for example, only has one-tenth to one-twentieth of some types of immune cells that are needed for “an adequate immune system.”
“I guarantee you that everybody knows somebody out there like Gen. Powell or like me,” Harrison said. “The way herd immunity works is, we are relying on [others] to take good care of themselves and get vaccinated.”
Despite the state’s slightly-below-average vaccination rate, Utahns, Harrison said, are generally “charitable and good neighbors and very responsible.
“I can only believe that people must really just not understand if they are so cavalier. … I can’t imagine they don’t care about one out of every 50 people.”
With about two-thirds of eligible Utahns fully vaccinated, Harrison remains vigilant about who he has contact with, frequently masking and asking others’ vaccine status.
But at one recent public meeting, Harrison said, he found himself in a large group of people who were not masking and were not vaccinated. His risks are so elevated that simply being in the room made him eligible for monoclonal antibodies — an effective but limited-supply treatment typically given to high-risk patients who have contracted the virus but have not yet developed serious symptoms.
“It did make me feel not very valued that people are putting their own convenience ahead of my own life and death,” Harrison said.
He declined to specify the meeting. At an August news conference, Harrison urged Utahns to wear masks in public settings, get vaccinated, stop the spread of misinformation, and “put your virtual arms around” health care workers. After a bone marrow transplant and experimental CAR T-cell therapy, his cancer has been in remission.
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Los damnificados indicaron que no tuvieron tiempo de intentar escapar.
“Un terremoto siempre puede matar, también uno puede morir cruzando la calle, pero si cruza con los ojos cerrados corre más riegos”.
El ingeniero Enrique García, experto en daño sísmico consultado por BBC Mundo menos de 24 horas después del sismo de magnitud 7,8 en Ecuador, se refiere así a los problemas en el sector de la construcción que tuvieron una consecuencia directa en los más más de 600 muertos que dejó.
Tras sus primeras visitas a las zonas afectadas, el presidente Rafael Correa admitió que muchos edificios se habían derrumbado “por mala construcción”.
Correa recordó que tras los terremotos de Chile y de Haití, Ecuador implementó normas de construcción “mucho más fuertes”. De ahí surgió la Norma Ecuatoriana de Construcción (NEC).
Consultado por BBC Mundo, el ingeniero estructural Fabián Carrasco indicó que la norma ecuatoriana es buena, pero agregó que en el país no se cumplen ni los códigos ni las normas.
“Los permisos de construcción dependen de cada municipio. Algunos exigen la intervención de un ingeniero estructural a partir de un determinado número de pisos, otros no, pero esto sólo es en el estudio de los planos, luego no hay nadie que supervise la construcción”, dijo.
Para Enrique García, éste es uno de los pecados de la construcción en Ecuador. Otros son la informalidad (las construcciones quedan a cargo de maestros de obra y no de ingenieros o arquitectos), la falta de control de la calidad de los materiales y la ausencia de diseños sísmicos adecuados.
BBC Mundo recorrió las zonas afectadas con un arquitecto para analizar los errores de los edificios colapsados y los aciertos de las construcciones que no cayeron.
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El arquitecto Fausto Cardoso observa bloques destruidos.
Primera parada: Manta
El puerto más importante de Ecuador presenta un aspecto desolador, con edificios emblemáticos en estado inservible, pero para un ingeniero estructural, lo importante no es si un inmueble sufre daños irreparables o no: lo importante es que no se derrumbe y se lleve vidas en su caída.
Esto ocurrió con varias casas de Manta que simplemente cayeron sobre sí mismas o se inclinaron violentamente debido a que las bases no pudieron soportar a las plantas superiores.
BBC Mundo se detuvo frente a dos de estas construcciones –una casa particular y un local comercial– y consultó al arquitecto Fausto Cardoso sobre las posibles causas del colapso.
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Este local comercial sufrió la caída de los pisos superiores.
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Una buena estructura debe evitar el colapso del inmueble, a diferencia de lo que sucedió con esta casa.
“A primera vista hay un peso muy grande en la parte superior y las estructuras no son lo suficientemente sólidas para sostenerla. El sentido común en zonas sísmicas indica que los elementos más pesados deben estar abajo y conforme vas elevando la construcción tienes que ir aligerando el peso“, comenta Cardoso.
“Aquí vemos lo contrario: se colocan losas de hormigón arriba y estructuras frágiles abajo, en el medio columnas pequeñas que cumplen una función estética y no soportante. Se gasta mucho en los ornamentos del edificio, pero se descuida la seguridad”.
El otro elemento clave es el uso adecuado de los materiales: una buena cantidad de hierro para la cohesión de la estructura y el uso de arena de minas o ríos, nunca de mar.
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La cantidad de hierro utilizado, su grosor y el hecho de que sea corrugado o liso puede determinar la supervivencia o no de la estructura.
Pero al escuchar este último dato, muchos de los vecinos de la casa derrumbada señalaron que la mayoría de las casas de Manta obtenían su arena de las playas.
“La arena del mar no es buena para construir debido a que la sal daña el hormigón y termina corroyendo el hierro“, responde el arquitecto.
Uno de los tertulianos que observaba las construcciones caídas, Julio Bermúdez, opina desde su experiencia como trabajador de la construcción que en Ecuador se construye sin técnica.
“Igual este terremoto en cualquier parte del mundo te tiraba casas abajo, pero hay casas que aguantaron porque las construyeron de forma más consciente. Muchas personas, para ahorrar dinero, ahorran materiales. O son inescrupulosos los maestros contratistas y ponen materiales de menor calidad. Eso no es sólo en Manta, sino en todo el Ecuador”.
Segunda parada: Bahía de Caráquez
A la entrada al malecón de esta ciudad costera encontramos una casa antigua que estaba a punto de ser declarada bien patrimonial y aún se sostiene en pie. ¿Sus materiales? Madera y caña.
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La antigua casa debe tener entre 80 y 100 años.
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Sus materiales livianos la mantuvieron en pie pero también colaboró el buen trabajo elaborado en madera.
“Cada lugar desarrolla una tecnología de acuerdo con el material que tiene. Estos elementos tienen la ventaja de ser muy livianos. Se mueven con el sismo y regresan a su posición original, disipando la energía”, señala el arquitecto Cardoso que al ser también restaurador, siente pasión por las antiguas técnicas de construcción.
Por eso se lamenta al ver cómo, a pocas cuadras, el derrumbe de una casa de cemento y hormigón, afectó las paredes de casas de madera vecinas.
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Según los vecinos, dos personas fueron halladas sin vida en esta casa.
Para el arquitecto, no hay que tampoco “satanizar” el cemento, ya que toda tecnología se puede utilizar de forma responsable. Pone como ejemplo entonces el Museo de Bahía de Caráquez, cuya fachada sufrió daños pero su estructura se mantuvo intacta.
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El museo de Bahía de Caráquez resultó seriamente dañado pero no colapsó.
Cardoso considera que la informalidad en la construcción va a continuar una vez que se olviden los efectos del terremoto, por lo que –en su opinión– el Estado debería alentar el regreso a la arquitectura vernácula, con materiales propios de la región, en vez de permitir peligrosas construcciones en cemento de varios pisos que no cumplen con las normas adecuadas.
Pero esto no sería suficiente. Los ingenieros estructurales recuerdan que si la gente levanta casas en lugares inadecuados como orillas de los ríos, quebradas y pendientes, el efecto benefactor de los materiales livianos queda anulado por la mala ubicación de la construcción.
Tercera parada: San Vicente
La pequeña ciudad ubicada frente a Bahía de Caráquez está unida a su vecina mayor por un puente que, al menos a primera vista, no parece haber sufrido ninguna “herida” en el terremoto.
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A pesar de los rumores que corrieron en las primeras horas, el puente nunca dejó de unir las dos orillas
Aquí una construcción llama la atención del arquitecto. De ella salen hierros como chorros de agua expulsados por una fuente. Cardoso los llama “los hierros de la esperanza”.
“Es tanto un fenómeno ecuatoriano como latinoamericano. La gente empieza una obra con la esperanza de añadir nuevos pisos en el futuro”.
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Los hierros “de la esperanza” se oxidan en las zonas costeras.
“Entonces construyen los cimientos con una pequeña estructura de hormigón, cierran las paredes, funden una losa en la primera planta para usarla como cubierta y lanzan un sistema de hierros para unirse a los futuros pisos”.
El problema es que en la costa, la brisa marina oxida los hierros, dañando la mayor conexión que tendrán esas diferentes plantas en el futuro.
“Si a esto sumamos los problemas de la calidad del material y las sales que entran en el hormigón al usar arena de mar, entonces estamos creando un coctail de arquitectura tremendamente peligroso cuando hay un riesgo sísmico”, concluyó Cardoso.
Cuarta parada: Canoa
Al ingresar a uno de los centros turísticos por excelencia de la costa ecuatoriana, la primera reacción de los viajeros es comprobar el estado de la estructura hotelera, ya que de ello depende el futuro de Canoa.
Había edificios que pensabas que se iban a caer sin necesidad de un terremoto. Un día que soplara un poco de viento se iban a caer”
En este censo improvisado de hoteles, uno de los primeros destinos presenta una postal muy poco optimista: el Royal Pacific ha perdido toda la planta baja debido al colapso de su estructura causando, según dice un vecino que vive en frente, la muerte de seis personas.
“No podemos saber a ciencia cierta qué sucedió. Se nota que hay mucho hierro, pero el hierro y el hormigón no trabajaron juntos. El edificio se cayó sobre sí mismo, la estructura se mantuvo pero la base no resistió”, indicó Cardoso.
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Los vecinos indican que más de cinco personas murieron en este hotel.
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Los rescatistas han buscado varias veces entre sus ruinas.
El Royal Pacific recuerda en su caída al clásico videojuego del Tetris, en el que las piezas desaparecían al llegar a la superficie. La primera planta ha sido completamente aplastada por los pisos superiores.
Pero a dos cuadras de este hotel se levanta otro que no presenta grietas, como si la estructura no se hubiese enterado de que hubo un terremoto o el sismo hubiera elegido perdonarle la vida.
Los dueños del Amalur son dos españoles, Diego San José y Lorena Rojo, y el secreto de su éxito no tiene secretos.
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Este hotel sobrevivió al colapso general.
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Los dueños del Amalur contaron que pusieron especial atención a los cimientos.
“Nosotros nos tardamos dos meses en los cimientos, otros se apuran para comenzar lo más rápido con el negocio y no hacen una buena cimentación“, dice Diego.
“Mucha gente usa arena de la playa y es salina y se va comiendo el hierro. Nosotros usamos arena del río, lavada y tamizada. Mira el tamaño de nuestras columnas. Y sólo hemos levantado un piso. La base del hotel es de hormigón y la parte de arriba es madera y bambú”, acota Lorena.
La descripción de lo que ocurría con algunas construcciones en Canoa que exponen ambos es desoladora: “Acá presentaban el plano de un piso y luego construían cinco y nadie se daba cuenta. Había edificios que pensabas que se iban a caer sin necesidad de un terremoto. Un día que soplara un poco de viento se iban a caer”.
Esto a pesar de que en 1998 hubo un terremoto que afectó Bahía de Caráquez y Canoa.
Aunque el presidente Correa expresó su deseo de que se aprenda la lección “de esta dolorosísima experiencia”, el experto en daños sísmicos Enrique García no es muy optimista.
“En el 2008 hubo un congreso en Bahía de Caráquez para determinar qué habíamos aprendido del sismo del 98 y mira lo que pasó ahora. Se van a tomar algunas medidas pero yo creo que esto en un año se olvida“.
Deadly tensions between India and Pakistan are boiling over in Kashmir, a disputed territory at the northern border of each country.
A regional conflict is worrisome enough, but climate scientists warn that if either country launches just a portion of its nuclear weapons, the situation might escalate into a global environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.
On February 14, a suicide bomber killed at least 40 Indian troops in a convoy traveling through Kashmir. A militant group based in Pakistan called Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. India responded by launching airstrikes against its neighbor — the first in roughly 50 years — and Pakistan has said it shot down two Indian fighter jets and captured one of the pilots.
“This is the premier nuclear flashpoint in the world,” Ben Rhodes, a political commentator, said on Wednesday’s episode of the “Pod Save the World” podcast.
For that reason, climate scientists have modeled how an exchange of nuclear weapons between the two countries — what is technically called a limited regional nuclear war — might affect the world.
Though the explosions would be local, the ramifications would be global, that research concluded. The ozone layer could be crippled and Earth’s climate may cool for years, triggering crop and fishery losses that would result in what the researchers called a “global nuclear famine.”
“The danger of nuclear winter has been under-understood — poorly understood — by both policymakers and the public,” Michael Mills, a researcher at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Business Insider. “It has reached a point where we found that nuclear weapons are largely unusable because of the global impacts.”
Why a ‘small’ nuclear war could ravage Earth
A Pakistani NASR missile battery, which can launch small “tactical” nuclear weapons.Anjum Naveed/AP
But the most frightening effect is intense heat that can ignite structures for miles around. Those fires, if they occur in industrial areas or densely populated cities, can lead to a frightening phenomenon called a firestorm.
“These firestorms release many times the energy stored in nuclear weapons themselves,” Mills said. “They basically create their own weather and pull things into them, burning all of it.”
Mills helped model the outcome of an India-Pakistan nuclear war in a 2014 study. In that scenario, each country exchanges 50 weapons, less than half of its arsenal. Each of those weapons is capable of triggering a Hiroshima-size explosion, or about 15 kilotons’ worth of TNT.
The model suggested those explosions would release about 5 million tons of smoke into the air, triggering a decades-long nuclear winter.
The effects of this nuclear conflict would eliminate 20% to 50% of the ozone layer over populated areas. Surface temperatures would become colder than they’ve been for at least 1,000 years.
The bombs in the researchers’ scenario are about as powerful as the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, enough to devastate a city. But that’s far weaker than many weapons that exist today. The latest device North Korea tested was estimated to be about 10 times as powerful as Little Boy. The US and Russia each possess weapons 1,000 times as powerful.
Still, the number of weapons used is more important than strength, according to the calculations in this study.
How firestorms would wreck the climate
The city of Dresden in 1946, about a year after allied troops firebombed the city. AP Photo/James Pringle
Most of the smoke in the scenario the researchers considered would come from firestorms that would tear through buildings, vehicles, fuel depots, vegetation, and more. This smoke would rise through the troposphere (the atmospheric zone closest to the ground), and particles would then be deposited in a higher layer called the stratosphere. From there, tiny black-carbon aerosols could spread around the globe.
“The lifetime of a smoke particle in the stratosphere is about five years. In the troposphere, the lifetime is one week,” Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who worked on the study, told Business Insider. “So in the stratosphere, the lifetime of smoke particles is much longer, which gives it 250 times the impact.”
The fine soot would cause the stratosphere, normally below freezing, to be dozens of degrees warmer than usual for five years. It would take two decades for conditions to return to normal.
This would cause ozone loss “on a scale never observed,” the study said. That ozone damage would consequently allow harmful amounts of ultraviolet radiation from the sun to reach the ground, hurting crops and humans, harming ocean plankton, and affecting vulnerable species all over the planet.
But it gets worse: Earth’s ecosystems would also be threatened by suddenly colder temperatures.
Change in surface temperature (K) for (a) June to August and (b) December to February. Values are five- year seasonal averages.Earth’s Future/Michael J. Mills et al.
The fine black soot in the stratosphere would prevent some sun from reaching the ground. The researchers calculated that average temperatures around the world would drop by about 1.5 degrees Celsius over the five years following the nuclear blasts.
In populated areas of North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, changes could be more extreme (as illustrated in the graphic above). Winters there would be about 2.5 degrees colder and summers between 1 and 4 degrees colder, reducing critical growing seasons by 10 to 40 days. Expanded sea ice would also prolong the cooling process, since ice reflects sunlight away.
“It’d be cold and dark and dry on the ground, and that’d affect plants,” Robock said. “This is something everybody should be concerned about because of the potential global effects.”
The change in ocean temperatures could devastate sea life and fisheries that much of the world relies on for food. Such sudden blows to the food supply and the “ensuing panic” could cause “a global nuclear famine,” according to the study’s authors.
Temperatures wouldn’t return to normal for more than 25 years.
The effects might be much worse than previously thought
An Indian air force Mirage 2000 fighter jet.Public Domain
Robock is working on new models of nuclear-winter scenarios; his team was awarded a nearly $3 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to do so.
“You’d think the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies would fund this research, but they didn’t and had no interest,” he said.
Since his earlier modeling work, Robock said, the potential effects of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan have gotten worse. That’s because India and Pakistan now have more nuclear weapons, and their cities have grown.
“It could be about five times worse than what we’ve previously calculated,” he said.
Because of his intimate knowledge of the potential consequences, Robock advocates the reduction of nuclear arsenals around the world. He said he thinks Russia and the US — which has nearly 7,000 nuclear weapons — are in a unique position to lead the way.
“Why don’t the US and Russia each get down to 200? That’s a first step,” Robock said.
“If President Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize, he should get rid of land-based missiles, which are on hair-trigger alert, because we don’t need them,” he added. “That’s how he’ll get a peace prize — not by saying we have more than anyone else.”
Kevin Loria contributed reporting to a previous version of this article. Alex Lockie also contributed to this post.
President Trump and Kim Jong Un prematurely end their talks in Vietnam after reaching a standstill on the degree of denuclearization in North Korea; John Roberts reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.
President Trump may have hit a roadblock when North Korea’s Kim Jong Un refused to meet his demands at Thursday’s Hanoi summit, but Trump’s decision to walk away could serve to rattle China’s Xi Jinping.
Gordon Chang, an expert on the region and author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” argued that what on the surface looked like a diplomatic stalemate could in fact be a diplomatic coup for Trump when it comes to North Korea’s neighbor.
“I think this is a moment of reassessment for China,” Chang said.
Trump announced overnight that there’d be no deal in Vietnam because Kim was “unprepared” to fully denuclearize in exchange for the full removal of U.S.-led sanctions. Trump held a press conference where he said, “Sometimes you have to walk.”
Chang told Fox News that Trump also showed Beijing that he is not afraid to walk away from a bad deal amid trade talks and, in doing so, put added pressure on Xi, whose popularity appears to be waning due to the country’s economic stagnation. Chang said Xi has found himself in a “no win” situation: either he agrees to abandon the country’s “selfish” model or he continues to watch the economy suffer.
Trump recently postponed increasing tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods that would have been effective March 2. He has not given a new date for higher tariffs if negotiations falter.
The main sticking point for the U.S. centers on ending cyber theft of commercial secrets, limiting state support for Chinese companies, and ending the forced transfer of technology.
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. JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP via Getty Images
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.
Regresaba de un viaje a Corea del Norte, en plena ebullición mundial por la caída del muro de Berlín. Eso hacía Edi Zunino hace un cuarto de siglo, cuando la revista Noticias llegaba a los kioscos. “Nunca me imaginé que iba a llegar a ser el director”, se sinceró el hoy director de la revista, en el Malba, donde el newsmagazine entregó el premio Pluma al periodismo.
El autor de Periodistas en el barro, que encabezó la ceremonia del martes por la noche, contó cómo fueron los comienzos de la revista. “Cuando comenzó Noticias era una etapa muy particular en el mundo, acá también estaba la hiperinflación, la cesión anticipada del mando por parte de Alfonsín”, enumeró el periodista, en diálogo con Perfil.com.
Pese a que la publicación recibió 19 demandas judiciales por parte del Ejecutivo en los ‘90 y fue discriminada por los gobiernos kirchneristas con el reparto de publicidad oficial, Zunino destacó: “Sobrevivimos todo eso, también el delarruismo y el 2001 porque mantuvimos un espíritu de lucha y rebelde inconfundible”.
A la hora de analizar la relación de la revista con los distintos gobiernos de turno, el periodista consideró que “el kirchnerismo es una etapa superior al menemismo”. “Las tensiones entre la prensa y el poder tienen la misma matriz, tiene que ver con la relación del peronismo y los medios, y se les suma lo que son ellos mismos que recibían a Menem en Santa Cruz y decían que era el mejor presidente de la historia”, consideró.
Consultado sobre si alguna vez dudó de que Noticias pudiera quedar fuera de circulación por el “acoso fiscal” que sufrió por parte del kirchnerismo, Zunino se mostró confiado. “Nunca tuve dudas de que pese a todo lo que pasaba con el gobierno, la revista iba a seguir, porque la potencia está basada en sus lectores”, reflexionó.
“Yo creo que fue acertada la decisión de Fontevecchia y de Perfil de enjuiciar al Estado por la discriminación en la pauta oficial, porque le dio visibilidad sobre qué era lo que estaba pasando con los medios”, remató.
Sobre los próximos desafíos del medio, el actual director de la publicación vaticinó: “Tenemos que adaptarnos a la digitalización y los tiempos que vienen, también experimentando a partir del año que viene la conversión de Perfil a un multimedios, pero por sobre todas las cosas mantener ese espíritu rebelde en cualquiera de las plataformas”.
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.
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