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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“.
New York state senator Brad Hoylman calls for Andrew Cuomo’s impeachment on ‘Your World.’
If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t resign following the state attorney general’s report this week that found the governor had sexually harassed 11 women, a majority of state Assembly members are reportedly prepared to start impeachment proceedings.
At least 86 Assembly members – more than half the total of 150 – have either publicly said or told The Associated Press they would be in favor of taking that step to remove Cuomo in the wake of the latest bombshell against him.
Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation began after several women came forward to accuse Cuomo of harassment earlier this year.
As recently as last year, Cuomo was a prominent voice in the Democratic Party and lauded for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the tidal wave of allegations and accusations he downplayed the number of coronavirus nursing home deaths has left him with few supporters.
State Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat, called on the assembly to return to session “immediately” to begin impeachment proceedings.
“There is no measure left to hide the truth. The governor broke the law so we must hold him accountable,” Kim said in a statement.
“There is no measure left to hide the truth. The governor broke the law so we must hold him accountable.”
— Ron Kim, New York state assemblyman
New York state Assemblyman Ron Kim, left, has been a vocal critic of embattled New Yorkl Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/ Reuters)
“When institutions fail to believe victims, allow predators to act with impunity, or fail to put policies of protection in place, it sends a strong signal that condones this type of unacceptable behavior. We cannot afford to ignore his transgressions any longer: doing so will erode the integrity of our legislative body and demonstrate complicity in sheltering a sexual predator.”
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, said in a statement: “As I said, when these disturbing allegations first came to light, the governor must resign for the good of the state. Now that the investigation is complete and the allegations have been substantiated, it should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as governor.”
“It should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as governor.”
— Andrea Stewart-Cousins, New York state Senate majority leader
New York state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins speaks in New York City, June 12, 2020. (Reuters)
Prominent Democrats at the national and state level, including President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and both of New York’s U.S. senators, have called for Cuomo to resign. The report found Cuomo engaged in “unwanted groping, kissing, and hugging,” made inappropriate remarks toward staffers and oversaw a workplace culture “rife with fear and intimidation.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday, “The president believes Governor Cuomo should do the right thing, resign, and leave space for future leadership in New York,” Psaki said.
One of the governor’s closest allies, New York Democratic Party chairperson Jay Jacobs, declared that Cuomo “has lost his ability to govern, both practically and morally.” Jacobs told Spectrum News he had tried privately to persuade Cuomo to resign but “wasn’t making headway.”
Cuomo, in his third term, denied many of the allegations written in the report on Tuesday and claimed others were mischaracterized or misconstrued. He said “politics and bias” were interwoven throughout the report.
Assembly Democrats, who lead the chamber, debated virtually for hours Tuesday about whether to impeach the governor now, wait to see whether he resigns, or give the Judiciary Committee time to wrap up its wide-ranging investigation into topics from sexual misconduct to the Cuomo administration’s months-long obfuscation of the total number of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19.
At least 40 Democrats back starting impeachment proceedings if Cuomo doesn’t leave on his own. The assembly includes 106 Democrats, 43 Republicans and one Independent.
It takes a simple majority to authorize an impeachment trial.
Assembly Republican Leader Will Barclay urged Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie this week to convene an emergency special session to vote to impeach Cuomo and Hestie said he wants to conclude the body’s investigation quickly.
Deputy Majority Leader Mike Gianaris told The Associated Press the Assembly has been preparing for an impeachment trial for months that could start in the next few weeks.
“We’ll be ready to go if and when the impeachment articles are sent over,” he said. “It could happen very quickly.”
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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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.
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.
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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.
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”.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., issued a five-tweet response on Saturday after President Trump and others attacked her by promulgating a video with jarring images of the 9/11 attacks.
“I did not run for Congress to be silent,” she wrote. “I did not run for Congress to sit on the sidelines. I ran because I believed it was time to restore moral clarity and courage to Congress. To fight and to defend our democracy.”
She continued: “No one person — no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious — can threaten my unwavering love for America. I stand undeterred to continue fighting for equal opportunity in our pursuit of happiness for all Americans.”
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FILE – In this Jan. 5, 2017, file photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar, already the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature, is jumping into a crowded race for a Minnesota congressional seat. Omar filed Tuesday, June 5, 2018, for the Minneapolis-area seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Omar, who is Muslim, has come under assault in recent days for comments she made last month at a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Omar said the organization “was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” [CAIR was in fact founded in 1994. Omar’s spokesman said she misspoke and “meant to refer to the fact that the organization had doubled in size after the Sept. 11 attacks.”]
Her opponents focused on her use of the phrase “some people did something,” implying that it minimized the attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in New York and gravely damaged the Pentagon. Almost 3,000 Americans died in those attacks and the crash of a hijacked airliner in Pennsylvania.
The blowback was fierce. On Thursday, The New York Post responded by splashing an image on its cover of the burning Twin Towers. On Friday, President Trump waded into the controversy and shared video footage of the Sept. 11 attacks.
“WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” he exclaimed on Twitter.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was among the Democrats who said Trump’s video crossed a line.
“The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence,” she said in a Saturday morning press release. “The President shouldn’t use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack.”
View Omar’s full response below:
This country was founded on the ideas of justice, of liberty, of the pursuit of happiness. But these core beliefs are under threat. Each and every day. We are under threat by an administration that would rather cage children than pass comprehensive immigration reform.
An administration that would rather give billionaires tax breaks than provide a little cushion for working people. An administration that would rather attack fellow Americans who are transgender and wear our country’s uniform than fight for equality and opportunity for all.
I did not run for Congress to be silent. I did not run for Congress to sit on the sidelines. I ran because I believed it was time to restore moral clarity and courage to Congress. To fight and to defend our democracy.
No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America. I stand undeterred to continue fighting for equal opportunity in our pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
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.
President Joe Biden warned Friday that Delta, a coronavirus variant first discovered in India, poses an increased threat to unvaccinated Americans.
“It is a variant that is more easily transmissible, potentially deadlier, and particularly dangerous for young people,” Biden said at a White House news conference.
His remarks came just hours after Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told “Good Morning America” that Delta would likely become the dominant strain in the US in the coming months. (Some experts have even suggested that might even happen within weeks.)
Delta represents just 10% of US COVID-19 cases so far, but it already makes up around 90% of cases in the UK, according to a study from Imperial College London that’s still awaiting peer review. The researchers also found that COVID-19 cases in the UK are doubling every 11 days, most likely as a result of the fast-spreading variant.
Research from Public Health England suggests that Delta is associated with a 60% increased risk of household coronavirus transmission compared to Alpha — the variant discovered in the UK. Alpha is already around 50% more transmissible than the original coronavirus strain, according to the CDC.
Young people may be particularly susceptible to a Delta infection for two reasons: They’re more likely to be socially active and less likely to be vaccinated than older adults.
In the US, fewer adults under 50 have gotten vaccinated than adults ages 50 and older. The Imperial College London researchers also found that coronavirus infections in the UK are two-and-a-half times more prevalent among people ages 5 to 49 than among those ages 50 and older. Most young people who recently got infected were unvaccinated, according to the study.
Experts increasingly worry that young people will be less protected against severe disease caused by a Delta infection: Researchers in Scotland found that getting infected with Delta doubles the risk of hospital admission relative to Alpha.
Emerging research also suggests that a single vaccine dose doesn’t hold up as well against Delta compared to other coronavirus strains. Recent Public Health England analyses found that two doses of Pfizer’s vaccine were 88% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 from Delta cases, while a single shot was just 33% effective by the same standard.
“Please, please if you have one shot, get the second shot as soon as you can,” Biden said on Friday.
So far, less than 45% of Americans are fully vaccinated, while 53% have received at least one dose. US vaccination rates have also fallen dramatically in the last two months, from a weekly average of nearly 3.4 million doses per day in mid-April to fewer than 780,000 doses per day on Thursday.
The more vaccination rates continue to drop, the more opportunities there are for Delta to spread — and therefore keep replicating and mutating.
“The worst-case scenario is if Delta mutates into something completely different, a completely different animal, and then our current vaccines are even less effective or ineffective,” Vivek Cherian, an internal medicine physician in Baltimore, recently told Insider.
Still, Biden said the US likely wouldn’t return to lockdowns because so many people have been vaccinated already.
São Paulo – The Group Pioneiro, a food company from Paraná, plans on increasing the number of chickens slaughtered from the current 140,000 fowls per day to 160,000 fowls until July and part of this additional volume should go to the Arab world. The company currently exports to Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Iraq in the Middle East and since the beginning of the sales, in 2010, they have already grown 25%.
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Company adapted the brand for the Arabs
The information is from the person in charge of Middle East exports at Pioneiro, Ilonka Eijsink. According to her, the foreign market takes 10% of the total produced by the company and the Middle East is the third largest market for Pioneiro. The first is Japan and the second is Hong Kong. Abroad, the company sells chicken parts. Domestically they also commercialize whole weighed and processed chickens.
“As we are increasing the number of slaughtered fowls, we are also increasing the exports to these countries,” says Eijsink about the Middle East. According to her, there is a demand from the Arab countries and the possibility to export more to them if the product is available. She recalls that, except for Saudi Arabia, which produces poultry, the remaining countries from the Middle East import all they consume in this area.
Eijsink sees the demand increasing in the region, with levels similar to the ones from before the economic crisis of 2008. She claims that in Dubai, for instance, construction projects are a good signal to the market, and they have recovered from the crisis, with lots of projects targeted at Expo 2020, the global fair which will be held in Dubai in 2020 lasting six months.
With the construction sector rekindled, the emirate starts to receive more foreign workers, from Europe and India, increasing food consumption. Eijsink also says that large supermarket chains are expanding in the region, which is considered a good sign for the sector in which Group Pioneiro operates. The company has taken part in the Gulfood, a food sector fair held annually in Dubai, for eight years.
Al Mana
Pioneiro, besides being the group’s name, is also the brand’s name for poultry commercialized on the Brazilian market. The processed product brand is Mana, which is also the brand used for all the products in the foreign market. In the Middle East, however, the company uses the name Al Mana. “The objective is to show respect for their religion and also to show we have a product blessed by God, by Allah, food from heavens”.
Maná (Manna) is the name of the food which, according to the biblical books, God sent from heaven to the people led by Moses who were in search of the Promised Land through the desert. Moses is considered a prophet by the Islamism. According to Eijsink, the brand Al Mana is well received in the Arab world.
The Group Pioneiro is headquartered in the city of Joaquim Távora. The company has two units, one in which the fowls are slaughtered and processed and the other where baloney and sausage are processed. All the exported chicken parts are frozen.
En el quinto día de la UEFA EURO 2016 entró en acción una de las selecciones candidatas a ser la sensación del torneo: Austria. El combinado dirigido por Marcel Koller cuenta con jugadores contrastados en todas sus líneas y se espera mucho de ellos en Francia. Pues bien, Hungría, una selección muy modesta, sorprendió a los de Marcel Koller y se impuso 0-2 en Burdeos.
David Alaba es el líder de esta Austria prometedora, y el jugador del Bayern tuvo la primera gran ocasión del encuentro en el primer minuto de juego. El polivalente centrocampista avanzó hasta la frontal del área y soltó un tremendo zurdazo que repelió el palo izquierdo de Király.
Parecía una clara declaración de intenciones austriaca, pero Hungría no se asustó y trató de controlar el encuentro con posesiones largas. Antes de llegar al descanso, Harnik no acertó con el remate tras una excepcional jugada de Arnautović por banda izquierda, y Dzsudzsák cruzó en exceso su remate en la réplica magiar.
La segunda parte comenzó con otro intento de Dzsudzsák, esta vez con un zurdazo que tuvo que despejar Almer con los puños. Y en el 62’ llegó el 0-1. Tras una buena combinación entre Kleinheisler y Szalai en la frontal del área, el ex jugador de la cantera del Real Madrid mandó la pelota al fondo de la red con un toque con la puntera.
Por si fuera poco castigo para Austria, su central Dragović fue expulsado acto seguido al ver la segunda amarilla. Con una selección austriaca con diez y partida, Almer tuvo que despejar a córner un disparo envenenado de Németh desde el pico del área.
En el 87’, y con Austria volcada en busca del empate, Stieber mató el partido al culminar de manera brillante una contra húngara. Por lo tanto, primera gran sorpresa del torneo.
Jugador del Partido: László Kleinheisler El centrocampista húngaro no fue el autor de ninguno de los dos goles del partido, pero fue el motor de los suyos en la medular. Además, tiró una pared prodigiosa para que Szalai marcara el 0-1 en Burdeos.
Aspecto clave: el tiro al palo de Alaba en el 1’ El partido fue muy igualado de principio a fin, y Hungría se impuso porque aprovechó sus ocasiones mejor que Austria. Eso sí, no sabemos qué habría pasado si Alaba llega a meter ese zurdazo en el primer minuto de partido que repelió el palo de Király.
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El presidente ruso reaccionó de diferente manera en diferentes situaciones de crisis, ¿es posible descifrarlo?
Se puede afirmar que el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, es difícil de predecir cuando se desata una crisis.
Fue él quien se apresuró a expresar su furia ante Turquía por el derribo del bombardero ruso el 24 de noviembre.
Sin embargo, a veces se toma su tiempo o reacciona en formas inesperadas ante situaciones difíciles.
Sólo horas después de que el Su-24 ruso fue derribado, Putin dijo que aquello había sido una “puñalada por la espalda” a cargo de los “cómplices de los terroristas”.
También advirtió de las “graves consecuencias” para las relaciones de Moscú con Ankara.
La retórica de Putin resultaba al tiempo explosiva pero expresada con conciencia de estar conteniéndose.
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La agresiva reacción de Putin después del derribo del Su-24 provocó protestas en su contra en Turquía.
Algo parecido al presidente de Turquía, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, quien parecía tender la mano a Moscú cuando dijo el jueves: “Si hubiéramos sabido que era un avión ruso, tal vez habríamos advertido de manera diferente”.
Mientras el viernes cambió totalmente de tono y acusó a Putin de “jugar con fuego” y “mentir”, eso sí, sin dejar de reiterar su oferta de reunirse con Putin la semana que viene.
El presidente ruso ya dejó claro que quiere una disculpa antes de cualquier encuentro, pero al igual que su contendor verbal, parece consciente de que debe moderar el discurso.
¿Cómo entender las señales pasivo-agresivas que lanza Putin?
Mirada de hielo
La experiencia sugiere que Putin no suele ser tan rápido a la hora de pronunciarse ante los ataques contra Rusia.
Después de los atentados que produjeron más de 30 muertes en Volgogrado, en diciembre de 2013, esperó dos días antes de romper el silencio.
Después prometió que los “terroristas serán destruidos”.
Hubo una reacción tardía similar después del derribo del avión comercial de Metrojet en Egipto, en el que 224 personas murieron.
La tragedia ocurrió el 31 de octubre, pero no fue hasta el 2 de noviembre que Putin apareció en televisión para expresar sus condolencias a las familias y amigos de las víctimas.
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Putin fue cauto y aguardó la confirmación de que el avión de Metrojet fue derribado por un explosivo antes de cambiar de tono.
De hecho, el anuncio oficial de que el avión fue destruido por una bomba fue administrado cuidadosamente por Putin y sus asesores de comunicación.
En la cumbre del G-20 en Turquía, el 16 de noviembre, periodistas le pidieron comentar sobre la investigación y Putin se limitó a decir que era demasiado temprano para tener conclusiones.
Lo dijo sereno, visiblemente calmado.
Horas más tarde, sin embargo, en una reunión en el Kremlin en la que se confirmó la causa del desastre, su actitud cambió por completo…
Mirando fijamente a la cámara y haciendo una pausa entre las frases, Putin dijo que los “criminales” que consumaron el ataque contra el avión serían perseguidos y castigados “dondequiera que estuvieran”.
Ellos deben entender que “el castigo es inevitable”, añadió con mirada gélida.
“Contra las cuerdas”
Lo anterior en apariencia contrasta con una declaración de Putin hecha un par de días después de la voladura del avión de pasajeros MH17 de Malasia sobre el este de Ucrania, el 17 de julio de 2014.
Putin apareció de la nada en televisión poco después de medianoche aquella vez para decir que nadie tiene el derecho de utilizar la “tragedia” para sus propios fines políticos “egoístas” y que no debe “dividir, sino unir gente”.
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La reacción de Putin después del derribo del Su-24 fue distinta a la que tomó ante la caída del vuelo MH17 de Malaysia Airlines.
Extrañamente, el presidente de Rusia se veía cansado.
Tenía ojeras y su piel lucía más pálida.
Parecía que “no durmió durante varios días y estaba claramente nervioso”, dijo el analista político Stanislav Belkovsky aquella vez.
Nadie diría eso ahora sobre sus apariciones después de derribo del Su-24 ruso de Turquía.
Sin embargo, Belkovsky resultó ser más astuto cuando interpretó la psicología de Putin después de lo sucedido con el MH17.
“El presidente puede parecer contra las cuerdas, se dijo julio de 2014, pero esto no quiere decir que va a dar marcha atrás”, hizo notar.
Ahora, el comportamiento y el lenguaje de Putin en el caso del Su-24 también sugieren que es muy poco probable que vaya a dar marcha atrás.
Aunque concluye con un ambiente de preocupación por el drama de las inundaciones, el 2015 fue un año de acciones positivas a favor del cambio y del avance en la sociedad.
Como ya es tradicional, los periodistas de Última Hora premian hoy a los Protagonistas Destacados, tras un proceso de selección.
Este año resultan distinguidos siete grupos, personas y organizaciones, que recibirán sus reconocimientos durante un acto especial, a las 11.00, en plena Redacción. Será transmitido por la señal de tevé online de ÚLTIMAHORA.COM.
Los premiados aparecerán además en la foto de portada de la última edición de ÚH del 2015, transmitiendo un signo de esperanza para el nuevo año que se inicia.
Los dirigentes de #UNAnotecalles, que protagonizaron la mayor movilización estudiantil de los últimos tiempos, encabezan la lista. El elemento motivador de esta gesta fue precisamente una serie de reportajes investigativos de ÚH sobre corrupción en la Universidad Nacional.
Los jóvenes del Cristo Rey, que propiciaron la histórica marcha de estudiantes secundarios del 18 de setiembre, en reclamo de mejor educación, también serán premiados.
El artista Koki Ruiz, autor del aclamado retablo de maíz para la visita del papa Francisco, es otro distinguido.
Además, la Selección de Fútbol de Pueblos Originarios del Paraguay, conocida como la Albirroja Indígena, que se consagró campeón de la Copa América jugada en Chile.
Carmen Martínez, la primera atleta paraguaya con marca propia para los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016, integra la lista.
También, la Fundación Po Paraguay, que fabrica prótesis impresas en 3D con un enfoque de derecho y accesibilidad, y María Isabel Valiente, enfermera paraguaya del Hospital de Pediatría Garrahan, de Buenos Aires, que ayuda a las familias que migran a Argentina en busca de salud gratuita.
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.
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