El nuevo MSN está integrado con el nuevo entorno de Windows 8 y pronto se incorporarán el servicio de conversación Skype y otras redes sociales.
Microsoft estrenó este lunes una versión renovada de su portal de noticias MSN que fue sometido a un profundo rediseño en línea con la estética y funcionalidad de Windows 8, con el objetivo de atraer a un usuario más joven que busca experiencias personalizables.
El remodelado MSN está disponible en su versión beta para todos los mercados, incluido Estados Unidos, Latinoamérica y España, a través de la página web http://preview.msn.com e incluye accesos directos a herramientas como Outlook, Office y OneDrive, y las redes sociales Facebook y Twitter.
Microsoft confirmó que Skype y otras redes sociales se incorporarán próximamente al servicio que llegará en forma de aplicación para teléfonos y tabletas de cualquier ecosistema, una filosofía que se ha implantado en la compañía desde el nombramiento de Satya Nadella como consejero delegado.
“Es realmente una reinvención”, aseguró a Efe Rafael Carranza, productor ejecutivo del grupo de Información y Experiencias de Contenido para Microsoft Latinoamérica.
Carranza explicó que MSN evoluciona de ser un portal de noticias que competía con otros medios y se nutría fundamentalmente de informaciones de agencias, a transformarse en “una plataforma de productividad” donde las noticias tienen una presencia prominente.
“Vamos con los medios de comunicación de la mano. Estamos cerrando contratos donde hay beneficio mutuo”, apuntó el directivo, que cifró en más de 1.000 las alianzas establecidas con empresas informativas en todo el mundo para nutrir de contenidos de actualidad a MSN.
Cabeceras como The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, agencias como EFE y más de 40 medios latinoamericanos como La Nación, La Tercera, Semana, El Universal (Venezuela) y CNN Expansión (México) participan en esta iniciativa que se desmarca de los tradicionales sistemas de agregadores de noticias.
“Hay una labor de selección de contenidos intensa realizada por periodistas, no por robots. Mucha imagen y poco texto para llegar a un usuario más joven. El que quiera profundizar podrá hacerlo”, detalló Carranza.
En función de la ubicación del usuario, MSN dará prioridad a los medios locales -característica que se puede modificar manualmente-, información que se compaginará con historias de alcance internacional.
El nuevo MSN está integrado con el nuevo entorno de Windows 8 y accede a servicios de salud y bienestar, como el analizador de síntomas ya disponible, la colección de recetas de cocina de Bing, y la información deportiva con marcadores a tiempo real.
“Es una experiencia que te acompaña en cualquier dispositivo”, declaró Carranza.
Para acceder a todos los servicios, incluidas las herramientas de productividad, los usuarios necesitarán una cuenta en Microsoft, como por ejemplo un correo hotmail/outlook.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A 16-year-old unaccompanied migrant boy from Guatemala fell ill after he was transferred to a government shelter in Texas and later died, officials said Wednesday.
The boy crossed the border near El Paso, Texas, on April 19, and was taken to a shelter in Brownsville a day later, according to Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry.
He did not appear ill when he was transferred to the care of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a statement from the Administration for Children and Families, the division within HHS that cares for migrant children who cross the border alone. But the next morning, he had fever, chills and a headache and was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released that day.
When the teen didn’t recover, he was taken to a second hospital and transferred to a children’s hospital. Guatemalan officials said he had a severe infection in his brain and had emergency surgery, but never stabilized and died Tuesday. The cause of death was under review, as was the incident. His name was not released.
The boy’s brother and Guatemalan consular officials visited him while he was hospitalized, and hospital staff frequently updated his family in Guatemala, according to Evelyn Stauffer, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Children and Families.
It was the third death in government custody since December, as the U.S. deals with a surge of unaccompanied children and Central American families arriving at the southern border. Two other children died while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after they arrived at the border.
Trump administration officials have said the surge has strained resources beyond the breaking point, but immigrant advocates and some Democrats say part of the crisis is due to President Donald Trump’s own hardline rhetoric and failed border policies.
The 16-year-old was from the municipality of Camotan in the eastern area of Chiquimula. The Guatemalan Consulate in McAllen tried to get humanitarian visas so the parents could be with their son, but they were too old to travel, the foreign ministry said. The boy’s body will be repatriated, but it’s not clear when.
In December, 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo died on Christmas Eve from influenza and a rapid, progressive infection that led to organ failure shortly after crossing the border. His death was two weeks after that of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin, who also had a bacterial infection that quickly led to sepsis and organ failure.
Both of those children were also from Guatemala but arrived with a family member and were in Customs and Border Protection custody, not the care of Health and Human Services, which is tasked with dealing with the care of migrant children who arrive at the border alone. The agency also managed the children who were separated from their parents by the Trump administration last summer.
The last time a child died in the custody of Health and Human services was 2015.
The teen’s death comes as the Trump administration asks for $4.5 billion in supplemental funding for the border mostly for humanitarian aid. The official request said Health and Human Services will exhaust its resources by June. The funding request includes $2.8 billion to increase shelter capacity to about 23,600 total beds for unaccompanied children.
There were 50,036 unaccompanied children encountered during the last budget year, and so far this budget year there have been 35,898 children. The highest number was in 2014: 57,496.
Their average length of stay in a government shelter is 66 days, up from 59 during fiscal year 2018 and 40 in 2016’s fiscal year.
(CNN)School bells were replaced by police sirens Tuesday after a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, left three students dead, officials said.
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ON IRAN … WSJ’S MIKE BENDER and GORDON LUBOLD: “Trump Bucked National-Security Aides on Proposed Iran Attack”: “President Trump bucked most of his top national-security advisers by abandoning retaliatory strikes in Iran on Thursday. In private conversations Friday, Mr. Trump reveled in his judgment, certain about his decision to call off the attacks while speaking of his administration as if removed from the center of it. ‘These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,’ Mr. Trump told one confidant about his own inner circle of advisers. ‘We don’t need any more wars.’” WSJ
— NYT’S ED WONG and MICHAEL CROWLEY: “Pompeo, a Steadfast Hawk, Coaxes a Hesitant Trump on Iran”: “[A]s the debate over the strike showed, the uncompromisingly hawkish views Mr. Pompeo holds on Iran are starting to clash with the perspective of a president deeply skeptical of military entanglements, especially in the Middle East. Mr. Pompeo is unlikely to publicly signal frustration with the president.
“Some officials say he would work through the bureaucracy to push his policy goals while on the surface sticking to the role of loyal soldier, if only because he harbors political ambitions for which Mr. Trump’s support would be invaluable. Despite Mr. Pompeo’s insistence that he has ‘ruled out’ a Senate run next year in Kansas, many Trump administration officials expect him to enter the race.” NYT
VP MIKE PENCE told JAKE TAPPER on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION” that the president will announce additional sanctions on Iran tomorrow.
CHRIS WALLACE spoke to SEN. TOM COTTON (R-ARK.) on “FOX NEWS SUNDAY”: COTTON: “I think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we’re talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, I think they were warranted against an American unmanned aircraft. What I see is Iran steadily marching up the escalation chain it started out with threats then went to attack on vessels and ports, went to attack on vessels at sea now it’s an unmanned American aircraft. I fear that if Iran doesn’t have a firm set of boundaries drawn around its behavior were going to see an attack on a U.S. ship or U.S. manned aircraft.”
— WAPO’S SIMON DENYER in Tokyo: “North Korea’s Kim receives ‘excellent letter’ from Trump, state media says”: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received an ‘excellent’ letter from President Trump and is seriously considering what his American counterpart had to say, North Korean state media reported Sunday. Earlier this month, Trump announced he had received a ‘beautiful letter’ from Kim, breaking the silence between the two men since a summit in Hanoi in February ended in failure. Now, Trump appears to have written back and received a similarly warm response. Kim ‘said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content,’ the Korean Central News Agency reported.
“‘Appreciating the political judging faculty and extraordinary courage of President Trump, Kim Jong Un said that he would seriously contemplate the interesting content,’ the agency said. The White House has not commented, but there will inevitably be speculation that the letters could pave the way for a third summit between the two leaders.” WaPo
CNN’S JAKE TAPPER: “Nancy Pelosi called Trump Friday night asking him to call off ICE raids”: “Trump and Pelosi spoke at 7:20 p.m. ET Friday night for about 12 minutes, according to the source. White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed a phone call took place Friday night between Trump and Pelosi. A senior Democratic aide said Trump is ‘trying to create leverage in a situation where he has none,’ adding that ‘it won’t work.’ ‘Democrats aren’t going to compromise their values,’ the aide said. ‘He’s walked away from several deals on immigration. We have no illusions here.’” CNN
— TAPPER got Pence to say toothbrushes, blankets and medicine should be given to children at the border — something DOJ’s attorney did not agree to in court. Clip
BUZZFEED’s HAMED ALEAZIZ and ADOLFO FLORES: “[T]wo senior administration officials told BuzzFeed News that those within the administration believe acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, or his staff, leaked operational details and that is what ultimately put the ICE operation in jeopardy. ‘Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy,’ said one senior administration official.
“‘The ICE mission is enforcing the nation’s laws and ensuring those who are unlawfully present in the country are removed if ordered by a judge; this will leave an un-erasable mark on his tenure.’ DHS officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.” BuzzFeed
— @Haleaziz: “!!! Former ICE dir. Tom Homan accused acting DHS Sec. McAleenan of ‘resisting what ICE is trying to do’ in this operation and heavily implies that McAleenan leaked operation details to the Washington Post. Homan was picked by Trump to be ‘border czar.’” Video
NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN and ASTEAD W. HERNDON: “‘The Black Vote Is Not Monolithic’: 2020 Democrats Find Split Preferences in South Carolina”: “Recent polls have shown [Biden] with support from about 50 percent of African-American voters in the state. It is what elevates Mr. Biden above his 22 Democratic rivals; though he is often portrayed as a champion of the white working class, he is viewed by many black voters as the play-it-safe choice who could best recreate the multiracial Obama coalition.
“But many young black voters are drawn to Elizabeth Warren and her plan to cancel student debt, while others prefer Bernie Sanders and his calls for systemic change. Some black women like Kamala Harris’s leadership style and her personal story as a graduate of Howard University. And some black men are sizing up Cory Booker, who employs the cadences of the black church in his stump speech.” NYT
— MARTHA RADDATZ spoke to SEN. CORY BOOKER on CBS’ “FACE THE NATION”: RADDATZ: “And Sen. Booker, I want to turn back to politics and to Vice President Biden’s comments. He said he worked along segregationists in congress in order to get things done. You called the comments deeply disappointing, but the two of you spoke privately on Wednesday evening. What was your takeaway from that conversation?”
BOOKER: “Well I’ve said my peace. I have a lot of respect for Joe Biden and a gratitude towards him, and has even more of a responsibility than I have to have — be candid with him, to speak truth to power. He is a presidential nominee and to say something — and again it’s not about working across the aisle, if anything I’ve made that a hallmark of my time in the Senate to get big things done and legislation passed.
“This is about him evoking a terrible power dynamic that he showed a lack of understanding or insensitivity to by invoking this idea that he was called son by white segregationists who — yes, they see him — in him, their son.”
— CBS’S ED O’KEEFE interviewed SEN. KAMALA HARRIS for “FACE THE NATION” (also will run on “CBS This Morning” tomorrow): “2020 Democratic hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris of California reiterated her support for impeachment proceedings against President Trump but admitted there is tension within the Democratic party over moving forward. In an interview with CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe, Harris said that she believes impeachment is ‘the existential question.’
“‘This is the tension which is, do you stand to fight for these principles that were part of the — the spirit behind the design of our democracy, checks and balances, accountability?’ Harris asked. ‘Or do you stand with strategy, which is what is the ultimate goal and if it’s saying that this guy should not be in office and if this could hurt the chances of winning an election, should you hold off?’” CBS
REALITY INTERVENES AGAIN FOR BUTTIGIEG … SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE: “One person dead, up to 10 others injured in shootings early Sunday at South Bend bar”: “One person is dead and as many as 10 others are injured after shootings at an east side bar early today.” South Bend Tribune
BORDER TALES — “‘Stop Repeating History’: Plan to Keep Migrant Children at Former Internment Camp Draws Outrage,” by Ben Fenwick in the NYT in Fort Sill, Okla.: “For Satsuki Ina, who was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, the news that the United States would detain undocumented migrant children at this Army base in Oklahoma felt like an unwelcome wallop from the past. The base, Fort Sill, Okla., once held 700 Japanese-Americans who lived in tents in desertlike heat, surrounded by barbed wire and guards. They were among the more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry who were rounded up by the government during the war and placed in detention camps around the country.
“Ms. Ina and more than 200 demonstrators arrived at FortSill on Saturday to protest the government’s latest plan for the base: to house 1,400 undocumented children who arrived in the United States without a parent or a legal guardian. The protesters called the plan, which was announced this month, a return to one of the nation’s great shames. ‘We are here to say, “Stop repeating history,”’ Ms. Ina, 75, said at a news conference on Saturday, standing in front of a howitzer display outside the base.” NYT
GABE DEBENEDETTI in NY Mag, “‘That’s Hell’: Democrats’ Debate Prep Gets Real”: “Biden debated well during the 2008 cycle and as the vice-president in 2012, but it’s been seven years, and now he knows he’s everyone’s top target. Multiple candidates who are set to debate him next week are expecting both Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris to go after his flip-flop on the Hyde Amendment, Harris to attack him on his criminal-justice record, Bernie Sanders to criticize his ‘middle-ground’ plans, and Pete Buttigieg to knock him in his signature generational terms. On both nights, they suspect, candidates will bring up Biden’s recent comments about working with segregationist senators. And Biden is preparing for all of it.”NY Mag
— “What the 2020 Democrats Are Like Behind the Scenes,” by NYT’s Alex Burns: “[S]ome of the most telling — and in some cases, jarring or endearing — moments with the candidates happened off camera, or outside the context of the interview. [John] Hickenlooper, for instance, showed up at our office flustered because he had lost his wallet, and confessed sheepishly that it had been a long time since he had dealt with certain indignities of being a private citizen. Learning after the interview that his flight home had been canceled, Mr. Hickenlooper took the development in stride; he lingered in the newsroom, bantering with our colleague Stephanie Saul about Teddy Roosevelt’s relationship with the muckraking reporters of his day.
“Ms. Harris arrived at the newspaper with a complaint and a request. She asked Patrick Healy, our politics editor, if The New York Times could make it easier to read articles offline on the paper’s smartphone app — an important consideration for a West Coast lawmaker who is regularly confined to transcontinental flights with spotty Wi-Fi. Ms. Harris — who was at her most animated in the interview when discussing her passion for cooking — also asked to meet Sam Sifton, the food editor.
“Soon, the two were kibitzing about recipes amid a maze of desks and a gathering crowd of onlookers. (Ms. Harris was less excited when Carolyn Ryan, a masthead editor, approached to ask her about a blossoming late-March crisis for Mr. Biden, involving his physical behavior with women.)” NYT
HMM … THE STAR TRIBUNE — “New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage history,” by J. Patrick Coolican and Stephen Montemayor: “New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws. Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as ‘baseless rumors’ first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
“The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi. Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.” Star Tribune
BONUS GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Daniel Lippman, filing from Aspen, Colorado:
— “The Problem With HR,” by Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic’s July issue: “For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?” The Atlantic
— “What Abortion Access Looks Like in Mississippi: One Person at a Time,” by Zoë Beery in the N.Y. Times Magazine: “With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.” NYT
— “What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane,” by William Langewiesche on the cover of July’s Atlantic: “It is easy to imagine Zaharie [Ahmed Shah] toward the end, strapped into an ultra-comfortable seat in the cockpit, inhabiting his cocoon in the glow of familiar instruments, knowing that there could be no return from what he had done, and feeling no need to hurry. Around 7 a.m. the sun rose over the eastern horizon, to the left. A few minutes later it lit the ocean far below.” The Atlantic
— “The Birth and Death of a Bike Company: What Happened to SpeedX,” by Iain Treloar in Cycling Tips – per TheBrowser.com’s description: “Gripping account of the rise and fall of SpeedX, a Chinese start-up which promised to build a better bicycle, raised $15 million, pivoted into bike-sharing, raised and spent another $100 million, then made arguably most catastrophic blunder in the history of marketing. On June 4th 2017, anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the bike avatars on SpeedX’s bike-sharing app were replaced by avatars of tiny tanks rolling through the centre of Beijing. Literally overnight, the business was doomed.” Cycling Tips
— “Who Gets to Own the West?” by NYT’s Julie Turkewitz in Idaho City, Idaho: “A new group of billionaires is shaking up the landscape.” NYT
– “Hideous Men,” by E. Jean Carroll on the cover of NY Mag: “Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.” NY Mag
— “Building the Wind Turbines Was Easy. The Hard Part Was Plugging Them In,” by WSJ’s Russell Gold in an adaptation of “Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform American Energy”: “In the Oklahoma panhandle, one entrepreneur saw a future fueled by cheap and clean energy. But there was a big snag.” WSJ … $17.70 on Amazon
— “Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software,” by WaPo’s Geoffrey A. Fowler: “Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.” WaPo
— “Joe Exotic Built a Wild Animal Kingdom. He Was the Most Dangerous Predator of Them All,” by Sean Williams in The Daily Beast: “A cunning and cuddly persona created an empire. A murder plot brought it crashing down.” The Daily Beast
— “The Land Where the Internet Ends,” by Pagan Kennedy in the NYT in Green Bank, W.Va.: “To find real solitude, you have to go out of range. But every year that’s harder to do, as America’s off-the-grid places disappear.” NYT
— “The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder,” by Zach Baron in GQ: “When a man was killed in Malibu Creek State Park last summer while camping with his two young daughters, it sent the placid Southern California community into hysterics—spawning amateur sleuths, conspiracy theories, and public paranoia. Was it related to a rash of unsolved incidents in the area? But while the tragedy’s aftermath publicly played out like a new season of Serial, there was also a family left picking up the pieces after a seemingly random act of violence. This is a story about what happens when lightning strikes in the most chilling manner imaginable.” GQ (h/t Longform.org)
— “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” by Dan Nosowitz in BuzzFeed in Sept. 2014: “In 1937, my great-grandfather started a workwear company in New England called Madewell. In 2006, 17 years after the last factory shut down, J.Crew relaunched a women’s clothing company with the same name and logo, based on a 50-year history in which it had no part.” BuzzFeed (h/t Longform.org)
SPOTTED at a joint book party at Juleanna Glover’s house last night for Jim Sciutto’s “The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America” ($18.98 on Amazon) and Winston Lord’s “Kissinger on Kissinger” ($17.10 on Amazon): Norah O’Donnell and Geoff Tracy, Tom Nides and Virginia Moseley, Tammy Haddad, Suzanne Kianpour, Kaitlan Collins, Melanne Verveer, Mike Abramowitz, Gloria Riviera, Dan Yergin, Indira Lakshmanan, Karin Tanabe, Shayna Estulin, Jeff and Mary Zients, Eric Lipton, Mike Allen, Mike Pillsbury and Paula Dobriansky.
WEEKEND WEDDING — “Bryana Turner, Robert Jackson Jr.” – N.Y. Times: “Mrs. Jackson, 31, is the founder and principal of Turner Divorce Mediation … Mr. Jackson, 42, is a commissioner on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. He is currently on public service leave from the faculty of the N.Y.U. School of Law, where he specializes in corporate law and financial regulation. He previously served in the Obama administration as a counselor to senior Treasury Department officials during the financial crisis.” With a pic.NYT
BIRTHDAYS: Sylvia Burwell, president of AU, is 54 … Chasten Buttigieg is 3-0 (h/t Marina McCarthy) … Steven Cheung (h/t Janae Garcia) … Kaelan Dorr of Sinclair Broadcast Group (h/ts Andy Hemming) … Aaron Cutler, partner at Hogan Lovells (h/t Boris Epshteyn) … Paul Tewes … Amber Moon, director of external comms at BAE Systems … POLITICO Europe’s Kate Day, Etienne Bauvir and Ali Walker … State’s Robert Palladino … J.P. Fielder … Josh Lauder … Jeremy Katz, president and COO of D1 Capital Partners and a Trump WH alum (h/t Tevi Troy) … Robert D. Kaplan, CNAS senior fellow and senior adviser at Eurasia Group, is 67 … Pelosi alum Judy Lemons … Ryan Woodbury … POLITICO’s Ryan Kohl …
… Suzanne Clark, president of the U.S. Chamber … former Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.) is 66 … former Rep. Robert Dold (R-Ill.) is 5-0 … former Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.) is 62 … Atanu Chakravarty … Adam Lerner … Louisa Tavlas, director of comms at the Niskanen Center … Bradley Engle … Rick Reynolds … Chris Spanos … Steven Stombres, partner at Harbinger Strategies … political consultant Joe Duffy … Emma Whitestone of Blueprint Interactive (h/t dad Randy) … Sivan Ya’ari is 41 … Jerry Speyer is 79 … Patrick Morris … Brian Pomper is 3-0 … Caitlin Dorman … Mark Leder … Bronagh Finnegan … Tom Frechette … Tina Karalekas … Robin Strongin … Greg Hale is 44 … Andrew Roos (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)
Surveillance footage captured the final moments of a slain couple before they disappeared, as the two women laughed and joked about the ‘weirdo’ camping next to them in the Utah wilderness.
Just five days later, on August 18, the bodies of Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, were found in the La Sal Mountains, the second-highest range in Utah.
The married couple’s friend Kayla Borza, one of the last people to see them alive, had been with them in the tavern in the town of Moab.
‘We were just having a great time, having a couple drinks, and all they said was there was a creep [staying] next to them,’ said Borza, who believes that creep is the man that killed Schulte and Beck.
Surveillance footage captured the final moments of a slain couple, Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, before they disappeared, as the two women laughed and joked about the ‘weirdo’ camping next to them in the Utah wilderness
The married couple’s friend Kayla Borza, one of the last people to see them alive, had been with them in the tavern in the town of Moab
Footage, first obtained by the Daily Beast, showed them laughing over drinks with Borza and enjoying their evening together.
The couple, who got married in April, were semi-regular customers at Woody’s Tavern in Moab, said bar manager Arielle Beck.
Beck (unrelated to Crystal Beck) said the couple were there from around 6pm to 9pm on August 13 and that was the last time they were seen at Woody’s, even though police and local media reported there were seen there again the next evening. Arielle Beck claims she worked both nights and didn’t see them again after Friday.
Schulte (right) and Beck (left) were found shot dead four days after going missing while camping in Utah mountains
Cindy Sue Hunter said she discovered the bodies of her friends, Schulte, 24, and Beck, 38, after receiving a frantic call from Schulte’s father, Sean-Paul, she told ABC4 News Friday.
Schulte’s father, who lives in Montana, called Hunter after he hadn’t heard from the couple in three days following a disturbing call from his daughter, he reportedly told Hunter.
‘He said ‘I just found out that there was a creeper dude that they were scared of. That they needed to move their camp,’ Hunter said. ‘All of a sudden I had such a sense of urgency.’
Hunter was able to locate the couple’s campsite in Moab on Wednesday, remaining on the phone with Kylen’s father while she searched the area.
‘Then I saw her body and I turned away,’ Hunter said. ‘I think something inside me didn’t want to acknowledge what I had seen so I was looking at the beauty of the creek and everything and talking to the father the whole time and I turned around again to make myself see and it was her.’
Kylen Schulte (left) and Crystal Beck, who married recently, were found dead in the Moab mountains of Utah after being reported missing four days earlier
Aunt Bridgit Calvert started a GoFundMe page to help Sean-Paul pay for funeral expenses for the two girls
On Wednesday, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office in Moab released a statement saying: ‘At this time the Grand County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an ongoing homicide investigation.’
When speaking with ABC4 News Friday, Cindy Sue Hunter (pictured) said she discovered the bodies of her friends, Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38, while speaking to Schulte’s father on the phone
The Sheriff’s Office continued by saying they believe ‘there is no current danger to the public in the Grand County area.’
Hunter, on the other hand, doesn’t find the sheriff’s statement comforting.
‘How are we safe if you have a double homicide?’ Hunter asked. ‘ You don’t have a suspect in custody. You’re not claiming it was a murder-suicide so how are we possibly safe? It honestly feels like they’re just trying to protect the tourism industry in Moab.’
Schulte’s and Beck were camping in the Moab mountains about a week ago when they reportedly vanished.
Their bodies were discovered near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road and police identified them as the missing women Thursday evening.
Their bodies were transferred to the state medical examiner’s office.
The two reportedly were last seen on August 14 after telling close friends they moved campsites because they had been ‘spooked’ by a ‘weirdo’ man camping near them.
Their bodies were found near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road on August 18
Schulte’s father Sean-Paul asked the people of Moab to help find his daughter’s killers on Facebook as the police’s person of interest has been released and no arrests have been made
Schulte’s father called for the Moab community to help find ‘my girls’ on August 17 in a Facebook post after not hearing from them.
He reported that the girls, ‘Haven’t been to work. Haven’t called. Not in hospital. Not in Moab jail,’ but police were searching for them.
The dad posted again a day later reporting the girls had been missing for four nights and days.
He said: ‘Moab PLEASE PLEASE FIND MY GIRLS.’
In an updated post, he begs Moab not to give up on finding his daughter’s killer and asked them to interview everyone who was on the mountain.
He wrote: ‘Moab. This is Kylen and Crystals dad. Please please
‘DO NOT STOP !!!!’
The sheriff’s office released a statement saying they are looking into all avenues provided by those who come forward.
Schulte’s (left) and Beck (right) were camping in the mountains of Moab, Utah, about a week ago when they reportedly vanished. Their bodies were discovered Wednesday night near the South Mesa area of La Sal Loop Road
‘We are currently following up with what comes to our attention during this investigation and will continue to be available to people to come forward with information,’ the sheriff’s office told local NBC-affiliated television station KSL-TV.
The father reported that a person of interest had been questioned and released by police, but his daughter’s killer was still out there.
The family called Schulte the ‘moon and the stars since the day she was born’ on the GoFundMe page created to help Sean-Paul pay funeral expenses for the two women.
The couple – who was recently married – spent a lot of time camping.
Their aunt wrote on a GoFundMe page, ‘They found their way from the best campsite to the next.’
JESSE WATTERS: Thursday was by far the worst day of Joe Biden’s presidency – an avoidable tragedy, and the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan in 10 years. Biden botched the Afghan withdrawal, and now innocent people are paying the price. Biden refused to extend the August 31 deadline to get Americans out of Afghanistan, and U.S. troops have now begun withdrawing from Kabul, with 350 Americans still trying to get out. And that’s just according to the State Department, a department with a pretty bad track record.
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The Taliban’s blocking Americans from getting to the airport, and Biden’s boxed in, letting it happen. We’re working with the Taliban now, Biden saying we may have even given the Taliban a list of names to let through checkpoints, or a kill list, as most people fear.
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We’re stranding Americans behind enemy lines, plain and simple. But the administration refuses to use that word because they’re worried about messaging. Biden’s making it seem easy, like Americans can just head to the Kabul airport and get on the next flight…Joe’s not standing behind Americans. And just a few days ago, Biden wanted credit for all of this. Everything Biden and this administration have said about how this is going to go has turned out to be wrong.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he won’t fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal watchdog agency recommended her removal for repeatedly violating a law that limits political activity by government workers.
Trump tells Fox & Friends that he was briefed on the Office of Special Counsel investigation Thursday and says “it looks to me like they’re trying to take away her right of free speech and that’s just not fair.”
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OSC, which is unrelated to special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, said in a letter to Trump that Conway has been a “repeat offender” of the Hatch Act by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media.
Trump says of Conway, “she’s got to have a right of responding to questions.”
Unlike members of Congress, who can spend long stretches away from the job without being missed, mayors and governors are on point and get held accountable for all of the many things that can go wrong in their absence, be it natural disaster, a police shooting, municipal strike or other calamity.
Dubai – The world’s leading meat processing company, Brazil’s JBS is keen on increasing its presence in the Middle East. This Wednesday (26th), at the Gulfood fair in Dubai, BS global chairman Wesley Batista told ANBA that the company is looking to increase the share of poultry exports in its overall revenues, and within this industry the Middle East is a priority. The region is Brazil’s premier chicken export target.
He said JBS plans on increasing its presence in the region over the next few years. In quarter three, 2013, the company posted R$ 24.2 billion in revenues. Export revenues stood at US$ 3 billion, and sales to the Middle East fetched US$ 265 million.
“There is no question that we have a tremendous focus on this region as concerns the company’s poultry sales expansion plan. The Middle East is a priority to us. We want to expand our presence in the region, to build our brand and to sell more product. We do no plan on operating locally, but rather to increase our sales and invest in our brands,” said Batista.
The businessman acknowledged the fact that another Brazil-based company, BRF, which owns of brands Sadia and Perdigão, is strong and well-established in the Middle East, but he does not believe the competitor’s being present will get in the way of his plans. “Sadia has been here for many years now, and they are quite strong in the Middle East. [BRF] is the leading Brazilian company in the Middle East, but we can grow too, and BRF is not our biggest challenge in the region. There is room for us to grow,” he said.
One of the company’s brands is Seara, whose products are on display at JBS’ Gulfood stand, and which was acquired last year from the meat company Marfrig. Other items in the company’s portfolio which are being offered to Arabs are the brands Swift, Friboi, Maturatta, Cabana Las Lillas, Pilgrim’s, Gold Kist Farms, Frangosul, LeBon, Pena Branca, Rezende, and Fiesta.
According to Batista, poultry sales to the Middle East and North Africa are on the way up, and should remain so for the next few months. On the other hand, beef sales have dropped because the Gulf’s leading buyer, Saudi Arabia, has embargoed imports of the product from Brazil.
In late 2012, the Brazilian government announced that an animal that died in the state of Paraná, in 2010, carried the causative agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, aka “mad cow disease,” although the animal did not develop the condition, and died from unrelated causes.
Several companies, including Saudi, banned imports of Brazilian beef. Most of them have reversed the decision, but not the Saudis. The Brazilian and Saudi governments are in talks to resume sales.
The executive believes now is the time to step up poultry exports, even though there are no set targets with regard to market share or brand presence. he said he wants his company to have a strong presence in the leading Middle Eastern markets, especially Saudi and Egypt.
Batista also said the Gulfood is a “very good” fair, considering the visibility it affords, and not only in the Gulf. “This is a very good, highly relevant fair, because Dubai is in the ‘middle of the world,’ and as such it attracts clients from emerging countries in Asia, like China and India, as well as European ones.”
Britanny Maynard, paciente de cncer terminal que se hizo famosa en el mundo por dar a conocer el plan con el que terminara con su vida, se suicid en el estado de Oregn, Estados Unidos. | Fuente: Privada | Facebook Britanny Maynard
Brittany Maynard publicó un conmovedor mensaje de despedida en su cuenta de Facebook: ´Adiós a todos mis queridos amigos y familia que amo. Hoy es el día que elegí para morir con dignidad´.
En enero de este año, poco más de un año después de casarse, Maynard acudió al médico a causa de los fuertes dolores de cabeza que sufría y le fue diagnosticado un tumor cerebral de gran agresividad.
El cáncer avanzó rápidamente y los especialistas le informaron que sólo le quedaban unos meses de vida, a la vez que le explicaron cómo estaba previsto que se desarrollase la enfermedad, la cual le causaría un gran y prolongado dolor antes de terminar con su vida.
Ante esta aciaga situación, determinó que para evitar pasar por las etapas más duras de la enfermedad, ella misma decidiera cuando morir. Brittany decidió que su muerte ocurriera el 1 de noviembre, este sábado.
Maynard, de 29 años, publicó un conmovedor mensaje de despedida en su cuenta de Facebook.
“Adiós a todos mis queridos amigos y familia que amo. Hoy es el día que elegí para morir con dignidad a causa de mi enfermedad terminal, este terrible cáncer cerebral que me ha quitado tanto… pero que me hubiese quitado mucho más”, escribió en la red social.
“El mundo es un lugar hermoso, los viajes han sido grandes maestros, mis amigos cercanos son los que más me han dado. Hasta tengo un grupo de apoyo a mi alrededor mientras escribo… Adiós mundo. Repartan buena energía”, culminó su mensaje.
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Years after Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election prompted investigations, President Trump asked Vladimir Putin not to do it again in 2020. USA TODAY
The president’s remarks drew blowback on social media from critics who noted that journalists in Russia have been killed.
“Fake news,” Trump said during a meeting with Putin at the G-20 summit in Japan as journalists filled into the room to cover the leaders’ remarks. “You don’t have this problem with Russia, We have. You don’t have it.”
Putin responded in English, according to a raw video feed of the exchange.
“Yes, yes,” he said. “We have, too. The same.”
Trump has for years blasted U.S. media as “the enemy of the people.” Still, the praise for the Russian president on the point was a remarkable comment for a U.S. president. More than three dozen journalists have been murdered in Russia since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Trump made the comments on the one-year anniversary of a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, in which five were killed.
Minutes after the exchange, Trump and Putin joked about Russian meddling in the 2016 election. When a reporter asked if the president would raise that issue during their meeting, Trump turned to Putin and wagged a finger while smiling.
“Don’t meddle in the election, president,” Trump said in a joking manner.
When an interpreter translated Trump’s “request,” Putin laughed.
The Taliban push on major cities comes as the group continues to squeeze much smaller provincial capitals in areas long contested by militants. In Helmand, a province that has been one of the least stable in Afghanistan for years, fighting intensified last week, heightening fears that the province’s capital, Lashkar Gah, would fall. Taliban fighters have pushed into the city and are steadily closing in on the central government compound.
GLASGOW, Scotland — Climate activist Greta Thunberg said Friday that the COP26 climate summit is a failure, lambasting the U.N.-brokered talks for turning into a public relations exercise.
“It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” Thunberg said.
“The COP has turned into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action.”
She was speaking on stage shortly after a strike organized by “Fridays For Future” saw thousands march 1.6 miles from Kelvingrove Park to George Park in Glasgow’s city center — less than 2 miles from where the COP26 event is being held.
The U.K. is presiding over COP26 through to Nov. 12, a major climate event regarded as one of the most important diplomatic meetings in history.
It has yielded some positive developments, including pledges to end and reverse deforestation, a deal to cut methane emission levels by 30% by 2030 and new commitments to phase out coal power.
However, experts harbor deep concerns about whether countries and companies can keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal alive. This critically important temperature threshold refers to the aspirational target of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.
Thunberg said COP26 had been described as “the most exclusionary COP ever,” saying those at the sharp end of the climate crisis remain unheard. She added that the event could be considered a “two-week-long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah.”
A COP26 spokesperson said in a statement given to CNBC: “The UK is committed to hosting an inclusive COP.”
“Ensuring that the voices of those most affected by climate change are heard is a priority for the COP26 Presidency, and if we are to deliver for our planet, we need all countries and civil society to bring their ideas and ambition to Glasgow,” they added.
Policymakers and business leaders are under immense pressure to meet the demands of the climate emergency at COP26. Yet, even as many publicly acknowledge the necessity of transitioning to a low-carbon society, hopes of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius are quickly deteriorating.
Climate scientists have repeatedly stressed that the best weapon to tackle rising global temperatures is to cut greenhouse gas emissions — fast.
Thunberg was catapulted to fame for skipping school every Friday to hold a weekly vigil outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018. It sparked an international wave of school strikes, with millions of children taking part in rallies around the world.
“Once again we are faced with another COP event. How many more of these should they hold until they realize that their inactions are destroying the planet?” Vanessa Nakate, a climate activist from Uganda, said at the same event on Friday.
“Today we shall continue to fight on, everywhere we can. We cannot give up now. We need to continue holding leaders accountable for their actions. We cannot keep quiet about climate injustice,” she added.
“You don’t have to wonder what kind of governor Terry will be because you know what a great governor he was,” Biden said. “It wasn’t just because of what he promised. It’s what he delivered.”
Biden’s speech then turned into a wide-ranging rebuke of the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, and, ultimately, a rebuke of Donald Trump.
“But how well do you know Terry’s opponent?” Biden said. “Remember this: I ran against Donald Trump. And Terry is running against an acolyte of Donald Trump.”
Biden dug in, telling the crowd that Youngkin wouldn’t “allow” Trump to campaign for him.
“What’s he hiding? Is he embarrassed?” the president said, amplifying his voice.
Biden’s rant hit Trump on everything from his claims of election fraud, the pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection, to the former president’s recent attacks on former Secretary of State Colin Powell following his death. He lambasted Youngkin, who has recently tried to distance himself from the former president, for standing by Trump.
One of Biden’s sharpest attacks against Youngkin came toward the end of his speech, when he said extremism could come in many forms. The president said it could arrive in a mob-driven assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Then again, Biden added of Youngkin, “it can come in a smile and a fleece vest.”
Biden said next to nothing about the negotiations on his signature social welfare and infrastructure legislation happening just across the Potomac, instead diving into issues that have defined the governor’s race in the closing days. Before he took the stage, McAuliffe aides passed out books by the late Toni Morrison, after Youngkin in an ad this week featured a woman who had tried to have Morrison’s novel “Beloved” — which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 — banned in public schools. Later, Biden noted that his wife, first lady Jill Biden, had traveled to Princeton University to interview the author, dismissing Youngkin as a know-nothing.
McAuliffe didn’t shy away from amplifying this message when he addressed the crowd ahead of Biden.
“Glenn Youngkin is promoting banning books by one of America’s most prominent Black authors,” McAuliffe said, before adding that it “bothers” him that Youngkin uses education to divide the state.
Youngkin’s zeroing in on education could in part explain the tightening race, the second-most-important topic to Virginians as they decide whom to vote for on Nov. 2, following jobs and the economy. Just last week, a poll from Monmouth University showed the candidates deadlocked, with both at 46 percent support among registered voters.
The president’s quick stop in Arlington also comes as he faces alarming poll numbers in Virginia and nationwide, with a recent Monmouth poll putting him at a 43 percent job approval rating. (He still had high support among Democrats, with 84 percent approval and plus-10 favorability in Northern Virginia.)
Virginia isn’t a loss Democrats want to explain. With the face-off between McAuliffe and Youngkin just days away, the president and the party are leaning into these early elections as a referendum on the presidency and a glimpse into challenging congressional races in 2022.
Over the weekend, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison, and other party officials touted Democratic investments in Virginia, as well as visits from Biden, the first lady and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We’re all in,” Harrison said at a Richmond rally for McAuliffe over the weekend. “Virginia is very important; we want to make sure that we turn the vote out.”
Biden’s out-front approach is a break from Barack Obama, whose team distanced the former president from the Democratic gubernatorial campaigns in 2009 and 2013. Biden’s move could backfire if Youngkin succeeds, giving Republicans more fuel to criticize the White House in upcoming elections.
Virginia’s off-year elections don’t always predict the future. McAuliffe, for example, won in 2013, defying the state’s tendency of electing a governor from the party that isn’t in the White House. Still, Biden projected a sense of urgency on Tuesday night as he talked about the importance of the gubernatorial election for Virginia, and the rest of the country.
“Virginia, show up,” the president said. “Show up like you did for Barack and me. Show up like you did for me and Kamala. Show up for a proven leader like Terry McAuliffe. Show up for democracy. For Virginia. For the United States of America.”
Kuwait City – The United Nations (UN) hopes to raise more than US$ 1.5 billion at the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, to be held this Wednesday (15) in Kuwait City. For the second year in a row, government representatives and humanitarian help organizations are meeting in the Arab country with the aim of raising awareness among the international community and pledge resources for those affected by the Syrian civil conflict, which has been going on for almost three years.
In 2013, the sum raised in the first conference, also held in Kuwait, was of US$ 1.5 billion. “How much are we raising? At least that, but we hope for more,” said to ANBA the spokesperson of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke. “It depends on the generosity of donors,” he added.
The UN has informed that this year it needs US$ 6.5 billion to help 9.3 million Syrians affected by the conflict, among them 2.3 million refugees in neighboring countries and 6.5 million who are homeless inside Syria itself. “We don’t expect to raise all this on Wednesday, but there will be other opportunities,” stated Laerke.
He emphasized, however, that the organizations involved in helping Syrians count on the generosity of donors, mostly governments. “The Gulf countries have been very generous, not only in donations to Syria, but also for other nations, such as Yemen and Palestine, and even places outside the Middle East, such as Haiti,” he declared. Kuwait alone has announced the donation of US$ 300 million in last year’s conference. “We hope they will be generous again,” said the OCHA spokesperson.
The State Minister of Cabinet Affairs of Kuwait, Mohammed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, who inaugurated this Monday (13) the conference’s press center at the Jumeirah Messilah Beach hotel, in the Kuwaiti capital city, told journalists that part of the money granted by the country in the 2013 event was used to provide shelter for 70,000 Syrians who have taken refuge in Jordan, US$ 40 million were used to buy food for 1 million refugees during four months and another sum was directed to 83,000 Syrians left without homes inside Syria itself, helped by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), one of the various UN agencies involved in helping those affected by the conflict.
“We are confident that the conference will be a success,” said minister Mohammed. “We are confident that the international community will contribute to provide humanitarian help for Syrians. We shall reach this objective, ‘inchallah’ (God willing),” added the Kuwaiti minister of Information, Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, who also participated at the press center inauguration.
According to Laerke, resources are necessary to meet the basic needs of the affected population, such as food, clean water, medication, vaccination and shelter. “Syria is [currently] going through a harsh winter, and they need adequate homes, with thermal insulation, they need fuel [for heating], blankets and also clothes,” he stated. “There are children who don’t even have shoes,” he alerted.
Last week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), another two UN agencies that are helping with the Syrian crisis, launched a campaign with the purpose of raising US$ 1 billion for the children affected by the conflict, named “No lost generation”. The agencies have calculated that there are more than 4 million youngsters at risk, of which one million refugees and more than 3 million inside the country.
Minister Mohammed Al-Sabah has informed that 69 countries shall be represented on Wednesday’s conference, as well as 24 international organizations. The event shall be hosted by the emir of Kuwait, Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, and shall be presided by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. Brazil shall be represented at the meeting, which also counts on the participation of the secretary of State for the United States, John Kerry.
The Kuwaiti meeting precedes the Second Syria Peace Conference, scheduled for the January 22 in Montreux, in Switzerland. The first edition took place in June 2012, in Geneva, so this one has been named “Geneva 2”, although it shall take place in another city. The 2012 meeting did not have practical effects on the civil war, but the idea this time is to have representatives from both the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad regime and the opposition, standing face to face.
Since the conflict started in 2011, after popular manifestations which took place in the wake of the Arab Spring were harshly repressed by the Syrian government, more than 100,000 people have died. This figure, the latest confirmed by the UN, dates to July 2013. Last week, the organization announced that it has stopped counting the dead due to the difficulties in obtaining reliable data from the country.
Un día después de que el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado ratificara que sigue investigando la posibles conexiones entre la campaña Donald Trump y operarios de Rusia que buscaron influir las elecciones estadounidenses, el presidente plantea al Congreso la posibilidad de que se investigue “por qué tantas de nuestras noticias son simplemente inventadas”.
“Por qué no está el Comité de Inteligencia del Senado analizando las Cadenas de Noticias Falsas en NUESTRO país para ver por qué tantas de nuestras noticias son simplemente inventadas”, escribió el presidente en un mensaje en Twitter la mañana del jueves.
Y aunque la lista de lo que para Trump son inventos de la prensa para perjudicarlo es larga y nutrida, en este caso, el presidente no se ha referido a ningún medio o historia en particular.
Sin embargo, el tema que investigan los senadores (junto a otros tres comités del Congreso y un fiscal especial nombrado por el Departamento de Justicia), el llamado ‘ Rusiagate‘, la injerencia rusa detectada por las agencias de inteligencia estadounidense en la campaña electoral del 2016 que supuestamente buscaba perjudicar a Hillary Clinton, es para el presidente un “engaño” con el que también buscan desprestigiarlo.
Aunque desde la Casa Blanca y sectores conservadores se suele señalar a medios liberales como supuestos creadores de noticias falsas, una búsqueda en internet permite identificar la propensión a la deformación de eventos y hechos en muchos medios de tendencia radical conservadora.
En culquier caso, la sola propuesta surgida del Ejecutivo para que el Legislativo estudie la manera cómo trabaja la prensa resulta sorpresiva y hasta peligrosa a muchos estadounidenses.
En EEUU la Primera Enmienda de la Constitución garantiza una amplia libertad de expresión que resulta extraña incluso en otras sociedades demócraticas en la que se imponene ciertas restricciones a lo que se puede publicar en medios, con argumntos de seguridad nacional o respeto público.
“Odio decirles Puerto Rico, pero ustedes han echado a perder nuestro presupuesto. Hemos gastado mucho dinero en Puerto Rico, pero está bien, hemos salvado muchas vidas”, dijo Trump en la reunión.
São Paulo – Fertilizer purchases increased, as did agricultural machinery. Rural property infrastructure was expanded, the quality of seeds used in crops improved. These are some of the consequences that the rise in price of the main agricultural commodities produced in Brazil, which started in the middle of the past decade, brought to the Brazilian countryside. Soy and maize prices started to rise in that time and currently are still at least 100% higher.
“Last year sales of harvesters and tractors grew a lot, as well as pesticides, fertilizers. The technological level grew a lot”, says the head of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), Luiz Antonio Pinazza. According to him, Brazilian farmers still own resources, due to the rise of agricultural commodity prices, and the countryside is going through a very favorable moment.
The head of the Economy Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA, in the Portuguese acronym), Wilson Vaz de Araújo, cites, besides the use of technology and fertilizers, the investments in storage systems and field management capacity as consequences of the rise in agricultural product prices. More modern processes, according to him, allowed the increase of productivity, and thus, the increase of production.
Larger investment in fertilizers can be seen in the sector statistics. The delivery of fertilizers on the Brazilian market, which were 20.1 million tonnes in 2005, increased to 31 million last year, according to the Brazilian National Fertilizer Association (Anda).The Brazilian industry of agricultural machinery and implements profited US$ 5.9 billion in 2008 and US$ 13.1 billion in 2013, according to the Brazilian Machinery Manufacturers Association (Abimaq).
Life in the countryside
According to Araujo, from Mapa, in regions where agriculture is strong the new level of prices for agricultural commodities influenced the quality of life, the financial sector, commerce, input suppliers and even education. In this regard, Afrânio Cesar Migliari, secretary of Agriculture and Environment of the municipality in Mato Grosso, which is considered the national capital of agribusiness, said “quality of life in the countryside improved, in cities devoted to agribusiness”.
According to the secretary, Sorriso and the remaining soy and maize producing municipalities in the region, such as Lucas do Rio Verde, Nova Mutum and Princesa do Leste, have better living conditions today. “There are new vehicles, new trucks, imported vehicles”, says Migliari. Civil construction is thriving in Sorriso, according to him, and there are several new housing complexes, high-value condominiums. “The state changed a lot in the past ten years”, he said about Mato Grosso.
The higher income has consequences not only on the personal life of farmers in Mato Grosso, according to Migliari, but also on agricultural activity itself, on farms’ structures, investment in higher quality seeds and fertilizers, more modern machinery, acquisition of new airplanes, tractors, automatic planters and harvesters. And the acquisition of newer technology helped the state to address one of its main bottlenecks, which is agricultural labour. Sorriso plants 660,000 hectares of soy per year and 440,000 hectares of maize, which was considered secondary in the municipality until it started to profit better and to receive investments.
Rise in soy and maize prices
Asian demand for grains and the decision of the US to produce ethanol from maize are among the factors leading to maize and soy’s new prices. “China imported two million tonnes of grain in 2000, and today it imports between 65 and 70 million tonnes. And Brazil occupies a big part of this market”, says Pinazza. Speculation in the commodity market as a whole, which also includes non-agricultural products such as oil, has also favored the price rise, according to the director.
The head of the Economy Department of the Brazilian Ministry points out the variation of stock prices, especially after 2009. “In general, the prices were quite generous”, he says, citing income increase and urbanization in developing countries, mainly from Asia as possible reasons. Araújo believes the grain market will keep the upward trend. “The level of agricultural commodity prices has changed. There may be some fluctuation, but they will stay in this new level”, he says.
Earlier, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement confirming that no agreement had been reached, but the “respective teams look forward to meeting in the future.”
While Trump has said he was not in a hurry to make a comprehensive pact with Kim, the president touted a “very strong partnership” with the North Korean leader before departing Vietnam for Washington empty-handed.
The president also said that Kim had pledged that “testing will not start” of rockets or missiles “or anything having to do with nuclear.”
The apparent breakdown in talks is sure to come as a relief to many North Korea experts — including some Democratic and Republican lawmakers — who worried Trump was ready to make concessions to Kim without securing a firm and verifiable disarmament commitment from the dictator.
In rare remarks to Western reporters before the summit was abbreviated, Kim, who spoke through an interpreter, said that he was willing to consider “denuclearizing.”
“If I’m not willing to do that, I wouldn’t be here right now,” Kim said as he sat across the negotiating table from Trump.
But the term has had ambiguous meaning in U.S. talks with North Korea.
Trump himself emphasized repeatedly Thursday that he was in “no rush” to get a comprehensive agreement with Kim, playing down expectations for a full nuclear disarmament pact.
Kim said during his opening remarks in Hanoi that skeptics of the relationship would be watching closely and see the two leaders “side by side as if they’re watching a fancy movie.”
Kim and Trump had a one-on-one session in the morning, followed by a meeting with a larger group of officials from both sides. But everything fell apart around the lunch hour.
The two leaders had a number of other issues to discuss, including a possible declaration of the end of the nearly 70-year-old Korean War, the eventual removal of U.S. forces from the Korean Peninsula, and the lifting of the crippling American and international economic sanctions designed to force Pyongyang to give up its weapons programs.
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