“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
New York City Flash flooding killed at least 44 people.
New York, United States:
Flash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed at least 44 people in the New York area overnight into Thursday, including several who perished in basements during the “historic” weather event officials blamed on climate change.
Record rainfall, which prompted an unprecedented flash flood emergency warning for New York City, turned streets into rivers and shut down subway services as water cascaded down platforms onto tracks.
“I’m 50 years old and I’ve never seen that much rain ever,” said Metodija Mihajlov whose basement of his Manhattan restaurant was flooded with three inches of water.
“It was like living in the jungle, like tropical rain. Unbelievable. Everything is so strange this year,” he told AFP.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled at LaGuardia and JFK airports, as well as at Newark, where video showed a terminal inundated by rainwater.
“We’re all in this together. The nation is ready to help,” President Joe Biden said ahead of a trip Friday to the southern state of Louisiana, where Ida earlier destroyed buildings and left more than a million homes without power.
– ‘Historic weather event’ –
Flooding closed major roads across New Jersey and New York boroughs including Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens, submerging cars and forcing the fire department to rescue hundreds of people.
At least 23 people died in New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy told reporters.
“The majority of these deaths were individuals who got caught in their vehicles,” he said.
A state trooper died in the neighboring state of Connecticut.
Thirteen died in New York City, including 11 who could not escape their basements, police said. The victims ranged from the ages of two to 86.
“Among the people MOST at risk during flash floods here are those living in off-the-books basement dwellings that don’t meet the safety codes necessary to save lives,” lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“These are working class, immigrant, and low-income people & families,” she added.
Three also died in the New York suburb of Westchester, while another four died in Montgomery County outside Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, a local official confirmed.
Ida blazed a trail of destruction north after slamming into Louisiana over the weekend, bringing severe flooding and tornadoes.
“We’re enduring an historic weather event tonight with record-breaking rain across the city, brutal flooding and dangerous conditions on our roads,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Wednesday.
State emergencies were declared in New York and New Jersey while the National Weather Service issued its first-ever emergency flash flood warning for New York City, urging residents to move to higher ground.
“You do not know how deep the water is and it is too dangerous,” the New York branch of the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a tweet.
The NWS recorded 3.15 inches (80 millimeters) of rain in Central Park in just an hour — beating a record set just last month during Storm Henri.
The US Open was also halted as howling wind and rain blew under the corners of the Louis Armstrong Stadium roof.
– Lingering tornado threat –
New Yorkers woke to clear blue skies Thursday as the city edged back to life, but signs of the previous night’s carnage weren’t far away: residents moved fallen tree branches from roads as subway services slowly resumed.
By Thursday evening, around 38,000 homes in Pennsylvania, 24,000 in New Jersey and 12,000 in New York were without power, according to the website poweroutage.us, a significant decrease from earlier in the day.
It is rare for such storms to strike America’s northeastern seaboard and comes as the surface layer of oceans warms due to climate change.
The warming is causing cyclones to become more powerful and carry more water, posing an increasing threat to the world’s coastal communities, scientists say.
“Global warming is upon us and it’s going to get worse and worse and worse unless we do something about it,” said Democratic senator Chuck Schumer.
In Annapolis, 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Washington, a tornado ripped up trees and toppled electricity poles.
The NWS warned the threat of tornadoes would linger, with tornado watches in effect for parts of southern Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and southern New York as Ida tracked north through New England.
A tornado struck the popular tourist destination Cape Cod, Massachusetts on Thursday evening.
The Biden administration on Thursday sued Texas over the state’s extreme abortion law, which amounts to a near total ban on abortion, calling the law “clearly unconstitutional”.
US attorney general Merrick Garland said the law that went into effect last week after the supreme court refused to block it and bans almost all abortions in the state was one “all Americans should fear”.
Senate Bill 8, pushed through by Texas’s Republican-dominated legislature, bans abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is around six weeks. Most women are not aware they are pregnant as early as that time.
The justice department decided to argue that the law, which offers no exceptions for rape or incest, “illegally interferes with federal interests”, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
On Monday Garland said the justice department would “protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services”, under a federal law known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances.
Garland said that law would be enforced “in order to protect the constitutional rights of women and other persons, including access to an abortion”.
The Texas law incentivizes any private citizen to sue an abortion provider or anyone deemed to have helped a women get an abortion contravening the law. It came into effect on 1 September, and survived an emergency appeal to the supreme court, which voted 5-4 to allow the law to remain in force.
On Thursday, when announcing the lawsuit, Garland said: “The act is clearly unconstitutional” and said that it failed to give women seeking an abortion their constitutional right “at the very moment they need it”.
And he added that the “kind of scheme” that Texas has devised and other states want to follow, where the public enforces the law as a way to avoid legal challenge, and allows individuals to sue abortion providers or those helping a woman obtain the service, was designed to “nullify the constitution”.
Joe Biden condemned the new law and reaffirmed the White House’s support for abortion rights. “This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v Wade and upheld as a precedent for nearly half a century,” Biden said in a statement.
The Biden administration has since been under pressure to act, with Democrats on the House judiciary committee writing to Garland on Tuesday, although many experts believe that winning the lawsuit will be a challenge for the federal government.
“The Department of Justice cannot permit private individuals seeking to deprive women of the constitutional right to choose an abortion to escape scrutiny under existing federal law simply because they attempt to do so under the color of state law,” wrote the Democratic members of Congress, who include Pramila Jayapal, representative for Washington, and Val Demings, from Florida.
The Texas law is the strictest legislation enacted against abortion rights in the United States since the supreme court’s landmark Roe v Wade decision in 1973. At least 12 other states have enacted bans early in pregnancy, but all have been blocked from going into effect.
Abortion providers have said the law will probably force many abortion clinics in Texas to ultimately close. Women’s rights advocates fear the conservative-dominated supreme court’s lack of action over the law could signal the start of the unravelling of Roe v Wade.
According to the Thursday indictment against the wall partners, the co-defendants conspired to pay Kolfage a salary with donors’ money, even as he publicly maintained he wouldn’t take any compensation. Kolfage, according to the charges, spent more than $350,000 of the donations on personal expenses, including cosmetic surgery, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, home renovations, jewelry, personal tax payments and credit card debt.
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El Día de los Muertos es una celebración de origen mexicano, país que practica un culto a la muerte desde el año 1800 antes de Cristo.
A la fecha, la festividad a los difuntos se ha extendido a algunos países de América Central, así como en muchas comunidades de los Estados Unidos, y países de América del Sur como Perú y Brasil.
La Unesco ha declarado el Día de los Muertos, que se celebra el 2 de noviembre, Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad.
Y es que los orígenes de este culto a los muertos son anteriores a la llegada de los españoles, y en la concepción de las comunidades indígenas, esta fiesta celebra el retorno transitorio a la tierra de los familiares y seres queridos fallecidos.
Según la tradición, para facilitar el retorno de las almas a la tierra, las familias esparcen pétalos de flores, colocan velas y ofrendas a lo largo del camino que va desde la casa al cementerio. Se preparan minuciosamente los manjares favoritos del difunto y se colocan alrededor del altar familiar y de la tumba, en medio de las flores y de objetos artesanales, como las famosas siluetas de papel.
Estos preparativos se realizan con particular esmero, pues existe la creencia de que un difunto puede traer la prosperidad (por ejemplo, una abundante cosecha de maíz) o la desdicha (enfermedad, accidentes, dificultades financieras, etc.) según le resulte o no satisfactorio el modo en que la familia haya cumplido con los ritos.
Los muertos se dividen en varias categorías en función de la causa del fallecimiento, edad, sexo y, en ciertos casos, profesión. Se atribuye un día específico de culto para cada categoría.
Las fiestas indígenas dedicadas a los muertos están profundamente arraigadas en la vida cultural de los pueblos indígenas de México. Esta fusión entre ritos religiosos prehispánicos y fiestas católicas permite el acercamiento de dos universos, el de las creencias indígenas y el de una visión del mundo introducida por los europeos en el siglo XVI, destaca la Unesco.
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Moderator and NBC “Today” host Savannah Guthrie asked the 10 candidates if their health plans would provide coverage for the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.
“It’s the humane thing to do,” former Vice President Joe Biden said.
“This is not about a handout. This is about an insurance program,” Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., said.
President Trump seized on the moment in his first tweet of the night, commenting from Japan where he will attend the G-20 summit.
“All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare,” the president wrote, just minutes after the exchange on the debate stage. “How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!”
Under an agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state Legislature, low-income adults age 19-25 living in California illegally would be eligible for the state’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. The deal emerged as part of a broader $214 billion budget that Newsom signed into law Thursday.
The search resumed Monday for victims of a vicious tornado outbreak that ripped across the South on Sunday killing at least 23 people in Alabama.
“I’m still thanking God I’m among the living,” said John Jones, who has lived most of his life in Beauregard, the southern Alabama community that was devastated by a tornado.
The violent storms left debris strewn across southern Alabama and Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and into parts of South Carolina. More than 10,000 homes and businesses still had no electricity as of 8 a.m. Monday, according to poweroutage.us. That had dropped to less than 3,000 by 11:30 a.m.
“Much colder air is pushing into the South from the Midwest, and that will make conditions even worse for those without power into midweek,” weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce said. Parts of Alabama and Georgia will see low temperatures in the 20s and low 30s each morning Tuesday through Thursday.”
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office told local media that no fewer than 23 people were killed and more than 50 people were hurt when a tornado roared through Beauregard, a community of about 10,000 people some 60 miles east of Montgomery, shortly after 2 p.m. CST.
Sheriff Jay Jones said at a news conference Monday morning that the number of missing people was in double digits. He added, however, that some of those may be people who left the area and haven’t contacted family members.
“It’s extremely upsetting to me to see these people hurting like this and the families who have lost loved ones,” Jones said. “This is a very tight-knit community. These people are tough. They’re resilient people, and it’s knocked them down. But they’ll be back.”
“It hurts my heart to see this,” he said.
Jones said the devastation is shocking.
“It looks almost as if someone took a giant knife and just scraped the ground,” he said. “There are slabs where homes formerly stood, debris everywhere, trees snapped, whole forested areas where trees are snapped and lying on the ground.”
Kathy Carson, Lee County’s EMA director said, “This is the worst natural disaster that has ever occurred in Lee County.”
The East Alabama Medical Center in nearby Opelika, where many of the injured were taken, canceled elective surgeries so it could focus on the injured people, Dave Malkoff of The Weather Channel reported.
The National Weather Service said Monday that two tornadoes hit southern Lee County. The damage from one of them indicated it was an EF4 tornado with winds of 170 mph.
Sunday was the deadliest day for tornadoes in the United States since May 20, 2013.
A makeshift morgue was set up in a parking lot and medical examiners from other locations were coming to assist in identifying the victims.
Lee County coroner Bill Harris said three children are among the dead: a 6-year-old, a 9-year-old who died at the hospital and a 10-year-old, the New York Times reported.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she would extend the current state of emergency to provide state resources for areas damaged by the storms.
“Our hearts go out to those who lost their lives in the storms that hit Lee County today,” Ivey said in a tweet. “Praying for their families & everyone whose homes or businesses were affected.”
President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday, “FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes.” He added that Gov. Ivey is working closely with FEMA.
About 3:20 p.m. CST, the NWS issued a tornado emergency after a large and destructive tornado was confirmed near Smiths Station, also in Lee County.
Smiths Station Mayor Bubba Copeland told The Weather Channel that at least 12 houses were flattened.
“We have a lot of mobile homes turned upside down,” Copeland said.
No deaths or serious injuries were reported in Smiths Station.
Copeland said Lee County schools are canceled Monday because “several huge holes are on top of the (elementary) school.” Schools will also be closed again on Tuesday.
The storm also destroyed the Buck Wild Saloon, damaged a gas station and toppled a cell phone tower across U.S. 280.
Jonathan Clardy told the Associated Press he and his family hunkered down in their Beauregard trailer as the tornado ripped the roof off.
“All we could do is just hold on for life and pray. It’s a blessing from God that me and my young’uns are alive.”
Julie Morrison and her husband sought shelter in their bathtub as the storm lifted the house and tossed into nearby woods, AP reported.
“We knew we were flying because it picked the house up,” Morrison said. She credited their survival on the shower’s fiberglass enclosure and added that her son-in-law later dug them out.
The Lee County storm warnings were two of several tornado warnings issued for Alabama and Georgia on Sunday afternoon.
Reports said multiple homes were damaged in Dupree, Alabama, south of Dothan. Other reports said the airport and a fire station were damaged in Eufaula, Alabama.
Georgia
Some 30 miles north of Tallahassee, the town of Cairo and its 9,500 residents suffered a direct hit from a tornado. Shortly after, authorities reported widespread damage in the town, but no injuries or deaths were reported.
Speaking with Cairo Mayor Booker Gainor, Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeffrey Burlew tweeted that dozens of structures were damaged or destroyed and some residents were trapped in their homes after the storm struck the town Sunday night.
“It’s pretty bad,” Gainor told the Democrat. “We have a lot of trees down, debris and power lines. We have trees completely through houses. You would think a hurricane came after this, the way it looks.”
The National Weather Service on Monday confirmed that a tornado struck the town. A 102-mph wind gust was recorded on the tornado’s path, the NWS said.
Grady County EMA Director Richard Phillips told WCTV it appeared 500 to 1000 homes and businesses were affected by the tornado.
Several towns in Georgia reported damage earlier Sunday from several tornadoes that were confirmed on radar by the NWS.
In the town of Talbotton, located some 35 miles northeast of Columbus, several people were injured when a damaging storm rolled through the area, Talbot County Emergency Management Agency director Leigh Ann Erenheim told the Associated Press.
“The last check I had was between six and eight injuries,” Erenheim said in a phone interview with the AP. “From what I understand it was minor injuries, though one fellow did say his leg might be broken.”
The NWS said the Talbotton tornado has been given a preliminary rating of high-end EF2.
Social media was also sharing reports of damage in Perry, Georgia.
Peach County Sheriff Terry Deese said trees were down and some houses were damaged, the Macon Telegraph reported.
While following the storm, Peach County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shane Brooks told the Macon Telegraph he was nearly hit directly by the tornado as he drove down Duke Road in Byron.
“It was moving so fast I didn’t have time do anything but just sit there and hold on,” he told the Telegraph. “It was not something I would want to experience again.”
Crawford County Fire Chief Randall Pate said a tornado destroyed four homes. Pate also reported one injury: a woman whose ankle was broken when her home was damaged.
Following the storms, Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency for Talbot, Grady and Harris counties.
Florida
The NWS confirmed that an EF2 tornado struck the area of Baum in Leon County on Sunday.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that at least 10 homes in the community have substantial damage, and five of those were completely destroyed. At least two people were taken to a hospital.
The NWS also confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in the Jackson County town of Alford, about 70 miles northwest of Tallahassee.
Jackson County Emergency Management Director Rodney Andreasen told WCTV the tornado damaged three homes, including ripping the side off one of the houses.
The storm also caused a tree to crash into a home in Gadsden County where a family of four was. Two rooms were destroyed but no one was injured, WCTV reported.
A radar-confirmed tornado spread debris across Interstate 10 in Walton County, the AP reported. The eastbound lanes of the interstate had to be closed for cleanup.
South Carolina
Storms caused numerous reports of damage in and around Columbia Sunday night. The NWS said Monday that damage surveys indicated three tornadoes struck the Midlands area of the state.
The storm caused damage to a church in Lexington, South Carolina, and ripped a roof off a home and blew recreational vehicles onto their sides near Lexington. The damage was consistent with a tornado, the NWS said.
The front of the Red Bank Baptist Church in Lexington was damaged by the storm.
Around 150 adults and children were at the church for Sunday night services when the storm hit, the State reports. Children sang “Jesus Loves Me” as they huddled with adults in a long hallway.
The Columbia Police Department tweeted a photo of a tree that had fallen on a house north of downtown. Trees also fell on cars downtown, the State reported.
The NWS confirmed that an EF1 tornado struck north of downtown. It also said
In Edgefield County, seven people were injured when the storm hit a gas station in Merriwether, north of Augusta, Georgia, WRDW reported. The NWS said the damage here was also consistent with a tornado.
Trees were knocked down in North Augusta, South Carolina, and Aiken, South Carolina.
Ecuador cuenta con la tecnología de comunicación móvil 4G más rápida de América Latina, aseguró el vicepresidente de la República, Jorge Glas, cuando lideró el enlace ciudadano 501 en noviembre pasado. Una afirmación que reiteró en el discurso del pasado 21 de junio ante la Comisión de Fiscalización de la Asamblea.
Glas se refiere al informe de la firma británica OpenSignal, que indica que la velocidad promedio en el país en esa red es de casi 25 megabites promedio por segundo (24,92 Mbps) –forma como se mide la calidad en internet en la que a mayor megabites, más es la rapidez–.
Pero no todos tienen una línea activa en la red móvil 4G. Y los que la poseen tienen problemas de cobertura. Si bien el número de líneas activas en ese sistema pasó, en un año, de 1,2 millones a 2,8 millones en abril pasado, estas representan el 19% de las 15,1 millones existentes. Incluso, el reporte de OpenSignal muestra a Ecuador en el último lugar de catorce naciones de América analizadas con la menor cobertura 4G, con el 42,5%.
Alfredo Velazco, director de Usuarios Digitales, da cuenta de la dificultad de acceder a esta red en la mayor parte del territorio: “Viajo todo el tiempo de Quito a Guayaquil, generalmente en carro, un gran porcentaje de ese trayecto no se cuenta con esa señal”.
A ello se suman las barreras económicas para contratar el servicio de banda ancha móvil o fija (que se instala por lo general en los hogares) y el alto costo de los teléfonos inteligentes (smartphone en inglés), dice Freddy Villao, profesor de la Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación de la Espol.
En el caso de la red 4G, por ejemplo, agrega Villao, la cobertura de la banda ancha móvil es aún reducida. “Según la Arcotel (Agencia de Regulación y Control de las Telecomunicaciones), el porcentaje de radiobases con esa tecnología en 2016 era del 11% para Conecel, 13% para Otecel y 32% para CNT EP (Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones)”.
Otro factor es el tipo de equipos. Por ejemplo, el 57,7% de los ecuatorianos tenía un teléfono celular en 2016, pero solo el 26,83% de ellos contaba con un smartphone, según el INEC.
El último informe de la Cepal titulado ‘Estado de la banda ancha en América Latina y el Caribe 2016’ da cuenta de que, como en el resto de la región, la penetración de la banda ancha móvil en Ecuador ha crecido. Según el Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información (Mintel), hay 46,7 abonados activos por cada cien habitantes hasta marzo pasado. Sin embargo, aún no se alcanza el promedio de América Latina que fue de 58 suscriptores en 2015, anota la Cepal.
Otra consideración es la forma como se usa internet. Para la ama de casa Ana Guillén, de 63 años, acceder es tener la red WhatsApp, servicio que obtiene al recargar $ 1 “cuando hay plata”, afirma. Ella vive en Durán (Guayas) y dice que por sus condiciones económicas no ha comprado computadora ni ha contratado internet en su hogar: “Mi esposo es albañil y lo poco que trae es para la comida. (Una laptop) cuesta de $ 500 a $ 1.200 (en el mercado hay desde $ 300) y si la sacamos a crédito es el doble”, asegura.
En Ecuador había 15,5 computadoras de escritorio o laptops disponibles en los hogares por cada 100 habitantes en 2015. Esto sin distinguir la calidad, tiempo de vida o tecnología de los aparatos.
El costo del servicio es otra limitante. El precio de cada megabite por segundo baja mientras más megas se contratan. Así, indica Villao, “si el plan es de 3 Mbps, el costo es de $ 6,66 al mes por cada Mbps (1,2% del PIB mensual per capita); si es de 4 Mbps, el valor puede llegar a $ 4,50 mensuales por cada Mbps (0,86% del PIB mensual per capita)”, calcula este especialista basado en los precios que ofrecen los proveedores en sus sitios web. Agrega que “si la velocidad contratada es 15 Mbps, el costo puede ser de $ 1,80 mensuales por 1 Mbps. Si el plan es de 100 Mbps, el costo al mes por 1 Mbps puede ser $ 1 (0,19% del PIB mensual per capita)”.
En Ecuador, el 36% de los hogares tenía internet fijo en 2016, según la encuesta del INEC. Es un porcentaje que no llega al promedio regional de América Latina, que es de 43,4% de hogares con banda ancha fija, según el informe de la Cepal del año pasado.
Diana Yépez y Mónica de Hidalgo viven en el norte de Guayaquil en hogares con servicio de internet fijo. La primera afirma que debido a las constantes fallas en el servicio, cambió de proveedor. “Nos quedábamos sin internet días enteros. Llamábamos a pedir que solucionen y nos daban largas… Descubrimos que la velocidad en la que navegábamos era inferior a la que pagábamos, por eso optamos por contratar con otro proveedor”.
En Ecuador existió y aún existe un incremento de precios en toda la gama de artículos tecnológicos, computadores, laptops, tablets, smartphones”. Alfredo Velazco,
Usuarios Digitales
Mónica, en cambio, una profesora jubilada de 50 años, también tiene una mala experiencia: “Hay días y noches enteras que no tenemos internet” dice. Ella cuenta que cuando organiza algún festejo, los videos del sitio web YouTube no se cargan: “Terminamos usando discos”. En su caso, paga alrededor de $ 34 al mes por 20 Mbps de velocidad.
El informe titulado ‘Estado de internet de Akamai’, que el Mintel cita, en respuestas a este Diario, indica que la velocidad de conexión promedio bajó en Ecuador el 2,9% en el primer trimestre de 2017 con respecto al cuarto trimestre de 2016. El país aparece en el puesto 92 del ranking global y en el noveno de 15 países del continente con una velocidad de conexión promedio de 6,2 Mbps.
Se recomienda incentivar a empresas… para fomentar la producción nacional de bienes de Tecnología de la Información y Comunicación”. Freddy Villao,
Docente
Villao señala que esto responde a que “la planta externa más grande del Ecuador que pertenece a la CNT es predominantemente de cobre” por lo que “no permite dotar de la banda ancha fija a los hogares… Recién en los últimos años, con un significativo desfasamiento tecnológico en relación a otros países del mundo, se están instalando redes FTTH (Fiber To The Home) dotadas de puertos G-PON de 2,5 Gbps (down)”. Esta última es una red que utiliza la fibra óptica para llegar a los suscriptores con un internet de alta velocidad.
Los proveedores CNT y Netlife ofrecen este servicio. Xavier Moreano, gerente de marketing de la segunda, sostiene que la velocidad depende del sistema utilizado, ya sea vía cable a través de la red pública telefónica o fibra óptica. “Nuestra cartera es de más de 165 mil clientes de los que el 98% son hogares a los que proveemos un servicio de ultra alta velocidad con fibra óptica… Tenemos planes desde 20 a 200 Mbps”.
His death was the latest in a series of developments in that scandal. This week, Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, settled a lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who accused the British royal of raping her when she was a teenager. In December, Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s former companion, was convicted of conspiring with him to recruit, groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
Mr. Brunel carved out a successful career as a modeling agent in France in the 1970s, before expanding his portfolio to the United States, where he met and befriended Mr. Epstein. The two often traveled together and socialized in the same circles before having a falling out as the sex-trafficking accusations against Mr. Epstein emerged.
At least one of Mr. Epstein’s accusers has said that Mr. Brunel used his position as a modeling scout to procure minors for Mr. Epstein, who owned an apartment in an upscale Parisian neighborhood and traveled regularly to France.
In filings in a federal court in New York, Ms. Giuffre said that Mr. Brunel would offer modeling jobs to girls — some as young as 12 — and take them to the United States to “farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein.”
But Mr. Brunel has faced direct accusations of abuse himself. Ms. Giuffre said that Mr. Epstein sexually trafficked her to Mr. Brunel on “numerous occasions and in numerous places,” including the south of France, according to court records.
Critics blasted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he apologized Wednesday for his past behavior following multiple allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, as many don’t feel his remarks got the “Love Guv” out of hot water.
“Cuomo says he feels shame. Hard to believe, because he continues to be shameless,” the New York Post editorial board wrote after the press conference.
The Democratic governor said he was “embarrassed” as he choked up but refused to resign amid growing calls to give up his position.
“I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional and I truly and deeply apologize for it,” Cuomo said. “I feel awful about it and frankly I am embarrassed by it.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo apologized for his past behavior following allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior by three women, telling reporters on Wednesday that he is “embarrassed” by his actions.
Cuomo went on to say that he “never knew at the time I was making anyone feel uncomfortable” and stressed that he “never touched anyone inappropriately.” When asked about the photograph of him gripping the face of Anna Ruch, who accused him of grabbing her face and kissing her cheek without permission, Cuomo oddly claimed that it is a “customary” way for him to greet people.
New York State Sen. James Skoufis, D., appeared on MSNBC following the press conference, where he was asked if the governor’s comments would make him reconsider his calls for Cuomo’s resignation.
“The short answer is no. I watched that press conference in real time as you did and your viewers did. It was part contrition, or part attempt at contrition, and part defiance, and even the apology, as you noted, was still qualified,” Skoufis told host Chuck Todd, noting Cuomo apologized “if” he made anyone uncomfortable.
“There is no ‘if’ any more,” Skoufis said. “They obviously felt uncomfortable. They obviously felt harassed. I don’t understand why he continues to qualify that apology. He brought up intent, ‘I never intended to make anyone feel this way.’ The matter of fact is you have three women here and he really only referred to one. Three women here felt deeply uncomfortable. They felt completely harassed, and there is one case at least … and he says, ‘I have never touched anyone inappropriately.’ There is a photo of him touching someone inappropriately, and you have the first accuser who says that he kissed her in a very harassing sort of way … I have seen enough.”
Debra Katz, an attorney for Cuomo accuser Charlotte Bennett, released a statement blasting the press conference.
“The Governor’s press conference was full of falsehoods and inaccurate information, and New Yorkers deserve better,” Katz said.
Nearly 30 Democratic and Republican New York lawmakers have said Cuomo should either resign or face impeachment in the wake of the allegations and the scandal surrounding pandemic nursing home deaths.
Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
El editor principal en Facebook durante 2016, el Huffington Post, este año comenzó a impulsar la diversificación hacia Twitter e Instagram, según Ethan Klapper, el editor global de redes sociales de la web de noticias. “Junto con ese cambio concentrado en las plataformas, hace que el equipo social se concentre en los temas y los públicos, en lugar de centrarse en las plataformas”.
Mr. Sanders is counting on small donations to fuel his presidential bid, as is Ms. Warren, who has sworn off holding high-dollar fund-raisers. Ms. Harris has a strong base of online donors, but she has also raised significant sums from traditional donors. Some candidates, such as Ms. Gillibrand, Senator Cory Booker and former Gov. John Hickenlooper, relied heavily on larger donations.
In media news today, ‘The View’ gets mocked over a report the show is struggling to find a new Republican host, the Miami Beach mayor tells CNN that Gov. DeSantis has decided to ‘champion’ not taking the vaccine, and an MSNBC producer gets knocked for calling Chinese human rights abuses ‘alleged.’
During an interview with CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins, Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha was asked whether the administration was missing a “critical window” for COVID testing heading into the new year.
“You saw President Biden yesterday acknowledging, pretty bluntly, that they need to do better when it comes to testing because we are seeing this nationwide shortage of those rapid at-home tests. It’s very difficult to just walk into a store and get one. And what we’re hearing from officials like Dr. Fauci is that they believe they’re gonna have this solved by mid-January, in a few weeks. But, how critical is the window that we’re missing right now for testing?” asked Collins.
“Oh I think it’s incredibly critical, and I cannot believe this is where we are almost two years into the pandemic. Everybody saw it coming. We knew we needed more tests. I think the administration dropped the ball on this,” Jha responded.
Jha said that the Biden administration appeared to be primarily focused on vaccinations throughout the year while “not paying a lot of attention” to the importance of testing. He added that while a focus on vaccines is “terrific,” the decision to largely ignore the infrastructure for testing has been “really costly” this holiday season.
A few CNN correspondents have recently criticized the president for his handling of the pandemic.
CNN reporter Phil Mattingly questioned last week whether the administration’s inability to adequately prepare for the latest variant with testing should be considered a “failure.”
“No, it’s not,” Biden responded. “Because COVID is spreading so rapidly if you notice. It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.”
Biden again admitted to a lack of foresight on rapid tests in a call with several U.S. governors on Monday, saying, “It is not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I had – we – had known, we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have.”
Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.
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The revelations prompted Democrats to amplify their distrust of Barr over his disclosures about the Mueller report’s remarks on obstruction of justice while whetting the appetite for testimony from the special counsel that now appears likely in the House later this month.
“I hope that he is desirous of testifying so that he can, from his perspective, talk to the American people, and to the representatives of the American people, on what his views are,” Hoyer told reporters this week. “Clearly, this letter indicates that they are not being represented by Attorney General Barr.”
“This is a two-year effort, a little short of that, [and a] major investment,” Hoyer added. “And I think the American people are justified in hearing his view as to what he found and the interpretation he put on it.”
Other Democrats suggested Barr’s testimony cannot be trusted on its own.
The panel has reportedly been engaging directly with Mueller on a date for his testimony; a committee spokesman did not respond to a request for more information on those negotiations.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, told The Hill in an email Friday that he didn’t have “any information to provide at this time” with respect to negotiations surrounding Mueller’s potential testimony.
Ultimately, Mueller did not establish that members of Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, and he did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.
Democrats would undoubtedly question Mueller on his interactions with Barr, particularly during the four-week period between the completion of his 22-month investigation and Barr’s public release of the report on April 18. They’re also likely to ask for his candid thoughts on Barr’s March 24 memo to Congress spelling out the report’s bottom-line conclusions.
Mueller’s team reached out to the Justice Department with concerns on March 25, and two days later the special counsel wrote to Barr saying the memo to Congress “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the investigation’s conclusions and created “public confusion” about the results.
Barr testified on Wednesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he spoke to Mueller by phone about the March 27 letter. The attorney general later described the correspondence as “snitty” and said it was “probably written by one of [Mueller’s] staff people.”
“I asked him if he was suggesting that the March 24 letter was inaccurate, and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate,” Barr said.
Mueller’s letter made no mention of press coverage, raising the odds that Democrats are likely to ask the special counsel about Barr’s characterization of that conversation.
Lawmakers would almost certainly press Mueller on why he did not come to a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, something that perplexed many in Washington, including Barr.
Democrats may also look to Mueller to elicit more information about his investigation and report, roughly 10 percent of which was redacted to conceal information related to ongoing probes, grand jury material, national security information and details that impact third parties.
Nadler has subpoenaed for the full report and underlying evidence. The Justice Department has refused to comply, describing the subpoena as “not legitimate oversight” and its requests as “overbroad and extraordinarily burdensome.”
Barr has instead allowed select members of Congress, including Nadler, to view a less redacted version in a secure room as long as they agree to keep those contents of the report confidential.
Graham had otherwise shut the door on hearing from Mueller.
“I’m not going to do any more. Enough already. It’s over,” Graham told reporters after Barr’s hours-long testimony on Wednesday.
Trump, when asked Friday whether Mueller should testify, deferred to the attorney general.
“I don’t know,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “That’s up to our attorney general, who I think has done a fantastic job.”
Barr has said that he would not object to Mueller testifying.
“I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying,” he told reporters at a news conference shortly before releasing the special counsel’s report last month.
Barr reiterated that point during his Senate testimony on Wednesday, adding that the White House was not exerting influence on his decision of whether and when to allow Mueller to testify.
White House deputy press secretary Steven Groves said Friday that he’s not aware of any discussions within the West Wing about potential Mueller testimony and that he hasn’t “heard anyone speak out in objection to it.”
He suggested the White House counsel would discuss the matter with Trump, who has made clear he has no intention of cooperating with House Democrats’ oversight and investigations.
Groves added that it was “premature” to debate the issue since no date had been set for a Mueller hearing.
“There are some questions that I would like to ask him,” Groves said. “I mean, he was given a task to either prosecute or decline prosecute, and instead what the American people got for their $30 million were 200 pages of on the one hand this and on the other hand that.
“The question is, does he want to go before Congress and explain his findings and explain his decisionmaking?” he added.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
Democrats in the House — and on the 2020 campaign trail — are divided about whether to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump, following a report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that detailed Trump’s efforts to hinder Mueller’s investigation.
The most compelling practical argument against such an effort is that it is unlikely to succeed. That’s because the decision on whether to remove him from office would be made by the Senate, which is controlled by Trump’s GOP.
If Democrats choose to pursue impeachment, they will be using an unwieldy measure built into the Constitution as an emergency tool. Only two U.S. presidents have ever been impeached. Here are five things to know about how the impeachment process works.
1. What sorts of offenses trigger impeachment proceedings?
There is no hard-and-fast list. The House decides. The Constitution says that presidents, vice presidents and other federal officials can be impeached for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
But what are “high Crime and Misdemeanors?” The document doesn’t say. In the past, the House — where impeachment proceedings must begin — has defined those terms to mean something broader than just “federal crimes.”
The House has also impeached presidents for behavior that undermines the constitutional system or that brings shame to the office of president, regardless of whether that behavior was criminal.
For instance: President Andrew Johnson, who was the first president to be impeached, was charged with firing one of his Cabinet members — in defiance of a law that said he needed the Senate’s permission. He was also charged with, in essence, insulting Congress. One article of impeachment accused Johnson of “scandalous harangues” about legislators, made “with a loud voice.”
2. How does impeachment work?
The House would vote on articles of impeachment, which are individual statements of offense. All it takes is a simple majority. If any of them pass, the president has been “impeached” — something like being indicted in a legal procedure.
Next, the president’s case would move to the Senate, which acts as a 100-member jury. The House appoints “managers,” who act like prosecutors, laying out the case for the president’s removal. The chief justice of the United States presides over the proceedings if the president is on trial.
Convicting the president requires two-thirds of all senators to agree. If that happens, the president is automatically removed from office.
3. Has that ever happened?
Not to a president. Johnson, who was the first president to be impeached, escaped conviction by one vote in 1868. Bill Clinton was the second: The House brought impeachment proceedings against him in 1998, alleging perjury and obstruction of an investigation. The Senate acquitted him by a wider margin.
President Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974 before the full House could vote on impeachment charges against him.
Beyond the cases that involve presidents, impeachment has been a tool rarely used in U.S. history. Since 1789, only eight federal officials have been convicted by the Senate and removed from office. All eight were federal judges.
That list includes one current member of Congress: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), a former federal judge who was convicted by the Senate of extorting a bribe in a case before him. Four years after Hastings was removed from office as a judge, he was elected to Congress.
4. How long does impeachment take?
In Nixon’s case, nine months elapsed between the start of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation in October 1973 and the committee’s approval of its first impeachment resolution. Nixon resigned in early August 1974.
In Clinton’s case, the House moved much faster. In September 1998, the House received a report from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr that recommended impeachment against Clinton. The House voted to impeach Clinton in December 1998, and the Senate acquitted him in February 1999.
5. What lessons could Democrats draw from the impeachment investigations of Nixon and Clinton?
The Nixon investigation seems to bolster an argument made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that if Democrats think Trump deserves to be impeached, they ought to try.
Public support for Nixon’s removal was low at the start of the investigation but rose steadily as the probe uncovered new evidence of his abuses of power. His resignation brought a wave of public revulsion with Washington corruption — and a huge political boost to Democrats. The 1974 elections swept in a wave of “Watergate Baby” legislators who gave Democrats huge advantages in the House and Senate.
Clinton’s impeachment, however, did not turn out as well for the opposition party.
In the election held in the middle of their impeachment investigation, Republicans were accused of overreach and lost seats in the House. Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who had led the charge, resigned after unrest in his caucus.
Neither of these cases, however, is a very useful case study for today’s Democrats — since Clinton and Nixon were both in their second terms.
Trump is in his first. That has led some Democrats to conclude that they should focus more on defeating Trump in 2020 than impeaching him before then.
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The headline findings by special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a political shot in the arm for President Trump and Republicans, they say — how long it lasts may depend on the full document.
Attorney General William Barr told Congress that Mueller’s office didn’t establish a conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election, nor did it establish — per Barr — that Trump obstructed justice.
Barr’s office is working now to redact grand jury testimony, foreign intelligence and other material from the full Mueller report before releasing it sometime this month.
Here are some of the big questions it may answer.
What did Trump know?
Trump’s campaign and business had many contacts with Russians from 2015 through the 2016 election — these are not in dispute and they were among the reasons for the investigation in the first place.
Mueller, in fact — according to Barr — confirmed that “Russian-affiliated individuals” made “multiple offers” to “assist the Trump campaign,” which comports with the versions of events given in court documents and according to other official sources that already are public.
Did the substance of any of these offers ever reach Trump or other members of his brain trust? If so, what did they do?
Micromanagement
People who worked for Trump have said nothing happened in his business or campaign without his involvement.
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That’s why, for example, former Trump aides have said they thought it likely he was at least aware that Donald Trump Jr. convened a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 at which a Russian delegation delivered a tip on Democrats.
Trump Jr. said it wasn’t what he expected and he didn’t pursue it any further, and authorities evidently did not conclude it broke the law.
No one faced criminal charges in connection with that meeting and the Justice Department says Mueller hasn’t recommended any more indictments beyond the ones that already have been unsealed.
And Trump has denied he was aware in 2016 of the Russian interference in the election and of the Trump Tower meeting specifically. Democratic opponents said they thought phone records might undermine that denial, but they didn’t.
If Mueller’s full report further bolsters the Trumps’ defenses, that will mean more good political news for the president and his family.
If Mueller’s report established that Trump did know what was happening and, while he didn’t conspire with Russia’s efforts, he also didn’t report them to authorities, that may take away some of the political momentum Trump and the GOP have built up so far from the Barr account of Mueller’s findings.
What did the feds establish about the dossier?
The unverified Russia dossier was not the origin of the Russia investigation, but it may be the most infamous piece of information about it. NPR has not detailed its claims because they are unverified.
The degree to which Mueller’s full report specifically addresses the material in the dossier could be one of its most important developments for the politics of the post-Mueller era.
If the full report torpedoes the dossier altogether, that will strengthen efforts like those by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who wants an investigation into how the FBI and Justice Department used it in the Russia investigation.
If Mueller substantiates some of the dossier’s contents, that could create problems for the White House short of the worst-case “collusion” allegation that evidently now is off the table.
Kompromat
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For example, one claim of the dossier was that powerful Russians may possess compromising material — or so-called kompromat — about Trump and that may have been why he took such sympathetic tone toward Moscow — for fear of it being revealed.
Democrats also continue to ask whether Trump may be beholden to Russia or compromised by people in it — and whether that might be true even if, per Barr’s letter, Trump’s 2016 campaign didn’t collude with the election interference.
Mueller’s findings about this could change the understanding of the Russia imbroglio yet again.
What did Trump ask, and of whom, involving the various investigations?
Alleged obstruction of justice was a potent threat to Trump because frustrating an investigation is illegal even when there was no underlying crime.
That was another reason why Trump and Republicans welcomed Barr’s letter about Mueller’s findings so warmly.
And it’s one reason why Democrats reacted so strongly to Barr’s characterization of Mueller’s findings, of which the attorney general wrote: “‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’ “
In short, Barr made it sound as though this came down to a judgment call. Barr and Rod Rosenstein, according to the attorney general, were the ones who concluded that Mueller’s findings were insufficient to establish that Trump had committed a crime.
So what were those findings?
A number of press reports suggested Trump asked people — intelligence agency leaders, Justice Department or law enforcement officials and White House officials — to take actions that critics called obstruction of justice.
Trump’s alleged actions included requests for investigators to ease up on him or friends, for people to be fired or removed — or for safe loyalists to be placed onto cases — and for people to give inaccurate information to Congress.
The code
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Were those reports accurate? And if so, how much of the assessment depends on the president’s exact words?
Former FBI Director James Comey, for example, told the Senate intelligence committee that Trump said “I hope you can let this go,” when alluding to the case of former national security adviser Mike Flynn. Trump, in this telling, did not say: I hereby order you to discontinue your investigation of Flynn.
Trump, as his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told the House oversight committee, often speaks in a “code.” Mueller’s report may reveal how much the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute on obstruction depended on the substance of his actions and how much on his use of that “code.”
What were the extent of the active measures?
Two of the ways Russia interfered in the 2016 election have gotten most of the attention:
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How many other types of “active measures” did the Russians wield in service of their aim to sow chaos and, eventually, help support Trump? Are there any types of interference that haven’t been made public?
Mueller’s answers about the tools Russia used to interfere in the last presidential election will help Americans prepare to safeguard future elections.
What were the origins of the active measures?
The U.S. intelligence community assessed early on that Putin had ordered the influence campaign “to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”
What more is known about when, precisely, Putin decided to launch it — and why? Who involved chose the techniques — and why?
Americans have learned a great deal from Mueller’s prosecutions about the operational workings of the Kremlin’s active measures effort — the movement of the troops in what amounted to a war of information.
What’s less clear, for now, were the actions of their generals.
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