“Ya estamos viendo que las buenas noticias comienzan a llegar”. Con esas palabras, Macri inauguró una planta de fertilizantes en Pergamino y se refirió a una incipiente reactivación de la economía.
“Hemos tomado muchas medidas, hemos sincerado muchas cosas. Y no me canso de decir que me dolieron muchas de las decisiones que debimos tomar. Pero hoy estamos viendo que las buenas noticias comienzan a llegar”, insistió el Presidente, junto a la gobernadora María Eugenia Vidal y varios de sus ministros.
En su discurso, el mandatario consideró que, con inversiones como la realizada en el parque industrial de esa localidad bonaerense, donde se desembolsaron 30 millones de dólares que permitirán producir unas 30.000 toneladas de fertilizantes al año; el país “ya ha comenzado a recorrer el camino hacia la pobreza cero”.
“Lo más importante es que ya empezamos, que los argentinos nos decidimos por un cambio”, enfatizó ante las flamantes instalaciones, construidas a partir de un acuerdo entre la empresa local Rizobacter y el grupo francés De Sangosse, que fomentará la creación de 100 nuevos empleos en esa región productiva.
Ante los presentes, Macri aclaró que uno de los principales desafíos de su gestión no es sólo producir y vender más granos y materias primas, sino agregar valor a los productos del agro, para así “transformarnos del granero del mundo al supermercado del mundo”, para, con la exportación de alimentos industrializados, generar mayor empleo y arraigo de la gente en sus localidades.
Shaun King has faced a backlash from Twitter users after claiming Rachel Maddow reported the Democratic Party was interfering in the primaries to stop Bernie Sanders.
The activist wrote: “BREAKING: @msnbc & @maddow just reported that multiple “senior officials” within the Democratic Party are interfering with the primaries to stop @BernieSanders. They reported that the party has asked Bloomberg to drop out so that Biden would have an easier time against Bernie.”
Maddow, the host of The Rachel Maddow Show, responded directly to King’s tweet from her own account: “What? No. I didn’t report any such thing.”
Since his post, King has received backlash from users on the social media platform, with some accusing him of pushing propaganda to support Sanders. Others have also defended Maddow saying that the host never reported King’s accusations.
One user, @yankees1958, said: “Funny, since I’m watching @MSNBC and@maddow. Those lies have not passed through her lips! Pathetic!”
Another said: “Outright lie. I’ve had the channel on non-stop tonight and never was anything remotely resembling this discussed. This is just downright DIRTY.”
Outright lie. Iâve had the channel on non-stop tonight and never was anything remotely resembling this discussed. This is just downright DIRTY.
Through the Democratic presidential campaign, King has been vocal in his support for Sanders as well as coming forward with anonymous “tip offs.” On Tuesday, March 3, the activist claimed that he had had former staffers of former U.S. representative Beto O’Rourke’s contact him in regards to O’Rouke’s endorsement of candidate Joe Biden. In the tweet, he said: “Had several former staffers of @BetoORourke reach out to me, some near tears, saying that his endorsement of@JoeBiden “felt like a betrayal” of all they had worked for with Beto. One said he loathed Biden’s campaign for President. They just couldn’t make it make sense.”
Had several former staffers of @BetoORourke reach out to me, some near tears, saying that his endorsement of @JoeBiden âfelt like a betrayalâ of all they had worked for with Beto.
One said he loathed Bidenâs campaign for President.
The activist has also been critical of Mike Bloomberg—one of the Democratic presidential candidates and former mayor of New York City between 2002 and 2013—accusing the billionaire businessman of racism. In February 2020, he tweeted: “If you live in New York, or know our history, you’ve been knowing that #BloombergIsRacist. He’s awful. The world will soon know just how deep this man’s bigotry goes.”
The controversy comes following Super Tuesday, which sees the greatest number of U.S. states hold primary elections and caucuses for the Democratic presidential candidate. As shown in the graph below from Statista, Biden has now pulled ahead of Sanders in terms of delegates.
Newsweek has contacted King’s representatives for comment on the story as well as Maddow.
¿Cómo está hoy la salud del pequeño de tres años? “Parece que está mejor, que respondió bien el nene, que se redujo el tumorcito”, dijo Guillermo Francella, quien tiene una comunicación fluida con Lopilato ya que, además de hacer juntos Casados con hijos, hoy protagonizan Los que aman odian, film que está en pleno rodaje.
Hacía más de un año que el titular de Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos (AFIP), Ricardo Echegaray, no brindaba una entrevista en un canal de televisión. Anoche, en el programa Animales Sueltos que conduce Alejandro Fantino por América TV, el funcionario habló de los logros de su gestión, presentó novedades tecnológicas para evitar la evasión fiscal, le agradeció a su esposa por bancarlo, habló de su departamento en Punta del Este, criticó (sin nombrarla) a la revista Noticias, aseguró que no encubre a Lázaro Báez, y hasta elogió a Sergio Massa por su “potencial tremendo”.
La casa en Punta, “me la gané”
“¿Viste que no me puse nervioso?”, le dijo Echegaray a Fantino minutos antes de concluir la entrevista. El conductor lo miró desorientado. Y a continuación le siguió preguntando sobre temas “díficiles” de abordar con el titular de la AFIP. “Te quiero preguntar por tu casa en Punta”, le dijo el conductor.
“La gané y pago mis impuestos. Todo está absolutamente declarado”, justificó Echegaray, quien aclaró además que no se trata de una casa, sino “un departamento de 108 metros cuadrados”. No comentó nada más pero la pregunta le dio pie para criticar (sin mencionarla) a la revista Noticias. “No me gusta ese periodismo que insulta hasta el apellido”, dijo el recaudador. Se refería a la última campaña publicitaria de la newsmagazine de habla hispana más leída del mundo, que acaba de cumplir 25 años.
Lázaro Báez, “un contribuyente más”
El responsable de la máxima autoridad fiscal del país aseguró que desde su gestión nunca se encubrió al empresario patagónico Lázaro Báez, cercano al matrimonio Kirchner. Dijo que para la AFIP es “un contribuyente más” y que si se lo hubiera querido proteger, el organismo recaudador no sería querellante en las causas que están abiertas.
Massa tiene “potencial” y Scioli es un “referente”
“A Sergio Massa lo conozco desde la adolescencia y tiene un potencial tremendo. Trabajamos muy bien cuando él estaba en ANSES y después también cuando era jefe de Gabinete. Fueron tiempos de colaboración mutua muy buenos”. Con estas palabras, el titular de la Administración Federal de Ingresos Públicos sorprendió cuando Fantino le preguntó sus sensaciones sobre el precandidato presidencial.
Echegaray señaló también que con Mauricio Macri tiene una excelente relación aunque aclaró que en términos políticos, el gobierno de la Ciudad es uno de los más favorecidos por el porcentaje que recibe en términos de coparticipación.
Sobre Daniel Scioli señaló que “es un referente de nuestro espacio. Es un gobernador que ha hecho muchísimo. Apuesta al diálogo, hacia la construcción, mira hacia el futuro, es muy abierto, muy amplio. Es uno de los candidatos de los varios candidatos que tiene nuestro espacio”, indicó el recaudador.
Se desarrolló el 13° Concurso de Peluquerías Afro ‘Tejiendo Esperanzas’ en Cali, Valle del Cauca. Foto: AFP
Durante el encuentro mujeres afrocolombianas muestran su talento con el cabello. Foto: AFP
El concurso busca resucitar las costumbres, identidad y cultura africanas en Colombia. Foto: AFP
Se reunieron mujeres de todas las regiones del país para compartir experiencias sobre la importancia de la estética afro. Foto: AFP
Este concurso es organizado por la Asociación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas AMAFROCOL, el Programa de Inclusión para la Paz de USAID y OIM, entre otras organizaciones. Foto: AFP
Durante el concurso se realizan varios talleres como el ‘Concurso de Peinadoras Afro’, talleres de turbantes, maquillaje, danza africana, pasarelas y gastronomía. Foto: AFP
Además se buscan espacios para la promoción empresarial de la mujer afrocolombiana. Foto: AFP
‘Tejiendo Esperanzas’ lleva alrededor de 20 años luchando contra el racismo y la discriminación de la población negra de Colombia. Foto: AFP
El evento se desarrolla durante dos días en el mes de julio. Foto: AFP
El concurso no tiene restricción de edad, por lo que niñas y personas de la tercera edad también pueden participar. Foto: AFP
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Los manifestantes protestaban por el aumento del precio del transporte público.
Dos policías murieron atropellados este martes en medio de enfrentamientos entre manifestantes y autoridades en el estado venezolano de Táchira, fronterizo con Colombia.
Las autoridades informaron que encapuchados, presuntamente estudiantes, arrollaron una barricada de las fuerzas de seguridad después de haber secuestrado más de una decena de buses públicos en la ciudad de San Cristóbal.
Además, 30 personas resultaron heridas y 40 fueron detenidas.
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El gobierno aumentó un 6.000% el precio de la gasolina para combatir la crisis económica.
Las protestas se organizaron para protestar contra el reciente aumento del pasaje del transporte público –del 75% para abril y del 150% para noviembre– decretado por el presidente Nicolás Maduro.
El sector transportista de la zona fronteriza se declaró en paro.
El gobierno de Maduro ha aprobado varias medidas de ajuste en las últimas semanas, entre ellas aumentar un 6.000% el precio de la gasolina, para hacer frente a la crisis económica por la que atraviesa Venezuela.
El gobernador del estado Táchira, José Gregorio Vielma Mora, lamentó este martes la muerte de la oficial del cuerpo de policía estatal Nicolle Pérez y el integrante de la Policía Nacional Bolivariana Otto Márquez.
La fiscalía anunció una investigación.
Hervidero de protestas
Desde el año pasado Venezuela es un hervidero de pequeñas protestas por fallas intermitentes en los servicios de agua, luz y transporte, una inflación del 180% anual y una fuerte escasez de alimentos y medicinas.
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Durante los altercados además resultaron 30 personas heridas y 40 fueron detenidas.
La capital tachirense, San Cristóbal, fue el epicentro a principios de 2014 de las manifestaciones antigubernamentales que se tornaron en algunos casos violentas y se propagaron por las principales ciudades de Venezuela.
Ninguna protesta ha llegado a la escala de aquellas manifestaciones convocadas por el líder opositor Leopoldo López, quien fue posteriormente condenado a 14 años de prisión por su supuesta implicación en las 43 muertes que se produjeron en las protestas.
Washington — President Trump has filed suit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block congressional subpoenas for his business records.
The lawsuit by the president, sons Donald Jr. and Eric and daughter Ivanka, was filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. The Trump Organization and the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust are among other plaintiffs.
Two House committees subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and several other financial institutions earlier this month as part of investigations into Mr. Trump’s finances.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said at the time that the subpoenas were part of an investigation “into allegations of potential foreign influence on the U.S. political process.” He has said he wants to know whether Russians used laundered money for transactions with the Trump Organization. Mr. Trump’s businesses have benefited from Russian investment over the years.
The Trumps want a federal judge to declare the subpoenas unlawful and enforceable. The suit seeks to block the financial institutions from disclosing information and complying with the subpoenas.
The suit asserts that the “case involves congressional subpoenas that have no legitimate or lawful purpose. The subpoenas were issued to harass President Donald J. Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses and the private information of the president and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage. No grounds exist to establish any purpose other than a political one.”
Deutsche Bank, a German asset management firm, has lent Trump’s real estate organization millions of dollars over time. In a statement, it said, “We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations.”
Capital One didn’t have any immediate comment.
Schiff issued a joint statement with Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who chairs the House Financial Services Committee. They said, “The meritless lawsuit filed today by President Trump to block duly authorized subpoenas to non-governmental entities is another demonstration of the depths to which President Trump will go to obstruct Congress’s constitutional oversight authority. As a private businessman, Trump routinely used his well-known litigiousness and the threat of lawsuits to intimidate others, but he will find that Congress will not be deterred from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities.
“This lawsuit is not designed to succeed; it is only designed to put off meaningful accountability as long as possible. Trump has already said publicly that he is fighting all of the subpoenas from Congress, and that he does not respect Congress’ role as a coequal branch of government. This unprecedented stonewalling will not work, and the American people deserve better.”
When the subpoenas were issued April 15, Eric Trump, executive vice president of The Trump Organization, called the subpoenas “an unprecedented abuse of power and simply the latest attempt by House Democrats to attack the President and our family for political gain.”
Moments after the Senate voted in an unusually bipartisan way to advance a $1tn infrastructure deal, Kyrsten Sinema hobbled on a broken foot to a press conference to mark the occasion. At the podium, the Arizona Democrat was greeted by Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio with whom she had led negotiations over how to repair ageing roads and bridges and broadband networks.
“You go first,” Sinema whispered.
“No, you go first,” Portman replied.
“No, no,” Sinema insisted. “You go first. It shows bipartisanship. It’s the right thing to do.”
Portman looked unsure. Sinema nodded firmly: “It is the right thing to do.” Portman stepped forward.
Until this year, Sinema had spent her political career in the minority. Working with Republicans was her only option. Now, in a Senate divided 50-50, she has options – and power.
In her new role, Sinema holds an effective veto over her party’s priorities. She is at the center of every major legislative battle, an enigma to many colleagues in Washington, to many who helped elect her she is an impediment to progress.
With the fate of Joe Biden’s historic proposal to expand the social safety net hanging in the balance, Democrats are racing to solve the riddle: what does Kyrsten Sinema really want?
Since arriving in the Senate, Sinema has emerged as one of her party’s most elusive and contentious figures. She has preached bipartisanship, even when it conflicts with Democratic goals. She has vowed to uphold the filibuster, a rule imposing a 60-vote threshold on most legislation.
Though Sinema can stand out in the starchy chamber with her candy-colored wigs (her temporary solution to salon closures during the pandemic) and bold sartorial choices (she once presided over the chamber in a shirt that read “DANGEROUS CREATURE”), she lately prefers not engage publicly. She rarely sits for interviews with the national press and avoids questions from reporters on Capitol Hill.
Earlier this summer, Sinema made clear that she would not support the $3.5tn price tag for Biden’s social policy and climate change bill. But unlike Joe Manchin, a three-term senator from West Virginia who is one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, she has not publicly detailed her concerns with the legislation.
“Senator Sinema’s position has been that she doesn’t ‘negotiate publicly’ and I don’t know what that means,” Senator Bernie Sanders, a progressive from Vermont, said this week, calling it “wrong” for her and Manchin to stand in the way of a bill supported by most of the party and the president.
Sinema’s relative silence was even parodied on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
“What do I want from this bill?” Cecily Strong asked, playing Sinema. “I’ll never tell.”
Biden has invited Sinema to the White House on multiple occasions. According to her office, she has shared with the president and the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, “detailed concerns and priorities, including dollar figures”. But no deal has been reached and Democrats are growing exasperated.
“Maybe she knows what she’s doing; maybe she’s got a strategy that she’s just not sharing with us; maybe her blueprint is the way to go,” said Yolanda Bejarano, the Phoenix-based national legislative and political field director for the Communications Workers of America, a major union.
“But it’s getting more and more difficult to explain it away.”
Allies and critics have long considered Sinema one of the savviest politicians in the state, in part because she understands the Arizona electorate better than anyone else.
For years, Sinema has honed a brand of centrism that observers say better aligns with the politics of Arizona, a once Republican stronghold shaped by the conservatism of Barry Goldwater, a senator and nominee for president in 1964. Invoking the late senator John McCain as a hero, Sinema promised to be an “independent voice” and appealed to suburban women, independents and disaffected Republicans. In 2018, Arizona duly sent a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 30 years.
“Her ideological core is pragmatism,” said Chuck Coughlin, a Phoenix-based political consultant who left the Republican party after Donald Trump became president. “She understands that if she is to succeed in Arizona, she must succeed in this lane.”
But she now faces a growing backlash among the party faithful in her home state, the progressive activists and Democratic voters who knocked on doors in brutal summer heat to help get her elected.
A protester outside Sinema’s office in Phoenix. Photograph: Alexandra Buxbaum/REX/Shutterstock
Activists with a grassroots organization, Lucha, disrupted a class Sinema was teaching at Arizona State University and followed her into a bathroom, demanding she support Biden’s social policy bill and pass immigration reform. She was confronted again on the plane as she returned to Washington. An online fundraiser to support a potential primary challenge raised more than $100,000 in a few days.
In a scathing statement, Sinema denounced the bathroom incident “not legitimate protest”.
Lucha defended its actions, accusing the senator of becoming “completely inaccessible”. “We’re sick of the political games, stop playing with our lives,” the groups said.
Sinema’s office denied the accusation that she had become inaccessible. “The senator and her team meet regularly with individuals and groups from across Arizona on a consistent basis – including Lucha,” said spokesman John LaBombard, adding that they had met directly with activists from Lucha “at least a half-dozen times” since 2019.
The state Democratic party has threatened a vote of no confidence. Garrick McFadden, a former vice-chair, called Sinema an “obstructionist” and predicted an exodus from the state party in support of a primary challenge in 2024.
“She has betrayed her friends and the promise she made to the Arizona people,” he wrote on Twitter. “She wants to play games, well in 2023 we start playing games with her.”
Sinema isn’t up for re-election until 2024. But there are early signs she may be vulnerable to a primary challenge. A recent poll by OH Predictive Insights, a Phoenix firm, found that just 56% of Arizona Democrats had a favorable view of Sinema. Nearly one in three had an unfavorable view
Saundra Cole, a retired ATT telephone operator, is among them. She phone-banked for Sinema several times, first when she ran for the House and later for the Senate. Cole was drawn to her story of personal hardship, and believed she would be a champion for working families. Now the 72-year-old struggles to see how she could vote for her again.
When Sinema delivered an emphatic thumbs-down to a proposal that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, Cole was shocked.
“It was like a slap in the face,” she said.
Some speculated Sinema was channeling McCain, whose last major legislative act was to block his own party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act with a dramatic thumbs-down. Cole rejected the comparison.
“She’s not John McCain,” Cole said. “She’s not a maverick. I didn’t agree with him on many things but at least we knew where he stood.”
In her telling, Sinema was born to a middle-class family in Tucson. When her father lost his job, the life they built began to unravel. After Sinema’s parents divorced, her mother and stepfather moved to the Florida Panhandle, where she has said they lived in an abandoned gas station for three years. Sinema describes her years living in poverty as formative, guiding her into a career in politics.
“We got by thanks to help from family, church and, sometimes, even the government,” she said in a video that launched her Senate bid.
After graduating from Brigham Young University in just two years, Sinema returned to Arizona, where she started working as a social worker. She first encountered politics as a Green Party activist working for Ralph Nader. She spent the early 2000s agitating against wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the time, she condemned capitalism and likened political donations to “bribery”. She ran twice for local office as an independent – and lost.
In 2004, Sinema changed her affiliation to Democratic and won a seat in the state legislature. Her progressive credentials were unimpeachable.
“People ask all the time whether she has changed her views on issues,” said David Lujan, who served with Sinema in the state capitol. “I honestly don’t know. I think only Kyrsten can answer that. What has changed is her approach.”
In her book, Unite and Conquer: How to Build Coalitions That Win – and Last, Sinema details her metamorphosis from “bomb-thrower” to stubborn bipartisan. She recalls railing against bills in floor speeches and interviews, only to watch them pass with overwhelming support in the Republican-held chamber.
“In short, my first legislative session was a bust,” she wrote, calling herself the “patron saint of lost causes”. She returned with a plan, to befriend colleagues, search from common ground and hopefully “be at least marginally more successful”.
In 2006, she helped lead the opposition to a ballot initiative amending the state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Lujan said she applied lessons learned in the legislature to the effort, centering the campaign on how the amendment would impact unwed, elderly straight couples. The strategy was not without its critics, notably from the LGBTQ+ community, in which she identified as a bisexual woman. But the proposal failed, making Arizona became the first state to defeat a same-sex marriage ban at the polls.
“Everybody was shocked that they were able to do it,” Lujan said. The experience, he believes, helped validate her philosophy that “taking a different approach and forming different types of coalitions” could also deliver results.
In 2012, Sinema ran for Congress in a newly drawn district encompassing parts of East Valley, in Phoenix. Republicans tried to use her activist past against her but the strategy failed. Sinema won narrowly, becoming the first openly bisexual member of Congress. She is now the first female senator from Arizona and the only lawmaker on Capitol Hill to claim no religious affiliation – she was sworn in on a copy of the US constitution.
Friends and colleagues in both parties invariably describe her as disciplined and extremely intelligent. While in office, she earned a law degree and an MBA. Away from Washington, she runs Ironman triathlons and teaches college courses on social work.
As Sinema climbed the ranks of Arizona politics, the state was changing. After Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008, anti-immigrant fervor sent Arizona lurching further right. Hope of turning the state blue faded as national Democrats and progressive groups effectively abandoned the state, recalled Josh Ulibarri, a Phoenix-based Democratic pollster.
“Everybody left,” he said.
In the vacuum, a liberal grassroots resistance emerged, led by young Latinos who were the targets of harsh immigration policies. They slowly built political clout. Their advocacy helped oust Sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2016, and to pass the largest minimum-wage increase in the country. Two years later, they helped send Sinema to the Senate.
“She benefited from their work, their struggle – the sweat and the blood, the arrests and the deportations – all of it,” Ulibarri said. “So the way she’s become the public face of [resistance to Biden’s agenda], it’s not just a political betrayal, it’s a deep, personal betrayal.”
Frustration reached a turning point this summer after Sinema doubled down in her support for the filibuster, which Republicans have used to block voting rights legislation. Two civil rights leaders, the Rev Jesse Jackson and the Rev William Barber, were arrested during a protest outside of her Phoenix office.
Gilbert Romero, a prominent progressive activist in Phoenix who interned for Sinema in 2014, said he doesn’t see such anger abating anytime soon, especially if she continues to stand in the way of Democratic policy goals. In his view, Sinema underestimates the threat of a progressive primary challenge.
“She thinks she’s like Teflon and nothing is going to stick to her – that’s misguided,” he said, adding: “We’ve [unseated] much more powerful people than Kyrsten Sinema.”
What many activists find baffling is that Sinema has moved right as her state has moved left. In 2020, Biden narrowly won Arizona, as did Mark Kelly, who now serves alongside Sinema in the Senate. Democrats also hold five of the nine congressional seats. Manchin, the other key holdout, is the only Democrat left in the congressional delegation from West Virginia, a state that voted for Trump by nearly 40 points.
“The Arizona that existed in 2012 when she first got elected to Congress is not the Arizona that exists in 2021,” Romero said. “It’s a completely different landscape now.”
Independence is a prized quality in Arizona, where nearly a third of the electorate is unaffiliated with either major party. Sinema has it, said Danny Seiden, president and chief executive of the Arizona chamber of commerce, who believes it is the source of her broad appeal.
Rob Portman and Sinema answer questions from the press. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
“It’s a willingness to listen and not just toe the party line on all issues,” he said. “I think that’s a rarity amongst both Democrats and Republicans these days.”
His organization supports the bipartisan infrastructure deal but has concerns about the size of the spending package. Seiden had no guesses as to how Sinema will eventually vote, but expects she will “do what she thinks is right for Arizona”.
How she chooses to proceed will almost certainly have long-reaching consequences for her party’s legislative ambitions, and possibly her own. It may also decide the fate of the infrastructure deal she negotiated, which risks becoming collateral damage if talks on the social policy package fail.
According to her office, Sinema is engaged in “good-faith discussions with both President Biden and Senator Schumer to find common ground”, as Democrats work to trim the package and win her support.
Finally in the majority, and holding the key to her party’s ambitious agenda, Sinema has an opportunity that she could only have dreamed of when she first ran for office, said David Lujan, her former colleague in the state legislature. He doesn’t believe she would squander it.
“It would counter my entire understanding of why she changed her approach in the first place,” he said. “She wants to be seen as somebody who can get things done.”
La elección de Arabia Saudita como miembro de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos de la Mujer de 2018 a 2022 generó un escándalo en la ONU, ya que el reino árabe es considerado uno de los países más machistas del planeta. En efecto, con base en la ley islámica, o sharía, cada mujer de ese país debe tener un guardián masculino, quien decide sobre aspectos importantes de su vida como sus opciones laborales, sus viajes al extranjero, su matrimonio e incluso a qué procedimientos quirúrgicos puede someterse. Igualmente, a ellas se les prohíbe transitar por las calles sin el velo islámico, relacionarse con hombres que no sean sus parientes y manejar vehículos. Además, solo el 13 por ciento de la fuerza laboral es femenina y desde 2015 se les permitió votar. Con ello, organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos pusieron el grito en el cielo. “¿Cómo puede Arabia Saudita promover los derechos de la mujer a nivel global, cuando en casa las discriminan y las tratan como a menores de edad durante toda su vida?”, preguntó Rothna Begum, activista de Human Rights Watch. Esta no es la primera vez que a un país sexista se le otorga un asiento en esta comisión, pues Irán, nación que impone serias barreras a las libertades de la mujer, es miembro desde 2010.
Rusia Nostalgia bélica
El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, quiere aumentar el nacionalismo en su país al revivir las victorias militares de antaño. En efecto, ordenó construir una réplica del Reichstag, el Parlamento alemán, para un evento simbólico en el que 2.000 actores recrearon la toma de este edificio que lideró el Ejército Rojo en 1945. La bandera de la Unión Soviética ondeando sobre el Parlamento en Berlín es uno de los símbolos más recordados de la victoria de la Unión Soviética sobre el Tercer Reich en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, triunfo que Putin quiere consolidar como el hito fundacional de la Rusia moderna. La ‘celebración’ le puso los pelos de punta a los alemanes, pues el modelo a escala del Reichstag no se basó en el edificio de esa época, sino que tomó como referencia la construcción contemporánea, sede actual del Parlamento federal germano.
Filipinas ¿Seguirá impune?
Por la imposibilidad de impugnar al mandatario, la oposición filipina recurrió a la comunidad internacional para traer ante la justicia al autoritario presidente Rodrigo Duterte. El abogado Jude Sabio presentó la primera demanda contra Duterte ante la Corte Penal Internacional, en la que afirma que el mandatario es responsable por los 1.000 asesinatos que ejecutó el escuadrón de la muerte de la ciudad de Davao cuando él era alcalde. Igualmente, Sabio denunció que desde la llegada de Duterte al poder en junio de 2016 las autoridades han asesinado extrajudicialmente a 7.000 personas en el marco de la sanguinaria guerra contra las drogas, la política insignia del gobierno. Sin embargo, lo más probable es que el presidente se salga con la suya, pues la CPI solo ha emitido seis fallos desde su creación en 2002.
Israel Con los crespos hechos
Mientras el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, encabeza la derechización de Israel y se acerca al gobierno de Donald Trump, su relación con los países europeos que le exigen frenar su política de asentamientos en territorio palestino empeora. En efecto, el mandatario dejó plantado al vicecanciller alemán, Sigmar Gabriel, en un encuentro en Jerusalén. Esta disputa diplomática surgió por cuenta de una reunión entre Gabriel y los líderes de la organización Breaking the Silence, que reúne testimonios de soldados israelíes retirados que denuncian los abusos del Ejército hacia los palestinos en Cisjordania. Como respuesta, Netanyahu justificó su desplante y afirmó que no se reunirá “con diplomáticos que visiten Israel y se relacionen con organizaciones que menosprecien a los soldados israelíes y quieran enjuiciarlos como criminales de guerra”.
SAN ANTONIO – With COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations steadily rising, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg pleaded with unvaccinated residents who are most susceptible to serious illness or death when they are infected with the virus.
“Forget the disinformation that you hear out there,” Nirenberg said during a countywide briefing on Friday. “You are at great risk of severe illness.”
Officials are seeing a concerning increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Bexar County. Five weeks ago, the average number of coronavirus hospitalizations stood at 123. As of Friday, 418 people are now hospitalized due to COVID-19, Nirenberg said.
Infections have been rising due to the spread of the delta variant, a strain of COVID-19 that has proved to be deadlier and more transmissible.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said that up to 97% of the patients battling the virus in the hospital are unvaccinated.
“For those that chose not to get vaccinated, I would hope that (the hospitalizations) would send a clear message to everybody,” Wolff said. “You better go get your vaccination. It’s a little late to ask for the vaccination when you’re fixing to go on a ventilator.”
Along with the rise in hospitalizations, the community has seen a rising positivity rate, the percentage of weekly COVID-19 tests that come back positive for the virus. The county’s positivity rate hit 13.5% as of Monday. A month ago, it was 3.8%.
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COVID-19 positivity rate rises to 13.5%, 418 hospitalized
Though roughly 12% of current infections involve vaccinated people, health officials said less than 1% of vaccinated residents in Bexar County have been infected with COVID-19.
“Yes, we [vaccinated people] may get COVID,” Wolff said about the potential of breakthrough infections. “But we’re not going to end up sick and in the hospital.”
Nirenberg said he and Wolff will receive briefings twice weekly about COVID-19 conditions, with updates going to the public on the Bexar County’s progress curbing the virus.
COVID-19 conditions are not only worsening in San Antonio, but across the state of Texas, where the positivity rate hit 10.2% for the first time since February.
Medical experts say COVID-19 vaccines are still the best way to reduce the likelihood of infection and prevent severe illness or hospitalization.
In San Antonio, roughly 65% of adults are fully vaccinated, but statewide, that number drops to roughly 51%, according to the latest state data.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said the variant is “having a significant effect on unvaccinated people leading to increases in new cases and hospitalizations.”
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Ivana (izq.) y Melania Trump (der.), la primera esposa y la actual cónyuge del presidente de Estados Unidos.
Dice que fue la primera esposa de Donald Trump y que eso la hace, por tanto, primera dama de Estados Unidos.
La exmodelo checa Ivana Trump destapó este lunes la polémica tras unas declaraciones en la televisión estadounidense en las que asegura, incluso, que tiene el número directo de la Casa Blanca y que habla con el presidente cada dos semanas.
“No quiero causar ningún tipo de celos o algo así, porque básicamente soy la primera esposa de Trump. Soy la primera dama, ¿de acuerdo?”, dijo en el programa en el que promocionaba un libro sobre su vida y su relación con el presidente que saldrá a la venta este martes.
Ivana Trump, madre de Donald Jr., Ivanka y Eric Trump, y cónyuge del actual inquilino de la Casa Blanca entre 1977 y 1992, aseguró que el presidente la llama en ocasiones para que ella le dé consejos.
Las declaraciones de Ivana pasaron sin mucho aspaviento mediático hasta unas horas después, cuando la portavoz de la primera dama, Stephanie Grisham, publicó un inusitado comunicado.
La respuesta de Melania
En la declaración, Grisham aseguró que Melania Trump ha hecho de la Casa Blanca un hogar para (su hijo) Barron y para el presidente, que ama vivir en Washington y que es honrada por su título de primera dama de Estados Unidos.
Afirmó, además, que no consideraba utilizar su posición para vender libros, sino para ayudar a los niños, una clara alusión al motivo de la entrevista de Ivana.
“Claramente no hay sustancia en las declaraciones de una ex. Esto desafortunadamente no es más que una búsqueda de atención para su propio interés”, indicó el texto.
Según medios locales, nunca antes en la historia se había registrado una polémica de este tipo entre la esposa actual y la ex de un presidente de Estados Unidos.
De hecho, Ronald Reagan había sido, hasta la llegada de Trump, el único divorciado en ocupar la Casa Blanca.
South Korea’s military said two rounds of unidentified ballistic missiles were fired into the open waters of the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, according to NBC News.
Japan’s Suga condemned the missile launch as “simply outrageous” and said it was a “threat to the peace and security” of the region.
“It is in violation of UN Security Council resolution, and I strongly protest and condemn this,” he said outside his office, adding that the government will continue to monitor the area.
“We will work closely with the U.S., South Korea, and other concerned nations to resolutely protect the lives of our citizens and their peaceful lives,” the prime minister said.
The Joint Chief of Staffs of South Korea said local and U.S. intelligence services are conducting detailed analysis.
South Korea will be holding an emergency meeting over the ballistic missile launch on Wednesday afternoon, NBC reported.
“President Moon Jae In was immediately briefed about NK’s launch of the unidentified projectile… [and] will be convening the National Security Council meeting with its standing committee members upon returning from his outdoor schedules today,” said Park Kyung-mi, the presidential spokesperson in a text briefing.
It said the U.S. commitment to defending South Korea and Japan “remains ironclad.”
U.S.-North Korea relations have been volatile in recent years.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanged barbs in 2017, but subsequently moved to hold two bilateral meetings discussing denuclearization and possible sanctions relief. Not much progress was made after the second summit in Hanoi ended abruptly.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday tried to explain her lack of office hours by saying she’s still taking “baby steps” — but said constituents who can’t work with her sporadic schedule should follow her on Twitter.
Almost four months after her inauguration, the freshman congresswoman only recently opened a Queens office and still doesn’t have one in the Bronx.
Instead, on Thursday, she appeared at the Westchester Square Library for just two hours during the workday, where she met with 17 locals.
“Right now we’re just taking these baby steps and adapting according to community feedback,” the 29-year-old told The Post when asked why her brief availability was in the middle of the day.
“We don’t want to be too concrete, we adapt to the feedback of the community, so if we hear that folks want more evening hours we’re happy to do that.”
Asked what people with jobs should do in the meantime, she suggested: “You can give us a call, you can email us, you can add us on social media.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that she’s “constantly” attending community events, noting that she’d be at Bronx Community Board 9 that night.
But when asked for a schedule of future events she’d be attending so her constituents could find her, the self-described Democratic socialist claimed she wasn’t “allowed.”
“Due to safety reasons I’m not allowed to, so Capitol Police, uh, yeah, it’s intense, so, Capitol Police recommend that we don’t give specific details about where we will be and when too far in advance,” she said.
The Capitol Police said it wouldn’t comment on its “consultations” with “Member offices on security-related matters,” but a Democratic House aide said the cops “have nothing to do with the decision to have a public schedule or not.”
“The police don’t tell us what to do. The police did not send out a memo that we advise you not to send out a public schedule,” said the aide.
“You still have to provide the information publicly so your constituents can come.”
In a Time cover story published Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez’s staffers said they’d been trained on how to screen visitors because of the mounting number of death threats targeting the freshman lawmaker.
The rattled aides said they now worry whenever they hear a knock on the door of her office on Capitol Hill.
Pilots of the 737 Max that crashed in Ethiopia in March initially followed Boeing’s standard emergency procedures to try to get control of the plane, but ultimately failed, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Crew members turned off the flight-control system that automatically pushed down the plane’s nose after takeoff but could not get the plane to climb, the Journal reported, citing people briefed on the investigation’s preliminary findings. The Ethiopian Airlines crew ended up turning the control system back on before the plane crashed, killing all 157 people aboard.
It’s the latest report amid mounting pressure on Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration over their assertions that the crash may have been avoided had pilots simply followed established safety procedures. The new details of the crash are based on data from the aircraft’s black-box recorders.
The pilots turned the electrical power back on, which reengaged the stall-prevention feature, known as MCAS, and then used electrical switches to try to raise the nose, the Journal’s sources said.
It’s not clear why Ethiopian Flight 302 pilots turned the automated system back on rather than continuing to follow Boeing’s standard emergency steps. Government officials and investigators said it’s likely that manual controls to raise the nose of the plane didn’t work, and pilots tried to reengage the system to combat the nose-down angle of the jet and failed, the Journal reported.
The same Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System was also involved in the 737 Max crash in Indonesia in October that resulted in deaths of all 189 people on board.
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation launched an investigation on Tuesday into whistleblower complaints accusing the FAA of improperly training its safety inspectors to review the Boeing jets. The FAA may have been notified about these deficiencies as early as August, the panel said. The Justice Department has also launched a criminal probe.
Ethiopian investigators are expected to release a preliminary report about the crash in coming days. Investigators looking to the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia think similar system malfunctions were involved, including erroneous data from a single sensor that caused the MCAS system to misfire.
Boeing is still preparing software updates for the 737 Max plane’s flight-control system. The plane maker initially planned to submit the fixes to the FAA last week but said it needs more time. The revised software will have two sensors, rather than one, and will give pilots more control over the system, according to Boeing.
“We urge caution against speculating and drawing conclusions on the findings prior to the release of the flight data and the preliminary report,” Boeing said in a statement responding to the report.
The Justice Department is investigating possible schemes to exchange money for a presidential pardon, according to a document filed in federal court.
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The Justice Department is investigating possible schemes to exchange money for a presidential pardon, according to a document filed in federal court.
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The Justice Department is investigating a possible secret scheme involving a bribe in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
The 18-page court opinion is heavily redacted, and the names of the individuals under investigation are blacked out as is the identity of the person to be pardoned under the alleged plan. Still, the filings provide a glimpse into what investigators are probing.
The federal court order, signed by Chief Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., is dated Aug. 28. It stems from her review of a government request to access certain communications believed to document a secret lobbying scheme and a related bribery-for-pardon scheme.
The filing says a government filter team was sorting through more than 50 digital devices such as iPhones and laptops as part of an investigation when they came across emails pointing to the two alleged schemes.
The secret lobbying scheme, the document says, allegedly involved two individuals whose names are redacted who lobbied senior White House officials to try to secure clemency for a third individual whose name is blacked out.
The related bribery conspiracy allegedly involved the offer of “a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence” for an individual whose identity is redacted.
News of the investigation was first reported by CNN.
A Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “no government official was or is currently a subject or target of the investigation disclosed in this filing.”
The fight over the communications revolved around whether the emails were covered by attorney-client privilege, which would shield them from the government.
Chief Judge Howell ultimately found that the emails were not privileged materials because each of the emails in question was sent to an individual who is not a lawyer.
“The attorney-client privilege applies only when the participants in the communication are the client and the client’s attorney, who is a ‘member of the bar,’ ” Howell wrote.
The decision means prosecutors can use the materials to confront the subjects of the investigation.
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El irreverente “youtuber” uruguayo Adrián Nario, más conocido como “El bananero”, que alcanzó la popularidad con su serie de hilarantes videos y como creador de personajes como “El Impotente Hulk”, “Iván el Trolazo”, “Harry el Sucio Potter”, “El Hombre que Araña”, y la recordada “Muñeca System”, visitará los estudios de RPP Noticias este jueves a las 2 p.m.
Nuestros seguidores en redes sociales podrán hacerle todo tipo de preguntas a “El Bananero” utilizando el hashtag #RPPSape.
“El Bananero” llega a Lima en exclusiva para el Fan Expo Perú 2014, la Primera Convención de Fans en Perú a realizarse este sábado y domingo en el C.C. Claro de Plaza San Miguel, donde entre otros atractivos habrán concursos, conferencias, tiendas especializadas en artículos de colección para todos los fanáticos y para todas las edades, cosplays, invitados internacionales y nacionales, premios, guerra de bandas, fans clubs, talleres de manga, cómic, anime y más.
Además de “El Bananero” se contará con la participación del reconocido “youtuber” peruano BrunoAcme. el músico Charlie Parra, la mexicana Dalin Cosplay, quien es toda una súper estrella en el mundo del cosplay internacional.
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President Joe Biden said U.S. regulators are looking at administering Covid-19 booster shots five months after people finish their primary immunizations, moving up the expected timetable for a third shot by about three months.
Biden, who was speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, said health officials were considering following that country’s lead on boosters.
“We’re considering the advice you’ve given that we should start earlier,” Biden said, adding that officials are debating whether the timeline should be shorter. “Should it be as little as five months and that’s being discussed.”
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Approval of the booster shots is expected to come sometime around Labor Day after federal health officials have time to review data from other countries and vaccine manufacturers that indicated booster dose efficacy six months after a previous dose.
In adults age 60 and older, a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine provided 4x as much protection against infection with the delta variant than the previous two-dose regimen, according to the Ministry of Health of Israel.
Distribution of the booster shots following Food and Drug Administration clearance and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation is expected to begin on September 20. The Biden administration and vaccine manufacturers have indicated that there should be enough doses for any fully vaccinated adult seeking a third dose.
Correction: This article was updated to correct the timing of when a potential third Covid dose might be administered. It’s five months after full immunization.
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