CHICAGO – Reaction has been swift following the release of body cam footage that shows a 13-year-old boy with his hands raised less than a second before a Chicago police officer fatally shot him last month in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Video footage of the shooting, released Thursday by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, shows a CPD officer shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest around 2:30 a.m. on March 29 in the alley of the 2300 block of South Spaulding.
Adam was shot after he and another man, 21-year-old Ruben Roman, ran away from police. Officers initially responded to the area following a report of gunfire.
Adam Toledo’s family lawyer Adeena J. Weiss-Ortiz says the video “speaks for itself.”
“Adam, during his last wind of life, did not have a gun in his hands after the officer screamed at him, ‘show me your hands,’” she said. “Adam complied, turned around, his hands were empty when the officer shot him.”
WATCH: Toledo family attorney speaks out following release of deadly shooting
She says Toledo, who was one of five siblings, may have possibly had a gun in his possession earlier in the night but denied that he possessed one in his hands when a CPD officer opened fire.
She says his hands were up, in compliance with the officer’s demands.
The shooting has drawn comments about why a 13-year-old was out at 2:30 a.m. Weiss-Ortiz says the circumstances don’t matter, pointing out that Toledo was unarmed when he was shot.
“A lot of people have asked about that, but I don’t think it matters whether he’s a choir boy or involved in any activity,” she said. “The fact is, he was shot, unarmed. That could have been me, my son, or any one of us in that alley that evening.”
As to why Toledo was out with 21-year-old Ruben Roman, WGN has learned that he was unknown to the Toledo family.
WATCH: Little Village community reacts to video release of Adam Toledo shooting
Governor Pritzker released a statement in the aftermath of the video’s release. Pritzker said in part: “As a father, I know to my core that Adam Toledo’s family is living a parent’s worst nightmare. My heart goes out to all who love him.”
“Parents deserve neighborhoods that will nurture their kids. Children deserve to be safe. Communities deserve to live with hope for the future.
Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old child, was shot to death. This is a moment that calls for justice for our children and accountability in all our public institutions.
The State of Illinois is committed to this work, whether it is transforming our justice system or investing in communities to create durable and long-term progress.”
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton also addressed the video, saying that the “trauma is real on many levels.”
I honor the humanity of Adam Toledo.
As a mother—as a human being—my heart goes out to his mother, father, and loved ones. I’m thinking of his classmates, the Little Village community, all who are feeling this grief.
— Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton (@LtGovStratton) April 15, 2021
Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke Thursday afternoon ahead of the release of video that shows the fatal shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
“No parent should ever have a video broadcast widely of their child’s last moments,” Lightfoot said.
WATCH: Mayor Lightfoot speaks ahead of video release that shows fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo
Office of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle called for “justice and accountability” in the shooting she labeled as a “tragedy.”
My thoughts right now are on a 13-year-old child who should still be with us.
Adam Toledo.
I grieve with his family and loved ones who mourn the unimaginable. My heart breaks as I think of my own children, grandchildren, and former students.
Let us pray for peace, which, I must admit, even I cannot find in this moment and every single time a person of color is killed by an officer.
There are far too many of these times now.
Adam Toledo was just a child and should still be alive.
We must demand justice and accountability for this tragedy and address the law enforcement system that have allowed this to happen time and time again.
Statement from Toni Preckwinkle
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said in part: “In the midst of the trial of Derek Chauvin and the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Chicago has come to face the shocking fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. He was a seventh-grader at Gary Elementary School in Little Village with his whole life ahead of him. My heart breaks for his family and friends, who are grieving the loss of his young life.”
Far too many Black and Brown men and women have lost their lives to brutal acts of racial injustice. All the evidence shows that we are dealing with a system of justice that isn’t being applied equally—and we need to change that.
Speaking on the release of the video, a statement from the MacArthur Justice Center read, in part: “A 13-year-old boy was murdered by the Chicago Police Department. The state-sanctioned shooting of a child is not only unimaginably tragic, but a reflection of how Black and Latinx people and communities are policed in this city, every day.”
The ACLU of Illinois says “The release of the body camera footage and other materials by Chicago police today cannot obscure one, central fact: a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed by those sworn to protect and serve our community. The video released today shows that police shot Adam Toledo even though his hands were raised in the air. The pain of seeing this footage only adds to the pain and grief experienced by the Toledo family and the community. We join all those mourning this loss of life.”
Los mejores memes tras la entrega de los Grammys 2015
Ante los creativos trajes de la alfombra roja y la ceremonia, el buen humor en redes sociales no se hizo esperar. | Fuente: Pública | Twitter
Ante los creativos trajes de la alfombra roja y la ceremonia, el buen humor en redes sociales no se hizo esperar.
La ceremonia de los Premios Grammy 2015 generó críticas en redes sociales, sobretodo para Madonna e Iggy Azalea, quienes llegaron con llamativos atuendos.
Sin embargo, la que ganó en tendencias fue Rihanna, por su enorme vestido color rosa, una creación de Giambattista Valli.
El peinado de Iggy Azalea también recibió críticas, al igual que Sia y Maddie Ziegler quienes llamaron la atención por lo esponjoso de su cabello. Mientras que Lady Gaga fue comparada con Laura León.
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President Trump escalated his attacks on a Muslim member of Congress and “Radical Left Democrats” on Monday ahead of a reelection campaign that is quickly taking shape around divisive messages centered on immigration and patriotism.
Speaking Monday at an event billed as a tax and economy roundtable, Trump told a suburban Minneapolis audience “how unfairly you’ve been treated as a state” when it comes to immigration, and he rattled off a litany of grudges against the current system: The loopholes are “horrible and foolish,” the visa lottery is “insane,” and the concept of asylum is “ridiculous.”
“People come in, they read a line from a lawyer that a lawyer hands them out online,” Trump said at the event as he mimicked an asylum seeker reading from a piece of paper. “It’s a big con job. That’s what it is.”
The afternoon remarks came hours after he took a direct shot at one of the state’s members of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) — whom Trump called “out of control” — as Omar continued to come under criticism for comments that critics view as dismissive of the tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The dueling Trumps on Tax Day highlighted a parallel dynamic at play ahead of his reelection bid: While the broader GOP apparatus is attempting to focus on the economy, the campaigner in chief is seizing on more confrontational messages that may appeal to the base but potentially turn off swing voters.
“If they’re focused on expanding his popularity and the party’s popularity, they should be talking about the economy, and they should be talking about tax cuts,” said Tony Fratto, a former White House and Treasury Department spokesman during the George W. Bush administration. “Every time they choose to double down and talk about immigration, they lose an opportunity.”
The Trump campaign, the White House and the Republican National Committee were all following the same playbook Monday, the first Tax Day to reflect the full impact of the GOP’s 2017 tax cuts, with a messaging effort reminding voters that the law had saved most Americans money.
“American Workers Are Thriving Thanks To President Donald J. Trump’s Middle Class Tax Cuts,” the White House said in a news release Monday morning. That statement came about 30 minutes after another release titled “Secretary Mnuchin: ‘The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Is Working,’ ” which linked to a CNN opinion piece by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Meanwhile, officials at the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a colorful video set to peppy music that touted the benefits of the GOP tax law, while the group’s chairman, Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.), co-wrote an op-ed that celebrated “higher wages, record economic optimism, record low unemployment” thanks to Republican policies.
Trump, on the other hand, fired off several morning tweets that veered far off topic.
He began his day with a 6:29 a.m. tweet advising Boeing to “REBRAND” its troubled 737 Max planes, then followed that with a stream of tweets that included attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a demand for Congress to return to Washington to “FIX THE IMMIGRATION LAWS!” and a call to “INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!” behind special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report.
In one tweet, Trump accused Omar of making “anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements.” In another, he complained: “The Radical Left Democrats will never be satisfied with anything we give them. They will always Resist and Obstruct!”
At one point, Trump posted a tweet saying he agreed with the singer Cher, who had said she didn’t support Los Angeles taking in thousands of Central American migrants while the city faced poverty and homelessness.
Later in Burnsville, Minn., Trump spent the better part of an hour promoting the economic gains prompted by the tax cuts while listening to several small-business owners tell him how the 2017 law had improved their paychecks and their bottom lines.
But then the president returned to one of his favorite topics.
“Congress has to get smart” on immigration, he said. “And honestly, when I say Congress, I can’t blame the Republicans. The Republicans want to do it. But you need the votes of the Democrats.”
The president added: “We can retake the House, I think, over this issue . . . As soon as we do, we’re going to get this straightened out.”
A number of GOP veterans of House campaigns disagreed that Trump could carry House Republicans to victory next fall on a hard-line immigration message.
“As we saw in 2018, immigration will inflame both sides. Those folks will never be moved,” said Matt Gorman, who served as communications director for the House GOP campaign arm in the 2018 cycle. “However, in swing districts in Texas, Florida and California, that debate hurt us.”
But Trump aides say the president has a knack for driving key messages in unorthodox ways.
Tim Murtaugh, the campaign’s communication director, said that “Trump’s political and communications instincts are always sharp, and the campaign follows his lead.”
“As the president shows, it is entirely possible to carry more than one message at a time. Immigration issues will always be key, as will be the booming economy,” he said. “The Russia hoax is also a frequent topic for the campaign, as we remind Americans that they were lied to for two years.
Murtaugh added, “Like millions of Americans, the president found Rep. Omar’s comments on Jews and remarks belittling the 9/11 attacks to be offensive.”
Other Republicans rationalized Trump’s use of 9/11 imagery by saying that Omar’s remarks from a March speech — in which she emphasized the discrimination that Muslims in the United States faced after the 2001 attacks, when “some people did something” — were deeply offensive. On Friday, Trump had tweeted a video that included footage of the burning twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, mixed with clips from Omar’s speech before the Council on American-Islamic Relations — which triggered an outcry from Democrats that he was politicizing the terrorist attacks.
“I think what she did was absolutely disgraceful,” Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) said Monday. Though King said he himself tries to avoid using images of the attacks in political conversations, he added, “I think the president’s trying to make a point . . . in this case, I would allow it.”
Many Republicans have been frustrated by Trump’s unwillingness to drive a consistent message promoting the GOP tax cuts, both while the legislation was being written and after it was enacted into law. The legislation is still largely unpopular with the public, and only 17 percent of voters believed they got a tax cut, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week.
That runs counter to independent analyses, such as one from the conservative Tax Foundation, which found that more than 65 percent of taxpayers will have their tax liabilities reduced by at least $100. Just 5.5 percent of taxpayers will see a tax increase this year, according to the think tank, which used a report on the tax law produced by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
Trump’s inability to focus on a single message — last year during a tax event, he threw his prepared remarks in the air, calling them “boring” — is a key reason some of his accomplishments haven’t gained traction with the public, said Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers,” a history of White House chiefs of staff.
“He can’t even focus on the few things that he’s accomplished,” Whipple said. “He goes for the jugular, he throws raw meat to the base. That’s his comfort zone. It’s not talking about accomplishments.”
Still, some Republican allies said Trump’s willingness to depart from political orthodoxy keeps his 2020 Democratic opponents off-kilter and forces them to spend time responding to him rather than defining themselves. Many Democratic presidential candidates spent much of the past weekend figuring out how to respond to an earlier Trump tweet attacking Omar.
Sarah Dolan, executive director of the conservative super PAC America Rising, said Democratic presidential candidates will struggle to present a positive message as long as Trump is influencing the primary.
“The other benefit for us is that each of them is trying to roll out positive policy initiatives or introduce themselves to voters, and instead they are having to deal with negative stories about them or negative stories about other candidates in the field and react,” said Dolan, whose group compiles opposition research on Democrats. “All of those things are helpful for us because that becomes the only thing that voters associate with them.”
Democrat says White House ‘made a mistake’ by pressuring him to support Biden COVID relief plan on ‘Special Report’
President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package took a key step forward Friday night after Democratic leaders reached an agreement with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., on unemployment insurance benefits.
A Democratic push to move forward with Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” halted for hours on Friday after Manchin balked the terms of unemployment insurance outlined in the House’s version of the bill.
Manchin’s support is critical for Senate Democrats, who hold a razor-thin majority in the upper chamber and have garnered little support from GOP lawmakers on the package. Even with passage possible through a simple majority vote under special budget reconciliation rules, the Democrats will likely need to stay united in order to get the package through the Senate.
“The President has made it clear we will have enough vaccines for every American by the end of May and I am confident the economic recovery will follow,” Manchin said in a statement. “We have reached a compromise that enables the economy to rebound quickly while also protecting those receiving unemployment benefits from being hit with unexpected tax bill next year.”
Under the agreement with Manchin, Senate Democrats will submit a framework for $300 in weekly unemployment benefits through Sept. 6. In the House version, the weekly unemployment benefit was $400 through Aug. 29.
The agreement also includes a provision denoting that the first $10,200 of unemployment insurance is untaxable for first-time recipients in households earning less than $150,000. The clause was not included in the House bill.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden backs the compromise.
“The President supports the compromise agreement, and is grateful to all the Senators who worked so hard to reach this outcome,” she said in a statement. “It extends supplemental unemployment benefit into September, and helps the vast majority of unemployment insurance recipients avoid unanticipated tax bills. Most importantly, this agreement allows us to move forward on the urgently needed American Rescue Plan, with $1400 relief checks, funding we need to finish the vaccine rollout, open our schools, help those suffering from the pandemic, and more.”
The Senate will proceed with its “vote-a-rama” on the bill, during which senators can propose amendments to the package as it currently stands. Earlier Friday, lawmakers shot down Sen. Bernie Sanders’ amendment that sought to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour as part of the package.
The Senate is expected to finalize the relief bill this weekend, though the exact timing of a final vote remains unclear.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
Top Senate Republicans are making a concerted effort to quash the creation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, deeply endangering the bill’s passage amid fears about what a high-profile inquiry into the events of 6 January might uncover.
The Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said he opposes the commission bill in its current form and several Republicans who have previously expressed support said they could no longer back it.
McConnell’s opposition brings into sharp relief the treacherous path ahead for the legislation , which Senate Democrats could introduce as soon as this week, according to a source briefed on the matter.
The reasons publicly offered by Republicans for rejecting the creation of a commission are myriad: it might impede existing congressional and justice department investigations into 6 January. It might become politicized. It might make pro-Trump rioters “look bad”.
But in the end, the stance reflects the fear from McConnell and top Senate Republicans that extending their support to an inquiry likely to find Donald Trump at fault for inciting the Capitol attack could be used as a cudgel against Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Both McConnell and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy are determined to put Republicans in the majority in both chambers next year, and both leaders regard the commission as an obstacle in their paths.
The political calculations looming large echo many of the same concerns that arose during the debate to establish the 9/11 commission, which was opposed by a Bush administration anxious that the disclosure of security lapses could jeopardise their 2004 election chances.
But while lawmakers then were able to put aside months of disagreements to form an inquiry – the bill passed in the House with three votes against and by voice vote in the Senate – the Capitol attack has become just another partisan issue in a divided Congress.
The positions of the two Republican leaders also underscores the fear of what a full accounting of 6 January might uncover about the roles that Republicans may have played ahead of the insurrection, potentially inviting unwelcome scrutiny of Trump’s lies about election fraud they helped promulgate.
The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, in particular could be left exposed should a 9/11-style commission ultimately be impanelled.
McCarthy called Trump as rioters breached the Capitol building and begged him to call them off, only for the former president to side with the rioters, saying they appeared to care more about overturning the election results than Republicans in Congress. Five people eventually died as the mob looted the Capitol and hunted for politicians, including Vice-President Mike Pence.
McCarthy, in his desperation, also spoke with senior White House advisor and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to try and stop the attack after his pleas to Trump went unheeded, a former administration source said.
Those conversations between Trump and McCarthy – addressing the crucial question of what Trump was doing and saying privately as the Capitol was overrun – would almost certainly be examined, raising the specter that McCarthy himself would have to testify, voluntarily or under subpoena.
Capitol police with guns drawn stand near a barricaded door as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on 6 January. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
“My humble opinion is that there’s some information that [McCarthy] would deem troubling for the Republican party if it got out. And I think he will do everything possible to prevent that,” said the House Democrat Bennie Thompson.
McCarthy is also vulnerable to having his own senior aides investigated by a 6 January commission, having hired Brian Jack, the former political director of the Trump White House, who was involved in organizing the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol attack.
The bill to create a 9/11-style commission passed the House on Wednesday with bipartisan support after 35 Republicans, in a stinging rebuke, defied McCarthy and an emergency recommendation from the office of the House minority whip, Steve Scalise, office to oppose the legislation.
But McConnell’s new resistance – a reversal from his previous openness to having a commission, as well as his sharp denunciation of Trump for inciting the Capitol attack – betrays the fraught political situation the bill faces in the Senate.
The bill, in its current form, would need the endorsement of at least 10 Senate Republicans before it can be brought to the floor for debate. It would also need 10 Senate Republicans to cross the aisle and join Democrats to defeat an expected filibuster.
Senator Richard Burr voted to impeach Donald Trump over the Capitol insurrection but now appears to oppose an investigatory commmission. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Senate Democrats could chart a narrow path to 10 votes based on the seven Republicans – Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Ben Sasse and Patrick Toomey – who voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial.
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and his leadership team were still hopeful in recent days of securing enough bipartisan support to push the bill through, according to a source familiar deliberations, with other Republicans, such as Rob Portman, remaining undecided.
The Senate minority whip, John Thune, who has been bullish about the prospects of having a commission to tightly focus on 6 January and not unrelated leftwing violence, as suggested by McCarthy, has previously said that Republicans had not yet whipped against the bill.
Zach Wamp, a member of the original September 11 commission and the former top Republican on the committee overseeing the US Capitol Police, condemned efforts from Republicans to doom an inquiry into Jan. 6.
“We need to know exactly what happened,” Wamp said. “So I would appeal to my fellow Republicans in the House and the Senate: Do the right thing here. We need to actually clear this up; do it together as Americans. Put our country above any political interests.”
But the bill’s chances of becoming law hit a further snag last week after at least one senator who voted to convict Trump announced he would oppose the commission. “I don’t believe establishing a commission is necessary or wise,” Burr said in a statement.
The chances of President Trump listening to or acting upon any re-election advice that I offer is slim to none. However, a course of action I’m about to suggest is actually more about presidential leadership and less about 2020 politics. But, since everything is about 2020 politics, let’s first dive into a Politico piece from Tuesday that chronicled Trump’s reaction to the Mueller report during a private Capitol Hill luncheon with Senate Republicans. The piece was headlined, “‘He’s doing a victory lap’: Rejuvenated Trump pushes aggressive agenda post-Mueller.”
The “victory lap” quote was from Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, but here is what I consider most significant:
“I look at this as sort of a new election. A fresh start,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally. He said Trump put it this way: “I’ve got this behind me now. It’s a fresh start. So let’s see what we can do — starting with health care.”
Whether the president has been offered a “fresh start” on his road to re-election is still legally and politically debatable, given that the entire Mueller report has yet to be released and other investigations continue. But, if Trump thinks and acts like he has been granted a fresh start, then, by golly, it is a fresh start.
Proof of his new attitude was seen Wednesday in the Drudge Report headline “Unshackled Trump May Attend White House Correspondents Dinner.” If true, that is tantamount to the action of a conquering king.
And, one can only imagine the exuberant sound bites that will emanate from his mouth during the first post-Mueller report rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday night.
Hence, Trump’s perception of triumphing over his enemies is the foundational basis for the advice that I now offer him and his re-election campaign:
Give an Oval Office prime-time speech expressing his willingness to help heal a divided nation. Trump should ask all Americans to move beyond the Mueller report, leave the 2016 election in the rear-view mirror, and have a new attitude of working together to solve our nation’s most pressing problems.
This is a golden opportunity to show presidential leadership. Just imagine the benefits of a speech that was at once contrite, humble and authentic in tone. The president has everything to gain by asking the American people for a new opportunity to be president of all Americans, not just his base.
The speech should be billed as “State of the Union 2.0” with a message that Trump is willing to mend fences with the media, the intelligence community, Democrats, and his enemies at large, for the good ofthe nation.
Furthermore, he could offer to “smoke the peace pipe” with his “enemies” in the press by proposing a White House meeting with media leaders to reset their relationship, again, for the good of the nation. I would bet that media outlets whose credibility was damaged by Mueller’s findings would be receptive to the offer.
Imagine if a new “unshackled” Trump gave such a speech, showing that he was capable of more even-tempered traditional presidential leadership? The ratings would be record-breaking and Trump would love that.
Perhaps it would even increase his job approval rating. It currently stands at a static sub-44 percent with 51.9 disapproving, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average — even after Trump tweeted on Sunday, “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!”
Unfortunately, less than 24 hours later, that elation translated into troubling overreach when Tim Murtaugh — the communications director for Trump’s 2020 campaign — sent a memo asking networks to ban well-known guests from the airwaves. Among the names listed were House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
With memos like that, the president risks turning his new-found victory into defeat. After all, haven’t the American people had enough White House drama?
Therefore, a “fresh start” backed with a “healing” speech — while standing on a strong economy and his record of accomplishment — offers the president the opportunity to begin a new phase in his relationship with the American people, Congress, and the media.
Hey, Tim Murtaugh — please consider my suggestion (a “wild” rally speech does not begin to qualify). But most important, and under no circumstances, should you use Trump’s “victory lap” as a justification for revenge. Such behavior is beneath the office of the president.
Myra Adams is a media producer and writer who served on the McCain Ad Council during the GOP nominee’s 2008 campaign and on the 2004 Bush campaign creative team.
El ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud de Venezuela realizó este martes el primer simulacro de diagnóstico a personas que pudieran presentar síntomas del virus del ébola.
De acuerdo con el protocolo de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), la cartera ministerial llevó a cabo el ensayo de la operación preventiva en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (IAIM), específicamente en la terminal aérea “Simón Bolívar”, en el estado Vargas (centro-norte).
¿Cómo actuará el IAIM en caso de sospecha del virus?
En la rampa 4 del aeropuerto se habilitó una sala de aislamiento que será utilizada en caso de presentarse la sospecha de una persona con los síntomas del virus.
Luego de aislar a la persona en la sala, se trasladará a uno de los centros hospitalarios seleccionados para atender los casos en Vargas.
Equipamiento:
La ministra para la Salud, Nancy Pérez, informó que el próximo miércoles llegarán al país un mil 500 trajes de bioseguridad fundamentales para atender estos casos.
Igualmente, anunció que Venezuela adquirió un laboratorio de bioseguridad. Éste es un container que estará equipado para realizar los exámenes de sangre necesarios para confirmar o descartar la presencia del virus en la persona.
Pérez dijo que se instalará una sala situacional en la que se divulgará información actualizada del comportamiento del Ébola en el mundo.
Más temprano la periodista y corresponsal de teleSUR en Venezuela, Madelein García tuiteó (@madeleintlSUR) en la red social los adelantos del simulacro en el país suramericano:
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El primer ministro canadiense, Justin Trudeau, se reunió el miércoles con integrantes del comité encargado de alas renegociaciones del TLCAN, en Washington. Credit
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En medio de discusiones para la renegociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), México, Estados Unidos y Canadá parecen también estar preparándose para la posibilidad cada vez mayor de que el acuerdo comercial sea eliminado por completo. El presidente Donald Trump ha dicho que se retiraría si no le parecen favorables las condiciones; ayer en una reunión con el primer ministro canadiense Justin Trudeau dijo que podría terminar por negociar acuerdos bilaterales por separado.
Trudeau hoy visita México para intentar rescatar el TLCAN.
Por otro lado, Trump causó ayer controversias por lanzar nuevas amenazas veladas a los medios y prometer quitarle su “licencia” de transmisión al canal NBC News (no es posible quitarle la licencia) después de que este publicara información según la cual Estados Unidos ha estado aumentando su arsenal nuclear.
Asimismo, Estados Unidos se salió de la Unesco (Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura) por segunda vez en su historia (la primera fue en 1983 y se quedó fuera hasta 2003) ante el presunto sesgo anti-Israel del organismo de las Naciones Unidas, que cuenta a Palestina como Estado miembro. El retiro entraría en vigor en diciembre de 2018. Estados Unidos ya había suspendido el financiamiento durante el gobierno de Barack Obama por la misma razón justo después de que Palestina fuera admitido.
¿Tienes curiosidad sobre cómo The New York Times le da cobertura al gobierno de Trump? Puedes preguntar hoy en una sesión en inglés con los corresponsales Peter Baker y Maggie Haberman que será transmitida en vivo a las 18:30, hora de Nueva York.
Un agente de la Secretaría Nacional Antidrogas de Paraguay (SENAD) en una plantación en una zona boscosa del departamento de Alto Paraná, en la frontera con Brasil, en febrero de 2014. Credit
Santi Carneri
Durante años, los habitantes del pueblo paraguayo de Kamba Rembe han cultivado cannabis. Durante años, también, han intentado dejar de hacerlo.
Alzaron la voz con su solicitud después de una de las campañas de erradicación por parte de las autoridades paraguayas: familias enteras con niños y ancianos salieron a las calles con pancarta pidiendo ayuda para cultivar otros productos.
El gobierno, de quien requerían apoyo en cuanto a inversiones y créditos agrícolas, dijo que los respaldaría. ¿Por qué no ha sido así?
En Colombia también ha habido complicaciones con el programa de sustitución de cultivos de los cocaleros. Averigua más aquí.
Una manifestación prounidad española en Barcelona, el 12 de octubre Credit
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España celebró hoy el Día de la Hispanidad con marchas en contra del independentismo en Cataluña y consignas como “Cataluña sí, España también”. En Barcelona hubo manifestaciones con banderas tanto españolas como catalanas, mientras que en Madrid se dejaron entrever muestras de un creciente patriotismo durante el desfile de las fuerzas armadas y del rey Felipe VI: hubo una asistencia histórica y gritos enfáticos de “Viva España”.
Los festejos fueron ensombrecidos por el fallecimiento de un piloto después de las maniobras del desfile. Asimismo, en Barcelona hubo algunos manifestantes que se pelearon en la plaza Cataluña –lanzaron sillas y otros objetos, según reportes–, sin que haya reportes de heridos.
Las fuertes tensiones entre los gobiernos en Madrid y Barcelona por el independentismo catalán continúan. Ayer el presidente Mariano Rajoy le exigió al líder regional Carles Puigdemont que aclarara a más tardar el lunes si declaró formalmente la independencia en un discurso algo ambiguo al respecto, y el mandatario español también dio los primeros pasos para invocar el artículo 155 de la Constitución, que permitiría asumir las funciones administrativas de Cataluña. Puigdemont después tuiteó: “Demandamos diálogo y responden poniendo el 155 sobre la tema. Enterados”.
Un dibujo de un niño rohinyá sobre sus experiencias al huir de Birmania Credit
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Las historias de los rohinyá que llevan poco más de un mes huyendo de Birmania son cada vez más desgarradoras. Violaciones, asesinatos, mutilaciones e, incluso, un caso en el que un bebé fue arrancado de los brazos de su madre y lanzado al fuego. Los niños en campos de refugiados en Bangladés no dibujan más que sangre y cadáveres.
El buró de The New York Times en el Sudeste Asiático visitó algunos de los campos, en los que activistas de derechos humanos dijeron que la única meta de la campaña militar del gobierno birmano contra la minoría musulmana –que presuntamente empezó después de un ataque de una milicia– es desaparecer por completo del mapa a los rohinyá.
Te explicamos cómo comenzó esta crisis y de qué manera las milicias rohinyá surgieron del conflicto interreligioso.
Un grupo de manifestantes celebra el acuerdo de paz en Colombia en la Plaza Bolívar de Bogotá, el 26 de septiembre de 2016. Credit
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• El acuerdo de paz entre el gobierno colombiano de Juan Manuel Santos y las Farc fue blindado ayer: la corte constitucional estableció que los próximos tres gobiernos del país –que celebra elecciones presidenciales el próximo año– no podrán contravenir el pacto. Uno de los componentes de este, el programa para la justicia para la paz por delitos como narcotráfico o reincidencia, está siendo discutido en el congreso y parece que va encaminado hacia la aprobación.
• El director de orquesta venezolano Gustavo Dudamel, al frente del programa de educación musical El Sistema, acusó hoy al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro de haber cancelado una gira de los integrantes de esa orquesta a Asia. Hace unas semanas, otra gira a Estados Unidos también fue cancelada, posiblemente por las críticas que Dudamel ha lanzado hacia el régimen de Maduro. “A mis queridos hermanos y hermanas en Venezuela, manténganse fuertes y orgullosos”, escribió Dudamel. “Seguiré defendiendo la libertad de expresión”.
Jimmy Morales cumplió un año en el cargo el 14 de enero pasado. Credit
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• El presidente guatemalteco, Jimmy Morales, quedó ayer exento de otro proceso jurídico en su contra. Ya sobrevivió un proceso para quitarle la inmunidad ante una investigación de corrupción en el financiamiento de su campaña y ahora el tribunal supremo de Guatemala rechazó abrir un antejuicio en contra del mandatario por recibir fondos adicionales a su sueldo a modo de un “bono” militar. La solicitud fue hecha por el Ministerio Público y la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (CICIG), organismo vinculado a la ONU cuyo líder, Iván Velásquez, casi fue expulsado por Morales en agosto.
Quien sí enfrentará de nuevo un juicio es el guatemalteco Efraín Ríos Montt. Los procesos en su contra habían sido frenados desde mayo del 2016 y se reanudarían mañana.
Harvey Weinstein Credit
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El productor hollywoodense Harvey Weinstein está en el centro de un escándalo en Hollywood, después de que varias mujeres han alzado la voz en la última semana con historias muy similares de tocamientos indeseados, acoso sexual e incluso violación a los revelados en una investigación de The New York Times.
Fue despedido de su empresa, The Weinstein Company, que ha dicho que las acusaciones fueron sorpresivas. Sin embargo, un nuevo reportaje del Times sugiere que estaban al tanto del comportamiento desde, por lo menos, 2015; habrían tenido presente que había llegado a acuerdos monetarios fuera de tribunales para intentar pagar por el silencio de algunas mujeres.
Una de ellas, la actriz Rose McGowan, se ha vuelto de las críticas más vocales de aquellos en Hollywood que no se han pronunciado respecto a las revelaciones. Twitter suspendió ayer su cuenta, posiblemente por sus comentarios sobre si Ben Affleck sabía lo que había sucedido.
Rose McGowan recibió un pago por parte de Weinstein en 1997, cuando tenía veintitantos años, después de acusarlo de acoso. Credit
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El rechazo dentro de la industria hacia Weinstein también ha crecido: la asociación de premios británicos Bafta y Cannes lo denunciaron y algunos políticos en el Reino Unido han pedido que se le retire un título honorario de la Orden del Imperio Británico.
Sin embargo, a la luz de las revelaciones también han surgido otros cuestionamientos, principalmente: ¿por qué todo esto no fue revelado desde antes? El columnista de medios del Times Jim Rutenberg discute la dinámica de poder entre magnates de industrias como Weinstein y los medios que intentan descubrir sus fechorías, ante rumores de que reportajes previos sobre el comportamiento de Weinstein fueron archivados por temor a las demandas y acciones que podría interponer.
Mientras que una de las críticas de cine, Manohla Dargis, escribe sobre cómo personas con comportamientos como el de Weinstein priman en Hollywood y que, para realmente atender el asunto, es necesario ver más allá de él. No por nada en los últimos días han salido másy más denuncias no solo contra Weinstein, sino contra otros ejecutivos.
Ophelia creció de tormenta tropical a huracán el 11 de octubre. Credit
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La actual temporada de huracanes sí ha sido de las peores: de hecho, diez tormentas tropicales se convirtieron en huracanes en el Atlántico, con lo que se empató un récord establecido hace 124 años. Ophelia, que se trasladaría hacia el Reino Unido, es el huracán más reciente.
En el Caribe y en partes de Estados Unidos y México que tocan el golfo todavía se sienten los efectos de varios de estos huracanes. En islas caribeñas que dependen del turismo se han volcado a recuperar el sector cuanto antes, mientras que en Puerto Rico más del 80 por ciento de la nación todavía no tiene luz. De las 45 muertes contabilizadas por el paso de Irma y María, por lo menos cuatro podrían deberse a infecciones poshuracán debido a los problemas que enfrentan los servicios médicos por la falta de electricidad y por la escasez de medicamentos.
El presidente Donald Trump sugirió hoy que los servicios de emergencia y organismos de ayuda del gobierno federal no estarán ahí para siempre pese a que la recuperación de Puerto Rico se antoja sumamente difícil por los problemas financieros de la isla.
Palestinos en Gaza durante celebraciones por el anuncio del pacto de unidad entre Hamas y Fatah, el 12 de octubre Credit
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Hamas y Fatah, las facciones del liderazgo palestino que han estado en pugna desde 2007, anunciaron hoy que llegaron a un acuerdo de unidad bajo el cual la administración de las fronteras de la Franja de Gaza, regida por Hamas, serán una responsabilidad conjunta con el manto de la Autoridad Palestina.
A cambio, Fatah retirará una serie de sanciones que le había impuesto a Hamas este año.
El pacto entrará en vigor el 1 de diciembre de 2017.
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates is defending the World Health Organization, blasting President Donald Trump‘s decision to halt funding for the U.N. agency in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda, voiced support for the WHO in separate Twitter posts early Wednesday, a day after Trump announced that he is halting U.S. funding while the administration reviews the agency’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs @WHO now more than ever,” Gates tweeted.
The White House defended Trump’s announcement.
“Any suggestion that the President is putting the health and safety of the American people or global health aid in jeopardy is false,” deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement. “The WHO’s response to COVID has been filled with one misstep after another, and President Trump is standing up for the American taxpayer to ensure we hold WHO accountable for their flawed actions.”
Gates has long focused on the health field within his work at the nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, though he often avoids diving into political issues. However, he has been speaking out on the coronavirus pandemic. In late March he said the United States missed its chance to avoid mandated shutdowns because it didn’t act fast enough on the pandemic.
Trump said Tuesday that his administration is suspending funding from the WHO as it investigates how the agency reacted to the coronavirus outbreak. Trump said the international health agency made mistakes that “caused so much death,” as the virus continues to spread.
It’s unclear exactly what mechanism Trump intends to use to withhold WHO funding, much of which is appropriated by Congress. The president typically does not have the authority to unilaterally redirect congressional funding.
President Trump, despite his own history of buying a porn star’s silence and bragging about sexual misconduct, on Thursday leveled another broadside at Joseph R. Biden Jr., tweeting a meme that mocked the former vice president for putting his hands on women’s shoulders.
The 15-second meme, accompanied by the text “WELCOME BACK JOE!,” doctored a video that Mr. Biden released on Wednesday in which the former vice president explained his history of physical contact with women, some of whom say his behavior made them uncomfortable. Mr. Biden has said he tried to comfort people with hugs, kisses and other physical contact when they appeared nervous.
In the meme, as Mr. Biden delivers his explanation, a pair of hands appears on his shoulders, and then an image of Mr. Biden’s head pops up and appears to sniff the back of the former vice president’s head. The meme appeared to be a reference to an accusation by a former Nevada assemblywoman, who said in an essay published last Friday that Mr. Biden had touched her shoulders, smelled her hair and kissed the back of her head at a campaign event in 2014.
Mr. Biden is widely expected to join the 2020 presidential race soon, and some Democrats view him as perhaps the most formidable challenger to Mr. Trump. But in the last week, accusations from several women that Mr. Biden touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable have threatened to upend his fledgling campaign, and on Wednesday, he addressed the claims directly for the first time in a video posted to his Twitter feed.
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Mercosur tendrá que cambiar de perfil, creen los expertos.
“Brasil es un punto de inflexión”, asegura Paulo Velasco, profesor de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad Estatal de Río de Janeiro.
Velasco se refiere al significado que tendría para el panorama político de América Latina si el inicio del juicio político a Dilma Rousseff terminara de apartarla definitivamente de la presidencia de Brasil.
De momento, Rousseff está suspendida del cargo y lo estará como máximo 180 días.
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La suspensión de Dilma Rousseff en Brasil sería el último golpe al denominado ciclo de gobiernos “progresistas” en América Latina.
La opinión de que es un punto de quiebre para la región es algo con lo que coinciden los expertos consultados por BBC Mundo.
“Son casi 20 años de gobiernos progresistas en América del Sur”, le dice a BBC Mundo Velasco. El profesor recalca que es un periodo a punto de terminar.
“La tendencia es que (los gobiernos) vuelvan a la derecha y centroderecha, (a ser) gobiernos más liberales. Y hay que ver cómo funciona eso”.
Del “progresismo” de inicio de siglo…
El llamado giro “progresista” de América Latina —o “posneoliberal”, como le dicen algunos expertos— y una suerte de proyecto de enfoque regional tuvo según los especialistas tres grandes procesos que le dieron forma e impulso: el chavismo en Venezuela, el petismo en Brasil y el kirchnerismo en Argentina.
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Es el fin del periodo de gobiernos “progresistas” en América Latina, dicen los analistas.
Fue el triunfo electoral de Hugo Chávez en Venezuela en 1998 lo que dio inicio a un ciclo marcado por el ascenso al poder de organizaciones ligadas a la izquierda.
En enero de 2003, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, un exlíder sindical, asumía la presidencia de Brasil y llevaba al poder por primera vez al Partido de los Trabajadores (PT), el mismo al que pertenece Rousseff.
Y ese mismo año, en mayo, el peronista Néstor Kirchner asumió la presidencia de Argentina.
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Lula da Silva (en la imagen con la su esposa Marisa Leticia) asumió la presidencia de Brasil en 2003.
Como resultado de la nueva correlación de fuerzas regional, en la IV Cumbre de las Américas, celebrada el 4 y el 5 de noviembre de 2005 en la ciudad argentina de Mar de Plata, se firmó el acta de defunción del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA).
El proyecto, una extensión del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, había sido promovido por EE.UU. y criticado con vehemencia por Lula, Kirchner y Chávez.
A punto de terminar ese año, el sindicalista cocalero y activista indígena Evo Morales fue elegido presidente de Bolivia.
En 2006, Michelle Bachelet llegó al poder en Chile, poniendo inmediatamente en marcha toda una serie de políticas sociales.
Y el eje se fue fortaleciendo en 2007, cuando Rafael Correa asumió el cargo en Ecuador —después ganaría otras dos elecciones de manera arrolladora—, y al suceder Cristina Fernández a su esposo Néstor Kirchner en la presidencia argentina.
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El eje se fue fortaleciendo con Cristina Fernández (en la imagen junto a Lula da Silva) en 2007.
“Pero ahora (ese panorama) se rompe por completo”, recalca el profesor Velasco.
… ¿al liberalismo?
Para los expertos, el cambio arrancó en noviembre del año pasado, con la victoria de Mauricio Macri en Argentina y el fin de 12 años de poder del kirchnerismo.
De hecho, fue el gobierno argentino uno de los primeros en reconocer la sucesión presidencial brasileña.
“El Gobierno Argentino manifiesta que respeta el proceso institucional que se está desarrollando y confía en que el desenlace de la situación consolide la solidez de la democracia brasileña”, señala un corto comunicado divulgado por la Cancillería argentina.
Mientras, el sucesor de Chávez —quien murió en 2013— en Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, enfrenta una grave crísis económica y la oposición impulsa un referéndum revocatorio para adelantar el final de su gestión.
Además, este enero la oposición asumió el control del parlamento por primera vez en 17 años de hegemonía chavista.
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Nicolás Maduro, el presidente de Venezuela, enfrenta una grave crisis doméstica.
Y en febrero, Evo Morales perdió una batalla electoral por primera vez en más de 10 años: el referendo con el que pretendía abrir la puerta de una reforma constitucional para poder volver a presentarse a las elecciones.
La derrota se produjo pese a que la gestión de Morales tiene, según las encuestas, altos índices de aprobación.
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El presidente boliviano Evo Morales perdió el referendo para la reelección.
En junio, en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones generales de Perú, Keiko Fujimori podría superar la sombra de su padre —Alberto Fujimori, en la cárcel por asesinato con alevosía, secuestro agravado y lesiones graves— y ganar la presidencia, sacando de escena de Ollanta Humala.
Además, los escándalos de corrupción desgastaron el brillo de la que fuera una de las figuras políticas más respetadas del continente, la mandataria chilena Michelle Bachelet.
Algo que también le ocurrió al ecuatoriano Correa.
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Los escándalos de corrupción hicieron perder popularidad a la mandataria de Chile, Michelle Bachelet.
El “imperativo económico”…
Para Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, experto en América Latina de la consultora política Eurasia Group, los cambios se deben a lo que llama un “imperativo económico”.
“(El fenómeno) tiene un componente sistémico, que es el freno de la economía”, asegura De Castro Neves a BBC Mundo.
Por ello, prefiere hablar de un movimiento hacia el “pragmatismo”, en vez de un giro a la derecha.
Ingrid Bleynat, del Instituto de Desarrollo Internacional del King’s College de Londres, también insiste en lo de la economía como motor de cambio: “Lo más determinante es lo que pasa con la economía”.
“Está claro que para Venezuela más importante que lo que ocurre en Brasil es lo que pasa con el precio del petróleo”, añade.
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La crisis económica es clave en el cambio de gobiernos en la región, insisten los analistas.
Y es que, según los expertos, el fin de la década dorada de las materias primas tiene mucho que ver con el cambio de panorama.
Las economías latinoamericanas crecieron, entre 2003 y 2012, por encima del 4% según datos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (Cepal), el organismo dependiente de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas responsable de promover el desarrollo económico y social de la región.
Desde la década de 1960 la región no había registrado un periodo de crecimiento tan intenso.
Está claro que para Venezuela más importante que lo que ocurre en Brasil es lo que pasa con el precio del petróleo”
Sin embargo, las previsiones del Fondo Monetario Internacional señalan que la economía latinoamericana acabará 2016 con una contracción del 0,3%.
Y la principal causa es la caída de las materias primas.
Entre 2011 y 2015, la bajada de los precios de los metales, el petróleo, el gas y el carbón fue de casi un 50% según la CEPAL.
En el caso concreto del precio del crudo, el barril venezolano tuvo un pico de 103,42 dólares por barril en 2012, lo que significó para el país un ingreso de US$48.000 millones.
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Para Venezuela más importante que lo que ocurre en Brasil es lo que pasa con el precio del petróleo, dicen los expertos.
Y la caída ha sido terrible para las arcas, pues en 2015 esos ingresos se desplomaron a US$12.500 millones.
De la misma manera, hace menos de cuatro años Brasil era declarado la sexta mayor economía mundial y su ministro de Hacienda del momento decía que antes de 2015 desbancaría a Francia del quinto puesto. Pero la economía brasileña se estancó desde entonces.
… y la corrupción
Sin embargo, las “derrotas” de los gobiernos llamados progresistas no se deben exclusivamente a la realidad económica, cree Jorge G. Castañeda, el que fuera el secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México entre 2000 y 2003 y hoy es profesor en la Universidad de Nueva York, EE.UU.
“Demasiados líderes de izquierda de América Latina cayeron por la corrupción endémica de la región y por subestimar la creciente tolerancia hacia ello”, escribió en un artículo de opinión en el medio estadounidense The New York Times.
“Para cuando algunos de los gobiernos, como el de Chile y el de Bolivia, empezaron a centrarse en el problema era ya demasiado tarde”, añade.
América Latina “va a empezar a ser menos relevente en arenas internacionales
En parte también a Brasil, porque aunque el juicio político a Rousseff no es por corrupción, su gobierno y el partido al que pertenece se ha visto salpicado por el enorme caso Petrobras.
Como consecuencia del cambio de gobiernos, América Latina “va a empezar a ser menos relevente en arenas internacionales, por ese mismo detrimento del proyecto de integración regional”, asegura Ingrid Bleynat, del King’s College de Londres.
“La idea del Mercosur, la Unasur y todo esto va a cambiar sensiblemente”, añade Velasco, de la Universidad Estatal de Río.
Para Velasco, es casi seguro que el próximo gobierno brasileño no estará “dando la misma importancia que los cancilleres de Lula y Dilma dieron a la idea del Mercosur y la Unasur”.
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Mercosur y otros organismos tendrán que cambiar de perfil, creen los analistas consultados por BBC Mundo.
Por su parte, De Castro Neves, del Eurasia Group, cree que estas organizaciones “van a tener que dejar de ser politizadas y pasar a ser más pragmáticas, centrarse en lo económico”.
Además, según los expertos también cambiará la política exterior de la región.
La propuesta de Macri mira claramente hacia la Alianza del Pacífico, al eje Washington-Bruselas, destacan los expertos.
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Macri mira hacia el eje Washington-Bruselas, remarcan los expertos.
Y en caso de que el juicio político a Dilma Rousseff termine quitándola definitivamente de la presidencia, Brasil va a seguir el mismo camino que Argentina, opina Paulo Velasco, profesor de la Universidad de Río de Janeiro.
“En política exterior va a haber un destaque mucho más grande a los países tradicionales para Brasil, sobre todo fuera de Latinoamérica, (un destaque) de Estados Unidos y los países europeos”, explica.
“Sobre todo va a cambiar la relación con Venezuela, Bolivia y Ecuador”
“Latinoamérica pierde un poco el peso que ha tenido para Brasil en los últimos años”, de la misma manera que el país perdió peso en la región.
De la misma manera, también habrá cambios en las relaciones internas, dicen los analistas.
“Sobre todo va a cambiar la relación con Venezuela, Bolivia y Ecuador”, asegura Velasco.
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Brasil va a cambiar su relación con Venezuela y Bolivia, dice Paulo Velasco, de la Universidad Estatal de Río de Janeiro.
Venezuela tuvo un importante apoyo en Brasil, quien le ayudó a entrar en Mercosur y le vendió productos en tiempos de desabastecimiento.
Pero el exgobernador de Sao Paulo José Serra, quien resuena como futuro canciller brasileño, es un senador del PSDB, un partido socialdemócrata que ha criticado abiertamente la proximidad y los negocios de Brasil con Venezuela o Cuba.
¿Y las políticas sociales?
“Estamos siendo testigos de que la derecha avanza, aunque sea momentáneamente”, reconoce Ingrid Bleynat, del King’s College de Londres.
“Pero eso no debería afectar a las políticas sociales” que implementaron los gobiernos llamados “progresistas” y que fueron punta de lanza en América Latina, añade.
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Aunque cambien los gobiernos, los expertos creen que se mantendrán los programas sociales como Bolsa Familia de Brasil.
“No al menos a políticas tan bien arraigadas como Bolsa Familia en Brasil— un programa de ayuda financiera a familias pobres—, que se aprobó con el apoyo de todo el arco político”, dice.
De Castro Neves, del Eurasia Group, está de acuerdo con ello, aunque añade que esas políticas “tendrán que ser revisadas”.
“Lo que sí veremos son otras medidas que atenten contra los intereses de las clases populares“, sentencia Bleynat.
CNN’s Hannah Sarisohn, Caroline Kelly, Elizabeth Stuart, Veronica Stracqualursi, Dan Merica, Keith Allen, Rosa Flores, Kacey Cherry, John Couwels, Paul P. Murphy, Maria Cartaya and Jacqueline Howard contributed to this report.
The first man allegedly shot dead by Kyle Rittenhouse had injuries that showed he may have had his hand on the barrel of the teenager’s rifle, a forensic pathologist testified Tuesday – as jurors were shown new FBI drone footage of the close-range shooting.
Dr. Doug Kelley, a Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office forensic pathologist, testified that Joseph Rosenbaum was shot dead by someone “within a few feet” of him during last year’s Kenosha protests.
He analyzed drone video shown to jurors earlier on Tuesday, which prosecutors argue showed Rosenbaum running after Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse suddenly turned and fired his rifle at him.
Kelley testified it was unclear from the footage – which had been cropped and slowed down by a forensic imaging specialist — whether Rosenbaum was trying to grab Rittenhouse’s rifle.
His testimony came just before the prosecution rested its case Tuesday afternoon following a week of evidence in which some state witnesses appeared to bolster Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense.
The jury was shown multiple autopsy images of Rosenbaum’s gunshot wounds on Tuesday as Kelley testified he was shot four times.
The video shows Joseph Rosenbaum running after Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse suddenly turns and fires his rifle at him, prosecutors said.Court TVRosenbaum can be seen falling in the video as Rittenhouse, then 17, runs around a car.Court TV
Kelley said Rosenbaum was first shot in his thigh, hand and groin as he was facing Rittenhouse, and then in his back.
The last two shots were at a downward angle, which suggested Rosenbaum may have been horizontal at the time, Kelley testified.
Prosecutors, describing the shot to Rosenbaum’s back as the “kill shot”, argued it indicated he was falling, but defense attorney Mark Richards said Rosenbaum was lunging.
Kelley said both scenarios were possible.
Rosenbaum’s initial gunshot wounds were likely inflicted when he was “within a few feet” of the gun, while the wound to his hand was in “close proximity or in contact with the end of that rifle,” Kelley testified.
Rittenhouse is accused of shooting Rosenbaum dead before killing protester Anthony Huber, who was filmed striking the teen with a skateboard just prior to that shooting.AP
Kelley testified that Rosenbaum had soot injuries on his hand that indicated his hand was potentially over the barrel of Rittenhouse’s gun at the time one of the shots was fired.
During cross-examination, the defense used a pointer on an image of Rosenbaum’s bloodied hand to indicate where it would have been when the gun was fired.
“So that hand was over the barrel of Mr Rittenhouse’s gun when his hand was shot,” Richards asked.
When asked by the prosecution if Rosenbaum could have been swatting away the gun, Kelley testified that he couldn’t say based on the video.
The drone footage, taken by FBI infrared aerial surveillance cameras, offers the clearest view yet of the first fatal shooting during protests in Kensoha, Wisconsin on Aug. 25 last year.
Prosecutors said they had previously obtained a low resolution copy of the footage, but only received the enhanced version last Friday.
The footage comes as the prosecution’s case wound down following a week of testimony in which some state witnesses appeared to bolster Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense.Court TV
Rittenhouse is accused of shooting dead Rosenbaum first before killing protestor Anthony Huber, who was filmed striking the teen with a skateboard just prior to that shooting.
He is also charged with injuring protestor and volunteer medic Gaige Grosskreutz, who suffered a gunshot wound to his arm.
Grosskreutz, who was armed with his own gun, testified on Monday that he went after Rittenhouse after seeing him shoot Huber.
Kyle Rittenhouse faces six criminal charges, including intentional homicide and attempted homicide.Getty Images
He said he pointed his own gun at Rittenhouse first before he was shot, but testified he didn’t mean to and had no intention of firing it.
“In the moment, I thought that the defendant was an active shooter,” Grosskreutz said.
Asked what was going through his mind as he pulled his gun from the holster, he said: “That I was going to die.”
Dr. Doug Kelley testified that Joseph Rosenbaum was fatally shot by someone “within a few feet” of him.Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Images
Rittenhouse, now 18, faces six criminal charges, including intentional homicide and attempted homicide.
His attorneys have claimed he acted out of self-defense, but prosecutors argue he was the instigator of the violence.
He could face a mandatory life sentence if convicted of the top charge.
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UN staff mourn colleagues during a ceremony at the crash site near Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Airlines has offered the relatives of 157 victims of last Sunday’s Boeing 737 Max plane crash bags of scorched earth to bury in place of their loved ones, reports say.
Earth from the crash site is being made available for a planned service in Addis Ababa on Sunday, Reuters reports.
Families have been told it could take up to six months to identify remains.
Countries across the world grounded the 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft after flight 302 crashed on 10 March.
Ethiopia’s transport minister said on Saturday it may take “considerable time” for investigators to find the cause of the crash involving the new aeroplane.
“An investigation of such magnitude requires a careful analysis and considerable time to come up with something concrete,” Dagmawit Moges told a press conference.
Relatives of the passengers killed in the incident are being encouraged to provide DNA samples either in Addis Ababa or at any overseas offices of Ethiopian Airlines.
Death certificates are expected to be issued in two weeks.
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Candles burn for victims at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines crash days after the plane came down
Families mourning the victims are being offered a 1kg (2.2lbs) bag of charred soil to bury as part of Sunday’s service in the Ethiopian capital, AP news agency reports.
“The soil came as it became impossible to identify bodies and hand over remains to family members,” one family member reportedly said, adding: “We will not rest until we are given the real body or body parts of our loved ones.”
Passengers from more than 30 countries were on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
The Ethiopian investigation into the crash is being assisted by teams from around the world, including the US and France.
The aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), or black boxes as they are often called, have been recovered and investigators are hoping they will shed light on the tragedy.
Throughout the week, searches have been carried out in Clapham, where Ms Everard was last seen, as well as at a home in Deal and the woodland in Ashford.
Kuwait City – The countries that participated this Wednesday (15) at the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, in Kuwait City, have committed to donating more than US$ 2.4 billion this year. “This shows Syrians they have not been abandoned and sends a strong message to neighboring countries [which have harbored refugees] that they don’t have to carry this burden alone,” said the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, at the end of the meeting.
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Ban: Violence has to stop
In the first edition of the conference, held one year ago, also in Kuwait, the sum raised reached US$ 1.5 billion. Ban urged the countries which have announced donations to make them soon, because the crisis is worse and so are the needs. According to him, the money will help UN agencies and other humanitarian aid entities fulfill the basic needs of those affected by the war in the following six months.
The United Nations believes that the total amount necessary for the whole year is of US$ 6.5 billion, but the organization’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, emphasized that needs are revised all the time and the figure may change. “It depends on what will happen [from now on in Syria], if necessary we’ll ask donors for more,” she declared.
Amos stated that humanitarian aid institutions are always after resources, not only during events such as this. “We tell donors that the amount is relatively small in comparison to what is spent to save banks,” she stated, referring to the huge sums of money used to reestablish the international financial system since the financial crisis started in 2008.
In this sense, Amos considered the conference a “success”. “But we do not want to have to organize a third conference,” she said. Currently 40% of the Syrian population has been affected by the war, there are 9.3 million people among refugees and those who have been dislocated inside Syria itself. “That is why I believe a political process [for peace negotiation] is so urgent,” she added.
On January 22, in Montreux, Switzerland, a second attempt to start peace negotiations – the first was in June 2012, which was unsuccessful – shall be organized, this time, placing opposing sides of the conflict face to face. For Ban, the international community has to pressure the parties involved to start this political process, create a transition government and stop the violence. “Syrians want peace,” he emphasized. “[The conflict] is spreading instability throughout the region,” he added.
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Amos: Political process is urgent
According to the UN secretary-general, however, Iran’s participation has not yet been confirmed, a key participant in the region’s geopolitics. There is resistance particularly from the United States, but Ban believes the Persian country’s participation “is important”. Also pending confirmation is the participation of the fragmented coalition in opposition to the Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad, regime. “The most important thing is to stop the violence,” emphasized Ban Ki-moon.
It is clear to the UN and other participants in this Wednesday’s conference, that all parties involved in the conflict are to blame for the humanitarian crisis in Syria. According to Amos, it is very hard to provide assistance to about 2.5 million people inside the country, of which 240,000 are completely surrounded and besieged, 40,000 by opposing militants and 200,000 by the government itself. The very real possibility of starvation hangs in the air.
One of the reasons why Syrian instability has spread to neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon, is the immense flow of refugees, estimated at 3 million people. “The responsibility of harboring refugees lies not only with neighbor countries, but with the international community,” said United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterrez. He urged countries around the world to help the entrance of Syrian refugees escaping the war. “It’s no use opening a door to find another one closed, we don’t want to see refugees drowning in the Mediterranean,” he stated.
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At the conference, the head of Business at the Brazilian Embassy in Kuwait, João Tabajara Júnior, said that the Brazilian government is going to be flexible in issuing visas for Syrian refugees.
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Guterrez urged countries to open their borders
The diplomat also announced that Brazil is donating US$ 300,000 this year to the humanitarian aid efforts for those affected by the conflict. At the 2013 conference, the country promised US$ 250,000 – and not US$ 500,000 as was published by ANBA on a previous report – but had previously sent three US$ 120,000 installments for the assistance work carried out by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in camps in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
Among the donations announced are Sweden, with US$ 35 million. Germany is donating 30 million euro; South Korea, US$ 5 million; Japan, US$ 120 million; Ireland, US$ 16.3 million; Luxembourg, 5 million euro; and Oman is donating US$ 10 million.
The greatest donor however, was the hosting country, Kuwait, with US$ 500 million. “Kuwait has become a global humanitarian center,” said Ban, who thanked the country’s emir, Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah.
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Jueves, 10 de Julio 2014 | 11:10 pm
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La polémica conductora peruana generó rechazo tras ser anunciada como conferencista en un curso para estudiantes de comunicación y periodismo de la Universidad Nacional de México.
La conductora de televisión, y abogada, Laura Bozzo, generó una ola de rechazo a través de Twitter cuando su nombre fue mencionado para dictar cátedraen el curso “Procesos Creativos en Televisión” que anunció Televisa para estudiantes de Comunicación y Periodismo de la Universidad Nacional de México (UNAM).
La peruana compartiría roles con Pedro Damián, Enrique Segoviano, Miguel Ángel Fox, Carla Estrada y Roberto Gómez Fernández. El encargado de dar el nombre de la polémica conductora fue el director de Televisa, Emilia Azcárraga.
En redes sociales, la respuesta fue masiva y una gran cantidad de personas cuestionó la participación de Bozzo Rotondo y rechazó que dicte una cátedra a estudiantes y futuros periodistas.
La estrella de Televisa se convertiría así en una de las celebridades nacionales que dicta cátedra en países extranjeros.
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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James posted and later deleted a tweet on Wednesday about the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio. In a series of tweets later Wednesday, James explained why he deleted the tweet.
ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail! 🙏🏾✊🏾🤎👑
I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY
The since-deleted tweet by James showed a photo of officer Nicholas Reardon, who is white, with an accompanying caption, “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY,” along with an hourglass emoji, on Wednesday.
Body camera footage released by the Columbus Division of Police showed the officer, identified Wednesday as Reardon, getting out of his car at a house where police had been dispatched after someone had called 911 saying they were being physically threatened.
As the officer walks toward a group of people on the driveway, Bryant can be seen swinging a knife wildly at another girl or woman, who falls backward. The officer shouts several times to get down. Bryant then charges at another girl or woman, who is pinned against a car.
From a few feet away, with people on either side of him, the officer fires four shots, and Bryant slumps to the ground. The knife lies on the sidewalk next to her.
Bryant was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Police did not say if anyone else was injured.
James’ hometown of Akron, Ohio, is about 125 miles northeast from Columbus, the state capital.
The Bryant shooting occurred shortly after a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter for the May 2020 killing of George Floyd outside of a convenience store.
James responded to the Chauvin verdict with a single word: “Accountability.”
James’ teammate, forward Anthony Davis, said the Lakers had yet to discuss the outcome of the Chauvin trial as a team, but he offered his personal thoughts on the outcome.
“I think a lot of people in the world are happy with the verdict and just being able to give that family peace, [and] a peace of mind,” Davis said Wednesday. “I think that it was a first step for justice.
“I think it was a good day, just for the world, to be able to get justice, because you see so many times where it doesn’t happen.”
Since the coronavirus outbreak began, Laura Gao has been troubled by the disgust and pity directed at her hometown.
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Since the coronavirus outbreak began, Laura Gao has been troubled by the disgust and pity directed at her hometown.
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Back in January, Laura Gao, a 23-year-old product developer for Twitter living in San Francisco, was preparing to visit her relatives in Wuhan, China. The trip was to celebrate her grandmother’s 80th birthday.
But in the days leading up to her flight, Gao’s relatives told her to cancel her trip. The coronavirus was spreading throughout the city.
Gao, a native of Wuhan, stayed in San Francisco and on January 23, the day after her flight would have landed, the city went on lockdown. If she’d taken her trip, Gao thinks she’d still be in Wuhan today.
“Instead, I’m here in San Francisco seeing the other side of the story,” Gao says. “There was a lot of anger and panic and pity that was coming from not only the media, but the people around me.”
As the virus spread, Wuhan quickly captured the world’s attention. For many Americans, this was the first time they had ever heard of the city — and in the frightening context of coronavirus.
She decided to make a comic telling her own story and highlighting her favorite parts of the city.
“I’ve always been an artist, and I believe that comics are a great way to marry imagery with the power of words to express a story,” Gao says.
It starts with Gao’s childhood when she moved with her parents to a small town in Texas, “where Wuhan was more foreign than Mars.”
Not only had people never heard of Wuhan, she says they were largely uninterested in learning about her hometown. They would ask her if she was from Beijing or Shanghai as if those were the only cities in China.
They had no idea that Wuhan was — and still is — one of the fastest growing cities in Central China, with a population of more than 11 million people. It’s bigger than New York, London or Tokyo.
When she’d try to tell them what the city was like, they were often disinterested. Eventually, she gave up.
“I would just be like, ‘I’m just from China. That’s all you really need to know,'” Gao says.
But now, Gao says it feels as if everyone knows about Wuhan — but not the full story.
“It’s disheartening to know that all they know are the bad parts of it,” Gao says. “About the virus and about the wet markets that people always want to bash on and point fingers at.”
Gao says she wants people to get to know the Wuhan beyond the headlines. And while she’s been hesitant to speak up in the past, this time she says she’s ready to stand up and share her city with the world.
Laura Gao’s mother (in the red dress) poses with her family in front of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan before leaving for college in 1985. Gao visited that landmark for the first time 20 years later.
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The comic has sections highlighting Wuhan’s history, architecture and economy. That includes the city’s most famous landmark the Yellow Crane Tower. Gao writes, that in the sun, it shines like gold.
But her favorite section showcases Wuhan’s street food.
“Whenever I go to Wuhan, my favorite part is waking up in the morning, running outside to the street where they’re completely lined left and right with all these food stalls of so many different kinds of food,” Gao says.
Some of her favorite Wuhanese dishes include rè gān miàn or hot and dry noodles, doù pí, sticky rice with meat and veggies wrapped in bean skin and fried in a giant wok and yā bó zi or duck neck.
When she first decided to share the comic back in March, she recalls, “I was a bit hesitant. I was like, I know this is kind of a sensitive topic. I don’t know what I’ll get from it,” Gao said. “But I got all kinds of responses that really warmed my heart.”
The comic has been re-shared by thousands of people on Twitter and liked by even more.
Many people have reached out to Gao directly to let her know that her comic has had a positive impact in their lives.
She’s heard from people who are from Wuhan like herself or have family there. But she’s also heard from people in countries like Iran and Italy who also feel as if their countries are being misrepresented by the coronavirus. Thanks to her comic, they feel proud of their homes.
People have also reached out to Gao to tell her that the next trip they want to take is to visit Wuhan. Now that they know more about it, they want to visit its sites and taste its food.
Gao even shared the comic and the feedback she’s received with her grandmother.
She told Gao: ‘Thankfully we’re getting better and I see the rest of the world is also suffering. I want to send my love to them as well.'”
Gao talks to her family in Wuhan frequently and fortunately she says, things are starting to return to normal.
The authorities are beginning to open the city back up and she says her family is allowed to walk around in their own neighborhood.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing increasing calls from Republican lawmakers for his termination over what they say is a shift in his position on whether the U.S. government funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the White House, told lawmakers Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology through the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance with $600,000 over a period of five years. Funding to the nonprofit was eventually halted by the NIH.
He denied that the funding was specifically used for so-called gain of function research, which is altering a virus to make it either more transmissible or deadly to better predict new pathogens and ways to fight them.
On Wednesday during a Senate hearing, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., further questioned Fauci’s faith in the Wuhan lab’s scientists. “How do you know they didn’t lie to you and use the money for gain of function research anyway?” Kennedy asked Fauci.
Fauci said there was no way to guarantee that the scientists and grantees did not lie. “You never know,” he said.
He added that scientists at the lab are “trustworthy” and that he would expect they complied with the conditions of the grant, which was to study the transmission of coronaviruses from bats to humans to better understand the SARS-CoV-1 epidemic in the early 2000s.
“I don’t have enough insight into the Communist Party in China to know the interactions between them and the scientists,” Fauci said when asked whether the Chinese government influences its scientists. He also said he has no way of knowing the influence of the Chinese government on the World Health Organization after Kennedy implied that the WHO is in the pocket of the Chinese government.
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has ordered a closer intelligence review of what he said were two equally plausible scenarios of the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic — that it originated in a lab or from an animal. The director of national intelligence previously agreed that the two scenarios are equally likely.
Biden revealed that he tasked the intelligence community earlier this year with preparing “a report on their most up-to-date analysis of the origins of Covid-19, including whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.”
“As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has ‘coalesced around two likely scenarios’ but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question,” Biden said in a statement.
Federal health officials maintain that it is more likely that the virus has a natural origin, but do not exclude a lab leak as a possibility.
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, recently introduced the Fauci Incompetence Requires Early Dismissal Act, which called for Fauci’s termination.
“Dr. Fauci represents everything that President Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address: the scientific-technical elite steering the country toward their own ends,” Davidson said in a statement.
The Republican lawmakers also said they believe Fauci misled the American people early in the pandemic in regard to mask guidance. Fauci said in early March 2020: “Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.” He later clarified he meant that masks should be prioritized for health workers, but Republican lawmakers maintain that Fauci lied.
GOP lawmakers also claim that Fauci misled Americans when he said there would be an explosion of coronavirus cases after Texas lifted its mask mandate.
“It is long past time for Dr. Fauci to stop talking to the American public. Fauci should resign or be fired immediately,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa.
Correction: Warren Davidson, R.-Ohio, is a member of the House of Representatives. An earlier version misstated his title.
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