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El grupo islámico es considerado un movimiento terrorista por varios países del mundo.

Israel lleva a cabo la tercera campaña militar en su contra; su fundador y varios de sus líderes han muerto en acciones del ejército de ese país al que se niega a reconocer y, además, se ha enfrentado a la Autoridad Nacional Palestina (ANP).

Es Hamas. Su nombre significa Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica y su origen se remonta a los primeros días de la Intifada (o levantamiento palestino) de 1987 en contra de la ocupación israelí de Cisjordania y la Franja de Gaza.

Hoy es el grupo islámico más numeroso dentro del pueblo palestino.

Desde sus comienzos, el grupo tuvo dos ramas con objetivos disímiles: por un lado la militar, las Brigadas Qassam, encargada de la lucha armada contra el Estado de Israel, cuya existencia nunca fue reconocida por Hamas; por el otro, el ala política, cuya misión es construir escuelas y hospitales y brindar ayuda a la comunidad en asuntos sociales y religiosos.

Pero desde 2005, la facción islámica adoptó una nueva dimensión, la participación activa dentro del proceso político palestino. En 2006, Hamas alcanzó el poder tras lograr una clara victoria en las elecciones para el Consejo Legislativo Palestino, pero su triunfo electoral no duraría por mucho tiempo.

Las tensiones políticas con la otra facción palestina, Fatah, se trasladarían un año después al terreno militar. En junio de 2007, ambos grupos se enfrentaron en cruentos combates en Gaza que terminarían con Hamas a cargo de la Franja y su rival político gobernando desde Cisjordania.

Para Israel, Estados Unidos, Canadá, Japón, la Unión Europea y hasta el vecino Egipto, el grupo islámico es una “organización terrorista”, debido a su amplio historial de ataques contra objetivos israelíes y a su compromiso de destruir ese estado que está explícito en su acta fundacional.

Pero para sus seguidores es un movimiento de resistencia legítimo.

Las brigadas Izzedine al-Qassam componen la rama militar de Hamas.

Gaza como bastión

Israel ha culpado a Hamas de los ataques con cohetes lanzados desde la Franja de Gaza y ha llevado a cabo tres campañas militares en contra de sus militantes en diciembre de 2008, noviembre de 2012 y julio de 2014.

Las dos primeras campañas israelíes afectaron seriamente la capacidad militar de Hamas pero el grupo logró renovados apoyos en Gaza y Cisjordania por haberse enfrentado a Israel y haber sobrevivido en el intento.

Fuentes palestinas indicaron que la facción islámica intento mantener la calma tras la segunda operación militar -que dejó 170 palestinos, la mayoría de ellos civiles, y seis israelíes muertos en los ocho días de enfrentamientos- y que las Brigadas Qassam dejaron de lanzar cohetes hacia Israel.

El nuevo operativo de Israel es la tercera campaña militar en contra de Hamas.

Pero el grupo tampoco hizo nada por evitar que otras facciones en la Franja realizaran sus propios ataques, aparentemente porque no quería ser visto como menos comprometido en su lucha contra el Estado israelí que otros grupos militantes, particularmente la Yihad Islámica.

En julio de 2013 Hamas sufrió un duro revés cuando el líder de los Hermanos Musulmanes, Mohamed Morsi, uno de sus principales aliados, fue víctima de un golpe de Estado en Egipto y perdió la presidencia.

Pero ése no es el único problema a nivel regional que tiene el grupo: su alineación con los grupos sunitas que combaten en Siria al presidente chiita Bashar al Assad lo dejó sin el financiamiento de Irán, nación chiita aliada con el mandatario sirio que solía donar hasta US$20 millones al mes a Hamas, suficiente dinero como para mantener al gobierno en Gaza.

Cercado internacionalmente, en abril de 2014, el líder de Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, aceptó integrar un gobierno de unidad nacional con Fatah, liderada por Mahmoud Abbas desde la muerte de Arafat.

Dos meses después, el secuestro y muerte de tres adolescentes israelíes en Cisjordania motivó el arresto de varios miembros del grupo islámico en ese territorio y los cohetes volvieron a lanzarse desde Gaza.

El 7 de julio, Hamas asumió la responsabilidad por el lanzamiento de estos misiles desde la Franja por primera vez desde 2012 y los enemigos tradicionales se volvieron a enfrentar.

Hasta el momento hay más de 200 palestinos muertos y miles de desplazados, según las autoridades palestinas.

Atacantes suicidas

Los atentados de Hamas en Israel dejaron decenas de muertos.

Luego de la primera Intifada palestina, Hamas surgió como el principal opositor a los acuerdos de paz de Oslo entre Israel y la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina (OLP).

A pesar de las numerosas operaciones israelíes y de las drásticas medidas tomadas por la ANP en su contra, el grupo respondió a las negociaciones de paz con varios ataques suicidas.

Entre febrero y marzo de 1996, estos atentados le costaron la vida a casi 60 israelíes (los ataques fueron una respuesta de Hamas al asesinato en diciembre de 1995 de su hacedor de bombas, Yahya Ayyash).

La ola de atentados fue considerada por muchos como la principal responsable del desencanto de los israelíes con el proceso de paz y de la llegada al poder de Benjamin Netanyahu, un férreo opositor a los acuerdos de Oslo.

El jeque Ahmed Yassin, fundador de Hamas, fue asesinado por Israel en marzo de 2004.

Tras el fracaso de las negociaciones en Camp David, Estados Unidos, entre la ANP e Israel en el año 2000, y de la explosión de la segunda intifada, Hamas continuó ganando respaldo político.

En plena intifada, las operaciones “de martirio” de los militantes de Hamas eran vistas por muchos como una forma efectiva de responder a la ocupación israelí.

Su labor social en clínicas y escuelas también le atrajo el favor de varios palestinos que se sentía decepcionados con la corrupción y la ineficiencia de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina, dominada por Fatah.

Esto, sumado a la muerte en 2004 de Yasser Arafat, el principal líder palestino y uno de los fundadores de Fatah, contribuyó a su victoria electoral en 2006.

Pero Fatah no fue el único en perder a su líder en 2004. En marzo de ese año, el jeque Ahmed Yassin, fundador y líder espiritual del grupo, murió en un ataque israelí con misiles.

Otras figuras de Hamas asesinados por Israel son el jefe de las brigadas Qassam, Salah Shehada, en julio de 2002; Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi, líder del movimiento en Gaza, en abril de 2004; Ismail Abu Shanab en agosto de 2003; Said Siyamin en enero de 2009 y Ahmed Jabariin en noviembre de 2012.

Sin tregua

Los misiles lanzados desde la Franja de Gaza contra Israel no se han detenido a pesar de las campañas militares israelíes.

Cuando Hamas llegó al poder, el grupo se negó a aceptar todos los acuerdos anteriores firmados con Israel, así como a reconocer la legitimidad de ese estado y a renunciar a la violencia.

El acta fundacional de Hamas define a la histórica Palestina -incluyendo el actual Israel- como una tierra islámica, y descarta un acuerdo de paz permanente con su enemigo.

El texto está plagado de ataques contra el pueblo judío, lo que le ha merecido al grupo acusaciones de ser antisemita.

Sin embargo, Hamás ha ofrecido una tregua de 10 años si Israel se retira completamente de los territorios ocupados en 1967: Cisjordania, la Franja de Gaza y Jerusalén Oriental.

Pero el movimiento insiste que los millones de palestinos refugiados que abandonaron sus casas desde 1948, año de creación del Estado de Israel, deben regresar a sus tierras, algo que Israel ve como una amenaza a su existencia como estado.

Por estas razones, y a pesar de haber sido elegido democráticamente, el gobierno de Hamas fue blanco inmediato de sanciones económicas y presiones diplomáticas por parte de Israel y sus aliados en Occidente.

Poco después, su pelea con Fatah volvería a recluirlo en la Franja de Gaza, territorio donde hoy combate nuevamente contra Israel.

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County officials from Maricopa, whose county board of supervisors is controlled by Republicans and whose top elections official is also a Republican, celebrated the draft report as vindication of their election results.

“You don’t have to dig deep into the draft copy of the Arizona Senate/Cyber Ninja audit report to confirm what I already knew — the candidates certified by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General — did, in fact, win,” board chair Jack Sellers, a Republican, said in a statement. “This means the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do, and the results reflected the will of the voters. That should be the end of the story.”

POLITICO reviewed copies of a draft report circulated by the Maricopa county recorder’s office and the Arizona secretary of state’s office, both of whom have consistently opposed the effort in the state. Arizona media outlets — including the Arizona Republic, KJZZ and the newsletter Arizona Agenda — all previously reported on various drafts of the report.

A spokesperson for the secretary of state said the office can’t speak to the authenticity of the draft, and declined to share how the office received a copy of it. But a spokesperson for the effort told the radio station that their draft was “not the final report, but it’s close.” Requests for comment from POLITICO sent to a separate review spokesperson and Doug Logan — the head of Cyber Ninjas, the firm contracted by the state Senate to run the effort — were not immediately returned early Friday morning.

A final report release and a hearing is scheduled for Friday afternoon in Arizona.

The Arizona review has been marred by significant problems, stretching on for months past its initial expected runtime, while seemingly improvising processes on the fly and playing into conspiracy theories that included checking for bamboo fibers in ballots. The effort was also significantly funded by allies of Trump.

Election officials in the state and outside experts have opposed it nearly every step of the way, and derided the “audit” label supporters attached to it. Logan, who is leading the effort, has echoed some of Trump’s conspiracy theories, and has no discernible experience running or reviewing elections.

Nevertheless, the near-matching tally will likely not stop Trump and his supporters from further attacking America’s democratic system. The draft report claimed irregularities with tens of thousands of ballots, and suggested changes to the state’s election law “that tightens up the election process to provide additional certainty to elections going forward.”

“Everybody will be watching Arizona tomorrow to see what the highly respected auditors and Arizona State Senate found out regarding the so-called Election!” the former president said in a statement, hours before the draft report was made public.

The Arizona effort has also inspired copycat reviews or investigations in states across the country, including efforts backed by GOP legislative leaders in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Most recently, Texas’ secretary of state’s office announced Thursday night it would be reviewing the 2020 election in four of the state’s most populous counties, after Trump publicly released a letter to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott calling for one earlier in the day.

Trump has also pressured Republican officials across the country to tout his lies about the election, often lashing out against Republican election officials who said their elections were not rigged. He has backed Republicans seeking to become their state’s secretary of state who have parroted those falsehoods — including state Rep. Mark Finchem, a major proponent of the review in Maricopa.

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Yellow vest protesters marched — and set fires — Saturday in Paris to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve.

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Yellow vest protesters marched — and set fires — Saturday in Paris to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve.

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Yellow vest protests grew violent on Saturday as firefighters battled several fires amid clouds of tear gas in eastern Paris.

Protesters set ablaze a car, motorbikes and barricades near the Place de la République as they took to the streets of Paris and other French cities for the 23rd Saturday in a row, The Associated Press reported. This time they say they are outraged the government could raise more than a billion dollars to help restore the burned Notre Dame cathedral while their demands to fight wealth inequality remain overlooked.

By late afternoon, police were firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse a tense crowd of several thousand people around France’s finance ministry. Firefighters acted fast to put out several small fires in the area. NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports from the scene that emergency personnel carried out the wounded on stretchers.

French police detained 189 people and took 110 into custody. The Interior Ministry says there were 6,700 protesters in Paris and more than 10,000 across country.

Activists have marched in the streets every Saturday since November urging French President Emmanuel Macron to respond to a social crisis that has crippled the working class and elderly in France.

Protesters were banned from the Île de la Cité, the site of Notre Dame, and other major thoroughfares in the city. Some 60,000 police officers were patrolling the streets.

Protesters are calling Saturday’s demonstrations their “second ultimatum” against Macron and his government. The night Notre Dame caught fire, Macron canceled a speech to propose solutions to the Yellow Vest movement. He is expected to hold a press conference on Thursday.

While the number of protesters have dwindled in recent weeks, French officials had warned that the marches could attract more protesters following the shock and sadness of the Notre Dame fire. Many protesters were set off by how quickly French billionaires pledged funds to restore the damaged cathedral, while many working class people in France struggle to pay their bills.

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David Blanco.- Un total de 16 personas fallecidas y 50 heridos, fue el saldo que dejó este jueves un accidente de tránsito en la carretera que conduce a Güigüe, en Valencia, así lo informó el Director Nacional de Protección Civil y Administración de Desastres, Jorge Galindo.

A través de la red social en Twitter, Galindo mencionó que el hecho se produjo entre un autobús de la línea cooperativa Carlos Arvelo y un vehículo de carga pesada.

Al lugar asistieron efectivos de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB) y Protección Civil, quienes ayudaron a trasladar a las personas heridas a los Centros Hospitalarios.

Finalmente, Galindo que toda la red hospitalaria del estado Carabobo, está alerta para brindar la atención inmediata que requieran los afectados.



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House Democrats backed off their blanket demand for the unredacted special counsel’s report and all supporting evidence, instead signaling a willingness Friday to cooperate on asking the courts to referee.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he still objects to Attorney General William P. Barr’s demands, but said there may be a middle ground.

He asked Mr. Barr to make available the “less-redacted” version of the special counsel’s report — right now open only to a dozen lawmakers — to all members of Congress and “appropriate” staff. And he suggested the Justice Department and Congress jointly ask the courts to unseal the remaining redacted information, which was gleaned from a grand jury and is deemed secret.

Mr. Nadler gave Mr. Barr a Monday morning deadline to respond.

The White House said Mr. Nadler had no choice but to soften his stance.



“That’s probably the only step Nadler has at this point is to be conciliatory,” said spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said the congressman and his colleagues looked “ridiculous and silly” after holding a hearing with an empty chair for Mr. Barr on Thursday.

She said Mr. Nadler and five other Democrats have had a chance for two weeks to read the “less-redacted” report but all of them have refused, saying they are holding out for the full version.

“It is astonishing to me that not a single Democrat has yet to go read the less-redacted version of the report, yet they keep asking for more,” Ms. Sanders said.

The public version of the 448-page report has been redacted to delete information about ongoing Justice Department probes, information intruding on peripheral third parties’ privacy and information gleaned from grand jury proceedings.

The less-redacted version only deletes the grand jury information, which the Justice Department says by law must be kept under wraps.

Mr. Barr already missed a Wednesday deadline to turn over the full unredacted report to Congress, along with reams of supporting evidence compiled by Robert Mueller, who led the special counsel’s 22-month probe.

The Justice Department said Mr. Barr has already produced more than was required by law and regulation, and has said he’s willing to work on accommodations, but it rejected Mr. Nadler’s blanket demands.

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A sus casi 84 años, Vicente todavía sube hasta las partes de más altas de su selva para mantener los senderos limpios.

Sus vecinos lo tildaban de loco.

¿A quién sino se le ocurriría comprar un trozo de tierra despejada a unos 200 km de Sao Paulo, Brasil, y empezar a plantar árboles?

“Cuando empecé a plantar, la gente me decía: ‘No vas a poder comer las semillas, porque la planta tarda 20 años en dar frutos”, le cuenta Antonio Vicente a Gibby Zobel, reportero de la BBC.


“Yo les decía: ‘Voy a plantar estas semillas, porque alguien plantó las que estoy comiendo ahora. Así que las plantaré para que otros las coman'”.

Vicente, a punto de cumplir 84 años, compró su terreno en 1973, una época en la que el gobierno militar ofrecía facilidades de crédito para invertir en tecnología agrícola, con la intención impulsar la agricultura.

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La Amazonía cumple un rol vital en regular el clima del planeta.

Pero su idea, era exactamente la opuesta.

Criado en una familia numerosa de campesinos, Vicente veía con preocupación cómo la expansión de los campos destruía los bosques y la flora y fauna local, y cómo la falta de árboles afectaba los recursos hídricos.

“Cuando yo era niño, los campesinos cortaban los árboles para crear pastizales y por el carbón. El agua se secó y ya no regresó”, le dice Vicente al reportero de BBC Outlook.

“Yo pensé: ‘el agua es valiosa, nadie fabrica agua y la población no deja de crecer. ¿Qué va a pasar? Nos quedaremos sin agua'”.

Los bosques son fundamentales para la conservación del agua porque absorben y retienen agua en sus raíces. Además, evitan que se erosionen los suelos.

Recuperar el bosque

Cuando tenía 14 años se mudó a la ciudad, donde trabajó como herrero.

Con el capital que hizo vendiendo su negocio pudo comprar unas 30 hectáreas en una región de montañas bajas, cerca de San Francisco Xavier, una localidad de unos 5.000 habitantes.

La vida en la ciudad no fue fácil, recuerda.

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Para Vicente, los árboles que plantó son como su familia. Aquí lo vemos junto al primer árbol que plantó: un castaño.

En un momento “terminé viviendo bajo un árbol porque no podía pagar la renta. Me bañaba en el río y vivía bajo el árbol rodeado de zorros y ratas. Juntando muchas hojas me hice un cama y dormía allí”, le cuenta Vicente a Zobel.

“Pero nunca tuve hambre. Comía sándwiches de banana de desayuno, almuerzo y cena”.

Tras regresar, empezó a plantar, uno por uno, cada uno de los árboles que hoy forman este bosque lluvioso tropical de cerca de 50.000 árboles.

A contracorriente

La labor de Vicente iba en contra de lo que ocurría a su alrededor: durante los últimos 30 años en que reforestó su terreno, cerca de 183.00 hectáreas de bosque atlántico en el estado Sao Paulo fueron deforestadas para dar lugar a la agricultura.

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Aunque no alcanzó los niveles de 2004, la deforestación está creciendo nuevamente en Brasil.

Según según la Fundación Bosque Atlántico SOS y el Instituto Nacional de Brasil para la Investigación Espacial (INPE), el bosque Atlántico cubría originalmente el 69% del estado de Sao Paulo. Hoy día, sólo queda el 14%.

El problema es más amplio: si bien los niveles de deforestación no son lo que fueron cuando alcanzaron su máximo en 2004, cuando se destruyeron 27.000 hectáreas de árboles, estos niveles están comenzando nuevamente a incrementarse en Brasil.

Amazonía: la deforestación amenaza la mitad de las especies de árboles

Entre agosto de 2015 y julio de 2016, por ejemplo, se destruyeron 8.000 hectáreas de selva. Esto representa un 29% más que el año anterior y el nivel más elevado desde 2008, según el INPE.

El regreso de los animales y el agua

Una pintura colgada en la pared de la casa de Vicente sirve de recordatorio de los cambios que ha conseguido con su trabajo a pulmón.

“En 1973 no había nada, como puedes ver. Era todo un pastizal. Mi casa es más hermosa que lo que ves aquí, pero hoy no podrías tomar una fotos desde ese ángulo porque la tapan los árboles, que son tan grandes”, dice.

Y a esa selva han regresado muchos animales.

“Hay tucanes, todo tipo de aves, un gran roedor llamado apaca, ardillas, lagartijas, zarigüeyas, e incluso están regresando los jabalíes”.

“Tenemos un pequeño jaguar y un ocelote, ¡que se come todas las gallinas!”, dice riendo.

Pero, y más importante aún, han regresado los cursos de agua. Cuando compró el terreno había sólo una fuente, hoy hay cerca de 20.

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“He repeatedly touched me inappropriately, said vile and disgusting things to me, stalked me, and made me feel violated and fearful,” she said in the statement about the dinner. “I am coming forward because he needs to be held accountable.”

Mrs. Odom was among a small group of people at the dinner at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, part of an event held by the Victoria’s Voice Foundation, which focuses on fighting drug addiction. Mrs. Odom sat next to Mr. Lewandowski, who, she said in the statement, “bragged multiple times about how powerful he is” and “claimed he controls the former president.”

According to the Odom family lawyer, who declined to be identified, Mr. Lewandowski repeatedly touched Mrs. Odom’s leg and her backside, grew aggressive at various points and threw a drink at her when she made clear she was rebuffing him. In her statement, Mrs. Odom said she had feared for her safety.

Her husband, John Odom, an Idaho businessman, said in a statement that the family was considering legal options. Mr. and Mrs. Odom would not speak directly to a reporter about the allegations, and they have not yet filed a complaint with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Mr. Lewandowski did not comment on the allegations, and his Las Vegas-based lawyer, David Z. Chesnoff, said only that “accusations and rumor appear to be morphing by the minute and we will not dignify them with a further response.”

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Menos de cinco minutos después de que el Air Force One, con Barack Obama y su familia a bordo, tocara suelo cubano, un mensaje apareció en la cuenta de Twitter del presidente estadounidense.

“¿Que Bolá Cuba? Acabo de aterrizar con el deseo de conocer y escuchar directamente a los cubanos”, es el tuit que se lee en la cuenta oficial del mandatario.

Y antes, en una escena que grabó con el famoso humorista cubano Pánfilo, también usó esa frase cubanísima para saludar a su interlocutor.

Pero, ¿qué significa ese “qué bolá” que Obama usa para acercarse a los cubanos?

BBC Mundo recorrió las calles de La Habana para que sean los cubanos los que expliquen el significado.

“Asere”

En La bodeguita del medio, la célebre cantina famosas por sus mojitos, Orlando Laguardia, el “poeta de La Bodeguita”, le cuenta a BBC Mundo algo más del significado del “qué bolá”.

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BBC Mundo visitó la famosa cantina La bodeguita del medio para investigar el significado de “qué bola”.

“Es una expresión de pueblo que significa ‘¿en qué andas?’, ‘¿qué vas a hacer?, ‘¿cómo vas a divertirte?”, explica el hombre de 84 años mientras escribe en una máquina de escribir uno de los poemas que vende a los turistas que visitan el restaurante y bar.

Los cubanos hablan fuerte y un poco rápido si los comparamos con otros países de América Latina.

Y son famosos por ser efusivos y alegres en su trato interpersonal.

“¿Asere, qué bolá?”, grita un muchacho en la pizzería frente al hotel Habana Libre Tryp cuando identifica a uno de sus conocidos.

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Barack Obama busca maneras de acercarse a los cubanos.

Mientras el amigo le devuelve muy alto un “¡El Johnny! ¿Qué bolá, asere?”, y estrechan la mano.

Los saludos así se repiten en las escuelas, universidades, centros de trabajo y cualquier otro lugar público.

“Asere” significa socio, hermano o amigo y “qué bolá” es una frase que puede significar ¿cómo estás?, ¿qué tal? o ¿qué novedades tienes?

La versatilidad es una de las virtudes de frases y modismos cubanos como “olvídate de eso”, “no es fácil” o el multipropósito verbo “resolver”, que algunos cubanos pronuncian con una “L” al final.

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La primera visita de un presidente de EE.UU. a Cuba en 88 años causó gran entusiasmo entre algunos cubanos.

El “qué bolá” no sólo les pertenece a los jóvenes cubanos, sino que lo comprenden casi todos en la isla.

Tal vez por eso Obama eligió esa frase para aproximarse a los cubanos con más naturalidad.

Aunque para algunos puede ser visto como demasiado coloquial e incluso vulgar.

Para, literalmente, hablarles en su idioma.

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A handful of red states are placing bets on abortion bans in the hopes of having the Supreme Court reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide for up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.

States are quickly passing laws banning abortion when a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, at about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many women know they’re pregnant. Such “heartbeat bills” have passed this year in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio, and in previous years in Iowa and North Dakota.

Because the laws violate Roe‘s 24-week standard, they’ve been quickly struck down or put on hold everywhere they have been challenged, and abortion remains legal across the U.S. Still, advocates who push them hope they may eventually offer the opportunity to reverse Roe given that the Supreme Court’s makeup has changed with President Trump’s appointments of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. If that were to happen, the decision over the legalization of abortion would fall to the states.

“Certainly the intent of these laws is to ask the court to revisit whether there is any constitutional right for abortion whatsoever,” said Jennifer Dalven, director the Reproductive Freedom Project at the ACLU, which has brought challenges against the bans. “Whether the Supreme Court decides to take up one of these, we’ll wait and see.”

Having a six-week ban appealed to the Supreme Court would take years, and is unlikely. Still, it would be possible if lower court decisions are appealed or if circuit judges were to rule differently from one another. This would be unexpected: No federal court has upheld bans on abortion that are earlier in a pregnancy, and judges are likely to strike down six-week bans because lower court judges are compelled to apply Supreme Court precedence in their rulings.

“I think that scenario is the longest of longshots,” Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel at Americans United for Life, said of lower courts upholding a six-week ban on abortion.

But other anti-abortion advocates and lawmakers who back the six-week bans believe that it’s time for the Supreme Court to reexamine its 1973 ruling that abortion is allowed nationwide up until the point at which a baby would be able to be born early and still survive outside the womb, which is generally understood to be at about 24 weeks into a pregnancy. Opponents of this standard think that the question of viability has changed thanks to medical technology that helps premature babies survive and that allows pregnant women to see fetal development.

“The clear vitality of life that is developing is becoming more and more apparent to our eyes and our ears, and that for many people is what is inspiring these bills,” said Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, an attorney for the Catholic Association.

But Forsythe thinks it’s unlikely the bans would reach the Supreme Court, noting that the justices had already declined to hear cases on other abortion bans in recent years, causing them to be struck down. The judge who is hearing the Mississippi ban on May 21 already struck down a 15-week ban in the state, signaling he’s likely to rule similarly on an even more restrictive ban. Still, the Supreme Court has a different makeup than it used to.

“It may be that anti-choice politicians hope they get a different result this time,” said Hillary Schneller, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights. “But the Supreme Court has always come out the same way on this very core issue as to whether a person has the right to make this very core decision.”

How abortion cases are challenged, whether in federal or state court, will also factor into the significance of a ruling. The Supreme Court could narrowly uphold state laws without touching on Roe, or it could rule in a way that opens the door to states chipping away at abortion rights.

Both sides know the Supreme Court doesn’t have to hear an abortion ban to overturn Roe. Other bills that limit abortion access can have a similar effect. For the Supreme Court, there are a multitude of potential outcomes in between outright upholding or fully overturning Roe that would allow for more restrictions on abortion.

Schneller called such a strategy “death by a thousand cuts to eliminate abortion in a more stealth way” and a “more subtle but very dangerous way of eliminating access to abortion without actually having to overturn Roe.”

The Supreme Court is already considering abortion challenges, including over a law in Indiana that would ban abortion on the basis of race, sex, or disability status.

In another case, the Center for Reproductive Rights has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a Louisiana law that obligates doctors have admitting privileges to local hospitals, which is a similar law to one the high court ruled unconstitutional in Texas almost three years ago. If allowed to proceed, the law would reduce the number of doctors who provide abortions in the state to just one.

“The right to abortion on paper doesn’t mean anything in practice unless you’re able to have a clinic in your state where you’re able to access abortion without an undue burden,” Schneller said.

Many national advocacy groups who seek to end abortion favor the more gradual approach, including the Susan B. Anthony List, which is influential with the Trump administration. Americans United For Life backs abortion laws that ban the procedure at 20 weeks as well as laws that require all women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion.

“Any of those could be the vehicle for re-examining Roe, although the court is not going to do so in the short term,” Forsythe said.

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One person was killed and at least six others were wounded in a shooting overnight in downtown Portland, police say.

No one has been arrested in the shooting, which happened about 2 a.m. Saturday, according to Portland police. The shooter or shooters fled the scene, which is near a popular collection of food carts, before police arrived.

The person who was most severely injured, a woman who has not been publicly identified, later died at a hospital. The other known gunshot victims are expected to survive.

Sgt. Kevin Allen, a police spokesperson, said there may be more than seven shooting victims, as others may have left the scene before police could contact them.

Allen said there’s no known, ongoing public safety threat and that detectives are working to determine the circumstances of the shooting. Police have not said whether the shooter or shooters were targeting a person or group, or if investigators have identified any suspects.

Homicide detectives are investigating.

Police seemed to focus Saturday morning on an area in front of food carts on Southwest Third Avenue between Harvey Milk and Washington streets.

Pedestrians detoured around the closed area, and some stopped to ask police what happened. Parked cars remained in lots blocked off by police tape, and access to businesses inside the police perimeter was closed.

Police escorted people who live in the closed area to their buildings.

Filiberto Saldana told The Oregonian/OregonLive he was busy cooking in his food truck, La Piñata Takos, when he heard gunshots early Saturday.

”The next thing I know I heard people running,” Saldana said. “We just saw a car going fast in front of us.”

The dark blue car took off right after the shooting on Third Avenue, Saldana said.

Tyrone Jackson, who lives near the scene, said he was asleep in his apartment when gunshots woke him up. Although he’s never witnessed anything similar, Jackson said he opts to stay home at night rather than going to bars in the area because of safety concerns.

Portland Outdoor Store owner Brad Popick said the crime scene outside his shop on the closed block of Oak Street and Third Avenue looked like “World War Three.”

Oregonians are demanding accountability from their local governments, he said, and have gotten a lack of responses.

”People are screaming,” Popick said. “I can’t ever remember when we had people screaming at city council, on the radio, on TV, on the paper and in person. There seems to be this incredible lack of coherency or process of getting stuff done.”

The shooting was one of two homicides Saturday in Portland, as a man was also fatally shot in the Parkrose neighborhood about 6:30 a.m.

The fatal shootings are the latest in an epidemic of gun violence in Portland.

So far this year, there have been about 570 shooting incidents in the city, more than twice the number recorded during the same time in 2020.

Just last month, for example, two people were injured in a shooting a few blocks away from Saturday’s downtown incident. In that case, police recovered 28 shell casings.

Portland has also had more than 50 homicides in 2021, including two fatal shootings by police.

There were 55 homicides in all of 2020, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis. This year, the city is on pace to log more homicides than its peak of 70 in 1987.

Police initially said eight people had been hurt in Saturday’s downtown shooting but later revised that figure.

Police ask anyone with information, including witnesses who may have left the scene, to contact Detective Brian Sims (Brian.Sims@portlandoregon.gov; 503-823-2079) or Detective Scott Broughton (Scott.Broughton@portlandoregon.gov; 503-823-3774).

— April Rubin; arubin@oregonian.com; @AprilMRubin

Jack Forrest of The Oregonian/OregonLive contributed to this report.

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BERLIN—The Trump administration has told the German government it would limit intelligence sharing with Berlin if Huawei Technologies Co. is allowed to build Germany’s next-generation mobile-internet infrastructure.

In a letter to the country’s economics minister, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard A. Grenell wrote allowing the participation of Huawei or other Chinese equipment vendors in the 5G project would mean the U.S. won’t be able to maintain the same level of cooperation with German security agencies.

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A federal appeals court in California took action Friday that would temporarily allow the Trump administration to return asylum seekers to Mexico.

The decision is in response to the Trump administration’s emergency motion filing from Thursday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco to stop a nationwide injunction that would bar the government from continuing its policy of forcing migrants to wait in Mexico as their asylum cases play out.

The court asked that opposition to the emergency motion be filed by Tuesday, 9 a.m. local time.

The government’s motion said the injunction issued Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg rested on “serious errors of law” and blocked an initiative “designed to address the dramatically escalating burdens of unauthorized migration.”

The administration had asked for an administrative stay that would take place immediately and remain in place while the court considers the issue of a longer stay while the appeals process plays out in a possibly months-long process.

The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the court earlier Friday to deny the emergency request that would keep in place the administration’s policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico while they wait for court dates.

In response to the judge’s decision Friday evening, Judy Rabinovitz, who argued the case for the ACLU, said, “this is just an interim step while the court considers the government’s stay request.”

“We’re very disappointed in the 9th Circuit’s decision and we hope that the stay will be short-lived,” Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Friday night. The group is part of the lawsuit seeking to stop the policy.

“The plaintiffs and others like them are very vulnerable to harm in Mexico and should be able to pursue their asylum claims in the United States,” she added.

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.

The organizations seeking to stop the policy of returning migrants to Mexico said in a brief earlier Friday that the government’s request should be denied and that there was not “sufficient urgency” to warrant an administrative stay.

“The government should not be allowed to manufacture the need for an emergency administrative stay by failing to timely file a stay request,” the brief said.

In issuing a preliminary injunction temporarily stopping the policy, Seeborg had ordered that it go into effect Friday to give the administration time to appeal.

“It was a huge victory for us and it’s a huge defeat for the Trump administration at least in terms of a signal that you are not above the law,” Rabinovitz said of Seeborg’s ruling.

Seeborg also ruled that all 11 migrants named in the lawsuit must be allowed to enter the U.S. within two days of the order taking effect.

While the order was not set to officially go into effect until Friday, an official with Mexico’s immigration agency told NBC News the government had not been returning newly arrived migrants to Mexico since the judge issued his decision on Monday.

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A physician speaking with CNN’s “New Day” knocked the Biden administration on Tuesday, arguing that the White House “dropped the ball” on COVID-19 testing.

During an interview with CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins, Brown University School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha was asked whether the administration was missing a “critical window” for COVID testing heading into the new year.  

“You saw President Biden yesterday acknowledging, pretty bluntly, that they need to do better when it comes to testing because we are seeing this nationwide shortage of those rapid at-home tests. It’s very difficult to just walk into a store and get one. And what we’re hearing from officials like Dr. Fauci is that they believe they’re gonna have this solved by mid-January, in a few weeks. But, how critical is the window that we’re missing right now for testing?” asked Collins.

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“Oh I think it’s incredibly critical, and I cannot believe this is where we are almost two years into the pandemic. Everybody saw it coming. We knew we needed more tests. I think the administration dropped the ball on this,” Jha responded.

Jha said that the Biden administration appeared to be primarily focused on vaccinations throughout the year while “not paying a lot of attention” to the importance of testing. He added that while a focus on vaccines is “terrific,” the decision to largely ignore the infrastructure for testing has been “really costly” this holiday season. 

A few CNN correspondents have recently criticized the president for his handling of the pandemic. 

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CNN reporter Phil Mattingly questioned last week whether the administration’s inability to adequately prepare for the latest variant with testing should be considered a “failure.”

“No, it’s not,” Biden responded. “Because COVID is spreading so rapidly if you notice. It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.”

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Biden again admitted to a lack of foresight on rapid tests in a call with several U.S. governors on Monday, saying, “It is not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If I had – we – had known, we would have gone harder, quicker, if we could have.”

Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report. 

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President Biden raised concerns about global warming during remarks on what could have potentially contributed to the Surfside Condo collapse near Miami last week. 

The president said he doesn’t have any “firm proof” on what caused the collapse that left 18 dead and 145 still missing, but that there was all kinds of “rational speculation,” including “whether or not rising sea levels had impact.” 

Biden spent three hours with the families of the victims, after touring the scene of the 12-story collapse, and said he was surprised how many of them talked about the impact of global warming. “I didn’t raise it. But many of the survivors and many families talked about the impact of global warming,” the president said. 

“They didn’t know exactly but they talked about sea levels rising, a combination of that and concern about incoming tropical storms.” 

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Biden said the victims’ loved ones are “going through hell” right now. “It’s hard enough to lose somebody but the hard part, the really hard part, is to just not know whether they’re surviving or not,” he added in a nod to the so many who are missing. He said the families were “very realistic” about the slimming chances of survival with each passing day. 

“They had basic, heart-wrenching questions, ‘Will I be able to recover the body? How can I have closure without getting to bury them?” Biden said of the families he spoke with. He said speaking with the victims called to mind his own experience with personal tragedy, having lost his daughter and wife in a car crash and his son Beau to cancer. 

Search and rescue efforts were paused in the middle of the night due to concerns about building stability after a large column hanging from a structure had shifted. 

An engineering firm in 2018 had identified key structural deficiencies requiring major costly repairs in 2018, but a former municipal official assured the condo’s board members that the building was in “very good shape.” 

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Biden also thanked Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio and Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, as well as all first responders on the scene. There’s been “no disagreement, no bickering everybody’s on the same page. That’s what America is all about.” The president met with the GOP governor during his trip to Florida and other local officials. 

He told Florida officials the federal government stood ready to assist however it was needed. “This is your show – we just want to make sure whatever you need,” he said. 

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Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said it will conduct a “full technical investigation” into what caused the Champlain Towers South condo building collapse. 

Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report. 

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