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“ Chile rejects constitutional proposal for the second time », headline on the front page of La Tercera. Las Ultimas Noticiasalways on the front page, sticks to the results: “ For: 44.55%, against: 55.45% » – at that time, a little more than 76% of the ballots had been counted. In BioBioChileFrancisco Vidal, former left-wing minister and one of the supporters of “ against “, congratulates himself : ” When we speak clearly, we win “. Let us remember that the left had lost in the first referendum for a new Constitution – the text was then marked on the left, while the one submitted to the vote yesterday Sunday was on the right, or even on the extreme right. La Tercera also speaks of José Antonio Kast and his party, the far-right Republican Party, as the big losers of the vote. And already, written daily life“ the right faces its first internal recriminations after its severe defeat “. However, in BioBioChileJosé Antonio Kast, judges that “ neither the government nor the left can congratulate themselves ”, because according to him, “ these four years have done a lot of damage to the country, and it will take decades to repair it “.
El Mostrador seen in “ the triumph of “against” a defeat for the extremes “, both for last year’s version and for yesterday’s version, written by ” identity groups who have lost sight of the fact that it is about building a social pact of the nation “. Gabriel Boric does not seem to say anything else when, taken up in El Mostradorhe assures : ” the process of drafting the Constitution was intended to bring hope, but it generated frustration “. Then how ” get out of this swamp », asks La Tercera. The daily proposes “ abandon the language of contradiction, and choose to advance two or three transformative and transversal projects, outside the atmosphere of litigation and hatred in which we are mired “. The two projects that the editorialist proposes: increasing women’s employment and working on the crisis in education. For the moment, written BioBioChile“ President Boric asks his cabinet to get back to work on pension reform and the fiscal pact as soon as possible “.
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No more kidnappings for ransom for the ELN
In Colombia, the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas have agreed with the government to suspend kidnappings for ransom, an announcement made this Sunday at the end of the fifth round of negotiations. “ This is the first time in 30 years of negotiations “, REMARK The Spectator“ that the ELN makes this kind of promise “. And it is a victory for the government, judges the daily, while the main dissidence of the Farc had also made the same promise last week.
“ We transformed a crisis situation into a victory for peace », welcomed the head of government negotiators, echoed by daily life. The crisis situation was the kidnapping – then release – by the ELN of the father of footballer Luis Diaz. In detail, the ELN’s end to kidnappings for ransom begins on January 30, 2023, writes El Tiempo, which recalls that the ELN has kidnapped 32 people since the start of the year. “ The problem “, estimated week, “ it’s that there aren’t many people to think – and speak in negotiations – victims who are still in the hands of the criminal group “.
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Violent storm in Argentina
On the morning of Sunday, December 17, rain and winds blowing up to 150 km/h left at least 13 dead in Buenos Aires and caused much destruction. Dozens of avenues and streets cut off by a storm of almost unprecedented magnitude “, title Clarin. The press publishes impressive photos: a plane stuck upside down in a swamp (Clarin) ; an avenue so full of trees that it looks like a forest (The Nation) ; a car flattened by a block of concrete (El Dia). According to a meteorologist interviewed by Clarin“ there was a storm at an altitude twice as high as usual, and that’s where a collision occurred between a very warm air mass and a cold air mass coming from the south », which generated very violent winds. Following the storm, more than a million people were left without electricity, writes The Nation.
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Donald Trump: migrants poison the blood of our country »
In the United States, the remarks made last Saturday, December 16 by Donald Trump provoked a reaction: the former president had affirmed that immigrants “ poison the blood of our country “. Words, writes the Washington Post, which alarmed human rights advocates and migrant groups, who compared the comments to the writings of Adolf Hitler. Politicians also reacted: “ Tonight, Donald Trump took a cue from his role models by reprising Adolf Hitler, praising Kim Jong-un and quoting Vladimir Putin, while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and by threatening American democracy “, scathed a spokesperson for Joe Biden’s campaign, echoed by The Hill. “ He gets even crazier “, “ He disgusts me “, exclaimed Republican primary candidate Chris Christie, also echoed by The Hill. This Sunday, December 17, 2023, Donald Trump added more, accusing undocumented migrants of “ invade the United States ”, in a speech where “ as usual », analyzes the Washington Posthe used language “ dehumanizing migrants “.
Comments made while the ex-president, wrote Politicoseems to benefit from a winning scenario for the Republican presidential primary: “ Trump’s opponents cannot rally around one of their candidacies – in fact, they make it even more complicated since those of his rivals who, according to the polls, collect the fewest points, do not seem decided to give up the game before the primary “.
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300 Kenyan police officers would arrive in Haiti in February
Gazette Haiti states: “ The first 300 Kenyan police officers are expected in Haiti in February 2024, according to what the Kenyan authorities announced this Sunday, December 17, 2023, cited by the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre » which itself takes over the Kenyan press. Ten days ago, the UN hoped that the multinational force in Haiti, which is to help local police fight gangs, would arrive ” during the first quarter of 2024 “.
But for now, Kenya’s Supreme Court has temporarily banned the deployment of a Kenyan force to Haiti. On January 26, 2024, the Nairobi High Court is due to consider an appeal filed by an opponent.
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