Sibares Lamprea was killed on Saturday September 10. as he left his father’s funeral “, specifies in title El Tiempo“ by men on a motorbike “, remember The Spectator. He was part of the USO union, the largest union in the oil sector in the country. In Barrancabermeja, in the north of the country, where he was assassinated, an extraordinary meeting of the security council was held this Sunday to ” study anything that could threaten the work of trade unions », Reports week.
According to the NGO Indepaz, this year, no less than 126 social leaders and human rights activists have been murdered in the spiral of violence that followed the signing of the 2016 peace agreements with the Farc », Reports The Spectator. The USO union also asks, in a statement taken up by El Tiempothat the authorities are investigating the murder, but also “ establish a plan of action which strongly opposes all the attacks which target social leaders in the national territory and which, it seems, are increasing everywhere “.
Fires in Bolivia
As every year, these fires were lit to expand agricultural land. Are affected, precise Los Tiempos, the departments of Santa Cruz in the center, Beni in the north, Tarija and Chuquisaca in the south. Twenty-four fires are still active, including 17 in the Santa Cruz area. Nearly 855,000 hectares have been destroyed, almost three times three weeks ago, deplores Correo Del Sur.
According The Diario, because of the very dense smoke, air travel has been suspended in two departments. Some 980 firefighters and 14 military units are fighting the flames in four departments, specifies, in The Razon, Deputy Minister of Civil Defence. Juan Carlos Calvimontes nevertheless notes, remarks Los Tiempos, a reduction in the number of fires, which last year had destroyed 4.2 million hectares. The objective for Juan Carlos Calvimontes is not to exceed one million hectares destroyed this year.
In the United States, the preparation of the elections complicated by the Trumpists
In the United States, the midterm elections will take place as planned on November 8. But according to the washington postsupporters of Donald Trump are putting a spoke in the wheels of the organizers by inundating them with requests for documents related to the 2020 presidential election. The newspaper speaks of a coordinated campaign throughout the territory: North Carolina has thus received hundreds of requests, all of which arrived on the same day.
Some are sometimes written in exactly the same way. Organizers are forced to dedicate whole days to answer to these requests, as the law obliges them to do, when they already have a lot to do with the organization of the mid-term elections – between the location of future polling stations, the sending of proxies and the preparation for votes in advance of October.
According to officials, ” the system is being hijacked by people who are not looking for information, but rather trying to create chaos as the election approaches “, by giving back ” more difficult for them to run smoothly and by giving critics new ways to attack election integrity “. According to the newspaper, many of those requesting documents ” claim they are doing what several of Donald Trump’s allies have asked them to do allies for whom the 2020 election was stolen.
In the United States, child poverty halved in thirty years
the New York Times reveals that since 1993, child poverty has fallen by 59%. For more than a generation, the country’s child poverty rate was higher than that of other wealthy nations, leaving millions of young people without food and shelter. But without the public realizing it, between 1993 and 2019, this rate dropped by almost 60%, and for everyone, the newspaper points out: Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, living with a single parent. or two.
The reason, analysts say: lower unemployment, more single working women, higher minimum wages. But above all, the increase in government assistance, particularly that for working families. the New York Times note however that the United States still has more child poverty than many other countries of comparable level.
Haiti “in electoral mode” before the end of the year?
In Haiti, Prime Minister Ariel Henri addressed the population last night, after five hours behind schedule, notes Rezo Nodwes. The Prime Minister ” has made a commitment, among other things, to put the country in electoral mode before the end of 2022 “, note Free Haitiquoting Ariel Henri: Those who are afraid of elections must know that they have no chance of achieving the leadership of our country. Elections scheduled for the past few years have been repeatedly postponed.
The news site notes another announcement, as protests against high prices, insecurity and fuel shortages continue: the launch of ” social appeasement programs For which three billion gourdes will be mobilized. Rezo Nodwes speaks of a speech which turns out to be totally utopia “.