Protests continued outside Parliament yesterday, reports El Periodico, against the law passed on Tuesday. This law represents a “serious threat” against women, girls and LGBTQI+ “, estimates in the newspaper Amnesty International’s director for the Americas. The text reminds Prensa Libre“ increases prison sentences for abortion and seeks to fight “minority groups incompatible with Christian morality” “. A law ” misogynistic and homophobic », Estimates the newspaper in its editorial.
Just yesterday, President Alejandro Giamattei insisted on the fact ” there is no right to abortion », Reports Prensa Libre. But a few hours later, he said on television, in a recorded message, that he had asked for the famous law to be ” set apart “, explaining that the executive ” couldn’t agree with her “, because she ” violates the Constitution ” and ” international conventions to which Guatemala is a signatory “. The president of the Congress, reports Prensa Libreindicated that the law would be studied again, to verify if it is indeed unconstitutional.
In Mexico, the government calls members of the European Parliament “ sheep »
Tone ” unusual ” for Reformed“ undiplomatic “, valued Universal“ one would think that the web page of the government of the Republic has been hacked exclaims Cronicawhich speaks of a text poorly written and saturated with colloquial language “. So why does the Mexican government call MEPs ” sheep »? Cronica recalls that ” MEPs voted for a resolution denouncing the Mexican government’s passivity in the face of the murder of journalists in Mexico “, seven since the beginning of the year. And it is this resolution that has angered the Mexican government, which in a press release accuses European parliamentarians of ” follow like sheep a reactionary and putschist strategy of the corrupt group ” who ” opposes to the government.
A press release reproduced in its entirety in Universalwho chose this excerpt for its title: “ Remember we’re nobody’s colony “. Excelsior is also interested in this allusion to the conflict in Ukraine: We do not send weapons to any country, unlike you who are doing it at the moment “. Fury therefore of the Mexican government. However, explain Cronica, before being voted on, the text of the European Parliament was more severe. Critics who have therefore disappeared, but obviously that was not enough, concludes the newspaper.
In Argentina, the Parliament votes the agreement concluded with the IMF
This is, remember The Nation“ to authorize the executive power to refinance the debt of 44.5 billion dollars contracted in 2018 with the International Monetary Fund while President Mauricio Macri was in power. The text was approved by a large majority “, writing Clarin : 204 votes for, 37 against and 11 abstentions, after a debate of 13 hours… Low heat “, quips Page 12, with the photo of a saucepan. A red saucepan, perhaps because, as specified the newspaperthe left and libertarians spoke out against the deal.
The vote was made possible, note The Nationbecause ” the majority and the opposition put aside for the first time their differences “. The reason, according to Page 12 : to curry favor with the opposition, the government drafted ” a short and impoverished text (…) which gives the executive an overall authorization and deletes all the details agreed with the IMF “. In short, for the newspaper, this vote is a lesser evil before a possible rejection of the project “. The text must now pass before the Senate, recalls The Vozwho believes that beyond the agreement with the International Monetary Fund on the external debt, a consensus must be reached to put in place common growth policies for the country “.
Demonstrations outside the Panamanian embassy in Havana
” More than a hundred Cubans, some of them desperate and in tears, were still posted this Thursday in front of the Panama consulate to find a solution allowing them to travel to the Latin American country. “, writing El Nuevo Heraldwhich notes the presence of a cordon of police officers to ” an uncommon type of event on the island “. Explanation of 14 y medio : “ Since November, Nicaragua has become the main destination for those who want to emigrate, since it does not require visas from Cubans “. Cubans who go there through Panama, which now requires transit visas for Cubans. ” It is the second country in the region to do so after Costa Rica. », notes El Nuevo Herald. The new ” felt like a bucket of cold water for those who wanted to leave, explains 14 y medio, hence this demonstration.