On the evening of a large demonstration in Lima, the President of Peru called the protesters to a truce, before new demonstrations on Wednesday. ” Dina Boluarte calls for dialogue and sends 500 soldiers to the Puno region », Tackle on its front page La Republica. In this region near the border with Bolivia, where demonstrations and repression have been particularly intense since the beginning of December, the curfew has been extended by ten days, specifies El Comercio. The soldiers sent to enforce the measure were slowed down by road blockages.
And the controversy is mounting around a sentence pronounced yesterday by the Head of State during a press conference: “ Puno is not Peru “. The presidency specifies that it explained then that it had to ensure the safety of all the inhabitants of the country, and not only of this region, but it had to apologize: “ This is neither discrimination nor contempt “, writes the Presidential Palace in a press release. Dina Boluarte, who took over from deposed President Pedro Castillo in early December, is due to speak this Wednesday before the OAS, the Organization of American States.
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Political dissension at the Celac summit
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has criticized leftist leaders on the continent, accusing them of being too lenient with authoritarian regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The day after the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Buenos Aires, the Argentine press is echoing it, in particular the conservative media, in this election year in Argentina.
This is the case of Clarinbut also, without much nuance, of The Nation, which roundly criticizes the balance sheet of the summit. The Celac is just a “ conglomerate of governments united by Bolivarian ideology “, Estimates the newspaper, which also indirectly targets the Argentine power. At last, “ the mexican president didn’t even come » Himself at the top, still tackles the journalist who signs the political analysis of the day.
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Haiti calls on CELAC countries to support an intervention in the country
” I encourage the CELAC countries that already know the field to help us pleaded Ariel Henry during the summit. ” It is not a question of redoing what failed in the past, of starting over with the UN formulas which consisted in doing the work in place of the Haitians. “, assured the Prime Minister again during his speech, reports Le Nouvelliste. Ariel Henry also requested equipment, materials, and training for the Haitian police. Ariel Henry, whose presence at this summit, was denounced on Tuesday by dozens of Haitian nationals living in Argentina. He “ is not legitimate to speak on behalf of Haitians “, Protests a demonstrator interviewed by Alterpresse. Placards also point the finger at the United States: “ Your guns are killing us wrote a Haitian exile. ” Stop sending us weapons “, says another participant in the Alterpresse agency.
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United States: confidential documents found in the home of Donald Trump’s former vice-president
Files classified as confidential were found at Mike Pence, former Republican vice-president, in office until January 2021. Democrats, still embarrassed by the discovery of confidential documents at President Joe Biden, return the ball once again to the camp opposite. A Democratic senator is thus surprised by Politico that all the living former presidents and vice presidents had not sought earlier ” in their closets if they had such documents, since the discussions around the files taken home by Donald Trump began, many months ago now.
Unlike Donald Trump, who refused to release the confidential files before the FBI search of his home last August, Mike Pence transmitted his immediately to the national archives, as soon as his lawyer found them at his home. But the news had a bad effect, because he had assured in the past that he had not taken “any sensitive document” home when he left the vice-presidency two years ago now.
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New Gun Control Debates in the United States
Why does this state not escape violence, when it has one of the most restrictive laws in the country concerning the carrying of weapons and in particular the carrying of assault rifles? This is the question that the correspondent of the New York Times in California. ” Our culture celebrates violence as a way to solve problems “, and it goes beyond the borders of the American states, regrets a doctor and researcher whom she interviewed.
In his editorial of the day, the washington post therefore calls for measures at the federal level, in particular to regulate automatic and semi-automatic weapons. “ It might not have saved lives this time in California, but it sure would have saved some somewhere else at some point. “, writes the newspaper.
Let’s take this as a subject of ” public health ” and no ” a battle to be won against one side or the other, writes an editorialist from the New York Times. ” We can’t eliminate the weapons from our lives in the United States, he writes, but as with tobacco or alcohol, one must regulate ” the risks. Men under 50 kill 7,000 people every year with a firearm in the United States, he recalls. He proposes to generalize the ban on the purchase of weapons for those under 21 and to prohibit the carrying of weapons to the perpetrators of domestic violence or to stalkers, who are more likely to take action, concludes- he.
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