Yesterday Tuesday April 5 during the vote, reports USA Todaymore than a hundred demonstrators chanted in front of the Oklahoma City Capitol: Leave our bodies alone with your bans », « we’ve had enough “. If the law is signed by Governor Kevin Stitt, who has already ” promised to sign any anti-abortion laws that came across his desk “, she will do abortion ” a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine “, Write the New York Times. The law was passed: 70 votes for, 14 against, without much discussion or debate, explains the washington postwho notes that she had been ” added to the agenda on Monday evening, taking some by surprise “.
This ban is being put in place in Oklahoma as this state has become a major destination for women from Texas who want an abortion, after, recalls the New York Timesthat Texas “ has adopted a law prohibiting this procedure after the six weeks of pregnancy, that is to say very early “. Results : ” For seven months, Oklahoma has been desperately trying to cope with the deluge of patients from Texas “, Write the Texas Grandstand : the four clinics increased working hours and hired additional staff to absorb more than 600 additional patients per month “. And these establishments see more women whose pregnancy is already advanced, the fault of waiting lists of several weeks. However, the newspaper notes, they have to refuse many patients who turn to Kansas and Illinois.
the washington post points out that the future of the law likely depends on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, expected this summer, which could overturn or significantly weaken Roe against Wade, who in 1973 guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide “. the New York Times notes that Republican-led states are acting as if they already are and are trying ” to make abortion illegal in as many circumstances as possible “.
The press under threat in El Salvador
In El Salvador, the National Assembly voted on Tuesday a text threatening 15 years in prison whoever would write or reproduce a text originating from gangs. President ” Bukele tries to silence the press on all things gang “, title Diario Co Latino. The text voted on yesterday provoked a strong debate between the legislators », Reports El Salvador“ after the opposition ARENA party denounced it as an attack on freedom of the press “.
In Diario Co Latinothe association of journalists of El Salvador believes that ” Preventing journalists from reporting on the reality of thousands of people living in communities controlled by armed groups will have no effect, other than creating a mirage that will not be true to reality “. The exceptional regime put in place after a wave of homicides at the end of March could last another month. Nearly six thousand gang members were arrested in one week.
Indigenous protests in Brasilia
In Brazil, thousands of Brazilian natives have been camping since Tuesday in the capital to defend their rights and protest against the government of Jair Bolsonaro – they accuse him of having favored the economic exploitation of their territories.
The annual camp had not been able to take place in recent years due to Covid. Correio Brasiliense indicates that yesterday several politicians had been invited to the camp, objective: ” bring parliamentarians closer to the situations experienced by the indigenous peoples of the north of the country “. Example, explains in the newspaper a leader of the indigenous community: the construction of the hydroelectric dam of Tabajara, in the North-East. The indigenous peoples have not been consulted, and will suffer floods and a drop in their fishing, and therefore in their food.
A letter must be delivered on Wednesday and Thursday to parliamentarians and candidates for future elections, so that they ” are committed to the indigenous cause “. Knowing, remember Folha de Sao Paulowhich the Brazilian Congress is currently debating ” a bill, proposed by the government, aimed at authorizing mineral exploration on indigenous lands. The text uses as justification the increase in fertilizer prices caused by the war in Ukraine “.
Soaring prices in Haiti
” The gourd keeps unscrewing “, writing Le Nouvelliste : in one year, we have gone from about 80 gourdes for a dollar to 105 gourdes, and on the informal market you have to pay up to 120 gourdes for a dollar… All this has an impact on the price of basic necessities, which more face the explosion of the cost of sea freight.
A source from the newspaper, close to the large import of food products in Haiti, explains: ” Before Covid-19, we paid between 4 and 6,000 dollars for a container from China. Today, we pay 14,000 dollars “.