US President Joe Biden brings together this Thursday, December 9 and for two days a hundred countries for a “summit for democracy”. But if ” Biden wants to strengthen democracy abroad, some would like him to do more on American soil », Title Boston Globe. ” He does not commit for us like we did for him, and now we are talking about a summit for democracy ? It’s a real snub », Chokes LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Fund for the vote of blacks.
Some are ” extremely frustrated », Explains the newspaper, because« the Biden administration focused its legislative efforts on economic incentives and infrastructure and social spending laws “. They would like her to move forward on two voting bills that Republicans do not support. On condition of anonymity, a senior official said that the US president ” will be very honest, during the summit, about the challenges facing American democracy “. And this Wednesday, December 8, the White House affirmed that these texts were ” top priority “- without explaining, the newspaper notes, how she intends to convey them.
Attack on the Capitol
More broadly, one of the dangers faced by American democracy is also the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The parliamentary commission of inquiry is interested, explains the Washington post, ” to those who financed the demonstration that preceded the riot on the Capitol “. Particularly to a ” little-known donor to Donald Trump, who, eight days before, quietly donated a total of 650 $ 000 to three organizations that helped organize the event “. This donor is Julie Fancelli, 72, the daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery chain. A chain which in a press release assures that it has nothing to do with this story.
The parliamentary commission of inquiry to which Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff of Donald Trump, is trying to put sticks in the wheels: ” He joins Donald Trump in his lawsuits against the committee to block the investigation », Explains the New York Times. The reason: the court had itself announced proceedings against him, when, after accepting to testify, he finally refused to do so. And if Mark Meadows has already provided the committee with thousands of pages of documents, notes the Wall Street Journal, since September, he has been defending the idea that ” some executive communications were constitutionally protected and could not be required to disclose “.
In Cuba, the arrival of the Omicron variant
The traveler infected with the new variant of the coronavirus ” arrived last November 27 »In the island, resulting in 18 contact cases, specifies Juventud Rebelde. Granma, another pro-regime newspaper, underlines for its part that ” Cuba steps up studies on lasting side effects of Covid-19 “ – breathing difficulties, joint pain, insomnia: ” Almost a million Cubans have had Covid, and their full recovery is a priority for the country. ”
The opposition press, like El Nuevo Herald, is echoed by these ” hundreds of artists and writers who, in an open letter, support the artists detained in Cuba “. The newspaper recalls that many have been “ locked up after the July 11 protests “.
338 artists signed the text. Among them, the actress Meryl Streep, the writers Paul Auster, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa, but also representatives of Cuban culture, underlines 14ymedio, like the songwriters Patria y Vida, one of the symbols of the July 11 demonstration. Franco-Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska believes that “ if an intellectual, a writer or an artist rises against a government, he performs an indispensable task “.
In Mexico, the fate of Haitian migrants
El Universal went to the Olympic stadium in the city of Tapachula, where 7,000 of them have been stranded for three weeks, and where, the newspaper explains, garbage, urine and feces accumulate under a temperature of 42 degrees. According to Eduardo, one of the migrants, “ most migrants and adults are sick […] and no one is there to take care of them “.
That El Universal reveals in One, is that, according to several testimonies, ” people claiming to be agents of the National Institute of Migration would charge them $ 300 for transfer to other states in Mexico to continue their journey, a service normally free “.
In his editorial, the newspaper denounces ” a violation not only of their human rights, but also of one of the most vulnerable groups of people to cross the country “, and requests an investigation. El Universal notes that this is happening in the context of the resumption of the program ” Remain in Mexico “: Those who seek asylum in the United States must remain in Mexico while their application is examined. ” All this will create is more abuse and more violence », Concludes El Universal.