” On Saturday, simultaneously, in several “maximum security” penal centers, clashes took place between prisoners “, writing El Hondurandiario. The gangs involved are MS-13 and Pandilla 18. The newspaper reports that one of criminal organizations received instructions from outside the prisons to try to destabilize national security during the last days of Holy Week “. Assessment: a death, a member of the Pandilla 18, writes The Heraldofor who ” Honduran prisons have turned into battlefields where prisoners easily obtain weapons “. El Tiempo reports for its part the request, in a video on the TikTok network, of a group of prisoners demanding that President Xiomara Castro ” amnesty all prisoners (…) as she granted amnesty to politicians “.
But the president did not choose this path. ” Xiomara Castero announces “tough” intervention in penitentiary centers “, title ConfidenceI : “ I will crack down and bring order to the prisons, until they are transformed into rehabilitation centers, and not into schools of crime and torture, a situation that I inherited “. Fact, El Hondudiario recalls that ” in recent years, Honduras has experienced a series of mutinies and riots in its prisons (…), caused by prison overcrowding, corruption and widespread violence in the country “. The prisons are controlled by criminal gangs who impose their law there, and the authorities who have promised to improve the conditions of detention and reduce violence “ only obtained limited results “.
Assassination of a Peruvian indigenous chief
Santiago Camilo Contoricon was assassinated on the night of Saturday to Sunday, writes La Republica. Shot dead by several people outside his home. The municipality of Rio Tambo paid tribute to its former mayor, reports the newspaper: “ no doubt he left an indelible mark on the community and the struggle for the rights of indigenous peoples “.
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Lula’s 100 Days
This Monday marks the 100 days of the Brazilian president in power. And the newspapers are not tender. ” Lula’s government ends its 100 days under criticism from its allies, who complain of obstacles to the implementation of plans and the absence of a strong new leadership for its third term “, writing Folha de Sao Paulo. The centralization of decisions by the president is singled out as one of the delay factors in the execution of governmental tasks, not to mention the clashes between members of the presidential team. According to those close to the president, the last few months have been used to “get the house in order” and new projects will be launched after 100 days “.
What are his plans? O Globo specifies that ” after having relaunched social programs aimed at the poorest, the president is now preparing a series of measures aimed at the middle classes “. Goals : ” revive the economy by increasing purchasing power, and attract a section of society that historically rejects the Workers’ Party “. It is this last point that O Estado de Sao Paulo accuses him: The government gives the impression of accelerated aging when it seems more concerned with securing electoral advantages, as if we were on the verge of the presidential election of 2026, than with making the difficult and unpopular decisions that any responsible government takes. when he is still lulled by the legitimacy of the ballot box “.
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In Haiti, three police officers killed by gangs
” A police patrol of seven officers was attacked by bandits at Thomassin 32 “, explains the spokesperson for the Haitian police, taken up by Le Nouvelliste. Three police officers were killed and another injured. Retaliation, according to the coordinator of the National Police Union, after the death a little earlier of three gang members in exchanges of fire with the police. We are at 21 police officers murdered since January, calculates Alter Press. Reaction on Twitter from the Prime Minister, reported by Gazette Haiti : “ we are not insensitive to this situation and we are working hard to find a lasting solution. “. But Le Nouvelliste stresses that the PNH must ” cope with delays in the delivery of weapons and armor », with six vehicles delivered out of the ten ordered. The rest won’t arrive until May.
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The possibilities of abortion increasingly restricted in the United States
The United States press analyzes the decision taken Friday by a federal judge to withdraw the marketing authorization of an abortion pill approved for more than 20 years, and used each year by half a million American women.
In an editorial of New York TimesKate Shaw, a professor of law, speaks of a masquerade – for women’s health, the principles of democracy, the notion of judicial impartiality and the law “: ” our legal system does not usually allow a single federal district judge to overturn a decision made by an expert agency decades ago “. The Biden administration must fight this, writes the specialist. In fact, remember the washington postanother judge immediately ordered the Food and Drug Administration (US Federal Food and Drug Administration) to preserve the status quo, and maintained access to the pill in 17 states. Which, underlines the newspaper, allows to see in real time “ how liberals are trying to stave off a flood of lawsuits brought by conservatives in a justice system reshaped by Trump “.
On Sunday, leftist lawmaker Alexandria Occasio Cortez called on the White House to ignore the decision. In USA Today, a professor of reproductive rights believes that, in fact, if the decision taken on Friday suspends the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, it does not oblige it to implement the judgment, for example by targeting a person manufacturing or distributing the pill. But a decision of this kind can be politically risky, continues the specialist, paving the way for a future president who would like to ignore judicial decisions not going in his direction.
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