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“ US missiles strike Houthi targets in Yemen », headline on the front page New York Times : a dozen targets, struck during the night of Thursday to Friday January 12 by the United States and the United Kingdom, with the support of four of their allies: Australia, the Netherlands, Canada and Bahrain , who provided, among other things, logistics and information.
Thursday evening, written daily lifeUS President Joe Biden warned: “ we will not tolerate attacks on us and we will not allow hostile actors to jeopardize the freedom of navigation on one of the world’s most important trade routes “. More than 2,000 boats have been forced to change route to avoid the Red Sea and missiles that Houthi rebels say they are launching in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
US President Joe Biden spoke with his national security team as early as January 1, but waited more than a week to carry out these strikes, “ which fits well “, writing Politico“ with his well-known desire to exhaust all diplomatic possibilities and avoid dragging the United States into another war in the Middle East “. In any case, title USA Todaylast night’s attack is a ” major escalation in the Middle East conflict “. A group of progressive Democrats, writes Politicohas moreover “ curdled » Joe Biden for launching these “ punitive strikes » without Congressional approval. Some Republicans have also criticized the Biden administration, but saying that these strikes should have taken place a long time ago.
El Noticiero back in Ecuador
In Ecuador, the newspaper El Noticiero from TC Television is back, you can read it in Metro Ecuador. The studio, located in the Guayaquil region, in the southwest of the country, was stormed by a heavily armed gang, who took the newspaper team hostage before being overpowered. Since then, on the channel, a message read: “ we will be back soon “. This Thursday, returning to the air, presenter Saskia Bermeo, very moved, thanked the security forces who rescued her team: “ El Noticiero is back in the space where they wanted to silence us. We are back with even more strength and more commitment to the people who wake up with us to engage and build a better Ecuador. »
The 13 attackers, including two teenagers, are accused of terrorism, writes El Telegrafo. They were placed in preventive detention, like fifteen other people accused of attacking the police and guards of a social rehabilitation center. The daily recalls that people convicted of terrorism risk 10 to 13 years in prison in Ecuador. A driver and a guard, who had helped people during the violence that tore Guayaquil apart, were decorated. Guayaquil where, written The Universe, 600 police officers were searching this Thursday for 24 members of the Tiguerones gang, in the northwest of the city – the Tigerones are one of 21 gangs that the government considers terrorists. At the same time, Ecuador, writes Vistazo, accepted help offered by the United States and Argentina to deal with the wave of violence. “ We need soldiers and assistance with intelligence, artillery and equipment », indicated President Daniel Noboa, who highlighted working with 38 countries.
Resumption of dialogue between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Haiti and the Dominican Republic resume dialogue on their border dispute, the construction of a canal by Haitians on the Massacre River, shared by the two countries, ” after two months of very tense relations and silence “, writing The Nouvelliste. The talks were interrupted last September, after Santo Domingo’s decision to close all its borders with Haiti.
The announcement of this resumption of dialogue was made this Thursday by the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writing El Caribein a press release: the minister met his Haitian counterpart in Washington on January 9 and 10, each accompanied by their delegation, at the headquarters of the OAS, the Organization of American States. Diario Libre note however that we do not know the date of the next meeting. In any case, El Dia reports that the two countries “ agreed to carry out a technical study, with the help of a qualified international organization, and determine the hydrological, environmental and social reality of the river basin “. Discussions also focused on migration, trade and cross-border security, “in a constructive manner”, specified the Haitian chancellery “, writing The Nouvelliste.
Haiti, 14 years after the earthquake
“ January 12, 2010: between stories, memory and heritage! “, title The National. The date ” has since been included in the official and national agenda “, but in AlterPressthe engineer-geologist Claude Preptit denounces a “ increased vulnerability of Haiti » 14 years after the earthquake: “ the numerous recommendations on the behaviors to adopt, the appropriate methods for constructing houses and public buildings, the seismic mapping of the country, are still not implemented “. And the scientist castigates “ the attitude of the institutions which have never taken the necessary measures to follow up this research work, for the realization of which large sums of money were disbursed “.
The 2010 earthquake caused, AlterPresse recalls, “ more than 280,000 dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.3 million homeless in the capital Port-au-Prince, in the Palmes area (Léogânes, Grand-Goâve, Petit-Goâve) and in the city of Jacmel (South-East department)”, according to the UN. The National has this terrible sentence: “ Faced with the urban violence that illustrates the pages of our history, the ongoing human catastrophe seems to want to catch up or even exceed the toll of this terrible natural disaster. “.