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It will be subject to change: Ricardo Monreal said that the lithium reform will be reviewed

adminabig — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:17:08 +0000

Ricardo Monreal, Morena’s coordinator in the Senate of the Republic, assured that the Reform to the Mining Law (LM) that seeks to guarantee the sovereignty of the Mexican State over lithium will be thoroughly reviewed by the federal legislature, this in accordance with the widespread assumption that the president’s order is not to change not a comma to the draft decree.On the afternoon of this Monday, April 18, the activist of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) convened a press conference, in which he was subjected to different questions regarding the political situation in the legislature resulting from two events that captured the political and media perspective with great force.First, the president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) was questioned about the result that was obtained in the Chamber of Deputies in relation to the dismissal of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the Electric Reform, to which he said that this is the case in democracies “sometimes it is won, sometimes it is loses”.The leader of Morena in the Senate assured that AMLO's initiative will be ruled and ratified without expeditiousnessHe also refrained from condemning opposition benches as “traitors to the homeland”. Instead, he merely said that they promote nation projects that do not match the vision of Q4, but that the people of Mexico will realize which project suits them and, for that reason, the votes of the next ones will be defined electoral processes.With regard to the reform of the LM and what it represents in the work of the State in the face of lithium, Monreal Ávila noted that this initiative “aims to guarantee the nation’s self-determination as well as the people’s energy sovereignty over lithium and some other minerals that are strategic and necessary for the transition energy, technological innovation and national development”.He also said that the Morena bench in the Senate agrees with the initiative promoting the creation of “a decentralized public body responsible for the exploration, exploitation, industrialization and the integral use of this mineral.”El litio es un mineral estratégico para garantizar la transición energética (Foto: Reuters / Enrique Marcarián)REUTERSRegarding this approach, he said, is that the nation must take charge of such an important natural resource, because with a statesman’s vision, it is assumed that the benefits of this mineral will be beneficial to the people. In this regard, the doctor of constitutional law from UNAM said that the process to ratify this initiative will be thoroughly.To clarify doubts about the procedure, the senator specified that they will wait until the Chamber of Deputies concludes its work with the initiative: they rule, approve and submit the minutes. As a result, senators will begin their normal work “as we have been doing in recent times in passing laws.”AMLO propuso que el litio sea de uso exclusivo del Estado mexicano (Foto: Cuartoscuro)Galo CañasFinally, it should be noted that the Chamber of Deputies, with a vote of 298 demonstrations in favor, 197 abstentions and zero against, approved the LM Reform with some modifications to the reserved articles, so it will generate the final draft to send the minutes to the Upper House and that the latter, in accordance with the rule of law, ratifies that lithium will remain in the exclusive hands of the nation.It is important to point out that during the parliamentary discussion, the benches that make up the Va por México coalition (PRI, PAN and PRD) left the legislative precinct and, in an act of protest, indicated that they will only vote in abstention, something that was deeply criticized by Gerardo Fernández Noroña, since he reminded them that in there are no gaps.KEEP READING:After the defeat of the Electric Reform, Carlos Aysa Damas resigned from the PRI and joined MorenaGoing for Mexico abandoned the session discussing the future of lithium in MexicoLithium sovereignty in Mexico: Morena and allies approved AMLO’s Mining Law Reform

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How was the relationship between Pedro Infante and Carmen Sevilla

adminabig — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:16:31 +0000

Carmen Sevilla was one of the Spanish actresses who triumphed in Mexico during the Golden Age, and her beauty and talent made her one of the most successful stars in the country, so it was never doubted that Pedro Infante was one of the first to court her when she arrived in Aztec lands.After her triumph in Spain with Jorge Negrete in Jalisco sings in Seville, Carmen received several job offers to make films with other Mexican artists, among which she could not miss Pedro Infante, whom he met in 1952 to record the tape Gitana you had to be.Their first meeting was in Mexico, when production of the film began. The Idol of Guamúchil did not hesitate to become the best host, so he received his companion with many details. She, feeling such a warm welcome, put all her trust in her colleague and became one of his closest friends.Carmen se convirtió en una de las actrices españolas favoritas de los mexicanos (Foto: Facebook/Pedro Infante a color)Due to the closeness that existed between the two actors, it came to be thought and, even many people said, that the histrions had a secret affair, but this relationship was never confirmed by either of them.On the contrary, Carmen always argued that she was attracted to him, but there would have been no courtship.During an interview for The Story Behind the Myth, the Bride of Spain shared that thanks to the details that the Sinaloan had with her, she fell to him, but the friendship would not have passed on.Carmen y Pedro se habrían esforzado al máximo para hacer “Gitana tenías que ser”, inclusive, ella habría puesto en riesgo su vida en varias ocasiones, pero también se habrían fugado a Yucatán en medio de su descanso (Foto: captura de pantalla/YouTube)According to the histrionist, the friendship was completely fraternal because in her companion she found a person to trust and with whom she could talk for hours about her native Spain, while he dedicated himself to telling her secrets of Mexico.Although the protagonist of The Taming Shrew has denied that she ever had a relationship with the People’s Idol, she has also hinted that her friendship would have been very deep and that she had “many beautiful memories of him”, which made the version of her secret love take strength.One of the most famous stories among them is in which it is said that, in one of the actors’ breaks during the recordings of Gitana you had to be, Infante decided to take the Spaniard to her favorite city and, without thinking about it, they abandoned filming and ventured to Yucatan.Supposedly, the actors escaped together to Mérida, a city where Pedro claimed he felt free and where he had half of his properties.Carmen en varias ocasiones dio a entender que ella se enamoró de su compañero, pero nunca confirmó que hubo una relación amorosa (Foto: Twitter/@SevillaInsolita)For several hours, the production team didn’t know anything about their whereabouts, they didn’t even know they had left Mexico City, so they got worried and started looking for them.While the film crew were thinking about the possible whereabouts of their stars, the protagonist of Los Tres García took her friend to her trusted jeweler, who was also her close friend. Pedro would have bought with the craftsman a slave very similar to the one he always wore, as a symbol of his affection.During his walk, the singer would have taken the Spaniard to visit the Virgin of Izamal and she would have been fascinated. Noting his emotion, the Idol of Mexico would have decided to give the Virgin a jewel as well and ordered her to make a golden crown.According to the actor’s followers, the crown that this Virgin wears until now would be the one that the Sinaloa ordered her to make.KEEP READING:The tragic life of Dora Luisa, Pedro Infante’s adopted daughterWhy did Irma Dorantes not get an inheritance from Pedro InfanteWhy Irma Dorantes refused to participate in any project about Pedro Infante

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John Ackerman blamed Mario Delgado for defeat of Electric Reform: “He prioritized his unpresentable friends”

adminabig — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:17:36 +0000

The Electric Reform was discussed and voted on in the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies this Sunday, after a rescheduling of almost a week at the request of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), on the grounds of making it known to the public, although the opposition pointed to a strategy to obtain the necessary votes for its approval.After almost 12 hours of discussion, endless participation and some mishaps, including a request to crucify opposition legislators, the outcome against this initiative was announced.With 275 votes in favor, 223 against and zero abstentions, there was no qualified majority, so the opposition bloc rejected the proposal and began to celebrate in the face of Morena and her allies by singing the national anthem and shouting the slogan “Yes we could”.This result was already foreseen from an early hour, which is why clashes and remarks began between different politicians on social networks because of their differences on this issue, although even within the cherry party more quarrels over this reform were also revealed.It was the writer and strong critic of the movement’s actions, John Ackerman, who pointed out Mario Delgado Carrillo, Morena’s national leader, as the main person responsible for the defeat of the proposal promoted by López Obrador.(Foto: Twitter)He argued that it was his fault that he lost 50 seats during the June 2021 elections, because his term at the head of this political organization prioritized his “unpresentable friends” in some governorships, such as Felix Salgado Macedonio in Guerrero,“If @PartidoMorenaMx had not lost more than 50 seats in the 2021 elections, #ReformaElectrica would have already been approved. The main culprit for the current situation is @mario_delgado, who always prioritized his unpresentable friends over winning candidacies,” said Ackerman.*Information in development…

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Russia threatened Finland and Sweden over their intention to join NATO: “They have to understand the consequences”

adminabig — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:17:38 +0000

María Zajárova, portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores ruso, en una imagen de archivo. EFE/ Sergei Ilnitsky
The accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO would have “consequences” for these countries and for European security, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Friday. Finland said this week that it will decide whether to apply for NATO membership in a few weeks, and Sweden is also discussing joining the alliance.“The choice is up to the authorities of Sweden and Finland. But they must understand the consequences of such a step for our bilateral relations and for the European security architecture as a whole,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.He added that it is “unlikely that Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO will contribute to strengthening (their) international prestige.”Zakharova noted that the non-alignment policy of the two countries “provided a reliable level of security,” while membership in a military alliance “is not able to strengthen their national security.”“They will automatically meet on the NATO front,” Zakharova said.Un soldado sueco toma parte de los ejercicios “Cold Response 2022”, junto a 30.000 tropas de la OTAN y militares de Finlandia y Suecia en Evenes, Noruega (Marzo 22, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman)REUTERSFormer Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that Russia would deploy nuclear weapons near the three Baltic states and Scandinavia if Finland or Sweden decided to join.Finland’s approach to NATO, which could consummate its accession in June, has dragged Sweden, which in a few weeks has gone from seeing a hypothetical entry into the alliance unlikely to become an increasingly realistic option.Just a month ago, when the war between Ukraine and Russia had been going on for two weeks, the Swedish Prime Minister, the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, defended Sweden’s status as a NATO partner but not a member and considered that a possible income would further “destabilize” the situation.Although the polls gave for the first time a majority of defenders of joining the alliance, both the Social Democrats, the party with the most seats, and the far-right Democrats of Sweden (SD), the third parliamentary force, were opposed to entry.But the speed with which events have precipitated in neighbouring Finland, where there is speculation already with an entry before the June summit in Madrid, has shaken up the Swedish debate.(With information from AFP and EFE)KEEP READING:Joe Biden said he was ready to visit UkraineThe US assured that the sinking of the Moskva warship is “a hard blow” for RussiaMore than 500 civilians have been killed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion

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How humans of yesteryear evolved due to climate change, according to science

adminabig — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:15:56 +0000

For decades, science suspected that humanity evolved hand in hand with the climate changes of yesteryear. Now, a study published by an international team of scientists showed that those estimates were true. After analyzing fossil remains and archaeological artifacts, the experts managed to generate a computer simulation that covered the last 2 million years of Earth’s climate history. In this model they were able to see how archaic humans lived. In order to analyze this evolution from a climate, anthropological and ecological point of view, scientists at the Institute of Basic Sciences in Daejeon, South Korea, used a supercomputer called Aleph, one of the fastest in the country. After operating non-stop for more than 6 months, the researchers managed to finalize the most extensive comprehensive climate model yet.The mechanism for understanding this situation linked periods and places where humans lived, based on archaeological records. In this way, scientists were able to relate what environmental conditions were preferred by the different groups of hominins and how they adapted to different food resources. The groups analyzed were: Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo heidelbergensis (African and Eurasian populations), Homo erectus and African Homo (Homo ergaster and Homo habilis). “Aunque diferentes grupos de humanos arcaicos prefirieron diferentes ambientes climáticos, todos sus hábitats respondieron a los cambios climáticos”, señaló Axel Timmermann“Although different groups of archaic humans preferred different climatic environments, all of their habitats responded to climate changes caused by astronomical changes in the wobble, tilt and orbital eccentricity of the Earth’s axis with time scales ranging from 21 to 400,000 years,” said Axel Timmermann , leading author of the study published in the journal Nature.Likewise, the director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University, South Korea, noted that “this result implies that for at least the last 500,000 years the real sequence of past climate change, including glacial cycles, played a central role in the determination of where the different groups of hominins lived and where their remains have been found”.Pasquale Raia, professor at the Università di Napoli Federico II (Italy) and who provided the study, together with his research team, with human fossil data and archaeological artifacts, stated that the next step was to analyze “whether the habitats of different human species overlap in space and time”, since the areas of contact between these groups of the past “provide crucial information on possible successions and mixtures of species”.Los hábitats preferidos del Homo sapiens (sombreado morado, izquierda), el Homo heidelbergensis (sombreado rojo, centro), y el Homo neanderthalensis (sombreado azul, derecha) fueron calculados a partir de una simulación de paleoclima realizada en el IBS Center for Climate Physics y un recopilación de datos fósiles y arqueológicos. Los valores más claros indican una mayor idoneidad del hábitat. Las fechas (1 ka = 1000 años antes del presente) se refieren a las edades estimadas de los fósiles más jóvenes y más antiguos utilizados en el estudio. Crédito: Instituto de Ciencias Básicas (IBS) para la Física del Clima (ICCP), Universidad Nacional de Pusan (Corea del Sur).From the areas where different human evolutions were contacted, the experts made a family tree of hominids. In this sense, scientists managed to determine that “Neanderthals and probably Denisovans were derived from the Eurasian ‘clade’ of Homo heidelbergensis some 500-400 thousand years ago”, while the origin of “Homo sapiens dates back to southern Africa and to populations of late Homo heidelbergensis, about 300,000 years old”.Jiaoyang Ruan, co-author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at the IBS Center for Climate Physics, said: “Our climate-based reconstruction of hominid lineages is quite similar to recent estimates obtained from genetic data or analysis of morphological differences in the human fossils, which increases our confidence in the results.”“When we looked at the data from the five major groups of hominins, we discovered an interesting pattern. The first African hominids aged between 2 and 1 million years old preferred stable climatic conditions, being restricted to relatively narrow habitable corridors. After a major climate transition, some 800,000 years ago, a group known under the general term Homo heidelbergensis adapted to a much wider range of available food resources and were able to become global travelers. They reached remote regions of Europe and East Asia,” explained Elke Zeller, co-author of the study and doctoral student at Pusan National University.El mecanismo para conocer como evolucionaron los humanos vinculó las épocas y los lugares donde vivieron, basándose en registros arqueológicos
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Europa PressFor his part, Kyung-Sook Yun, a researcher at the IBS Center for Climate Physics, warned that this simulation “generated 500 Terabytes of data, enough to fill several hundred hard drives”, since “it is the first continuous simulation with a state-of-the-art climate model covering the Earth’s environmental history of the last 2 million years, and represents climate responses to increasing and decreasing ice sheets, and to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations in the past.”“Our study clearly illustrates the value of well-validated climate models in addressing fundamental questions about our human origins,” said Christoph Zollikofer, co-author of the study and professor at the University of Zurich (Switzerland); while Timmermann stressed that this research indicated that “ climate played a key role in the evolution of our Homo genre. We are what we are because we have managed to adapt for millennia to slow changes in the past climate.”KEEP READINGThe new sapiens sapiens and its responsibilitiesAnthropocene: a geological era tailored to the whim of humans? An evolutionary anthropologist from the US reveals for the first time how human metabolism works

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La Molina: Relatives of murdered stylist try to lynch crime suspects

adminabig — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:15:58 +0000

There was violence! A mob of relatives and friends of the murdered stylist Javier Pauca Serda (55) mercilessly attacked the three suspects of committing the horrendous murder by stones, bricks and beatings, in La Molina. These were taken to that place for a police diligence and recreate what happened.The suspects Luis Popayán (19), Manuel Ocaña (29) and Omar Huamán (19), were heavily guarded by several police brigades from Depincri La Molina, were taken at 4:30 in the afternoon to the stylist’s home, in zone III of Musa. The police proceedings took approximately three hours behind closed doors in the stylist’s building.Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the building, dozens of relatives, friends and neighbors of the beauty professional gathered and cried out demanding that the maximum sentence of life imprisonment be applied to the murderers.Only at 7:30 in the evening, all diligence had been completed and the suspects were taken out of the house to be transferred to police vehicles. It was there that the angry bereavers and friends of Javier Pauca, lashed out with stones, palazos, bricks at the alleged perpetrators of the crime. “Die!. Those bastards must go to prison with life imprisonment,” they said as a group of people pounced on the policemen and managed to beat the subjects.However, in the re-creation of the events before the police, the three detainees said that after having participated in a meeting with the stylist Javier Pauca Serna (56) a day before the murder in La Molina, they accused a fourth person involved by the name ‘Jordy’, who is syndicated as the perpetrator of the crime. The four appear in a photograph taken after the murder, as reported by 90 Matinal.The three involved in the murder and who are in detention are: Jesús Manuel Ocaña Morote, Omar Augusto Huaman Ángeles and Luis Humberto Popallan. When they were operated on in the vicinity of Tomás Valle’s whereabouts, Independencia carried cell phones and other objects of the victim.Even in the district of Independencia, the police found the stylist’s abandoned van.Latina’s report shows a brief dialogue between a policeman and one of the detainees who claims that when he left La Molina’s house, Javier Pauca was alive, and that the last person to leave the house was ‘Jordi. ‘“He told us ‘go go’, boss. He came out last, boss, we didn’t know anything,” he told Agent Terna. Later, in other videos, the other two involved detainees also accuse ‘Jordi’ of being the mastermind of the stylist’s murder.The 56-year-old stylist Javier Luis Pauca Serda was savagely killed inside his home, as the victim’s body was found tied up and cut at the neck last Thursday night by his sister.Finally, the testimony of a neighbor, whose identity is kept in reserve, indicates that that night she heard discussions between the stylist and other people. However, he added that at approximately 9:30 on Wednesday night, loud music was reported.KEEP READINGEaster in Piura: typical dishes that you can’t miss tryingEaster Week in Azpitia, Lunahuana and Paracas: price of tours, tickets and tourist placesEaster in Ayacucho: price of tours, tickets, stay, tourist places and more

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The case of Jan Marsalek, one of the most wanted scammers in the world who now does business guarded by the Russian secret service

adminabig — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:16:07 +0000

Wirecard Jan Marsalek PROne of the main suspects in the Wirecard scandal, Jan Marsalek, wanted by Interpol after the spectacular bankruptcy of the financial company in 2020, could be found in Moscow, under the surveillance of the Russian secret services, German daily Bild said Monday.Located at the beginning of 2021, this Austrian “would have hidden in a particularly safe neighborhood of Moscow where he is perhaps still living (…) in the custody of Putin’s secret services, the FSB,” the German newspaper stated.Wirecard, the German leader in digital payments, sunk in June 2020 when its managers confessed that 1.9 billion euros (2 billion dollars) of assets – a quarter of the total – did not really exist. La sede central de Wirecard en Aschheim, cerca de Munich. (REUTERS/Andreas Gebert)REUTERSThis bankruptcy was, as the German government itself admitted, “the biggest financial scandal” in history in the country. Bild claims that the Russian intelligence services last year proposed to their German counterparts to “interrogate the suspect”, former Wirecard number 2, wanted for almost two years. The German agents present in Moscow asked their superiors for “instructions on whether a meeting with Marsalek should take place”. The management of the BND, the German intelligence services, would not have responded, although the government was “informed”. Former Wirecard financial officer, Jan Marsalek, 42, has long been suspected of being linked to Russian interests and of having benefited from complicity in several secret services. The Financial Times had indicated that Marsalek was in contact with the Russian military intelligence service.Marsalek viajó a Rusia con al menos 6 pasaportes austriacos diferentes
The specialized intelligence site Bellingat reviewed his immigration data and found that he was a frequent visitor to Russia, with more than 60 trips to the country in the last 10 years. According to Bild, Marsalek would have dedicated himself, from the start of his flight, to the “sale of Sputnik V vaccines”, the anti-covid drug developed by Russia, and would maintain relations with “paramilitary mercenaries”.The former director general, accusedMeanwhile, last month German prosecutors accused the former CEO of Wirecard and two other former managers of fraud and false accounting in connection with the collapse of the company.Prosecutors in Munich said former CEO Markus Braun signed financial reports that he knew were false. They said the firm recorded non-existent income that it attributed to multiple companies in other countries and used false documents to prove that it had funds that it did not have. Braun also allegedly sold 6.6 million shares shortly before the declaration of insolvency. El ex CEO de WIrecar Markus Braun durante una audiencia ante el parlamento alemán (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)REUTERSThe firm’s former chief accountant and the CEO of a Dubai-based subsidiary were also indicted.The fraud cost banks 3.1 billion euros (3.4 billion dollars) in loans and repayments, according to the statement of prosecutors.The case of that electronic payment company splashed on the German government itself. In 2020, the Ministry of Finance, which was then headed by the current Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz, was accused of lack of oversight and had to announce reforms to the financial supervisory authority (BaFin), although it assured that the agency acted correctly.Keep reading:Wirecard: a great deception in the absence of supervision of technofinanceThe most wanted man in the world was located in Belarus

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“He is a child of war”: giving birth in the midst of chaos in Ukraine

adminabig — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:15:29 +0000

Before the war, Alina Shynkar’s gynecologist advised her to avoid stress during her pregnancy and suggested that she spend time “watching cartoons and not doing much.” It was a pretty simple tip, but it wasn’t so easy to follow after the sirens of air strikes sounded, artillery blasts rattled windows, and fierce street fighting broke out a few kilometers from her maternity clinic.So, staying calm for the sake of her baby became Shynkar’s personal and silent battle in the Ukrainian war. Before the war began in late February, Shynkar was admitted to Maternity Hospital No. 5 in the capital, Kiev, to rest due to the risk of premature birth, but weeks later he witnessed the hospital plunge into a state of chaos and panic.“The girls were so stressed that they started giving birth” prematurely, she said. Doctors at his hospital took frightened pregnant women, some of them already in labor, into and out of a bomb shelter several times a day. Some were crying and others were bleeding.“They were frightened,” Shynkar recalled. “It was hard to see.”Dalina Levendarrenko, embarazada de gemelos, durante una revisión justo antes de que sonaran las sirenas antiaéreas en el Hospital de MaternidadAnna, de 37 años, fue consolada por su pareja, Yuri, mientras él cronometraba sus contracciones en el refugio del sótano del hospitalThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a nightmare for expectant mothers, especially in cities such as Mariupol, Kharcov and Chernigov, which have been subjected to almost constant bombardment since the beginning of the war.Last month, in the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, Russian artillery hit a maternity hospital, resulting in the death of a pregnant woman and wounding other pregnant women, according to Ukrainian authorities.Women in war zones across the country have been forced to give birth in cold, dilapidated basements or subway stations crowded with people protecting themselves from shelling, and without electricity, running water or midwives to assist them.And the recent respite from the withdrawal of Russian forces will not do much good in many places. By the end of March, Russian missiles, bombs and artillery had destroyed at least 23 hospitals and health centers.Even pregnant women who have been lucky enough to escape war-torn areas have not been able to avoid stress, either because they have had to hurry in and out of shelters or because they had to undertake arduous and dangerous journeys to the relative security of western Ukraine or to neighbouring European countries.Una paciente del Hospital de Maternidad nº 5 subió las escaleras hasta el refugio del sótano mientras sonaban las sirenas antiaéreas el mes pasadoAlina Shynkar, de 34 años, que ha estado en reposo en el hospital desde antes del comienzo de la guerra, se encontraba en el sótano mientras sonaba una sirena el mes pasado. “Intento concentrarme en el bebé”, dijoAn estimated 265,000 Ukrainian women were pregnant when the war broke out, according to the United Nations Population Fund, the organization’s sexual and reproductive health agency. Some 80,000 births are expected in the next three months.War poses immediate and long-term risks to mothers, fathers and newborns. Among them are premature births, which can lead to a number of immediate and subsequent complications.“Because of the conditions of war, premature motherhood predisposes the baby to death or complications for the rest of his life,” said Jeanne Conry, president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Although data are not yet available, she said that Ukrainian doctors report an increase in the number of births of premature babies, who are more likely to have respiratory, neurological and digestive problems in the future.Conry said lack of access to medicines to prevent postpartum hemorrhage could lead to an increase in maternal deaths. Babies are at risk, she said, because doctors may not have immediate access to the equipment needed to resuscitate them, and they only have a few moments to get them to breathe for the first time after birth.When the siren of an air raid sounded a recent day in the hospital, the staircase was filled with women from the maternity ward who grabbed their bellies and dragged their feet down to the shelter, a labyrinth with low ceilings and warehouses. One of the rooms became an improvised room for post-operative observation and neonatology. Another, still crammed with filing cabinets, became a delivery room. The women lay on mats on the floor.Yulia Sobchenko, de 27 años, al día siguiente de dar a luz a Mykhailo. Es “un niño de la guerra”, dijo de su hijoEnfermeras ucranianas atendiendo a los recién nacidos en una maternidad improvisada en un sótano de Kiev el mes pasadoDr. Olena Yarushchuk, Deputy Head of Maternity Hospital No. 5, directed the women to the benches along the walls, where they sat almost silently in the barely lit space, waiting the few minutes for the imminent danger to pass.Yarushchuk said he had made video calls to assist women giving birth in the basements of apartment buildings in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, a few tens of kilometers away, but at that time, the suburb was cut off from the capital by the fighting.“Our work has changed,” he said.Yulia Sobchenko, 27, reported that she went into labor around midnight on March 20 and was taken to hospital by an ambulance. But Ukrainian soldiers at checkpoints delayed their arrival and, afraid of the terrorists, insisted on opening the door of the ambulance to verify that it was a woman who was going to give birth.Her son was born at 2:55 in the morning, and after two hours she was taken to the basement by an air raid alert. “I, in my nightgown and with a cloth between my legs and a tiny newborn baby, and my husband with all our bags, had to go to the basement,” she said.His son, Mykhailo, was born healthy and weighed 2 and a half kilos, he said, and “he is a child of war.”Se calcula que 265.000 mujeres ucranianas estaban embarazadas cuando estalló la guerra, según el Fondo de Población de las Naciones UnidasEl hospital permite que las mujeres, sus maridos e hijos se registren tres semanas antes de la fecha del parto para evitar que se separen del hospital por el cambio de frenteAfter birth, these families face other problems. New mothers who recently left Maternity Hospital No. 5 have said that they cannot breastfeed, something Yarushchuk attributed to stress.Finding calm was the strategy of Shynkar, who worked as an event organizer before the war. Her maternity hospital in Kiev allows women, husbands and children to be admitted three weeks before their due date to prevent them from being separated from the medical facility due to changes on the war front.From her hospital room, a few days before giving birth on March 25, the woman smiled broadly and looked so calm that she didn’t seem to notice the whirlwind of lethal violence outside. He said he hadn’t seen or read any news about the war.Vladimir Shyian besando a su esposa, Lina Chayka, mientras ella sostenía a su bebé de un día, Maxim, el mes pasado en el refugio del sótano del Hospital de Maternidad nº 5 mientras las sirenas de advertencia sonaban fuera“I try to focus on the baby,” he said. “Can I help fight the war? I want to, but I can’t, not now. But I can’t panic,” he said. “I can stay safe. That’s what I can do.”Shynkar gave birth to a girl, Adeline. “It was a natural birth in a very pleasant and intimate environment,” she said of her delivery in the hospital. “My husband was present and cut the umbilical cord. To be honest, I have no idea if there were air raid sirens because I was completely immersed in the process.”It was a small personal victory in the midst of a much larger battle being fought around him.Both for her and for her country, she gave her baby Victoria’s middle name.© The New York Times 2022KEEP READING:The Russian military entered the Red Forest without any precautions, the most polluted area of ChernobylIn photos: Kiev region after the brutal passage of Russian troopsBoris Johnson traveled to Kiev, met with Zelensky and offered armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles

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NATO is considering deploying a permanent military presence in eastern Europe to repel a possible Russian invasion

adminabig — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:15:37 +0000

FOTO DE ARCHIVO: El secretario general de la OTAN, Jens Stoltenberg, ofrece una conferencia de prensa durante una cumbre de la OTAN para discutir la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia, en Bruselas, Bélgica, 24 de marzo de 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confessed that the Atlantic Alliance is considering deploying a permanent military presence in eastern Europe to repel a possible Russian invasion.“Regardless of when, how the war in Ukraine ends, the war has already had long-term consequences for our security. NATO needs to adapt to this new reality. And that is exactly what we are doing,” Stoltenberg explained in an interview with the British newspaper ‘The Telegraph’.The Atlantic Alliance, as its secretary general assured, is “in the midst of a very fundamental transformation” that will make decisions on a permanent deployment at the NATO summit to be held in Madrid in June.“NATO is the most successful alliance in history for two reasons. One is that we were able to unite Europe and North America. The other is that we have been able to change when the world is changing. Now the world is changing and NATO is changing,” he said.La OTAN estudia desplegar una presencia militar permanente en el este de EuropaREUTERSSince the beginning of the invasion on February 24, NATO has deployed 40,000 soldiers on its eastern flank, which stretches from the Baltic to the Black Sea.FINLAND’S ENTRYA coalition partner in the Finnish Government who has traditionally been against accession to NATO signaled Saturday its openness to accession, thus clearing the way for Helsinki to become a member of the Atlantic Alliance.The Finnish Centre Party held a vote on security policy on Saturday, in which the party council granted the authority to approve an application for NATO membership. “If the Government believes that the pace and timing are right, then I, as president of the Centre Party, with your support, am prepared to set the course for Finland’s accession to the NATO defense alliance,” said party president Annika Saarikko.Finland has long resisted the option of membership in NATO, but the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine has changed views in a country that shares a long border with Russia. Recent surveys show that most Finns now support membership, according to the agency DPA.The Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, has not expressed her opinion, but has made it clear that the decision “must be taken soon”. On Saturday he stated in Yle that, as the security situation could worsen, the decision must be taken this spring, that is, in mid-June.(With information from Europa Press)KEEP READING:In photos: Kiev region after the brutal passage of Russian troopsBoris Johnson traveled to Kiev, met with Zelensky and offered armored vehicles and anti-ship missilesMore casualties for Putin: Russian spies are being expelled en masse from the WestZelensky called on the allied countries to immediately apply more painful restrictions on Russian oil and gas

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Hernando Cevallos was against the curfew: “It was not the best measure”

adminabig — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:15:21 +0000

On 5 April, the Government decreed a curfew in Lima and Callao, due to an alleged threat of looting in cities in the context of the shutdown of carriers. On this measure, the former Minister of Health, Hernando Cevallos, said that it was not the best decision of the Government. “It was not the best measure, I understand that there was fear in the Government, but it had to be focused differently. The control of a violent group should have been focused,” he said in RPP Noticias.Cevallos also pointed out that Pedro Castillo’s management has failed to provide confidence to the general population, resulting in serious crises in different parts of the country and in various sectors. The result of these are the various demonstrations throughout the country and which took place in the capital, on 5 April.“Lack of trust is the course that the Government has set to deal with this crisis. The lack of confidence in being able to reach the popular sectors, sit down, talk with them about how some sectors of the entrepreneur were affected and reach a more or less solid agreement,” he said.Along these lines, the former Minister of Health stressed that it is important for the Government to show empathy and provide security to people to get out of this crisis. In addition, he pointed out that the Intelligence Service did not give due warning to what was happening in the country, so that other measures could be discussed beyond the curfew.“If I am a government, the most important thing is that people feel that I am close to their problems, to their hopes and expectations. I would have asked the Intelligence Service how they did not clearly alert me that a climate of discontent is being created in the country over different problems,” said Cevallos.MILLIONAIRE LOSSES FOR A DAY OF COMPULSORYPedro Castillo’s surprise and unforeseen announcement has significantly damaged the economy , causing losses of up to 1 billion soles (US $220 million) for that April 5 alone. The textile sector, trade, tourism, services and others are not yet recovering from the blow of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and would have been more affected by this measure.Infobae Peru spoke with Jorge Carrillo, finance expert and professor at the Pacífico Business School, who explained that this stoppage.“A year Peru produces 550 billion soles and in just one day around 1 billion that it would lose because it has stopped producing and if it does it stops hiring,” he said.“This measure is opposed and will not encourage trust or promote private investment, because the government shuts down all economic activity overnight,” he added.For Carrillo, what Pedro Castillo is doing is a “choking slap, but I hope it’s not a permanent issue or a habit, that would be very dangerous.”“Issues such as raising the minimum wage are totally out of focus, it is not at all reasonable and has nothing to do with productivity and it hurts large companies,” he said.“This government is scaring away private investment, because it says it promotes investment, but it really destroys investment and is killing it,” he said.For his part, the researcher at the CIUP Research Center and professor at the Universidad del Pacífico, Carlos Parodi, stressed that this government measure is a ‘meaningless’ that harms the most vulnerable and sensitive businesses such as restaurants, bakeries and businesses that buy daily supplies and lose everything they have invested.KEEP READINGThe Jewish Association of Peru responded to Aníbal Torres by quoting Hitler: “Couldn’t you mention the Incas and their huge road network?” Congress approved initiative to exonerate basic food from IGVThe decisions of the Pedro Castillo government and other factors affecting the economy of Peruvians

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