Her name was Rosa Elvira Cely: she was murdered in May 2012 and the State could have prevented her death. In 2015, it was her name that helped change the state. Rosa Elvira Cely was a 35-year-old woman who lived in Bogotá, had a 12-year-old daughter, worked in a street stall during the day and …
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The three candidates best positioned in the polls in Colombia: Gustavo Petro, Federico Gutiérrez and Sergio Fajardo. The presidential campaign in Colombia enters its decisive stage. The long road to the Casa de Nariño begins to clear this Sunday, when the three great coalitions – left, center and right – define their candidates in an …
In this Sept. 26, 2020, file photo, Proud Boys frontman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio.Allison Dinner (AP) Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, former leader of the far-right group Proud Boys (Chicos Proud), has been arrested this Tuesday on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, the certification of the triumph of Joe Biden on January 6, 2021. …
The military offensive that the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, has launched against Ukraine has been met with a strong response from the international community from the outset: both from public representatives, as well as from some large companies and from the civilian population. In addition to the strong sanctions imposed by the United States, the …
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Three reasons led Nikita Khrushchev’s party comrades to dismiss him as leader of the Soviet Union in 1964: he had provoked a serious international security crisis – that of the Cuban missiles -, he had generated great internal chaos and he had accumulated too much power . This is how a veteran expert on Russia …
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With an act through the streets of Samaná (Caldas) the family said goodbye to Francisco Javier Buitrago Quiceno, who disappeared in 2007.Search Unit for Persons Given by Desa For 15 years, Francisco Javier Quiceno’s family prayed in vault 43 of the Samaná cemetery, Caldas, a town located in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia. They …
Oleg fought in 1987 in Afghanistan under the flag of the USSR. Today he is a retired colonel of the Ukrainian Army who heads one of the civil resistance command posts set up in one of the neighborhoods bordering Kiev (2.8 million inhabitants) in the face of a possible advance by Russian troops. He denies …
It was an open secret that British Conservative MPs had less and less qualms about airing publicly. Irritated by the way he then speaker (Speaker) of the House of Commons, John Bercow, reinterpreted parliamentary customs to prolong the Brexit debate forever, they launched a campaign against him taking advantage of what was allegedly his weak …
Installations of the Russian oil company Yukos in Nefteyugansk, in Siberia. The Joe Biden Administration has decided to prohibit the importation of Russian oil into the United States, according to sources close to the Government quoted by the local press. This decision represents a momentous step forward in the sanctions strategy that the West has …
The president of China, Xi Jinping, has called for “maximum containment” in Ukraine on Tuesday, where he considers the situation “worrying”. The priority, he has pointed out, must be “to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out of control.” Xi made the remarks during a virtual meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz …
In Ukraine, after three days of unfulfilled ceasefire commitments, the roar of weapons has ceased this Tuesday in the first safe exit routes for civilians agreed by Kiev and Moscow in Sumi (northeast) and together with Irpin, a town at the gates of Kiev, 25 kilometers from the capital. A small group of 150 civilians …
The war in Ukraine: the 13th day of the Russian invasion, in pictures
Durante la década que presidió la Comisión Europea, José Manuel Durão Barroso (Lisboa, 65 años) se reunió en 25 ocasiones con Vladímir Putin. A él le tocó bregar con la anexión rusa de Crimea, la crisis que en 2014 anticipó esta guerra. En uno de aquellos contactos Putin le aseguró que su ejército no estaba …
Irpin, a town just 24 kilometers from the capital, Kiev, is one of the areas that is suffering the most from bombing by the Russian army. Ukrainian troops were forced to blow up the bridge linking it to Kiev last week to prevent Russia from advancing, but this has also made it difficult for civilians …
Enrique Arnau had the van already disassembled. He had started to camperize it [hacerla habitable] to travel in his free time, which allows him to be retired from the Spanish Army at the age of 71. The beginning of the Russian offensive in the Ukraine, on February 24, changed his step. He telephoned the archbishopric …
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Russian troop movements around Kiev have one goal: to surround the capital from several flanks, accumulate supplies and reinforcements, and cut off the city’s lines of contact with the outside world, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). For this, the Kremlin would be piling up tanks and men on two flanks: …
Yelena clutches the bag in which her tan and white cat meows desperately. She has just packed practically her entire life into a small black suitcase and now, with the incessant noise of the bombing in the background in Mikolaiv, she cannot manage to dial her family’s number on her cell phone. “Why do they …
Nicolás Maduro has stepped forward to confirm the meeting he held over the weekend with senior officials of the Joe Biden government in Miraflores. “It has been a respectful, cordial, very diplomatic meeting,” the president described on Monday about this rapprochement between Washington and Caracas, which had not occurred since the two countries completely broke …
The invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin constitutes a crime of aggression against a state, according to international law. As civilian deaths rise; when the exodus of refugees already affects 1.5 million Ukrainians; The International Criminal Court (ICC), the judicial instance empowered since 2018 to judge this type of act, still does …
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White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki at Monday’s press conference.DPA via Europa Press (Europa Press) The White House confirmed this Monday that a high-level US delegation traveled to Caracas last weekend to hold meetings with the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and discuss “energy security”, when oil prices skyrocket. dizzying due to the war in Ukraine. …
Eyvi Ágreda Marchena migrated to Lima to study administration and at the same time worked as an employee in a service company to help her parents, peasants in a community of Cajamarca, in the mountains of northern Peru. When she was 22 years old, in April 2018, she was attacked by a former co-worker who …
Between 2008 and 2021, more than 3,000 minors lost their mother at the hands of a feminicide in Argentina, according to the NGO La Casa del Encuentro. One of them was Breeze. In December 2014, she was a two-year-old baby. Her twin brothers were about to turn seven. On the night of January 5, 2015, …
The most extraordinary thing about the Brazilian Maria de Penha is not that in the seventies she was a pharmacist with a master’s degree, nor that she survived the two times that her husband tried to kill her. What is truly extraordinary is that, unlike most women who have named a law, she is alive. …
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A man picks up trash from a Toronto alley in front of a portrait of Vladimir Putin on Monday.Frank Gunn (AP) Canada is once again the scene of vandalism in religious temples. In recent days, a Russian community center and two Orthodox churches have been sprayed with paint. Police forces are investigating whether these crimes, …
The Pueblo caravan receives support on its way from Hagerstown to Washington on Sunday, March 6.Bill Green (AP) Truckers from the self-styled People’s Caravan have come to Washington to protest health mandates, though states have been gradually lifting them in recent weeks. The hundreds of vehicles have not entered the US capital, but they have …