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The Biden administration is not advocating for regime change in Russia, the White House said Friday, after a U.S. senator called for Russians to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.

“That is not the position of the U.S. government and certainly not a statement you’ll hear from — coming from the mouth of — anybody working for the administration,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in response to a question from Voice of America.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, suggested in a televised interview Thursday evening that “somebody in Russia” should assassinate Putin. He repeated his statement Friday in another televised appearance on Fox News Channel.

“How does this end? Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate … and take this guy out,” Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

Following the interview, Graham posted on Twitter, “The only people who can fix this are the Russian people.”

“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” the senator wrote. Marcus Junius Brutus assassinated Roman ruler Julius Caesar, while German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg tried but failed to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, called Graham’s comments “unacceptable and outrageous” and said they expressed “off the scale” hatred in the United States toward Russia.

He demanded “official explanations and a strong condemnation of the criminal statements.”

U.S. lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, also criticized Graham’s comments.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz called Graham’s proposal “an exceptionally bad idea,” while Democratic Reprepresentative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted: “I really wish our members of Congress would cool it and regulate their remarks as the administration works to avoid WWIII.”

Graham introduced a resolution in Congress condemning Putin and his military commanders for committing “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.

There are 62 candidates, distributed in 10 lists, who are disputing the seven seats in the House of Representatives that Atlántico has.

EL TIEMPO spoke with the heads of the list of four of those registered for the March 13 elections and asked them about the future of the country, as well as about works or projects that they will promote for the region.

Jesús Godoy, Luis Luque, Marlys Maldonado, Jesmi Barraza and Armando Zabarín did not send their responses, while Beatriz Eugenia Vélez withdrew her candidacy.

On this occasion, four of the candidates respond to three specific questions formulated by EL TEMPO:

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

In the Atlantic there are many communities that use water that is not suitable for human consumption. What would you do to solve this problem?

German Gomez (Common)

1. We propose a great dialogue that allows targeting poles of economic development that generate a true reactivation of the economy, one that starts from the needs, realities and potentialities of our country. It is necessary to invest in agriculture, industry, tourism, technologies, etc., all of this guaranteeing the participation of the State, in alliance with private sectors, primarily cooperatives and SMEs.

2. Our seat is mainly due to the department of Atlántico, there are many demands here, but perhaps we could start initially based on three key axes: economic reactivation, public services and citizen participation.

3. What has been lacking, apart from the pertinent investments and technical adaptations, is really an accompaniment, a thorough inspection of the contracts and the state of execution.

That will be our task from the seat in the House of Representatives: to make effective political control of citizens in matters of fundamental interests, including access to drinking water and permanently.

Sandra Leventhal (New Liberalism)

1. We have guaranteed food for our citizen. With what social capital can we be productive? Obviously, we have to reactivate our productive apparatus, but we have to start thinking about the well-being of the citizens of our country.

2. The Atlantic is an agricultural pantry of the region, our duty is to strengthen it not only with planting, but also with the way of managing water, the way of harvesting through tertiary routes, the way in which peasants can reach with their crops to the end customer without intermediaries to begin to dignify their work.

The informality in the Atlantic, which is more than 60 percent, also shows us an opportunity, we have productive capital with a great entrepreneurial spirit, great creativity, resilience and the need to have a decent income; we have a duty to strengthen this population and for this the entrepreneurship law, 2069, is a fundamental tool, entrepreneurs, mostly young people, in addition to opportunities and education in entrepreneurship, need access to business alternatives, professional mentoring, solid support to move your business forward.

3. There has not been the political will to solve something so necessary. We are also talking about the abuse in the way certain resources are distributed, so we have to make a real restructuring project of how the heritage of the Atlantic people is being used, and I am going to fight that fight because I am going to come to the Chamber to represent My apartment.

Agmeth Escaf (Pact for Colombia)

1. While Iván Duque dedicated himself to protecting big capital and bankers, a government of the Historical Pact will ensure that it supports small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, who were the main victims of the pandemic. Thousands of small companies went bankrupt thanks to a blind policy of the current Uribista government. But not only blind, also inhuman. He helped those who did not need help and unprotected those who did.

2. What Atlantico needs most is decent public services. Most municipalities lack aqueduct, sewage and drinking water. Electricity, in addition, is a very expensive service.

3. The issue of drinking water is a priority. And it is true, not all neighborhoods in Barranquilla have water. But things get even worse when we go to other municipalities such as Repelón, Suán, Santa Lucía, Manatí or Luruaco. Malambo, which is very close to Barranquilla and is a riverside municipality, has no water. That is unworthy and that is what must first change. For decades, traditional politicians have stolen the treasury destined to build these aqueducts and water treatment plants. In Gustavo Petro’s four-year term, that will change. The Caribbean will have water and decent life.

Modesto Aguilera (Radical Change)

1. Rationalize the tax structure to promote small and medium-sized enterprises, since there is a focus for job creation there; analyze the extension of stimuli and subsidies created during the pandemic; strengthen the country’s export capacity and continue with investments in infrastructure that improve competitiveness. Do not touch the family basket with respect to VAT.

2. Comprehensive recovery of the Mallorquín swamp, Caribbean regional train, projects that are part of the Agroindustry and Food Security Plan, the construction of deep waters in Barranquilla, recover the draft of the Magdalena River and the Ciénaga-Barranquilla viaduct.

3. In the budget that we approved in the last legislature, 300,000 million pesos were allocated exclusively for drinking water and basic sanitation, which has been focused on those rural populations where these services are currently lacking. Likewise, continue to increase the budget so that in the Caribbean region, especially in the department of Atlántico, we have an optimal service of drinking water and basic sanitation, this would result in national and foreign investment, which is one of the bets that we have for the new quarter.

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After hearing several complaints from women against the doctor Anthony Figueredo about beatings that they would have received from him, a hearing judge gave him a home security measure.

On December 31, the Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the crimes ofand aggravated domestic violence and violent carnal access.

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“This is due to the events that occurred in Bucaramanga on November 12, 2021, when the victim was apparently physically, verbally and psychologically abused, in addition to being allegedly sexually assaulted as reported,” says the Prosecutor’s Office.

On that occasion, the judge refrained from imposing the measure requested by the Prosecutor’s Office and covered him with non-custodial measures. However, the Fifth Criminal Court of the Circuit with Knowledge Function, after evaluating the evidence collected against him, for representing a danger to the community, the victim and obstruction of justice, decided to revoke said measure.

The case

María Paula Pizarro, also a doctor, denounced that on November 12 Figueredo beat her up after leaving a nightclub. At that time they were in a relationship.

The young doctor reported that he also sexually abused her.

After learning of this, the Colombian Cardiovascular Foundation (Fcv) announced that it removed the surgeon from the position and chief Of Cardiovascular Surgery, Anthony Figueredo.

Subsequently, several women also denounced that they were victims of mistreatment by the doctor.

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The Utah House of Representatives approved new rules on Tuesday that limit where members of the press can film and interview lawmakers, following similar action taken by the Utah Senate two weeks ago.

The rules extend pandemic-era restrictions on when journalists can report from the floors of state legislative chambers.

Journalists covering the Utah Legislature must now ask for permission to interview lawmakers on the floor of the House of Representatives and other restricted areas. TV reporters must ask committee chairs for permission to film speakers and crowds from behind the dais where lawmakers sit in committee hearings.

“I know that sometimes committee members get a little bit nervous from the cameras right behind them because they can see their screens,” Republican Rep. Timothy Hawkes said Monday in a committee hearing about the measure.

Media organizations and journalists covering the Statehouse opposed the rules changes in the Utah House and Senate, arguing that restricting media movements would make it more difficult to cover fast-paced action and make it easier for lawmakers to dodge the press. They said the move reduced transparency — a claim that lawmakers denied.

Utah Media Coalition lobbyist Renae Cowley Laub on Monday proposed an alternative, telling lawmakers that credentialed members of the media were working on establishing a formal press corps that could work with lawmakers to refine the rules in a mutually satisfactory way.

She proposed creating a commission with two members of the press and designees from the House, Senate and state legislative officials to govern press rules, similar to the method used in Utah courthouses.

“As you can tell by doing simple math, the committee would already be stacked in favor of the government. But it does offer the media and members of the press the opportunity to be a part of some of the decisions made regarding their practice and their profession,” she said.

Outside of Utah’s Republican-led Statehouse, similar restrictions have been passed in Iowa and Kansas.

The new limits come in an environment of increasing attacks on the media and parallel new restrictions placed on journalists covering protests and courtroom proceedings.

They also come as U.S. states and cities loosen coronavirus restrictions that have returned restaurants, sporting events and offices to pre-pandemic capacity.

Little or nothing is defined for the new Congress of the Republic (2022-2026), whose candidates will submit to the elections on March 13. However, among the candidates for the House of Representatives by the Atlantic there is one who would have his position assured.

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This is the head of the list of the Comunes party (former FARC), Germán Gómez, thanks to one of the agreements reached in the peace negotiations, which they finally signed with the Santos Government in 2016.

It must be remembered that a total of 10 seats were established in the Havana process, of which five are for the Senate and another five for the House of Representatives.

In the previous period, that Atlantic seat, the only one for the Caribbean region, was assigned to Seuxis Pausias Hernández, known during his militancy in the guerrilla with the alias of Jesus Santrich.

But it ended in an ’empty chair’ in the Chamber, due to the arrest of the sucreño for alleged cocaine trafficking, escape, joining the dissidents and subsequent death in the Serranía del Perijá.

From seven to eight: the department adds one seat

That seat could balance forces. For more than 15 years there has been no representation in the Atlantic by a left-wing party

In this electoral process, Comunes decided again to retake the seat for the Atlántico, so the department would go from seven to eight seats in the new period of the lower house of Congress.

This party presented a closed list headed by Gómez, who, regardless of the number of votes he obtains next Sunday, March 13, would have a seats directly product of the Agreement.

According to the political analyst, Alejandro Blanco, this seat has two special characteristics: the first is that it would change the balance by adding one more quota for the department, and the second is that this electoral exercise of the Commons is financed by the State.

“That seat could balance forces. For more than 15 years there has been no representation in the Atlantic by a left-wing party. This could change some dynamics between the representatives”, said the also professor at the Free University of Barranquilla.

He added that another element that would require one more seat is that it could open the debate on the building a culture of peace in the department, “under the understanding that the Atlantic for different reasons has been far from the dynamics of the implementation of the Agreement.”

The ex-combatant who is on the run through municipalities

One is the quality of public services, mobility in transport with the Transmetro crisis

The candidate Germán Gómez was born 58 years ago in Sincelejo, but since he was 8 years old he went to live in Barranquilla. In the 80s, being medical studentfrom the Metropolitan University, joined the Communist Youth, went to the UP, later joined the Farc, until laying down arms in 2016.

“It is an interesting situation that the citizens of the Atlantic can count on an alternative seat, that is, a spokesperson that will make visible all the problems and the possible solutions that they deserve, for the steps that we can make before the state organisms, in the process of to obtain resources for the development of this region”, said Gómez.

During this campaign, according to what he said, he has visited the municipalities of Santa Lucia, Repelon, SabanagrandeSabanalarga and the metropolitan area of ​​Barranquilla, where he has identified five “among many” problems that must be addressed by Congress.

“There are a number of problems that overwhelm the Atlantic people, but we have detected five: one is the quality of public services, transport mobility with the Transmetro crisis and inter-municipal transport, the other issue is unemployment, hunger and lastly, insecurity”, he pointed out.

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Likewise, he lamented “the impasse with justice” of Jesús Santrich, for which the ’empty chair’ was decreed for this seat.

“The Atlantic could not enjoy the management in these four years of this seat. Today we are thinking that, although time does not recover, we have the mission of positioning ourselves as that alternative seat that the common people of the department can enjoy, with an agile, effective and committed management to manage to rescue the right that corresponds to the Atlantic”, closed the applicant.

Deivis Lopez Ortega
Correspondent of EL TIEMPO Barranquilla
On twitter: @dejholopez
Write me at deilop@eltiempo.com

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Three people of Wayú origin died in a hitman attack recorded in the patio of a house in the border town of Maicao.

The victims were identified as Alex Chasin, Bernardo Zambrano and Aristóbulo Zambrano, the latter was transferred to a care center where his death occurred.

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It was learned that the deceased are from the village of Nazareth, in Alta Guajira and two of them had apparently arrived on a trip.

Victims and perpetrators were in the same place

Neighbors called the police when they heard shots inside the house, but the owners of the house arrived and did not allow the public force to enter to see what happened.

The incident occurred inside a building located on Calle 23 with Carrera 26 in the San Martín neighborhood, apparently victims and perpetrators were in the same place.

“The gunmen did not arrive on a motorcycle, they did not shoot at people from outside, everything was inside the patio. The first version: there was a meeting or they met,” said the mayor of Maicao Mohamad Dasuki.

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Little information is known by the authorities about the motives for the attack, because the owners of the site where the tragedy occurred did not allow the Police to enter.

“The neighbors called the police when they heard shots inside the house, but the owners of the house did not allow the public force to enter to see what happened,” Dasuki said.

According to the uses and customs of the Wayú ethnic group, they themselves collect their dead and proceed to bury them immediately, they do not allow the authorities to carry out removal of the corpse when it is caused by violent death.

Video, apparently recorded by the perpetrator, records the moment in which one of the three people is killed

Among the hypotheses handled by the authorities is that it could be a conflict between clans or a settling of scores due to drug trafficking.

A video apparently recorded by the perpetrator is circulating on social networks, recording the moment in which one of the three people is murdered.

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This is the first triple murder case recorded so far this year in the department of La Guajira.

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The projectile, detonated during a gang fight, hit the 50-year-old woman in the head.

A 50-year-old woman died after being the victim of a stray bullet while sitting in the doorway of her house. The events took place in the El Viso neighborhood, in the municipality of Campoalegre, Huila, where its inhabitants asked for the capture of those responsible and for justice to be done.

The victim of this tragedy was Dany Quimbaya Martinezwho unfortunately died in the middle of a gang dispute when she was hit in the head.

“It was a stray bullet apparently fired by criminal gangs who were shooting at each other. The lady was at the door of her home and was surprised by a bullet,” said residents of Campoalegre.

Another 22-year-old citizen who was passing the scene on a motorcycle was also hit by a stray bullet and was injured, for which he is being treated at a health center.

The affected man told the authorities that on Calle 30 with Carrera 11 he heard several shots of a firearm, so he accelerated his motorcycle to get to his house, where he realized that he had been slightly injured, for which he was taken to a center. assistance.

The authorities try to identify and capture those responsible.

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This is the recovered piece.

Two men had stolen a vase that was exhibited in the mansion located in Envigado.

While they made a visit to the Casa Museo Otraparte, located in the municipality of Envigado, two men stole a vase that was part of the exhibition of the place.

The incident occurred on Saturday when the men who posed as visitors and took advantage of a moment of carelessness of a guide to carry out the robbery.

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The mayor of this municipality in the south of the Aburrá Valley announced that the object had been recovered by the authorities.

Two men, who allegedly stole a cell phone in the surroundings of the Alcalá neighborhood they were captured; these being the same presumed responsible for the theft of a vase, an element of cultural and historical value of the Fernando González Otraparte House Museum”, reported the local president.

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Espinosa added that the subjects were captured for the crime of aggravated robbery and both elements were recovered.

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The Biden administration has released a screening tool to help identify disadvantaged communities long plagued by environmental hazards, but it won’t include race as a factor in deciding where to devote resources.

Administration officials told reporters Friday that excluding race will make projects less likely to draw legal challenges and will be easier to defend, even as they acknowledged that race has been a major factor in terms of who experiences environmental injustice.

The decision was harshly challenged by members of the environmental justice community.

“It’s a major disappointment and it’s a major flaw in trying to identify those communities that have been hit hardest by pollution,” said Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University in Houston and a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

President Joe Biden has made combating climate change a priority of his administration and pledged in a sweeping executive order to “deliver environmental justice in communities all across America.” The order, signed his first week in office, sets a goal that the 40% of overall benefits from climate and environment investments would go to disadvantaged communities. The tool is a key component for carrying out that so-called Justice40 Initiative.

Brenda Mallory, chair of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, said the tool will help direct federal investments in climate, clean energy and environmental improvements to communities “that have been left out and left behind for far too long.”

Catherine Coleman Flowers, a member of the advisory council who served on a working group that gave the Biden administration recommendations for the tool, said she agrees with the move to exclude race as an indicator.

She said that this tool is a good start that hopefully will improve with time and that it’s better than creating a tool that includes race as a factor and then gets struck down by the Supreme Court. She said, “race is a factor, but race isn’t the only factor.”

“Being marginalized in other ways is a factor,” she said.

The screening tool uses 21 factors, including air pollution, health outcomes and economic status, to identify communities that are most vulnerable to environmental and economic injustice.

But the omission of race as a factor goes against a deep body of scientific research showing that race is the greatest determinant of who experiences environmental harm, environmental justice experts pointed out.

“This was a political decision,” said Sacoby Wilson, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. “This was not a scientific decision or a data-driven decision.” Wilson has studied the distribution of environmental pollutants and helped develop mapping tools like the one the Council on Environmental Quality released Friday.

This isn’t the first such tool to exist in the United States, or even in the federal government. California, Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey have had tools like this for years. And the Environmental Protection Agency has a similar tool, EJ Screen. Many of those screening tools include some information about the racial makeup of communities along with environmental and health data.

The public has 60 days to use the tool and provide feedback on it. The Council on Environmental Quality also announced Friday that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are working on launching a study of existing tools.

Paris, a three-month-old cat, remains clinging to Santiago Buitrago’s neck, making sure that his master will not leave him. The 16-year-old boy hastily finishes packing his belongings with his mother, Jenny Alexandra Valderrama, making sure that they do not leave anything in what was his home. 2.5 meters wide by 6 meters deep. To say that a container has more space than that house built nine years ago on a mat on a cement sheet and roofed with zinc sheets.

“Chuchito, I can’t keep it,” says Jenny, referring to the image of Jesus crucified. She picks it up and dusts it off with the blouse she’s wearing, then she ‘sings’ him a kiss. A mattress, a bed, a washing machine and a television is the mess that comes out of an alley in the Corinto village of Manizales. To get to what Jenny and Santiago call home, but which a foreman classifies as a ramada, you must go through a labyrinth.

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The reason for the fret is an act of solidarity, of humanity, in the midst of the pandemic. A miracle, say some neighbors, a stroke of luck assure others. For Alexánder Villada, Santiago’s best friend, “it’s a chimba” (term to refer to something extremely good).

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Santiago Buitrago; Ana María Echeverri Jaramillo, director of the Fundación Obras Sociales Betania, and La Rolita, entering the apartment in San Sebastián.

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Freddy Arango | HOMELAND

Jenny Alexandra was brought out of anonymity by LA PATRIA’s photo editor, Freddy Arango. At the beginning of March, when he was passing by the Manizales Gallery in the middle of a downpour, he saw this woman unload from a truck what was left of a washing machine turned into scrap metal. He asked his co-workers about her, all men: “She is the brat to disarm them. She is the only woman who is measured to put a washing machine or refrigerator on top, she is measured to whatever”.

With this information, he proposed in the council that the Newsroom of this newspaper carries out daily and in which each journalist exposes the issues they want to address, to narrate the story of ‘Rolita’, as Jenny Alexandra is known in the junkyard where she works. . The theme was to recount the job of this character, regarding Women’s Day.

After receiving approval, he made the graphic report applying that journalism is not a circus to be exhibited, but an instrument to think, to create, to help man in his eternal fight for a more dignified and less unjust life, according to Argentine journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez.

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The house where ‘Rolita’ and her son lived testified to poverty: mat walls and a roof with zinc sheets through which branches from the neighboring hillside grew.

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Freddy Arango | HOMELAND

Click, click, click, click, Freddy shuttered the camera, while Rolita shouldered a stove, then a refrigerator, then a window grille; how she throws her life on her shoulder and told him how he was capable of carrying up to 60 kilos. On March 7, La Rolita was the cover of the 35,334 edition of LA PATRIA. She still has the newspaper, but what she did not expect was that a reader and businessman from the city would extend his hand or better his heart, and Through the social networks of this communication medium, he will request the contact of Jenny Alexandra to announce that he wanted to fix up their house.

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In the report she narrated that when it rained she got up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning to move her goods and prevent them from getting wet, and that her greatest dream was to be able to fix the house. The businessman, who is a benefactor of Obras Sociales Betania, called sister Ana María Echeverri Jaramillo, director of that Foundation and Caldense of the year 2020, whom he asked if there were available apartments that the same entity builds, for him to buy one and donate it to him. to the Rolita.

Click, click…

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The ‘Rolita’ this time loaded her belongings; according to her, it was the weight of happiness.

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Freddy Arango | HOMELAND

Together with his son Santiago and his pet Paris on his neck, last Monday they packed their corotos in a van from Betania and moved to San Sebastián, where with tears, emotion and hugs, according to her, she thanked that blessing. “My heart is going to come out. I’m going to have to scream, because if I’m not going to burst with happiness, “she expressed the ‘Rolita’ while she dried her tears and hugged sister Ana María, like a child hugs her mother.

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Freddy again took out the camera. Click, click, click, click, it closed, portraying the scene of solidarity, while the social worker of Betania, Lorena Duque, broke a cake to celebrate how the weight of life was lightened for the ‘Rolita’, thanks to that businessman who prefers to keep his name secret, but leaves a life lesson.

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Republican lawmakers in several states are scaling back access to government business, extending pandemic-era rules that restrict when journalists can report from the floors of state legislative chambers and, in effect, making it easier to dodge the press.

As the public returns to the corridors of state capitols, new rules approved in Iowa last month and in Utah this week critically limit reporters’ access to lawmakers, sparking an outcry from media organizations and press advocates.

“It is critical that there is some accountability with respect to those who have tremendous power, such as you,” Lauren Gustus, the executive editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, told Utah lawmakers in a committee hearing last week, where she testified against such rules.

These rule changes limit when journalists can work on the floor of the legislature where lawmakers sit, making it easier for elected officials to avoid interacting with the press, even when they take up high-profile topics like election laws, taxes and abortion.

Rules governing where journalists can work vary across the nation’s 50 statehouses. Most allow credentialed reporters to observe from the chamber floors; some allow reporters to ask questions before or after proceedings; others require they remain in press boxes or alcoves separated from lawmakers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In states that are now moving to change their procedures, lawmakers argue that creating formal rules allays security concerns and prevents bad actors from disrupting governance. Press advocates say the proposed rules make it more difficult for journalists to ask questions and impede the reporters’ ability to keep tabs on fast-paced statehouse action.

In Iowa, Republican leaders this year did not issue credentials to journalists to work at press benches on the state Senate floor as they had previously. They said the policy change addressed “confusion” because of changing media that now includes blogs and newsletters that identify themselves as the press.

In Utah, reporters are now being required to ask for permission each time they’d like to interview a lawmaker on the Senate floor or in certain adjacent hallways. There and in the Iowa Senate, reporters now must work from a gallery high above the chambers though they can still work from the floor in the House of Representatives.

Under new rules passed through Utah’s Senate and advancing through the House, camera crews will be required to ask for permission to film in certain parts of committee rooms.

In a hearing on the rule last week, Utah lawmakers said daily press conferences and efforts to stream all proceedings online demonstrated their commitment to transparency. They said putting a clear rule on the books would help both lawmakers and the press know what’s allowed.

“The barriers of civility and discourse that have been respected in this state and this country for years and for decades are changing and they’re changing rapidly,” said Utah GOP Sen. Todd Weiler, who supported the rule change, adding that “if they are pushing the barriers, it is nice to have a rule in place.”

In Kansas, new rules from leaders in the state Senate relegate newspaper reporters to the chamber’s gallery, which has made it easier for senators to avoid reporters after sessions. In exceptional circumstances, like when the gallery is filled with other members of the public, journalists are allowed to report from the floor like the rules allowed before.

“Placing restrictions on journalists in the Senate chamber suggests there is something to hide, or that leadership is taking unwarranted and unnecessary retaliation against reporters,” former Kansas lawmaker Steve Morris wrote in an editorial in the Kansas Reflector.

Morris, who led Republicans in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2013, said that as a politician and a news consumer he saw the benefits of having journalists able to observe and report from a statehouse floor. When discussions draw considerable public interest, he said, people want to know how their lawmakers are reacting, which at times can mean body language like eye rolls or enthusiastic gestures.

“Reporters are our avenue to see what’s going on,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“Especially when there’s something controversial,” he added. “The session adjourns and members skedaddle out of there rapidly so it’s hard for journalists to get to them, unlike when they’re on the floor they can immediately get to them.”

The new limits come in an environment of increasing attacks on the media and parallel new restrictions placed on journalists covering protests and courtroom proceedings. They also come as states and cities loosen coronavirus restrictions that have returned restaurants, sporting events and offices to pre-pandemic capacity.

Parker Higgins, the advocacy director at the Freedom of The Press Foundation, said the ways transparency and access increased during the pandemic — for example, when courtrooms allowed members of the public to hear and watch trials remotely — were being reversed.

After speaking with reporters in Kansas and Iowa, he said “most say it’s not impossible to do their jobs without floor access. But, in terms of doing your job quickly and effectively, you can’t get that from the public gallery.

Members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team Wednesday said they are cautiously optimistic about the trajectory of COVID-19 cases in the United States and the White House is preparing for the non-crisis stage of the pandemic.

During a virtual briefing Wednesday, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said the daily average of new COVID-19 cases was down 40% over the past seven days. She said hospitalizations dropped by 28% and deaths were down 9.5%.

Walensky told reporters the CDC was gathering community health data and said its public health guidance regarding wearing masks “would be updated soon.” Last week, Walensky said COVID-19 hospitalization and death numbers weren’t yet low enough to warrant altering recommendations.

But the CDC director explained Wednesday that while case numbers have been steadily trending downward, community spread remains substantial or high in 97% of U.S. counties. She said the CDC’s most critical concern remains severity of disease, which leads to hospitalization and threats to hospital capacity.

Walensky also said the availability and access to vaccines and treatments will factor into when and whether CDC guidelines can be modified or adjusted.

She said most states and municipalities announcing plans to ease their restrictions are doing so in phases, with most saying they will begin lifting their mask rules by the end of February or early March. Walensky said she anticipates possible CDC guideline updates to “intersect.”

Meanwhile, White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeff Zients said the White House has so far distributed 200 million free individual at-home COVID-19 tests around the country. He said the White House has another 800 million on hand for U.S. residents who want them.

President Joe Biden is ordering the release of Trump White House visitor logs to the House committee investigating the riot of Jan. 6, 2021, once more rejecting former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege.

The committee has sought a trove of data from the National Archives, including presidential records that Trump had fought to keep private. The records being released to Congress are visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were allowed to enter the White House on the the day of the insurrection.

In a letter sent Monday to the National Archives, White House counsel Dana Remus said Biden had considered Trump’s claim that because he was president at the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the records should remain private, but decided that it was “not in the best interest of the United States” to do so.

She also noted that as a matter of policy, the Biden administration “voluntarily discloses such visitor logs on a monthly basis,” as did the Obama administration, and that the majority of the entries over which Trump asserted the claim would be publicly released under the current policy.

A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.

FILE - President Donald Trump holds up papers as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 20, 2020, in Washington.

FILE – President Donald Trump holds up papers as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 20, 2020, in Washington.

The Presidential Records Act mandates that records made by a sitting president and his staff be preserved in the National Archives, and an outgoing president is responsible for turning over documents to the agency when leaving office. Trump tried but failed to withhold White House documents from the House committee in a dispute that was decided by the Supreme Court.

Biden has already made clear that he is not invoking executive privilege concerning the congressional investigation unless he absolutely must. Biden has waived that privilege for much other information requested by the committee, which is going through the material and obtaining documents and testimony from witnesses, including some uncooperative ones.

The committee is focused on Trump’s actions from Jan. 6, when he waited hours to tell his supporters to stop the violence and leave the Capitol. Investigators are also interested in the organization and financing of a Washington rally the morning of the riot, when Trump told supporters to “fight like hell.” Among the unanswered questions is how close organizers of the rally coordinated with White House officials.

Investigators also are seeking communications between the National Archives and Trump’s aides about 15 boxes of records that the agency recovered from Trump at his Florida resort and are trying to learn what they contained.

Meanwhile, White House call logs obtained so far by the House committee do not list calls made by Trump as he watched the violence unfold on television on Jan. 6, nor do they list calls made directly to the president.

That lack of information about Trump’s personal calls is a particular challenge as the investigators work to discern what happened what the then-president was doing in the White House as supporters violently beat police, broke into the Capitol and interrupted the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.

There are several possible explanations for omissions in the records, which do not reflect conversations that Trump had on Jan. 6 with multiple Republican lawmakers, for example. Trump was known to use a personal cell phone or he could have had a phone passed to him by an aide. The committee is also continuing to receive records from the National Archives and other sources, which could produce additional information.

the race of 124 candidates for reaching 13 seats for the Cauca’s Valley in the House of Representatives He goes with his networks, between alliances and formulas to also secure steps in the Senate for the region.

The die is cast in this dispute that has just one month left with the parties making calculations about how many seats they have left on behalf of the departmental parliamentary caucus.

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The liberals achieved in 2018 the highest number of votes for the Valley with 276,716. However, calculations predict that they could lose between 50,000 and 70,000 votes to candidates not elected four years ago. So out of four seats they would be left with three for the Congress.

They await votes for Adriana Gómez (today head of the list in Valle), Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri and Álvaro Henry Monedero, current representatives to the Chamber.

In the U second party with the most votes in the region in 2018 (272,843 votes), the accounts would show three seats as in the 2018 vote. But, there are those who maintain that, with all the votes that it has taken from other communities, the U could increase the vote. But if the 272,000 votes are exceeded with an addition of 20,000, the U could take four seats.

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For the U van Julián David Gómez as head of the list for the Chamber for Valle and although it is his first time running for Congress, he brings with him the support of his father, Senator José Rítter López.

On the list are the cultural and social manager Patricia Alaeddine and the journalist Patricia Collazos, whose duo for the Senate is Juan Carlos Garcés. Likewise, the athlete Jackeline Rentería, sheltered by Dilian Francisca Toro. Norma Hurtado (current parliamentarian) wants to go to the Senate and is close to Víctor Salcedo, former manager of Telepacífico.

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With the Democratic Center, the third party with the most votes in 2018 (142,165), Christian Garcés returns for the Chamber with Gabriel Velasco, who is going to the Senate. The party also has a seat in the Chamber today with Milton Angulo. Aspire to repeat.

The conservatives, the fourth with the most votes in 2018 with 119,996. His future is not clear, although they hope to secure a seat with Gustavo Vélez, backed by the former governor of Valle Ubéimar Delgado, who is after his return to the Senate.
Mira and Colombia Justa Libres, which formed the coalition Nos une Colombia, would have a seat in the Chamber.

The Hope Coalition He is going for a seat and is disputed by Gloria Peña, Yitcy Becerra, Míldred Arias, among others. Although for now it would be one, the coalition aspires to a second seat. There is support from those who go with the New Liberalism, the ASI, those of Dignity, among others.

Michel Maya, who was previously in Alianza Verde, is now part of Dignidad, Senator Jorge Robledo’s movement. He works hand in hand with Mábel Lara, who is running for the Senate in the New Liberalism, with the presidential candidate Juan Manuel Galán.

Green Alliance, which obtained 101,545 votes in 2018, reached one seat. Duvalier Sánchez is his head of the list and he is going for that seat.

In Radical change Today he has a seat in the Chamber with Oswaldo Arcos. Now comes Juanita Cataño, who comes from the Democratic Center. The party has three senators. They are Carlos Abraham Jiménez, Carlos Motoa and José Luis Pérez. Camilo Trujillo, son of the late Carlos Holmes Trujillo, is seeking a seat in the Senate.

The Historical Pactled by Gustavo Petro, is going for a seat with journalist Alberto Tejada and manager Alejandro Ocampo.

Who came to the Chamber, four years ago?

Oswaldo Arcos Benavides (Radical Change)
Christian Munir Garces Aljure (Democratic Center)
Milton Hugo Ángulo Viveros (Democratic Center)
Norma Hurtado Sánchez (The U)
Jorge Eliecer Tamayo Marulanda (The U)
Elbert Diaz Lozano (The U)
John Jairo Hoyos Garcia (The U)
Fabio Fernando Arroyave Rivas (Liberal Party)
Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri (Liberal Party)
Adriana Gómez Millán (Liberal Party)
Álvaro Henry Monedero Rivera (Liberal Party)
José Gustavo Padilla Orozco (Conservative Party)
Catalina Ortiz Lalinde (Green Alliance)

CALI

The people of Atlántico are getting ready to elect next Sunday, March 13, those they consider the most appropriate to represent the department in the lower house of the Congress of the republic.

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There are a total of 62 candidates who have been distributed into 10 lists to fight, during the 2022 legislative election day for seven seats.

Some repeat their candidacy, others withdrew from the exercise, while a few more tour the Atlantic municipalities to present their proposals. In that sense, the candidates for the House of Representatives for the Atlantic are:

Historical Pact

Agmeth Escaf, Dreisa María Rosas, Gladys Oliveros, Edith Camerano, Fabián Miranda and Yazmer Ramos.

Hope Center Coalition

Beatriz Eugenia Vélez, William Corredor, Henry Manuel García, Ethiel Manjarrés, Norman Alarcón and Arnold Gómez.

Radical change

Modesto Aguilera, Rober Sanjuan, Gersel Pérez, Lourdes González, Betsy Pérez, José Amar and Luz González.

Commons Party

Germán José Gómez, Onivia Beatriz Esmeral and Raimundo Raish.

Liberal Party

Jezmi Lizeth Barraza, Yaser Julián Eljach, Manuela Martínez, Jasivi Fernández, Uriel Rafael Ávila, Dolcey Óscar Torres and Julio José Mejía.

Look, Just and Liberal Colombia and Democratic Center

Marlys Maldonado, Meliza Barraza, Leonardo Flórez, Elsa Mónica Sandoval, Daniel Pérez, Mónica Utria and Reynel Antonio Castro.

New Liberalism

Sandra Leventhal, Eunice Echavarría, Rossana Pezzano, Zoranilly Valencia, Camilo Ernesto Aguilar, Santander Augusto Pertúz and Olson Wilfrido Ortiz.

party of the u

Luis Carlos Luque, Gastón Jaime Torné, Diana Patricia Macías, Keysi Henríquez, Astrid Velásquez, Oswaldo Rafael Sierra and Carlos Julio Dennis.

Conservative Party

Armando Zabaraín, Mauricio Castro, Alexis González, Nidia Sara Donado, Edwin Alberto Ramírez, Edith Estela Góngora and Adriana de Jesús Blanco.

national salvation

Jesus Raimundo Godoy, Edgar Santander Redondo and Angie Melissa Orozco.

This is the panorama in the department

Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year

For the research teacher, Alexander Whitethese will be the most atypical elections in the last 30 years of territorial participatory democracy, since 1988.

“Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year. One aspect that draws attention is the high number of applications. This political fact has no precedent in this department, ”said the also doctor in Political Science to EL TIEMPO.

In this sense, he considers that the number of candidates it strengthens the democratic system and is “a symptom of a slightly more structured vote” in a department where, according to reports from the MOE, the machines mark the electoral pulse.

According to the latest Strategic Measurements survey, the list of the Historic Pact in the Atlantic would be the most voted with 13 percent of voting intentions.

“With this as a reference, it is necessary to highlight that for more than a decade progressive or alternative parties or movements have not won seats in the House of Representatives. A real opportunity opens up to win an alternative or progressive court seat for the Atlantic”, he pointed out.

Regarding Cambio Radical, Blanco maintained: “Everything indicates that the four seats of Cambio Radical will not be altered. The other seats are being disputed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party”.

More details and curiosities in this contest

When it became known that the communicator Agmeth Escaf headed the list of the Historical Pact above other similar ones, such as the lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, a controversy was generated between some members and followers of the party.

Those who protested the determination, assured that the former TV presenter was not in accordance with the ideas of the Pact and even brought up photographs in which he was seen with the presidential candidate Alejandro Char, who at the same time is a direct rival of Gustavo Petro in these elections.

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Men are the majority: of the 62 candidates for the House of Representatives for the department of Atlántico, 29 are women. The New Liberalism and Mira – CJL – CD parties are the ones with the most female candidates, with four on each list.

Under the ‘shadow’ of Aida Merlano: Another candidacy that has given rise to talk is that of Adriana Blanco, for the Conservative party. She was the campaign manager for Aida Merlano in 2018 and is now Senator Laureano Acuña’s formula.

Among the group of those seeking to continue in the House of Representatives are: Armando Zabaraín, who is head of the Conservative party list; Jezmi Barraza, Modesto Aguilera and José Amar, from Cambio Radical.

Meanwhile, the representatives who have decided to leave in this period are: César Lorduy (Radical Change), who ran for the Senate, Karina Rojano (Radical Change), whose father registered his candidacy for the Senate for the Liberal party; and Martha Villalba (Party of the U), who would go for the Government of the Atlantic.

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Electronic bracelet for house arrest.

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Electronic bracelet for house arrest.

Monitoring of the Metropolitan Police detected that more than half of the defendants did not comply with the measure.

From cases with the participation of crimes to the violent death of the beneficiaries themselves, they led to the Cali Metropolitan Police undertake a strategy to determine compliance with the security measures home detention.

The review and the visits revealed that only 11 percent of the defendants complied with the regulations in their homes.

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That’s what he said Commander of the Metropolitan Police, General Juan Carlos León Montes, who pointed out that between 2021 and 2022 more than 830 measures have been revoked.

“An investigation was started when it was detected that people with house arrest were still committing crimes. To the National Penitentiary Institute (Inpec) They asked for the lists with the residences of the people who had that measure,” said the general.

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The police commander noted that “last year we reviewed more or less 800 people with house arrest. This year 473, and what have we found? that only 11 percent are complying with the house measure.”

In the inspections, it was also found that 57 percent were evaded and the remaining 32 percent appear in false addresses, the officer reviewed.

Monday with the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Dijín) of the Police, the flyer ‘The most wanted of Cali 2022’ was launched as a tool in the fight against crime, between the institution and the Prosecutor’s Office.

Some of them would have evaded house arrest measures.

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