Seguidores del artista paisa llegaron a precuparse por una edición que hicieron en la enciclopedia Wikipedia.
Noticias Colombia.
René o Residente cómo muchos de sus fans lo conocen alrededor del mundo ‘explotó’ contra J Balvin en un tema musical que dura 8 minutos y que ha sido tendencia y muy comentado en redes.
Con la canción «BZRP Music Sessions #49», el boricua le «tira con toda» al colombiano en un «nuevo round» de un intercambio de opiniones entre sí que tuvo sus inicios en la previa de los Premios Grammy Latino en noviembre de 2021 y que hasta el sol de hoy continúa dando de qué hablar.
A tal punto que hoy una tendecia despistóa los seguidores de J Balvin que en un momento llegaron a pensar que había ocurrido algo malo con el intérprete de ‘Rojo’.
Por la ‘tiraera’ que se volvió tendencia en redes sociales, usuarios de Twitter manejaron el hashtag «RIP Jbalvin», haciendo referencia a que la lírica del puertorriqueño «lo había matado», hablando en sentido figurado.
Inclusive algunos gastaron tiempo en la net, cambiando la biografía del paisa en la enciclopedia libre Wikipedia, colocando que «había fallecido el 3 de marzo».
Estta tendencia provocó que muchas personas creyeran que el artista colombiano había muerto. Una llamada ‘Fake News’ no tan agradable no solo para aquellos que son fanáticos del cantante sino para el mundo del entretenimiento en general.
Después, usuarios le aclararon a esas personas que solo se trató de una alegoría por lo fuerte del tema que Residente le dedicó al cantante número uno del género urbano.
Vale anotar que J Balvin se encuentra gozando de buena salud y de paso por Argentina con varios de sus familiares.
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Polling station in Bucaramanga.
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Polling station in Bucaramanga.
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The Registrar’s Office announced that it was necessary to install 16 new polling stations in Santander so that the 1,772,000 citizens eligible to vote can do so in the upcoming elections on March 13.
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In total there will be 777 positions located as follows: 450 in the rural sector and 327 in the municipal capitals.
Mauricio Aguilar, governor of Santander, said that the new polling stations will be located in the municipalities of Bucaramanga, Barrancabermeja, Concepción, Bolívar, El Peñón, Galán, Lebrija, Girón and San Andrés.
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During his visit to Santander, the National Registrar indicated that in a maximum of five hours the pre-count of votes for the Chamber and Senate elections in the department will be ready.
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Unemployment figure to be released in January
This Monday, the Dane will reveal the unemployment data for January 2022. At the end of last year, the employed population reached 21.59 million, which represents 185,000 jobs more than in the same period of the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed was 2.67 million in December 2021 and the unemployment rate was 13.7 percent.
Mobility procedures change in Bogotá
There will be 19 points to carry out mobility procedures.
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Starting this Tuesday, March 1, the way in which mobility procedures are carried out in Bogotá will change. The SIM will be replaced by the figure of Single Service Window.
In principle, the Single Window for Services will begin to operate at the 12 physical points where SIMs work today. Then, on March 16, the 19 venues will be held. At these points you can make transfers of property, registration, change of service, certificate of freedom and tradition, among other matters.
Gustavo Petro and César Gaviria will hold a meeting
Former President César Gaviria and candidate Gustavo Petro.
Gustavo Petro, a left-wing leader and who according to all the polls today leads the intention to vote for the Presidency, will meet this Monday with César Gaviria Trujillo, former president and head of the Liberal party.
Gaviria has indicated that they are going to discuss some issues and some problems will be touched upon. He also indicated that in his meeting with Petro he will express his disagreement on issues such as his proposal to the Bank of the Republic and the health reform.
Cities lift restriction on the use of face masks
Cities and municipalities that will stop using the mask in open spaces
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To date, only two out of five municipalities in the country will be able to eliminate, as of March 1, the use of masks in outdoor spaces. This is because only 451 of the 1,121 in the country reached the goal of vaccinating 70% or more of their population with a complete schedule, as determined by the National Government this week. In this way, capitals such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cartagena and Barranquilla will be able to lift the restriction on the use of face masks starting this Tuesday.
Colombia hosts citizen security summit
From February 28 to March 3, 2022, Bogotá will host the XII Citizen Security and Justice Week, the largest regional event dedicated to security and justice issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The installation of the event will include the participation of President Iván Duque Márquez; the Minister of National Defense, Diego Molano Aponte; the Director General of the Colombian National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas; the Vice President of Sectors and Knowledge of the IDB, Benigno López Benítez; and the Sector Leader Specialist for Citizen Security and Justice of the IDB, Nathalie Alvarado.
Founding a newspaper is rarely easy, but when Assunta Ng was preparing to launch the Seattle Chinese Post in 1982, she faced an unexpected challenge: The Chinese-script typewriters ordered from Taiwan were lost in transit.
The typewriters eventually turned up at the Port of Seattle, eight days before the newspaper was due to publish. A short window to train typists on the hard-to-use equipment.
But they got the job done, Ng said. In the early hours of January 20, the Post went to print and became the first Chinese-language paper in the Pacific Northwest since 1927.
Forty years on, the paper’s weekly circulation is in the thousands, but its small size belies its significance as one of the few independent Chinese-language outlets to offer local news in the United States.
Mandarin and other Chinese dialects combine to make up the third-most-common language in the U.S., with some 3.5 million speakers, according to a Census Bureau report.
And while major papers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal publish in Chinese, they typically don’t provide hyper-local news.
That is where outlets like the Seattle Chinese Post and the New York-based website NYChinaRen come in.
Both cover typical community news – a mix of local politics, crime, weather, business and culture.
That focus is what separates them from the broader — though still narrow — Chinese-language media landscape in the U.S., which Human Rights Watch researcher Yaqiu Wang says is politically polarized.
Some Chinese news outlets have ties to Beijing. Others are backed by opposition groups, such as the Epoch Times, which is reported to be aligned with Falun Gong, a controversial religious movement that claims persecution by Beijing.
Assunta Ng is pictured outside the Seattle Chinese Post’s original office in 1984. (Courtesy – Assunta Ng)
Finding accurate, unbiased outlets can be a challenge, says Wang. And while American media publishing in Mandarin provide independent coverage, their reporting doesn’t necessarily target a Chinese audience living in the U.S., Wang said.
Rare outlets like the Seattle Chinese Post and NYChinaRen, both of which publish in Mandarin, provide a snapshot into the small landscape of independent and impartial Chinese-language media in the U.S.
In Seattle, Ng is proud of her paper’s independence and neutrality.
Before the Post was founded, members of the city’s large Chinese population would gather at bulletin boards in Seattle’s Chinatown to get the latest news. Ng, who moved to Washington from China for college, wanted to fill that gap.
The local community was initially skeptical of Ng’s newspaper until she assured them that it would be politically neutral.
“We’re not pro-Taiwan or China,” Ng said. “We want to serve the community, and we want to write stories, and we write stories that other newspapers have not been able to see.”
That local knowledge and connection with the community in Seattle came into play in 1983, when 13 people were killed at a gambling club.
“The mainstream media – I wouldn’t say they didn’t cover our community – they did,” Ng said. “But they always liked to feature us with food. So I always laughed at them. ‘Boy, we look like a very hungry community.’ You always write about us about food and nothing else. And now there’s this murder – biggest murder in the state – and you didn’t know how to cover it.”
“Overnight I had so many mainstream media calling me to ask for help because they couldn’t communicate with the Chinese immigrants in Chinatown,” Ng said. “I was like a bridge between our community and the mainstream media.”
The Seattle Chinese Post is an outlier, but Ng doesn’t really view it that way. For her, its neutrality is not a political statement. Ng views the Post first and foremost as a local newspaper, one that just happens to publish in Mandarin.
“We are an American newspaper, except written in Chinese,” Ng said.
In leading NYChinaRen, Cheng Yizhong was similarly motivated. He worked at state-run and privately owned outlets in China before an arrest in 2004 on corruption charges, a move seen widely as retaliation for his outspoken reports.
Being jailed in China is behind Cheng now. “It doesn’t really matter to me anymore,” he told VOA in November. “It only makes me believe firmly that our industry is extremely important.”
Cheng acted as editor-in-chief from when NYChinaRen was founded in 2019 until he stepped down in January, citing “political risk and pressure” but reaffirming in a statement that the website is independent. For him, media play an important role in reporting on local Chinese communities
“Their news may not be reported by mainstream American news channels. But that’s what we care about,”’ he said.
Assunta Ng’s family members help mail copies of the Seattle Chinese Post in the 1990s. (Courtesy – Assunta Ng)
Beijing’s reach
For the past decade, China has worked to extend its influence over global media, using training opportunities, content sharing agreements, media trips and funding to try to curry favor with foreign outlets, all while restricting and expelling correspondents in Beijing.
Experts including the International Federation of Journalists believe China uses such tactics to influence global media coverage in its favor.
Wang, of Human Rights Watch, said Beijing made similar efforts to influence Chinese-owned media in New York and other cities “through ownership or making the businesspeople who are close to Beijing buy those newspapers.”
In an email to VOA, China’s Washington embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said that Chinese media “should not be assumed to be led or interfered (with) by the Chinese government,” adding, “The Chinese government supports closer cooperation between Chinese and foreign media.”
Being relevant to Mandarin-speaking audiences can bring challenges, including whether to connect via the popular app WeChat.
With more than 1.2 billion active monthly users worldwide, the Chinese social media, messaging, and payment app is a powerful tool. It is also under the reach of Beijing’s censors.
Rights groups have cited how sensitive topics, like criticism of the government and human rights, are suppressed on the app.
The WeChat question is an important tradeoff, according to Sheng Zou, a University of Michigan postdoctoral research fellow. Chinese-language outlets can access more readers, but at the expense of editorial independence.
“If you want to cater towards the Chinese community, then you inevitably have to use WeChat,” Zou said.
Embassy spokesperson Pengyu denied that Beijing censors web content and said that “Chinese people have extensive access” to online information.
The website for NYChinaRen is blocked in China, but it has two public WeChat accounts with about 250,000 subscribers, according to Cheng. The accounts act as a news portal or blog page that app users follow.
Ng decided to not disseminate Seattle Chinese Post content on WeChat.
But despite challenges of adapting in the digital age, local news remains at the core of both media outlets.
Although some mainstream media in the U.S. publish in Mandarin, they do not concentrate as closely on what’s happening in the Chinese diaspora communities, Zou said. That’s what makes local-language media all the more important.
“Identity — this sense of belonging, this sense of rootedness — is a very important factor in their consumption of the media,” he said. “Identity politics is crucial to understanding why people want to consume Chinese media.”
And, as Ng says: “People are hungry for information and what’s going on in the community.”
Little or nothing is what is felt in the electoral environment in Barranquilla and peoples of the Atlantic, as if little or nothing interested the results of the elections to the Congress of the republic next March 13.
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“The candidates are conspicuous by their absence,” he says. political analyst Carlos Herrera. This panorama is reflected in the streets of the city, where the poles on this occasion have not been smeared with posters, there are no walls painted with the names and numbers of the candidates, young people are not seen handing out flyers in the streets, nor political advertising playing on the stations.
“It is a strange election campaign. With absent candidates in the neighborhoods, the river of money has not flowed as in previous elections”, adds Herrera.
The voters’ attention seems to be focused on the results of the consultations, and above all on the presidential elections, more than on the regional elections.
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The situation is viewed by political scientist Jessyka Manotas as a phenomenon that is not typical of Barranquilla or the Atlantic but of the entire country, due to the amount of candidatesthe various issues that are being discussed on the national agenda and the proliferation of more visibility spaces for the pre-candidates for the presidency (debates, interviews, etc.) “contrary to the scarce citizen deliberation at the regional level about the candidates for congress,” he says.
The murals with messages alluding to the electoral campaign adorn some streets of the metropolitan area of Barranquilla.
The representative to the camera across the atlantic, Modesto Aguilera (Radical Change) confirms the above: “the political environment of the presidential elections is extremely controversial and all eyes are looking towards that path.”
Aguilera, who hopes to remain in the Chamber, maintains that his campaign remains focused on the regional election without also neglecting the issue of the consultation, “because for us it is extremely important not only our election but also to choose Alexander Charlie as coalition candidate Team For Colombia”.
Political advertising has not invaded the streets of Barranquilla.
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Vanexa Romero / TIME
For Sandra Leventhal (New Liberalism)who comes to fight for a seat in the Chamber for Atlántico, acknowledges that the electoral environment is very quiet, which is worrying since the elections for Congress do not seem to gain momentum.
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“Is it a collective lack of interest, a lack of knowledge of the subject or is there another type of reason?” asks Laventhal, who assures that his movement works hard and remains committed to this electoral exercise and the party building.
Campaigns continue with political ‘moorings’
In general terms, the electoral environment in the department is similar to previous years, says political scientist Jessyka Manotas, emphasizing that everything is predictable in terms of clientelism, purchase and sale of votes and lists of political parties made up of relatives and people close to current congressmen, deputies and councilors. Likewise, several are campaigning senators and representatives to the House who are seeking re-election.
Political billboards have been installed on some avenues in Barranquilla.
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Vanexa Romero / TIME
For senators and representatives who aspire to be re-elected, it is more important to win the support of councilors, deputies and leaders
However, Manotas points out that there are some new elements. The first to stand out is the lists of alternative coalitions that seem to have more possibilities due to the fact that they are a non-preferential vote (closed lists) and the socio-political context of the country that comes from large mobilizations and youth activism.
On the other hand, adds the political analyst, the recent media scandals, related to the testimony of Aida Merlano and leaks from Laureano Acuna on alleged vote buying, “can negatively influence the perception of voters about traditional parties.”
Political journalist Jean Pier Serna He explains that this debate focuses a lot on what he calls political ‘ties’ and agreements with leaders who manage solid electoral structures.
“For senators and representatives who aspire to be reelected, it is more important to win the support of councillors, deputies and leaderswith which they can ensure a good flow, than to go out and look for an opinion vote, a band that is still very gaseous in terms of elections to Congress in this area of the country”, Serna points out.
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The Attorney General’s Office opened a preliminary investigation of the mayor of Manizales, Carlos Mario Marín, for alleged pressure on officials and contractors to favor with their vote their cousin, candidate for the House of Representatives for Caldas.
According to the Public Ministry, he received anonymous complaints that speak of the request for votes in favor of the Green Alliance candidate Santiago Osorio.
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“With all due respect, I request your intervention in the elections, since as a public official we are practically being forced to politically accompany the cousin of the mayor, and I see with great concern the active participation of several public servants exercising political proselytism,” the complaint says. which was recorded in the preliminary investigation order.
The president has asked his Municipal Cabinet to act with neutrality
It indicates that the entity will open the corresponding Preliminary Inquiry “in order to verify the occurrence of behaviors with a vocation for disciplinary reproach, identify or individualize the public and/or private servant allegedly compromised and establish if it has acted under the protection of a cause of exclusion of responsibility”.
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The mayor, for his part, reported that he had already filed with the Manizales Provincial Attorney’s Office and the Regional Attorney’s Office the evidence of the actions taken to “avoid conduct related to political proselytism” within the Manizales Mayor’s Office and its decentralized entities.
“Among the documents delivered are the certifications of the General Secretariat, Internal Disciplinary Control, Internal Control and the Office of Transparency, in which it is verified that, to date, there is no formal complaint due to political pressure. However, preventively It has been requested that the necessary actions and investigations be carried out in case of presentation, ”he reported.
From the Mayor’s Office they also pointed out that “the president has asked his Municipal Cabinet to act neutrally”, always oblivious to any project with political ends, in compliance with the Electoral Guarantees Law.
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“This position is supported by the formation of the Electoral Surveillance Committee of the Manizales Mayor’s Office, whose purpose is to apply mandatory sanctions in the event of political proselytism being found within the Administration and its decentralized entities,” adds the press release.
The phrase ‘The past stepped on’ does not seem to apply in the life of the current senator Laureano Augusto Acuna Diazto whom the Supreme Court of Justice opened an investigation for vote buying, in the same process of September 2019 against Aida Merlano.
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Today it is again ‘in the mouth’ of the control bodies, this time of the Attorney General’s Office, by an audio published by the lawyer of the former fugitive congresswoman, Miguel Ángel del Río, in which the ‘Flying Cat’ allegedly He talks about “buying 70,000 votes”.
To learn about the life of Acuña Díaz, you have to go back to March 25, 1971, when this Barranquilla native was born in the humble Santa Maria neighborhoodof the Metropolitan locality.
He is the son of Elvia Díaz and Laureano Acuña, whom he used to accompany in the social and civic activities that he led in the neighborhoods with the purpose of managing support for vulnerable communities.
He became a bachelor and, in that constant contact with the population, he met and made friendship with the Gerleins, when they intervened in the neighborhoods, especially in electoral campaigns. That’s how it started, as a collaborator of the brothers Jorge and Roberto.
In full session of Congress, the Charista candidate and current Senator Laureano Acuña, the famous cat flyer, member of the ethics committee, talk to the House candidate Edison Massa and warns: “minimum we have to buy 70 thousand votes” The Char Clan mafias. pic.twitter.com/jBqVcgPkhv
I aspired to be president of that corporation, but on election day they already had another majority and I was left in the minority.
After gaining the trust of this political family, he managed to count on their support to be launched into the Barranquilla Council in 2002, by the Conservative party. What would happen a week after being elected as a councilor for the first time earned him the nickname of the ‘Flying Cat’.
After a few days in this District institution, the man, who because of the color of his eyes was already known as the cat, ‘fled’ or separated himself from the interests of the political group that promoted him.
“We had a majority in the Council and the election of a board of directors was coming, I aspired to be president of that corporation, but on the day of the election they already had another majority and I was in the minority,” Acuña explained in this way. W Radius.
To this is added that, at that time, the song was in full swing ‘The flying cat‘, one of those old school reggaeton that was playing at any time on commercial stations.
His time in the House and Senate
The man repeated for the second consecutive time in the Council of Barranquilla, to later make his debut in the Congress of the republic as Representative to the Chamber for the department of Atlántico (2010-2014). Later, he was seen allied with the Char family.
From there he ended up, from 2015 to the present, in the Senate for two consecutive periods (2014-2018 and 2018-2022). Today he seeks to repeat for the third time in these instances, launching his candidacy for the day of March 13 .
A career with scandals
Making his debut as a senator, Laureano Acuña made headlines for a video in which he appeared, apparently, drunk and refusing to practice a breathalyzer testin Riohacha (La Guajira).
In the recording, he assured that he was not driving and claimed the traffic police for “wanting to incriminate him.” In statements to the media, he indicated that he was going to appeal the fine.
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Likewise, in mid-June of last year he was accused of allegedly threatening the Mayor of Malambo (Atlántico), Rumenigge Monsalve, for the screenshots of some chats in which he allegedly wrote that “I go and take two shots at him.”
After the publication of the audio by the lawyer Del Río, Internet users have remembered this chat.
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Taken from social networks
Given this situation, the municipal president said he was concerned about his safety and that of his family. While the senator maintained that “this chat is totally false.”
At the end of the same month, there was a shooting attack on the house of Mayor Monsalve. It should be clarified that this fact has not been related to the alleged threats in the chats and is being investigated by the authorities.
Conservative Senator Laureano Acuña at a pandemic party without a mask to cover his nose, but about to put on a big-nosed thong: one for the other… They don’t legislate in person but they dance deliciously when they party in person. pic.twitter.com/0k007jGDYP
– Daniel Samper Ospina (@DanielSamperO) June 19, 2021
For that same month of 2021, he was again the target of criticism in the country for appearing in a video dancing and under the influence of alcohol, along with other people, without the biosecurity measures due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Currently, the senator faces the investigations of the Supreme Court (2019) and the investigation of the Attorney General’s Office (2022) for cases of vote buying. To the latter, he replied: “I will not be a guinea pig in a discussion far removed from any political connection.”
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“The committee is bound to observe, however, that the employment situation of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China provides numerous indications of coercive measures, many of which arise from regulatory and policy documents,” experts with the U.N. labor agency International Labor Organization wrote.
Abstention has always been a stumbling block to overcome in elections, not only in Colombia but, particularly in Antioquia, where the vote for Congress is not so high.
In 2018, the turnout for the Senate was 45.1%, with 2,113,865 voters; meanwhile, for the Chamber it was 44.8%, with 2,099,208. This means that not even half of the eligible electoral census was reached. But nevertheless, the department, due to its number of inhabitants, is one of those that contributes the most voters at the national level with an electoral census of more than 5 million people at present.
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“Although Antioquia is, according to the electoral census, one of the areas with the greatest potential for voters, it does not mean that participation will be the same, taking into account that this census is of almost five million one hundred thousand people, electoral participation is permeated according to the type of vote: mayorship in municipalities, council compared to what is approaching Congress and coalitions, because in the first case there can be greater participation due to how close the political issue is perceived compared to the second”, explained Jorge Andrés Rico, professor at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, UPB.
For the political analyst, Miguel Jaramillo, there would be a growth of 25% more voters.
“Although traditionally the election of public corporations, and more so the Congress, due to the levels of disbelief, collegiate exercise, dynamics of checks and balances, little visibility of the individual figure, recognition or association with the traditional political class, makes people go out to vote less,” said Jaramillo.
The National Registry announced that more polling stations will be available in Antioquia for these congressional elections, which would be an incentive for many citizens to go to the polls.
“We will have 123 more voting stations compared to the last elections, which are 1,260 more tables in the territory and there will be greater accessibility to voting,” said the National Registrar of Civil Status, Alexander Vega Rocha, during his most recent visit.
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A higher turnout of young voters would be expected.
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However, this might not be enough of an inducement if apathy is more important.
“Antioquia will be able to give a significant participation, but it is difficult to give more than 70%, and the impact that Medellín and the metropolitan area provide influences. I do not think it will change much with respect to what has been given previously, more because it is for Congress and Consultations, whether due to apathy, lack of interest or weak knowledge about the importance or how to vote, in the case of preferred and non-preferred lists, “added the rich teacher.
This year, the elections have an additional ingredient and that is that voters can request a ballot to choose the candidate for the presidency of Colombia from three coalitions: Team for Colombia, Historic Pact and Hope Center Coalition. This situation would lead more people to go to the polls this coming March 13.
“The fact that there are consultations for the presidency always becomes an incentive to generate more votes,” Jaramillo said in response to this.
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The Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, stressed that the electoral cards will be easy to use and understand.
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However, the issue is also in doubt due to the abstentionist tradition in Colombia.
“National, Abstentionism rates historically oscillate between 50 and 60%, which has led to Colombian political culture being defined as a culture of abstentionism.and that generates a greater weight for the situation, because it remains in data and figures, and this must be taken to particular analyzes in territories and sectors, to diagnose factors that weaken participation”, added the teacher.
Another aspect to take into account is whether young people will have a greater participation as voters because they are seen to be more active in social networks, for example, but another could be the reality, at least in the case of the elections to Congress.
“I would believe that within the voting rates it is always much more complex that young people between 18 and 22 years old go out to vote, it is the most complex group. However, for the issue of Congress, one does see that since these are slightly more collegiate elections, with more presence of the machinery than of opinion, it could be less likely that there will be more youth voting,” said Miguel Jaramillo.
The pulse on abstention will be known after March 13, the first date of this year’s electoral meeting in Antioquia and in the country.
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Abstention has always been a stumbling block to overcome in elections, not only in Colombia but, particularly in Antioquia, where the vote for Congress is not so high.
In 2018, the turnout for the Senate was 45.1%, with 2,113,865 voters; meanwhile, for the Chamber it was 44.8%, with 2,099,208. This means that not even half of the eligible electoral census was reached. But nevertheless, the department, due to its number of inhabitants, is one of those that contributes the most voters at the national level with an electoral census of more than 5 million people at present.
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“Although Antioquia is, according to the electoral census, one of the areas with the greatest potential for voters, it does not mean that participation will be the same, taking into account that this census is of almost five million one hundred thousand people, electoral participation is permeated according to the type of vote: mayorship in municipalities, council compared to what is approaching Congress and coalitions, because in the first case there can be greater participation due to how close the political issue is perceived compared to the second”, explained Jorge Andrés Rico, professor at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, UPB.
For the political analyst, Miguel Jaramillo, there would be a growth of 25% more voters.
“Although traditionally the election of public corporations, and more so the Congress, due to the levels of disbelief, collegiate exercise, dynamics of checks and balances, little visibility of the individual figure, recognition or association with the traditional political class, makes people go out to vote less,” said Jaramillo.
The National Registry announced that more polling stations will be available in Antioquia for these congressional elections, which would be an incentive for many citizens to go to the polls.
“We will have 123 more voting stations compared to the last elections, which are 1,260 more tables in the territory and there will be greater accessibility to voting,” said the National Registrar of Civil Status, Alexander Vega Rocha, during his most recent visit.
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A higher turnout of young voters would be expected.
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Juan Augusto Cardona
However, this might not be enough of an inducement if apathy is more important.
“Antioquia will be able to give a significant participation, but it is difficult to give more than 70%, and the impact that Medellín and the metropolitan area provide influences. I do not think it will change much with respect to what has been given previously, more because it is for Congress and Consultations, whether due to apathy, lack of interest or weak knowledge about the importance or how to vote, in the case of preferred and non-preferred lists, “added the rich teacher.
This year, the elections have an additional ingredient and that is that voters can request a ballot to elect the candidate for the presidency of Colombia from three coalitions: Team for Colombia, Historic Pact and Hope Center Coalition. This situation would lead more people to go to the polls this coming March 13.
“The fact that there are consultations for the presidency always becomes an incentive to generate more votes,” Jaramillo said in response to this.
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The Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, stressed that the electoral cards will be easy to use and understand.
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Government of Antioquia
However, the issue is also in doubt due to the abstentionist tradition in Colombia.
“National, Abstentionism rates historically oscillate between 50 and 60%, which has led to Colombian political culture being defined as a culture of abstentionism.and that generates a greater weight for the situation, because it remains in data and figures, and this must be taken to particular analyzes in territories and sectors, to diagnose factors that weaken participation”, added the teacher.
Another aspect to take into account is whether young people will have greater participation as voters because they are seen to be more active on social networks, for example, but the reality could be different, at least in the case of elections to Congress.
“I would believe that within the voting rates it is always much more complex that young people between 18 and 22 years old go out to vote, it is the most complex group. However, for the issue of Congress, one does see that since these are slightly more collegiate elections, with more presence of the machinery than of opinion, it could be less likely that there will be more youth voting,” said Miguel Jaramillo.
The pulse on abstention will be known after March 13, the first date of this year’s electoral meeting in Antioquia and in the country.
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Here is a summary of Uyghur-related news around the world in the past week.
Uyghur Olympic torchbearer in 2008 calls for boycott
In 2008, Kamalturk Yalqun carried the Olympic torch in Beijing, representing his 12 million-member Uyghur community from Xinjiang. Now in 2022, he is in the United States and has become an activist, calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games over China’s mistreatment Uyghurs, including imprisoning his father, Yalqun Rozi, a renowned Uyghur textbook editor.
US lawmakers urge State Department to help Uyghurs, Kazakhs
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China urged the U.S. State Department to help Uyghurs and Kazakhs facing deportation from countries such as Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan to China.
UN, China accused of colluding
The South China Morning Post reported that leaked documents hint that the United Nations colluded with China in fabricating a “mutually convenient stalemate” to U.N. criticism of China’s treatment of Uyghurs.
Turkish Olympian uses the East Turkistan independence flag
Duringthe Beijing Games, a Turkish athlete, Fatih Arda Ipcioglu, was hailed by rights activists for raising awareness for Uyghur rights in China. He used a pair of skis with the blue crescent moon and star flag that Uyghurs use as a symbol of their short-lived independence of Xinjiang in the last century, which they call East Turkistan.
China has Uyghur Olympian light the cauldron at Games
The New York Times reported that Beijing’s choice of a 20-year-old female Uyghur cross-country skier to light the Olympic cauldron was seen by rights activists and critics of Beijing as an attempt to whitewash its suppression of Uyghurs.
Twitter accounts flood #GenocideGames hashtag
The Wall Street Journal reported that pro-China Twitter accounts had flooded the hashtag #GenocideGames on the platform in an effort to weaken it as criticism of China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs.
Reuters reported that China’s ambassador to U.N. defended his country’s selection of a Uyghur athlete as one of the two last torchbearers of the Winter Games after his U.S. counterpart at the U.N., U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in an interview with CNN that China is using a Uyghur athlete to distract attention from country’s abuses toward the group.
News in brief
Radio Free Asia reported that Harris Mowbray, a U.S. college student, and a group of Uyghur researchers created a Braille alphabet for visually impaired Uyghurs. “I hope this Uyghur Braille script is used widely,” Mowbray told RFA. “Through this script, visually impaired people will be able to read, write, study and even write emails.”
Quote of note
“It seems to me that our sense of global citizenship and sportsmanship is not moving forward with these Olympic Games anymore.”
— Kamalturk Yalqun, Uyghur who carried the Olympic torch in Beijing for the 2008 Games.
News Corp disclosed on Friday it was the target of a cyberattack that accessed data of some employees, with its internet security adviser saying the hack was likely aimed at gathering “intelligence to benefit China’s interests.”
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal said the breach, discovered in late January, accessed emails and documents of a limited number of employees, including journalists, but added that cybersecurity firm Mandiant had contained the attack.
“Mandiant assesses that those behind this activity have a China nexus, and we believe they are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests,” David Wong, vice president of consulting at Mandiant, told Reuters.
The Chinese Embassy in the United States did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Although we are in the early stages of our investigation, we believe the activity affected a limited number of business email accounts and documents from News Corp headquarters, News Technology Services, Dow Jones, News UK, and New York Post,” company executives wrote in a letter to employees, seen by Reuters.
“Our preliminary analysis indicates that foreign government involvement may be associated with this activity, and that some data was taken.”
The company added that its other business units, including HarperCollins Publishers, Move, News Corp Australia, Foxtel, REA, and Storyful, were not targeted in the attack.
The Wall Street Journal, which reported the news first, competes with Reuters, the news division of Thomson Reuters Corp , in supplying news to media outlets.
A new global strategy of the National Police against drug trafficking and the definition of who reaches the presidency of Italy, among the main topics of the following week.
Time is running out for the Hope Center Coalition
Hope Center Coalition.
Next Friday, February 4, the deadline given by the National Electoral Council (CNE) expires so that the coalitions that want to participate in the inter-party consultations on Sunday, March 13, inform which pre-candidates will be in competition.
So far it has been officially registered Team for Colombia, in which former mayors Federico Gutiérrez, Alejandro Char and Enrique Peñalosa, and senators David Barguil (Conservative Party) and Aydeé Lizarazon (Mira Movement) will compete.
Likewise, the pre-candidates of the Historical Pact Gustavo Petro, Francia Márquez and Arelis Uriana. The unknown focuses on the Hope Center Coalition, in which some internal issues must be resolved to comply with the registration of who will be in the March consultation.
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Strategy against drug trafficking
Seizure of 1.1 tons of cocaine that was on its way to Spain.
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Anti-narcotics Police
The National Police will present – on February 3 and 4 – in Cartagena, the global strategy of comprehensive impact against drug trafficking ‘Esmeralda’, which encompasses a more plural concept to face the problem of cocaine trafficking on the premise that Colombia is the largest producer of the drug worldwide.
The event will be installed by the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, and will include exponents such as the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, who will refer to the impact of criminal income; the Minister of Justice, Wilson Ruiz, who will speak about artificial intelligence for drug control, and the director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, who will present the scope of ‘Esmeralda’.
In the same way, prevention issues will be analyzed, in the business field, and there will be a tribute to the uniformed men who have offered their lives in the fight against drugs.
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On Wednesday, the Prosecutor’s Office will present victims with a pre-agreement with Jhonier Leal
Lawyer Elmer Montaña confirmed that the prosecution already reached an agreement with the defendant John Leal which must be presented before a judge who will have to decide whether or not to endorse the negotiation that includes the penalty he will pay for the murder of his brother Mauricio Leal, and his mother, Marlene Hernandez.
He indicated that the Prosecutor’s Office summoned them to a meeting next Wednesday in Cali to publicize the scope of the pre-agreement that takes place after johnier accept the charges filed.
Who will be the new president of Italy?
Current President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella
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Francesco Ammendola / Reuters
Italy is still waiting to know who will be the new president of the country after the political parties failed to reach an agreement on the candidate for the position.
The functions of the president are essentially honorary in Italy, where the parliamentary system rules, but this year the role of mario draghi, current Prime Minister, a personality of great weight and prestige, whose election to the Presidency would put the government in crisis.
At the same time, other names circulate for the position, among them that of the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Pier Ferdinando Casini; the current president of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, as well as that of the experienced diplomat Elisabetta Belloni.
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Safety in Bogota
In the middle of the strategy security and intervention of 8 localities that advances the Mayor’s Office and all the entities of the district, the administration announced that Ciudad Bolívar will be the third locality visited after Kennedy and Engativá. The Mayor’s Office is expected to deliver the first results on security in this area next Thursday.
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Cuando Joe Biden da por finalizada una rueda de prensa, los periodistas suelen gritar dudas pendientes por si el mandatario muerde el anzuelo. Lo que no suele ocurrir es que el presidente estadounidense insulte a un reportero en medio de la avalancha de interrogantes, como ha ocurrido este lunes en la Casa Blanca. Steve Doocy, corresponsal de la cadena conservadora Fox News, le preguntó a gritos al demócrata si creía que la inflación —situada en un 7%, un récord en 40 años— supondrá un “lastre político” de cara a las elecciones legislativas de noviembre.
—“Es una gran baza… más inflación”—, respondió el mandatario, con ironía, aparentemente creyendo que el micrófono estaba apagado. “Menudo estúpido hijo de perra”, continuó. Biden y Doocy han protagonizado varios encuentros tensos en comparecencias presidenciales. Por la noche, cuando el vídeo ya se había viralizado, el mandatario llamó al reportero para disculparse. El periodista, agradecido del gesto, dijo en el programa de Sean Hannity, en la Fox, que Biden “aclaró las cosas” en la llamada y le hizo saber que el exabrupto “no era personal”.
Antes del episodio, Biden se había quejado con los periodistas de que todas las preguntas eran sobre la presencia militar en Ucrania en plena escalada de tensión con Rusia. El intercambio entre Doocy y el mandatario no se transmitió por los canales de la Casa Blanca, pero sí por la televisión estadounidense C-SPAN. Minutos después de que circulara el vídeo por las redes sociales, los tertulianos de Fox News se dedicaron a criticar la actitud del presidente.
Cuando el demócrata asumió el cargo de presidente dijo ante la prensa: “No bromeo cuando digo esto: si alguna vez trabajas conmigo y te escucho tratar a otro colega faltándole el respeto o siendo condescendiente, te prometo que te despediré al instante”. Biden llegó al Despacho Oval enarbolando la bandera del respeto y la unión tras cuatro años de una retórica incendiaria con Donald Trump.
No solo el tono diferencia a los dos mandatarios, también la relación con la prensa. A diferencia del republicano, Biden no suele responder demasiadas preguntas a los periodistas en las comparecencias. La semana pasada protagonizó su segunda rueda de prensa en solitario en un año desde que llegó a la Casa Blanca.
A pesar de que habla menos con la prensa que su predecesor, la relación es mejor. Durante la era Trump, este acusó a los medios de ser deshonestos y de minimizar intencionadamente sus logros. Las criticas apuntaban a las principales televisiones y medios escritos, salvo Fox News. La retórica contra la prensa resquebrajó la confianza de la ciudadanía conservadora al trabajo periodístico. En 2017, un 85% de votantes republicanos consideraba que los medios tenían un efecto negativo en EE UU frente al 68% de 2010, según una encuesta de Pew Research.
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