The councilors of Montelíbano (Córdoba), Paul Duque, Manuel López and Anselmo Herrera spoke in relation to a video from the security cameras of the municipal council where they appear receiving money from Gabriel Street indicating that these are private businesses and that they have nothing to do with politics.
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They point out in a statement issued to the public that the video is from last February 17 and that it causes them concern and draws their attention that it is released a few days before an electoral process.
🚨#VIDEO The former mayor and councilor of Montelíbano (Córdoba), father of the current representative to the chamber of the Liberal party Andres Calle (who aspires again), was captured by the cameras of the municipal council distributing money to three councilors. For what is the money? pic.twitter.com/542hy5DLSS
“We will not lend ourselves to malicious interpretations and with political interest,” they say in the statement.
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Gabriel Calles is a former mayor and former councilor of Montelíbano, father of Andrés Calle, representative to the chamber for the Liberal Party.
Renowned merchants
They indicate that in addition to being council members, they are well-known merchants, professionals and entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector of Montelibano and the region.
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“In addition to the public service, we develop other licit and legal economic activities. That day it was agreed to receive the pending payment for a value of 8 million pesos, from a sale of cattle, a business that is usually carried out in cash, ”they say.the councilors in the statement.
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They affirm that everything was done without hiding anything, in front of the security cameras, in the presence of other councilors, employees and the public force itself, with all legality and transparency.
Francis Xavier Barrios Special for WEATHER sincelejo
There are more than 3 million Colombian households that are part of the program Solidarity Income and they are already receiving the payments corresponding to January and February 2022 for a value of $320,000.
However, to be a candidate for this subsidy, one of the most important aspects is to have the personal information updated in the Identification System for Potential Beneficiaries of Social Programs (Sisbén).
If you want to check if you are part of the Solidarity Income, the first thing you should do is enter the official page of the Department of Social Prosperity through this link: https://ingresosolidario.prosperidadsocial.gov.co/. It is important to have the ID at hand to fill in the fields that are requested. You can also check if you have drafts in process.
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-Click on the option ‘consult your Sisbén group‘, located at the top of the web page.
-At the bottom, enter your identification document number and click on the ‘consult’ option.
What does each group mean?
–Group A: extreme poverty (population with less capacity to generate income).
–B Group: moderate poverty (population with greater capacity to generate income than those in group A).
–Group C: vulnerable (population at risk of falling into poverty).
–Group D: non-poor, non-vulnerable population.
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According to the new Sisbén IV methodologythe classification is no longer done quantitatively, which means that there is no longer a score from 0 to 100 but a new classification that orders the population by groups: A, B, C and D, according to their ability to generate income and their living conditions.
In the village of Guachaca, rural area of Santa Marta, the children are receiving their classes in improvised classrooms in billiards and cockpits.
In this area, the available schools are small, quite deteriorated and do not offer the minimum conditions to accommodate the student population, which has grown considerably in recent years.
The community, desperate for the new generations to receive an academic education, adapted spaces that, although not adequate, allow children to meet to pursue their studies.
Emilse Giraldo, president of the Community Action Board of the district of Guachaca, assures that the maximum coverage of educational institutions has already been reached and that many children and adolescents have been left out.
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“In the case of the little ones, they have been attending classes that were adapted in public establishments for adults. Although it is not ideal, it is the only option we have for them to receive the educational service,” said the leader.
Here it is necessary to fix the current institutions and build a mega-school to meet the high demand
Giraldo called on the Mayor’s Office to provide study solutions to Guachaca, a territory that, as he describes, remains in oblivion by the rulers.
“Here we need to fix the current institutions and build a mega-school to meet the high demand. This is a great need that we have and I hope it will be met by the administration on duty”, expressed Emilse Giraldo.
The parents, although they are not satisfied that their children are teaching in a cockpit, end up accepting this temporary solution in the hope that the study conditions for the population will soon improve.
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“Although these rooms were improvised, we must bear in mind that previously they were a cockpit and a pool table, which could have bad effects on the health of my children,” said Neira Tarazona, a mother of a family.
For the inhabitants of Guachaca, it is not justified that in these two years of pandemic adjustments and maintenance have not been made to schools.
“All without exception are abandoned, and do not provide minimal guarantees to educational personnel,” said the president of the Action Board.
ROGER URIEL Special for WEATHER SANTA MARTA
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Everything is ready for the Colombian Women’s Soccer Team to receive its counterpart from Argentina, this Sunday, February 20 at 5 pm at the Pascual Guerrero stadium.
This friendly commitment will help coach Nelson Abadía to continue preparing the national team for the Copa América to be held in the country.
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Given the controversy unleashed by the fact that references who play in football abroad, such as Natalia Gaitán, Isabella Echeverri, Vanessa Córdoba and Yoreli Rincón, were not called, the ‘tricolor’ strategist assured that he has no vetoes with any player.
Catalina Usme, captain of the national team
The coach emphasized that his call is due more to “the moments of the players.”
“Of those that are mentioned that are not, we monitor them every eight days and we assess the moments to reach the Selection. What do I have to do to get to a selection? Well, keep doing what you have to do, play and show progress in local competitions.”added the strategist from Cali at a press conference prior to the commitment against the Argentines.
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The Colombian team will count among its ranks with its captain Catalina Usme, who considers that “wearing this shirt is a pride, a satisfaction.”
“Putting on this shirt is going to be important and even more so when we are in our country,” added the attacker.
We already have the grass in perfect condition, consolidating this field as the most important stadium in Colombia.
On the state of the grass and its current color, the Secretary of Sports and Recreation, Carlos Diago, indicated that it is an issue on which his district unit has worked continuously.
“We continue to improve every day, I think we have to constantly adapt the scenarios, we continue to do the treatment, but we already have the grass in perfect condition, consolidating this field as the most important stadium in Colombia,” Diago said.
Regarding admission to the sports scene, the official stressed that children from two years of age can attend.
The ticket office for the meeting can be purchased in person at the points of Gane, Super Giros and W Arena.
To enter the stadium, you must take into account that it will be essential to carry the vaccination card against Covid-19, except for children, who are not yet scheduled to receive immunization.
Ticket prices: Western 1: $40,000 Western 2: 50,000 Western 3: $45,000 Eastern 1: $30,000 Oriental 2: $35,000 North: $20,000 South: $15,000.
Cali wants to be the home of the Colombian Women’s National Team
One of the commitments of the District Administration is to consolidate Cali as the home of the Colombian Women’s National Team.
That is why different strategies and actions have been promoted that have led to the visit of three selected South Americans to the city and Valle del Cauca.
Colombia’s goal celebration.
Women’s team goal celebration.
Photo:
Santiago Saldarriaga / ELTIEMPO
The players of the Colombian National Team have advanced their preparation in Cali
“We from the Mayor’s Office of Cali continue betting on women in sports, that’s why since last year we have done the task of consolidating Cali as the headquarters of women’s soccer. In 2021, two games were held with Chile and two with Uruguay, this Sunday, February 20, we have a commitment to Argentina”, said the Secretary of Sports and Recreation, Carlos Diago.
We have one of the best stadiums in the country, 900 meters above sea level, a warm temperature, a space where you can play football without any setbacks
Meanwhile, the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, highlighted some of the qualities of the city that he considers key to being the home of the team.
“We have one of the best stadiums in the country, 900 meters above sea level, a warm temperature, a space where soccer can be played without setbacks, that’s why it always encourages soccer matches to be played,” said Ospina Gómez. . But his purpose is also to have the men’s team.
“They know that it should circulate throughout Colombian society and they should think that it should not only be in Barranquilla, because it belongs to all Colombians,” said the president.
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Six African countries – Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia – will receive the technology to produce their own messenger RNA vaccines, a key step in ending the global inequality in COVID vaccination.
A person protests in Cape Town (South Africa) for equal access to vaccines against covid. EFE/EPA/NIC BOTHMA
The Director General of the World Health Organization (who), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusannounced the names of the six beneficiary countries of this initiative on vaccines in the framework of the European Union (EU)-Africa summit held in Brussels, and in the presence of the presidents of those nations, in addition to the French Emmanuel Macron and the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
“They will be vaccines designed by Africa, owned by Africa, and with African leadership,” said Von der Leyen, who stressed that the EU, France and Germany have supported the project that has made this advance possible with an investment of 40 million euros. .
The initiative took its first steps last year with the creation of a research center on messenger RNA technology in Cape Town (South Africa), in which not only the EU, France and Germany have collaborated, but also Belgium, Norway and Canada.
Its goal was to develop its own mRNA technology, a new field for vaccine design that has achieved the most effective in the current COVID-19 pandemic: the drugs developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech were based on it, and showed the rates higher effectiveness against the coronavirus.
mRNA vaccines differ from traditional ones (normally based on weakened forms of the virus) in that they introduce ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that by themselves contain instructions with which the human body can produce the virus and at the same time the antibody that neutralize.
First African anticovid vaccine
The Cape Town center, which Tedros visited last week, has already managed to develop an anticovid vaccine similar to Moderna’s in the laboratory, although there is still a long way to go: clinical trials will begin this year, and even if they are developed with success may have to wait until 2024 for it to be available.
The center is run by a consortium that includes the South African vaccine manufacturer Biovac, the firm Afrigen Biologics (which developed the necessary technology) and the South African Medical Research Council.
The necessary training to develop the vaccine production centers in the six selected countries will begin in March, and although the fight against COVID-19 will surely be its first priority, the longer-term objective is to combat other diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis or AIDS.
Von der Leyen highlighted in this regard that currently only 1% of the vaccines administered in Africa are produced on the continent, but that with initiatives such as the current one, it is hoped that by 2040 that percentage will rise to 60%.
“It is not acceptable that Africa is always at the bottom of access to vaccines. We appreciate the donations, but they are not sustainable solutions and we want to empower ourselves », she added at the ceremony South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Queue to get vaccinated in Johannesburg (South Africa). EFE/EPA/Kim Ludbrook
Vaccines in Africa: only 20% immunized
Although more than 10,000 million anticovid vaccines have already been administered in the world, with which more than 60% of the global population has received at least one dose, the distribution is very unequal.
While developed countries have very high vaccination rates and many of their citizens have even received booster injections, in Africa 80% of the population has not received a single dose.
“We have many tools to combat COVID-19, the great tragedy has been that millions of people have not yet benefited from them,” lamented Tedros, who recalled that 116 countries in the world are still far from achieving the great goal of achieving by mid-2022 that 70% of its population is vaccinated.
Although today’s announcement is important, Ramaphosa recalled that there are other ways to fight inequality in the pandemic, such as the suspension of vaccine and treatment patents that his country and India have been defending since 2020 before the World Trade Organization (WTO). .
Dozens of countries have joined the Indo-South African request, but an agreement has not yet been reached due to the reluctance of countries that are the headquarters of large pharmaceutical companies, as is the case of many in the European Union, Japan or Switzerland.
“With today’s initiative we limit the benefits of companies but at the same time we protect the precious asset that is intellectual property, we have to find a bridge between both things,” said Von der Leyen
MSF values the decision but asks for greater involvement of Moderna
Doctors Without Borders appreciates the WHO’s decision but urges Moderna to help the Cape Town center to shorten production times and recalls that its vaccine was financed with public funds.
According Kate Stegeman, MSF Access Campaign Advocacy Coordinator For the Africa region, “This announcement marks a positive milestone on the path to expanding vaccine manufacturing capacity in low- and middle-income countries.”
In a statement, MSF highlights that the center’s research and development partner, the South African company Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, has recently succeeded in producing microliter batches of an mRNA vaccine based on the publicly available sequence of the vaccine from the American pharmaceutical corporation Moderna. .
“And it has succeeded despite the lack of help from Moderna even though its vaccine has been financed, to a large extent, with public funds. The timeframe for the center to produce a final mRNA vaccine and eventual technology transfer to manufacturers is considerable, but could be shortened significantly if Moderna were to provide technical assistance to the center.”
The medical organization believes that many more advances are needed, such as developing a more heat-stable version, conducting clinical trials, and developing a large-scale manufacturing process. Thus, MSF urges Modernawhose vaccine is the most similar to the one designed by Afigen, to provide technical assistance to the center to shorten production lead timesNo of the vaccine.
“Although the hub is certainly an important initiative now and for future pandemic responses, the fastest way to start vaccine production in African countries and other regions with limited vaccine production remains the full and transparent transfer of vaccine know-how from already approved mRNA technologies to companies with existing capacity that can be retrofitted to produce mRNA vaccines,’ he says.
Afghanistan’s hardline Islamic rulers say they plan to “reconsider” their policy towards the United States if the administration of President Joe Biden refuses to return the full $7 billion in assets that have been frozen in the United States.
President Biden issued an executive order last Friday calling on banks to set aside $3.5 billion of the frozen assets in a trust fund slated for humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan. The remaining $3.5 billion would stay in the United States to finance payments from lawsuits by U.S. victims of terrorism, specifically the September 11, 2001 attacks on Washington, D.C. and New York City, that are still working their way through the courts.
A spokesman for the Taliban issued a statement Monday saying the September 11 attacks “had nothing to do with Afghanistan.” The spokesman said if the United States “does not deviate from its position and continues its provocative actions, the Islamic Emirate will also be forced to reconsider its policy towards the country,” referring to Afghanistan’s official name.
FILE – Taliban officials walk down a hotel lobby during talks in Doha, Qatar, Aug. 12, 2021. The Taliban and the United States ended two days of meetings in Qatar on Nov. 30, 2021.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan at the time of September 11 attacks, and harbored Osama bin Laden, the head of the al Qaida terrorist network and mastermind of the U.S. attacks. A U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan weeks after the attacks overthrew the Taliban after they refused Washington’s demands to surrender bin Laden.
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August ended the nearly 20-year war, but the United Nations and other international relief groups say Afghanistan faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, which stems from more than four decades of conflict and natural calamities.
More than half of the country’s poverty-stricken population, or an estimated 24 million Afghans, face an acute food shortage and some one million children under five years of age could die from hunger by the end of this year, according to U.N. estimates following the U.S. withdrawal from the country.
Some information for this report came from Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
Arturo Creus, who witnessed the accident in which the businessman Enrique Vives Caballero ran over seven people and left six of them dead, assures that his life is in chaos since he decided to serve as a witness before the authorities.
He regrets that Governor Carlos Caicedo has not complied with the reward he promised him to deliver his testimony that would clarify what happened the morning of the sinister road in the Gaira sector.
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According to Creus, at first he did not want to talk about what happened, because of the risk that it could mean referring to a case that had taken on a national connotation and that involved a member of a powerful family in the region.
However, due to a call he received directly from Governor Carlos Caicedo, he decided to change his mind and collaborate with his statement.
“On September 15, the governor called me and summoned me to a meeting in his office. I didn’t even know that there was a reward, but there they offered me $25 million and support… that’s why I dared to speak,” Creus said.
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The witness stated that with the accompaniment of the departmental administration he went to the Prosecutor’s Office and delivered his statement.
“Now they tell me that I went alone and voluntarily to talk about what happened,” he said.
judicial instances to receive the money
They wanted to put me in an apartment and take me food there, but not to go out on the street at all. I felt like a prisoner, so I didn’t accept
Arturo Creus says that since he served as a witness he has been ignored by the government of Magdalena.
“They wanted to put me in an apartment and take me food there, but not to go out on the street at all. I felt like a prisoner, so I did not accept, “said the witness.
The only request that Creus has kept since then is that they fulfill the reward they promised him to leave the city.
“I am scared. I live in fear of going out because I think they will hurt me; that they are going to kill me The only thing I want is to go to another place, but I need the money they promised me”, Creus pointed out.
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Despite the fact that Antonio Creus has even attended the judicial instances to receive the money he was promised, so far his request has been denied.
The reward claimed by Arturo Creus, as a witness to the accident involving businessman Enrique Vives Caballero, would be about to fall and could end up empty-handed.
The foregoing after the Fifth Civil Court of Santa Marta denied the tutela action filed by Creus through which he intended to be paid the sum of $25 million.
The ruling of the court determined: “Declare the lack of object due to fact overcome within the tutela action promoted by Mr. Arturo Creus Maestre, acting on his own behalf, against the Government of Magdalena, taking into account the preceding considerations.”
What the government says
The head of the legal office of the Government, José Humberto Torres, said that there is currently no direct agreement with Arturo Creus.
“The Prosecutor’s Office heard his version and it must be assessed at a trial stage,” said Torres, who clarified that at no time has the government refused to pay the reward, but it must be distributed among the people who have collaborated to clarify the facts. .
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“The Government maintains the payment but it depends on the evaluation and assessment made by the Prosecutor’s Office,” reported Torres.
He also pointed out that Creus was proposed to enter a witness protection program; however, he refused, insisting that he was only interested in receiving the money.
The case would now be transferred to the Constitutional Court for eventual review and definition of whether or not the payment required by the petitioner should be made.
By Roger Urieles For THE WEATHER Santa Marta @rogeruv
Seven predominately Black schools in Washington were evacuated over bomb threats Wednesday and later cleared, including a high school that was threatened a day earlier during a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, authorities said.
The District of Columbia Police Department said four public high schools and three charter schools had received threats.
Washington police later declared Dunbar High School, where Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, was rushed to safety after Tuesday’s bomb threat, and the others “cleared with no hazardous material found.”
Authorities have not indicated a connection to race in the spate of bomb threats, and police said Tuesday’s incident did not appear targeted at Emhoff, who was visiting Dunbar for a Black History Month event.
But the incidents have further raised fears among Black communities already rattled by a series of bomb threats made last week to at least a dozen historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, nationwide.
“Americans have a right to be safe at work, in houses of worship and at school,” Harris said in a statement. “We must stand up against any threat of violence in our communities.”
No explosives were found at any of the HBCUs, but the threats are being investigated by the FBI. Washington police say they are investigating this week’s threats to Dunbar, considered the first high school for Black Americans in the United States, and the other schools.
“These are troublesome incidents that we take very seriously,” D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee said, adding the school system “will continue to offer support to our school communities while the (police) investigations are ongoing.”
