El sujeto según lo denunciado por varios internautas y posibles víctimas, suele llegar con billetes que estarían entre los $50 y $60 mil.
Todos supuestamente falsos.
Sobre quién es el sujeto al que acusan y señalan de haber cometido varias acciones similares en donde compra con billetes falsos no se tiene conocimiento alguno.
Pero aseguran que las autoridades en esta región del departamento ya tienen conocimiento y fue instaurada la denuncia respectiva.
Llevaba una carga de clorhidrato de cocaína, el ‘narcobus’ detectado en un punto de control en el Valle, salió de Pasto e iba a Cartagena.
Llevaba una carga de clorhidrato de cocaína, el ‘narcobus’ lo detectarton en un punto de control en el Valle.
Noticias Colombia.
Un autobus con varios viajeros, que pasaba por el kilómetro 74 entre Roldanillo y Zarzal, norte del Valle, fue detenido en un puesto de control y según la policía, al ver la actitud sospechosa del conductor y otras personas, hicieron una minuciosa inspección encontrando que llevaban las panelas de drogas con la marca de ‘El Rey’, otro narcobus.
En el bus que llevaba una excursión a Cartagena, habían camuflado la droga.
La incautación fue de 212 kilogramos de clorhidrato de cocaína.
La ruta, según la Policía del Valle, era: Pasto (salida) al parecer ya con la carga, pasando por el Valle y con destino a Cartagena. Desde la ‘ciudad amurallada’, se presume, sacarían la droga a Centroamérica.
Esta incautación se logró en la vía Media Canoa – La Virginia.
«Iban de excursión»
«Este vehículo tipo bus trasladaba un grupo de personas, que simulaban ir a una excusión a la ciudad de Cartagena», un ‘narcopaseo’, del que presumen, varias personas no sabían de la carga.
Según lo manifestado por varios pasajeros, algunos sí pagaron un total de $500.000 mil pesos con todo incluido por este viaje.
Como ha ocurrido en otras excursiones a Brasil, Ecuador o Perú, aquí también usaron la misma modalidad para el traslado de la droga.
En el procedimiento se logra la captura de dos personas, quienes eran los encargados del ‘narcobus’.
Los capturados, junto con el estupefaciente y vehículo incautado fueron presentados ante la autoridad competente, Fiscalía General de la Nación. Ambos quedaron con medida de aseguramiento en centro carcelario.
Esta carga, tendría un valor aproximado de 2 Millones de dólares en el mercado internacional.
Sobre ‘El Rey’, la marca que llevaban las panelas de droga, no se han revelado detalles pero no sería la primera carga que se ‘el cae’.
El ‘narcobus’ que la @Deval logró interceptar en el Km 74 en la la vía Media Canoa – La Virginia. Informan que los 212 kilogramos de clorhidrato de cocaína, había salido de Pasto e iban a Cartagena. El alucinógeno saldría del puerto del Caribe a Centroamérica. pic.twitter.com/DefxgLFAV3
El proyecto está direccionado en el beneficio de comunidades que no cuentan con recursos hídricos.
Noticias Nariño
Para favorecer a las familias vulnerables que cuentan con recursos hídricos, en Nariño se lanzó un proyecto para la obtención de agua limpia en comunidades donde el recurso es escaso.
Se trata de la iniciativa denominada El Manantial Suspendido en el Aire -MSA, es un proyecto que nace con el apoyo del Laboratorio del Centro de Innovación Social de Nariño -Cisna.
Para las autoridades, esto se constituye en un gran avance para la obtención del liquido regiones en donde se presenta escasez.
“Junto con el equipo de MSA, se lanzó el proyecto que busca beneficiar a las comunidades que no cuentan con recursos hídricos; proporcionando la transferencia de tecnología capaz de captar agua en las corrientes de aire húmedo”, señalaron.
Explicaron que de esta manera, bajo la tecnología innovadora de un atrapanieblas, se concentran diminutas partículas de agua en su entorno.
Esta es la maqueta del proyecto que se implementará en Nariño
“Esto genera una lluvia artificial interna que termina en el tanque recolector, que finalmente beneficiará a muchas familias en el territorio”.
Así mismo, indicaron que MSA surgió como un emprendimiento nariñense que se fortaleció en el CISNA y que quiere dar una solución real a las comunidades a través del atrapanieblas.
“Hemos brindado un espacio dentro del centro de innovación para que los ingenieros encargados de esta empresa tengan la oportunidad de experimentar; testear, esta tecnología y llevarla a las comunidades, mejorando el servicio y el abastecimiento del recurso hídrico», indicó el Subsecretario de Innovación del Departamento, Carlos Fernando Cadena
The data on the evolution of the pandemic in Spain gives this first day of February a bittersweet taste. While the 10 million infections are exceeded, there are sharp declines in cases, incidence and hospitalizations, but 408 deaths are estimated
Two women talk over coffee on a bench in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona. EFE/Marta Pérez/File
The cases of coronavirus have exceeded the barrier of 10 million, 10,039,126 exactly, more than 20 percent of the Spanish population, but with a number of infections in one day well below 100,000 and much lower than those of the last dates , 77,873.
Substantial drop in cumulative incidence
The accumulated incidence also drops considerably, 185 points in one day, and stands at 2,694. Since last Friday it has dropped almost 400 points.
By region, Andalusia is the first community to drop below 1,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in this sixth wave of SARS-CoV-2, with 952, while Catalonia is in the lead, with 4,674, but in decline.
The fall in the accumulated incidence is also observed by age groups, with those under 11 years of age in the first place (5,156) and the group between 60 and 69 years of age with the lowest figure (1,266).
Notable drop in hospital pressure
Another of the important indicators to gauge the evolution of the covid, hospital pressure, also drops significantly compared to yesterday.
Today the figure is 18,087 covid patients admitted to the plant, 14.5 percent of the total. Yesterday this data showed a balance of 18,735. They are 648 in a single day.
In the ucis today there are 2,054 (21.7%), while yesterday there were 2,107. A decrease of 53 people.
Revenues are substantially below discharges. 1,874 patients have been admitted due to covid but 2,524 have been discharged.
PCR positivity drops from 36.4% yesterday to 35.8% today.
Strong increase in deaths
The number of deaths is surprising, since it shows the highest number of deaths in the entire sixth wave in a single day.
Today’s data brings deaths from covid to 408, adding an official total since the pandemic began, almost two years ago, of 93,633.
Vaccines
Data from the Ministry of Health offers a total of 93,429,127 doses of vaccines delivered, 90,135,347 doses administered, and 38,289,398 people with a complete immunization schedule.
Start of vaccination of children aged between 9 and 11 years. EFE/Sergio G. Cañizares POOL
A former senior Afghan official says he has answered questions in a U.S. inquiry into allegations that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani took $150 million in cash with him when he abruptly left Kabul last year as the Taliban took control.
Hamdullah Mohib, who served as Ghani’s national security adviser, says he voluntarily met with John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), in December at his office in Arlington, Virginia, to answer questions about corruption in the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
“I also gave [SIGAR] my bank accounts and details of all my assets,” said Mohib, who left Afghanistan in the same plane with Ghani and stayed with him in Abu Dhabi for a while. He told VOA that he would continue to cooperate with SIGAR investigations.
The U.S. was the largest donor to the Afghan government until it collapsed, and SIGAR has been tasked by Congress to investigate allegations that Ghani took millions in cash as he fled Afghanistan last August.
“The fact that we’re looking at those allegations doesn’t mean that they’re true or not,” Sopko said at an Atlantic Council event last week.
In addition to the cash flight allegations, which were first reported by the Russian Embassy in Kabul, Sopko said his investigators were looking into several related issues. “Why did the government of Afghanistan fall so quickly? Why did the military collapse so quickly? What happened? All the weapons? What happened to all the money that we were sending right up to the end — money, fuel, things like that.”
SIGAR is expected to find answers to these questions and present a classified report to Congress in March or April this year. There will also be a public report which will be released later, Sopko said.
FILE – Hamdullah Mohib, who served national security adviser to former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaks at a meeting in an undated photo at an unidentified location. (Source – former Afghan government)
Ghani not interviewed
Fazel Fazly, another close aide to Ghani who fled with him in the same convoy and now lives in Sweden, told VOA the former Afghan president has not yet been interviewed by SIGAR. “I’ve been in touch with the president,” said Fazly, adding that he also had not yet received inquiries from SIGAR.
In a video message released three days after he left Afghanistan, Ghani strongly rejected the reports that he took cash with him, and later called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation into the matter.
Like Mohib, Fazly said he is willing to cooperate with SIGAR to prove he was not involved in any corruption, while at the same time admitting corruption infested all layers of the former Afghan government.
“It’s insane to say there was no corruption,” Fazly said. “We expect SIGAR to do objective, comprehensive and meaningful investigations to uncover the truth about corruption in Afghanistan.”
Mohib and Fazley, widely reported to be closer to Ghani than any other Afghan officials, both said allegations that Ghani fled with sacks of dollars were aimed at maligning the former Afghan president as a corrupt U.S. ally.
“Moscow’s relations with President Ghani were terrible and even some Central Asian leaders called him a Western imperialist,” Fazley said.
The Cash
Fazly and Mohib both said they were unaware ofthe existence of large volumes of cash in the Afghan Presidential Palace.
While Ghani’s predecessor, Hamid Karzai, confirmed that his office received bags of cash from the CIA and from the Iran government, Ghani said on multiple occasions that his office never received cash from the CIA or any other intelligence agency.
Ghani claims he had transferred his executive authority over state funds to a government committee and had no power over U.S. and NATO contracting processes for Afghan military funding, according to Mohib.
Others say the president did not need to personally receive the assistance funds in order to make use of them.
“There was money in the Afghanistan Bank,” said Sayed Ikram Afzali, director of a local corruption watchdog Integrity Watch Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Bank building — headquarters of the state-run central bank — is adjacent to the Presidential Palace compound in central Kabul where all funds, liquidities and highly valuable items were stored.
Fazel Fazly, another close aide to former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, speaks in an undated photo at an unidentified location, with a portrait of Ghani behind him. (Source – former Afghan government)
“Moving cash from the central bank to the palace was not a hard thing to do, especially when the governor of the bank was a Ghani henchman,” said Afzali, adding that Ghani had kept Ajmal Ahmady, a U.S. citizen, as governor of the central bank even after his nomination to the post was repeatedly rejected by parliament.
Ahmady, now a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School who leads a study group entitled “Afghanistan—What Happened & How to Engage the Taliban,” did not respond to an email inquiry.
“Corruption in Afghanistan did not take place only for one day, and we must not be solely fixated on what happened on August 15. Large amounts of money were taken out of Afghanistan for so many years and those involved in high-level corruption were not waiting until the last day of the republic to move physical currency out of the country,” Afzali said.
Accountability
From 2001 to the end of 2021, the U.S. spent more than $2 trillion on the Afghan war, including some $140 billion spent on development projects, according to the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs.
At least $15.5 billion of the U.S. development funds went to “waste, fraud and abuse,” SIGAR’s investigations have found.
“Systemic corruption perpetuated an implosion of the system in Afghanistan,” conceded Hamdullah Mohib.
Like others, Mohib said he was concerned that “truly corrupt” individuals who enriched themselves through the U.S.-bankrolled funding and contracting systems in Afghanistan now roam free in different parts of the world.
Since the fall of the Afghan government, tens of thousands of Afghans, among them former government officials and contractors, have sought refuge outside Afghanistan.
There are now growing calls, even by officials of the former Afghan government, for some sort of accountability by their own former colleagues.
“[Former government officials] must be held accountable and tried,” Naseer Ahmad Faiq, chargé d’affaires of Afghanistan’s mission at the United Nations, told a Security Council meeting last week. “It is not fair that 38 million people [in Afghanistan] are starving and mothers sell their children to survive but these corrupt former government officials live in luxurious houses and villas in different countries in Europe and the U.S.”
SIGAR’s investigations have led to criminal charges and trials of some individuals and companies, both U.S. and Afghan, in U.S. federal courts. It’s unclear whether SIGAR would press criminal charges against former Afghan officials, who were previously commended as U.S. partners, if found guilty of fraud and corruption.
“We’re looking at more people than President Ghani about taking money out of the country at the end,” John Sopko said in response to a VOA question.
The future of the Winter Olympics is under threat because of climate change, according to a new report from Britain’s Loughborough University.
The warning comes as Beijing prepares for the opening of the 2022 Games this week, the first time a city has hosted both the summer and winter events. It also will be the first Winter Olympics to use almost 100% artificial snow, with more than 100 snow generators and 300 snow-cannons working to cover the slopes.
Artificial snow
Zhangjiakou, which lies 200 kilometers northwest of Beijing, will host freestyle skiing and snowboarding, cross-country skiing and ski jumping. Despite the bitter cold – temperatures reached minus 17 degrees Celsius this week – it rarely snows.
Olympic site manager Jacques Fournier is in charge of the snow machines. “Here has no humidity, and it’s very dry, and there’s a lot of wind,” Fournier told Reuters. “So, in that kind of condition, the goal and the target is really to make the snow compact, and to prepare rapidly to not let it [be blown away] by the wind.”
Inherent dangers
Winter resorts have increasingly turned to artificial snow to make up for a lack of natural snowfall. However, a new report from Britain’s Loughborough University warns that athletes’ safety could be at risk.
“In sports like biathlon or cross-country skiing or any of the freestyle events where an athlete is flinging themself into the air flipping around and falling, you would want the surface to be a little softer. And the problem with artificial snow is that it’s about 70% ice, compared to natural snow which is about 30% ice. And so, the surface is much, much harder,” said report co-author Madeleine Orr, a sports ecologist at Loughborough University, in an interview with VOA.
Snow-melt
American snowboarder Taylor Gold is preparing for Beijing. During his first Winter Olympics, in the Russian resort of Sochi in 2014, he recalls the halfpipe melting.
“They were spraying some chemicals on it to try to get it to stay in shape. But if you go back and watch that event, it’s clear, it was really warm. It was not ideal for snowboarding,” Gold recently told Associated Press. “It makes me sad that we need so much man-made snow to sustain winter sports,” he added.
A worker shovels snow in preparation for freestyle ski and snowboard events at Genting Snow Park prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, Jan. 31, 2022.
American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn, who won three Olympic golds until her retirement in 2019, has trained and competed all over the world. She says snow is becoming harder to track down. “You go to South America, where we use to train every summer, August, September. They’ve had no snow for several years in a row, like none,” Vonn told the Associated Press.
Unsuitable climates
Critics say the climates of both Sochi and Beijing are unsuitable to host the Winter Olympics. But even high altitude, mountain ski resorts that have traditionally hosted the games are at risk because of climate change.
“The northeast of the U.S. for example, and eastern Canada – we are losing significant amounts of snow there,” says Orr. “And then in places like the Rockies and the [European] Alps, we just don’t have quite as much as we used to. So, the challenge moving forward is going to be where can we put these events. And with the Winter Olympics, we’re already kind of there.”
Environmental damage
Orr says artificial snow also causes environmental damage.
“When you put artificial snow in a place that doesn’t have any natural snow at all, like Beijing, you’re putting a whole lot of water into a place where that soil and those plants are not expecting it. And previous research has shown that that can be damaging to local wildlife.”
“But we also expect that when you’re creating that much snow, the energy usage is extraordinary. The amount of water is extraordinary. In this Olympics we’re expecting 49 million gallons [185 million liters] of water to be used – and that’s if things go well. So, if they have a few hot days and need to create a little bit of extra snow to make up and compensate for some melt during the games, we could see that number rise above 50 million gallons [189 million liters],” Orr told VOA.
Carbon-neutral Olympics
The Chinese organizers insist the games will be carbon neutral. All venues are expected to be powered by renewable energy. Ice rinks will use natural CO2 technology for cooling, instead of ozone-damaging hydrofluorocarbons. The organizers say the latest snow machines use 20% less water.
Some athletes prefer artificial snow. “The snow is actually amazing, the man-made stuff. I think because of how cold it is, you have to be really aggressive with how you ride, but you just have to adapt,” said Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, a downhill snowboarder competing for New Zealand at the Beijing Games.
Olympic organizers also will have to adapt. The Loughborough University report warns that by 2050, fewer than half of the resorts that have hosted the Winter Olympics until now will have viable snowfall.
As Beijing prepares for the opening of the Winter Olympics this week, scientists are warning that the future of the games is under threat – because of climate change. Henry Ridgwell reports. Producer: Marcus Harton
