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UN News
"jimmy morales" Discussed on UN News
"This is the news in brief from the United Nations. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres marked the first ever international day of zero waste on Thursday, saying that humanity is treating our planet like a garbage dump. The new international day aims to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns at a time when 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste is created every year and plastic is filling the oceans. We must declare war on waste, mister Guterres said, appealing to consumers to reuse and recycle whenever possible. He also called on those who produce waste to design products that use fewer resources and materials, echoing this call, fashion industry leader Ricardo Bellini, CEO of luxury brand Chloe, told us about his company's quest to reduce plastic pollution. We made the decision to stop all PVC use in our products one year ago. And we stopped it. On packaging, there is a lot of plastic and we have a target to get to zero. This is an industry routed in creative innovation. And such challenge requires innovations that we can play a big role from being part of the problem to actually become part of the solution. Mister Bellini spoke on the margins of a sustainable development forum organized by the UN economic commission for Europe, UN ECE, which brought together pioneers of ethical fashion. Retaliation against officials whose spearheaded the fight against corruption continues in Guatemala, the UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Turk said on Thursday. Mister Turk's warning comes amid the reported harassment and prosecution of justice officials involved with the UN backed international commission against impunity, including most recently, former commissioner Francisco de la nese, the UN rights chief called on the Guatemalan authorities to ensure judges and lawyers can function freely and without fear of reprisals, and independent judiciary is vital for a democratic society he insisted. The international commission against impunity was an independent body established by a UN Guatemala agreement in 2007 to carry out corruption probes. Its work ceased in September 2019 when its mandate was not renewed amid attacks by then president Jimmy Morales. Mister Turk also expressed concern about potential violations of the right to participate in public affairs as several presidential and vice presidential candidates have had their candidacies for the upcoming June elections rejected by the electoral court on seemingly arbitrary grounds, staying in Central America, UN appointed independent rights experts called on Honduras on Thursday to break the cycle of impunity on enforced disappearances, highlighting a lack of accountability for historic and more recent crimes. Wrapping up a visit to the country a delegation of the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances urged the Honduran government to reform legislation to tackle the problem, create a registry of victims to support search efforts and establish specialized units for the investigation and prosecution of the crime, holding material and intellectual perpetrators of enforced disappearance accountable is not only essential to fulfill the right of victims to justice, but is also key to guarantee non recurrence of this heinous crime the expert said, while Honduras history in the 1980s and 1990s was marked by state backed disappearances currently the disappearance of migrants is applied that heavily effects Honduras and the Central American region the experts said, urging the government to cooperate with regional efforts to end the scourge, Dominica mortimer, UN news
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"jimmy morales" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Consent from the communities. So we see. we've preoccupation. how the president. These reuniting with this land investors with these mining contractors a few months before a consolidation is going to be done in a star because the communities needs to give their opinion about the mining operation in the area so during the pandemic as i said the contras militarized there was a multiple violated. The shins where a lot of indigenous communities were spelled from their lands from their communities so suspicious this kind of meetings that the product is special prosecutor anti-corruption west investigating against the president when he was removed from his position so indigenous peoples. We're always been organized against exploitation of the land of defense of the water the fence of the territories. And because we're tired that this state that is a very well. Administrated by economical elites military and drug traffickers are just denying access for dignity life indignity so when the people says that indigenous communities are in lok into roads. We said no. We are mobilizing for a life indignity where we can have the political changes in the way that their country is organized because the ones that had been locate loking the road for devil open life indignity our crime elites that refuses to make changes in our coq dating melon state crenshaw nana's mac in guatemala city you are in congress for people outside guatemala the who may not be familiar with the term the pack though they could dose the corrupt pack talking about a group of business people political leaders. Well if you can describe what they are and their ascendancy now also particularly in congress and what it means for human rights all over guatemala. Yes the dose was very visible. When in congress there was an attempt to protect the president. Jimmy morales backing twenty seventeen and what we see is that this is the alignment of economic elite politicians. Even drug-traffickers here in guatemala has well have links to politicians We also see a public Authorities involved and what has happened is that they have taken over public institutions in order to protect themselves from justice guarantee And so they have taken basically a like. I said you know that the electoral court the supreme court of justice the constitutional court a. They're going after the human rights ombudsman And we see that they have also used the public institutions to pursue and independent judges political opposition journalists civil society leaders activists wave various actions. You know like smear campaigns pro factories threats harassment of criminal complaints or accusations and they are basically undermining the state government. they're using the state of the public institutions for their own benefits and they are basically undermining the democracy and the the justice system. So this is. What has the people fed up because we can no longer tolerate any more advanced of these groups. The pack of the corrupt. Let me ask andrea about the demands. The indigenous demands for guatemalan government to establish a pluri-national state. What does that mean. Well the mayan chinguetti for nine digital's authorities propose a road to a new political packed. Because we know that. It's not going to be easy way to be laurie. National poplar assembly at constitutional awesomely. Because it's really important in it's really arjun to transform from the roots the political pact that has denied the very existence of indigenous authorities are ways of leaving in the ways that we have ministration glance so we are saying that that needs to change that we need a country where the people can leave and dignity and respect and that means down and speaking with the politicians sitting down and speaking with the people organized over what the mullahs. So we know that it's going to be a path. It's going to be a long way to go to. But also it's an origin thing that we need to keep doing and her hus- then crisis relieve in the conditions that we live in our ugly and lucretia mac. And this last minute. You're the first woman minister of health of guatemala. Before you became a congress member described the kovic situation right now. What we're seeing right. Now is the overlapping of the political crisis with the economic crisis and the health crisis and the health crisis is not only a problem with the vaccine so with the vaccination like you said we have less than two percent of our population vaccinated but right now we are into third wave so we are seeing record figures of cases on this From kobe nineteen and right now. Hospitals public and private argest pooled their saturated they. The health workers are just burned out. And that's why we also so health workers yesterday participating and joining us reporting the national strike. So we are and the government is very reluctant resisting to take measures in order to control endemic. Well i want to thank you both for being with us. We'll continue to follow the situation. Luke esa non does mac member of the guatemalan congress first woman health minister of guatemala before she was a congress member and andrea shoe my tice leader journalists and human rights defender joining us from western. Guatemala i'm amy goodman thanks so much for joining us stay safe..
Rush Limbaugh
Miami Beach votes to reopen beach, hotels June 1. Miami-Dade expects to do the same
"Date Miami beach commissioners giving the A. okay to reopen beaches and hotels June first the target he comes two weeks after retail stores and museums resumed operations five days after restaurants re open in the city city manager Jimmy Morales is beach goers will not likely be required to wear masks that we sort of go back to the normal operation out there just would be a social distancing and the large groups rules are in place consistent with RCC guidelines for the re opening of Miami beach beaches is expected to trigger a chain reaction of coastal cities re opening there is as well I'm Dave mayor Carlos Jimenez is meeting with those mayors today to discuss a consensus
The Sean Hannity Show
Miami-Dade cities plan to reopen businesses and parks
"One don't expect to get dinner reservations on South Beach during Memorial Day weekend I mean days mayor is ready to open parts of the county on Monday which is expected to include dining at restaurants with limits but Miami beach wants to hold back a bit we think restaurants are more complicated one yourselves another week to do that city manager Jimmy Morales and just re opening its more than eight hundred fifty restaurants and sidewalk cafes on may twenty seventh with potentially additional outdoor seating Wednesday three openings would include more than seven hundred and fifty retail and personal service businesses
KQED Radio Show
Guatemala City, President And Jimmy Morales discussed on KQED Radio Show
"Protesters import into the streets of Guatemala City to oppose the new asylum agreement between Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales and president trump Maria Martin reports how testers be drums and shouted Jimmy moralists you've sold out our country somewhat the mother the Fishel's filed an injunction against the asylum agreement one protester said more on this is offering something he can't even offer to his own people safety work justice food and shelter but the influential business community feared sanctions against exports and fees on the remittances that make up twelve percent of the country's
BBC World Service
Top contenders for president in Guatemala election
"Them. Marla in Central America is going to the polls today to elect a new president, the incumbent, Jimmy Morales has come to the end of his single term in power and he's not allowed to have another one. The main issue in the election is political corruption. But with many candidates being barred from standing during the election campaign, how chaotic has the whole process. Become sandra. Cuff is a freelance journalist covering Central America. Yes. Absolutely has been this year, had a shorter campaign, period, than usual, three months, and many of these candidates were barred during the campaign, period. One is recently within the past two weeks. What has a lot of political parties. There's a field now of nineteen presidential candidates, and there's also elections for congress and local officials will be happening. So within those nineteen candidates, there's a clear front runner, Sandra. Tortoise from the centrist named party? But. Heard closest top two rivals were both barred from the race. So that was sort of who was barred because she's the daughter of a coup leader, and former dictator, general Mon, who stood trial for genocide, and the constitution bars, who leaders, and their close relatives from running for president the other who has been, you know, a much more sort of contentious. Exclusion from the race is Tele, Donna. She's a former attorney general and she worked really closely with a UN backed emission against corruption. So a lot of what's been going on has been tied to government corruption investigations, into government corruption, which included investigations into the sitting president, you mean what Alice and the leading candidate? Sandra toyotas. So. Yeah, it is definitely being sure mayhem over the past three months of this campaign period. Incumbent Jimmy Morales Constand again. Kenny. No, the constitution curl hits reelection. In guatemala. A lot of Latin American countries due to the twentieth century history of really long dictatorships civil war. Guatemala had thirty six year civil war to two hundred thousand people killed most of them civilians by the army most indigenous so constitution prohibits reelection and actually, the ruling party candidate isn't polling anywhere near the top. So in this field of now just nineteen because five candidates were excluded the top two. This Sunday will go on to a runoff election in August. The US will be very keen to see the kind of government, establish that encourages stability because there are so many migrants at the moment, heading from Guatemala to the US under definitely the number one country origin, currently for my grandson asylum, seekers apprehended at the US border. And so the issue. Of migration, though, has actually not been a major issue in this election campaign in Guatemala, and part about is because all debates around policies and platforms have just been in the shadows, because there's been so much chaos in terms of legal battles over the candidates. I'm however, you know, the main candidates do each have different policy proposals, or, you know, at least statements in terms of how they would deal with my Gration and those gift for widely. There's sort of a broad spectrum, and they range from, you know, increasing rural aid for small farmers, health and education, all the way to proposing asking the US to establish military bases along the border between Mexico and really wide range of proposals that are on the table. In terms of what the candidates are saying, they'll do to try to stem migration, a living standards that bad in Guatemala, an incredibly high level of inequality in the mall. Atlanta and all increment of policy seventy percent of the population. Nearly seventy percent work in the informal economy. There aren't jobs. Also climate change is really affecting subsistence, farmers. There's also high levels of violence. So yes, conditions really are that bad, causing people to flee. And, you know, a lot of people and migrants and asylum-seekers themselves refer to the role that corruption has played in that because, you know, it has taken away from potential government aid and policies that would go to sort of alleviating or address the root causes of all of this migration son recover putting on Guatemala via slightly dodgy line sorry about that. Brian is Central America case in point when it comes to the loss of democracy. I mean, it's what it's emblematic of is the fact that there's a lot of there's more elections than ever before in the world. More countries are holding elections. But the quality of those elections is not particularly high in many places that are rife with corruption, and violence because people don't have confidence in the election system in places like that and be, it's very easy to get away with manipulating the election. Particularly winced ability is one of the key drivers of foreign responses to election. So in a place like Wata Malla, the US will be most interested in the election, creating continuity stability security. And so a lot of times you end up having people who will rubber stamp, or praising election. That's poor-quality simply because it is going to deliver the types of things that foreign governments in the west want. And that's that's I think something that ends up facilitating or sort of allowing poor-quality elections to
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Truck on Guatemala Highway Hits Crowd, Killing at Least 30
"A large truck slammed into a crowd gathered on a dark highway in western Guatemala last night, killing at least thirty people local fire department officials say people had apparently gathered on the highway to inspect a person who had been killed in separate accident when the semi trailer plowed into them Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales says his government will coordinate aid to the
All Things Considered
Rapper Mac Miller has died at age 26
"Rapper MAC Miller died yesterday at the age of twenty six. The Los Angeles County coroner's office says an autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death. As NPR's, Justin. Richmond reports the entertainer scored five top ten releases on the billboard album chart and was supposed to start a tour next month. Mac. Miller's best known to the general public force former relationship with personal musical with pop star Ariana GRANDE. One
All Things Considered
Guatemala president nixes renewal for UN anti-graft body
"War, games that will include China and thirty musicians come together to create the album big. Red machine and. We'll take a listen after news headlines Live from NPR news in Washington I'm Jack Speer. The US and Canada were not able to reach a trade agreement in, time for a deadline today but as NPR's chamber Keith explains talks will continue with candidate as well as Mexico the deadline trade negotiators. Were trying to hit was always a. Bit squishy the White House wanted to send notice to congress. Of a new North American trade deal now because congress needs ninety days to review any agreement and Mexico's current, president is leaving office soon and while the US was able to come to an understanding with Mexico there has
Arizona's Morning News
Trump administration to use review panel to curb China tech investments
"Morning jennifer kushinka is here with more of america's first news put in foster care advocates say the governments won't likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who've crossed the border illegally and some will end up in foster care system that's already stacked against latinos and other minorities it'll be a challenge to track down family members of the children who live south of the us mexico border and other relatives living in the states might be afraid to step forward to claim them because of fears of being detained or deported themselves meanwhile guatemalan officials say migrants from their country to the us should receive temporary protection from deportation because of recent deadly volcanic eruptions guatemalan president jimmy morales says he has petitioning the us for temporary protected status for his country's migrants the volcanic eruptions earlier this month killed at least one hundred twelve people and left hundreds more displaced or missing global stock markets sank amid simmering worries over u s china trade tensions after the wall street journal and bloomberg reported that the trump administration plans to impose curbs on chinese investment in us tech companies and high tech exports to china the dow industrials skit at three hundred twenty eight yesterday while the tech heavy nasdaq plummeted one hundred sixty one at a rally in south carolina last night trump defended his trade stance slices again as long as i can but we gotta get some balance and it doesn't have to be perfect but there's gotta be some fairness you know i'm a believer in free trade but i'm really a believer in fair trade this is this is ridiculous the market was also hurt by news at harley davidson would be shifting some us operations overseas to offset european tariffs about a dozen navy seal divers and other rescuers have re entered a cave in northern thailand search for twelve boys and their soccer coach who have been stranded three nights by flooding even the rain has been falling since monday night the first two chambers inside the cave or dry a power line was extended into the cave to provide light and help divers communicate with those inside the.
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1 dead, several injured in shooting at New Jersey festival
"Thousands left homeless precedent jimmy morales says the projected cost to deal with damages from the volcano stance at some seventy million dollars for npr news i'm maria martin in antigua guatemala this is npr this is wnyc in new york i'm lance lucky as you've been hearing on wnyc authorities say one suspect is dead and another is in police custody after gunfire erupted at an all night arts festival in trenton at least twenty two people were injured trenton resident urban higginbotham told whyy he was looking at an exhibit when shots rang out at about two forty five am all of a sudden right like that hey realized shocked on the ground another shot how and then i seem to blood leaking down my leg others were injured as they scrambled for the exits mercer county prosecutor angelo enough recess seventeen people were treated for gunshot wounds including a thirteen year old boy who was in critical condition enough offering says a neighborhood beef was behind the shooting local congressional democrats chose father's day to conduct an unannounced inspection of a federal detention facility in new jersey they wanted to speak with asylum seekers who have been separated from their children speaking outside the facility in elizabeth new jersey congressman frank pallone said one detainee had heard that his daughter is now in michigan but can't be sure he described how the man's five year old daughter was taken away while he was sleeping and three forty three way immigration and customs enforcement has not yet responded to a request for comment pallone and six other members of congress were joined by immigrant and civil rights groups calling for an end to the trump administration's immigration policy of separating children from their parents eighty eight degrees now in air quality alert remains in effect until eleven pm sunny ninety two tomorrow wnyc support for npr comes from the walton family foundation where opportunity takes root more information is available at walton family foundation dot org.