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The video of the defense of Cristiano: the former law firm of Montoro lashes out against the Treasury

February 11, 2018 0
The video of the defense of Cristiano: the former law firm of Montoro lashes out against the Treasury


The office founded by the Minister of Economy and Finance Cristóbal Montoro has defended Cristiano Ronaldo before the judge of Pozuelo de Alarcón, who keeps him charged for four fiscal offenses. The prosecutor Manuel de Vicente-Tutor, fiscal and partner of Equipo Económico, appeared as a witness on January 26 and refuted harshly the arguments used by the Tax Agency to attribute to the Real Madrid striker a tax fraud of 14.7 million euros In his appearance, to which EL MUNDO has had access, De Vicente-Tutor accused the Treasury of doing "interpretive engineering" to accuse Ronaldo to the point of ensuring that the treasury "has debuted" in the case of the soccer player "with a new interpretation. " Likewise, he resorted to the manuals of international taxation of the person in charge of this unit in the Tax Agency to defend that in the Ronaldo case the interpretation contrary to that maintained by Néstor Carmona in his books is being used. According to the expert hired by the Portuguese striker, Ronaldo's tax debate does not constitute criminal matters but a mere administrative discrepancy and argues that the player never intended to defraud taxes. Not even the deviation of the image rights of the player to a company based in the British Virgin Islands constitutes, in his opinion, a proof of opacity, as the Treasury maintains. "It is a cooperative territory at the same level as the United States and companies such as Telefónica use companies in the British Virgin Islands," he said. De Vicente-Tutor also insisted on continuously referring to Ronaldo as "Mr. Dos Santos to see if he is treated like the others" and alluded to that the Treasury in his case has starred in a "jump in the vacuum" from the point of view of the application of tax regulations. Finally, he stressed that in this case "there is no report from the Legal Service of the Tax Agency" despite the fact that "this report can not be dispensed with". Failing that, he stressed, there is simply an office for remitting the complaint, which was not developed and explained by the finance lawyers as they usually do in other cases.

Fact: The first woman to break the taboo

February 11, 2018 0
Fact: The first woman to break the taboo
The first to break the taboo was Kim Hak-soon, in 1991. Of Chinese origin, she was captured when she was 15 years old by Japanese troops in Beijing and forced to prostitute herself in military brothels in Andong, Beijing and Chulbyuk-jin before being released after the Japanese defeat, in 1946. Like many other 'comfort women' -the euphemism used for decades-, Kim was condemned to poverty: there were few who got married after the war, fearful that their partners knew their past , and the majority was condemned to infertility by the injuries produced by 10 hours of daily prostitution, in many cases. In 1990, when democracy loomed over Korea, ending decades of military dictatorship, it decided to reveal its terrifying past, awakening a society that until then had ignored the fate of its women during the war. According to some historians, the phenomenon of 'women of comfort' could amount to the Holocaust in terms of prostitution and rape in times of war : sexual violence on an industrial scale, organized and regulated, with the female collective as the sole recipient of torture, confinement and sexual brutalization.



The Japanese command authorized the system to minimize violations on the battlefield -which generated resentment towards the occupiers- and to avoid sexually transmitted diseases, but due to the lack of prostitutes, women with promises of employment in factories were attracted, paying their relatives or even kidnapping them. The identity of the slaves was canceled: they were assigned a Japanese name that was written on the tablets, at the entrance of each brothel . The uniformed ones chose a name and paid to those who ran the brothel - often military, sometimes sympathetic - to have sex with them. Some survivors reported that they could have 30 contacts per day. In the mornings it was the turn of the soldiers, in the afternoon the officers. "They provided them with passports and identity cards to move them through their colonies in convoys and military ships, they were part of the military inventory, perishable goods," explains the director of the House of Share, Ahn Shinkwon. They passed from one base to another as long as the military doctors considered them suitable: otherwise, they were usually executed. An estimated 40% of them committed suicide after the Second World War, lost and traumatized in strange lands when the Japanese left the bases, unable to return to their places of origin. Lee Ok-sun was captured with 18 years and taken to a Japanese airfield in Yenji (China) where she was raped by soldiers. From there she was displaced to other military brothels: after the war, she stayed in China until June 2001, the House of Sharing located and repatriated her to Korea to house her in the residence. Today, the old lady is an icon of women's comfort struggle. He receives in the residence with an unthinkable vitality for his 92 years of age: at his side, the combative Kang Il-chul, with 91 years, recites his claims before a group of local politicians. Beside her is Park Ok-sun, 95, forced to prostitute herself for four years: she did not return to Korea until 2001. In total, nine survivors live in the residence. "Of the 239 survivors who made themselves known, about 50 have passed through our refuge," continues the director. According to Shinkwon, only about 30 victims returned to Korea after the war. "Many died without knowing how to return, others committed suicide or were killed, there are testimonies of forced suicides and, above all, of terrible travel conditions: of the 36 comrades of the barracks of Park Ok-ryun, only two survived the hardships of the return "



Once back, in the context of the Korean War and the dictatorship, denouncing its past only amounted to social stigma. "The majority died in indignity and poverty, a good part remained in their host countries, they suffered the double misfortune of being forced into the sex industry, subjected to the most atrocious hardships and then abandoned to their fate. terrified thinking that if someone knew their past, they would be abandoned again, repudiated by society, "continues Dudden. In 1991, the courage of Kim Hak-soon led many others to denounce in a demonstration that, in its origins, was only frequented by victims, putting an end to half a century of silence protected by the North American protection to Japan, which caused that Tokyo He was embroiled in his denial of History. In the last 26 years, the protest has been held every week : Yoon Mi-hyang herself has been attending for 14 years. "The government should have started the agreement required by the grandmothers, not one more comma or less, as it is worded, it must be invalidated," he says. The demands of the 'halmoni' can be read on the butterfly-shaped banners that raise the schoolchildren in the demonstration; "Official apology." "Legal Compensation"; "Let's raise monuments to your memory"; "Let the truth be known"; "That war crimes be admitted"; "That those responsible be punished"; "Let it be written in textbooks." "Our intention is also to raise awareness about a problem that continues to affect the whole world, the systematic abuse of women in times of war, grandmothers are so old that they can not come, so it's only fair that we continue to come in their name. "explains Yoon. "At the beginning there were only victims, the type of attendees changed over time, as consciousness spread, only students began to come from 2015, before the problem was known, but we must accept our history to create a future best". The historical memory seems guaranteed by the youngest protesters. A girl of no more than 12 years carries a banner with the motto "let's give pride and human rights back to grandmothers". Another holds another card where it can be read: "Japan must apologize". "We can not stand it, we want to apologize now," they shout from the podium, chanted by the audience, the school children who have taken turns speaking.

Since the grandmothers denounced the violations, the dispute has poisoned relations between Tokyo and Seoul. Japan considers them simple prostitutes who charged for their services. "After the first protests, the Japanese government published the Kono Declaration in 1993, where it accepted responsibility, apologized and promised to include the matter in its history books, but no compensation was provided," explains Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki, from the National University of Australia, by 'email'. "In 1995, a fund was created that was funded by private donations, not by government money: some former 'comfort women' in Korea felt that this reflected the inability of the Japanese state to take responsibility, and what is worse, a setback arose at that time. A violent reaction, which tried to prevent the 'comfort women' from being named in the lessons of Japanese history.A key figure in this movement was Shinzo Abe.As Prime Minister, Abe has not been able to rescind the 1993 Kono Declaration, because this would cause a diplomatic problem with South Korea and the United States, but it has done everything in its power to undermine its credibility in the eyes of the Japanese public. " For Morris, the background of the problem is that Japan denies a documented reality. "The position of Abe's government is that there are no official documents showing that 'comfort women' were forcibly recruited, which is historically completely misleading, although very few survived the war, there are official Japanese documents suggesting the possibility of forced recruitment, and there is a great deal of other historical evidence (testimonies of victims, testimonies of eyewitnesses, including allied prisoners of war, sworn testimony of court cases, etc.) that show that tens of thousands of women were recruited for the 'comfort women' system by various methods, including deception, threats and force, and the agreement signed in 2015 did nothing to prevent Japan from continuing to deny what happened, which is why it is rejected by most of the South Koreans. "

According to the surveys, 75% consider that the dispute has not been closed; 53% of Japanese share that opinion. For those responsible for the House of Sharing, part of the problem lies in the historic protectionism of the United States to Japan and in the emergence of a Japanese revisionist right, capable of reclaiming the imperial past and defending the war criminals, protected by Abe. "When groups of Japanese students announce on social networks that they intend to visit us, the campaign of the rightists is so aggressive that they are often forced to cancel the trip," Shinkwon explains. "Individually, many accept what happened but at the governmental level, the reality of sexual slavery is denied."

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Government and opposition of Venezuela return to a dialogue table in R. Dominicana

January 28, 2018 0
Government and opposition of Venezuela return to a dialogue table in R. Dominicana






The Dominican President, Danilo Medina, announced on Thursday the new date of the meeting after noting that the dialogue "is the best solution for Venezuela and its people."
 In a statement, the Dominican Foreign Minister, Miguel Vargas, ratified the resumption of the dialogue, to which both parties have confirmed their attendance, while he informed that representatives of Chile and Nicaragua, countries accompanying those talks, already arrived in the country, and that in the other participating delegations will arrive the next hours.
 "The only purpose of the Dominican Government is that the parties reach a definitive agreement in favor of the people of Venezuela," Vargas said, and stressed "that this objective is shared by the other partners of the dialogue and the international community, in general."
 These conversations started last December in Santo Domingo under the auspices of Medina and the former president of the Spanish Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and with the accompaniment of Chile, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
 The dialogue to find a way out of the serious political and economic crisis of the South American country also had the support of Mexico, which this week withdrew after the unilateral convocation of presidential elections by the Venezuelan government.
 Just yesterday, the opposition Democratic Unity Table (MUD) reported that it will attend the meeting tomorrow to "demand the electoral guarantees that allow fair elections and thus promote a change for our people."
 According to the MUD, the government "has deepened its position of boycott at the negotiating table by proceeding to the illegalization" of opposition parties and by decreeing unilaterally that the presidential elections, one of the topics of the dialogue, will be held in the first four-month period. and not at the end of the year as it usually happens in the Caribbean country.
 The National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, formed only by pro-government and not recognized by the opposition and numerous governments, decided to advance the presidential elections and demanded that five opposition parties, including the MUD, revalidate their payrolls to participate in the elections. elections.
 The Voluntad Popular party (VP), of the opposition under house arrest Leopoldo López, decided not to attend this day after the last decisions of the ANC.
 The parties had planned to meet again in Santo Domingo on January 18 but the opposition did not attend the meeting, so the dialogue was postponed to a new date.
 One of the reasons invoked by the opposition to not participate in the meeting were statements by the Interior Minister of Venezuela, Néstor Reverol, who assured two days before having obtained from the anti-Chavez negotiators information that led to the whereabouts of the former police inspector. Óscar Pérez, who died during a police action.
 The central aspects for the opposition in this dialogue are to achieve electoral guarantees for the presidential elections this year, the opening of a humanitarian channel that allows the shipment of medicines and food, the release of the prisoners they consider "political prisoners" and the restitution of the constitutional powers from which Parliament was stripped.
 In as much, the oficialismo demands the lifting of the economic sanctions that weigh on some of its civil employees and the recognition of the Constituent Assembly, a plenipotentiary organ integrated only by pro-government and not recognized by numerous Governments.

Colombia condemns car bomb attack in border area with Ecuador

January 28, 2018 0
Colombia condemns car bomb attack in border area with Ecuador

The explosion, recorded in the coastal province of Esmeraldas, left 28 people slightly injured.  The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, ordered the transfer of 600 security personnel to the area of ​​the attack.





The Colombian government condemned the explosion of a crash in Ecuador, which caused 28 minor injuries, and expressed solidarity with the injured and victims of what he described as a "reprehensible act".
 "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government of Colombia, condemns the terrorist attack perpetrated with a car bomb against the Police Station in San Lorenzo, Ecuador, at dawn on Saturday," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
 The Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior, César Navas, estimated at 28 the slight wounds after the explosion registered in the exterior of a police building, a fact to which the head of State, Lenin Moreno, referred to as a "terrorist act linked to gangs of drug traffickers "
 He explained that the car bomb explosion occurred around 1:45 am on Saturday in the coastal province of Esmeraldas, in northwest Ecuador and bordering Colombia.
 Navas also stressed that there were no fatal victims of the explosion and said they have the support of the Colombian authorities to advance the investigations and "determine the perpetrators, the alleged perpetrators of this act of terror."
 The Colombian government reiterated its willingness to collaborate with Ecuador in the fight against organized crime.
 The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, ordered the transfer of 600 security personnel to the province of Esmeraldas, bordering Colombia, where an attack with a car bomb occurred.
 The governor decreed the state of emergency, for sixty days, in the cantons of San Lorenzo and Eloy Alfaro to reinforce the safety of its inhabitants.
 In a statement, the Secom, which does not specify to which institution belong the 600 troops that will be sent to Esmeraldas, highlights that the Government strongly condemned the explosion of the "car bomb", recorded early Saturday morning in front of a police facility, in the canton of San Lorenzo.
 He considered "this terrorist attack, implemented by gangs of drug traffickers and organized crime, does not compromise its policy of fighting this transnational scourge" in its different facets, such as drug trafficking and money laundering.
 He recalled that the state of emergency in the cantons of San Lorenzo and Eloy Alfaro establishes security zones and suspends the rights to the inviolability of domicile, transit, association and assembly.
 "Facts like these are raised by the strong and successful work that has been done in the area in the direct fight against organized crime," Interior Minister César Navas said.
 "Ecuador is a country of peace and its authorities are committed to maintaining Ecuador as a country of peace," said Navas, who recalled that in recent days more than seven and a half tons of chemical precursors have been seized (used in the preparation of drugs) almost a ton of drugs and that there are seven people detained linked to drug trafficking.
 Navas pointed out that the different state bodies work in collaboration with their counterparts in Colombia, in order to determine the causes of this "act of terror".
 He recalled that the neighboring country is in a process of internal pacification in which "residual" groups subsist that have chosen not to follow that path and "are forming criminal bands that are dedicated to drug trafficking."
 He stressed that the presence of the Ecuadorian State in the border area, now affected, "would have generated reprisals or attempts of intimidation on the part of these groups," Secom reported.

Get to a Mesothelioma Law Firm in Time to Claim the Compensation

January 28, 2018 0
Get to a Mesothelioma Law Firm in Time to Claim the Compensation






It is higher to require resort to a carcinoma business firm or carcinoma lawyers as presently as carcinoma malady is diagnosed clinically. There area unit several essential and obligatory legal factors like time bar to file the suit, the time and length for exposure, the harm caused because of operating in a very specific business or harm caused by some discretionary act on the part of the patient in his youth etc. As deciding the pertinence of-of these factors area unit a part of specialized data and skilled experience thus it's continuously wise to leave the choice to the hand the carcinoma lawyers or carcinoma business firm. typically to seek out specifically what proportion relevancy the alleged exposure will have with the claim for compensation, the carcinoma business firm could even rent a non-public investigator to appear into the matter. There area unit several law companies that solely contend with solely carcinoma cases. Such kind of law firms keeps mesothelioma lawyers who do only deal with the cases relating to compensation claim in case mesothelioma disease is diagnosed in a patient. There are many companies which to up size profit, compromise the safety of the workers and make them work in a dusty environment with little or no protection.




This irregularity is more often in asbestos industries and stone- crusher industries where the workers are exposed to hazard more expansively than anywhere. With each breathing, they intake the microscopic dust particle which does not come out with exhalation but stick to the wall of lungs. After a long time normally after years of working in that environment, when the body gradually weakened the hazard shows itself. So, it is probably an exception among the diseases, in which the harm is perceived when already it is too late to prevent. Once, lungs and heart thus weaken, automatically the patient is faced with a considerable decrease in his energy to work and ironically, to earn. In such situation, mesothelioma law firm and mesothelioma lawyers become of great help. It is always pretty advantageous to the patient to take resort to legal advice from a reputed mesothelioma law firm in or around his locality, because the profit to the patient is from both sides, in winning or losing. During seeking legal advice in such cases the patient or any party on the patient's side does not need to pay any fees in the first instance. The fee is only claimed when the compensation is awarded to the patient or any party legally authorized. A percentage is charged by the mesothelioma lawyers or mesothelioma law firm who was engaged for the job. Whatever measures or options be taken by the mesothelioma law firm, it is not usually chargeable unless the case is won. So, it is suggested that whenever a malady of epithelium referred to as carcinoma is diagnosed then it is higher to avail legal advice relating to claiming of compensation. in contrast to different lawsuits significantly in carcinoma cases it's newer a loss to hunting a legal recommendation as there's no got to pay unless the patient is paid initially, in sort of compensation.

 

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Despite crisis, Venezuelan opposition will go to dialogue with the government of Maduro

January 27, 2018 0
Despite crisis, Venezuelan opposition will go to dialogue with the government of Maduro


The Venezuelan opposition informed on Saturday that it will attend tomorrow the resumption of the process of political dialogue with the Government of Nicolás Maduro in the Dominican Republic and said that he hopes that this meeting will be final in the search for a peaceful solution to the crisis the country is experiencing since years ago Read also: Santos asked not to recognize the presidential elections in Venezuela

"The opposition negotiating delegation will assist the Dominican Republic on January 29 to demand electoral guarantees that allow fair elections and thus bring about a change for our people," said a communiqué from the antichavistic alliance Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD).

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Juan Orlando Hernández starts second term in Honduras amid protests

January 27, 2018 0
Juan Orlando Hernández starts second term in Honduras amid protests

While his followers cheered him at the National Stadium, his opponents concentrated in the capital city of Miraflores, where they were cleared by the police with tear gas when they tried to march to the place of the investiture.


The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, assumed a second consecutive mandate on Saturday amid protests by the opposition , which continues to claim that there was fraud in the controversial elections in November.

Hernandez received the presidential band in a session of the Congress in the National Stadium of the capital, full of supporters and strongly sheltered due to the opposition demonstrations in Tegucigalpa.

"I promise to fulfill and enforce the Constitution and the laws," said the president, a 49-year-old lawyer, when he was sworn in again as head of the government of Honduras , an impoverished country hit by violence.

While his followers cheered him at the National Stadium, his opponents concentrated in the capital city of Miraflores, where they were cleared by the police with tear gas when they tried to march to the place of the investiture.

The National Stadium was surrounded by several security rings with police and military located 500 meters around the sports venue. In his speech, Hernández committed himself to improve security and invest more in health, education and employment , while calling his adversaries to a dialogue to overcome the polarization left by the electoral process.

"In front of the Honduran people, I am committed to developing a process of reconciliation among all Hondurans, as it should be," he said. "I am aware that there are differences, we have to sit down and talk ... without barriers, we have to unite the country," the president added.

Opposition on the street

Hernández is recognized among the population for economic stabilization under his rule and for reducing the high rates of criminal violence. But at the same time he faces criticism: he is accused of having authoritarian tendencies because of his iron grip on the state apparatus , and also because of several corruption scandals that shook his first term of office.

Before Hernandez was invested, a group of protesters stopped and stoned a bus with supporters of the president who were heading to the National Stadium. No injuries were reported and the ruling party fled the scene.

In other parts of the capital road blocks were registered, which were lifted by the authorities. In the Miraflores neighborhood, where the opposition was concentrated, ex-candidate Salvador Nasralla, Hernández's main rival in the November elections, announced that the protests will continue .

"The protests do not end today, this is going to be permanent," said Nasralla, a popular 64-year-old television host nominated to the presidency by the leftist Alliance Against Opposition to the Dictatorship.

Nasralla, who lost the presidency by a few points, supported Hernandez's invitation to the dialogue, but clarified that it should be done with a mediator who guarantees that what is agreed in the talks will be fulfilled.

On Friday night, the opposition leader led a caravan through the streets of Tegucigalpa with hundreds of vehicles that traveled until the early hours of several capital neighborhoods. The demonstration had moments of tension when security agents threw tear gas against the caravan .

Reelection questioned

"We come to tell JOH (by the initials of Hernández) that we do not recognize him as our president," said a young girl in the caravan, who identified herself as Silvany, who wore a white ribbon of the opposition alliance on her head. ousted former president Manuel Zelaya.

The November election aroused suspicions of irregularities and allegations of fraud because in a first count Nasralla appeared at the front with 57% of the votes counted, but days later Hernandez took advantage after a series of interruptions in the computation system of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE) .

The TSE finally proclaimed Hernández the winner three weeks after the vote and amid continued opposition protests. Human rights organizations say that some 30 people died in police actions to clear road blocks that were staged by opposition supporters that day.

The president had managed to run for a second consecutive term thanks to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice, as the Honduran Constitution prohibits presidential re-election.

The dangers of mixing masculinity and missiles

January 27, 2018 0
The dangers of mixing masculinity and missiles


President Trump makes the work of a feminist security analyst very simple. With this type, it is not necessary to subtly disentangle the subtexts.

The first week of January something seemed to resonate among people across the political spectrum, even among those who do not usually see the world through the lens of the genre: when Trump tweeted "I also have a nuclear button, but it's much bigger and more powerful than his, and mine does work! ", the boast of nuclear might directed at Kim Jong-un of North Korea sounded a lot like, in effect, a comparison of the size of the penises.

It's sad. But significant? Among the majority of the commentators, the response was an exasperated rejection of Trump's tweet as "a youthful act", although only another one of the impulsive, reckless, dangerous and unpresidential of a president as there is no other. However, it seems to me that the president not only boasts too much about his "nuclear button", but that many commentators are still unaware of the point. It is not just an unimportant show, besides embarrassing.


Ideas about masculinity and femininity are important in international politics, in national security and in strategic thinking about nuclear weapons. Trump - with his fragile ego and his particular obsessive concern with the reputation of his manhood - may have brought these dynamics to the surface, but they have always been present, though in less vulgar and strident ways.

I started thinking about this issue more than three decades ago, when I was working among civilian nuclear strategists, war planners, weapons scientists and weapons controllers. What struck me was how far they were from human realities behind the weapons they were discussing. This distancing occurred partly through a professional discourse, which was characterized by a surprisingly abstract and euphemistic language and, in part, by means of a series of bustling sexual metaphors.

The human bodies they evoked were not those of the victims; Instead, they were conversations about vertical erector launchers, push-to-weight relationships, soft bedding, deep penetration, and the comparative advantage of prolonged attacks versus spasm attacks-or what a military adviser to the National Security Council called "freeing 70s." to 80 percent of our megatonaje in an orgasmic attack "-.

However, it quickly became clear that the role of gender in national security discourse was deeper than not so subtle metaphors. It was even more disturbing how it shaped what could be said, or even thought, within the confines of these spaces dominated by men. "What are you, a weakling?" Was an insult that was hurled at anyone who urged to avoid a response to a provocation or attack. The discussion about whether political leaders "had the guts to go to war" suggested that the desire to resolve a conflict through nonmilitary measures could imply that you were not totally male. During the missile crisis with Cuba, when Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze underestimated some of the more cautious decisions made by President John F. Kennedy calling him "effeminate", he made it clear that anyone who allowed himself to be governed by the fear of unleashing a nuclear war was a coward.

The open questioning of masculinity remains only the most superficial level in which ideas about gender in strategic thinking are developed. They also work in deeper and more subtle ways. The culturally generalized associations are rooted in professional discourse. Those of masculinity with equanimity, distance, abstraction, hardness and risk taking; those of femininity with emotions, empathy, bodily vulnerability, fear and caution.

In addition, there work so that some types of ideas seem obviously "realistic," hard and rational, and others are patently inadmissible, obviously inappropriate (a physicist told me that he and his colleagues were once modeling a limited nuclear attack when suddenly expressed their consternation that they were talking so casually about "only 30 million" immediate deaths. "It was terrible, I felt like a woman," he said.

In other words, integrated ideas about gender in nuclear strategic discourse go beyond the questions related to the button being more than just a button. They act as a brake on a more holistic, and therefore truly realistic, thinking about nuclear weapons and the holocaust that would result from their use.

Read also: The Despair of Diplomats in the Trump Era

Traditional national security analysts have been reluctant to think seriously-or in the slightest-about the ways in which ideas about gender shape national security. So, if Trump's disparagement of Kim's manhood somehow does not end up bringing us closer to a war with North Korea, then maybe in a way he's done us a favor. There is no doubt that, although the literal button or the size of Trump's or Kim's penis does not matter at all, his need for the world to believe that they are masculine men does matter.

What we must remember is that in this aspect Trump is no exception. Yes, the fear of being perceived as unmanly may be closer to the surface in Trump. And perhaps that is why their statements and actions are not helped by cognitive ability and the period of concentration or empathy and the ability to imagine the impact of actions on others or intelligence or prudence.

However, it is not about individual men or women. Ideas about masculinity and femininity already distort the way we think about international politics and national security. And they matter. They had it before Trump, they have it now and they will have it after Trump, if the president is controlled in some way and that "after" exists. Most analysts of national security, from the academy and even the executive, to the mass media, have ignored this reality for too long, to the danger of all of us.

* Carol Cohn is the director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Shooting at a nightclub in northeastern Brazil leaves 14 dead

January 27, 2018 0
Shooting at a nightclub in northeastern Brazil leaves 14 dead



The shooting occurred when a group of heavily armed men arrived aboard three vehicles and broke into the Forro do Gago club, in the neighborhood of Cajazeiras, in the center of Fortaleza


A shooting at a nightclub in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, left at least 14 people dead early Saturday, local authorities announced.

"We can confirm 14 deaths, knowing that some people are still in serious condition in the hospital ," André Costa, secretary of security for the state of Ceara, whose capital is Fortaleza, said at a press conference, without specifying the exact number of wounded. .

A spokesman for the Institut José Frota, the city's main hospital, told AFP that six people were admitted to the emergency room, including a 12-year-old boy. According to the site of the regional newspaper Diario do Nordeste, which quotes an anonymous police source, the hypothesis is that the attack responded to a settling of accounts between drug traffickers .

"We are not yet in a position to confirm that it is a confrontation between fractions, the investigation is still ongoing, " said the Secretary of Security.

The shooting occurred around 01:30 (local time), when a group of heavily armed men arrived aboard three vehicles and broke into the Forro do Gago club , in the Cajazeiras neighborhood, in downtown Fortaleza.

"It's a brutal scene, a massacre, never seen in Ceara," said a policeman who preferred to remain anonymous to the G1 site. On January 7, the war between drug traffickers left four dead on the outskirts of Fortaleza. In 2017, the state of Ceara registered a record of 5,114 homicides, 50% more than in 2016 .

At the national level, Brazil also registered a record in 2016, with 61,619 murders, which is equivalent to seven homicides per hour .

The OAS expresses its rejection of the attack on the police station in Barranquilla

January 27, 2018 0
The OAS expresses its rejection of the attack on the police station in Barranquilla


Through a communiqué, the organization rejected the attack and expressed its solidarity with the families of the victims and the early recovery of the wounded.

The Organization of American States expressed its "strong rejection" of the attack on a police station in the San José neighborhood, in the city of Barranquilla, in the north of the country, in which at least four police officers lost their lives .

(In context: Reward of $ 50 million to find the people responsible for the attack on a police station )

"Energetic rejection of the attack at the San José Police Station in Barranquilla, our solidarity with the families of the victims, and our desire to recover quickly the wounded ," the organization said in a statement released through social networks.

The attack, which was caused by an explosive placed in one of the walls of the police station , occurred around 06.40 when the police were in training in the courtyard for the change of shift, explained General Mariano Botero, commander of the Police Metropolitan of Barranquilla.

The authorities have reported the arrest of a suspect , who was captured in the vicinity of the place, who was confiscated a notebook and a communications radio that could have served to perpetrate an attack in which in addition 42 people were injured.

(You might be interested: The political world reacts to the attack on police in Barranquilla )

At this time it is being investigated whether the attack could be related to an attack that occurred almost simultaneously in a place near the city against a transport truck , which did not take anything, but left a vigilante murdered and two more wounded.

Fossil found in Israel reveals that men could have left Africa up to 100,000 years earlier than previously thought

January 27, 2018 0
Fossil found in Israel reveals that men could have left Africa up to 100,000 years earlier than previously thought


The upper part of a jaw, which keeps several teeth in relative good condition, and numerous fragments of stone tools can help clarify one of the great questions about human evolution: When did our ancestors leave Africa?

The fossils found in a cave at a site on Mount Carmel in Israel are estimated to be between 177,000 and 194,000 years old, experts estimate, which would make them the oldest human remains found outside of Africa.

Although Homo sapiens appeared for the first time in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago , until now, the oldest human remains found outside the continent went back to a range of between 90,000 and 120,000 years, so the jaw found is between 50,000 and 100,000 years earlier. 

This jump back in time would imply that modern humans had relationships with other human groups that subsequently disappeared, for longer than previously believed.

"This is an exciting discovery that confirms other suggestions of a previous migration outside Africa," added paleoanthropologist Rolf Quam of Binghamton University in New York and co-author of the study published in the journal Science .

"Now we finally have fossil evidence of this migration, in addition to inferences obtained from ancient DNA studies and archaeological sites," he added.

The investigation reveals that the teeth belonged to a young adult, although they have not determined the gender. 

Rewrite history
The jaw was found in 2002 , but researchers have spent more than a decade looking for more remains to contextualize their research, which includes the analysis of blades, thousands of fragments of stone tools, several stoves and the bones of burned animals.

The Homo sapiens appeared for the first time in Africa and their oldest known fossils are from approximately 300,000 years ago, it is unknown exactly when he emigrated to populate the rest of the world, a fact that was key to his survival, and that this finding could help to clarify .

"The biggest unknowns about human evolution are when our ancestors started to leave Africa and what route they took," said Israel Hershkovitz, an anthropologist at Tel Aviv University and author of a study published in the journal Science.

Experts believe that our species migrated from Africa more than once. "It is evident that human beings were constantly migrating," said Mina Weinstein-Evron, one of the authors of the article. "Now we have to rewrite this story," he concluded. 



Spain withdraws the European arrest warrant against the dismissed president of Catalonia, who fled to Belgium

January 27, 2018 0
Spain withdraws the European arrest warrant against the dismissed president of Catalonia, who fled to Belgium


Spanish justice withdrew the European arrest warrant against the dismissed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four members of his executive who fled to Belgium after the regional parliament unilaterally declared independence for what they are required by the courts, the Court said Tuesday. Supreme.

The judge in charge of the case indicated that before the intention of the five to return to Spain to participate in the regional elections of December 21, decided to withdraw the European order to avoid benefiting from the others charged with the crimes of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement that remained in Spain, and maintained the order to stop them if they return to the country.

The unexpected decision was announced just a day after Puigdemont and the other four politicians came to a hearing of his extradition process to Spain. The judge had to decide on his future on December 14.

The magistrate Pablo Llarena communicated his decision to the Belgian authorities to annul the procedure opened in the European country since if the Belgian justice rejects some of the motives of the order it could reduce the charges for which they are required and an inequality would be generated regarding the leaders in Spain who will be investigated for all crimes .

The announcement also coincides with the launch of the electoral campaign for the regional elections of December 21, convened last October by the president of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy, after dismissing the regional executive and taking control of the region.

Puigdemont leads the candidacy of the Junts per Catalunya party in the regional elections, in which several of its former councilors participate.

I hope my daughters are housewives, a macho candidate from a US candidate.

January 27, 2018 0
I hope my daughters are housewives, a macho candidate from a US candidate.


Courtland Sykes, who aspires to the United States Senate, also said that he wants his wife to have dinner ready when he gets home.


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A Republican candidate for the United States Senate today caused controversy after making public statements in which, when asked about women's rights, explained that what he wants is that when he gets home, dinner is ready. (Video: The excuses that machismo was invented to violate women)

"I want to get to a house where there's a homemade dinner at six every night," said conservative Courtland Sykes, who will seek to be a Republican senator from Missouri, in an interview he posted on his Facebook page. (The Matched: The men who do not know that they hate women)

Sykes, 37, had been asked if he was in favor of women's rights , to which he replied that his fiancée had given him "orders" to be "favorable" to them, but that his "obedience" entailed a "small price": that when he arrives home, the plate is on the table.

The Republican also stressed that he hopes that "one day" his daughters will become "housewives and traditional family women".

"I do not buy the crazy definitions of radical feminism about being a modern woman and I never did," continued the one who aspires to take a seat in the Upper House this year.

Likewise, the conservative candidate pointed out that feminists "invented" the concept "to adapt it to their filthy and snake-filled minds".

Sykes expressed that she does not accept the "relentless feminization of the campaign against men," and argued that men and women are different, something that will not change "a nest of academic fools of a drug store, except in the life of fantasy of those confused people in Wonderland. "

Regarding her daughters, the candidate emphasized that she does not want them to be "hell-feminists" who believe that they can " jump high buildings at one time" so that "men do not suppress them", and said that feminism is "just one madness".

To close his argument, Sykes explained that he supports the rights of women, but not those who "have oppressed the natural way of being a woman for five decades."

The comments generated controversy in social networks, where the political analyst Charlie Sykes criticized the claims of the applicant: "To be clear: we have no relationship at all, thank God," he said in relation to the coincidence of surnames.

The columnist John Podhoretz, who referred to the Republican as an "unnameable imbecile" and wished him "good luck in his endeavor" in a clearly ironic way, also spoke about it.