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Cristina Pérez anuncia candidatura al Senado por el Distrito de Arecibo por Victoria Ciudadana

La joven laboró por algunos años en la legislatura

Tras trabajar varios años en la legislatura, la joven Cristina Pérez decidió aspirar al Senado por el Distrito de Arecibo por el Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC). Con esta candidatura, se suma una mujer más a las decenas de candidatas a puestos legislativos por esta colectividad.

“Formo parte de una generación a la que la política nos ha robado el presente y el futuro. Es el momento de poner un alto a este abuso, votando para transformar el gobierno con nuevas ideas que representen los intereses de la gente”, expresó Pérez, de 31 años, quien por primera vez se postula para un puesto electivo.

Pérez recibió el endoso del senador Rafael Bernabe, en cuya oficina trabaja como secretaria: “No dudo de que Cristina Pérez servirá a su distrito–y al resto del país–con valentía e inteligencia. Su juventud le ayuda a vislumbrar un futuro distinto; y su experiencia como joven trabajadora en plena crisis le ayudará a identificar con claridad y buscar alternativas a lo que no funciona en este sistema”.

Tras trabajar por más de una década en la empresa privada y, más recientemente, en la legislatura, Cristina Pérez catalogó su candidatura al Senado como “una consecuencia directa ante la desilusión y el coraje de vivir en un país donde nada parece funcionar”.

Pérez, quien reside en el pueblo de Dorado, denunció la corrupción que pone los recursos del país al servicio de unos pocos: “En mi pueblo y a través de todo el Distrito, hemos visto las movidas de los beneficiarios de la Ley 60 (antes Ley 20/22), que no respetan la gente ni los recursos de Puerto Rico y quieren apropiarse de todo con el apoyo del gobierno. Además, es evidente cómo personas bien conectadas–como los oligarcas de apellido Stubbe–se benefician de un sistema donde los políticos se entregan a los intereses económicos privados”.

“Las luchas ambientales son fundamentales en el distrito de Arecibo”, añadió. “El Norte es un frente importante en la defensa de las costas frente a su destrucción y privatización. Además, defender las tierras y aguas es defender y proteger de igual forma al agricultor y al pescador. Quienes han representado a Arecibo en el Senado hasta ahora han estado desconectados del pueblo y no han actuado con la urgencia que requiere la crisis climática que nos amenaza con peores tormentas y sequías”.

Finalizó Pérez con lo siguiente: “Para defender a la gente de los 11 municipios que comprende el Distrito de Arecibo y del país, apuesto por un cambio desde el MVC y la Alianza: buscamos lograr al fin un gobierno limpio. Vamos adelante: como mujer joven trabajadora quiero contribuir al movimiento que va a devolverle Puerto Rico a su propia gente”.

Con su candidatura, se une a otras mujeres que aspiran a un escaño en el Senado por Distrito por Victoria Ciudadana, incluyendo a Rosa Seguí en San Juan, Mariela Luzmina Martínez Vera en Guayama y Mayra Vicil Bernier en Caguas.

Fuente: metropr

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A nombre del Pueblo de Puerto Rico se hace esta petición a todas las personas decididas a acabar con el PNP/PPD de cara a las elecciones del 2024. Firmamos este documento para solicitarle a los partidos políticos (PIP-MVC), No Afiliados y sus respectivos lideres, una alianza a favor de Puerto Rico con el objetivo inmediato de no cederle nuevamente la gobernación a alguno de los partidos de la vieja política o del pasado. Exigimos encaminar un proyecto de descolonización y unir fuerzas para lograr mejorar la calidad de vida de todos los puertorriqueños.

La historia nos ha comprobado cuan corrompidas están las instituciones PNP/PPD. No aguantamos más; las alzas en los costos de la luz, servicios básicos, condiciones laborales, educación, salud, pobreza y migración forzada. El estancamiento económico y sus consecuencias, lo pagamos todos como pueblo. Por esta razón, NO toleramos estar en la disposición de tolerar un cuatrienio más bajo el gobierno popular o penepé.

Demandamos nuevos canales de comunicación y una verdadera disposición de todos los lideres políticos por fuera del PNP/PPD para que trabajen por el bienestar económico y social de Puerto Rico. Estamos cansados de tener que dejar nuestra isla buscando un mejor porvenir, el futuro lo queremos en nuestra nación.

Respetamos la institución del PIP sus 75 años de historia, así como al MVC en su nuevo proyecto de país.  Nosotros el pueblo exigimos y demandamos que se lleguen acuerdos concretos para presentar una oferta electoral que derrote al PNP/PPD de una vez y por todas. Los números de la pasada campaña dejan claro que existe la posibilidad de hacerlo posible, si dejamos atrás los egos personales. Luchemos juntos por la descolonización de Puerto Rico y nuevo país accesible para tod@s.

Aqui les dejo el enlace: https://www.change.org/p/movimiento-victoria-cuidadana-alianza-de-pa%C3%ADs-pip-mvc-no-afiliados

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Senado da paso al proyecto que habilita ajuste de la deuda pública A la medida se le añadieron unas 40 páginas de enmiendas del presidente senatorial, José Luis La medida para habilitar la emisión que reestructuraría la deuda pública del gobierno central fue avalada en el Senado con votos del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) y el Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) en la noche de hoy luego de un debate de casi tres horas. El proyecto fue aprobado luego de que se le introdujeran unas 40 páginas de enmiendas de la autoría del presidente senatorial, José Luis Dalmau, que buscan garantizar que la propuesta ley quede sin efecto en caso de que el plan de ajuste de deuda (PAD) ante la consideración de la jueza de quiebras Laura Taylor Swain impacte las pensiones públicas, o que la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) se niegue a aceptar otras iniciativas sociales y económicas contenidas en la medida. Como habían anticipado, las delegaciones del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, el Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) y el Proyecto Dignidad, así como el senador independiente José Vargas Vidot, se opusieron a la versión enmendada del Proyecto de la Cámara (PC) 1003. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUuctWpgasn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Acata IEPC resolución del TEECH sobre separación de coalición en tres distritos

Acata IEPC resolución del TEECH sobre separación de coalición en tres distritos

Para el cargo de Diputaciones Locales. Tendrán un plazo de 24 horas a partir de la notificación, a efecto de que postulen candidaturas propias, dejando sin efectos la postulación realizada en días pasados.   El Consejo General del Instituto de Elecciones y Participación Ciudadana (IEPC) de Chiapas,  aprobó el acuerdo por el que se acata la resolución del Tribunal Electoral del Estado de Chiapas,…

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EL PODER DEL VOTO NO TIENE LIMITES

EL PODER DEL VOTO NO TIENE LIMITES, es una apreciación de la política puertorriqueña que en estos momentos puede ser históricamente decisiva para determinar su estatus político a través del voto electoral. Seguir la política tradicional no es opción.

Hace unos días pude ver el vídeo de la Asamblea de Pueblo de Bayamón donde se efectuó un foro sobre si se debía votar o no en las elecciones de la colonia y muy interesante que fue entre tres féminas una de ellas representaba el Frente Anti Electoral, la Lcda. Aleida Centeno, las otras dos fueron, la Lcda. Mariana Nogales por el partido MVC y la Lcda. Adriana Gutiérrez por el PIP.

Resulta…

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Votar por el mejor o votar por el menos malo

En la historia del Partido Popular Democrático nunca se había dado una primaria. Porque usualmente esa candidatura era de "a dedo". "Dedocráticamente". Pero tu juntas a todos los pre candidatos PPD, PNP, y en adición pones a MVC, PIP y los independientes, y no sale uno con un plan de desarrollo económico, ni con visión ni cómo concretamente sacar hacia adelante a Puerto Rico. Esto ya no es votar por el mejor o votar por el menos malo. Esto es realmente ponerlos a todos como si fuera el coliseo romano, y el que sobreviva es el que se lleva lo que queda. Mira el video, comenta y comparte hacia adelante.

¡Disfruta este episodio aquí!

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Prevalece el Partido Popular Democrático en caso de una candidatura de Victoria Ciudadana

Prevalece el Partido Popular Democrático en caso de una candidatura de Victoria Ciudadana

El Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) impugnó con éxito, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, la constitucionalidad de una resolución de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE) que permitió que el Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) presentara una candidatura al distrito de Bayamón pese a que es residente de Guaynabo.

“El argumento presentado por la CEE sobre la lógica en la…

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First there was Hurricane Maria. Then, government upset. Now, Puerto Rico is facing the effects of devastating earthquakesA colourful and boisterous place in normal times, Guánica today presents a ghostly and deserted air, the sea breeze whistling through the ruins of the collapsed buildings that dot its streets.The signs of life are a few: stray cats and dogs and a handful of families furtively piling their belongings into vehicles as they evacuate their homes.The town sits near the epicentre of the 6.4 earthquake that rocked Puerto Rico on Tuesday – the worst tremor to hit Puerto Rico in a century – which killed at least three people and left thousands homeless. Large-scale aftershocks, including one of 6.0 magnitude on Saturday morning, have rocked the island ever since.“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Edith Muñiz, 55, a lifelong resident of the town.“Many have fled their homes,” Muñiz said, standing in front of a Presbyterian church where emergency supplies were being collected. Across the street lay the ruins of a school whose three floors had pancaked flat on one another. (Luckily, the students were still off on winter break.) “We’re living here without water and without light.”The quakes are the latest in a string of shocks for this island of 3.2 million people – a commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens but cannot vote in US presidential elections and have no voting representation in the US Congress. The island is still reeling from the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Maria – which devastated the island and killed at least 3,000 people – and processing protests last summer which forced the then governor, Ricardo Rosselló, from office.As after Maria, the response of the US government has appeared unfocused and disconnected. And – as after Maria – local officials have given varying and contradictory information about the island’s power grid. On Satuday, at least 20% of the island’s customers were still without power.After this latest tragedy, many in Puerto Rico wonder if the powers that lord over them – local or federal – have learned anything from recent history.“The root of the problem remains unchanged,” saids Manuel Natal Albelo, 33, a representative in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives who will be running for mayor of the capital San Juan this fall under the banner of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), an insurgent political party formed shortly before this past summer’s protests.“It is the corruption of a two-party system that responds exclusively to benefit particular financial interest groups,” Natal continued. “From the policies to the individuals in charge of their implementation, the old political establishment still sacrifices the vast majority of our people to protect the privileges of a few.”Rosselló eventually resigned after a series of profane chats were leaked in which he and close advisers mocked ordinary Puerto Ricans. His hand-picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, lasted just five days before the island’s supreme court forced him out, citing questionable terms of succession.Pierluisi was succeeded by Wanda Vázquez, the island’s justice secretary. She claimed no political aspirations herself, but quickly warmed to the role, announcing last month that she would run for a full term in office, in the primaries of the ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), which favours Puerto Rico becoming a US state.The PNP dominates the island’s bicameral legislature, while the opposition Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) – which favours a continuation of commonwealth status – maintains a slim majority of the mayor’s office. The parties have dominated Puerto Rico for decades.Vázquez has enacted as series of populist measures, including streamlining the process for owning firearms (a questionable initiative in an island with a dire rate of gun crime and femicide) and signing a bill that affirmed the legality of cockfighting, in defiance of a US ban.However, Vázquez has not substantially investigated alleged wrongdoing by some of the participants in the Rosselló chats, including a number of the ex-governor’s top aides. This month, Puerto Rico’s justice department called for a special prosecutor to investigate those involved in the chat.Despite Vázquez’s populist touch – she spent a recent night among quake-affected residents of the battered Guánica and the island’s national guard has established “tent cities” in five different towns – some now accuse her of continuing the same practices as her predecessor.“After the worst earthquake we have ever experienced in modern history, we were told that in 12 to 24 hours we would have our electricity back, only to be told later that it will take more than a year to fix,” said Mayra Vélez Serrano, a political science professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. “Vázquez inherited many of the same Rosselló cabinet members and secretaries of key agencies, all of whom showed themselves to be completely incapable of managing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There is very little trust in the government.”A stream of aid from local non-governmental organizations and ordinary Puerto Ricans has flowed south since Tuesday’s initial tremor.But, as the ground beneath the Puerto Ricans feet still shuddered, Donald Trump – who notoriously went golfing as Maria bore down on the island and then tossed paper towels at desperate islanders during a four-hour visit – has continued to withhold more than $18bn in federal funding earmarked by Congress. This was in defiance of a congressionally mandated September deadline to account for at least $8m of it. A controversial fiscal oversight board has controlled the island’s finances since 2016, as the bankrupt US commonwealth faces almost $18bn of general-obligation bonds and government-guaranteed debt.But the machinations of any local and federal politicians are a distant drama for those dealing with this latest challenge.As she and her family moved their belongings out of the Villa Del Caribe caserio (public housing project) in the southern city of Ponce, where frightening cracks crept up the buildings’ facades, Yetzabeth Vega López described the night the quake hit.“People were screaming, crying, everyone ran because the buildings were moving so violently. It was horrible,” she said. “We’re trying to find another place to live as this place is now not habitable. In reality, we haven’t seen much help from the government, not federal or local. A lot of people here are sleeping in their cars. This is very hard.”

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First there was Hurricane Maria. Then, government upset. Now, Puerto Rico is facing the effects of devastating earthquakesA colourful and boisterous place in normal times, Guánica today presents a ghostly and deserted air, the sea breeze whistling through the ruins of the collapsed buildings that dot its streets.The signs of life are a few: stray cats and dogs and a handful of families furtively piling their belongings into vehicles as they evacuate their homes.The town sits near the epicentre of the 6.4 earthquake that rocked Puerto Rico on Tuesday – the worst tremor to hit Puerto Rico in a century – which killed at least three people and left thousands homeless. Large-scale aftershocks, including one of 6.0 magnitude on Saturday morning, have rocked the island ever since.“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Edith Muñiz, 55, a lifelong resident of the town.“Many have fled their homes,” Muñiz said, standing in front of a Presbyterian church where emergency supplies were being collected. Across the street lay the ruins of a school whose three floors had pancaked flat on one another. (Luckily, the students were still off on winter break.) “We’re living here without water and without light.”The quakes are the latest in a string of shocks for this island of 3.2 million people – a commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens but cannot vote in US presidential elections and have no voting representation in the US Congress. The island is still reeling from the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Maria – which devastated the island and killed at least 3,000 people – and processing protests last summer which forced the then governor, Ricardo Rosselló, from office.As after Maria, the response of the US government has appeared unfocused and disconnected. And – as after Maria – local officials have given varying and contradictory information about the island’s power grid. On Satuday, at least 20% of the island’s customers were still without power.After this latest tragedy, many in Puerto Rico wonder if the powers that lord over them – local or federal – have learned anything from recent history.“The root of the problem remains unchanged,” saids Manuel Natal Albelo, 33, a representative in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives who will be running for mayor of the capital San Juan this fall under the banner of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), an insurgent political party formed shortly before this past summer’s protests.“It is the corruption of a two-party system that responds exclusively to benefit particular financial interest groups,” Natal continued. “From the policies to the individuals in charge of their implementation, the old political establishment still sacrifices the vast majority of our people to protect the privileges of a few.”Rosselló eventually resigned after a series of profane chats were leaked in which he and close advisers mocked ordinary Puerto Ricans. His hand-picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, lasted just five days before the island’s supreme court forced him out, citing questionable terms of succession.Pierluisi was succeeded by Wanda Vázquez, the island’s justice secretary. She claimed no political aspirations herself, but quickly warmed to the role, announcing last month that she would run for a full term in office, in the primaries of the ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), which favours Puerto Rico becoming a US state.The PNP dominates the island’s bicameral legislature, while the opposition Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) – which favours a continuation of commonwealth status – maintains a slim majority of the mayor’s office. The parties have dominated Puerto Rico for decades.Vázquez has enacted as series of populist measures, including streamlining the process for owning firearms (a questionable initiative in an island with a dire rate of gun crime and femicide) and signing a bill that affirmed the legality of cockfighting, in defiance of a US ban.However, Vázquez has not substantially investigated alleged wrongdoing by some of the participants in the Rosselló chats, including a number of the ex-governor’s top aides. This month, Puerto Rico’s justice department called for a special prosecutor to investigate those involved in the chat.Despite Vázquez’s populist touch – she spent a recent night among quake-affected residents of the battered Guánica and the island’s national guard has established “tent cities” in five different towns – some now accuse her of continuing the same practices as her predecessor.“After the worst earthquake we have ever experienced in modern history, we were told that in 12 to 24 hours we would have our electricity back, only to be told later that it will take more than a year to fix,” said Mayra Vélez Serrano, a political science professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. “Vázquez inherited many of the same Rosselló cabinet members and secretaries of key agencies, all of whom showed themselves to be completely incapable of managing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There is very little trust in the government.”A stream of aid from local non-governmental organizations and ordinary Puerto Ricans has flowed south since Tuesday’s initial tremor.But, as the ground beneath the Puerto Ricans feet still shuddered, Donald Trump – who notoriously went golfing as Maria bore down on the island and then tossed paper towels at desperate islanders during a four-hour visit – has continued to withhold more than $18bn in federal funding earmarked by Congress. This was in defiance of a congressionally mandated September deadline to account for at least $8m of it. A controversial fiscal oversight board has controlled the island’s finances since 2016, as the bankrupt US commonwealth faces almost $18bn of general-obligation bonds and government-guaranteed debt.But the machinations of any local and federal politicians are a distant drama for those dealing with this latest challenge.As she and her family moved their belongings out of the Villa Del Caribe caserio (public housing project) in the southern city of Ponce, where frightening cracks crept up the buildings’ facades, Yetzabeth Vega López described the night the quake hit.“People were screaming, crying, everyone ran because the buildings were moving so violently. It was horrible,” she said. “We’re trying to find another place to live as this place is now not habitable. In reality, we haven’t seen much help from the government, not federal or local. A lot of people here are sleeping in their cars. This is very hard.”

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First there was Hurricane Maria. Then, government upset. Now, Puerto Rico is facing the effects of devastating earthquakesA colourful and boisterous place in normal times, Guánica today presents a ghostly and deserted air, the sea breeze whistling through the ruins of the collapsed buildings that dot its streets.The signs of life are a few: stray cats and dogs and a handful of families furtively piling their belongings into vehicles as they evacuate their homes.The town sits near the epicentre of the 6.4 earthquake that rocked Puerto Rico on Tuesday – the worst tremor to hit Puerto Rico in a century – which killed at least three people and left thousands homeless. Large-scale aftershocks, including one of 6.0 magnitude on Saturday morning, have rocked the island ever since.“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Edith Muñiz, 55, a lifelong resident of the town.“Many have fled their homes,” Muñiz said, standing in front of a Presbyterian church where emergency supplies were being collected. Across the street lay the ruins of a school whose three floors had pancaked flat on one another. (Luckily, the students were still off on winter break.) “We’re living here without water and without light.”The quakes are the latest in a string of shocks for this island of 3.2 million people – a commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens but cannot vote in US presidential elections and have no voting representation in the US Congress. The island is still reeling from the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Maria – which devastated the island and killed at least 3,000 people – and processing protests last summer which forced the then governor, Ricardo Rosselló, from office.As after Maria, the response of the US government has appeared unfocused and disconnected. And – as after Maria – local officials have given varying and contradictory information about the island’s power grid. On Satuday, at least 20% of the island’s customers were still without power.After this latest tragedy, many in Puerto Rico wonder if the powers that lord over them – local or federal – have learned anything from recent history.“The root of the problem remains unchanged,” saids Manuel Natal Albelo, 33, a representative in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives who will be running for mayor of the capital San Juan this fall under the banner of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), an insurgent political party formed shortly before this past summer’s protests.“It is the corruption of a two-party system that responds exclusively to benefit particular financial interest groups,” Natal continued. “From the policies to the individuals in charge of their implementation, the old political establishment still sacrifices the vast majority of our people to protect the privileges of a few.”Rosselló eventually resigned after a series of profane chats were leaked in which he and close advisers mocked ordinary Puerto Ricans. His hand-picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, lasted just five days before the island’s supreme court forced him out, citing questionable terms of succession.Pierluisi was succeeded by Wanda Vázquez, the island’s justice secretary. She claimed no political aspirations herself, but quickly warmed to the role, announcing last month that she would run for a full term in office, in the primaries of the ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), which favours Puerto Rico becoming a US state.The PNP dominates the island’s bicameral legislature, while the opposition Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) – which favours a continuation of commonwealth status – maintains a slim majority of the mayor’s office. The parties have dominated Puerto Rico for decades.Vázquez has enacted as series of populist measures, including streamlining the process for owning firearms (a questionable initiative in an island with a dire rate of gun crime and femicide) and signing a bill that affirmed the legality of cockfighting, in defiance of a US ban.However, Vázquez has not substantially investigated alleged wrongdoing by some of the participants in the Rosselló chats, including a number of the ex-governor’s top aides. This month, Puerto Rico’s justice department called for a special prosecutor to investigate those involved in the chat.Despite Vázquez’s populist touch – she spent a recent night among quake-affected residents of the battered Guánica and the island’s national guard has established “tent cities” in five different towns – some now accuse her of continuing the same practices as her predecessor.“After the worst earthquake we have ever experienced in modern history, we were told that in 12 to 24 hours we would have our electricity back, only to be told later that it will take more than a year to fix,” said Mayra Vélez Serrano, a political science professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. “Vázquez inherited many of the same Rosselló cabinet members and secretaries of key agencies, all of whom showed themselves to be completely incapable of managing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There is very little trust in the government.”A stream of aid from local non-governmental organizations and ordinary Puerto Ricans has flowed south since Tuesday’s initial tremor.But, as the ground beneath the Puerto Ricans feet still shuddered, Donald Trump – who notoriously went golfing as Maria bore down on the island and then tossed paper towels at desperate islanders during a four-hour visit – has continued to withhold more than $18bn in federal funding earmarked by Congress. This was in defiance of a congressionally mandated September deadline to account for at least $8m of it. A controversial fiscal oversight board has controlled the island’s finances since 2016, as the bankrupt US commonwealth faces almost $18bn of general-obligation bonds and government-guaranteed debt.But the machinations of any local and federal politicians are a distant drama for those dealing with this latest challenge.As she and her family moved their belongings out of the Villa Del Caribe caserio (public housing project) in the southern city of Ponce, where frightening cracks crept up the buildings’ facades, Yetzabeth Vega López described the night the quake hit.“People were screaming, crying, everyone ran because the buildings were moving so violently. It was horrible,” she said. “We’re trying to find another place to live as this place is now not habitable. In reality, we haven’t seen much help from the government, not federal or local. A lot of people here are sleeping in their cars. This is very hard.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36OTW4D via IFTTT

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First there was Hurricane Maria. Then, government upset. Now, Puerto Rico is facing the effects of devastating earthquakesA colourful and boisterous place in normal times, Guánica today presents a ghostly and deserted air, the sea breeze whistling through the ruins of the collapsed buildings that dot its streets.The signs of life are a few: stray cats and dogs and a handful of families furtively piling their belongings into vehicles as they evacuate their homes.The town sits near the epicentre of the 6.4 earthquake that rocked Puerto Rico on Tuesday – the worst tremor to hit Puerto Rico in a century – which killed at least three people and left thousands homeless. Large-scale aftershocks, including one of 6.0 magnitude on Saturday morning, have rocked the island ever since.“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Edith Muñiz, 55, a lifelong resident of the town.“Many have fled their homes,” Muñiz said, standing in front of a Presbyterian church where emergency supplies were being collected. Across the street lay the ruins of a school whose three floors had pancaked flat on one another. (Luckily, the students were still off on winter break.) “We’re living here without water and without light.”The quakes are the latest in a string of shocks for this island of 3.2 million people – a commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens but cannot vote in US presidential elections and have no voting representation in the US Congress. The island is still reeling from the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Maria – which devastated the island and killed at least 3,000 people – and processing protests last summer which forced the then governor, Ricardo Rosselló, from office.As after Maria, the response of the US government has appeared unfocused and disconnected. And – as after Maria – local officials have given varying and contradictory information about the island’s power grid. On Satuday, at least 20% of the island’s customers were still without power.After this latest tragedy, many in Puerto Rico wonder if the powers that lord over them – local or federal – have learned anything from recent history.“The root of the problem remains unchanged,” saids Manuel Natal Albelo, 33, a representative in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives who will be running for mayor of the capital San Juan this fall under the banner of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), an insurgent political party formed shortly before this past summer’s protests.“It is the corruption of a two-party system that responds exclusively to benefit particular financial interest groups,” Natal continued. “From the policies to the individuals in charge of their implementation, the old political establishment still sacrifices the vast majority of our people to protect the privileges of a few.”Rosselló eventually resigned after a series of profane chats were leaked in which he and close advisers mocked ordinary Puerto Ricans. His hand-picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, lasted just five days before the island’s supreme court forced him out, citing questionable terms of succession.Pierluisi was succeeded by Wanda Vázquez, the island’s justice secretary. She claimed no political aspirations herself, but quickly warmed to the role, announcing last month that she would run for a full term in office, in the primaries of the ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), which favours Puerto Rico becoming a US state.The PNP dominates the island’s bicameral legislature, while the opposition Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) – which favours a continuation of commonwealth status – maintains a slim majority of the mayor’s office. The parties have dominated Puerto Rico for decades.Vázquez has enacted as series of populist measures, including streamlining the process for owning firearms (a questionable initiative in an island with a dire rate of gun crime and femicide) and signing a bill that affirmed the legality of cockfighting, in defiance of a US ban.However, Vázquez has not substantially investigated alleged wrongdoing by some of the participants in the Rosselló chats, including a number of the ex-governor’s top aides. This month, Puerto Rico’s justice department called for a special prosecutor to investigate those involved in the chat.Despite Vázquez’s populist touch – she spent a recent night among quake-affected residents of the battered Guánica and the island’s national guard has established “tent cities” in five different towns – some now accuse her of continuing the same practices as her predecessor.“After the worst earthquake we have ever experienced in modern history, we were told that in 12 to 24 hours we would have our electricity back, only to be told later that it will take more than a year to fix,” said Mayra Vélez Serrano, a political science professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. “Vázquez inherited many of the same Rosselló cabinet members and secretaries of key agencies, all of whom showed themselves to be completely incapable of managing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There is very little trust in the government.”A stream of aid from local non-governmental organizations and ordinary Puerto Ricans has flowed south since Tuesday’s initial tremor.But, as the ground beneath the Puerto Ricans feet still shuddered, Donald Trump – who notoriously went golfing as Maria bore down on the island and then tossed paper towels at desperate islanders during a four-hour visit – has continued to withhold more than $18bn in federal funding earmarked by Congress. This was in defiance of a congressionally mandated September deadline to account for at least $8m of it. A controversial fiscal oversight board has controlled the island’s finances since 2016, as the bankrupt US commonwealth faces almost $18bn of general-obligation bonds and government-guaranteed debt.But the machinations of any local and federal politicians are a distant drama for those dealing with this latest challenge.As she and her family moved their belongings out of the Villa Del Caribe caserio (public housing project) in the southern city of Ponce, where frightening cracks crept up the buildings’ facades, Yetzabeth Vega López described the night the quake hit.“People were screaming, crying, everyone ran because the buildings were moving so violently. It was horrible,” she said. “We’re trying to find another place to live as this place is now not habitable. In reality, we haven’t seen much help from the government, not federal or local. A lot of people here are sleeping in their cars. This is very hard.”

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First there was Hurricane Maria. Then, government upset. Now, Puerto Rico is facing the effects of devastating earthquakesA colourful and boisterous place in normal times, Guánica today presents a ghostly and deserted air, the sea breeze whistling through the ruins of the collapsed buildings that dot its streets.The signs of life are a few stray cats and dogs and a handful of families furtively piling their belongings into vehicles as they evacuate their homes.The town sits near the epicentre of the 6.4 earthquake that rocked Puerto Rico on Tuesday – the worse tremor to hit Puerto Rico in a century – which killed at least three people and left thousands homeless. Large-scale aftershocks, including one of 6.0 magnitude on Saturday morning, have rocked the island ever since.“I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Edith Muñiz, 55, a lifelong resident of the town.“Many have fled their homes,” Muñiz said, standing in front of a Presbyterian church where emergency supplies were being collected. Across the street lay the ruins of a school whose three floors had pancaked flat on one another. (Luckily, the students were still off on winter break.) “We’re living here without water and without light.”The quakes are the latest in a string of shocks for this island of 3.2 million people – a commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens but cannot vote in US presidential elections and have no voting representation in the US Congress. The island is still reeling from the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Maria – which devastated the island and killed at least 3,000 people – and processing protests last summer which forced then-governor Ricardo Rosselló from office.As after Maria, the response of the US government has appeared unfocused and disconnected. And – as after Maria – local officials have given varying and contradictory information about the island’s power grid. On Satuday, at least 20% of the island’s customers were still without power.After this latest tragedy, many in Puerto Rico wonder if the powers that lord over them – local or federal – have learned anything from recent history.“The root of the problem remains unchanged,” saids Manuel Natal Albelo, 33, a representative in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives who will be running for mayor of the capital San Juan this fall under the banner of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), an insurgent political party formed shortly before this past summer’s protests.“It is the corruption of a two-party system that responds exclusively to benefit particular financial interest groups,” Natal continued. “From the policies to the individuals in charge of their implementation, the old political establishment still sacrifices the vast majority of our people to protect the privileges of a few.”Rosselló eventually resigned after a series of profane chats were leaked in which he and close advisors mocked ordinary Puerto Ricans. His hand-picked successor, Pedro Pierluisi, lasted just five days before the island’s supreme court forced him out, citing questionable terms of succession.Pierluisi was succeeded by Wanda Vázquez, the island’s justice secretary. She claimed no political aspirations herself, but quickly warmed to the role, announcing last month that she would run for a full term in office, in the primaries of the ruling Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), which favours Puerto Rico becoming a US state.The PNP dominates the island’s bicameral legislature, while the opposition Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) – which favours a continuation of commonwealth status – maintains a slim majority of the mayor’s office. The parties have dominated Puerto Rico for decades.Vázquez has enacted as series of populist measures, including streamlining the process for owning firearms (a questionable initiative in an island with a dire rate of gun crime and femicide) and signing a bill that affirmed the legality of cockfighting, in defiance of a US ban.However, Vázquez has not substantially investigated alleged wrongdoing by some of the participants in the Rosselló chats, including a number of the ex-governor’s top aides. This month, Puerto Rico’s Department of Justice called for a special prosecutor to investigate those involved in the chat.Despite Vázquez’s populist touch – she spent a recent night among quake-affected residents of the battered Guánica and the island’s National Guard has established “tent cities” in five different towns – some now accuse her of continuing the same practices as her predecessor.“After the worst earthquake we have ever experienced in modern history, we were told that in 12 to 24 hours we would have our electricity back, only to be told later that it will take more than a year to fix,” said Mayra Vélez Serrano, a political science professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. “Vázquez inherited many of the same Rosselló cabinet members and secretaries of key agencies, all of whom showed themselves to be completely incapable of managing the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There is very little trust in the government.”A stream of aid from local non-governmental organizations and ordinary Puerto Ricans has flowed south since Tuesday’s initial tremor.But, as the ground beneath the Puerto Ricans feet still shuddered, Donald Trump – who notoriously went golfing as Maria bore down on the island and then tossed paper towels at desperate islanders during a four-hour visit – has continued to withhold more than $18bn in federal funding earmarked by Congress. This was in defiance of a Congressionally-mandated September deadline to account for at least $8m of it. A controversial fiscal oversight board has controlled the island’s finances since 2016, as the bankrupt US commonwealth faces almost $18bn of general-obligation bonds and government-guaranteed debt.But the machinations of any local and federal politicians are a distant drama for those dealing with this latest challenge.As she and her family moved their belongings out of the Villa Del Caribe caserio (public housing project) in the southern city of Ponce, where frightening cracks crept up the buildings’ facades, Yetzabeth Vega López described the night the quake hit.“People were screaming, crying, everyone ran because the buildings were moving so violently. It was horrible,” she said. “We’re trying to find another place to live as this place is now not habitable. In reality, we haven’t seen much help from the government, not federal or local. A lot of people here are sleeping in their cars. This is very hard.”

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MVC; entre la espada y la pared

Comentando la noticia Alfonso Carbonell Chávez   MVC; entre la espada y la pared La nota de ayer fue, sin temor a equivocarme, la entrevista que a las afueras de las oficinas del secretario de Gobernación Alfonso Navarrete Prida, en una clásica banquetera o chacaleo, los reporteros de la fuente le hicieron al gobernador chiapaneco Manuel Velasco Coello. Al salir de una reunión en la que al…

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