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The Covid-19 pandemic is out of control in the United States. For the second consecutive day, more than 50,000 new cases have been registered and the curve is ascending in 40 of the 50 States. Only between California, Arizona, Texas and Florida they accumulated 25,000 positives on Thursday. Hospitals are beginning to overflow in various parts of the country. Still, President Donald Trump insists that the situation is being handled properly and that the main thing is to reopen the economy. So he decided to go ahead with a new mass event in Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, where neither social distance nor the mandatory use of masks was imposed. Trump refuses to wear one in public .

The president had planned to visit the controversial monument this Friday with the first lady, Melania Trump, at a rally where some 7,500 people were expected as a starting gun for the celebrations of the US Independence Day. The moment chosen is especially sensitive. The mountain where the faces of four American presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln are sculpted, has been the subject of debate amid a wave of racial tension after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and the revisionism of racist monuments that reigns in the whole country.

Trump seems to be putting more fuel on the fire than ever . Not only does he continue to insist that the coronavirus will disappear sooner or later, but he has stood firm in defending Confederate symbols like that of Robert E. Lee. The general's equestrian statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, sparked fierce protests in 2017 between white supremacists and protesters seeking to destroy the statue, an incident that resulted in one death.

The presence of Trump in front of the famous mountain will reopen the wound even more, without a doubt. The Black Hills where the national monument is and that Alfred Hitchcock helped immortalize with the final scene of With Death on His Heels (1959), is the territory of the Sioux Indians, a sacred place that Native Americans feel has been abused of systematically by the US government.

"Indigenous peoples and my ancestors fought, died, and gave their lives to protect the sacred land ," Nick Tilsen told CNN, the president of an organization supporting indigenous peoples. "Flying a mountain and putting the faces of four white men who were colonizers and committed a genocide against indigenous peoples is an outrage."

Two of them, in addition, Washington and Jefferson, were slave owners. The equestrian statue of another of the honorees, Roosevelt, will be removed from the entrance of the Museum of Natural History of New York for appearing alongside a black and a half-naked indigenous man. They were not the only ones. Sacramento decided to remove a Christopher Columbus monument with Isabel la Católica, a story similar to Fray Junípero Serra in San Francisco. In New Mexico, the statue of the conqueror Juan de Oñate was attacked by protesters a few days ago.

Meanwhile, Trump has devoted himself to "retweeting" videos about white power, and the indigenous people who planned to receive him with protests maintain that he now wants a political rally "glorifying white supremacism in front of Mount Rushmore."

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has assured that they will distribute masks for free "for those who decide to wear one. But there will be no social distancing to enjoy the freedoms that being an American implies," he told Fox News. The one that has rectified her position is the governor of Texas, the republican Greg Abbott, after the dramatic increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 in her state, 8,000 new ones on Thursday. The use of masks has become mandatory after questioning them from the beginning and being one of the first to reopen the economy.

In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot imposed a quarantine order on visitors from 15 states who want to enter the city and who could face up to a $ 7,000 fine if they don't comply. In California, several northern counties have asked citizens to celebrate July 4th at home.

Miami has gone a step further by imposing a curfew beginning at 10 p.m. throughout Miami-Dade County . The state of Florida is one of the most affected by the pandemic, with more than 10,000 new cases registered on Thursday and another 9,400 on Friday. The total for the US now amounts to 2.7 million infections and 128,951 deaths. Far from being under control.

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