In the News: Towards a Constitutional Crisis in the United States?

The US president once again reiterated that he could not guarantee a peaceful transfer of power in the event of a defeat in the presidential election, according to the "New York Times".

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Donald Trump is causing a new controversy.

The US president has once again reiterated that he cannot guarantee a peaceful transfer of power in the event of a defeat in the presidential election, according to the

.

This is what he had already said the day before which had led to reactions from his camp in an attempt to reassure the Americans.

Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, considered an ally of the president, for example did not hesitate to contradict Donald Trump by affirming that the result of the election would be respected and that an orderly transition would be carried out.

But Donald Trump does not budge.

According to him it will certainly be the Supreme Court which will have the last word, which goes against the rules recalls the New York daily.

The

now says it fears an institutional crisis due to the repeated attacks by Donald Trump.

The newspaper recalls that for months now the president has continued to discredit the November 3 election and that he will certainly not recognize a defeat against Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

Hence this eagerness to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court.

An eventuality for which the attorneys general of the Democratic states are preparing, according to the

since the latter are in the process of developing a common strategy to know what to do if by chance Donald Trump refuses to accept the result .

Peaceful protest despite curfew in Louisville, Kentucky

Another night of demonstration despite the curfew imposed the day before and which begins at 9 p.m.

About a thousand protesters gathered and marched towards a church in the city center, the local daily

.

A church which had decided to open its doors for the occasion.

At 9 p.m. the peaceful demonstrators, the newspaper said, entered the building while security forces were deployed in the street and around the church.

After two hours of discussions, the police finally let the demonstrators leave and return home.

This is the image that we will remember from this new event evening.

According to the authorities, 84 people were still arrested because they refused to disperse.

A figure far from the more than 120 arrests that had been recorded the day before, specifies the daily.

New blunder sparks outrage in Colombia

The death of a transsexual killed by the military while she was traveling with her companion on a road in the southwest of the country made the front page of the Colombian press this Friday.

Another blunder, this time on the part of the military, a few weeks after the death of Jorge Ordoñez, a lawyer who died in Bogota following a police blunder which had provoked unprecedented demonstrations.

According to the story of Juliana Giraldo's companion that can be read in the pages of

, the couple were driving on a road when soldiers appeared at the crossroads of another path.

They stopped as requested by the military, which did not prevent a soldier from opening fire, killing Juliana.

The soldier in question was taken into custody and an investigation is open.

Juliana Ordoñez was the best that had happened to me, explains her companion.

A new example of violence against transsexuals, denounces the magazine

.

A community that has seen acts of violence on the increase in recent years.

In Brazil: no parades in the Sambodrome de Rio in 2021

The 2021 edition of the famous Rio de Janeiro carnival parade in the Sambodrome, scheduled for February, has been postponed indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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This is how the news was announced on Thursday by the president of the Independent League of Samba Schools in Rio de Janeiro, according to

.

But all is not yet lost, details

.

For now, only the parade in the Sambodrome is canceled, the authorities in Rio have not yet decided whether they will allow the festivities in the streets.

As a reminder: the last time the world's most famous carnival was canceled was in 1912, over a century ago.

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