On the front page: US presidential election, critics fuse after the first debate

The first televised US presidential candidates debate with Donald Trump (L) and Joe Biden on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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a chimpanzee armed with a machine gun

 ", explains the editorial

of

which uses the expression used by a reporter for the

.

A debate that was a real " 

 ", even headlines the Canadian daily.

The columnist also explains that he did not expect anything else from Donald Trump: " 

 " can we read in particular.

A debate that does not bode well according to

 : “ 

 ”announces the daily.

An analysis that does not share the moderator of this debate, the journalist of the Fox News channel Chris Wallace.

In any case, this is what he confides in an interview with the

.

Even if he recognizes that this was not the debate he envisaged, according to him, this first verbal game will still have been revealing, in particular of what the candidates really think.

A debate permanently interrupted by interventions by Donald Trump who has never ceased to cut the floor to his opponent Joe Biden.

On this aspect, Chris Wallace admits to having thrown in the towel quickly, seeing that it was impossible to call Donald Trump to order.

Finally, concerning the controversy sparked by the words of the president who refused to condemn a group of white supremacists, Chris Wallace believes he gave Donald Trump the opportunity to take a stand, which he was not able to do. .

A controversy, details the

, that the White House has since tried to extinguish.

Quebec is tightening the screws on the rise in Covid-19 cases

Since midnight, new measures have been in effect in the fight against Covid-19 in Quebec, since this province has passed into the red zone.

Bars, dining rooms, cinemas, theaters and several other gathering places are now closed, explains

.

Measures that were further strengthened yesterday so that the police enforce health instructions in the context where the pandemic is accelerating according to local authorities.

" 

 " explains the

 : fines of 1,000 Canadian dollars will now be distributed immediately in the event of a prohibited gathering at home, as well as to demonstrators who refuse to wear the mask and residents of red zones who gather with friends in parks.

" 

 " said the national director of public health yesterday.

" 

 ", we can read in the pages of

.

Argentina mourns Quino's disappearance

The news of the death of cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as Quino, Mafalda's father, made the front page of much of the Argentine press.

And not only.

Because the stories of Mafalda, a mischievous little girl, were followed throughout the continent and even beyond, details

.

The Argentinian daily

dares to compare it with an anecdote about Picasso.

During the occupation in France, German soldiers reportedly searched the home of the Spanish painter and asked him if he was the author of Guernica.

To which he would have replied: " 

 ".

For

, the vignettes of Mafalda's stories also represented the eternal evils of humanity.

The daily

is

online today on its site a series of drawings made by comedians and cartoonists who pay tribute to Quino and Mafalda, a character out of time and who will have been a real social phenomenon, believes the columnist for

.

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