Headlines: Joe Biden will present part of his cabinet

The new President of the United States, Joe Biden.

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President-elect Joe Biden is due to unveil his first choices for the future government on Tuesday.

A few names are already circulating and for the media, it is certain that the foreign affairs portfolio goes to Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden's diplomatic adviser.

According to the

is a fervent supporter of international alliances, in short of multilateralism.

" 

,

said Anthony Blinken last July at a conference, before to add:

 ".

A position which according to the

contrasts with Donald Trump's America first doctrine.

In any case, the goal of the new Secretary of State

would be to rally allies around a broad coalition to counter China's influence on the international stage.

At 58, Anthony Blinken knows very well the workings of American diplomacy, he served as assistant secretary of state under President Barack Obama, specifies the

.

A large place reserved for women

According to the news site

, the elected president is " 

 " to respect parity in the composition of his new team.

And so far, it effectively gives a large place to women who are the majority among the 500 employees responsible for preparing the transition of power.

According to The Hill, Joe Biden may well appoint a woman to head the CIA and the Pentagon, the Department of Defense.

We already know from information filtered in the press that the former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under President Barack Obama, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will be appointed for the post of Ambassador to the UN.

Political crisis in Guatemala

Hundreds of people demonstrated again yesterday Sunday to demand the resignation of conservative President Alejandro Giammattei.

They accuse him of devoting, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, too little money to the fight against poverty and inequalities in the new budget for 2021. An opinion shared by the newspaper

which denounces an “

 ”

budget 

for the lifestyle of the state and the administration and “ 

 ” for citizens who would need a greater investment in the health sector.

Faced with pressure from the streets, Parliament is backtracking.

He decided not to send the contested budget bill to the government for signature.

It's on the front page of

.

The President of Parliament Allan Rodriguez explains this decision with the desire to " 

 ".

The president had previously criticized the demonstrators for their "violence" according to him and asked for the support of the Organization of American States to promote a dialogue with his opponents.

Comment from

 : " 

 ".

According to the newspaper, the president is not really looking for a compromise.

Protests against racism in Brazil

Sunday, November 22, 2020, hundreds of people denounced the death of Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas, an Afro-Brazilian who died last Thursday after being beaten by two security officers at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre

Brazil is living its “George Floyd” moment as the debate over deep racism in the country resurfaces in the media.

A racism that is reflected among other things in the inequalities of the education system.

According to

, only one in two students at a private school in Sao Paulo is black.

The newspaper sums up the situation in one sentence: Today in Brazil, a person who is not white skin has almost no chance of integrating into institutions which

Tackling these inequalities is a huge challenge for public authorities, writes the newspaper.

And the task will not be easy indeed because the president of the extreme right Jair Bolsonaro quite simply denies the existence of racism in the country.

Arrests of journalists and opponents in Cuba

Opponents were arrested yesterday Sunday during protests across the country.

According to the

site

, they are journalists, artists and human rights activists like Berta Solers who is part of the “Les Dames en Blancs” movement.

Among those arrested, people who denounce the government's crackdown on the protest movement San Isidro, a collective of independent artists.

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