Headlines: in the United States, a commission to investigate January 6
Flag bearing the symbol of the conspiracy movement QAnon, carried by supporters of Donald Trump, January 6, 2021 during the assault on Capitol Hill.
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Two days after Donald Trump's acquittal, the events of January 6 on Capitol Hill continue to agitate the political sphere in the United States.
This Monday, February 15, the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announced the future creation of an independent commission, the
Washington Post
tells us
.
She will be tasked with investigating what led a mob to storm the temple of American democracy.
A commission similar to that which studied the attacks of September 11, 2001 for fifteen months, details the
Washington Post
.
An initiative that would have the support of part of the Republican elected officials, explains the daily.
Even Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who voted in favor of Trump's acquittal, is in favor.
Many questions remain unanswered and elected officials hope that with this commission, all the light will be shed.
Unprecedented cold wave in the United States
A winter storm that affects twenty-five states and has already
claimed
several lives, announces
USA Today
, ten, according to AFP.
"
More than 150 million Americans live in a place where warnings of extreme cold, freezing rain or snowstorm vigilance plans have been put in place,
" the NWS, the meteorological service announced on Tuesday, February 16 national.
A storm that stretches over three thousand kilometers, stretching from Texas to Maine.
Today, more than four million Texans are without electricity.
Hundreds of local negative temperature records have been broken, also details the daily.
A storm that also poses logistical problems in the vaccination campaign, explains in another
USA Today
article
.
Problems in terms of delivery (especially for Florida and Texas), but also problems of conservation because of power cuts, knowing that the vaccines must be stored at very low temperature.
A situation which is likely to last since this polar cold should last a few more days, warns the newspaper.
Five million Mexicans without electricity
"
Mega Apagón
", headlines a large part of the Mexican press on Tuesday, February 16.
Since then, over twenty-four hours of enormous power cuts have affected the north of the country.
Cuts that may still last, warns the Mexican National Center for Energy Control in the pages of
El Universal
.
These cuts mainly affect the north of the country, but even the city of Puebla is concerned.
According to the Federal Electricity Commission, these cuts are mainly due to an increase in energy demand in the United States, knowing that the two countries are interconnected when it comes to electricity and gas, explains
Milenio
.
The authorities hope for a quick return to normal.
At present, 55% of the households concerned have electricity again, according to
Milenio
.
Colombia receives first doses of vaccine
A country that can breathe, but that is not going to celebrate this announcement, explains in Une
El Espectador
.
Yesterday, fifty thousand doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer / BioNtech were delivered and received with honors since President Ivan Duque and a whole crowd of official officials were present on the tarmac.
Speeches, music, flags, all followed by the television channels detail the daily life.
"
A historic moment
", according to the Colombian president.
El Espectador
tempers this enthusiasm: it is not the vaccines that will save lives, but the mass vaccination campaign that must be implemented.
And here, Colombia is behind schedule, estimates the newspaper which compares in particular the vaccination campaign carried out with beating pace in Chile with the slowness observed in Colombia.
According to
El Tiempo
, it is a nurse, Verónica Luz Machado Torres, who will be this Wednesday February 17 the first person vaccinated in Colombia.
According to the plan put in place by the authorities, the goal is to vaccinate thirty-five million Colombians by the end of the year, that is to say 70% of the population.
The deployment of this campaign will be gradual, according to Ivan Duque.
For example Bogota and Medellin will not begin their vaccination campaign until Thursday.
Ultra-low temperature freezers have been deployed throughout the country and as in many other countries, health workers will be the first to be vaccinated.
An application will also be set up, announces
Semana
, which will allow Colombians to know when they can receive a first dose of the vaccine.
Death of Johnny Pacheco, father of salsa
Musician, composer and producer, Johnny Pacheco, who was born in 1935 in the Dominican Republic, died at the age of eighty-five this Monday in New York.
He was the one who notably founded the Fania Records label.
A record company that has allowed salsa to take on its full dimension, details the
New York Times
and that has allowed stars such as Celia Cruz, Willy Colon or Ruben Blades to shine.
Unparalleled flutist and percussionist, he is at the origin of the super group "Fania All Stars".
"
Thank you for your
heritage
", can we read in the pages of the Dominican daily
Diario Libre
this Tuesday, which details the many tributes that were paid to him after the announcement of his death because, as
El Listin Diario
recalls
, Johnny Pacheco is certainly at the origin of the development of Latin music in the world.
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