In the spotlight: new tensions in Minneapolis
Protesters clashed with police in Minneapolis after an officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop.
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The city of Minneapolis is still under tension after a second consecutive night of protests, despite the entry into force of a curfew.
The death of a young black man in the midst of a trial over the murder of George Floyd has rekindled residents' anger.
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Justice for Daunte Wright
", "Justice for Daunte Wright" was written in big red letters on the street near the George Floyd memorial.
This photo made the front page of the
New York Times on
Tuesday.
The newspaper reports that hundreds of people demonstrated last night in front of the Brooklyn Center police station in suburban Minneapolis, defying the curfew put in place from 7 p.m.
"
Protesters who clashed with the police,
" headlines the local newspaper
Star Tribune.
Shortly before the protests began, police released a video recording that shows how 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot dead by a policewoman during a traffic stop.
She had mistaken her weapon for a Taser.
An investigation has been opened.
The video which comes from the on-board camera of the policewoman was commented a lot by the demonstrators last night
.
“
It worries me a lot,
” the director of a vocational training center for African Americans told the
Star Tribune.
"
I am the mother of a son who is the same age as Daunte Wright, it could have been him
"
.
Mexico "
has failed in the management of the pandemic
"
In Mexico, a survey by a Californian research institute made headlines.
According to the Institute for Global Health Sciences, Mexico could have avoided the more 190,000 deaths from Covid-19 if the government had better managed the health crisis.
That's the headline of
El Universal
newspaper
.
"
Mexico has failed in its response to the pandemic,
" concludes the study by the research institute, commissioned by the World Health Organization.
This inability has cost many lives, according to the report which highlights in particular a shortage of tests and a cruel lack of care for patients.
The fact that very few Mexicans could be tested obscured the real number of contaminations.
Based on false figures, the authorities did not take adequate measures, continues the research institute.
According to the study, the care of patients revealed once again a great social inequality of Mexicans in terms of access to care.
Brazilian senators to investigate the management of the health crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic is also on the front page of the Brazilian press.
With in particular its political component.
President Jair Bolsonaro is trying to prevent the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into his handling of the crisis.
This commission of inquiry should be created this Tuesday in the Senate, but the president's allies are trying to prevent it by contesting its legitimacy and by arguing for procedural flaws.
According to
Folha de S. Paulo,
the government fears that this commission will harm the popularity of the president, already in decline for several months.
And this while the campaign for his re-election is supposed to begin next June.
The president himself denies any attempt at obstruction, read the front page of the weekly
CartaCapital.
But according to an opposition senator, the government has no way of preventing the establishment of this commission, scheduled for Tuesday at 4 p.m. Brasilia time.
Pedro Castillo or Keiko Fujimori, two visions for the country
In Peru, we now know the candidates for the second round of the presidential elections: Professor Pedro Castillo, representative of the radical left will face the candidate of the populist right, Keiko Fujimori.
After the counting of about 91% of the ballots by the National Electoral Office (ONPE), Pedro Castillo counted more than 19.10% of the votes and Keiko Fujimori 13.34%.
With these two finalists, the country is at a crossroads, writes the newspaper
El Comercio.
In a few months, voters will have the choice between two visions of the country, two perspectives of the future.
And two candidates with very different profiles, adds the newspaper.
Keiko Fujimori, who has been part of the political landscape since the 1990s, faces a relative newbie in politics, who has gained popularity in the center and south of the country.
This choice shows a country which is tired, depressed, which is desperately looking for a new figure, a kind of white knight capable of saving it, comments a political scientist in the columns of the newspaper
La República.
Another expert, speaking in the same newspaper, predicts a very divided and unpredictable second-round campaign.
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