In the spotlight: in Canada, the international donors' conference for Venezuelan refugees and migrants
Venezuelan refugees cross the border and go to Colombia.
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Canada is hosting this Thursday the International Donors' Conference for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants, organized by the UN.
Objective: to give visibility to the 5.7 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants, explains
El Pitazo
.
Because, and the Venezuelan newspaper quotes Eduardo Stein, the representative of the Organization for Migration, “
the exodus from Venezuela seems endless, and there is a real possibility that it will turn into a forgotten crisis
”.
Another objective of the conference: to collect, estimates the newspaper, and
“urgently, 1.44 billion dollars to assist Venezuelan migrants and refugees.
For the moment, only 5% of this amount has been committed.
"
A new wall
Meanwhile, to prevent migrants from passing, some are building walls. In any case, that is the goal of the governor of Texas Greg Abott, and it is on the front page of the Mexican press. The governor, headlines
Milenio
, "
announces the construction of his own border wall, directly opposing the Biden administration
". Greg Abbott on Wednesday authorized the transfer of $ 250 million from the fund for disasters, "
to start
", because to report
El Universal
, according to the governor the wall will also be built with donations, to face what he calls a “
real butchery
” caused by the flow of migrants. Greg Abott says locals are "
threatened every day by armed people crossing the border
”.
Logically, Milenio draws the parallel with the speeches held by Donald Trump, an “
anything but free
”
parallel,
explains the newspaper, “
since Abbott and Trump will visit the border with Mexico together on June 30
”.
But legal experts "
do not believe that Abbott's project has much chance of going to completion,
" reports
El Universal
, and provides for legal remedies, both for this wall project and for the one announced. last week by the governor, to send more migrants to jail for crossing the border illegally.
"Biden should beware"
In the United States, the long-awaited US-Russian summit ended yesterday. The photos of Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are on the front page of all the press in the United States today, with not 50 shades of gray, but at least four shades of Biden / Putin: the two men looking at each other from afar without smile on the front page of the
Washington Post
; advancing towards each other, arms outstretched, on the front page of The
New York Times
. That's it, their two hands are touching on the
Wall Street Journal
, and the
Financial Times
shows them finally together, smiling, turned towards the photographer.
We will not go so far as to kiss the Russian, and if "
Biden and Putin say they want a better relationship
" explains the
New York Times
, the summit will have above all resonated with their arguments: "
they have not resolved none of the disagreements that sent US-Russian relations to their lowest point since the Cold War
”. Moreover, according to
the newspaper
, "
with Putin, Biden tries to forge a bond based on well-understood interests, not on souls
".
The
Washington Post still
believes that "
Biden gave Putin the benefit of the doubt
", and that he "
should be wary
".
The newspaper is surprised that the two men spoke of "
constructive
"
discussions
, while they did not result in "
the end of cyber attacks from Russian soil (...), and the release of American citizens unjustly imprisoned in Moscow
".
The Washington Post
is scathing: "
The rhetoric was very similar to that used in the meetings of the last three American presidents with Mr. Putin, who has invariably betrayed his promises and steadily increased his attacks on the American political system and its alliances.
".
Juneteenth
In the United States, Republicans and Democrats approved this Wednesday in Congress the creation of a new holiday, June 19, to commemorate the emancipation of the last slaves in Texas, in 1865. These are also two elected Texans who presented the text to Congress.
One of the local newspapers, the
Houston Chronicle
, points out that Republican John Cornyn in particular spearheaded the movement.
The Chronicle
takes up the tweet in which the senator recalls that Juneteenth (contraction of "June" and "19" in English) "
has been a holiday in Texas for more than 40 years
", and underlines: "
Today more than ever, we must learn from our history and continue to form an even more perfect union
".
But it will not be for today: “
Who are the 14 elected Republicans who voted against a public holiday for Juneteenth? And why ?
»Asks
USA Today
. First, there is Texas MP Ronny Jackson believes that there are enough public holidays today. Kentucky Republican Thomas Massy, for his part, believes that calling this new holiday “
National Independence Day” can create confusion and lead Americans to choose one of the two days (the other being the 4th July, NdA) as that of their independence, based on their racial identity
”.
The
Houston Chronicle
prefers for its part to recall that Senator Cornyn had also drafted in 2019, with a Texas Democrat deputy, a bill to reflect on the creation of a
51-mile "
Emancipation Route
" (a little more 80 kilometers) between Galveston and Houston, "
the road that freed slave families took to build new life
."
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