In the headlines: in Ecuador, blockades and protests continue against the price of gasoline
The police were deployed to disperse the demonstrators, during a mobilization against the increase in gasoline prices, on October 27, 2021 in Quito.
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A person died this Wednesday, October 27, obviously in an accident: "
a journalist lost his life falling from a van while covering the demonstrations
" indigenous and union, headline
Expresso
. It happened in Toacasa, in Cotopaxi province, in the north. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, Conaie, which is one of the organizations to have called for these blockages, reacted by asking for “
guarantees for the work of the indigenous media
”. The Minister of the Interior Alexandra Vela, also quoted by
Expresso
, affirms for her part that Juan Gonzalo Rojas "
had been attacked by demonstrators and it was while trying to flee that he climbed into the vehicle, lost his balance and fell
”.
Expresso is
also the title at the invitation launched by President Lasso to Leonidas Iza, the chef of Conaie.
He is invited, with the leaders of the People's Parliament "
to open a new dialogue on November 10
".
El Universo
recalls that a first meeting took place on October 4 at the Palacio de Carondelet, the seat of government.
The newspaper
publishes an interview with the spokesperson for the presidency, Carlos Jijon.
For him, the ball is now in the court of Conaie and the Unitary Workers Front (which brings together the main unions).
He says "
the government is not inflexible
."
Before this invitation from the president, reports
Expresso
, the unions announced "
the holding next week of a national convention to encourage a strike across the country, among other means of" permanent mobilization
".
Vaccination in Nicaragua… and in Honduras
The figures of Vice-President Rosario Murillo can be read in
Trinchera de la Noticia
: more than one million 540,000 Nicaraguans have been vaccinated, or 53.7% of the target population, and 23% of the total population. The Vice-President “
thanked the international cooperation for the vaccine doses given
”, especially Spain. Norway, India and Panama have also given, completes
Trinchera de la Noticia
, who recalls that "
Honduras has also opened its border so that Nicaraguans can access Moderna and Pfizer vaccines
".
La Prensa
followed a group that hired a bus to get vaccinated in Honduras, "
like thousands of other people,
" said the newspaper, which quotes one of these travelers: "
We do not trust the vaccine proposed in Nicaragua
”.
La Prensa
recalls that the vaccination of 18-30 year olds began last Monday, with the Russian vaccine Sputnik Light, which has not yet received approval from the World Health Organization.
Sitting Bull descendant identified thanks to DNA test
Ernie LaPointe, the
Wall Street Journal
explains
, had already proven his kinship with the famous Indian chief - family tree, birth and death certificates, historical documents.
To clear it up, he had a lock of his hair compared to one from Sitting Bull, which was given to him in 2007 after sleeping for over a century in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. .
The journal
Science Advances
published the results on Wednesday: Ernie LaPointe is Sitting Bull's great-grandson.
His goal: to use this kinship so that the tomb of the winner of Custer in Little Bighorn is no longer buried in some place in South Dakota, but in another that would have more significance.
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