Headlines: Joe Biden's Democracy Summit
Joe Biden, President of the United States, December 8, 2021, in the gardens of the White House, Washington.
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US President Joe Biden brings together this Thursday, December 9 and for two days a hundred countries for a "summit for democracy". But if "
Biden wants to strengthen democracy abroad, some would like him to do more on American soil
", headlines the
Boston Globe.
"
He doesn't commit for us like we did for him, and now we are talking about a summit for democracy
? It's a real snub,
”chokes LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Fund for the vote of blacks.
Some are "
extremely frustrated
", the newspaper explains, because "
the Biden administration has focused its legislative efforts on economic incentives and laws on infrastructure and social spending
."
They would like her to move forward on two voting bills that Republicans do not support.
On condition of anonymity, a senior official said that the US president "
will be very honest during the summit about the challenges facing American democracy
."
And this Wednesday, December 8, the White House affirmed that these texts were "
an absolute priority
" - without explaining, notes the newspaper, how it intends to pass them.
Attack on the Capitol
More broadly, one of the dangers run by American democracy is also the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The parliamentary commission of inquiry is interested, explains the
Washington Post,
"
in those who financed the demonstration which preceded the Capitol riot
”. Particularly to a "
little-known Donald Trump donor who, eight days before, quietly donated a total of
$
650,000 to three organizations that helped organize the event
." This donor is Julie Fancelli, 72, the daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery chain. A chain which in a press release assures that it has nothing to do with this story.
The parliamentary commission of inquiry to which Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff of Donald Trump, tries to put sticks in the wheels: "
He joins Donald Trump in his lawsuits against the committee to block the investigation
", explains the
New York Times.
The reason: the court had itself announced proceedings against him, when, after accepting to testify, he finally refused to do so.
And if Mark Meadows has already provided the committee with thousands of pages of documents, notes the
Wall Street Journal,
since September, he defended the idea that "
certain communications of the executive were protected by the Constitution and that we could not force him to reveal them
”.
In Cuba, the arrival of the Omicron variant
The traveler infected with the new variant of the coronavirus "
arrived on November 27
" on the island, resulting in 18 contact cases, specifies
Juventud Rebelde. Granma,
another pro-regime newspaper, underlines for its part that "
Cuba is strengthening its studies on the lasting side effects of Covid-19
"
-
breathing difficulties, joint pain, insomnia: "
Almost a million Cubans have had the Covid, and their full recovery is a priority for the country.
"
The opposition press, like
El Nuevo Herald,
echoes the “
hundreds of artists and writers who, in an open letter, support the artists detained in Cuba
”. The newspaper recalls that many were "
locked up after the July 11 protests
".
338 artists signed the text.
Among them, the actress Meryl Streep, the writers Paul Auster, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa, but also representatives of Cuban culture, underlines
14ymedio,
like the authors of the song
Patria y Vida
, one of the symbols of the manifestation of the 11 July.
The Franco-Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska believes that "
if an intellectual, a writer or an artist rises against a government, he is fulfilling an indispensable task
".
In Mexico, the fate of Haitian migrants
El Universal
visited the Olympic stadium in the city of Tapachula, where 7,000 of them have been stranded for three weeks, and where, the newspaper explains, garbage, urine and feces accumulate under a temperature of 42 degrees.
According to Eduardo, one of the migrants, “
most of the migrants and adults are sick […] and no one is there to take care of them
”.
What
El Universal
reveals on the front page is that, according to several testimonies, "
people who present themselves as agents of the National Institute of Migration would charge them $ 300 for the transfer to other states in Mexico to continue. their travel, a service that is normally free
”.
In its
editorial,
the newspaper denounces "
a violation not only of their human rights, but also of one of the most vulnerable groups of people to cross the country
"
, and calls for an investigation.
El Universal
notes that this is happening in the context of the resumption of the “
Remain in Mexico
” program: those seeking asylum in the United States must remain in Mexico while their application is examined.
"
All this is going to create is more abuse and more violence,
" concludes
El Universal.
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