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Headlines: In the United States, the first day of hearings on the attack on the Capitol
June 9, 2022, during the hearing of police officer Caroline Edwards and documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, present during the attack on the Capitol.
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In the United States, the commission on the January 6 attack placed, for its first day of hearings, former President Donald Trump at the center of a "
plot
" aimed at keeping him in power.
The United States press is particularly interested in the declarations of the vice-president of the commission, the Republican Liz Cheney - one of the few elected Republicans to have agreed to sit on it.
"
Trump summoned the crowd, he gathered the crowd and lit the fuse for this attack
", writes in title
The Hill
, quoting Liz Cheney.
According to the senator from Wyoming, reports the
New York Post
, Donald Trump also said during the riot that Vice President Mike Pence "
deserved to be hanged
", while his supporters chanted "
hang Mike Pence
" - remember that the vice-president did not object to the certification of the results of the presidential election making Joe Biden the new president of the United States.
Republicans who "defend the indefensible"
Liz Cheney spoke directly to Republicans "
who defend the indefensible: a day will come when Donald Trump will be gone, but your dishonor will remain
".
In doing so, she was also speaking for posterity, the
Washington Post
believes .
The newspaper recalls that the Republicans who, with rare exceptions, have sided with Donald Trump "
have excluded the congresswoman from Wyoming from the leadership of the party, are trying to oust her during the primaries (...), and , after trying to sabotage it, boycotted the January 6 commission
.
But this Thursday, Liz Cheney was able to reply, and her words were broadcast by the major American networks, "
with the notable exception of Fox News, which chose to come between its viewers and the facts
", writes the columnist for the
Washington Post
.
“
It must be because the truth hurts
”, asserts that of
USA Today
.
Fox News covered the auditions anyway, but in an "
absolutely catastrophic
" fashion, according to
the newspaper
, according to which the network did "
everything to discredit them
" - speaking of "
empty and boring
" auditions.
While, according to the
New York Times
, "
in the entire history of the United States – 246 years, there has never been a more damning accusation brought against an American president
”.
A noteworthy speech at the Summit of the Americas
This Friday is the last day in Los Angeles of the Summit of the Americas.
Yesterday, the speech of the Argentine president was very noticed.
"
In ten minutes of speech
," reports
La Voz
, "
Alberto Fernandez criticized the embargoes put in place by the United States against Cuba and Venezuela, spoke out against Washington's decision not to invite Cuban representatives, Nicaraguans or Venezuelans at the top
".
He also demanded the resignation of the president of the Organization of American States, whom he presented as "
a policeman who facilitated a coup in Bolivia
".
According to
La Nacion
, Joe Biden listened to these words, "
very attentive, pencil in hand
“, concluding with a”
We start strong
“the session, which ended with a speech by the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres.
But according to
La Nacion
, this speech by Alberto Fernandez was in fact for internal purposes: for the newspaper, it was not a question of "
changing Joe Biden's perception of the situation in Latin America, but keeping the coalition united. who governs Argentina and to maintain the bridges with the vice-president (and former president) Christina Kirchner
”.
And
La Nacion
emphasizes that if Alberto Fernandez spoke of the "
silence of the absent
", "
he said nothing about the silence of other absentees who also challenge Latin American governments: that of the victims of the dictatorial regimes of Miguel Diaz- Canel, Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega
”.
Ariel Henri in Los Angeles
The Haitian press has followed Prime Minister Ariel Henri, who is also taking part in the Summit of the Americas, and who “
has multiplied meetings in Los
Angeles
” , according to
Le Nouvelliste
: the Dominican president, to talk about security and strengthening customs cooperation;
the United States Ambassador to the UN;
the Secretary General of the OAS to talk about the deterioration of the security climate in the country.
Handshake also with Joe Biden – “
now the leader can die in peace, because he feels he has accomplished the greatest act of his career
”, mocks
Rezo Nodwès
.
More seriously, in its editorial,
Le Nouvelliste
notes that if the summit is not devoted to the Haitian crisis, "
there is no inconvenience that Prime Minister Ariel Henri takes advantage of it to attract attention
".
However, believes the editorialist, "
it is time to seek a Haitian solution to the crisis
."
Low blows in Colombia
In Colombia, the press reveals recordings that put left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in trouble, less than ten days before the second round of the presidential election.
These recordings were broadcast by the weekly
Semana
, according to which the campaign of the candidate of the historic Pact "
apparently organized a strategy to discredit his political opponents
".
Gustavo Petro's opponent for the second round, Rodolfo Hernandez, reacted by saying he feared for his life – this is incidentally the front page of
El Pais
.
Federico Gutierrez, the unsuccessful first-round candidate who now backs Rodolfo Hernandez, refers to the historic Pact campaign team as a "
criminal gang, it's a Petrogate
."
An “
ordeal 2.0 for Petro?
asks
El Espectador
, who believes that in any case, "
a few days before the elections, low blows are raining down
".
According to a latest Semana
poll
, Gustavo Petro is at 48.1% and Rodolfo Hernandez at 46.8 of the voting intentions.
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