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Headline: Texas sends more than 100 migrants to Kamala Harris' residence
A group of migrants from Texas near the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington on December 24, 2022. © AP
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130 migrants were dropped off outside the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington.
"
Three buses from Texas transported these migrants, some of them wearing t-shirts, to the American capital, while on this Christmas night the thermometer there showed -10 degrees
", reports the
Los Angeles Times
.
“
These 130 people stranded in front of Kamala Harris' house were taken care of by charitable organizations rushed to the scene.
Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement
, the daily continues,
but this transfer is part of a series of other actions by the Republican governors of the border states who thus intend to protest against the migration policy of the Biden administration.
»
The Democrats are up in arms and directly accuse the Republican governor of Texas, writes
The Hill
.
“
Greg Abbot abandoned children on the side of the road in sub-zero temperatures on Christmas Eve
,” protests the White House.
“ Criminal
” behavior
, criticizes the elected Democrat in the House, Richie Torres.
And his college Joaquin Castro exclaims on Twitter: "
Being a heartless man will not make you the next Republican President of the United States, Mr. Abbot
".
Brazil: foiled attack at Brasília airport before Lula's inauguration
The Brazilian capital narrowly escaped an attack.
George Washington de Oliveira Sousa, owner of a gas station in the state of Pará and aged 54, "
had placed explosives in a tanker truck near the international airport
", explains
O Globo
.
The truck driver had noticed the device and alerted the police.
The police arrested Oliveira Sousa in an apartment he had been renting since the second round of the presidential election.
The police “
found explosives, large caliber weapons and ammunition there
”.
The suspect said
he "wanted to create chaos to provoke an intervention by the army and thus prevent the return of communism to power
", in reference to the inauguration of left-wing president-elect Lula da Silva, writes
Correio Braziliense
.
Something to alarm the transition team which ordered the arrest of around twenty supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, reports
Folha de São Paulo
.
Those close to the new president accuse some members of the army of “
colluding with anti-democratic extremists.
Since the defeat of their champion, the Bolsonarists have indeed camped in front of the Brazilian barracks
.
Fight against organized crime in El Salvador
On this Christmas weekend, controversial President Nayib Bukele sent more than 2,000 soldiers and police to cordon off two districts of the capital.
This is the second operation of this type in just one month.
“
Authorities say they have dismantled drug warehouses, confiscated money, weapons and arrested 42 people
,” writes
elsalvador.com
.
But the newspaper specifies that "
the lawyers denounce a" media spectacle "
".
According to them, “
the government has sufficient intelligence to target criminals directly instead of attacking entire municipalities
”.
Haiti: opponents criticize the recently concluded political agreement
In Haiti, the political agreement signed last week between the provisional government and certain political parties and civil society actors is far from unanimous.
Predictably, the opposition, including members of the rival Montana accord, accuse Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the signatories of "
simple power-sharing at the expense of the underprivileged population
" .
instead of seeking “
a truly inclusive compromise
,” reports
The National
.
Le Nouvelliste
, for its part, is visibly exasperated: "
The opposition like the government, men of wit and money, people from the Church like the actors of civil society manage with the worst so as not to s “Hear on nothing, for months
”, protests our colleague Frantz Duval.
“
Time is passing, the general conditions are deteriorating;
and the international community, armed with its sanctions, is playing kingmaker.
She imposes, suggests, tolerates, dismisses whoever she wants.
In recent years, the worst Haitian leaders have had the support of all the embassies accredited to Haiti and of all the United Nations missions deployed in the country
", recalls the editorialist who believes that "
changing software requires acknowledging past mistakes
”.
And Frantz Duval concludes: “
Everything is so bad in Haiti that there is still a lot of room for the beautiful, the good and the good.
Let's each be a worker in the good cause in 2023 to get the country and each of us out of the circle of failure
”.
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