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In the News: Joe Biden calls again to regulate the use of assault weapons

U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the commemoration of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, at the White House, in Washington, U.S., May 24, 2023. © REUTERS - KEVIN LAMARQUE

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Joe Biden, moved to tears, paid tribute to the 21 victims of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas a year ago. The president also called for more regulation of the use of firearms. This is also the fight that the families of the disappeared want to fight.

The New York Times devotes a beautiful report to them. Its journalists spent a year alongside the relatives of the 21 victims, students and teachers, in the city populated mostly by working-class Latinos. Their names were Alexandra Rubio, Jacklyn Cazares, Maite Rodriguez. Most buried in the city cemetery. Over the months and visits to their graves, a pact is made between the families: do everything so that such a tragedy is not replayed, and that weapons are no longer accessible to young people of 18 years, the age of the killer.

We follow them in front of the town hall, the governor's residence or even in Washington, hand in hand. "For a year, they crossed a desert of mourning, anger and frustration, seeking together if not peace, at least a reason to live," says the daily.

Six million people without gas in southwestern Colombia

This is due to the sharp rise in temperature around the gas pipeline that serves the region of the coffee axis and that of the Cauca Valley. It is probably due to a volcanic phenomenon, according to gas operators. It is also a vital area for the economy. The authorities did not delay in reacting. In the newspaper La Patria, with aerial photos in support, we observe the huge trenches dug hastily to install the flexible tubes that will allow the return of service. Operations that should last seven days. At least, if bad weather does not slow down the work, says the newspaper.

Kirchnerism, a cult of personality?

May 25 is Argentina's Fatherland Day, and Vice President Cristina Kirchner will speak tonight in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. It is also an opportunity to commemorate the accession to the presidency of her late husband Nestor Kirchner exactly 20 years ago. She will not stand in the October elections. But everyone around her invites her and she will be alone on stage tonight.

The newspaper La Nacion sees it as proof of a "fervent cult of personality" that keeps the leader of Peronism, or "Perono-Kichnerism" if you prefer, at the center of the game. Represented in drawing with several rubik's cube in hand, "the woman who will appear this Thursday in front of the crowd is caught in a web of difficulty" to choose a candidate, says the newspaper La Nacion.

Several newspapers headline the 20 years of Kirchnerism, and make a mixed assessment, between economic failures and corruption. Ms. Kirchner herself was convicted last year. La Nacion predicts nothing less than the failure of his party in October. While Clarin develops at length the narrative of these twenty years, "begun by the hopes born of the worst economic crisis in its history, and obscured by the corruption and authoritarianism of its leaders," summarizes the newspaper.

Tina Turner, an exceptional career

Tributes poured in from around the world to celebrate the "Queen of Rock", Tina Tuner, who died overnight in her home in Switzerland. "Like his legs, his voice never let go," headlines the New York Times. The newspaper returns like the others on the artistic career of the queen of rock. A career intertwined in her personal life and the painful duo she formed with Ike, her ex-husband and producer who beat her. The separation from him was brutal as well as saving.

The newspaper recalls how the singer rediscovered her voice in 1966 with the song River Deep, Mountain High, "because for the first time in my life," she says, "it was not R&B. There was structure and melody; I was a singer. I showed what I had in me." The meeting with his new manager, Roger Davies, also had something to do with it. The Australian "became the architect of one of the most remarkable comebacks in the history of show business," reports the Washington Post.

An exceptional journey that has influenced everyone. "His energy on stage, his wig defying gravity are found in Janet Jackson and Beyoncé," says the Rolling Stones magazine in its online version. "Her message that resonates with generations of women was this: she can hold the stage herself in front of any man," the magazine concludes.

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