Síntesis informativa - 9 de octubre 2018

THE GUARDIAN

Amazon at risk from Bolsonaro's grim attack on the environment

In the Amazon, illegal loggers, miners, land-grabbers, as well as large land owners have rallied to his banner. Here, they don’t expect Bolsonaro to enforce the law. On the contrary, the hope is that he fulfils his promise to obliterate nearly all environment and pro-indigenous legislation. He won massive support in rural central western states and all but one Amazonian state.

In August, Bolsonaro raised eyebrows internationally when he pledged to join Trump’s US and withdraw Brazil from the Paris agreement. That means the country would no longer be committed to curb its emissions from the deforestation of the Amazon, which is here a bigger source of greenhouse gas than the burning of fossil fuels.

Bolsonaro’s environment policies are tied to racist attitudes toward minorities and Brazil’s indigenous peoples. In a speech last year, he said: “Minorities have to bend down to the majority … The minorities [should] either adapt or simply vanish.”

“If he wins, he will institutionalise genocide,” says Dinamam Tuxá, the national coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenous Peoples, in a phone interview with Climate Home News. “He has already said that the federal government will no longer champion indigenous rights, such as access to the land. We are very scared. I fear for my own life. As a national leader, I am sure I will be punished by the federal government for defending the rights of the indigenous peoples.”

During the campaign, Bolsonaro promised he will abolish the ministry of environment and transfer its functions to the ministry of agriculture. The agriculture portfolio will be handed to politicians from the “beef caucus”, a conservative group of lawmakers who control about one third of Congress and have opposed indigenous land demarcations and advocated for the reduction of conservation units, among other measures, to expand the agriculture frontier. 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/brazils-bolsonaro-would-unleash-a-war-on-the-environment

Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse

By reproducing some of the complex wing motion patterns and aerodynamics of fruit flies, in particular, researchers in the university’s newly opened Robohouse, a hub for Dutch expertise, believe they will be able to create millions of bee-like drones to pollinate plants when the real-life insects have died away.

The wings of the robotic DelFly beat 17 times per second, to generate the lift needed to stay airborne and control its flight through small adjustments in their wing motion.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/robotic-bees-could-pollinate-plants-in-case-of-insect-apocalypse

America's first robot farm replaces humans with 'incredibly intelligent' machines

America’s first autonomous robot farm launched last week, in the hopes that artificial intelligence (AI) can remake an industry facing a serious labor shortage and pressure to produce more crops.

Claiming an ability to “grow 30 times more produce than traditional farms” on the strength of AI software, year-round, soilless hydroponic processes, and moving plants as they grow to efficiently use space, the San Carlos, California-based company Iron Ox aims to address some of the agricultural industry’s biggest challenges.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/08/robot-farm-iron-ox-california

Unmanned: a video game about the unseen horror of drone warfare

You play an American warrior, square of jaw and beefy of build, who works from an office out in the desert. A click of his mouse sends tons of missile plummeting from anonymous drone planes with an eerie blank space where you’d expect to see a cockpit. Beneath his grainy monitor’s crosshairs, the insurgents-planting-IED pixels are indistinguishable from the children-playing-catch pixels.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/oct/09/unmanned-video-game-drone-warfare


THE NEW YORK TIMES

In Jamal Khashoggi Case, Turkey Focuses on Movements of Saudi Officials



ISTANBUL — Investigators are examining the movements of Saudi officials who flew to Istanbul and went to the Saudi Consulate there on the same day that a Saudi dissident journalist disappeared after going to the building, the Turkish authorities said on Tuesday.



Turkish officials have said that investigators believe the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed and dismembered at the consulate after going there last Tuesday to pick up a document. The Saudi government has denied those claims.



The Turkish authorities were also looking into the possibility that Mr. Khashoggi had been abducted with the help of another country’s intelligence officers and that he could still be alive, the daily newspaper Sabah, which is close to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reported on Tuesday.



Saudi officials have agreed to allow Turkish investigators to conduct a search at the consulate, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, but the ministry did not offer any information about the timing, nature or extent of such a search.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/world/europe/jamal-khashoggi-turkey-saudi-arabia.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage



Skripal Poisoning Suspect Is a Russian Military Doctor, Report Says



A group of investigative journalists and researchers on Monday identified a military doctor employed by a Russian intelligence agency as one of two men suspected by the British authorities of trying to kill a former Russian spy with a potent nerve agent in Britain earlier this year.



The group, which named the other suspect in the poisoning about two weeks ago, identified the doctor as Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin. It said he was a graduate of an elite military medical academy who was recruited by a military intelligence agency widely known as the G.R.U.



Last month, British prosecutors filed criminal charges against two Russian men they say traveled in March to Salisbury and poisoned the former spy, Sergei V. Skripal, by smearing the nerve agent on a door handle at his home. Mr. Skripal’s daughter, Yulia, was also poisoned.



The authorities said the men, who were captured on surveillance video near Mr. Skripal’s home, had traveled to Britain using the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. While the men were identified as G.R.U. officers, their true names were not disclosed.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/world/europe/skripal-russia-alexander-mishkin.html?action=click&module=In%20Other%20News&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage



Satellites Aid the Chase for Better Information on Oil Supplies



PARIS — In a wing of a massive former bank building here in the French capital, dozens of youthful women and men gather around computer screens. This collection of around 100 mathematicians, software engineers and petroleum analysts are bent on shaking up the opaque world of information on the world energy markets.



On a recent day, one group was sifting satellite images for clues to oil output in Venezuela — once a major oil producer but now in decline. Another cluster was checking the levels of crude in a tank farm in China.



The company, named Kayrros after the Greek deity of opportunity, is headed by Antoine Rostand, a petroleum engineer turned entrepreneur, and several other partners. Mr. Rostand said that when he ran the business consulting unit of the oil field services company Schlumberger — for about a decade ending in 2016 — he became frustrated at the quality of statistics on matters like oil production and consumption.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/search-for-better-information-on-oil-supplies.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage



Brazil Edges Toward Bolsonaro as a ‘Last Resort’ Leader



RIO DE JANEIRO — By the time Brazilians were done voting Sunday, mighty power brokers had been tossed out of office, long-dominant political parties had been humbled, and a far-right populist suddenly looked like he just might be the most powerful man in the country.



It was, in short, the most sweeping political shift Brazil had ever seen in a single election since democracy was restored in 1985.



“What we are watching today is the collapse of our current system,” said Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, a political scientist at the University of São Paulo.



The near-winner in the first round of voting in the presidential race was Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. He offered few detailed policies. But his draconian approach toward fighting violence — he would make it easier to for the police to kill suspected criminals and imprison more people for longer — appealed to many in a nation traumatized by rising crime, a dispiriting economy and a political class widely regarded as venal and unresponsive.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/world/americas/brazil-elections-bolsonaro.html



In Spain’s ‘Stolen-Babies’ Scandal, Doctor Escapes Punishment



MADRID — Nearly 50 years ago, Inés Madrigal was taken from her parents, an unwitting participant in a scheme that started under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime as a way of removing infants from families that opposed him.



On Monday a Spanish court acknowledged a former gynecologist had played a role in the 1969 abduction of Ms. Madrigal, who was an infant at the time. It was the first case in which a doctor faced trial in Spain for what is known here as the scandal of the stolen babies. But Ms. Madrigal’s victory was, in her words, bittersweet.



The judges at a provincial court in Madrid found there was irrefutable evidence to show that Eduardo Vela, 85, was involved in the abduction of Ms. Madrigal. But they said that the charges brought against him fell under a statute of limitations, which required the charges to be filed within 10 years of Ms. Madrigal becoming an adult. This meant that Dr. Vela couldn’t be convicted of any of them.



The issue became a national scandal in 2011, when the Spanish judiciary was forced into action after Anadir, an association that represents people searching for missing children or parents, filed its first complaints.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/world/europe/spain-stolen-babies-ines-madrigal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld



New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon



WASHINGTON — In its landmark report on the fast-approaching dangers of climate change, a United Nations scientific panel said on Sunday that putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions would be central for getting global warming under control.



More than 40 governments around the world, including the European Union and California, have now put a price on carbon, either through direct taxes on fossil fuels or through cap-and-trade programs. But many of them have found it politically difficult to set a price high enough to spur truly deep reductions in carbon emissions.



The concept of carbon pricing received another implicit endorsement on Monday from the Nobel Prize committee, which awarded Yale’s William D. Nordhaus a share of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencefor, among other things, making a case that “the most efficient remedy for the problems caused by greenhouse gas emissions would be a global scheme of carbon taxes that are uniformly imposed on all countries.”



Scientists who worked on the United Nations report hailed Professor Nordhaus’s work as influential for thinking about how to tackle climate change.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/climate/carbon-tax-united-nations-report-nordhaus.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld


DEUTSCHE WELLE

NATO in Afghanistan: 'Private military contractors are out of the question'

Although the Taliban appear to currently have the upper-hand in Afghanistan, Col. Knut Peters, press speaker for NATO in Kabul, told DW that the mission has seen success and that upcoming elections are a positive sign.

https://www.dw.com/en/nato-in-afghanistan-private-military-contractors-are-out-of-the-question/a-45811796

Los 6 grandes de la UE abordan la lucha antiterrorista con EE. UU. y Marruecos

Los ministros de Interior del G6, que agrupa a los seis grandes países de la UE, se reunieron hoy en Lyon con representantes de Estados Unidos y de Marruecos para discutir diversos aspectos de la lucha antiterrorista.

Se calcula que hubo alrededor de 30.000 de esos combatientes terroristas procedentes de más de 80 países y, aunque no se ha constatado un retorno masivo, el número de los que potencialmente podrían volver supone un reto para la seguridad por su radicalismo y por las malas influencias que podrían tener.

https://www.dw.com/es/los-6-grandes-de-la-ue-abordan-la-lucha-antiterrorista-con-ee-uu-y-marruecos/a-45809470

Turquía: detienen a 90 personas y ordenan arresto de otras 96 por supuesto terrorismo

La Policía turca detuvo hoy a 90 personas supuestamente vinculadas a organizaciones de kurdos consideradas terroristas, y la Justicia ordenó arrestar a otros 96 ciudadanos por supuesta conexión con el clérigo Gülen.

Según informa el diario Hürriyet este martes (9.10.2018) las detenciones de los sospechosos de vínculos con el proscrito Partido de los Trabajadores del Kurdistán (PKK), la guerrilla kurda en Turquía, y con el Sindicato de Comunidades del Kurdistán (KCK) se llevaron a cabo en una operación realizada en ocho provincias del país.

https://www.dw.com/es/turqu%C3%ADa-detienen-a-90-personas-y-ordenan-arresto-de-otras-96-por-supuesto-terrorismo/a-45808000


XINHUA

Turquía y EEUU entrenan patrullajes conjuntos en Manbij, Siria

ANKARA, 9 oct (Xinhua) -- Turquía y Estados Unidos han empezado el entrenamiento de los patrullajes conjuntos en la región de Manbij, noroeste de Siria, dijo hoy el ministro turco de Defensa, Hulusi Akar.

La misión de entrenamiento es parte de un acuerdo de Manbij para patrullajes conjuntos de los soldados estadounidenses y turcos con el fin de brindar estabilidad y seguridad en la región, así como para prevenir actividades terroristas en el próximo periodo, dijo Akar, citado por la estatal Agencia Anadolu.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2018-10/09/c_137521496.htm

Enviado especial de EEUU conversa con oficiales paquistaníes sobre reconciliación de paz

ISLAMABAD, 9 oct (Xinhua) -- El enviado especial de Estados Unidos para la paz y la reconciliación en Afganistán, Zalmay Khalilzad, mantendrá conversaciones hoy con funcionarios paquistaníes a fin de discutir formas de cooperación para la reconciliación en dicho país asiático.

Un funcionario paquistaní dijo a Xinhua que el representante de Estados Unidos se reunirá con el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, y otros altos funcionarios del ministerio.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2018-10/09/c_137520465.htm

Primer ministro israelí exhorta a comunidad internacional a reconocer anexión de Altos del Golán

JERUSALEN, 8 oct (Xinhua) -- El primer ministro israelí Benjamin Netanyahu exhortó hoy a la comunidad internacional a reconocer la anexión israelí de los Altos del Golán, un territorio sirio capturado por Israel hace 51 años.

Israel se apoderó de los Altos del Golán durante la Guerra de Medio Oriente de 1967 y poco después vino la anexión pues afirmó que forma parte de Israel, lo cual nunca ha sido reconocido a nivel internacional.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2018-10/09/c_137519723.htm

Rusia está interesada en restablecer lazos con UE: Canciller

MOSCU, 8 oct (Xinhua) -- Rusia necesita restablecer sus relaciones con la Unión Europea (UE) y considera que muchos gobiernos desean lo mismo, dijo hoy el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia, Sergei Lavrov.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2018-10/09/c_137521022.htm


AL JAZEERA

How will the Kavanaugh controversy affect US midterms?

The Supreme Court confirmation appears to have energised voters, angering many, but also boosting Republican support.

William Roborts

Early indicators are that the Republican base was energised by Kavanaugh while female voters, who already favour Democrats by nearly a 2-1 margin, were polarised even more than they were before.

Voter enthusiasm, a measure of how inclined registered voters are to go vote on election day, favoured Democrats over Republicans, according to a mid-September survey by Pew Research Center.

The Kavanaugh controversy will likely affect Senate races more than those of the House because of the Senate's constitutional role in confirming judges.

In the lead-up to Kavanaugh's confirmation, thousands of women and their supporters took to Capitol Hill to protest against the nominee….

After the confirmation, much at that attention turned to encouraging women and others to get out to vote next month, with many using #NovemberIsComing on Twitter to encourage women to go to the polls.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/kavanaugh-controversy-affect-midterms-181009004454585.html

Amid attempt to limit electoral fraud, Taliban promises attacks

Afghans say long-delayed poll provides opportunity but Taliban promises attacks on troops to disrupt process.

Shereena Qazi

To avoid vote rigging, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Friday that a total of 22,000 biometric devices had arrived in Kabul to be used across the country, including 760 warring districts.

"The devices will help verify voter identities by comparing their fingerprints to facial images and producing a unique barcode for each voter that will massively help in weeding out duplicates."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/security-fraud-fears-loom-afghan-parliamentary-elections-181008084700677.html


AL MAYADEEN

Régimen israelí intenta obstruir desarrollo del mercado de hidrocarburos libanés

8 de octubre. El suplemento económico del diario israelí Haaretz, The Marker, difundió que el régimen israelí, Chipre, Grecia e Italia firmarán un acuerdo a finales de año para la construcción de un gasoducto marino.

Una de las condiciones para el acometimiento es que las posibles conexiones europeas con El Líbano necesiten el consentimiento israelí.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/Hidrocarburos/277017/r%C3%A9gimen-israel%C3%AD-intenta-obstruir-desarrollo-del-mercado-de-h/

¿Por qué Ankara está montando nuevas tiendas de campaña para sus facciones?

Parece que Ankara está decidida a erradicar las fuerzas kurdas del este del Éufrates después de haber estado hablado de solo expulsarlas  y aislarlas lejos del oeste de la orilla del río, teniendo en cuenta que el Parlamento turco había renovado la autorización dada al gobierno por un año más para proseguir las operaciones militares contra las fuerzas kurdas en el norte de Siria e Iraq.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/articles/main/277036/-por-qu%C3%A9-ankara-est%C3%A1-montando-nuevas-tiendas-de-campa%C3%B1a-para/

Avance cualitativo del ejército yemení y los comités populares en el frente Jizan de Arabia Saudita

El ministerio de Defensa confirmó que el Ejército y los comités tomaron el control de las torres de "MBC" y "al Rabaa" y varias aldeas en Jizan, causando muchas bajas de los soldados de la Coalición saudita,  entre muertos y heridos, además de apoderarse de cantidades considerables de armas y municiones.

En este marco, el ministerio de Defensa de Yemen confirmó el derribo de tres avionetas de espionaje en el área de Wadi Gara durante las operaciones cualitativas efectuadas en Jizan.

http://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/Comit%C3%A9s%20Populares/277032/avance-cualitativo-del-ej%C3%A9rcito-yemen%C3%AD-y-los-comit%C3%A9s-popular/

 


AMÉRICA LATINA

Venezuela: Maduro llama a unir filas frente al fascismo en América Latina

El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, advirtió contra el "brote fascista en América Latina", y destacó los logros de su país para hacer frente a esta ideología.

"Estamos a tiempo de reaccionar frente al brote fascista en América Latina y que Venezuela necesita ser defendida como uno de los baluartes antifascista (...) que está victoriosa ante la intolerancia", declaró el lunes Maduro.

http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2018/10/09/venezuela-maduro-llama-a-unir-filas-frente-al-fascismo-en-america-latina/

El FMI avisa a EE UU de que será el gran perdedor de la guerra comercial

Han pasado casi dos años desde que Donald Trump llegara a la Casa Blanca con su retórica nacionalista y anticomercio, y la economía de EE UU sigue yendo como un tiro. Pero eso no quiere decir que el país que fue el emblema del multilateralismo y del libre comercio vaya a salir indemne de una guerra comercial que parece ser más real cada día que pasa. Muy al contrario. El FMI estima que la economía estadounidense será, a largo plazo, la gran perjudicada por la espiral de barreras arancelarias en la que han entrado Washington y Pekín, solo tras la de México y Canadá.

https://elpais.com/economia/2018/10/08/actualidad/1539016266_938262.html

Un giro más a la derecha que afecta a Sudamérica

Brasil lo hizo posible. En un caso único en el mundo, un fascista terminó la primera vuelta con 49 millones de votos, el 46,23 por ciento de los votos sobre un padrón de 147 millones de electores de los cuales fue a las urnas el 80 por ciento. 

El fenómeno de un militar ultraderechista convalidado por el voto, y con otro militar ultraderechista de vice en la fórmula, parece inédito. Si la tendencia sigue y el resultado queda firme en la segunda vuelta, el domingo 28 de octubre, afirmará el viraje de Sudamérica hacia la derecha que comenzó con la asunción de Mauricio Macri el 10 de diciembre de 2018.

 https://www.pagina12.com.ar/147316-un-giro-mas-a-la-derecha-que-afecta-a-sudamerica

Dimite la embajadora de EU en la ONU

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dijo el martes que aceptó la renuncia de la embajadora de Washington ante Naciones Unidas, Nikki Haley, quien dejará el cargo a fines de este año.

Trump señaló que Haley informó de su decisión hace seis meses. Ante periodistas en la oficina Oval, Trump la elogió por su "increíble desempeño" y dijo que esperaba que pueda regresar al gobierno posteriormente. 

http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/10/09/dimite-la-embajadora-de-eu-en-la-onu-819.html

México: AMLO prohibirá el uso del fracking para extraer petróleo

En su declaración que dio después de reunirse con el gobernador de San Luis Potosí, Juan Manuel Carreras, AMLO dijo que no implementará esta técnica, "no va aplicar aquí, en San Luis Potosí, y en todo el país. No vamos a utilizar ese método para extraer petróleo y para extraer gas", dijo.

https://www.nodal.am/2018/10/mexico-amlo-prohibira-el-uso-del-fracking-para-extraer-petroleo/

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