Síntesis informativa - 9 de septiembre 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
After Trump Calls Off Talks, Afghanistan Braces for Violence
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s decision to break off peace talks with the Taliban, at least for now, left Afghanistan bracing for a bloody prelude to national elections this month, while the administration declined on Sunday to rule out a withdrawal of American troops without a peace accord.
In a round of television interviews, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed an attack by the Taliban for the cancellation of talks at Camp David this weekend that the administration had expected would lead to the signing of a peace agreement.
Mr. Pompeo said that the Taliban had “tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside the country,’’ resulting in the death of an American soldier in Kabul. “We’re going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends in a negotiation,’’ he said.
But after abruptly scrapping a diplomatic process that appeared to be inching toward a conclusion, it was unclear where Mr. Trump would go from here.
The administration continued to face questions about what led to Mr. Trump’s sudden renunciation of the talks, including whether a sticking point was his desire to seal the deal himself in a dramatic summit meeting at Camp David and why he chose to go public with the decision to withdraw the secret invitation to the Taliban.
Taliban Talks Hit a Wall Over Deeper Disagreements, Officials Say
KABUL, Afghanistan — Even as President Trump blamed a recent Taliban attack for his decision to call off nearly yearlong negotiations with the insurgents, officials suggested on Sunday it had more to do with the Taliban’s resistance to the American terms for a peace deal, and a rushed plan for a Camp David summit meeting.
Talks that once seemed on the verge of a breakthrough had hit a wall over how the deal should be finalized and announced, they said.
With the president himself showing more engagement in the talks in recent weeks after boiling criticism of a deal that was finalized “in principle,” the Trump administration had set in motion a daring gambit: Fly the insurgents’ leaders and the Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani, to American soil.
At Camp David, the traditional retreat of many presidents, separate meetings with each side would then lead to a grand announcement by Mr. Trump, according to Afghan, Western and Taliban officials with knowledge of the peace talks. The Americans were also rushing to finalize outstanding issues, including disagreements over prisoner release, before the meeting on Sunday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-camp-david.html
Iranian Tanker Seen Near Syria ‘Unloaded Its Cargo,’ Tehran Says
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Iranian tanker that Western nations sought to bar from delivering its oil has unloaded its cargo after docking on the Mediterranean coast, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Recent satellite images showed the tanker, the Adrian Darya 1, near the Syrian port of Tartus, suggesting that Iran had delivered the oil to the government of President Bashar al-Assad in defiance of European sanctions.
The delivery comes as Western nations have imposed sanctions to punish Mr. al-Assad, an Iranian ally, for alleged war crimes during his country’s civil war. The Trump administration is also pursuing a campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran aimed at squeezing what it considers Tehran’s destabilizing activities across the Middle East.
Those struggles have played out in recent months on the high seas, with a string of episodes in which Iran and Western nations have seized each other’s tankers, raising tensions all around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/world/middleeast/iran-oil-tanker-syria.html
Europe Keeps Asylum Seekers at a Distance, This Time in Rwanda
BRUSSELS — For three years, the European Union has been paying other countries to keep asylum seekers away from a Europe replete with populist and anti-migrant parties.
It has paid Turkey billions to keep refugees from crossing to Greece. It has funded the Libyan Coast Guard to catch and return migrant boats to North Africa. It has set up centers in distant Niger to process asylum seekers, if they ever make it that far. Most don’t.
Even as that arm’s-length network comes under criticism on humanitarian grounds, it is so overwhelmed that the European Union is seeking to expand it, as the bloc aims to buttress an approach that has drastically cut the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
It is now preparing to finish a deal, this time in Rwanda, to create yet another node that it hopes will help alleviate some of the mounting strains on its outsourcing network.
Critics say the Rwanda deal will deepen a morally perilous policy, even as it underscores how precarious the European Union’s teetering system for handling the migrant crisis has become.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/europe/migrants-africa-rwanda.html
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THE GUARDIAN
Hong Kong: violence follows calls for Trump to 'liberate' territory
olice had clashed with protesters in the Centraldistrict as the demonstrations in Hong Kong entered their 14th week. Protesters dispersed to nearby Admiralty, the bar district of Wan Chai and on to Causeway Bay.
The violence followed an earlier march during which thousands of protesters sang the Star-spangled Banner and called on the US president to “liberate” the city. They waved US national flags and placards demanding democracy.
Taliban warns of more US dead after Trump says he cancelled peace talks
Donald Trump says he has cancelled secret peace talks on Afghanistan scheduled for Sunday that would have brought him face to face with Taliban leaders at Camp David, the presidential retreat in the hills of Maryland state – with the Islamist militant group warning on Sunday that the snub meant more American lives would be lost.
'Chaos, chaos, chaos': a journey through Bolsonaro's Amazon inferno
A 2,000km road and river odyssey in Brazil reveals consensus from all sides: Bolsonaro has ushered in a new age of wrecking.
Jair Bolsonaro’s stripping back of environmental protections and anti-environmental rhetoric had contributed to the scale of this year’s fires – more than 30,000 of which were recorded in August alone – and set in motion a new age of wrecking that looks set to continue well beyond the end of the annual burning season next month.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/09/amazon-fires-brazil-rainforest
India moon mission: Vikram lunar lander found on surface
The cameras from the moon mission’s orbiter had located the lander, said K. Sivan, the chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) according to the Press Trust of India news agency. He added: “It must have been a hard landing.”
A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.
The space agency said on Saturday the lander’s descent was normal until 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) from the lunar surface.
The roughly $140m mission, known as Chandrayaan-2, was intended to study permanently shadowed moon craters that are thought to contain water deposits that were confirmed by the Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008.
Only three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and China — have landed a spacecraft on the moon.
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XINHUA
U.S. unilateral sanctions on Iran threaten Middle East stability
TEHRAN, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- In response to the latest U.S. sanctions on Tehran and Europe's sluggishness to save the landmark Iran nuclear deal, Iran has recently taken another major step - its third - to further reduce its commitments under the deal.
Analysts said that as the tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated because of U.S. withdrawal from the deal and harsher sanctions on Iran, the stability of the entire Middle East is now under threat.
On Saturday, Iran announced the details of its latest move to reduce its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Following the announcement, Iran started up advanced centrifuges and activated 20 IR-4 centrifuges and 20 IR-6 centrifuges to boost the country's stockpile of enriched uranium.
"We will witness research and development on different kinds of centrifuges and new centrifuges and also whatever is needed for enriching uranium in an accelerated way," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday, adding Iran's nuclear activities would remain peaceful and will be supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Before that, the country has made two moves to scale back its obligations under the deal to build stockpiles of nuclear fuel and enrich low-grade uranium to a higher level of purity.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/09/c_138378615.htm
Chinese premier to visit Russia
BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay an official visit to Russia from Sept. 16 to 18 at the invitation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday.
During the visit, Li and Medvedev will hold the 24th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government, according to spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/09/c_138378066.htm
Experts urge Mexican gov't to bolster investment ties over trade with China
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Mexico should expand ties with China through investment projects instead of trade to boost technology transfers and improve production, experts have recommended.
Chinese investment could help Mexico make a "giant leap" in improving its productive processes, said Beatriz Leycegui, a partner at consulting firm SAI Law & Economics, on the sidelines of the just-concluded 26th Mexican Foreign Trade Congress.
The event was held last week in the northern industrial city of Monterrey, bringing together representatives from the business sector to promote trade and commerce.
China "is a country that has a lot of resources and several of the world's leading investors, but we have not seen it invest sufficiently in Mexico," said Leycegui, who was also undersecretary for Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economy from 2006 to 2011.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/09/c_138378516.htm
Nigerian troops raid Boko Haram's camp
ABUJA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Many Boko Haram militants were killed and several others fled with varying degree of injuries following a raid on their camp by troops in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, the army said on Monday.
The raid by troops was conducted on Sunday in Gworege village of Dikwa local government area of Borno, said Col. Sagir Musa, the spokesman for the army, in a statement reaching Xinhua in Abuja.
The army statement did not specify the total number of militants killed but said they met their waterloo as troops destroyed their camp following credible information from locals about the presence of Boko Haram in the village.
The military operation was carried out with collaboration from the government-backed militia group, the Civilian Joint Task Force, local vigilante groups, and hunters, said the army statement.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/09/c_138378679.htm
Philippines, Singapore to intensify defense, economic cooperation
MANILA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The presidents of the Philippines and Singapore on Monday discussed ways to strengthen defense and security cooperation, and trade and investment flows between the two countries.
"We talked about deepening our cooperation in defense and security, which includes strengthening defense dialogues and training exchanges between the military and special forces," Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech after his meeting with visiting Singapore President Halimah Yacob.
Halimah arrived in Manila on Sunday for a five-day state visit to mark the 50th anniversary of the Singapore-Philippines diplomatic relations.
Duterte said that he and Halimah "reviewed the full range of our engagement and exchanged views on the direction of our future collaboration."
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/09/c_138378819.htm
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AL JAZEERA
Lebanon's Hezbollah downs Israeli drone in southern town
Hezbollah says Israeli drone is now in the hands of its fighters after it was shot down in the town of Ramyah.
In a statement, the Israeli military said one of its drones "fell inside southern Lebanon during routine operations". It did not say what had caused the crash but added, "there is no concern information could be taken from it".
Considered one of the most powerful groups in Lebanon, Hezbollah has three ministers in government and is represented in the Lebanese parliament. It has a strongly-armed wing, with its forces fighting in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad's troops.
Sudan top diplomat says removal from US terror list top priority
Asmaa Abdalla, Sudan's first female foreign minister, says Khartoum welcomes financial support without interference.
The US named Sudan a "state sponsor of terror" in 1993, four years after al-Bashir seized power in a military coup, over allegations that the government was supporting terrorism. The designation makes the country ineligible for much-needed debt relief and funding from international institutions, and limits potential foreign investment.
Abdalla is Sudan's first-ever female minister and one of the four women named by Hamdok in the 18-member cabinet, the first since the military removed al-Bashir on April 11 in the face of mass pro-democracy protests.
Riek Machar back in S Sudan for rare talks with President Kiir
Meeting in South Sudan capital raises expectations for the implementation of stalled peace agreement.
Exiled rebel leader Riek Machar has arrived in South Sudan's capital for expected talks with President Salva Kiir, a meeting seen as an important step towards the implementation of a stalled peace deal.
The power-sharing arrangements under the peace deal were supposed to take effect in May. But the process was delayed by six months until November as both sides disagreed over the terms.
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AL MAYADEEN
Ejército sirio ataca a facciones terroristas en el oeste de Alepo
De acuerdo con la fuente, Jaysh Al-Izza ahora está luchando junto al grupo extremista extranjero, el Partido Islámico de Turquestán, una de las facciones terroristas más grandes que luchan contra el Ejército sirio en el noreste de Latakia y el noroeste de Hama.
Diario británico Observer: Venta de armas de Reino Unido a Arabia Saudita supera 8 veces la asistencia a civiles yemenitas
En su artículo, la autora señaló el informe de Oxfam, que decía que Reino Unido ha proporcionado £ 770 millones en alimentos, medicinas y otra asistencia a civiles en Yemen durante la última media década, convirtiendo a Yemen en el sexto mayor receptor de ayuda británica.
La prohibición de las ventas de armas alemanas a Arabia Saudita expira a fines de este mes si no se extiende. Greenpeace está enviando listas de firmas de ciudadanos que exigen una extensión del embargo de armas a Arabia Saudita al ministro de Economía germano.
Guatemala: Ratifican estado de sitio por muerte de militares
Por esta razón, organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos de las comunidades indígenas de las zonas en estado de sitio denunciaron que, con esta medida, sus líderes serán nuevamente los más perjudicados, pues el Ejército podrá encarcelar y perseguir a quienes defienden su derecho a la tierra.
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