THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘The East Is Rising’: Xi Maps Out China’s Post-Covid Ascent

Xi Jinping has struck a confident posture as he looks to secure China’s prosperity and power in a post-Covid world, saying that the country is entering a time of opportunity when “the East is rising and the West is declining.”

En ocasión de la pandemia de COVID-19 (2020-2021) se han actualizado un conjunto de dispositivos (apps) de control y vigilancia que, si bien permiten una información ágil sobre los casos relacionados con la emergencia sanitaria, están facilitando y acelerando la disposición de una base de datos sensibles de toda la población en todo el mundo, que pasan a ser responsabilidad de las autoridades de seguridad y que exceden ampliamente los propósitos sanitarios.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

After Stimulus, Biden to Tackle Another Politically Tricky Issue: Infrastructure

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s two immediate predecessors had ambitious goals to rebuild the country’s infrastructure, but both left office having made little progress in fixing the nation’s bridges, roads, pipes and broadband. President Donald J. Trump announced so many meaningless infrastructure weeks that the term became a running joke of his administration.

Intervención de Ana Esther Ceceña en el Tributo a Immanuel Wallerstein, organizado en el marco del Cuarto Foro de Sociología de la Asociación Internacional de Sociología, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 26 de febrero de 2021

THE NEW YORK TIMES

How Pro-Trump Forces Pushed a Lie About Antifa at the Capitol Riot

On social media, on cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Live Updates: House to Keep Minimum-Wage Increase in Stimulus Bill Over Official’s Ruling

The House is expected on Friday to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan with an increase to the federal minimum wage still in it, a day after a key Senate official ruled that the provision would need to be removed before the package could become law.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Candidate Biden Called Saudi Arabia a ‘Pariah.’ He Now Has to Deal With It.

THE GUARDIAN

Texas freeze casts renewable energy as next battle line in US culture wars

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Live Updates: Senators to Begin Inquiry Into Capitol Riot

Two Senate committees are scheduled to begin an investigative hearing Tuesday to scrutinize the security breakdowns that failed to prevent the deadly rampage by Trump supporters.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/23/us/joe-biden-news

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UE aprueba nuevas sanciones contra Venezuela