Síntesis informativa - 14 de marzo 2019

THE NEW YORK TIMES

U.K. Lawmakers Reject ‘No-Deal’ Brexit, and Defy Theresa May Yet Again

LONDON — Having twice thrown out Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, the fractious British Parliament defied her again on Wednesday, worsening the power vacuum atop British politics just 16 days before the exit is scheduled to take place.

Parliament voted to oppose the prospect of a disorderly “no-deal” exit from the bloc, doing it in a dramatic and unexpected fashion that undercut the already-battered Mrs. May’s dwindling authority and negotiating leverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/europe/brexit-no-deal.html

U.S. Steps Up Criticism of China for Detentions in Xinjiang

GENEVA — As China prepared to defend its record before the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United States on Wednesday led Western governments, academic experts and human rights supporters in challenging Beijing over its mass detention of Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang.

China’s oppression of religious and ethnic minorities is well known. “What’s new is the breadth of the repression and how the Chinese government is using breakthroughs in technology to increase its effectiveness,” Kelley Currie, a senior United States diplomat, told a meeting on the sidelines of the council in Geneva.

The United States would consider targeted measures against Xinjiang officials to promote accountability for violations there, said Ms. Currie, who serves with the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice. She urged China to reverse its policies and allow access to the region by United Nations experts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/asia/china-muslim-xinjiang.html

Facing Protests, Guatemala Postpones Vote on Amnesty for War Crimes

A scheduled vote in Guatemala’s Congress on amnesty for war crimes was suspended on Wednesday when several lawmakers walked out, leaving the session without a quorum.

The proposal would have freed more than 30 former members of the security forces and paramilitaries convicted of human rights violations during Guatemala’s long armed conflict. The bill would also halt thousands of investigations.

But it drew impassioned opposition from victims’ groups and human rights activists who rallied in front of the Congress in Guatemala City on Wednesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/americas/guatemala-vote-amnesty-war-crimes.html

China Blocks U.N. Vote to Blacklist Pakistani Militant Leader

China on Wednesday blocked a United Nations Security Council measure that would have blacklisted the Pakistani founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the militant group that nearly brought South Asia to the brink of war last month after one of its suicide bombers attacked Indian forces.

The vote was the council’s fourth attempt to blacklist the founder, Masood Azhar, in a decade and was proposed by France with the support of the United States and Britain. Since 2009, the Indian government has tried to designate Mr. Azhar as a global terrorist for orchestrating the 2001 attack on India’s Parliament and the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, which killed more than 160 tourists and local civilians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/asia/china-pakistan-masood-azhar.html

A NASA Journey to the Moon May Need to Find Another Rocket or Two

Struggling to get its new giant rocket ready in time for a scheduled launch next year, NASA might just leave it on the ground and turn to commercial alternatives.

“NASA has a history of not meeting launch dates,” said Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s administrator, at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, “and I’m trying to change that.”

NASA plans to send its Orion capsule, designed to carry astronauts on deep space missions, on a crewless test trip around the moon next year.

But the schedule for completing the rocket that is to carry Orion — known as the Space Launch System — has slipped repeatedly despite NASA’s spending more than $10 billion on the program so far. Last year, in announcing the latest delay, NASA said that the mission was penciled in for the end of 2019 but even then conceded that June 2020 was a more realistic target date.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/science/nasa-space-launch-system.html

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THE GUARDIAN

Senate passes resolution to end US support for Saudi war in Yemen

Lawmakers have never before invoked the decades-old War Powers Resolution to stop a foreign conflict, but they are poised to do just that in the bid to cut off US support for a war that has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe.

The vote puts Congress on a collision course with Trump, who has already threatened to veto the resolution, which the White House says raises “serious constitutional concerns”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/13/senate-vote-war-yemen-saudi-arabia

China hits back at US 'prejudice' in human rights tit-for-tat row

On Thursday China attacked the US for its record on gun deaths, racial discrimination and media freedom.

It came after the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, highlighted abuses in Iran, South Sudan, Nicaragua and China in the department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, but told reporters that China was “in a league of its own when it comes to human rights violations”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/14/china-hits-back-at-us-prejudice-in-human-rights-tit-for-tat-row

MPs to vote on second referendum amendment for first time

MPs will tonight vote on a cross party amendment that would allow the Commons to take control of the Brexit process on Wednesday next week and a second referendum amendment submitted by the newly created Independent Group.

The amendment says it is designed “to enable the House of Commons to find a way forward that can command majority support” by effectively allowing MPs to wrest control of parliamentary time from Theresa May’s government.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/14/cross-party-group-submits-motion-to-take-parliamentary-control-of-brexit

Bolsonaro paramilitary ties in spotlight after photo with murder suspect

Questions over possible connections between the Bolsonaros and Rio’s so-called “militias” were swirling even before the former army captain took office in January – so much so that revellers at this year’s carnival penned a song satirising the president’s supposed criminal ties.

But those concerns intensified this week when a photograph emerged in which a grinning Jair Bolsonaro appears with his arm around one of the two men arrested on Tuesday for the 2018 assassination of the Rio councillor Marielle Franco.

Police also confirmed that one of Bolsonaro’s sons had dated the daughter of the other murder suspect, Ronnie Lessa, and that Lessa lived in the same beachside compound where Brazil’s president lived until moving to the capital following his election last year.

Recent reports shows that the wife and mother of another former special forces police officer suspected of leading the Crime Bureau had worked for another of the president’s politician sons, Flávio Bolsonaro.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/13/jair-bolsonaro-paramilitaries-marielle-franco-suspects

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DEUTSCHE WELLE

China hits back at US over human rights violations

Beijing urged the United States to "take care of its own affairs" before focusing on human rights abroad, responding to a scathing US report. The Chinese rebuttal referred to US gun violence and racism.

The human rights situation in China has "never been better," China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters in Beijing on Thursday, a day after the US issued a report criticizing human rights violations in the Asian country.

"We hope the US will remove the colored lenses and discard the Cold War mentality," Lu said, adding that he hoped Washington would "stop interfering in China's internal affairs with human rights as a pretext."

https://www.dw.com/en/china-hits-back-at-us-over-human-rights-violations/a-47911306

France: Brittany coast threatened by oil spill after cargo ship sinks

French authorities have said an Italian cargo ship that sank in the Atlantic was transporting 45 containers of "dangerous materials." The Italian-registered ship had also been carrying some 2,200 tons of fuel.

French authorities are rushing to stop an oil spill from reaching the country's west coast after an Italian-registered cargo ship sank in the Bay of Biscay.

Although the government's initial statement only said there had been "dangerous materials" on board the ill-fated Grande America, local officials told French news agency Agence France-Presse that the vessel was leaking oil.

The ship had been en route from Hamburg to Casablanca, carrying 2,000 vehicles and 2,200 tons of fuel, when a fire broke out late Sunday. The 26 crew members and single passenger were forced to abandon ship when it caught fire, and were rescued by Britain's Royal Navy.

https://www.dw.com/en/france-brittany-coast-threatened-by-oil-spill-after-cargo-ship-sinks/a-47903844

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XINHUA

EEUU planea comenzar este año pruebas con misiles prohibidos

WASHINGTON, 13 mar (Xinhua) - Estados Unidos está considerando comenzar a realizar pruebas a finales de este año de unos misiles que fueron prohibidos por un tratado nuclear con décadas de antigüedad, informaron hoy miércoles medios estadounidenses.

Los proyectos incluyen un misil de crucero de bajo vuelo con un alcance potencial de unos 1.000 km y un misil balístico con un rango de aproximadamente 3.000 y 4.000 km, informaron medios de comunicación estadounidenses que citan a funcionarios anónimos del Pentágono.

Ninguno de los misiles tendrá armas nucleares, agregaron los funcionarios.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2019-03/14/c_137894244.htm

Presidente de Kirguistán dice que su país está dispuesto a fortalecer cooperación con China

BISHKEK, 13 mar (Xinhua) -- Kirguistán es un seguidor fiel y un activo participante de la Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta y está dispuesto a fortalecer la cooperación con China en varias áreas, dijo el miércoles el presidente kirguís, Sooronbai Jeenbekov.

Durante una reunión con la nueva embajadora china a Kirguistán, Du Dewen, Jeenbekov destacó que su país valora la amistad entre los dos países y considera el desarrollo de relaciones con China como una prioridad de su política exterior.

Agradeció a China por su consistente apoyo y asistencia a Kirguistán, diciendo que su país está listo para fomentar aún más la confianza política mutua con China.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2019-03/14/c_137894284.htm

Teherán advierte sobre amenaza israelí de atacar petroleros iraníes

TEHERAN, 13 mar (Xinhua) -- El ministro de Defensa de Irán advirtió este miércoles sobre cualquier intento de ataque de barcos petroleros iraníes por parte de Israel, informó el canal Press TV.

Irán considera que toda acción naval israelí contra los buques petroleros del país califica como "piratería", tras lo cual su país responderá "firmemente", anotó Amir Hatami.

Los comentarios de Hatami fueron en respuesta a las observaciones que hizo el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, la semana pasada, quien amenazó a bloquear los buques petroleros "encubiertos" de Irán destinados a "evitar" las sanciones de Estados Unidos.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2019-03/13/c_137892224.htm

Irán incrementa poder militar de disuasión

TEHERAN, 12 mar (Xinhua) -- Irán está incrementando su poder militar con propósitos de disuasión, dijo hoy el ministro iraní de Defensa, Amir Hatami.

"Otros países llenan nuestra región de armas y bombas" y esta estrategia conducirá a la guerra y muertes en la región, agregó.

"No permitiremos que esto ocurra y sin duda incrementaremos nuestro poder de disuasión para que no tenga lugar la guerra", declaró, citado por la agencia de noticias Tasnim.

http://spanish.xinhuanet.com/2019-03/12/c_137889410.htm