Síntesis informativa - 28 de mayo 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Israel’s Netanyahu Struggles to Form a Government, as Time Runs Short
JERUSALEM — With just two days left before the deadline for forming a government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was struggling Monday to sign up coalition partners, thrusting the country into a political crisis and raising the possibility that it could be forced to hold a new election.
The drama stemmed from a battle of wills between two political forces that Mr. Netanyahu needs to form a right-wing coalition: the ultra-Orthodox religious parties that won 16 parliamentary seats in the April 9 election, and Avigdor Lieberman’s ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, which won five seats and whose constituents are mostly secular, Russian-speaking Israelis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/middleeast/netanyahu-israel-lieberman-coalition.html
Prison Fighting Leaves at Least 55 Dead in Northern Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — Violent clashes among rival drug factions in several prisons in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas have killed at least 55 people, corrections officials said on Monday.
The outbreak of violence, which began on Sunday, is the latest in a state where drug gangs have waged a vicious battle for supremacy as smuggling routes that run along northern Brazil have become increasingly profitable.
The bloodshed comes as the Brazilian government is taking steps to assert greater control of the country’s chronically overcrowded and underfunded prisons, where drug kingpins have long managed to run their trade from behind bars with relative ease.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/americas/brazil-prison-riots-amazonas.html
Attacks by Extremists on Afghan Schools Triple, Report Says
KABUL, Afghanistan — Attacks on Afghan schools tripled from 2017 to 2018, a Unicef report said Tuesday, as the Taliban and other extremist groups in Afghanistan continue to wage a campaign of violence against so-called softer targets, far from the battlefield.
The number of attacks increased to 192 from 68, a surge not seen since 2015, according to the report by the United Nations agency for children. The number of children not attending school also increased last year for the first time since 2002.
It is yet another sign of the deteriorating security situation across Afghanistan. To some Afghans, the report offered concrete evidence that the repressive Taliban regime is again on the rise, even as the United States attempts to negotiate a peace settlement with the grou
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/asia/afghanistan-attacks-schools-unicef.html
Trump Wants to Wall Off Huawei, but the Digital World Bridles at Barriers
President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications champion, Huawei, from operating in the United States and starve it of American technology as it builds networks around the globe.
After a flurry of new government edicts, Huawei, the world’s second-largest cellphone maker after it edged out Apple last year, will soon be entirely cut off from American-made technology. By the end of summer, new Huawei phones will come without Google apps. And American computer chip companies are cutting off supplies that Huawei depends on for building fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless networks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/us-huawei-berlin-wall.html
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
WASHINGTON — President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” into a punch line rather than a prognosis.
Now, after two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors, Mr. Trump and his political appointees are launching a new assault.
In the next few months, the White House will complete the rollback of the most significant federal effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, initiated during the Obama administration. It will expand its efforts to impose Mr. Trump’s hard-line views on other nations, building on his retreat from the Paris accord and his recent refusal to sign a communiqué to protect the rapidly melting Arctic region unless it was stripped of any references to climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html
THE GUARDIAN
European elections: far-right 'surge' ends in a ripple
There were expected strong showings for leading figures of the European far right, such as Hungary’s anti-immigration prime minister, Viktor Orbán, whose Fidesz party took more than half the vote, and Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, whose Lega was the biggest party. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally also narrowly topped the polls in France.
But although there were losses for traditional big parties in many countries, far from all of those votes went to far-right or populist parties, with greensand other pro-European forces also doing well.
Nationalist and far-right parties will certainly have more representation in this European parliament than in any previous one.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/27/european-elections-far-right-surge-ends-in-a-ripple
France says planned Renault-Fiat merger must protect jobs
France’s finance minister has demanded that no factories in the country shut and that jobs for French workers be preserved if a proposed merger between Renault and Fiat Chrysler goes ahead.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) on Monday revealed a planned merger of equals between the two companies, which would create the third-largest global car manufacturer, behind Germany’s Volkswagen and Japan’s Toyota. Renault said it would study the “friendly proposal”.
AL JAZEERA
Sudan protesters begin two-day strike to pressure military
The two-day strike comes hours after army chiefs accuse protest leaders of not wanting to share power.
Protesters in Sudan started a two-day general strike on Tuesday to pile pressure on the ruling army to hand over power to a civilian government.
Ahead of the strike, the chief of the ruling military council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo have been touring Khartoum's regional alliesEgypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The oil-rich Gulf states Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with Egypt, are seen as backing the generals even as the United States leads Western calls to swiftly establish civilian rule in the country.
Iran hits out at US after Trump nuclear weapons comment
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif insists Tehran is not seeking nuclear weapons, accuses US of causing regional tensions.
In a Twitter post on Monday, Zarif insisted Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons and accused the US, which has recently beefed up its military presence in the Middle East, of causing regional tensions and "hurting the Iranian people".
Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi, reporting from Tehran, said Iranian leaders were likely "to see the softer rhetoric from Trump as insincere, pointing to aggressive economic sanctions and a military build-up in the region as the true measures of US intentions towards to Iran".
He added: "Experts say that in the absence of any real goals, talking with the US would be just for the sake of talking. So as long as a reduction of sanctions remains highly unlikely Iranian leaders are expected to maintain the policy of not negotiating with the Trump White House.
"For the moment, they are focusing their diplomatic energy on reaching out to regional partners to try to strike up some kind of security cooperation that endeavours to elbow out the US."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/iran-hits-trump-nuclear-weapons-comment-190527234526280.html
Libya: Flight data places mysterious planes in Haftar territory
Al Jazeera Arabic investigation tracks suspicious cargo flights into military bases controlled by Khalifa Haftar.
Satellite images and flight data show two Russian-made Ilyushin 76 aircraft registered to a joint Emirati-Kazakh company called Reem Travel made several trips between Egypt, Israel, andJordan before landing at military bases controlled by Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) in early April, just as it attempted to seize the capital.
Video published by Haftar's forces shows one of the cargo planes - with the registration number UP-I7645 - after landing at LNA's Tamanhant military base in southern Libya. It had taken off from Benghazi in the east, Haftar's stronghold.
Libya is divided between Haftar - whose Libyan National Army controls the east and much of the south - and Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, who runs the UN-recognised but weak government in Tripoli.
Haftar has said he won't stop his offensive as long as "militias" from the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) remained in control of Tripoli. Six rounds of talks between the two sides have failed to strike a political deal.
Israel and Syria exchange fire amid soaring regional tensions
A soldier has been killed and several injured in Quneitra province after an Israeli air attack, says Syrian state media.
Israel has carried out a rocket attack in Syria's Golan Heights region, according to Syrian state news and the Israeli military.
Israel's military confirmed the attack in a statement posted on social media on Monday, saying it had been in retaliation for anti-aircraft fire at an Israeli fighter jet earlier on Monday.
AL MAYADEEN
Le Drian llama a Arabia Saudita y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos a detener la "guerra sucia" en Yemen
Según observadores, la declaración de Barley responde a revelaciones de varios sitios web de noticias que se hicieron eco de un informe de inteligencia militar francés, de 15 páginas y escrito en septiembre de 2018, en el que se reconoce que a Arabia Saudita y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos usan armas francesas en la guerra de Yemen.
Denuncia Venezuela recrudecimiento de ataques económicos de EE.UU.
"Las medidas coercitivas unilaterales del Gobierno de EE.UU. persiguen socavar la sociedad venezolana y el debilitamiento de la soberanía del país, como una estrategia de cambio de régimen que busca desplazar del poder al presidente”, advirtió Maduro en una reunión este lunes con el alto mando político del oficialista Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV).
Señaló que, como parte de las sanciones estadounidenses, han sido asediados barcos que debían llegar a Venezuela con alimentos, gasolina y otros insumos.
También declaró que Estados Unidos ha congelado los activos de la empresa Citgo, —filial de la estatal Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) en territorio estadounidense— y “la oposición maltrecha se apoderó de sus activos y dinero”.
Soldado israelí incendia campos de cultivo de los palestinos en Cisjordania
Las fuerzas sionistas culparon previamente a los palestinos por el incendio provocado, cerca de Asirah al-Qibliyah. Pro el Ejército corrigió la declaración luego que la ONG de derechos israelíes B’Tselem publicara un video que mostraba a colonos israelíes caminando por campos palestinos e incendiando los cultivos.
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