Síntesis informativa - 25 de junio 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Iran Disparages U.S. Over Sanctions
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on Tuesday called the White House “mentally retarded” and vowed that Tehran would not be intimidated by American threats and sanctions.
John Bolton, the White House national security adviser, separately accused Iran of being “a source of belligerence and aggression” across the Middle East.
Their remarks made it clear that Washington and Tehran remained locked in a standoff despite President Trump’s last-minute decision to call off a missile strike against Iran in retaliation for the downing of an American surveillance drone last week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/world/middleeast/iran-rouhani-us-sanctions.html
Mexico’s Crackdown at Its Southern Border, Prompted by Trump, Scares Migrants From Crossing
NENTÓN, Guatemala — The Aguilar family had been preparing since February to migrate north. They borrowed $2,600, made a down payment to a smuggler and set off from their home in northern Guatemala last week.
But at Guatemala’s border with Mexico, their smuggler had some bad news: Crossing into Mexico was too risky. A June 7 deal between the Mexican authorities and the United States to reduce migration had brought extra security forces to the border.
Mexico’s mobilization of its security forces has been halting, and for most of the past two weeks it seemed to fall short of the dramatic show of force that the government had promised.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/world/americas/mexico-guatemala-border.html
Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Moved Out of an Overcrowded Border Station
Hundreds of migrant children have been transferred out of a filthy Border Patrol station in Texaswhere they had been detained for weeks without access to soap, clean clothes or adequate food, the authorities confirmed on Monday, suggesting that worsening conditions and overcrowding inside federal border facilities may have reached a breaking point.
The move came days after a group of lawyers was given access to the station in Clint, Tex., about 20 miles southeast of El Paso, and said they saw children as young as 8 caring for infants, toddlers with no diapers, and children who said they were waking up at night because they were hungry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/border-migrant-children-detention-soap.html
Duterte Plays Down Chinese Ramming of Filipino Fishing Boat
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines says a government investigation has found that the recent sinking of a Filipino boat by a Chinese vessel in the disputed South China Sea was an ordinary maritime mishap that should not strain ties between the two countries.
His statement, made on Monday, comes amid nearly daily protests by Philippine nationalist groups over the incident. The demonstrators are pressing China to turn over the crew of the ship that rammed the smaller Filipino boat two weeks ago, sending its 22 crew members into the waters near Reed Bank before they were rescued by a Vietnamese vessel.
Reed Bank is well within the Philippines’ internationally recognized exclusive economic zone, but China claims that area and virtually all the rest of the South China Sea. The mineral-rich maritime region, a vital waterway for international shipping, is also claimed in whole or in part by the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/world/asia/philippines-china-duterte-ships.html
THE GUARDIAN
‘Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive
The world is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said.
Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not only basic rights to life, water, food, and housing for hundreds of millions of people, but also democracy and the rule of law.
The report also condemns Donald Trump for “actively silencing” climate science, and criticises the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for promising to open up the Amazon rainforest to mining.
“Yet democracy and the rule of law, as well as a wide range of civil and political rights are every bit at risk,” Alston’s report said. “The risk of community discontent, of growing inequality, and of even greater levels of deprivation among some groups, will likely stimulate nationalist, xenophobic, racist and other responses. Maintaining a balanced approach to civil and political rights will be extremely complex.”
