Síntesis informativa - 23 de septiembre 2019
THE GUARDIAN
Impeachment talk intensifies over Trump's call with Ukraine president
Leaving the White House on Sunday for Texas, Ohio and then New York and the United Nations, Trump told reporters the call, on 25 July, with Volodymyr Zelenskiy was both “congratulatory” and focused on corruption in the eastern European nation.
Trump said he raised Biden as an example. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden or his son Hunter, who was on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
Regardless, Trump said: “It was largely the fact that we don’t want our people, like Vice-President Biden and his son, creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine.”
Trump’s apparent admission added to pressure on Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings. Even some Republicans urged the president to make public the details of his call with Zelenskiy. Trump hinted at such a move.
Iran to lay out Gulf security proposal at UN general assembly
Rouhani made clear the Iranian proposal, dubbed the ‘Coalition of Hope’, was designed to exclude the US, which would make it unpalatable to Gulf states who see Washington as an ally and protector.
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, later said that opposition to foreign forces in the Gulf was not a precondition for joining the coalition, and that all the permanent members of the UN security council were welcome to take part.
“The security of the Persian Gulf, the strait of Hormuz, and the Sea of Oman is indigenous,” President Rouhani said at an extensive military parade marking the 39th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war. “Foreign forces could cause problems and insecurity for our nation and region,” he added.
Iran says it will destroy any aggressor as tensions build in Gulf
A day after the head of Iran’s elite Republican Guards said on state TV that “limited aggression will not remain limited,” the Iranian foreign minister told American network CBS that he was not confident that war could be avoided, while again denying Iranian involvement in the attacks on Saudi Arabia.
In an interview with Face the Nation due to be aired Sunday morning, US time, foreign minister Javad Zarif said: “I’m not confident that we can avoid a war. I’m confident we will not start one, but I’m confident that whoever starts one will not be the one who finishes it.”
Countries must triple climate emissions targets to limit global heating to 2C
The report, launched as leaders gather at a UN climate action summit in New York on Monday, says current plans would lead to a rise in average global temperatures of between 2.9C and 3.4C by 2100, a shift likely to bring catastrophic change across the globe.
Coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation, the United in Science report says it is still possible to reduce the gap and keep global heating to a safe level, but it would require an urgent shift in commitments and action.
The five years between 2015 and 2019 are on track to be on average 1.1C hotter than pre-industrial times and the warmest of any equivalent period on record.
enlace al reporte: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/landmark-united-science-report-informs-climate-action-summit
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AL JAZEERA
Iran says seized Stena Impero 'free' to leave
British-flagged oil tanker was seized by Iran in July amid rising tensions in the Gulf.
Iran has said Stena Impero, a Swedish-owned tanker sailing under the British flag, is "free" to leave, more than two months after its seizure in the Strait of Hormuz sharply escalated tensions in one of the world's most significant oil shipping lanes.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/iran-seized-steno-impero-free-leave-190923111443502.html
Johnson: UK to consider joining US-led military effort in Gulf
Prime minister says 'UK is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran' for Saudi attacks.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the United Kingdom will consider taking part in a US-led military effort to bolster Saudi Arabia's defences, as he accused Tehran of being behind this month's attacks on two major oil facilities in the kingdom.
The Pentagon announced on Friday it would send additional US troops and missile defence equipment to Saudi Arabia and the UAE as part of a "defensive" deployment. Officials said the number of troops was likely to be in the hundreds.
Russia to fund modernisation of army in breakaway Georgian region
Putin approves proposal expected to prompt condemnation from Tbilisi which clings to hope of Abkhazia's return.
The document published online on Monday did not specify how much money Moscow was ready to dedicate to the controversial move, which was expected to prompt condemnation from Tbilisi.
Russia, which has its own troops in Abkhazia, will sign an agreement to finance the modernisation of Abkhazia's armed forces after the completion of detailed negotiations, the Russian government's document said.
Russia is one of only a handful of countries to recognise Abkhazia's independence, something it decided to do in 2008 after it won a short war against Georgia over the fate of South Ossetia, another breakaway region.
Georgia, which aspires to join the European Union and NATO, has not had diplomatic relations with Russia since then.
Taliban in China to discuss Afghan peace after US talks collapse
Afghan delegation and Chinese officials exchange views on 'process of advancing peace in Afghanistan', Beijing says.
The meeting on Sunday came two weeks after US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled months-long talks between US officials and the armed group, which controls large parts of Afghanistan.
China's far western Chinese region of Xinjiang shares a short border with Afghanistan.
The country has long been worried about links between armed groups and what it says are "Islamist extremists" operating in Xinjiang, home to the mostly-Muslim Uighur people.
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AL MAYADEEN
Crueldad fascista contra Cuba: la verdadera razón
Enrique Román
El senador por Florida, Rick Scott, ha pedido un bloqueo naval a Cuba para impedir la llegada de petróleo de Venezuela.
Sería una medida insólita. Estados Unidos ha bloqueado a Cuba por mar solamente en dos ocasiones: en el inicio de la guerra cubano hispano norteamericana en 1898, pero se redujo a La Habana, tuvo pocas consecuencias, y duró poco tiempo. La segunda ocasión fue durante la llamada crisis de octubre o de los misiles, en 1962, y se dirigió contra los buques soviéticos, con el fin de inspeccionarlos para comprobar si traían armas nucleares. Los soviéticos, como se sabe, accedieron a la inspección, y el bloqueo duró unos pocos pero muy tensos días.
No abarca solamente a los buques que traen petróleo desde Venezuela, sino que se presiona fuertemente a navieras de todo el mundo, y a las importantes e inevitables aseguradoras, con el fin de rendir por esta vía a la economía cubana.
Kerry culpa a Trump por aumento de las tensiones con Irán
Kerry no es el primero en criticar a la Administración de Trump por su retórica antiraní y su salida del Plan Integral de Acción Conjunta (JCPOA, por sus siglas en inglés). Incluso los aliados europeos de EE.UU. separaron su camino de Washington y abogan por preservar el pacto nuclear.
Pompeo amenaza a Irán: El mundo entero conoce nuestra capacidad militar
Pompeo señaló antes, durante una reunión con el príncipe heredero Mohammed bin Salman, que "Estados Unidos apoya el derecho de Arabia Saudita a defenderse y que no se tolerará el comportamiento de Irán".
Pompeo culpó a la nación persa por los ataques a las instalaciones de Aramco en Abqaiq y Khurais, y reiteró que su país apoya los pasos dados por el Reino para invitar a expertos internacionales a investigar el origen del ataque.
