Republicans are united, with Donald Trump as the supreme leader. This was the main message conveyed by several of his most prominent figures on the second day of the Republican Party’s National Convention, including his main rival in the primaries: Nikki Haley.
With Trump himself listening to her from the stands, the former Republican candidate for the presidency, who at the time starred in loud confrontations with Trump, assured that she was at the convention at the invitation of the former president, who asked her to offer “a message of unity.”
“He asked me to speak on behalf of the unit. It was a kind invitation and I accepted happily and I will start by leaving one thing perfectly clear: Donald Trump has my firm support,” she said after being greeted with some booing.
The former governor of South Carolina and former representative of the United States to the UN was the most prominent speaker on the second day of the Republican National Convention held this week in Milwaukee (Wisconsin).
A day after Trump made his first public appearance after the assassination attempt he suffered on Saturday in Butler (Pennsylvania), the Republican presidential candidate returned to the same forum today to listen to some of the speakers.
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Again he did not speak, since he is reserving himself for his speech of acceptance of the candidacy, which he will deliver on Thursday. Nor did his candidate for vice president, J.D. Vance, who will take the stage on Wednesday, speak.
Among today’s speakers were three of those who dared to challenge Trump and were candidates in the primaries: Haley, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
Haley was the last Republican pre-candidate to surrender to Trump’s superiority and, before the primaries and caucus began, she sounded like the only aspirant capable of taking away the throne, so today she was the most suitable figure to convey the image of unity that the party seeks.
The former U.S. ambassador to the UN appealed to undecided voters and assured that she is aware that there are many people who do not agree with Trump and that she herself has not been on some occasions, but that “it is not necessary to agree with Trump 100% of the time to vote for him.”
For his part, DeSantis offered a much more ideological speech than Haley and aimed at the party’s bases, claiming much of the conservative policies he carries out at the Florida front, with criticism of irregular migration and the left, which he accused of “indoctrinating” schools for talking about “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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DeDantis asked for the vote for the Republican candidate because the United States needs “a commander-in-chief” active every day to lead the country and because the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, is not fit for his duties, he said.
Ramaswamy, who was also his rival in the primaries, resorted to humor: “Last year at this point I was a candidate for president and I am proud to say that I have achieved the impossible, that many of you know how to say my name,” he said before showing his strong support for Trump.
The former president is “the president who will manage to unite the country, not with words, but with deeds,” said the businessman, who also mentioned one of the most talked about issues on the day: the closure of borders. “If you want to seal the border, vote for Trump.”
With the unity shown at this convention, enhanced after the attempted assassination of the former president on Saturday, the times of division between the pro and anti-Trump, which only a few months ago starred in the headlines and the corrillos of the US Congress, are already far from behind.
Strong differences that were evident when, after the 2022 half-term elections, the Republicans won the House of Representatives and it was an odyssey to find a consensus candidate to exercise as a ‘speaker’ for the deep division between the most moderate and the MAGA, the radicals who identify with Trump’s motto Make the United States big again, for its acronym in English.
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The chosen one was Kevin McCarthy, but he needed fifteen votes to be approved and a year and a half later he became the first leader of the Lower House to be dismissed, at the request of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, for supporting the sending of funds to Ukraine.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un orders the mass production of drones for suicide attacks
North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, supervised a test of drones destined for suicide attacks and stressed the need for “their rapid large-scale mass production,” according to state media reports on Friday.
These types of drones are used in different attack ranges and have the mission of accurately aiming at any enemy target on land or sea, the North Korean state agency KCNA detailed on Friday, which also shared some images of the leader supervising the weapons tests.
Kim’s instructions on drones
Kim provided guidance on the tests to be carried out with these drones, by an institute affiliated with the Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex, according to the source, while the tests consisted of accurately reaching targets after flying along several pre-established tactical routes.
The leader of the hermetic country expressed his satisfaction with these new weapons and said that their mass production is essential “in the military aspect today.”
“The competition for the use of drones as the main means of military capabilities… is accelerating in the world,” he said, highlighting its growing range of military applications, its low production cost and the simplicity of its production line.
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More unmanned vehicles
This call from Kim continues in line with the one he already made last August, when he urged to manufacture more unmanned vehicles, both aerial and aquatic, of a suicidal type or to incorporate artificial intelligence into this type of weapon.
North Korea has developed several drone models in the last decade, and even sent five of them to South Korea, with whom it is technically still at war, in December 2022, with one of them reaching the center of Seoul.
In the current period of intense bilateral military cooperation, it is known that Russia has delivered some drones to North Korea, although the exact type is unknown.
It is believed that in turn, some drones or missiles used by Iran to attack Israel last April could in turn be North Koreans.
Thousands of displaced people in Haiti flee the violence of armed gangs
Thousands of people living in the areas of Solino, Nazon and Christ-Roi, in the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have left their homes fleeing the advance of the armed gangs towards new territories, in the face of the indifference of the authorities and despite the presence of the Multinational Security Support Force, which leads Kenya.
“The gang members are very close,” a woman told reporters in tears, who has not known since Thursday morning the whereabouts of her children, who, like her, fled from the gangs, which since Monday have terrorized the Haitian capital, which has already left several dead, according to different media.
Last Sunday the leader of Vivre Ensemble, former police officer Jimmy Cherizier alias ‘Barbecue’, announced a resurgence of violence and asked the population not to leave their homes if it was not necessary, which has led to the paralysis of activities in the capital of impoverished Haiti.
Several dead in Haiti due to gang violence
Between Monday and this Thursday, several people have died, either at the hands of the gangs themselves or in clashes between armed gangs, according to local media.
Panic reigns in the different neighborhoods near the areas already under the control of the gangs, which last Monday shot two American commercial planes, which led to the closure of the Toussaint Louverture international airport, the main one in the country, and the suspension of flights by several companies.
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EFE could observe this Thursday men, women and especially children with suitcases on their backs, or at least bags on their heads, fleeing their neighborhoods threatened by the gangs, trying to save what they could. A few people were able to move, taking everything with them.
Thousands of people have taken refuge in Bourdon, on the premises of the Citizen Protection Office, which had been housing students from the Faculty of Law and Economics of Port-au-Prince for several months, when she was evicted by the gangs.
More than 1,000 dead
This is the umpteenth public space invaded by displaced people fleeing the atrocities of the armed gangs belonging to the coalition of alias Barbecue.
Between July and September alone, at least 1,223 people died and 522 were injured as a result of violence and the fight against gangs, according to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh).
Added to this are the 3,900 victims between dead and wounded in the first half of the year, after 2023 closed with about 8,000 victims.
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Haiti had, until last September, 702,973 internally displaced people, according to official figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and it is very likely that these figures will increase with the upsurge in gang violence
Four complaints in a month for sexual abuse against public figures shake Chile
Four complaints in just one month for alleged abuse and alleged sexual assaults have shaken Chile, which this Thursday saw as the most notable of them, the former Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve, one of the most powerful men in the country, was detained at his home in Viña del Mar, more than a month after the complaint was filed.
The so-called ‘Monsalve Case’, the first to explode, on October 17, was succeeded days later by the complaint with preventive imprisonment of the retired soccer player and former figure of the Chilean national team two-time champion of America, Jorge Valdivia, the complaint against Deputy Marcela Riquelme, member of the Frente Amplio, the coalition that supports President Gabriel Boric, and the arrest last weekend of an escort of the President of Vietnam, Luong Cuong, on an official visit to the country.
In addition, a woman accused the captain of the Colo Colo, league champion, and soul of the Chilean soccer team, Arturo Vidal, of sexual abuse in a case that is still in the air.
Monsalve case
The facts of Monsalve’s alleged rape of one of his advisors, according to the complaint, would have occurred on September 22 in a restaurant and hotel in downtown Santiago.
The woman reported that she got up in the undersecretary’s bedroom without remembering what had happened since they left the restaurant and that she discovered evidence that she was sexually forced, so she decided to report it.
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Monsalve was arrested this Thursday and the Government has highlighted the facts under the umbrella of the Constitution that ‘in Chile there is no privileged person or group’.
‘Culture of rape’ in Chilean football
After the accusation against the former undersecretary, two new complaints appeared, but this time against the former Colo Colo footballer, Jorge Valdivia, who accused and formalized for rape against the first victim.
The second complainant claims to have suffered the abuse in the athlete’s apartment, after a date in a restaurant and continuing in a nightclub. The victim claims that he had “drugged” her to have sex, and claimed to have woken up in his own home without remembering what had happened.
The reformalization for this second complaint will continue next week, in the meantime, Valdivia will continue to comply with the precautionary measure of house arrest.
Colo Colo, the winning team of the Chilean Super Cup, also took more prominence after the accusation of drugging a woman and allegedly committing a crime and sexual nature by footballer Arturo Vidal and a group of teammates.
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There are still no detainees and the name of all those involved is unknown, but Carabineros Colonel Gerardo Aravena confirmed that Vidal, 37, was the only one taken to the police station and subsequently released.
The events occurred in a bar in the capital commune of Vitacura, from where the complaint was also made and where Carabineros registered all those identified.
“Prohibition of returning to Chile”
This Monday, the Government of Chile reported on the complaint of sexual abuse by a member of the security device of the Vietnam delegation, who was on an official visit to the country.
According to local media, the Vietnamese official allegedly sexually abused a worker at the hotel where he was staying.
The subject went to detention and formalization control, and the conditional suspension of the procedure for two years was arranged as an alternative solution and the prohibition of entering the country and approaching the victim was determined.
The case of a deputy
In the fourth, the deputy of the Frente Amplio, Marcela Riquelme, is involved, who this week decided to denounce herself and renounce her affiliation to the progressive party despite the fact that she assures that she is innocent and that there is no formal complaint against her in the Prosecutor’s Office.
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The parliamentarian made this decision after the information leaked to the press and the party announced the start of an internal investigation, hinting a possible conspiracy.
“I have been the subject of a complaint and it has been within the party, and that complaint was leaked to the press, causing serious damage not only to the alleged victim, but also to myself, my family, my friends and of course to my team,” said the legislator for the 15th district of the O’Higgins Region, in the center of the country.
“For that reason, I have decided that the complaint is where it has to be, which is in the Courts of Justice and today I have self-denounced. In the same way, and hoping to provide all the necessary means of proof to clarify the truth, with the same transparency that we have always had as a deputation, what we have done is renounce the Frente Amplio,” which he also accused of not supporting it.
