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Kamala Harris, the woman who could make history
Kamala Harris could make history as the first African-American woman and the first person of South Asian origin to reach the White House. He does so without hardly alluding to his gender or race and with the promise of opening a “new chapter” in the politics of the United States.
The career of Harris, 60 years old, has been marked by the first times: she was the first black district attorney and the first woman to serve as attorney general in California; the first Indian-American to reach the Senate and, when Joe Biden elected her, the first woman in the Vice Presidency.
However, he has preferred not to emphasize the historical nature of his possible arrival at the White House, in contrast to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
In her biography, ‘The Truths We Hold’, she explains that she prefers to describe herself simply as “an American” and claims to feel comfortable with her identity as a mixed-race woman, despite Trump’s attacks, who has questioned whether she is African-American enough.
Harris is proud of her African-American and Indian heritage. Its name, which some Republicans pretend not to know how to pronounce to attack it, means “lotus flower”, a plant that emerges to the surface only when its roots are well anchored.
Born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland (California), she is the eldest daughter of Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India, and Donald Harris, a Jamaican economist, who divorced when she was seven years old.
His mother, who died in 2009, was a central figure in his life and the person he went to at a decisive moment for his future.
The path to politics
During her adolescence, her best friend from high school confessed to having been a victim of sexual abuse by her stepfather. Harris did not hesitate to call his mother so that his friend could move in with them.
That’s when she found her vocation and decided to dedicate herself to protecting victims of any crime, which pushed her to become a district attorney in San Francisco (2004-2011) and then a California attorney general (2011-2017).
In 2016 he won a seat in the Senate and quickly stood out for his incisive questions to members of the Trump Administration (2017-2021), as well as two judges nominated by him for the Supreme Court, including Brett Kavanaugh, accused of sexual abuse.
In 2020 he launched to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination, but had difficulty defining his proposals. Biden ended up being the party’s candidate and elected her for the Vice Presidency.
Harris, married since 2014 to lawyer Douglas Emhoff, could barely shine in the White House. Biden commissioned him to tackle the “root causes” of migration in Central America, a cursed issue in US politics that has been unresolved for decades.
As part of that work, he traveled to Guatemala, where he starred in one of his most controversial moments by telling migrants who are trying to enter the United States: “Don’t come.”
Kamala Harris, to the election campaign
After a swee of criticism for the apparent lack of empathy, Harris withdrest from the public light. It came out again when the Supreme Court annulled the right to abortion at the federal level in June 2022, channeling the indignation of millions of women.
Thus, when Biden ended his electoral career in July of this year, Harris quickly built his candidacy around the concept of freedom: freedom for women to decide on their bodies and for every American to aspire to a better life.
To the rhythm of Beyoncé’s song ‘Freedom’, she has traveled the country shouting “we are not going to back down” and proclaiming that the US must decide at the polls if it wants a country of “chaos” and “hate” like the one established by Trump or one of “freedom” and “hope.”
His promise has been to unite the nation after years of tension and for this he has resorted to patriotic symbols, filling his rallies with US flags and adding support from republican figures such as former congressman Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney (2001-2009).
Harris, who worked at a McDonald’s as a child, has positioned herself as the middle class candidate with the desire to reduce housing, food and drug prices.
It remains to be seen if the United States has heard its message and if that determination to change the course of the country convinces enough voters to make history.
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Peru opens new probe into ex-president Humala over killings and forced disappearances
Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a new preliminary investigation against former President Ollanta Humala (2011–2016) and four other former military officers for the alleged killing of two people and the forced disappearance of four others during the 1990s, when Humala served as the head of the Madre Mía military base amid the country’s internal armed conflict, a local media outlet reported on Monday (Nov. 10, 2025).
The First Supraprovincial Criminal Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Human Rights and Counterterrorism in Lima has formalized the investigation, which targets Humala — currently serving a 15-year sentence for money laundering related to illicit campaign financing — as well as former Army noncommissioned officer Amilcar Gómez and three additional ex-soldiers. They are accused of alleged crimes against humanity.
According to Radio RPP, citing a resolution dated October 28, the case concerns the aggravated homicide of Edgardo Isla Pérez and Nemer Acuña Silva, and the alleged forced disappearance of Luis Alberto Izaguirre Prieto, Nelson Hoyos Sagastegui, Hermes Estela Vásquez, and Yandel Leandro Zúñiga.
Prosecutors have classified the investigation as complex, setting a deadline of May 24, 2026.
Judge Jorge Chávez Tamariz has ordered that the suspects be listed in the National Registry of Individuals Prosecuted for the Crime of Forced Disappearance and has imposed standard reporting requirements while the inquiry continues.
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Record cold wave freezes Eastern U.S., iguanas falling from trees in Florida
A severe cold wave is gripping two-thirds of the eastern United States, with record-low temperatures reported in Florida — where iguanas are literally falling frozen from trees — the National Weather Service (NWS) warned on Monday.
The agency noted that both high and low temperatures are running between 20 and 30 degrees Fahrenheit below seasonal averages, equivalent to about -6°C to -1°C. The unusual drop has caused many areas across the Southeast to match or break historic cold records.
According to the NWS, the cause is a “frigid continental polar air mass” continuing its push southward following a polar front. This system has brought snow, strong winds, and dangerous cold conditions from the Great Lakes to New England and the Appalachian Mountains.
As a precaution, authorities have issued freeze alerts stretching from the lower Mississippi Valley to the coastal plain of Virginia, where snowfall estimates range from 4 to 8 additional inches on top of what has already accumulated in recent days.
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U.S. Senate holds emergency session as shutdown threatens economy
The U.S. Senate is convening on Sunday in an extraordinary session to try to put an end to the 39-day government shutdown, which threatens to shrink GDP in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to Kevin Hassett, Director of the White House National Economic Council.
In an interview with CBS, Hassett noted that U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs had previously estimated that the partial shutdown would cost the country around 1.5% of GDP. However, he warned that “this figure will likely fall short” if the impasse continues “for a couple more weeks.” The suspension of flights due to a shortage of air traffic controllers and major disruptions in food assistance distribution are among the difficulties the government is facing as operations stall over disagreements between Democrats and Republicans, including on healthcare spending.
Throughout Sunday, Donald Trump has continued to blame former President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan and the pandemic-era subsidies paid to insurance companies. On Friday, Democrats proposed reopening the government in exchange for a one-year extension of medical tax credits — an offer quickly rejected by Republicans.
“The Obamacare scam directly benefits their allies in the insurance industry. They are getting richer at the expense of the American people, while healthcare coverage worsens. If Democrats get their way again, they will score yet another big win at the people’s expense,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
As he did on Saturday, Trump has demanded that Senate Republicans redirect subsidies directly to U.S. citizens. “Republicans should allocate these funds straight into their health savings accounts,” he argued.
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Sunday that the chamber will remain in session until the government reopens in what is expected to be a marathon negotiation.
Senators are working on the final version of a package of three long-term appropriations bills that form part of the Republican plan to break the deadlock. Thune is pushing a strategy that would start by approving the temporary funding resolution previously passed by the House of Representatives and amending it to include the appropriations package — known as a “minibus” — with the ultimate goal of extending funding for a longer term.
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