International
The 107th edition of the Tour de France has started
Last Saturday, the 2020 Tour de France started. The 107th edition of the cycling event kicked off in front of a small audience near the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice, in the south of France.
There were 176 riders in the first stage. Among these athletes was Colombian Egan Bernal, current champion of the Tour de France. The first race had a distance of 156 kilometers.
After winning the sprint in Nice, Norwegian Alexander Kristoff, 33 years old, became the first cyclist to win the yellow jersey. Rain and multiple falls marked stage 1 of the race. “You can’t dream of anything better. I felt strong in the last kilometer. I am proud of what I did and what the team achieved,” said Kristoff.
International
Death toll rises to seven after the passage of tropical storm Oscar in Cuba
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The Cuban government raised the death toll to seven on Tuesday after the passage of the tropical storm Oscar in the eastern end of the island.
The island president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reported in his X account that the seventh fatal victim was located in the town of Imíaz, in the province of Guantánamo, the most punished by the meteorological phenomenon.
“We deeply regret and convey our deepest condolences to family and friends. We point out the effects for each area, the actions that will be taken as soon as it is possible to start the recovery phase, as well as the necessary resources according to the protection of the people and the compensation of the damage in the shortest possible time,” wrote the Cuban president.
A number of rural communities still incommunicado after the passage of the storm has made it difficult for the authorities to make an initial assessment of personal and material damage.
Thousands of homes affected in Cuba by storm Oscar
The Government and the official media have added that, in addition to the loss of life, there are more than a thousand homes affected, damage to state infrastructure and considerable damage to agriculture.
Early Tuesday, the Cuban state press reported that there are 6,000 people affected and about 4,000 “family nuclei” mainly by the floods, which have caused river overflows and sea penetrations in low coastal areas.
Oscar entered Cuba as a category 1 hurricane (out of 5) on the Saffir-Simpson scale on Sunday afternoon and spent just over 24 hours on the island, accompanied by strong winds, heavy rains and tides.
According to the Insmet, it made landfall near Baracoa (east) at 18:10 local time on Sunday and left Cuban territory in the vicinity of Gibara (east) around 19:20 local time this Monday.
In that sense, Civil Defense decided this Tuesday to declare the return to the phase of “normality” in the eastern provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Holguín and Las Tunas “as it did not have any effects.”
Fifteenth tropical storm
Oscar is the fifteenth tropical storm of the current cyclonic season in the Atlantic and the first to hit land in Cuba.
The U.S. weather services The US and Cuba warned months ago that this season of hurricanes in the Atlantic, which runs from June 1 to November 30, was going to be especially active.
The last time a major hurricane hit Cuba was in September 2017 when Irma advanced parallel to the north coast of the island and caused ten deaths and material losses officially valued at 13,185 million dollars.
International
The Government of Venezuela says that detained former officials diverted funds to opposition campaign
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The Government of Venezuela accused on Tuesday former officials of the municipality of Maracaibo (northwest) – Zulia state -, among them, the former anti-Chavista mayor Rafael Ramírez Colina, of diverting public resources to finance acts of the campaign of the majority opposition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
The Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, said that Ramírez Colina – arrested on October 1 – “directly financed” “political and proselytising” activities, as well as “staff payments” outside the payroll of the Mayor’s Office, with resources obtained through the collection of the urban toilet service by seven companies hired for its collection in the capital of the state of Zulia.
Accusations of the Minister of the Interior of Venezuela
The provision of that service “was charged” despite the fact that they “did not collect” the garbage, and that money, as Cabello explained, “was used to finance the First Justice party,” of which the former official is part, and to “finance mobilization activities of Edmundo González’s campaign” in Zulia.
In a press conference, broadcast by the state channel VTV, Cabello reproduced a video showing the opponent Pedro Guanipa, former director of the Mayor’s Office of Maracaibo -detained in September-, confessing that he was aware of the “financing (…) authorized by Mayor Rafael Ramírez for the campaign activities of Edmundo González and María Corina Machado.”
They involve Juan Pablo Guanipa
In addition, Cabello said that former deputy Juan Pablo Guanipa is also involved in this corruption plot, who “was given” about “50,000 dollars a week”, even though his brother Pedro Guanipa said in the video reproduced that the “financing” to “political activities” of the former parliamentarian “throunder’s Mayor’s Office” was about “6,000 dollars a month.”
In total, the embezzlement, according to the minister, exceeds 2.7 million dollars, and “only in the hiring” of the seven companies.
In the last elections, Ramírez Colina supported the candidacy of González Urrutia, leader of the largest opposition coalition, which recognizes him as the winner of the elections, even though President Nicolás Maduro proclaimed him the electoral entity the winner.
International
Boluarte announces that Venezuelan migrants must show rental and work contracts
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The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, announced that the Executive will promote adjustments to regularize the situation of Venezuelan migrants such as the requirement that they show work and rental contracts, as well as monitor the sending of foreign currency outside the country, with the aim of fighting organized crime.
Boluarte’s announcement about Venezuelans
“We are going to track the currencies and remittances that are sent outside the country, to know where they generate that income from. And the one who does not answer with certainty where his income is from, well, that’s where we’re going to fall,” Boluarte said in the balance of his government management of the last eight months.
After more than 100 days without reporting to the press, Boluarte specified that they are going to make adjustments in Migration to demand that “every Venezuelan”, who apparently works legally, present the employment and rental contract.
In this sense, the president also asked property owners to take care of “to those who rent” their homes.
“We are going to go hand in hand with the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) to be able to control those who rent and those who do not show where their income is from,” he reiterated.
The president addressed the issue of the swee of extortion and organized crime that is going through Peru and assured that they will capture foreign criminals.
“We will throw criminals out of the national territory”
“To the foreign criminals who are in our country, we say to them, we will throw them out of the national territory, we are not going to allow them to stay one more day in our territory,” Boluarte said.
He said that the departure of about 9 million Venezuelans due to the failure of the Government of that country “affects all countries of the world” and that there is an exodus of migrants that has not been seen “since the time of Moses.”
In this sense, he added that, for years, Peru left the borders open to Venezuelan migrants.
“We know well who has left our borders open, and thousands of them have entered our borders without even mentioning their names. And those subsequent governments have been doing nothing in the face of crime,” he said.
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