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Venezuela reporta primeros siete casos de ómicron

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Venezuela detectó los siete primeros casos de la variante ómicron del coronavirus, anunció este miércoles el presidente Nicolás Maduro.

“Detectaron los primeros siete casos de ómicrón en Venezuela (…). Era inevitable”, dijo Maduro.

El mandatario socialista informó que los casos fueron identificados en Caracas y el vecino estado Miranda (centro), así como en Lara (oeste), con viajeros que regresaban a Venezuela.

Llegaron en distintos vuelos desde la semana pasada, procedentes desde Panamá, República Dominicana y España -vía Turquía-, expresó Maduro en un acto transmitido por la televisión estatal.

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Ómicron, reportada por primera vez por Sudáfrica el pasado 24 de noviembre, se transmite más fácilmente que las variantes anteriores, pero también causaría síntomas más leves, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS).

“Estos primeros casos nos ponen en alerta máxima” para “reforzar las medidas de prevención y bioseguridad”, expresó la ministra de Ciencia y Tecnología, Gabriela Jiménez.

Ya la variante ómicron había sido reportada en varios países de América Latina como Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Panamá.

Según el gobierno de Maduro, 87% de la población de Venezuela ha sido vacunada contra el covid-19, aunque cifras de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) indican que solo alrededor de 36% de los habitantes han recibido dos dosis.

De acuerdo con las cifras oficiales, puestas en duda por organizaciones como Human Rights Watch por considerar que esconden un elevado subregistro, esta nación de 30 millones de habitantes registraba hasta el martes 442.178 casos de covid-19 y 5.299 muertes.   

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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.

“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.

“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.

Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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