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The “trainer Walz”, a candidate for vice president who was untunged
The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has gone through a vortex in these four months: from being an unknown at the national level to becoming a critic of the viral Donald Trump, and shortly after blurring with the passage of the campaign until he was relegated to a stereotypical role, that of the eternal sixty-year-old white who covers American politics.
Walz has been in politics for almost 20 years but until recently he was practically unknown, a simple man who appeared at the campaign events with a flannel shirt and hiking boots and who represents the familiar man of the rural Midwest.
The vice presidential candidate, accused by Trump of being a radical leftist, has been celebrated by US progressivism for approving aid for families with children, promoting affordable housing and guaranteeing the right to abortion, after the Supreme Court eliminated protections against termination of pregnancy at the federal level.
Kamala Harris’ unusual selection placed this governor and former congressman at the center of the campaign, who emphasized his past as a high school soccer teacher and coach, although his profile blurred over the days.
Walz appeared in an interview with Harris on CNN in August gravitating on Kamala Harris’ shoulder without contributing much and in the only debate against his Republican vice-presidential rival, Senator JD Vance, he appeared doubtful, not very assertive and his profile was moving from the center of attention.
The career of ‘Coach Walz’
‘Coach Walz’ or ‘coach Walz’ has become the first name of this governor who combines several qualities difficult to find in a single politician: he is a former soldier, a simple man from the crucial Midwest, a teacher, a father who has gone viral for his father things and a politician favored by the most progressive factions of the Democratic Party.
At 60 years old, Walz lacks one thing: he is the first candidate of a Democratic presidential formula who has not studied Law since 1980 and who, on the contrary, has spent much of his professional life as a simple teacher, teaching geography, history or sport in a way that marked many of the students who went through his classes.
Walz was born in a rural community in Nebraska and enlisted in the National Guard as a plain soldier to be able to pay for his higher education, a path to the educational improvement used by the middle class in the United States.
The governor was a school teacher where he met his wife, Gwen Whipple, with whom he later moved to Minnesota to continue his work in a high school as a geography teacher and American football coach, he managed to get his team to win the 1999 state championship.
During his years as an educator, Walz taught in China and with his wife organized study trips for teenagers to the Asian country, a cultural exchange experience that could serve him if he ends up reaching the White House, despite the fact that this closeness was criticized by the Republicans.
Harris’s campaign and Governor Walz
In 2006, he ran for a seat in Congress and managed to renew the trust of his constituents for 12 years, in which he was a member of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.
Walz would seem destined to win and in 2018 he was elected governor of Minnesota, a state that has voted Democratic in the last general elections, but whose rural population is mostly republican and conservative. In 2022, he was re-elected for another four years.
The governor is an unusual politician also because of his presence on social networks, in which, for example, he gives advice on the fuses of his vehicle and then continues: “I give you another pro advice: go out and vote.”
Walz, nicknamed by some as the ‘Father of America’, has been able to promote on his networks his profile as an affable father and joker and to be a member of the “boomer” generation he was able to find without a large communication team an effective message against Donald Trump and could be a key squire for Harris to attract more voters in the blue belt of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Harris chose him because in the selection meetings there was a special “chemistry” between them, according to sources from his team.
Republicans have tried to discredit his profile by claiming that he left his position in the National Guard shortly before his unit was sent to Iraq (something that coincided with the beginning of his first campaign to be a congressman) or by exaggerating that he was in the Tiananmen massacre in 1989.
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Sheinbaum pledges support for mexican migrants amid U.S. border enforcement plans
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum assured on Monday that she will “always” defend Mexican migrants in the United States, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of former official Tom Homan as “border czar,” responsible for overseeing “all deportations of illegal foreign nationals back to their countries of origin.”
“We will always defend Mexican men and women on the other side of the border, who are also essential to the U.S. economy,” Sheinbaum stated during a press conference at the National Palace.
When questioned by Mexican media about the appointment of former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan to oversee U.S. borders under the new administration, Sheinbaum said she would reach out to the president-elect’s team.
“We have data, and we’ll share the information, but it’s also important to establish contact, understand their intentions, and, as much as possible, work toward coordination,” she emphasized.
Her remarks come just hours after the newly elected head of the White House announced on his Truth Social platform that Homan will be in charge of “all borders” in the country, as well as the massive deportations Trump has promised.
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Le procureur vénézuélien dénonce une campagne visant à présenter les “criminels” comme prisonniers politiques
Le procureur général du Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, a dénoncé lundi une campagne visant à montrer des “criminels” capturés dans le contexte de manifestations post-électorales en tant que prisonniers politiques, et a réitéré que dans le pays “il n’y a pas d’enfants détenus”, comme le dénonce l’opposition majoritaire.
Le chef du ministère public (MP, bureau du procureur) a assuré que, ces derniers jours, cette campagne s’est accrue, dans le but de “mal mettre, nuire et stigmatiser la démocratie vénézuélienne et ses autorités”, ainsi que de faire voir “ceux qui ont commis ces actes, qui sont détenus, comme s’ils étaient des héros”.
“Ces personnes ne sont pas des prisonniers politiques, ce ne sont pas des prisonniers d’opinion, ce sont des criminels qui se sont prêtés à des actions terroristes, criminelles, payées par les soi-disant commandits (…) et pour déclencher une guerre civile au Venezuela”, a déclaré Saab, en référence aux groupes d’organisation politique de l’opposition majoritaire.
En ce sens, il a qualifié d’”antiéthique” que “ces cas se présentent comme s’ils avaient un caractère politique”.
D’autre part, il a assuré qu’”il n’y a pas d’enfants arrêtés”, mais “des adolescents qui, malheureusement, ont avoué” que – a-t-il dit – “ont été utilisés” pour “provoquer ces actes de violence”.
Le procureur vénézuélien défend les forces de sécurité
Selon les chiffres officiels, les manifestations contre la réélection du président Nicolás Maduro lors des élections du 28 juillet ont fait 28 morts, dont deux militaires, et environ 1 000 blessés, pour lesquels plus de 2 400 personnes ont été arrêtées.
“Beaucoup d’entre eux ont reçu des coups de feu, des coups de couteau, des coups”, a déclaré le procureur, qui a assuré que, depuis lors, l’institution n’a pas reçu “une seule plainte” liant l’un de ces décès aux forces de sécurité de l’État, que le PUD accuse de répression.
Selon l’ONG Foro Penal, il y a 1 963 “prisonniers politiques” au Venezuela, dont 1 836 arrêtés après les élections présidentielles, dans lesquelles la principale coalition d’opposition – la Plateforme unitaire démocratique (PUD) affirme que son candidat, Edmundo González Urrutia, a gagné par une large marge.
Sur le total, 69 sont des mineurs âgés de 14 à 17 ans, selon l’organisation, qui affirme enregistrer “le plus grand nombre de prisonniers à des fins politiques connues au Venezuela, au moins au XXIe siècle”.
Les dirigeants de l’opposition et les ONG demandent quotidiennement, via les réseaux sociaux, la libération “immédiate” des détenus pour des raisons “politiques”, parmi lesquels les quelque 170 militants et militants de partis qui, dénoncent-ils, sont derrière les barreaux.
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Les migrants qui ont été retenus en Albanie par le gouvernement de Meloni arriveront ce soir en Italie
Les sept migrants détenus dans les centres fermés du gouvernement de Giorgia Meloni en Albanie seront transférés et arriveront ce soir en Italie, selon des sources officielles, après une décision ce lundi du tribunal de Rome qui a suspendu leur détention dans le pays des Balkans.
Les migrants – tous d’Égypte et du Bangladesh – devraient être transférés par les garde-côtes italiens au port de la ville de Brindisi, dans le sud de l’Italie, ont précisé les sources.
De là, ils seront envoyés dans des centres d’accueil de migrants de la région, où ils devraient faire appel du rejet de leur demande d’asile qu’ils ont reçues des autorités italiennes en Albanie, a précisé la presse locale. Tout cela semble suivre un scénario similaire au premier cas qui s’est produit il y a moins d’un mois.
De cette façon, les centres d’internement que l’exécutif de l’extrême droite Meloni a ouverts en Albanie dans le cadre de son pacte d’externalisation migratoire avec Tirana seront à nouveau vides. Cela s’est déjà produit en octobre avec un premier groupe de migrants envoyé dans le pays des Balkans, lors de la première mise en œuvre du plan controversé.
Invalidation des détentions
Cette fois-là a été la première fois où le Tribunal de Rome est intervenu pour invalider les arrestations, alléguant qu’il y avait un arrêt antérieur sur l’affaire de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) qui créait un précédent juridique.
L’arrêt de la CJUE a allégé que des pays comme l’Égypte et le Bangladesh ne pouvaient pas être considérés comme sûrs dans leur ensemble, et face à cela, la justice italienne a assuré que les migrants de ces pays ne pouvaient pas être détenus en Albanie et devaient faire le processus en Italie.
Après cela, le gouvernement de Meloni a réagi en protégeant par décret la liste des pays sûrs, en maintenant l’Égypte et le Bangladesh, dans le but de faciliter l’expulsion des nombreux immigrants de ces pays qui arrivent par la Méditerranée.
Cependant, cela a généré une friction entre la justice et le gouvernement, qui a de nouveau tenté d’envoyer des migrants en Albanie malgré les réserves judiciaires la semaine dernière. En effet, dans son arrêt d’aujourd’hui, le Tribunal de Rome a franchi une nouvelle étape : il a renvoyé d’urgence cette affaire à la CJUE et lui a demandé de déterminer quelle juridiction prévaut.
Après cela, il est prévu que le ministère italien de l’Intérieur se présente devant la CJUE pour exposer ses raisons et défendre le transfert et la détention de migrants en Albanie.
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