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Uruguayan Pepe Mujica thanks the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, for “living with a cause”
The former president of Uruguay José Mujica (2010-2015) thanked on Monday the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, who was visiting Uruguay, for “living with a cause” in a meeting in which he also reflected on humanism and the love of life.
“I thank this boy, who has many years to be bitter and feel defeated, for living with a cause thinking that humans can contribute to building societies a little better than those in which we were born and less selfish,” the former Uruguayan president told the press after finishing the meeting on his farm on the outskirts of Montevideo.
In that sense, ‘Pepe’ specified that human beings must allow themselves to dream and live with the idea that there may be a future and that all children who are born have “a side of opportunity.”
“We say that we are left-wing but we are neither left nor right, we are humanists and we think about what suits the future and humanity and we are going to die dreaming of that,” he said.
In addition, Mujica emphasized that “it is not money” that is needed in the world but “heart, compassion and love of life”.
The Chilean president did not hide his joy after meeting Mujica and his wife Lucía Topolansky, whom he described as references of “conviction, honesty and principles” during his visit to Montevideo.
“They are for me personally, but also for our generation, references of conviction, references of honesty, references of principles, of not forgetting where we come from and why we are in the political struggle,” Mujica’s house, on the outskirts of Montevideo, told the press when he left the meeting.
The Chilean president said that “it is exciting” to be able to talk to both of them and Mujica’s energy to “pass the post” despite the esophageal cancer he suffers from and pointed out that he left the meeting with “many ideas for the future.”
“With that energy I’m going to Chile again, which we’ve been trying to do permanently. We also talked about how important it is to advance step by step so as not to get out of runh,” he said.
Boric arrived in Montevideo in the morning where he held a meeting with his counterpart, Luis Lacalle Pou, in which in addition to Mujica he will also visit the president-elect, Yamandú Orsi, who will take over on March 1.
“We see that there are those who sow hatred to do politics. I think that to that we have to oppose a resistance of hope, of affection, of public policies that improve the quality of life of our people and with Yamandú I have no doubt that we will work firmly in the integration of Latin America,” said Boric.
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FAO: Latin America facing “very worrying” scenario due to high numbers of hunger and obesity
Latin America and the Caribbean face a “very worrying, but with positive elements” panorama, given the 41 million people who suffer from hunger and a third of the population dealing with obesity problems, said this Monday in Honduras the deputy director general and regional representative of the FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Lubetkin.
“It is worrying because we still have 41 million people who go hungry, that is dramatic if we think that in Latin America there are people who do not eat,” Lubetkin stressed to EFE after participating in Honduras in the inauguration of a meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
However, Lubetkin stressed that in the last two years, hunger has decreased, which has allowed 4.5 million people to emerge from food poverty; which “forces” countries to strengthen their public policies to further reduce these figures.
Latin America and the Caribbean also face “bad food”, a problem that affects 140 million people, said the representative, who highlighted that the region has the capacity to produce food for 1.3 billion people.
Lubetkin said that following a healthy diet carries a daily cost of “$3.96” per person in Latin America and the Caribbean, after highlighting that the region has made progress in reducing hunger but records an increase in overweight.
“Almost a third of the region’s population is currently in the obesity scenario,” a problem that also affects “8% of children over 5 years of age,” he added.
In this sense, Lubetkin urged the region to look for “solutions” to eradicate both hunger and overweight and climate change, and warned that Latin America is beginning to fragment into three different realities, something that cannot be allowed.
“Not the whole region is in the same scenario and that is an alarm signal because today Latin America begins to divide into three Latin Americas, in other regions of the world there are subregions with different realities and we did not have that,” he explained.
Neither South America nor Central America can “allow there to be another subregion, to go backwards because it will affect us all,” the official insisted, after calling on the nations to “act together.”
Likewise, Lubetkin demanded greater investments to face climate change, strengthen the region’s agri-food systems and reduce food waste.
Faced with the seriousness of climate change, he said that it is necessary to implement “insurance” for producers that guarantees them the possibility of future production, even in adverse situations, he emphasized.
Finally, the FAO representative asked to create “new conditions” to improve food security in the region and assured that the value of food lost between harvest and sale exceeds “a quarter of all food production”.
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Dozens of undocumented people, mostly from Latin America, are detained in Florida
Dozens of irregular migrants were arrested in Florida (USA) in recent days, including a member of the transnational criminal organization Tren de Aragua, as part of the operations ordered by US President Donald Trump against illegal immigration, the federal immigration authorities reported on Monday.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) said on Monday that between January 27 and 28, agents of this government agency carried out raids in Palm Beach County, in southern Florida and where Mar-a-Lago, the president’s residence, is based.
The operations resulted in the arrest of 32 people from Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and Nicaragua.
Many of these “illegal foreigners,” the federal agency added in a statement, have criminal records that includes drug possession, theft, prostitution, illegal re-entry, resistance to an officer, violation of probation, fraud, among others.
All of them are detained pending their expulsion or a hearing before an Immigration judge, ICE added.
Likewise, the Florida Highway Patrol reported this Monday in its X account of a joint operation with federal agents carried out in Tallahassee, capital of this southern state, which ended with the arrest of “alleged members of the Aragua Train” on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle weapons, affiliation to criminal gangs and illegal entry into the United States.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said days ago that he signed an agreement for the state Highway Patrol to add its support to immigration operations carried out by the federal Department of Homeland Security.
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Activities paralyzed in Haiti in the face of new threats from the barbecue gang leader
The metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince was paralyzed this Monday, due to the new threats of the leader of the coalition of ‘Vivre Ensemble’ (Live Together), Jimmy Chérizier ‘Barbecue’, about possible attacks on several neighborhoods of the capital of Haiti.
Today all schools closed their doors, several public and private institutions did not open, nor did public transport work at full capacity and small businesses marched at a low pace.
In the streets, fear and anxiety were evident on the faces of pedestrians on a day in which intense shootings were heard in several parts of the capital, including the center, which has been under the control of the gangs for almost a year, which has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and take refuge in camps and provincial cities.
Faced with this situation, the Haitian National Police (PNH) has been on maximum alert since yesterday afternoon, after the Ministry of Justice warned in a note of “threats of armed gangs.”
The director general of the Police, Rameau Normil, has instructed the central and departmental directors, the commanders of specialized units and the heads of police stations and sub-police stations to keep their troops on maximum alert and take all measures to counter any attack by armed gangs against the civilian population, according to the Facebook page of the police.
The police added that on Saturday night a “highly strategic” meeting was held to address the security situation.
He also stressed that he has strengthened security devices on several important roads to protect the lives and property of citizens.
In recent days, specialized police units such as the Temporary Anti-Band Unit, SWAT troops and the Search and Intervention Brigade, with the support of heavy equipment from the PNH, operated in several areas of central Port-au-Prince, which allowed road accesses to be cleared to “facilitate the entry of law enforcement during interventions and operations”.
In the interventions, according to the police, there were exchanges of gunfire with the gang members.
On the other hand, last Friday the Prime Minister of Haiti, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, chaired a meeting of the Governing Council in which ministers and secretaries of state evaluated the progress of the major national projects, with special attention to insecurity in the country.
To combat violence, Fils-Aimé has promised the acquisition of equipment to reinforce the PNH and the Armed Forces, as well as further training of security forces and strategic coordination to carry out faster and more effective interventions.
According to data verified by the United Nations Office for Human Rights, at least 5,601 people died in Haiti in 2024 as a result of the actions of criminal gangs (a thousand more than the previous year), 2,212 people were injured and 1,494 were kidnapped.
In mid-January, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that the number of displaced people in Haiti has tripled in just one year and has exceeded one million people (1,041,000), of whom more than half are children.
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