Latin American Herald Tribune: Carlos Alberto Montaner: The Caravan and Nativism

October 29, 2018

PRN-Latino News Latin American Herald Tribune: Carlos Alberto Montaner: The Caravan and Nativism Latin American Herald Tribune: Georgia Heads for Second Round in Presidential Elections Latin American Herald Tribune: NGOs Say Bolsonaro Poses Risk to Minorities Latin American Herald Tribune: Beatrice Rangel: Poverty and Private Property Latin American Herald Tribune: Lion Air Plane with 188 on Board Crashes into Java Sea in Indonesia Latin American Herald Tribune: Carlos Alberto Montaner: The Caravan and Nativism PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) By Carlos Alberto Montaner Thousands of Central Americans are heading towards the Mexican-American border. They are around eight thousand. Trump has said that "they shall not pass". Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Georgia Heads for Second Round in Presidential Elections PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Georgia Heads for Second Round in Presidential Elections TBILISI – Georgia was heading on Monday for a second round in the presidential elections, after voting the previous day produced a close result but no outright winner, according to partial results.Salome Zurabishvili, backed by the government of the Georgian Dream party, received 38.96 percent of the votes, the Central Election Commission reported.In second place was the opposition candidate Grigol Vashadze of the United National Movement of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, with 37.41 percent of the votes.A candidate needs to get more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright.In the absence of complete data, the chairperson of the Georgian parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze, already announced that the presidential election will go to a runoff.Zurabishvili was “happy” with the result, while her competitor Vashadze said he had won despite the falsifications, massive buying of votes and the support provided by the government to his opponent.The result represents important progress for the opposition party, which in the 2013 elections took 21 percent of the votes and a notable decrease for the ruling party, which in the last presidential elections received 62 percent of the vote.More than 3.5 million Georgians were eligible to vote. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: NGOs Say Bolsonaro Poses Risk to Minorities PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) NGOs Say Bolsonaro Poses Risk to Minorities RIO DE JANEIRO – International non-governmental organizations said on Sunday that the triumph of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, elected as the president of Brazil, poses a risk for minorities.In the most controversial and polarized elections in recent years, Bolsonaro, who defends the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985), won the presidency, with 55 percent of the votes.Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Greenpeace spoke on Sunday after hearing the result of the second round of the elections, announcing that there would be constant supervision in favor of the protection and respect of fundamental rights and the preservation of the environment.According to AI, the victory of Bolsonaro, known for his sexist, homophobic and racist remarks, “could pose a huge risk to indigenous peoples and quilombolas, traditional rural communities, LGBTI people, black youth, women, activists and civil society organizations, if his rhetoric is transformed into public policy,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.AI’s fears were echoed by HRW, which described Bolsonaro as a parliamentarian who has defended torture and spoken offensively about minorities.“Human Rights Watch will closely monitor the rhetoric and actions of the Bolsonaro government,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement released after the poll results.The NGO called for the judiciary and other democratic institutions to resist any attempt to weaken human rights, the rule of law and democracy by Bolsonaro’s administration.Brazil’s Greenpeace Campaign Director Nilo Davila said that nature cannot be seen as a mere economic resource, but as a guarantee of life for future generations, and called for a reduction in deforestation. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Beatrice Rangel: Poverty and Private Property PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) By Beatrice E. Rangel To celebrate the Millennium, the U.N. General Assembly session of 1999 adopted the Millennium Development Goals. One such goal was to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. Read More Latin American Herald Tribune: Lion Air Plane with 188 on Board Crashes into Java Sea in Indonesia PRN-Latino News from mikenova (16 sites) Lion Air Plane with 188 on Board Crashes into Java Sea in Indonesia JAKARTA – A plane operated by budget carrier Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff with 188 people on board, Indonesian authorities said on Monday.The aircraft, a Boeing 737, flight number JT 610, disappeared from the radars 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta airport at 6:20 local time (2320 GMT Sunday) heading for Pangkal Pinang.Before the crash, the pilot had made a request to return to base, the authorities said.The plane was flying over the Java Sea when it disappeared, the director of the national emergency agency, Muhammad Syaugi, said during a press conference in Jakarta.There were 181 passengers aboard the aircraft, among them a minor and two infants, and seven crew members, comprising two pilots and five flight attendants, according to official figures.Emergency services spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho posted the first images and videos of the plane’s debris on Twitter, showing parts of the fuselage, seats and personal belongings of the victims, among other objects.According to aviation expert Gerry Soejatman, the remains indicate that the plane must have hit the water at a high speed.The plane was scheduled to land one hour after its departure from Jakarta in Pangkal Pinang on Bangka Island.Around 160 search and rescue personnel in several ships and helicopters are at the suspected accident site to try to locate survivors and the plane’s black boxes, which will serve later to clarify what happened.In 2013, a Lion Air plane heading to Ngurah Rai International Airport, in Bali, Indonesia, crashed into the water short of the runway while on the final approach.All people aboard, 101 passengers and 7 crew members, survived the accident.In December 2014, an aircraft from the Indonesian subsidiary of AirAsia, headed from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore crashed with 162 people aboard, all of whom were killed. 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