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Film of ex President Mujica at Toulouse Festival

by the El Reportero’s news services

The Toulouse Latin American Film Festival today screens the documentary ‘Pepe’ Mujica, el Presidente.
The film is considered a moving and inspiring depiction of an exceptional man. Its director, Heidi Specogna, shot it after years of constant exchange with the former Uruguayan president (2010-2015).

About 30 films are competing in the festival, which concludes on the 20th of March, in the categories of fiction, short films and documentaries.

Rated as epic concert of The Rolling Stones in Colombia

The Rolling Stones are recovering today from the concert given at Bogota’s Nemesio Camacho El Campín stadium, to travel to Mexico early next week, for the penultimate performance in their current Latin American tour.

Their presentation yesterday in Bogota is described today by the cultural spaces as epic, even more with the surprise performance of Juanes featuring the British group.

Managing more than the Spanish, the leader of the band, Mick Jagger said the Colombian slang, in the middle of the concert: Dear rolos (people from the capital) we have a surprise for you, now comes to sing with us a parcero (friend) that we love.
It was a delirium what happened on Nemesio Camacho stadium when the antiochiam musitian appeared with his guitar to play with Jagger and the veteran group the song ‘Beast of Burden’, the great success of the quartet’s album ‘Some Girls’, released in 1978.

Juanes had announced on social networks hours before that he was very excited to attend the concert, but the surprise was maintained until the announcement at the football field by the lead singer of The Rolling Stones.

The followers of the UK group hummed each of the songs played by the band from the first minute, while being astonished by the conservation of the voice and energy of Jagger, already 72 years old.

The British rock band will conclude its Latin American tour with a free concert on March 25 at the Havana’s Sports City, which is already considered by many as the historical end of the tour.

50th Berlin International Tourism Fair kicks off

Latin tourism has a big impact today in the Berlin Internaytional Tourism Fair ITB 2016 in this capital, specially the Mexican representation.

Mexico opens its stand at the fair on the first day according to Mexican Amabssador in Germany Patricia Espinosa.

ITB Berlin is a 5-day event being held from 9th March to the 13th March 2016 at the Messe Berlin in Berlin, Germany. This event showcases product from Business Services, Education and Training industries.

ITB is the biggest international fair in the world with 11163 exhibitors from more than 185 countries who want to generate business and promote their image among the well targeted buyers.

Tourist organizations, traffic carrier, tour operator, hotel business, research institute, educational institution, tourism associations and institutions, travel technology, information and reservation systems, travel agency, business travel, publisher, press and telecommunications are present at the show.

Covering a huge exhibition area of about 160000 meter square, with numerous exhibition booths, this event helps the exhibiting companies to showcase their products with convenience and promote their brand extensively.

The guest of honor country is Maldives Islands,in the South Pacific.

She had an abortion at 15, how it changed her life

by Kelsey Harkness

Nona Ellington was 15 years old when she found out she was pregnant. A victim of rape, Ellington felt alone, ashamed, and desperate for help.

After a free pregnancy test came back positive, showing that Ellington was five weeks pregnant, she went forward and scheduled an abortion.

Around October 1983, Ellington, who was still in high school at the time, aborted the only child she would ever successfully conceive.

“As a result of that [abortion], I was never able to have children,” Ellington told The Daily Signal. “I had five miscarriages, two were pregnancies that required emergency surgery, and [during] the last one in 2004, the only tube I had left ruptured, so I was bleeding internally, and they almost lost me.”

When Ellington was eventually ready to have children with her then-husband, she said she visited a fertility doctor who “confirmed that it was the abortion that had damaged me so much that I was not able to have children.”

Ellington considered trying in vitro fertilization (IVF)—where an embryo is manually transferred into the uterus—but said even if it would work, her health insurance didn’t cover the cost.

“It covered abortion. But not fertility stuff,” Ellington said.

Looking back on her experience, Ellington calls abortion the most “selfish” decision she ever made, and now she spends her time trying to warn other women against it.

As part of that effort, Ellington joined 3,348 women who shared their abortion “injury” stories with the U.S. Supreme Court as part of what’s called an amicus curiae brief.

Their hope is that by discussing their “injuries”—both physical and mental—the Supreme Court justices will uphold a controversial Texas law that places new regulations on the abortion industry.

The case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, is being called one of the biggest abortion cases since Roe. v Wade, in which the Supreme Court said that women have a right to abortion while also affirming a state’s right to regulate the practice.
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt could signal how far states are allowed to go in issuing those regulations.

The law in question, known as H.B.2, requires abortion facilities in Texas to maintain the same standards as ambulatory surgery centers and abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Whole Woman’s Health and its supporters believe that the imposed regulations dangerously limit women’s access to safe and legal abortion.

“Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States, and neither of the requirements imposed by the Texas law would make it any safer,” the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in a statement. “Worse, this law clearly imposes an undue burden on a large number of Texan women, who would no longer have reasonable access to abortion care when needed, forcing them to wait longer before an abortion, travel across state lines for safe care, or even forego abortion care altogether.”

Those in favor of upholding the law argue that the regulations are “commonsense” for the health and safety of women.
The law, wrote Sarah Torre, a pro-life expert at The Heritage Foundation, “was passed in response to the conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who ran a ‘House of Horrors’ abortion clinic for over a decade with nearly no government oversight.” She added:

After the Gosnell grand jury recommended new clinic regulations and after hearings on the medical risks of abortion, Texas (along with other states) decided to require abortion clinics to meet the same minimum cleanliness and safety standards as other outpatient surgery facilities and require doctors performing abortions to have the credentials to admit a patient to a nearby hospital.

Myra Jean Myers, another plaintiff on the Supreme Court brief, said she’s experienced some of these dangers firsthand. Both Myers and Ellington spoke last week at a press conference held at the Family Research Institute one day before the court heard oral arguments for the case.

“Abortion is a dangerous procedure,” Myers said. After her procedure, Myers said, “I had a hysterectomy two months later.”
A hysterectomy is a surgery to remove a woman’s uterus. At 28 years old, Myers, too, would never be able to conceive again due to her abortion.

Allen E. Parker, a lawyer at The Justice Foundation, which is the non-profit submitting the personal testimony by women who allege injuries caused by abortion, said most of the participants “suffered grievous psychological injuries,” “but many suffered severe physical complications as well.”

The most common physical complications of abortion, he added, are hemorrhaging, punctured uterus, punctured colons, and scarring of the uterus.

“In abortion, you’re basically scraping the walls of the uterus and the contents of the uterus with a scalpel-like instrument,” he said. “And you’re doing it by hand in most instances, or by feel, the doctors would say. And you can punch the wrong part, and that’s where the complications occur.”

As for the mental conditions, Parker cited guilt, shame, sadness, depression, anxiety, drug abuse, and suicide as the most common conditions.

Ellington blames her abortion for causing her to “spiral” into a “very destructive behavior of drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex.”

Myers said that while the physical scars are still present, it’s the mental anguish that continues to haunt her.
“Nothing wounds you like being responsible for the death of your child,” she said at the press conference.

Parker, who sounded hopeful that the Supreme Court will consider the testimony of the 3,348 women when issuing their ruling in the case, added, “Whether you’re for abortion or against it, you can acknowledge that some women are hurt by abortion, and we ought to do everything we can to protect these women.”

This article has been updated to correct a fact about Nona Ellington. The original article referred to a court document that was about a different Nona Ellington. (The Daily Signal).

Elimination of the First Amendment is a precondition to genocide – Part 3 and Last

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

Very little is written in the mainstream media about the Constitution, which is the column from where liberty sustains itself. This following article, written by Dave Hodges, is a good piece everyone should read, if not, follow this writer. Because of its length, we have divided it into three parts. THIS IS PART 3 of 3.

by Dave Hodges

I believe that ultimately, the questions of the future will not revolve around who flies, but who dies.

According to insider sources, demographic maps have already been created in which red dots appear on a data screen by address of people judged to be a threat as determined by the algorithms derived the NSA protocols.

If you are in the independent media, you are at the top of the list. When the DHS goon squads arrive at our homes at 3AM, we in the alternative media will be going to a FEMA Camp, or worse. And what is our crime? Encouraging citizens to express their positive or negative opinions against this out of control administration.

My sources for years have revealed that the leaders of the resistance are on what could be called a “red list” and will be summarily executed along with their families.

The Verizon and Google data dump to the feds is just the tip of the iceberg. For example, because of cell phone tracking, if you have ever met with a person of concern (e.g. an alternative media figure), your score goes up because your two cell phones came into close proximity. And the  longer you meet with this person, the more points are awarded to your threat matrix score. This is a violation of another First Amendment right, the right peaceably assemble.

Keep in mind the Threat Matrix Score is like golf. The goal is to have a low score, that is if you want to live.  The person’s score will also rise if they visit the wrong websites, belong to the Libertarian party, own a gun, vote for third party candidates and are a veteran.  Many of the sources for the independent media has revealed that demographic maps have already been created in which red dots appear on a data screen by address. The red dots represent people who have received a high score and DHS swat teams will sweep pre-designated areas. The DHS swat teams along with their 2.2 billion rounds of ammunition and 2,700 armored personnel carriers will be the vanguard force behind this terrible tyranny.

All others will continue to be placed under extreme surveillance with the threat of removal to a re-education camp or worse. There is a reason why DHS has spent billions on Intellistreet light poles and spy cams at every major intersection. And if you think you can ride this out, read Executive Order 13603. You will be assigned to work wherever this administration wants. Families will be broken apart by this calamity. All of sudden, the CPS tactics and the anti-family courts make a little more sense don’t they? If you are taken to a re-education camp, please consider that your family will be split apart. Men to one camp, women to another and children to a third and you don’t even want to know what my sources tell me about the third kind of camp.“

“I don’t care if the government spies on me and monitors my activities and the statements that I make because I am not doing anything wrong.” Hopefully this article exposes the folly of this thinking.

Conclusion

If you wish to stay mired in the matrix, you will of course see no threat to your existence. Of course none of this will never happen. The government may pass laws which appear on the surface to be quite draconian, however, they would never act upon these laws and Executive Orders. The government may tell you that you, in effect, that your bank deposits are not money and are no longer insured. But they don’t really mean it. The 2.2 billion rounds of ammunition purchased by DHS is only for target practice. And you are the target, for daring to express your First Amendment right to free speech and peaceably assemble. How long will it be until they come after another protected activity, namely, freedom of religion? That day is coming as we are witnessing the incremental dismantling of the First Amendment. This administration and those that follow them must really be up to no good if they are working this hard to stifle free speech.

Let’s be clear. When governments engage in genocide, they first engage in the following progression of events.

Elimination of Free Speech.
Confiscation of guns.
Identification of the “enemy of the State” that must be eliminated for the safety of all.

What blood pressure is and how to control it yourself

by Ben Fuchs
Critical Health News

The body is always talking to us. We may not listen, but it’s always reporting back about what’s going on with it, how it’s responding to our actions and what we’re doing wrong and right. If you have a problem dairy, your intestine will signal its distress with cramping, bloating and other digestive symptoms. These symptoms can be correlated to eating things like cheese, gluten, strawberries eggs and any other foods that initiate intolerance or allergies. Drink too much alcohol, the next day’s hangover can be a communication so clear and impactful you may never imbibe again. On the other hand, sometimes a burst of happiness or a hit of energy or just some plain old peace of mind, can let you know that you’re on the right track, doing something your body really needs, wants and likes. For instance soaking in hot tubs, a brisk workout or playing with babies and puppies come to mind.

While digestion, immunity, skin and respiration are all exquisitely sensitive to their environments, no part of the body is more responsive than the heart and circulatory system. Considering something on order of one out of every two or three Americans have some sort of circulatory health challenges, that’s good news. That’s because, once we recognize our complicity in our vascular health challenges, we’ll be able to address them for real. This can be done without doctors, devices, diagnostics or drugs and their associated side effects.

One of the more significant manifestations of cardiovascular disease is hypertension, and it’s a serious problem. According to an infographic published in the January 12, 2013 edition of New Scientist Magazine, hypertension is the leading contributor the global burden of all disease. Yet nothing exemplifies our participation in our own health and our health challenges more than high blood pressure. Which is the source of endless fodder for comedian’s jokes and is universally acknowledged for its association with stressful situations. Yet while seemingly everyone knows that stress and hypertension go hand in hand, most hypertensives think nothing about accepting the standard diagnosis of “essential” hypertension (i.e. hypertension caused by meaning caused by “unknown” factor) and pharmacological anti-hypertensives that are among the most toxic of all prescription medication.

Hypertension is about stress. To the body there is no more important stress factor than a shortage of oxygen in the blood, a condition called “hypoxia”. Once a critical hypoxic threshold is reached, changes immediately take place in the blood vessels, causing a rerouting of blood. These modifications, that are the result of the intelligent shunting and strategic opening and closing of vessels, lead to an increase in blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force with which the sanguineous fluid moves through the circulatory system and represents the body’s attempt to get more blood (and oxygen) to the brain, heart, lungs, musculature and other vital parts of the body.

Hypertension isn’t the only cardiovascular effect of hypoxia. Oxygen acts as a buffer, separating red blood cells, helping keep them freely floating in easy and smooth fashion throughout the 50,000 mile long river of blood in the circulatory system. Under conditions of low blood oxygen, blood cells will tend to clump up. This clumping can create clots and further impede the delivery of oxygen to tissues, inducing even more hypertension. That’s not all. Hypoxia can disrupt electrical conductivity in the heart, leading to various heart arrhythmia, including the dreaded A-fib. Not coincidentally, among the most prescribed drugs in America are the anti-coagulants, medication that pharmacologically compels blood to thin. These drugs include beta blockers to chemically ablate (destroy) the heart, to prevent electrical malfunctioning and anti-hypertensives, that lower blood pressure by poisoning vessel valves, forcing them to open like a dam in a tsunami.

BAD NEWS: Circulatory diseases are serious business. They’re collectively by far the leading cause of death and illness in the United States not to mention spent dollars and wasted time. If you participate in the medical model’s impotent strategy of drugging, electrocuting and sticking in stents, you’re not going to be getting better.

GOOD NEWS: If you are dealing with any cardiovascular health issue, by applying simple lifestyle strategies, like slow deep breathing, nutritional supplementation, dietary modification and plain old relaxation, you can dramatically reduce your blood pressure, with zero toxicity and no side effects on your own. These tools are available to you without doctors, pharmacists, insurance companies or any other pharmaco- medical intervention.

Community rallies to stop the return of the Beast on Bryant Street

by Josh Wolf

A developer who attempted to placate the Mission community by dedicating land for affordable housing instead of building a smattering of affordable units has once again found himself at odds with housing and neighborhood activists.

On Wednesday, March 16, the Nick Podell Company hosted a community meeting to present a new version of a proposed development that he plans to build on Bryant between 18th and 19th Streets in the Mission. Employees of the company handed out brightly-colored copies of a flyer promoting the project to the dozens of people who crowded the room to learn about Podell’s latest attempt to build a massive new development deep in the Mission.

As Podell clicked through a series of slides to show off the new project, his presentation was punctuated by outbursts from the community. Despite the fact that the audience was clearly opposed to his proposal, Podell and his team soldiered on through the performance before taking questions.

Questioner after questioner pummeled Podell and his plan. When Podell claimed that the project would be the least profitable one in his whole career, the crowd erupted in shock and disbelief.

Lisa Vincenti, a community activist, asked Podell to disclose how much money he stood to make on the development, and his response of 5.8 percent triggered a repeating chorus demanding he open up his books to back up that claim.

I asked Podell, if he would be willing to make his financial data available to help ease the growing distrust of the community.

“No,” he said. “Because I’ve heard no understanding of how production works. The answer is no. We’re not opening the books.”
“I personally believe in supply and demand, and I think that the problem is a lack of supply,” said Podell.

In March 2013, The Nick Podell Company purchased a large industrial building, which had become an arts colony in 1996 under the name CELLspace. Podell then partnered with Junius Real Estate Partners, a division of J.P. Morgan that made headlines last year when it announced a development in Bel-Air with homes starting at $115 million, to build nearly 300 apartments on the land.

Podell submitted a proposal in December 2013 to build 227 luxury apartments along with 47 units set aside for residents who could not afford market rate housing. In preparation to demolish the building he pushed out dozens of artists, an auto repair shop, the locally-owned Tortilla Flats Cafe, and other businesses on the site.

As the tech boom accelerated, the demand for housing in San Francisco — particularly in the Mission District — grew louder. Simultaneously, thousands of Latino and other long-time Mission residents found themselves forced out to make way for newcomers who were willing to pay top dollar. With no other way to stay in the city, the need for affordable housing grew even more dire, and the community started organizing against the numerous luxury developments that threatened to further aggravate the crisis.

Community members organized to demand more affordable housing and worked to stop luxury condos and apartments from moving forward. Podell’s proposal became known as the Beast on Bryant. Meanwhile, the project slowly wormed its way through the planning department, but he decided to pull it at the last minute last August when it became clear it lacked enough votes on the Planning Commission to move forward. Now Podell is scheduled to return to the Commission in May, but based on the community’s reaction at his own meeting, he faces a steep uphill battle to get it approved.

Under the new proposal Podell wouldn’t build any below market-rate housing, but he would donate a third of the land to the city to build affordable housing. Altogether, when — and if — both buildings were completed there would be 129 units of affordable housing and 186 units available at market rate prices.

The project would also include 11,000 sq. ft. of what’s known as PDR space, which stands for production, distribution, and repair. About two-thirds of that space, would be in the affordable housing building, with the remaining third in the other.
Historically, the neighborhood surrounding the property was a center for light-industrial manufacturing; later on, as industry left the city, it was this PDR-zoned property that became a viable home for the arts due to its comparatively-low costs to lease. The current building has about 50,000 sq. ft. of PDR space, so the proposal represents a loss of about 40,00 sq. ft.

That loss is of grave concern to some people in the community. The Cultural Action Network first formed around stopping the Beast on Bryant, but the organization has become involved in other fights to protect arts space around the city. That organization, which I have been working with for the past several months, has a policy to fight for every foot of PDR space lost to development to be replaced in all new projects. The city has also prioritized protecting PDR space, but its constant battle to juggle priorities has allowed developers to carve away much of it to make way for housing.

Since February, a group of community members brought together by the Cultural Action Network have been meeting to discuss the latest proposal and to plan their response. Podell’s decision to donate a third of the land for affordable housing, may have quelled some of the opposition but it’s clear that many people still see the project as the Beast on Bryant and are working to stop the project once again.

In addition to examining where the development could be vulnerable to members of the Planning Commission, the community is also working to develop their own model for what they would like to see on the site. I’ve been actively involved in facilitating that project and so far it appears that there is strong support for keeping the entire floor dedicated to serving the arts and local community, and a greater percentage of affordable housing.

The plan is that by presenting a viable community-driven alternative to the site, while organizing against the existing proposal, that the Planning Commission will yield to the community and empower the people of San Francisco to have a voice that actually resonates in planning the future of the city.

City had to stop arresting actual criminals because they filled up jail with non-violent offenders

by Justin Gardner

Greene County, MO – The epidemic of mass incarceration is coming back to bite authorities in one American city. Because the Greene County jail is completely full, Springfield (pop. 165,000) is unable to arrest more than 12,000 people accused of crimes such as traffic infractions and misdemeanor assaults.

Missouri’s third-largest city has lost almost half a million dollars in less than a year from unpaid fines and fees. These lost extortion fees are likely the biggest concern to city officials.

“Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams said offenders are thumbing their noses at police.

“They’re tearing tickets up in front of people,” Williams said. “Officers are frustrated because they can’t arrest anyone, judges are frustrated that they can’t see people, prosecutors are frustrated. It has just kind of spun out of control.”

Springfield’s citizens are taking advantage of the problem. One judge said that 82 people were supposed to appear in court under a docket of cases, but only eight bothered to show up.

There has been no significant difference in crime rate beyond normal fluctuation, and the city acknowledges that it can’t tell if the lack of arrests has any effect.

The situation is causing quite the kerfuffle between Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott and city officials. Last April, Arnott said he would not take any more municipal prisoners, even though the city says there was an agreement that the jail, which opened in 2001, would take them.

However, Arnott is taking federal inmates despite the full capacity. The county gets paid $61 per day for each federal inmate, while the city does not pay anything to the county for housing inmates.

It seems that the nature of the American for-profit prison-industrial complex is at the heart of this dispute. The sheriff is fine with taking prisoners when he makes a profit, but turns them away if there is no money involved. It’s not really about right and wrong, but about feeding the profits of the jail system.

The city of Springfield and Sheriff Arnott have filed lawsuits against each other. It has gotten so bad that Springfield Mayor Bob Stevens on Tuesday blamed the sheriff for an incident where a man with outstanding warrants hit a police officer and dragged him 150 yards.

While it is entertaining to see law enforcement authorities casting fallacies at each other, the issue in Springfield is a symptom of the malady of mass incarceration. Law enforcement is hungry to lock up people for victimless crimes such as traffic violations and “offenses” under the War on Drugs.

This demand for prisoners feeds a system where profits are reaped off the backs of mostly poor- to middle-class citizens, extorting money at every turn, from going to jail to getting out on bail to being monitored on probation. It creates an incentive for cops to intrude on the lives of more and more people, so they can justify an ever-expanding quest for more equipment and training to carry out more oppression.

Instead of fighting each other to make way for more prisoners, Springfield and every other city should consider that making people into criminals for victimless crimes is not the answer.

A simple and instant solution to end the over crowding of prisons is this — End the War on Drugs.

Even cops know ending the war on drugs will not only fix the prison overpopulation problem, but it would dramatically reduce crime.

One of the leading groups of law enforcers working to end the drug war is LEAP, or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.  LEAP lists some particularly startling facts on their website:

There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009, 82 percent were for possession alone. (1)

The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs. (2)

One out of every 100 American adults is behind bars in jail or prison, (3) and the U.S. houses nearly 25 percent of the world’s prisoners (4) despite having less than five percent of the world’s total population. (5)

In four years, more than 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to Mexico’s war against the cartels that control the illegal drug market. (6)

The Department of Justice says that the illegal drug market in the U.S. is dominated by 900,000 criminally active gang members affiliated with 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities, (7) and that Mexican drug cartels now directly control illegal drug markets in at least 230 American cities. (8)

One of the co-founding members of LEAP is former police Captain, Peter Christ. Christ travels around the country blowing the lid off of America’s corrupt and immoral war. His argument is based on facts and grounded in reality. The War on Drugs promotes violence, ruins lives, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year.

Below is quite possibly one of the most damning 15 minutes presented against the drug war. Please share this article to raise awareness to the horrid reality that is the war on drugs.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/county-jail-full-cops-fighting-city-lost-500k-11-months/#h7LIOpJqesb3ECKS.99

First flight for direct Postal Service with EE.UU. arrives in Cuba

Edwardo Clark, a Cuban-American, holds an American flag and a Cuban flag as he celebrates outside the new Cuban embassy in Washington, Monday, July 20, 2015. The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

by the El Reportero’s wire services

The direct postal service between the United States and Cuba was resumed today with the arrival to the Island of the first flight from US territory.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations Director General for US Affairs, Josefina Vidal, reported on her Twitter account @JosefinaVidalF that this was the first such trip between the two countries in nearly 50 years.

According to the Cuban News Agency (ANC), a little after 10:00 local time, a IBC Airways SAAB 340 arrived with postal cargo at the Jose Marti International Airport, Havana.

US Postal Security inspector, Carlos Rodriguez, symbolically gave President of Correos de Cuba, Carlos Asencio, a letter that reinstated the postal exchange between the two countries and a sample of the postmark designed for the occasion, which he described as history in the making.

First Vice President of Correos de Cuba, Zoraya Bravo, told ACN that the flights will come to Cuba from Miami, Florida, three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, as of March 25.

This will make possible the receipt and sending of mail, parcels and courier and express packages through post offices in both countries.

In other news about Cuba:

The US announce partial changes of sanctions against Cuba

The US departments of Treasury and Commerce announced on March 15, new regulations that modify some aspects of the sanctions against Cuba, while maintaining the main body of the economic, commercial and financial blockade.

The measures, which will come into force tomorrow, will allow American individuals to visit the island through people-to-people educational exchange programs, and partially lifts the restrictions on the use of the US dollar in Cuban transactions with banks in the US.

The current US laws allows US citizens to make trips to Cuba, but from tomorrow they will be able to do so as a individual, although tourism is still prohibited by the embargo, which only Congress can lift.

The Secretary of the Treasury, Jacob J. Lew, said today that the new provisions were to continue the steps taken in the last 15 months to break down barriers between the two countries and to empower the Cuban people.

The restrictions on Cuban international financial transactions is one of the main obstacles to the development of trade links between the two countries.

Contingency phase one due to high pollution in Mexico’s capital

Vehicle restrictions have been activated, reported the Environmental Commission of Megalopolis (CAME) in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, which includes the capital.

This is due to high levels of ozone concentration in the area, the highest in 11 years.

The first phase of an environmental contingency has been implemented after almost two days of pre-alert and poor air quality.
There have been 50 environmental contingencies since 1988. The most recent was in January 2005 when the index reached 167 Imeca points for suspended particles (PM10), that is, solid or liquid particles of dust, ash, soot, metal , cement or pollen, whose diameter is less than 10 thousandths of a millimeter.

The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) reported that they are carrying out a tour of inspection of industry under federal jurisdiction, so as to check the reduction of productive activities which involve combustion processes.
In the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico there are over 3,400 companies under federal jurisdiction that may be emitting pollutants to the air.

Elimination of the First Amendment is a precondition to genocide – Part 2 of 3

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

Very little is written in the mainstream media about the Constitution, which is the column from where liberty sustains itself. This following article, written by Dave Hodges, is a good piece everyone should read, if not, follow this writer. Because of its length, we have divided it into three parts. THIS IS PART 2 of 3.

by Dave Hodges

U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances

Eighteen months ago, I previously reported on the Army’s, August 15, 2014, of how they plan to deal with dissidents and protesters who date to exercise their First Amendment Rights.

The relatively new Army manual, known as ATP 3-39.33, provides discussion and techniques about civil disturbances and crowd control operations that occur in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

The following are diagrams lifted from  ATP 3-39.33 which instructs soldiers how to kill and disable American citizens who are engaged in civil protests (i.e. protected First Amendment activities).

ATP 3-39.33 speaks to the Army strategy of deploying snipers at public events and protests and “eliminating” the leadership of any such activity who would date to express their First Amendment right to free speech.

This document not only marks the death of the leaders of any civil disobedience, but it marks the death of the First Amendment to the Constitution as it eliminates any right of the people to “peaceably assemble” and to allow the people the full expression of the right “to express grievances” against the government.

On Feb. 22, 2014, I revealed the existence of a classified Army document which has been leaked online, is entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations. The document was originally to be kept secret, but everyone in the military command structure, as we know, is not on board with the encroaching tyranny sweeping across this country.

Clearly, the leadership of any resistance effort will be targeted with extreme prejudice.
This marks the end of the First Amendment as know it in which speaking out can be met with deadly force.
Who is going to be ‘rounded up in the name of eliminating the First Amendment?

If you’re an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia (e.g. bumper stickers) supporting a third-party candidate (e.g. Ron Paul supporter), if you possess subversive literature (e.g. articles supporting the United States Constitution), if you are a Second Amendment supporter (e.g. gun owner, NRA of GOA member) you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group and the 2009 MIAC report has been used to train law enforcement, nationwide, that people like you are a threat to domestic tranquility.

When the nation first learned of the MIAC report, there was a push back by many Americans. What most Americans did not realize is that this was only the tip of the iceberg for the government in determining who has been naughty or nice. MIAC is one of 58 so-called ‘fusion centers’ nationwide that were created by the Department of Homeland Security, in part, to collect local intelligence so that authorities can use to combat terrorism and related criminal activities.

The fusion centers are only the tip of the iceberg with regard to the data mining as they pale in comparison to the what the NSA is doing. And what are they data mining for? They are looking for people for daring to speak out (i.e. exercising their First Amendment rights) against a tyrannical, anti-Constitutional administration headed by President Obama.

Every American has a threat matrix score
The American population is assigned a threat matrix score which is compiled by the NSA. It is common knowledge that all forms of communication between and among Americans is monitored by the NSA and entered into a database. The incoming transactional data is analyzed against a continually evolving threat matrix and is assigned an ever-evolving action code. This action code will provide the decision making data on who goes on what kind of terrorist watch list. Things, such as, who flies and who can leave the country, are arbitrarily decided behind closed doors away from public scrutiny. IT WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK.

Activist claims that Berta Caceres’s murderers are free in Honduras

by the El Reportero’s wire service

Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro Soto, key witness in the murder of Honduran leader Berta Caceres, reported today that the hitmen who killed social activist remain at large.

The indigenous and environmental leader Caceres was killed at close rang three days ago at her home, in the southwestern department of Intibuca.

Through an open letter to his friends and colleagues Castro Soto warned that the crime scene was altered and that he fears for his life in Honduras.

He insisted that the government intends to present to the public that the murder of Berta is due to conflicts in her environment, when it should focus on those who threatened to kill her.

The government seeks with its actions to undermine the memory of Berta, the honor and the magnificent fight that COPINH has carried out for many years in the defense of life, territories and human rights, he said.

China and Ecuador agree on visa exemption

The decision to remove the requirement for tourist visa to Chinese citizens who wish to enter Ecuador is based on the excellent bilateral relations, assured the ambassador of the South American nation here, Jose Maria Borja.

In exclusive statements in an interview, the diplomat acknowledged that the measure, which comes into effect on March 1, is also applied by developed countries to attract the Chinese market since the Asian giant has become the country that sends more tourists to different parts of the world.

Ecuador’s decision is directed on the constitutional principles of human mobility and established in the ministerial decree 027 dated on February 24, he explained.

In that sense, he explained that Ecuador will exempt the requirement for entry visas to Chinese citizens for entry, exits or passage through the South American territory for a stay of 90 days maximum, during each period of one year, counted from the date of first entry until their final departure.

However, he clarified that this legislation is related only to activities of the so-called smokeless industry or tourism or nonprofitable purposes, while for those seeking a source of jobs or work permit or to set up any type of business the visa requirement in advance is still maintained.

Taller de percusión japonesa Taiko para principiantes

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 5SEPTEMBER17 - Two thousand people demonstrate in front of San Francisco's Federal Building, block intersections, and march through the streets to protest the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the Trump administration will repeal the DACA order protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation.Copyright David Bacon

Taller de percusión japonesa Taiko para principiantes

Copilado por el equipo de El Reportero

Aprenda el antiguo arte japonés de percusiones Taiko con Sensei Bruce ‘Mui’ Ghent. La clase introductoria de Taiko cubrirá las capacidades básicas fundamentales y la historia, que prepararán a los estudiantes para avanzar al siguiente nivel de clases.
Edad de Principiantes: 12 años-adulto, con poca o ninguna experiencia musical, son bienvenidos. Las percusionesTaiko son una actividad física rigurosa. Traiga agua y use ropa para ejercicio y sudor. La clase se enseña con la etiqueta y la disciplina de las  artes marciales tradicionales como se señala en el manual complementario del estudiante.
Para más información, contacte a Bruce “Mui” Ghent en bruceghent@gmail.com o visite www.maikazedaiko.com.
Marzo 6-Abril 10: Domingos, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., en el Teatro Dance Mission. Para registrarse llame al 415-826-4441 o e dancemissiontheater@yahoo.com.

La víctima de
Pinochet en Chile
Carmen Gloria Quintana visitará el Área de la Bahía
Carmen Gloria Quintana estará presente en el desempeño del encore de la cantata La Vida Vence a la Muerte/Vida riunfa sobre la muerte, el sábado 19 de marzo, en el Centro Cultural La Peña de Berkeley. Ella estará en el Área de la Bahía los días 18, 19 y 20 de marzo.
En la mañana del 2 de julio de 1986, durante una huelga nacional de dos días y protestas contra el régimen militar del General Augusto Pinochet, dos adolescentes, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri de 19 años de edad y Carmen Gloria Quintana de 18, fueron arrinconados por una patrulla military, brutalmente golpeados, rociados con gasolina y prendidos en fuego. La patrulla luego los lanzó en una zanja junto a una carretera desierta en las afueras de la capital de Chile, Santiago.

Rodrigo, un fotógrafo que vivía en Washington, DC, con su familia chilena exiliada, murió cuatro días después debido a sus lesiones. Carmen Gloria, gravemente desfigurada por quemaduras en más del 62 por ciento de su cuerpo, sobrevivió para convertirse en un símbolo de la lucha por la democracia en Chile. El caso fue uno de los más notorios abusos de derechos humanos comprometidos por el régimen de Pinochet tras el golpe militar del 11 de septiembre de 1973 apoyado por EE.UU.

En julio de 2015 – 29 años después de este evento – el caso fue revisado cuando un juez chileno ordenó la detención de los siete oficiales implicados. Uno de los autores, Fernando Guzmán, dijo el juez Mario Carroza que el Teniente Julio Castañer, comandante de la patrulla, dio la orden mortal.

El 19 de marzo, a las 8 p.m., en el Centro Cultural de La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California. Para más información póngase en contacto con Aaron Lorenz al 510-849-2568 o por correo electrónico lapenachorus.org.

¿“Cuál es el
Escándalo? – el grito
ignorado de un Inmigrante”
Eliana es una actriz venezolana que llegó a San Francisco después de caerse enamorada de un político en proceo de levantar vuelo en San Francisco. Ella deja su país y carrera, y tan su nuevo hijo nace su nueva familia se hace su única prioridad. sin embargo, las diferencias culturales, la barrera del idioma, su miedo de perder a su hijo por su estado de inmigración, la tendencia racial y el caso muy publicitado el escándalo político romperá su familia hasta que ella casi la pierde.

Basado en una historia verdadera, esta obra ha sido vista para por más de 2,000 personas en Nueva York y San Francisco, y la historia ha sido la apertura de ojo para unos y catártico para otros. Después de 34 interpretaciones de esta comedia dramática y mucha reacción, 3 Producciones López tomaron el tiempo para trabajar en la evolución de la obra reescribiendo varias escenas a fin de explorar los efectos de criminalización, lazos familiares en una transformación de un modo más íntimo y personal.

Realizado por Eliana López, dirigido por Alfonso López y Producido por Carolina Agudelo Ivette. En el Centro Cultural de la Misión para las Artes Latinas, el 25 de marzo, de 8 hasta las 9:30 p.m. Para más información llamar al 415-770-5543, por el correo electrónico: whatistheescandal@gmail.com. Ver el trailer: www.elianalopez.net

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