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El Salvador readies great event to celebrate Romero’s canonization

by the El Reportero’s wire services

El Salvador readies today several celebrations to accompany at a distance the canonization of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, scheduled for next October 14 in the Vatican.

The Catholic Church of this Central American nation will gather a national meeting called ‘Your faith made you a saint’, to honor the bishop whose murder by death squads in 1980 still is unpunished.

Father Santos Belisario, of the Youth Pastoral of the Archbishopric of San Salvador, invited citizens to join in this feast of faith and unity to celebrate the proclamation of the first Salvadoran saint.

The event will include chants, lectures, testimonies and papers in the crypt of pious Romero in the Metropolitan Cathedral, besides children activities in the nearby Morazan Square and a pilgrimage to the Barrios square.

There will be a vigil to await the transmission of the canonization ceremony in the square of St. Paul in the Holy See, at 02:00 am (local time) and 10:00 am in Rome.

Also, the event will gather organizations defenders of human rights, grassroots ecclesiastical communities, historical memory groups and others dedicated to the search of disappeared children, among others.

The canonization celebration will conclude almost in the early hours of Sunday October14 with chants at the crypt where many already revere as St. Romero of America.

Parents file federal lawsuit over murder of their son in Fresno County jail

Young man with no criminal history was placed among hardened violent offenders

A federal lawsuit will be filed this morning in U.S. District Court in Fresno by Carlos and Anna Herrera, the parents of Lorenzo Herrera, a 19-year-old who was murdered at the Fresno County Jail.

On March 26, 2018, Lorenzo was found strangled in his cell at the Fresno County Jail. He had no criminal history and was in custody because his family could not afford to pay bail.

The lawsuit alleges multiple violations of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the county jail and the Fresno Sheriff’s Office’s failure to protect Lorenzo, who had not been convicted of any crime and had been placed among violent offenders in an area not subject to direct observation by guards or security cameras. The suit also alleges wrongful death and seeks compensatory and punitive damages as well as injunctive relief.

Nearly six months after his death, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department has provided no answers regarding who killed Lorenzo, or why none of the guards was aware of any details of the murder.

Lorenzo was born in Fresno, and graduated from Reedley High School one year before his death. He was a popular member of the football team and had many friends. He was working as a custodian at Kings Canyon Unified School District.

“What troubles us is that Fresno County has been under a federal court order to add deputies to supervise its prisoners,” said the family attorney Arturo J. González. “And that has not happened. Understaffed facilities pose dangers to inmates and the deputies who guard them. That has to change, and it has to change now.”

The parents and their counsel are asking the public for help. “Someone knows who killed Lorenzo,” said Ms. Kruze. “We need them to be strong and do the right thing. Come forward and bring justice to his family.”

“We want to do what we can to fight for our son,” said Lorenzo’s father, Carlos Herrera. “What happened to him was wrong, and we want to prevent this from happening to another family.”

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Fourth annual Concert in the Park

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

The South San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to present the fourth annual Concert in the ParkThis fun and free family-oriented community event will feature fun music performances and a variety of activities for all ages. More details to come, please check back soon!

El Camino High School Jazz Band
12:15 p.m. South San Francisco High School Jazz Band

MALO on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the soccer field at Orange Memorial Park, located on West Orange Avenue at Tennis Drive in South San Francisco.

For directions and FAQ’s, visit www.ssf.net/concert

Collaborative solutions to combating human trafficking

Join us Sept. 25 for a full day conference with law enforcement, businesses, survivors, service providers and volunteers as we explore good practices and policy solutions in anti-human trafficking collaboration. Learn about effective partnerships and innovative programs aimed at eradicating modern-day slavery across the Bay Area. Share your experience and network with other professionals and volunteers fighting this heinous crime.

California State Building, Milton Marks Conference Center, 455 Golden  Gate Ave., San Francisco. On Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

A mayoral forum, addressing the main issues facing Oakland

Mayoral candidates will address pivotal issues like housing and affordability, homelessness, traffic and transit, education, and more before an audience of voters. This forum will be livestreamed and will include questions from community members.

Oakland is in a critical turning point when it comes to housing and affordability, homelessness, traffic and transit, education, police violence, community safety, and and more. Voters need to be educated on the positions and strategies the candidates espouse so they can make fully informed choices in the voting booth come November.

At First Presbyterian Church, 2619 Broadway, Oakland, on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Mariachi Flor De Toloache New York City’s first and only all-women’s mariachi group

The Mariachi Flor de Toloache, the Latin Grammy Award-nominated group lauded for its fresh and flavorful take on traditional Mexican music.

The first and only all-female mariachi group in New York, Mariachi Flor de Toloache’s diverse members come from a variety of backgrounds including Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Australia, Germany, Italy, and the United States. While careful to preserve the centuries-old traditions of mariachi, this unique mix of cultures and personalities allows the band to offer a modern push to the genre and bring mariachi music to new audiences.

Featuring a lively blend of modern talent and diversity, Mariachi Flor de Toloache made New York City history in 2008 as its first all-women mariachi band.

At the Oshman Family JCC – Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018.

For tickets ($35 general, $30 JCC members and J-Pass holders, $25 students with ID) and more information, visit paloaltojcc.org/mariachi or call (650) 223-8649.

Los Lupeños 50th Anniversary Season kick-off concert

Los Lupeños de San José, is one of the earliest Mexican folkloric groups in the United States.

The dance company has traveled and performed in México, England, Ireland, and all around the United States in a variety of venues, large and small.

As with all dance companies, there are ups and downs, high times and hard times, exciting adventures and lost opportunities. The common thread through the years has been the passion of the dancers, directors, students, instructors, family members, and collaborators that have kept the original vision alive for over 45 years.

Los Lupeños was founded in 1969 by Susan Cashion and Ramon Morones.

Cashion was exposed to Mexican folk dance at the University of Guadalajara where she was studying under a Fulbright Scholarship. Morones was a talented painter studying his craft at the university where male students were quickly recruited into the university folk dance company. Cashion brought Morones back with her to the Bay Area with the idea of seeing whether there was enough interest to form a local Mexican folk dance company.

The response was overwhelming! With the help of the Consul General of México in San José and civic leader Guadalupe Suárez, Los Lupeños was born.

At the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater, 1700 Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose, 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 and 2 p.m. Sunday Sept. 30, 2018. $25-$30.

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Taking a multivitamin every day could prevent vision loss from a common eye disease

by Isabelle Z.

Most of us take our vision for granted. We don’t really give our eyesight a second thought… until something is wrong with it. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance that you will run into vision problems as you age as a result of macular degeneration, and this can negatively affect your quality of life. Luckily, scientists have found a great way you can try to hold on to your vision even when this condition sets in, and it’s as easy as consuming the right types of vitamins in the right quantities.

A progressive disease that can rob you of your sight, age-related macular degeneration affects the retina and causes you to lose your central vision. Your peripheral vision might be normal, but you eventually lose the ability to see fine details. It’s said that being overweight, older than 50, and consuming a diet high in saturated fat raises your risk of age-related macular degeneration, but it’s incredibly common overall. One out of every three people aged 80 or older have signs of the disease.

Among those with age-related macular degeneration, eight out of ten will have the dry form, which is caused by a thinning in the macula. It usually starts when tiny deposits form beneath the retina, and it often causes a blurry spot in central vision.

A team of researchers from the Cochrane Review recently carried out a study to assess whether vitamins and minerals can slow the progression of the disease in those who have it. They analyzed data taken from 19 different studies in the U.S., Europe, China and Australia. While some had mixed results, one very large study with a six-year follow-up period showed that a combination of vitamin E, carotenoids, zinc, and vitamin C could make a difference.

One of the biggest and most famous studies on the matter is known as the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2, or AREDS 2. This study followed patients to determine how nutritional supplements could help lower the risk of the disease progressing and causing vision loss.

The combination that they found to be effective was made up of 500 milligrams of vitamin C, 400 international units of vitamin E, 80 milligrams of zinc, 10 milligrams of lutein, 2 milligrams of copper, and 2 milligrams of zeaxanthin.

Eating the right foods can make all the difference

While taking these supplements can be useful, studies indicate that nutritional supplements on their own won’t prevent or delay advanced age-related macular degeneration. That’s why experts recommend that you eat a healthy diet full of vision-enhancing nutrients.

For example, leafy greens like spinach and kale are excellent sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, while avocados and broccoli also contain high amounts. Citrus fruits like oranges, lemons and grapefruits, with their high vitamin C content, can also reduce the risk of macular degeneration in the first place. Experts recommend that you look for yellow and orange vegetables in particular as they tend to be high in carotenoids, which support eye health – and yes, carrots do help your vision, although they’re not quite as magical as some people believe.

If you have dry eyes as well, eat plenty of foods that are rich in omega 3 fatty acids, like salmon, sardines, mackerel and nuts.

The Cochrane Report researchers say that the vitamins can be helpful to those with the disease, and they suggest that eye care practitioners discuss this option with their patients in depth. Because vitamins are generally safe, there is little to lose and everything to gain. (Natural News).

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Bill giving judges the power to set aside sentence enhancement, passes

Statement from Eunisses Hernández of the Drug Policy Alliance

September 1, 2018 – Friday night, with a vote of 41 to 31, the California Legislature passed SB 1393, authored by Sen. Holly J. Mitchell, which would restore judicial discretion to the application of a five-year sentence enhancement for each prior serious felony on a person’s criminal record. Current law inappropriately ties a judge’s hands by requiring them to add an additional five-years to cases, even when the judge believes that the punishment is unjust and unwarranted. If signed into law, judges would have maximum flexibility during the penalty phase of a trail to impose, or not impose, the additional five-years. A coalition of people who are directly impacted, their families, service providers, and advocates now call on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign this important measure.

“The California Legislature’s passage of SB 1393 is a critical step in making California’s criminal justice system reasonable and unbiased,” said Eunisses Hernández, policy coordinator at the Drug Policy Alliance.

“This five-year enhancement is one of the most used enhancements in California, with close to 100,000 years applied to sentences of people in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation custody. California can and must continue to be a leader in reforming and repealing ineffective and long punitive sentences that waste millions in tax payer dollars on incarceration,” Hernández added.

El Salvador Church Condemns Sexual Abuse in US Jail

The Catholic Church in El Salvador expressed Wednesday its outrage over sexual abuse perpetrated by guardians against three Salvadoran girls detained in a jail for immigrants in the United States.

Monsignor Jose Luis Escobar, archbishop of San Salvador, repudiated the confirmed crime in a shelter in Arizona, where minors who were separated from their parents after crossing the US border.

‘The one who touches a boy or a girl commits a serious offense. The Lord already said that it would be better not to have been born,’ said the prelate on a case that has irritated Salvadoran society.

The sexual assault perpetrated by childminders of a detention center in Arizona was confirmed by the Deputy Minister for Salvadorans Abroad, Liduvina Magarin, who also denounced the psychological and emotional damage.

‘There were three sexual violations by childminders, and it is the responsibility of the United States authorities,’ said Magarin, adding that it is up to the parents to decide whether to sue the aggressors.

He added that the Foreign Ministry is doing everything possible to unite separated families in different shelters, but US officials have to speed up the procedures.

According to official data, about 140 Salvadoran children are separated from their families on the southern border of the United States, by the anti-immigrant policy of ‘Zero Tolerance’ of the Donald Trump administration.

Faculties and Preparatory Schools on Strike at UNAM in Mexico

Several faculties and preparatory schools of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) began today on strike, protesting against violence by groups which left four students injured, two of them seriously.

It is a conflict which could be a ticking time bomb for the most important university in the country, whose rector, Enrique Grauz, decided on Tuesday to desist from issuing a public statement because of the persistence of violent groups in front of the rectorate.

These groups are accused of attacks against a peaceful protest by students of the Colleges of Sciences and Humanities who, among other claims, are demanding greater access to the main Mexican university, among the most prestigious on the continent.

UNAM enjoys autonomy and although it has its own security force, no police or federal forces have access, something unfulfilled for this date 50 years ago, in what is known as one of the causes of the Student Movement of 1968.

Such a deed began as a confrontation between students, but became a social movement repressed by the bloody intervention of security forces and paramilitary corps with a balance not defined by any official institution until today.

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Mexico, Canada must work together to tame ‘beast’ in White House: Fox

Former president urges Canada to join the trade deal

by Mexico News Daily

Former president Vicente Fox has urged Canada to join Mexico in the trade deal already reached with the United States so the two countries can work together to confront the “wild beast” in the White House.

In an interview on the Canadian radio show The Current punctuated by his trademark blunt language and provocative humor, Fox also described United States President Donald Trump as “the elephant in between” Mexico and Canada and said that Mexico City and Ottawa need to help each other when dealing with him.

“We must stick together, because the challenges are in the East, [they] are in other economies, and we have to remain strong, remain successful, remain competitive, remain productive,” he told host Anna Maria Tremonti.

“Now we know Trump much better than before and he’s not a good dealer,” added the former National Action Party (PAN) president, who held office from 2000 to 2006.

“It’s clear his game. He attacks first, he tries to reduce the capacities of the opponent, and then he takes all the marbles, and like a good kid, he runs away with the marbles.”

Trump announced last Monday that the United States and Mexican had reached a bilateral deal that could exclude Canada and after four days of negotiations failed to yield a trilateral pact, he reiterated that possibility via Twitter Saturday.

“There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal after decades of abuse, Canada will be out . . .” he wrote.

Like Trump, Fox also has a predilection for making provocative comments on social media, especially when aimed at the U.S. president.

“Mexico is not going to pay for that fucking wall” and “your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world” are among the goading Twitter posts he has directed at the 45th U.S. president.

But in his Canadian radio interview, Fox charged that “you cannot be provocative when you’re in the public arena, when you’re the president of a nation, when you represent 300 million Americans, when you have the power to destroy with atomic bombs or with an army.”

He added that the “presidency deserves a much better leader, a compassionate leader with a human attitude” and that he hoped that the Democratic Party would win control of the U.S. Congress in November midterm elections so that “this wild beast will be domesticated.”

Turning to the topic of drugs, Fox said that Mexico was caught in the middle in the illegal drug trade, sandwiched between drug producing countries such as Colombia and Bolivia to the south and large drug-consuming markets to the north.

The marijuana legalization advocate, who was in Toronto in his capacity as one of the newest members of the board of Canadian medical cannabis company Khiron Life Sciences Corp, said that Mexico itself is not a big drug-consuming nation.

“The big, the huge consumer markets of drugs are the United States, and secondarily Canada,” he said.

In a separate interview with Bloomberg last week, Fox said that marijuana trade should be included in an updated NAFTA deal.

“We can change criminals for businessmen, we can change underground, illegal non-taxpayers into an industry, a sector of the economy.”

Source: CBC (en)

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“Premios de la Radio” to take place in Mexico for the first time ever 

Mana, the legendary Mexican rock band, will be honored as the 2018 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. -- Maná, la legendaria banda de rock mexicana, será honrada como la Persona del Año de la Academia Latina de la Grabación 2018.

by the El Reportero’s news services

Nineteenth edition of premier regional Mexican music awards ceremony to be broadcast live from Guadalajara, Jalisco in 2018     

The Spanish-language network EstrellaTV announced this week that its number one music awards show, “Premios de la Radio,” will be held in Mexico for the first time in its 19-year history.

Considered the largest and single-handedly most important awards show that honors, recognizes and celebrates regional Mexican music in the U.S., “Premios de la Radio” will take place for the first time outside of the United States in the spirit of solidarity with regional Mexican artists who are unable to obtain visas to enter the country. This move is also intended to send a clear message of solidarity with people who have been deported and the thousands of families who have been separated at the border.

In order to accommodate a growing list of Mexican recording artists who have been denied legal entry to work and perform in the United States and participate in the music awards ceremony, “Premios de la Radio” will take place at Auditorio Telmex in the city of Guadalajara in order to ensure full participation of the Mexican recording artists and industry professionals who are unable to travel legally to the United States.

“Premios de la Radio,” the only Latin music awards ceremony in the U.S. that experienced audience growth in 2017 (+32%)[1], will be held on Nov. 8 and broadcast live on the EstrellaTV Network.  The list of nominees will be officially announced from the city of Guadalajara on Thursday, October 4, 2018.

Maná will be the Latin Recording Academy’s person of the year

Mana, the legendary Mexican rock band that has held sway on the upper echelons of the Billboard charts for over three decades, will be honored as the 2018 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.

This will be the first time that a group or band receives the award in the Latin Grammys’ 19-year history. Mana, comprised of lead singer Fher Olvera, drummer Alex González, guitarist Sergio Vallin, and bassist Juan Calleros, has won six Latin Grammys and four Grammy awards during their career. The group has also landed 11 No. 1s on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart, more than any other duo or group in the chart’s history.

Maná is being honored as much for their creative and musical accomplishments as for their philanthropic contributions to the Latin community, their steadfast and dedicated support of environmental preservation and protection and their vocal advocacy of human rights.

Aside from being one of the top-selling Latin acts in the market, and one of the top touring acts in the market, Mana stands our for the work it has done for years to preserve the environment through its Selva Negra Foundation. This past April, the group also received the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award during the Billboard Latin Music Awards, and sat down for a conversation at the Billboard Latin Music Conference to discuss their philanthropic endeavors.

Mana has also been vocal in speaking out to promote specific causes, including the right to vote. The group was the first Latin act to speak out vehemently against Donald Trump’s negative comments about the Latin community, when the now-president was still campaigning.

Mana will be honored at a private dinner on Nov. 14, the day before the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, with proceeds going to the Latin Grammy Foundation. As is the tradition, the band will be fetted by other artists who will perform their songs.

 

 

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El Chapo’s lawyers accuse government of ‘an inquisition’ as trial nears

Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s defense team complain that their client is being systematically denied due process

Edward Helmore

On the face of it, criminal complaint 1:09-cr-00466-BMC is a straightforward drug-conspiracy case based on 300,000 pages of seized documents, including drug ledgers and shipping manifests, wire-tap recordings and potentially dozens of cooperating witnesses.

But the sheer abundance of discovery material alone is an indication that little about United States v Joaquín Guzmán Loera will be straightforward when jury selection begins in Brooklyn federal Judge Brian Cogan’s court room on Nov. 5.

For the government, it’s a banner prosecution; a rare opportunity to serve justice on a notorious trafficking kingpin known variously as El Shorty (for his diminutive stature), El Rapido (for the efficiency of his trafficking operation), or El Chapo to followers of narco folklore everywhere.

But the passage from extradition on Barack Obama’s final night in office in 2017 to trial in Brooklyn has been fraught with delays caused by defense complaints that Guzmán, for two decades the head of Mexico’s dominant Sinaloa crime cartel, is being systematically denied due process.

“I’ve defended some difficult cases and some notorious clients but I’ve never had both arms tied behind my back like this,” says Jeffrey Lichtman, a heavy hitting New York criminal defence lawyer who formally joined Guzmán’s defence team last month. “This is literally an inquisition. Constitutional fairness has gone out of the window because the government wants a show trial with a quickie conviction.”

The addition of Lichtman, who is best known for winning an acquittal for John Gotti Jr on mob related racketeering charges, has amplified a sense of anticipation before the trial. Guzmán’s wife, the former beauty queen Emma Coronel Aispuro, now attends pretrial hearings with the couple’s two young daughters, who wave and coo excitedly to their father from the gallery. That space is now crammed with increasing numbers of media from Mexico and Central America, where Guzmán remains both reviled and revered.

The vast amount of evidence prosecutors have assembled to back up their story of Guzmán’s two decades at the top has now landed with the defense, a “dump” in their opinion, and assembled “with no rhyme or reason”.

If the government’s evidence against Guzmán is as good as it claims it is, Lichtman argued, why are they treating El Chapo in this fashion? “It’s making me think that maybe the evidence is not so good and they’re going to rely on the evidence of people who’ve spent their entire lives selling drugs and lying,” he said.

Exacerbating the problem of sifting through that material, the defence claims, is being denied sufficient access to a client who does not speak English and whose ability to participate in his defence is hampered by the harsh conditions of his 17-month confinement at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.

“He’s in isolation 24 hours a day and his condition is deteriorating,” said Lichtman. “He has no contact with other prisoners and very little contact with jailers, who don’t speak Spanish. He has no ability to speak to his family and gets two calls from his sister totaling half-an-hour a month.”

Though the judge, Cogan, has indicated he’s not inclined to allow testimony about dozens of assassinations Guzmán allegedly ordered between 1989 and 2014, jurors will likely hear the story of a lowly marijuana farmer who rose to create a smuggling empire with annual revenues of $3bn and which, at its peak, was responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs entering the US from Mexico. Guzmán’s own fortune, prosecutors estimate, is in excess of $1bn.

After he was hauled from a drainage ditch in the coastal city of Mochis by Mexican federal authorities in January 2016, Guzmán told Mexican prosecutors that he was “just a farmer” who earns 20,000 pesos a year ($1,500) growing corn, sorghum and safflower. He did not, he claimed, “belong to any cartel or have any cartel”.

Part of the government’s rationale for keeping Guzmán under conditions of maximum detention, his legal team concedes, may be rooted in Guzmán’s proven ability to escape from maximum-security prisons in Mexico – once, according to his lore, secreted in a laundry cart and, in a second successful bid for freedom, via a mile-long tunnel that connected to the shower of his cell.
“We have to be realistic,” A Eduardo Balarezo argued. “We’re in a secure facility in downtown Manhattan. Does the government have so little faith it its own security that they think something like that could happen again?”

As the government lays out Guzman’s rise and fall at trial, much of the evidence will come in direct testimony from as many as 40 witnesses, among them Colombian drug lords, couriers, enforcers and accountants – some of who may be allowed to testify under aliases.

One likely prosecution witness is Dámaso López, Guzmán’s former right-hand man who was extradited to the US in July. One figure who might be called by the defence is actor Sean Penn.

Months ago, prosecutors petitioned the judge to exclude any mention of Guzmán’s sit-down interview with Penn for Rolling Stone magazine in 2015, which came shortly before the arrest that led to Guzmán’s extradition. Penn has denied his contact with Guzmán could have tipped off US or Mexican authorities to his whereabouts.

Asked if he believed Penn’s involvement led to his client’s arrest, Balarezo said simply: “I have no doubts about that.”

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FDA warning: Popular diabetes drug causes flesh-eating bacteria to eat your genitals

by Isabelle Z.

Some medication side effects are easier to ignore than others. You might be willing to overlook the occasional headache, for example, but a bacterial infection that eats away at the flesh of your genitals? That’s a dealbreaker for most people.

It sounds like the kind of obscure side effects you might expect from a specialist medicine for a very rare disease, but the illness known as necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum is actually a potential side effect of several widely used diabetes medications. Now, the FDA is warning patients and doctors about this highly concerning problem, which is also known as Fournier’s gangrene.

The drugs that have been linked to the illness belong to a class of medications known as SGLT2 inhibitors and include Eli Lilly and Co.’s Jardiance, Farxiga from AstraZeneca Plc, and Invokana from Johnson & Johnson. In total, the FDA’s list contains more than 12 medications that will be required to carry a warning about the serious infection.

These drugs work by lowering the body’s blood sugar level through the kidneys; the excess sugar is then excreted from the body via urine. One common side effect of these medications is urinary tract infection.

However, because the drug involves eliminating a high amount of sugar through urine, it is essentially placing a high amount of bacteria’s favorite food in the genital region, creating a favorable environment for it to grow. The bacteria becomes problematic when the skin has an entry point for it to infect – for example, a tiny cut from shaving or a skin ulcer. It affects the tissue beneath the skin surrounding the blood vessels, fat, nerves and muscles of the perineum, the area that stretches from the vulva or scrotum to the anus.

Shortly after they started taking these medications, a dozen patients developed Fournier’s gangrene – seven men and five women. All of the patients were hospitalized and underwent operations, some of them disfiguring, and one patient died. The FDA believes that more cases could come to light as the risk is better understood.

The FDA’s move, although it could have come sooner, was surprisingly honest when you consider the fact that the drugs are projected to generate more than $7 billion in sales by the year 2020. Around 1.7 million patients were given a prescription for one of these medications last year.

The manufacturers are now required to add information explaining the risk of the disease to the drug’s prescribing information as well as the medicine guides that are given to patients.
Patients should be aware of symptoms, consider alternatives

Diabetics who take these drugs should seek medical attention right away if they notice redness, swelling or tenderness in the genitals or the area stretching from the genitals to the rectum, and even the slightest fever. Getting help immediately is essential, the FDA emphasized, as symptoms rapidly get worse. Even a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit is cause for concern, the FDA’s statement said.

This illness has a mortality rate that is greater than 20 percent. Although it is known to affect men more often than women, the gender breakdown was nearly even among those affected by the illness after taking diabetes drugs.

If you were thinking you’d rather have diabetes than Fournier’s gangrene, you’re not alone in that sentiment. However, type 2 diabetes is an incredibly serious disease that does need to be kept under control. Thankfully, countless studies have demonstrated that a proper diet and exercise can go a long way toward managing many cases of diabetes without any devastating side effects. (Natural News).

Sources for this article include:
Bloomberg.com
LiveScience.com
FDA.gov

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Political prisoners explain hunger strike against abuses in prisons in Nicaragua

by the El Reportero’s wire services
Some 120 political detainees left in the National Penitentiary System (SPN) arrived Thursday on their third day with an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the ill-treatment they suffer and for their liberty removed by the political revenge of the repressive regime by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua.

The strike was published in a letter sent by the Executive Secretary of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH), the Marcos Carmona organization to which the letter was sent.

According to the document, political prisoners refrain from eating solid food since Aug. 28.

“The political prisoners of La Modelo, who live constant threats from this moment, begin an indefinite strike (…) to get our righteous edition”, expressed in the letter.

Political prisoners, whose signatures are included in the letter, reject the ruling against young Brandon Lovo and Glen Slate, accused of the assassination of journalist Ángel Gahona “for a crime they did not commit” and the victim’s family blames the police in the service of the dictatorship.

Human rights commission condemns murder of Brazilian journalist

The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the murder of the journalist Marlon de Carvalho Araújo and urges the Brazilian authorities to investigate the possible connection of the crime to the journalistic work of the victim.

According to the information available, the journalist Marlon de Carvalho Araújo was shot to death at his residence in the town of Chapada, a rural area of the city of Riachão of Jacuípe, Bahia, on the morning of Aug. 16.

Bill to increase access to Ethnic Studies moves to governor’s desk

Assemblymember José Medina’s (D-Riverside) bill AB 2772, which increases access to ethnic studies education, was concurred upon on the Assembly Floor on Thursday.

AB 2772 was amended in the Senate to create a pilot program that would allow up to 11 school districts add the completion of a course in ethnic studies to high school graduation requirements through an opt-in grant program, starting in the 2021-22 school year. The original version of the bill would have required high schools students to take a semester of ethnic studies in order to graduate.

The ethnic studies curriculum that will be implemented is currently being developed by the Instructional Quality Commission of the State Board of Education. AB 2772, as amended, will also require the California Department of Education to provide resources and technical assistance to districts who are participating in the opt-in pilot program. Districts who participate in the pilot will be required to report to the Legislature by 2024 with best practices and findings from the pilot.

“Ethnic studies courses are shown to better engage and empower students, as well as improve academic performance. All students can benefit from this holistic curriculum that will help will them better understand the rich histories and cultures that make up the United States,” Medina said.

 The bill now heads to the Governor’s desk for signature.

San Francisco Marriott workers to hold mass labor day civil disobedience

Thousands of UNITE HERE Local 2 workers in 55 hotels had their contracts expire just weeks ago on August 15. Although Marriott is the biggest hotel employer in San Francisco and the most profitable hotel company in the world, after multiple negotiation sessions throughout the summer, we remain far apart on the issues that matter most to us. This Labor Day, instead of grilling out and picnicking, Local 2 hotel workers will participate in a direct action to hold the company accountable for jobs that are enough to afford the cost of living, to support our families, and to retire with dignity. 

This action comes just weeks after 1,500 hotel workers picketed Marriott hotels hours after contract expiration.

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Chile honors Lucho Gatica for his 90 years old

por los  servicios de noticias de El  Reportero 

 

Luis Enrique Gatica Silva acaba de cumplir 90 años y ese nombre dice poco, los amantes del bolero y la balada tienen este cantante chileno conocido como Lucho Gatica entre los mejores.  

 

“Mi padre es amado en Cuba, España, Brasil, México y en muchos otros países, pero por supuesto este es el otro mexicano y especial para él”, dijo su hija mexicana Juanita Gatica Cortés. 

 

Todo esto en ocasión de un homenaje al ganador del Latin Grammy Award for Excellence en 2007 en su Rancagua natal, en el centro de Chile, donde se inauguró una estatua de bronce en el Teatro Regional con su figura y la de su hermano, Arturo. 

 

Su Último disco,  Historia  de la ONU  Amor  ( Historia de un amor ), se Remonta un 2013. Se Hizo dúos con nada Menos Que el cantante italiana Laura Pausini, cantante portuguesa-canadiense Nelly Furtado y cantante y compositora canadiense Michael burbuja, Entre Otros . 

 

Pero Mucho Antes, Lucho Gatica se convirtio en Esencial para los románticos de los años 1950 y 1960 con Éxitos Como  Piel Canela  (Piel Canela),  Contigo  en la  distancia  ( Contigo en la distancia ),  Bésame  Mucho  ( Mucho bésame ),  El  reloj  ( El Reloj), No me  Platiques Más  (No me Hables  Más ), y La Canción Chilena yo vendo UNOS Ojos Negros  (Ojos oscuros para la venta).         

 

En enero de 2008, la cantante chilena recibió la estrella 2354a en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood. 

 

 

EE. UU .: Música y personalidad de Elvis Presley 

 

Después de 41 años de la muerte del Rey del Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, sus seguidores recuerdan su música y personalidad como una de las más influyentes en la historia de la música popular en el siglo XX.  

Considerada una de las grandes leyendas de la música contemporánea, Elvis Presley cantó por primera vez en público en 1945, y algún tiempo después recibió su primera guitarra, que le inspiró los peculiares movimientos pélvicos que realizó en sus actuaciones y una pasión locamente melódica. que no había sido experimentado antes. Con estos dos elementos, Presley conquistó el mundo. 

 

 

En 1948, la familia de Presley se mudó a Memphis, una ciudad situada en el suroeste del estado de Tennenssee, donde la gente nunca imaginó que la música del niño daría lugar a una revolución musical y cinematográfica durante décadas sucesivas. 

 

 

Con la misión de condensar todo el trabajo del intérprete en cinco clásicos, sus fanáticos y el mundo del rock and roll en particular recuerdan este jueves al llamado rey del género (1935-1977) y conmemoran el 41 aniversario de su muerte. . 

 

 

Temas como  My happiness ‘ (1953),  That’s all right (1954 ), Es ahora o nunca  (1960) y  Suspicious minds  (1969) se posicionan hoy en las redes sociales como un homenaje bien merecido a Presley. 

 

 

Reina del alma Aretha Franklin muere a los 76 años 

 

Aretha Franklin, la indiscutible ” Reina del Alma ” que cantó con estilo inigualable en clásicos como Think, ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ ‘y su canción’ ‘Respect’ ‘, y se mantuvo como un icono en todo el mundo, ha muerto a los 76 años de cáncer de páncreas.  

 

Murió el jueves por la mañana en su casa en Detroit, “uno de los momentos más oscuros de nuestras vidas”, dijo su familia en un comunicado. 

 

“Hemos sido profundamente conmovidos por la increíble efusión de amor y apoyo que hemos recibido de amigos cercanos, seguidores y fanáticos de todo el mundo”, dijo la familia, y agregó que los arreglos para el funeral se anunciarán en los próximos días. 

 

Franklin, que había luchado contra problemas de salud no divulgados en los últimos años, había anunciado su retiro de una gira el año pasado. 

 

Una cantante profesional y consumada pianista de finales de la adolescencia, una superestrella de alrededor de 20 años, Franklin ya había resuelto cualquier discusión sobre quién era la mejor vocalista popular de su época. 

 

Sus dones, naturales y adquiridos, eran una mezzo-soprano de varias octavas, pasión y entrenamiento evangélicos dignos de la hija de un predicador, un gusto sofisticado y excéntrico, y el coraje de canalizar el dolor privado hacia la canción liberadora. 

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