La candidata presidencial los mencionó durante su registró en el INE como candidata presidencial.
Durante su registro ante el Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) como la candidata de la coalición “Sigamos Haciendo Historia” a la Presidencia de la República, Claudia Sheinbaum hizo un llamado a todos los sectores de la sociedad para que se sumen a su proyecto de nación.
“Hago un amplio llamado al pueblo de México, a consolidar y profundizar la cuarta transformación de la vida pública. Eso significa seguir construyendo un México todavía más justo, libre, fraterno y democrático para conquistar el derecho pleno, de todas y todos los mexicanos a su bienestar, seguridad y felicidad”, aseguró.
Ante decenas de simpatizantes de la autollamada cuarta transformación, Claudia Sheinbaum afirmó que esta segunda etapa de la transformación tiene rostro de mujer y la continuidad del proyecto significa un mejor futuro para las nuevas generaciones.
“La nueva etapa de la Cuarta Transformación, tiene rostro de mujer y significa seguir construyendo el futuro para las nuevas generaciones, con la esperanza y el esfuerzo colectivo en el presente”, expresó.
Recordó que este nuevo modelo de gobernar viene de una lucha pacífica que inició con el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obradory hoy es una «hazaña» que debe continuar con una política de amor y no de odio que permita seguir haciendo de México el mejor país del mundo.
«Hoy con sinceridad les digo, que amo a mi patria y a amo a mi pueblo y vamos a seguir haciendo política con amor y no con odio, amo la vida digna que estamos dibujando juntos y juntas, y no voy a traicionar, estaré a la altura de las circunstancias, no solo no les voy a defraudar, sino que vamos a seguir haciendo de México, el mejor país del mundo”, señaló.
Afirmó que, en esa lucha, la democracia es una causa fundamental del movimiento y ante las puertas del INE, rememoró batallas históricas como la “no reelección”, hasta el “voto por voto, casilla por casilla” que fue símbolo de la 4T.
«Nuestras propuestas de cambio constitucional buscan el fortalecimiento de la democracia electoral y participativa, por la que siempre ha luchado el pueblo de México, desde el sufragio efectivo, no reelección; hasta el voto por voto, casilla por casilla”, expuso.
Sheinbaum propone 15 principios en los que se enfocará su gobierno
Finalmente, expuso 15 principios que extenderá el próximo 1 de marzo en su arranque de campaña, pero que representan la forma en que será el segundo piso de la transformación, entre los que destacó:
Un gobierno honesto
División del poder político con el económico
Austeridad y disciplina financiera
Garantizar libertades
Respeto a la diversidad política, cultural y sexual
Igualdad sustantiva para mujeres
Garantizar derechos del pueblo de México
Promover desarrollo tecnológico
Derechos culturales
Consolidar proyectos estratégicos
Soberanía energética
Restauración del medio ambiente
Soberanía alimentaria
Fortalecer inversión privada y extranjera
Fortalecer la seguridad pública
«Nuestra candidatura tiene origen democrático»: Mario Delgado
Durante su intervención, el dirigente nacional de Morena, Mario Delgado, destacó el origen democrático de la candidatura de Claudia Sheinbaum, que fue electa por la voluntad del pueblo de México, a través de encuestas.
“Nuestra candidatura tiene un origen democrático, hemos visto como las fuerzas opositoras tienen una candidata que viene de un pacto de corrupción, de una visión donde consideran que el gobierno es un botín que hay que repartir. Nosotros no venimos solos, la doctora no viene sola, tiene el apoyo decidido del pueblo de México”, recordó.
Claudia Sheinbaum se registró como candidata presidencial de Morena, PT y PVEM en medio de muestras de apoyo al grito de “la doctora al frente, la esperanza sí se siente” y carteles con leyendas que decían “amor con amor se paga” por parte de militantes; pero también arropada de los principales liderazgos del partido como Ricardo Monreal, Marcelo Ebrard, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, Manuel Velasco, que garantizan la unidad.
On January 3, the governor of Campeche announced the temporary suspension of the transmission; however, she did made it known that the transmission will return for a second season.
The governor announced the start of the second season of the broadcast (Twitter/@LaydaSansores)
Through her official Twitter account, the governor indicated that the program became popular by presenting alleged audios of the national president of the PRI, Alejandro Alito Moreno Cárdenas, it will return for the second season.
However, contrary to her interest in revealing alleged acts of corruption by the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), she announced that she will issue a message from Aeroméxico, for which she asked journalist Javier Tejado to be attentive.
«Message to Aeroméxico, attention, Javier Tejado, see you tonight at #MartesDelJaguar at 8 p.m., in the 1st episode of the 2nd season», could be read this Tuesday, January 10.
The governor of Campeche will give a message to Aeroméxico (Twitter/@LaydaSansores)
According to what the governor announced, at the beginning of the broadcast, the message would have to do with a new audio against the PRI, for which a new alleged test against the PRI leader is guaranteed, despite the fact that the authorities had forbidden.
In the first video there is a conversation with Lieutenant Jorge Álvarez, who is the boss of Alito’s driver, in which he asked him to speak with different personalities in order to see special contracts for houses, apartments and cars, especially with the lawyer Javier Tejado, currently adviser for Televisa, presumably.
“Directly to Lic. Javier Tejado. I am going to give you the issue of an apartment, a key, check everything that is paid for, and we need nine places, I think he has assigned about six and is asking for another three”
He even asked him that if «the lady», presumably his wife, spoke, he would say that he was at the house of the founder of the organization Sí por México, Claudio X. González; Likewise, he was talking about weapons and asking her to pick up a person – a woman who is not his wife – to take her to a special place, where she would meet Moreno.
In the second, a conversation with Javier Tejado was shown, in which he asked the former governor of Campeche to allegedly work on the Campeche campaign towards 2021, for which the PRI leader would give him refuge in the entity; action that he appreciated because he could also took his parents.
The lawyer would help the PRI member how to present his patrimonial declaration, especially with debates about the enrichment that he would have had. “Perfect, whatever you tell me is fine. Go ahead, you send it to me and forward so that I can send it ”, is what Alito said every time they sent him his speeches.
However, in the conversations, Moreno Cárdenas came out against Senators Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Dulce María Sauri and even the deceased René Juárez, whom he allegedly accused of creating a hostile environment against him within the tricolor.
«(…) They obviously bring a movement that they put as a leader within the PRI to be chingand* that is headed by Encarnación Alfaro, who was the formula of Ivonne Ortega and who worked with René Juárez, so all they want is ching* r heading to the candidacies, as it always is, ”Moreno allegedly explained in the chat that was presented.
Such comments would have come from an alleged claim by Alito Moreno against the National Action Party (PAN) and the governor of Yucatán, Mauricio Villa, whom he accused supposedly having requested more budget for PRI senators, especially senator Ramírez Marín, but not having supported PRI causes.
Whereupon, he asked the journalist to also help him unfreeze his accounts; With all of the above, the communicator created a speech for him so that he could attend an interview and defend himself against the accusations against him.
Finally, on this subject, the governor accused Alito Moreno of using flights in the company of Javier Tejado, on the airline Aeroméxico, on multiple occasions, for which she pointed out an alleged conflict of interest.
The governor launched herself against Alito and showed alleged airplane flights (Twitter/@LaydaSansores)
On the other hand, the governor recalled that she has 20 processes against her, which are divided into eight protections in the law, three human rights complaints, five criminal proceedings, one civil lawsuit and four electoral proceedings, the vast majority of which are processes that began Moreno Cárdenas against her.
To all of the above, the governor Sansores referred that she has responded with 15 procedures, which are divided into five lawsuits for moral damages, five criminal procedures for hate crimes and five electoral procedures for political violence based on gender.
The governor recalled the legal proceedings against her (Twitter/@LaydaSansores
The promise of Layda Sansores for the Mayan Train
During the beginning of the chapter, the governor indicated that she made a promise with her mate Romeo Ruiz Armenta, with whom she has been with for more than four decades, in case the event that the Mayan Train is inaugurated in December 2023, as promised by President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
She «promise»that it would consist of getting married, although she did not explain if by civil law or by some religious rule; situation that caused her laughter, since she indicated that she has been with her mate for many years, just living together, but she said that the size of her faith that the megaproject of the Fourth Transformation is consolidated in the entity that she governs .
Finally, on another topic, the morenista took advantage of the broadcast to remember «the work» that has done the head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, since she indicated that accidents on the Metro lines happen in all parts of the world and denied that her party partner is the intellectual author of any of these.
Traslated by Patricia Rubio Edited information from national media and social networks.
Alejandro Gómez Cazarín, un hombre que siempre recuerda el amor que tiene a su tierra Ciuda del Carmen, lugar donde reside desde hace ya varios años.
«Alxo» como lo llaman sus amigos más cercanos y quienes más lo conocen, ha trazado a lo largo de su carrera una ruta de convicciones, teniendo como eje rector de sus principios el proyecto transformador del Presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Esas son las herramientas de Cazarín para consolidar la transformación en #Campeche y sumar a más y más.
Desde la trinchera que le ha tocado, Cazarín emprende la lucha. Siempre poniendo por delante valores como la familia, la honestidad, la tolerancia y el respeto, ganando adeptos con diálogo y privilegiando siempre la paz.
Layda Sansores siempre ha depositado su total confianza en Alejandro Gómez Cazarin, por su capacidad en la operación política. A él le encargó en su momento ser quien encabece un movimiento de concientización en todo el estado. Promovió el cambio verdadero por toda la entidad, el proyecto de Nación de López Obrador que trajo consigo por primera vez una transición real para Campeche, juntos hicieron historia.
Cazarín es de esos morenistas que mantiene la firmeza en su ideología, prioriza el trabajo por encima de cualquier interés. Nunca se mete en grillas, no exige cargos, solo trabaja y que el tiempo diga hacia dónde ir. Al final, Alejandro está al pie del cañón y dispuesto a sudar la camiseta con el número 10 en su espalda.
En 2012 fue su primera campaña en el estado de Campeche, junto a Layda Sansores San Román, siempre siendo su mano derecha, en quien confía para operar y obtener resultados favorables.
Recordemos que en la elección presidencial del 2018, muchos auguraban una derrota segura para Andrés Manuel en Carmen y Campeche. Todas esas opiniones quedaron invalidadas con los resultados de aquella jornada electoral, Andrés ganó y con amplia mayoría. Cazarin en silencio hizo su trabajo y el triunfo de Morena en Carmen fue gracias a esa gran labor.
PASTOR DEL CONGRESO CON RÉCORD DE APROBACIONES.
2021 un año clave para la transformación de Campeche con el triunfo de Layda Sansores y la mayoría de Morena en el Poder Legislativo. El rival a vencer, la alianza de facto entre el PRI, PAN y Movimiento Ciudadano.
Todo pastor debe saber conducir por el buen camino a su rebaño; como Presidente del Congreso del Estado, Cazarín encendió la maquinaria política y en menos de un año consiguió sumar votos a su favor para reformas e iniciativas prioritarias para el Poder Ejecutivo.
A la bancada de Morena se sumó la representación del PAN y posteriormente un tercio de legisladores de Movimiento Ciudadano, estos últimos acusados sin pruebas por su propia bancada y a órdenes del dueño del partido, hoy prófugo de la justicia. Alejandro sumó a estos legisladores y más votos a favor.
Y llegarán los tiempos de definiciones; en la pugna interna seguramente veremos a un Cazarín ajeno a la grilla y siempre chambeador. Ese camino lo llevará a figurar en las boletas, pues tiene carrera, perfil y lo más importante, la gente lo quiere y confía en él por todo el trabajo demostrado.
Ni tantita duda que lo veremos siempre ayudando a transformar Campeche.
Archivo – Manifestantes tanto a favor como en contra del aborto se congregan fuera de la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, en Washington, el viernes 24 de junio de 2022. (AP Foto/Gemunu Amarasinghe, Archivo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court’s conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government’s regulatory powers.
And it has signaled no plans to slow down.
With former President Donald Trump’s appointees in their 50s, the six-justice conservative majority seems poised to keep control of the court for years to come, if not decades.
“This has been a revolutionary term in so many respects,” said Tara Leigh Grove, a law professor at the University of Texas. “The court has massively changed constitutional law in really big ways.”
Its remaining opinions issued, the court began its summer recess Thursday, and the justices will next return to the courtroom in October.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and ending a nearly half-century guarantee of abortion rights had the most immediate impact, shutting down or severely restricting abortions in roughly a dozen states within days of the decision.
In expanding gun rights and finding religious discrimination in two cases, the justices also made it harder to sustain gun control laws and lowered barriers to religion in public life.
The remarkable week at the end of June in which the guns, abortion, religion and environmental cases were decided at least partially obscured other notable events, some of them troubling.
New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in Thursday as the first Black woman on the court. She replaced the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, who served nearly 28 years, a switch that won’t change the balance between liberals and conservatives on the court.
In early May, the court had to deal with the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in the abortion case. Chief Justice John Roberts almost immediately ordered an investigation, about which the court has been mum ever since. Soon after, workers encircled the court with 8-foot-high fencing in response to security concerns. In June, police made a late-night arrest of an armed man near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home, and charged him with attempted murder of the justice.
Kavanaugh is one of three Trump appointees along with Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett who fortified the right side of the court. Greg Garre, who served as President George W. Bush’s top Supreme Court lawyer, said when the court began its term in October “the biggest question was not so much which direction the court was headed in, but how fast it was going. The term answers that question pretty resoundingly, which is fast.”
The speed also revealed that the chief justice no longer has the control over the court he held when he was one of five, not six, conservatives, Garre said.
Roberts, who favors a more incremental approach that might bolster perceptions of the court as a nonpolitical institution, broke most notably with the other conservatives in the abortion case, writing that it was unnecessary to overturn Roe, which he called a “serious jolt” to the legal system. On the other hand, he was part of every other ideologically divided majority.
If the past year revealed limits on the chief justice’s influence, it also showcased the sway of Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the court. He wrote the decision expanding gun rights and the abortion case marked the culmination of his 30-year effort on the Supreme Court to get rid of Roe, which had stood since 1973.
Abortion is just one of several areas in which Thomas is prepared to jettison court precedents. The justices interred a second of their decisions, Lemon v. Kurtzman, in ruling for a high school football coach’s right pray on the 50-yard line following games. It’s not clear, though, that other justices are as comfortable as Thomas in overturning past decisions.
The abortion and guns cases also seemed contradictory to some critics in that the court handed states authority over the most personal decisions, but limited state power in regulating guns. One distinction the majorities in those cases drew, though, is that the Constitution explicitly mentions guns, but not abortion.
Those decisions do not seem especially popular with the public, according to opinion polls. Polls show a sharp drop in the court’s approval rating and in people’s confidence in the court as an institution.
Justices on courts past have acknowledged a concern about public perception. As recently as last September, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.” Barrett spoke in at a center named for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who engineered her rapid confirmation in 2020 and was sitting on the stage near the justice.
But the conservatives, minus Roberts, rejected any concern about perception in the abortion case, said Grove, the University of Texas professor.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion that “not only are we not going to focus on that, we should not focus on that,” she said. “I’m sympathetic as an academic, but I was surprised to see that coming from that many real-world justices.”
The liberal justices, though, wrote repeatedly that the court’s aggressiveness in this epic term was doing damage to the institution. Justice Sonia Sotomayor described her fellow justices as “a restless and newly constituted Court.” Justice Elena Kagan, in her abortion dissent, wrote: “The Court reverses course today for one reason and one reason only: because the composition of this Court has changed.”
In 18 decisions, at least five conservative justices joined to form a majority and all three liberals were in dissent, roughly 30% of all the cases the court heard in its term that began last October.
— Limited how some death row inmates and others sentenced to lengthy prison terms can pursue claims that their lawyers did a poor job representing them.
In emergency appeals, also called the court’s “shadow” docket because the justices often provide little or no explanation for their actions, the conservatives ordered the use of congressional districts for this year’s elections in Alabama and Louisiana even though lower federal courts have found they likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters.
The justices will hear arguments in the Alabama case in October, among several high-profile cases involving race or elections, or both.
Also when the justices resume hearing arguments the use of race as a factor in college admissions is on the table, just six years after the court reaffirmed its permissibility. And the court will consider a controversial Republican-led appeal that would vastly increase the power of state lawmakers over federal elections, at the expense of state courts.
These and cases on the intersection of LGBTQ and religious rights and another major environmental case involving development and water pollution also are likely to result in ideologically split decisions.
Khiara Bridges, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, drew a link between the voting rights and abortion cases. In the latter, Alito wrote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that abortion should be decided by elected officials, not judges.
“I find it to be incredibly disingenuous for Alito to suggest that all that Dobbs is doing is returning this question to the states and that people can battle in the state about whether to protect fetal life or the interest of the pregnant person,” Bridges said. “But that same court is actively involved in insuring that states can disenfranchise people.”
Bridges also said the outcomes aligned almost perfectly with the political aims of Republicans. “Whatever the Republican party wants, the Republican party is going to get out of the currently constituted court,” she said.
Defenders of the court’s decisions said the criticism misses the mark because it confuses policy with law. “Supreme Court decisions are often not about what the policy should be, but rather about who (or which level of government, or which institution) should make the policy,” Princeton University political scientist Robert George wrote on Twitter.
For now, there is no sign that either the justices or Republican and conservative interests that have brought so many of the high-profile cases to the court intend to trim their sails, Grove said.
That’s in part because there’s no realistic prospect of court reforms that would limit the cases the justices could hear, impose term limits or increase the size of the Supreme Court, said Grove, who served on President Joe Biden’s bipartisan Supreme Court commission on court reforms.
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Associated Press writer Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — La Florida enfoca la atención de todo el país tras aprobar una legislación que algunos describen como “No Digas Gay”.
La ley, patrocinada por los republicanos, prohíbe la enseñanza de temas relacionados con la orientación sexual y la identidad de género desde el jardín de infantes hasta el tercer grado. Los republicanos dicen que son temas que deben abordar los padres, mientras que los demócratas afirman que demoniza a la comunidad LGBTQ al excluirla de las conversaciones en las aulas.
¿QUÉ DICE LA LEY?
La ley estipula que “la instrucción por parte del personal escolar o de terceras partes acerca de la orientación sexual y la identidad de género no puede darse desde el jardín de infantes hasta el tercer grado o de una forma inapropiada para la edad o para el desarrollo de los estudiantes según los parámetros estatales”.
Los padres pueden demandar a los distritos si se violan estas disposiciones.
Durante la ceremonia en que sancionó la ley, el gobernador Ron DeSantis dio un ejemplo de lo que considera inapropiado: Un póster con una imagen de “The Genderbread Person”, una infografía que ayuda a los estudiantes distinguir entre el sexo anatómico, la expresión de género, la identidad de género, la atracción sexual y la atracción romántica.
La imagen ha sido incluida en varios programas para combatir el bullying y es ofrecida como un recurso por organizaciones como la Human Rights Campaign, con sede en Washington y que defiende los derechos de la comunidad LGBTQ.
“Se trata de sembrar dudas en los chicos acerca de su identidad de género”, sostuvo DeSantis. “De decir que pueden ser lo que quieren. Esto es inapropiado para chicos de jardín de infantes, primer y segundo grados. Los padres no quieren ver esto en las escuelas”.
DeSantis afirmó que la infografía está siendo usada en la Florida y otros estados.
¿QUÉ SE LE CRITICA A LA LEY?
Los detractores de la ley dicen que prohibir la enseñanza acerca de la identidad de género y la orientación sexual margina a la comunidad LGBTQ y su presencia en la sociedad. En ese sentido, la describen como la ley del “No Digas Gay”. Los republicanos rechazan esa descripción y critican a los medios que usan esa expresión.
Los opositores a la ley dicen que los términos “instrucción en las aulas”, “apropiado para la edad” y “apropiado para el desarrollo” son demasiado ambiguos y se prestan a distintas interpretaciones. Por ello, señalan, los maestros pueden optar por evitar abordar estos temas por temor a ser demandados.
DeSantis y el comisionado de educación de la Florida Richard Corcoran restan mérito a esos cuestionamientos. Corcoran destaca que la misma legislación encomienda a su departamento que elabore lineamientos adicionales.
“Ahora podemos ponernos manos a la obra para que la gente no tenga dudas”, expresó Corcoran. Agregó que lo que hizo la ley fue “fijar parámetros claros”.ADVERTISEMENT
Andrew Spar, presidente de la Asociación Educativa de la Florida, en cambio, sostuvo que la ley es simplemente una herramienta política de los republicanos. Indicó que, de hecho, no se ofrece instrucción sobre estos temas del jardín de infantes al tercer grado.
¿LA LEY TIENE ALGÚN OTRO ALCANCE?
Si bien no se habla mucho del tema, la ley exige también a los distritos escolares que informen a los padres acerca de los servicios médicos que ofrecen las escuelas y les den la opción de renunciar a ellos.
Los distritos deberán asimismo informar a los padres si notan algún cambio en la salud mental, emocional o física de los estudiantes. Los republicanos dicen que el objetivo es mantener a los padres informados acerca de lo que aprenden sus hijos y a lo que están expuestos en las escuelas. Desde esa misma perspectiva, DeSantis sancionó la semana pasada una ley que permite a los padres opinar acerca de los libros que pueden ofrecer las bibliotecas escolares y exige a las escuelas primarias dar acceso a listas de todos los libros disponibles o usados en ellas.
¿AHORA QUÉ?
Agrupaciones defensoras de los derechos de la comunidad LGBTQ y los demócratas amenazan con tomar medidas legales, pero por ahora no se ha hecho nada.
El secretario de educación del gobierno nacional Miguel Cardona dijo el lunes que su departamento “seguirá de cerca esta ley tras su implementación para evaluar si viola las leyes federales sobre los derechos civiles”. Agregó que los estudiantes y los padres que consideren que están siendo discriminados pueden hacer denuncias ante las autoridades federales.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she has tested positive for COVID-19 with “mild” symptoms.
On social media, the former Democratic presidential candidate said she was “feeling fine” and that former President Bill Clinton had tested negative and was quarantining until their household was fully cleared.
A spokesman for the former president posted on Twitter that he would continue to get tested in the days to come.
Hillary Clinton, 74, said she was “more grateful than ever for the protection vaccines can provide against serious illness” and urged people to get vaccine and booster shots.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general recently subpoenaed former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., demanding their testimony in connection with a civil investigation into the family’s business practices, according to a court filing made public Monday.
The subpoenas, stemming from Attorney General Letitia James’ yearslong investigation into matters including “the valuation of properties owned or controlled” by Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, came to light after James went to court last month seeking to force the Trumps to comply.
A state court judge who handled past disputes arising from the probe agreed Monday to entertain arguments over the subpoenas, which also seek documents from the Trumps in addition to their testimony.
James, a Democrat, has spent more than two years looking at whether the Trump Organization misled banks or tax officials about the value of assets — inflating them to gain favorable loan terms or minimizing them to reap tax savings.
The Trumps have indicated they will fight the subpoenas and are expected to file court papers through their lawyers seeking to have them thrown out. A similar legal fight played out last year after James’ office subpoenaed the testimony of another Trump son, Eric Trump.
Messages seeking comment were left Monday with lawyers for the Trumps and with the attorney general’s office.
Monday’s filing was also the first public disclosure that investigators were seeking information from Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as part of the probe. It was reported last month that James had requested that Donald Trump sit for a deposition, but Monday’s court filing was the first public acknowledgement by her office that it had subpoenaed him.
As the legal fight over the subpoenas was heating up behind the scenes, Trump sued James in federal court last month, seeking to put an end to her investigation. Trump, in the lawsuit, claimed that James had violated his constitutional rights in a “thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates.”
In the past, the Republican ex-president has decried James’ investigation as part of a “witch hunt” along with a parallel criminal probe being run by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
James’ investigators last year interviewed Eric Trump, a Trump Organization executive, as part of the probe. James’ office went to court to enforce a subpoena on the younger Trump and a judge forced him to testify after his lawyers abruptly canceled a previously scheduled deposition.
Although the civil investigation is separate from the district attorney’s criminal investigation, James’ office has been involved in both.
Last year, then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. gained access to the longtime real estate mogul’s tax records after a multiyear fight that twice went to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also brought tax fraud charges in July against the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Before he left office last week, Vance convened a new grand jury to hear evidence in the investigation, but left the decision on additional charges to his successor, Alvin Bragg. The new district attorney has said he’ll be directly involved in the Trump matter while also retaining the two veteran prosecutors who led the case under Vance.
Weisselberg pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he and the company evaded taxes on lucrative fringe benefits paid to executives.
Both investigations are at least partly related to allegations made in news reports and by Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets.
James’ office issued subpoenas to local governments as part of the civil probe for records pertaining to Trump’s estate north of Manhattan, Seven Springs, and a tax benefit Trump received for placing land into a conservation trust. Vance later issued subpoenas seeking many of the same records.
James’ office has also been looking at similar issues relating to a Trump office building in New York City, a hotel in Chicago and a golf course near Los Angeles. Her office also won a series of court rulings forcing Trump’s company and a law firm it hired to turn over troves of records.
Jan 2 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) on Sunday said it permanently banned the personal account of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for tweets that repeatedly violated the social media’s misinformation policy on COVID-19.
Twitter has previously temporarily suspended Greene’s account, @mtgreenee. It has also labeled some of her tweets «misleading.»
«Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth,» Greene, a Republican, said in a statement on messaging app Telegram, adding that social media platforms «can’t stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can’t stop the truth. Communist Democrats can’t stop the truth.»
The official representative account of Greene, @ReptMTG, remains active on Twitter.
Mexico’s new finance chief has spent decades at Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s side. That experience will come in handy as he takes on his biggest challenge: trying to shape economic policy in an administration tightly run by the nationalist president.
Rogelio Ramirez de la O, who last week was nominated as Mexico’s finance minister, will begin what is traditionally the country’s most influential cabinet role with the goal of obtaining a level of independence his predecessors didn’t enjoy under Lopez Obrador.
An early test in the relationship between the president known as AMLO and his long-time adviser will focus on the budget: The new minister, who takes office next month, wants to speed up growth via additional debt-fueled public spending, according to people with knowledge of his thinking.
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That would be a significant shift for a president who has made austerity a pillar of his government. AMLO has stuck to his pledge not to take on new debt or give sizable economic stimulus even during the Covid pandemic, and Mexico ended 2020 as one of the few countries in the world with a primary surplus.
The president repeated his austerity vow after announcing the arrival of Ramirez de la O on June 9, saying he won’t raise taxes and will keep energy prices capped. Threading the needle between those diverging policy preferences will depend a lot on the relationship between the two men, who have known each other since 1997.
“There are things that I believe that Rogelio doesn’t share with the president: for example, I would think that in the pandemic Rogelio would have advised to do a fiscal stimulus program to tackle the pandemic,” said Gabriel Casillas, the chief economist at Grupo Financiero Banorte. “Having seen the pandemic and still with the problem of growth in Mexico, I think that’s why AMLO asked Rogelio to become Finance Minister — because he wants help and he’s a seasoned economist.”
The peso lost about 1.5% to the dollar since the announcement, with stocks slightly up on average.
Lost Influence
In the past decades, Mexico’s finance ministers wielded significant power to shape the country’s political economy, at times even overshadowing the presidency. That changed with the arrival of Lopez Obrador in late 2018, as the president slashed budgets and canceled major infrastructure projects while plowing the little money available into social programs and struggling state energy firms.
As a result, AMLO’s first two finance ministers made little impact on policy. The first incumbent, Carlos Urzua, another old Lopez Obrador ally, resigned just seven months into the job with a letter suggesting policy hadn’t been “based on evidence,” as the economy headed into recession before the pandemic.
Outgoing minister Arturo Herrera was seen as a loyal executor of the president’s ideas, keeping spending tight as gross domestic product plunged 8.2% in 2020, the most in almost a century. He was nominated to head the country’s central bank as part of last week’s changes, and will help oversee an economy that is now rebounding faster than expected as strong U.S. demand propels the manufacturing sector.
Ramirez, 72, only took the job on the condition that he would be given more autonomy and greater control over spending on state oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos and the country’s utility, a person familiar with the talks told Bloomberg News. A second source confirmed that Ramirez pushed for control over energy spending, an area of influence for the Finance Ministry in previous administrations.
Other changes are expected to the Finance Ministry leadership, according to the people with knowledge of the matter, including the appointment of a new deputy minister likely to be an official currently holding another position in government.
Right Timing?
Many economists believe Ramirez, who rose to fame for correctly predicting the sharp currency devaluation that triggered what was known as the 1994 Tequila Crisis, could obtain extra revenue through efforts to broaden government tax collection. But convincing the president to take a more debt-financed, Keynesian approach to economic policy would be a tall order.
“Considering that Rogelio has been an adviser to AMLO for a long time and he hasn’t manged to change this, I see a low probability that he will abandon the idea,” said Janneth Quiroz Zamora, vice-president for economic research at Monex Casa de Bolsa.
The president’s spokesman Jesus Ramirez poured cold water on the idea that the government could take on more debt. The president’s policy “has been to not spend more than what the government earns — and it is proposed to continue like that,” he told Bloomberg News. “For that reason, taking on more debt or increasing the budget deficit is not being thought about. Tax income has increased this year and spending will grow proportionately.”
Yet, even if he can’t convince AMLO to borrow more, one thing that favors the incoming minister in his quest for more autonomy is timing.
After AMLO’s Morena party lost its lower-house majority in this month’s midterms, the president may need to put power back into the hands of a finance minister who can handle the wheeling and dealing needed to pass the federal budget in the fall, said Marco Oviedo, chief Latin America economist at Barclays Plc.
“In Mexico, the finance minister used to be a super minister and that ended with Lopez Obrador. Now, with congress divided, you need that back,” Oviedo said.
By AAMER MADHANI, JONATHAN LEMIRE and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
GENEVA (AP) — With stern expressions and polite words before the cameras, President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin plunged into hours of face-to-face talks Wednesday at a lush lakeside Swiss mansion, a highly anticipated summit at a time when both leaders agree that relations between their countries are at an all-time low.
Biden called it a discussion between “two great powers” and said it was “always better to meet face to face.” Putin, for his part, said he hoped the talks would be “productive.”
The meeting in a book-lined room had a somewhat awkward beginning — both men appeared to avoid looking directly at each other during a brief and chaotic photo opportunity before a scrum of jostling reporters.
Biden nodded when a reporter asked if Putin could be trusted, but the White House quickly sent out a tweet insisting that the president was “very clearly not responding to any one question, but nodding in acknowledgment to the press generally.”
Putin ignored shouted questions from reporters, including if he feared jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
The two leaders did shake hands — Biden extended his hand first and smiled at the stoic Russian leader — moments earlier when they posed with Swiss President Guy Parmelin, who welcomed them to Switzerland for the summit.
Biden and Putin are expected to meet for four to five hours of wide-ranging talks.
For months, they have traded sharp rhetoric. Biden has repeatedly called out Putin for malicious cyberattacks by Russian-based hackers on U.S. interests, a disregard for democracy with the jailing of Russia’s foremost opposition leader and interference in American elections.
Putin, for his part, has reacted with whatabout-isms and obfuscations — pointing to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to argue that the U.S. has no business lecturing on democratic norms and insisting that the Russian government hasn’t been involved in any election interference or cyberattacks despite U.S. intelligence showing otherwise.
Even so, Biden said it was an important step if the United States and Russia were able to ultimately find “stability and predictability” in their relationship, a seemingly modest goal from the president for dealing with the person he sees as one of America’s fiercest adversaries.
“We should decide where it’s in our mutual interest, in the interest of the world, to cooperate, and see if we can do that,” Biden told reporters earlier this week. “And the areas where we don’t agree, make it clear what the red lines are.”
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that no breakthroughs were expected and that “the situation is too difficult in Russian-American relations.” He added that “the fact that the two presidents agreed to meet and finally start to speak openly about the problems is already an achievement.”
Arrangements for the meeting were carefully choreographed and vigorously negotiated.
Biden first floated the meeting in an April phone call in which he informed Putin that he would be expelling several Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of people and companies, part of an effort to hold the Kremlin accountable for interference in last year’s presidential election and the hacking of federal agencies.
Putin and his entourage arrived first at the summit site: Villa La Grange, a grand lakeside mansion set in Geneva’s biggest park. Next came Biden and his team. Putin flew into Geneva on Wednesday shortly before the scheduled start of the meeting; Biden — who was already in Europe for meetings with allies — arrived the day before.
Biden and Putin first held a relatively intimate meeting joined by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Each side had a translator for the session, which lasted about an hour and a half. The meeting then expanded to include five senior aides on each side.
After the meeting concludes, Putin is scheduled to hold a solo news conference, with Biden following suit. The White House opted against a joint news conference, deciding it did not want to appear to elevate Putin at a moment when the president is urging European allies to pressure Putin to cut out myriad provocations.
Biden sees himself with few peers on foreign policy. He traveled the globe as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was given difficult foreign policy assignments by President Barack Obama when Biden was vice president. His portfolio included messy spots like Iraq and Ukraine and weighing the mettle of China’s Xi Jinping during his rise to power.
He has repeatedly said that he believes executing effective foreign policy comes from forming strong personal relations, and he has managed to find rapport with both the likes of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom Biden has labeled an “autocrat,” and conventional politicians like Canada’s Justin Trudeau.
But with Putin, who he has said has “no soul,” Biden has long been wary. At the same time, he acknowledges that Putin, who remained the most powerful figure in Russian politics over the span of five U.S. presidents, is not without talent.
“He’s bright. He’s tough,” Biden said. “And I have found that he is a — as they say…a worthy adversary.”
The White House held on to hope of finding small areas of agreement.
No commitments have been made, but according to the senior administration official, there are hopes that both sides will return their ambassadors to their respective postings following the meeting. Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was recalled from Washington about three months ago after Biden called Putin a killer; U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan left Moscow almost two months ago, after Russia suggested he return to Washington for consultations.
Biden administration officials say they think common ground can be found on arms control. International arms control groups are pressing the Russian and American leaders to start a push for new arms control agreements.
The Biden team will press its concerns on cybersecurity. In recent months, Russia-based hackers have launched alarming attacks on a major U.S. oil pipeline and a Brazil-headquartered meat supplier that operates in the U.S.
The Russian side has said that the imprisonment of Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, is an internal political matter and one area where Putin won’t engage on the matter. White House officials said, however, Biden intended to bring up the matter.
The meeting is sure to invite comparisons with President Donald Trump’s 2018 meeting with Putin in Helsinki, where the two leaders held a joint news conference and Trump sided with Russian denials when asked whether Moscow had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
Biden has prepared for his one-on-one by reviewing materials and consulting with officials across government and with outside advisers. Aides said the level of preparation wasn’t unusual. Biden, in a brief exchange with reporters upon a rriving in Geneva on Tuesday night, sought to offer the impression that he wasn’t sweating his big meeting.
“I am always ready,” Biden said.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington and AP video journalist Daniel Kozin contributed reporting
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This story has been corrected to show that Geneva is not Switzerland’s capital.
