China and Saudi Arabia are both repressive regimes which equate peaceful political activities  with terrorism, using public protests as an excuse for brutal  crackdowns. Along with Iran, they were responsible for executing more people in the world in 2019 than anyone else. - The Independent

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Cuando se acerca la  marca de los 100 días para las elecciones, un plazo que se cumple el  domingo 26 de julio, su estilo de confrontación se intensifica.  Trump, de 74 años, afirma que su rival demócrata, Joe Biden, de 77 años,  es una “marioneta” de la “izquierda radical” y lo acusa de querer  destruir el “estilo de vida estadounidense”.  En respuesta, el candidato demócrata afirma que lo que está en juego es  “una batalla por cuál es el alma” de Estados Unidos.  El magnate republicano, por detrás en todas las encuestas, teme los  efectos de una humillante derrota que lo convertiría en el primer  presidente de un solo mandato en más de un cuarto de siglo.  Sin embargo, no todas las cartas están echadas y después de tres años y  medio de una presidencia llena de baches, todavía es posible que haya  sorpresas.  Una posibilidad es que su rival cometa un error monumental. Que muera  uno de los jueces de la Corte Suprema o que se logre una vacuna contra  el nuevo coronavirus.  Hasta ahora la pandemia ha debilitado a Trump. Según una encuesta  publicada por ABC news, dos tercios de los estadounidenses desaprueban  su respuesta frente al coronavirus. - Diario EL COMERCIO 

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La Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE) de Puerto Rico anunció  oficialmente este domingo (09.08.2020) la suspensión de las primarias  que continuarán el próximo fin de semana, después de que 59 de 110  centros de votación no recibieran las papeletas.

Los principales  partidos de la isla, el Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP) y el Partido  Popular Democrático (PPD), celebraban hoy primarias para elegir a sus  candidatos a las elecciones generales del próximo 3 de noviembre.

En  los colegios que sí recibieron las papeletas, y tal y como se indicó a  lo largo de la jornada, se cumplirán las ocho horas de apertura, sea  cual fuera la hora de esta, explica una resolución de la CEE. - DW Espanol

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Federal regulators in the United States are reportedly  investigation no fewer than two major American banks with regards to  their relationships with clients believed to be tied to Mexican drug  cartels.

Reuters reported exclusively on Wednesday this week that the US   Securities and Exchange Commission is probing both Charles Schwab   Corp. and Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch brokerage firm because   clients of those entities were linked to Mexican drug cartels.

The SEC, Reuters reported, “is looking into whether the   brokerages missed red flags that could indicate attempts to move   money illicitly or to feed proceeds from drug trafficking and   other crimes into the financial system by failing to know their   customers well enough,” according to the newswire’s sources.

Representatives for both the SEC and Merrill Lunch declined to   comment, Reuters reported, but an unnamed source claimed that   Schwab has already launched an internal investigation of its own.

And while the SEC did not directly assist Reuters in their   report, two sources confirmed to the newswire that the   investigation has so far led regulators to believe that both   Schwab and Merrill accepted “shell company” clients registered to   individuals with fake addresses.

According to those sources, the financial companies had failed to   properly vet their clientele and in turn took in customers linked   to illegal activities, including the Mexican drug trade. - RT

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The forgivable PPP loans approved in March as part of a more than $2 trillion U.S. coronavirus relief package were designed to help keep U.S. small businesses afloat amid lockdowns and business closures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the intent of the coronavirus loan program the economic relief legislation did not restrict U.S. subsidiaries of foreign entities from applying for and receiving such PPP loans.

“The extent and nature of [People’s Republic of China]-owned, -invested and -connected entities among the PPP loan recipients indicate that without appropriate policy guardrails, U.S. tax dollars intended for relief, recovery and growth of the U.S. economy — and small businesses in particular — risk supporting foreign competitors, namely China,” Horizon Advisory co-founders Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic wrote to the Times.

According to the Times, another company that received PPP loans was Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, a California-based biotech company owned by Nanjing Xinbai, a Chinese state-invested company whose controlling shareholder has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Dendreon Pharmaceuticals received between $5 million and $10 million in PPP loans. - American Military Times

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Cuando en septiembre de 2015 lanzó oficialmente su candidatura a la gobernación, Ricardo Rosselló invitó a los electores a que le acompañaran a "construir un nuevo Puerto Rico".

La isla atravesaba una situación económica muy difícil, con una deuda muy elevada y unas pobres perspectivas que estaban impulsando a muchos boricuas a emigrar, sobre todo a Florida.

"Ricky", como se le conoce popularmente, prometía hacer frente a esta situación y afirmaba que no había una "crisis de la deuda" sino una "crisis de credibilidad" del gobierno. Y prometía solucionarla con transparencia.

Los votantes le hicieron caso y lo llevaron al Palacio de Santa Catalina, sede del Ejecutivo boricua, en noviembre de 2016.

Pero ahora, tras una ola de protestas sin precedentes en las últimas décadas, Rosselló se ha visto forzado a renunciar a su cargo. - BBC Mundo

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Los  presidentes de Estados Unidos Donald Trump, de México, Andrés Manuel  López Obrador, y de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, cuentan con legiones de  seguidores en sus países; pero ante la crisis mundial por la pandemia  del covid-19, sus nombres ahora forman parte de conversaciones que  condenan sus acciones y sus mensajes en tiempos de distanciamiento  social. - CNN Espanol

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Two hundred and thirty years after the government formed by the US Constitution went into effect and 154 years after slavery was officially abolished in the country, the legacy of the nation's founding and the role of the "peculiar institution", as it was often called, is still a subject of intense debate. - BBC World

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In recent decades, politicians in both major parties have trafficked in the idea that white Americans are biologically or culturally superior while also implying that people of color are dysfunctional, dangerous “threats to white life and livelihood,” ...Republicans have done this more consistently than Democrats for much of the last 50 years, ...But they don’t own this political tactic, nor the failure to resist the easy temptation of the political victories it can sometimes secure. Racism — provided that it is carefully calibrated and not too overt — sells. It brings “a large segment of U.S. society to the polls and opens their wallets,” ...But to traffic in those ideas and benefit from them politically, there is that line that can’t be crossed. - The New York Times 2017