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Annoyed construction workers block traffic. Unattributed photo from Twitter. Molestos trabajadores de la construcción bloquean el tráfico. Foto no atribuida de Twitter.

Between Oceans and Languages
Entre Océanos y Lenguas

Mon LaFerte & Enrique Bunbury – Mi Buen Amor
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Iggy Pop – I Wanna Be Your Dog
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Mairead Nesbitt & John McAndrew – The Ballad of the Perfect Storm
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Rómulo Castro y Grupo Tuira en Café con Letras
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Carla Morrison – Todo Pasa
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Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
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Janelle Davidson & Alejandro Lagrotta – Doble Dolor
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Jefferson Airplane – Wooden Ships
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Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
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Fito Páez – Viña del Mar 2023
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Blondie – Call Me
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Lord Cobra & The Beachers – China Children
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Norah Jones – Don’t know why
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Jackson, First reading debate and vote on the mining colony suspended

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Thursday was when a new copper mine contract was set to be jammed through the legislature’s Commerce and Economic Affairs Committee…

by Eric Jackson

It didn’t happen and it will probably be a long time before Panamanians get the whole story about what happened.

Did the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party deploy its own private polling to the decision-making process? Were party whips told by a sufficient number of deputies that their votes would not be cast for a new and aggrandized contract to replace the old mining concession that the high court threw out as unconstitutional? Did somebody, in some fashion, improperly canvass the Supreme Court and come away with the impression that the magistrates would strike down the proposed new deal? Did intelligence and political operatives tell top public officials that the proposed new agreement would, if passed, set off massive new protests? Was it a matter of committee members getting cold feet based on estimates of what votes for the mining proposal would mean for their own re-election chances?

One partial official version of the moment comes from the executive branch, whose Minister of Commerce and Industry Federico Alfaro Boyd said after the committee suspended discussion of the matter that the proposal would be “re-adjusted” and brought back.

The vote in the committee to suspend discussion and advise the president to withdraw the proposal was 5-4. The obvious inference is that there were not the votes in the committee to pass what had been proposed. But was it a matter of the committee members’ particular views, or a matter of head counting in the National Assembly as a whole that indicated a low probability that the deal could pass as it was?

The reasons specified in the resolution were various, and the weight of each of those with each committee member casting a vote would mostly be a matter of speculation. However, the committee resolution referred to the weight of such public opinion as was sampled opposed the mining deal, and specifically because:

* It allows the company, via the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the power to restrict the airspace above and around its operations:

* It allows the company to extend its operations to other unspecified parts of the country, including the power to expropriate privately owned lands;

* It refers to the local subsidiary of First Quantum rather than the final beneficiary parent company;

* It specifies that this contract would serve as a pattern for future deals with other parties.

The resolution did not especially refer to history, nor to law. However, the original 1997 concession was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because it was not the subject of any bidding procedure and that defect remained unaddressed.

The history of this particular mining concession, the Donoso copper project having been carved out of the original, is of a gold mine with few of the basic environmental safeguards and replete with illegal stuff like management appropriating the payroll deductions that should have gone to Seguro Social in the individual workers’ accounts, the use of the mine and its Canadian stock for a vast international insider trading and fraud scheme, and a final gold mine crash that left debts owing and a huge mess to clean with a failed company unable to meet those obligations.

This pattern of environmentally damaging extraction, bust and unaccountability is essentially the history of mining ventures in Panama, for gold, silver, manganese and molybdenum. There are horror stories like the previous project to strip gold out of the Azuero Peninsula’s Cerro Quema and its runoff into the Tonosi River, but no attractive examples of success to hold up as models of how metal mining should be done.

We do not know all that was going on in the committee members’ minds, but it’s no big stretch to understand how a ban on aerial surveillance of mining company operations would, aside from political arguments over national sovereignty, be a nonstarter. And how a contract with a subsidiary that might be left as a bankrupt shell rather than a multinational mining giant with deep pockets would matter. The prospect of private foreign companies wearing the essentially governmental power of eminent domain replicated all over Panama, terrifying to farmers and to the indigenous comarcas as it is, might be considered as just gravy.

Then there are matters of deception – sham hearings with company employees on the speakers list and crowds of locked-out critics screaming on the outside were the obvious things, but on the morning when the committee was expected to vote La Prensa’s lead story was about the suppression of official economic statistics under the present administration and by the Comptroller General in particular. It matters because the mining colony scheme is presented by the Cortizo administration as the only solution to funding our public pensions, health and education systems. Panamanians were being asked to support a drastic set of conditions due to economic exigencies, without being allowed to look at the books.

So, what now?

Panama has general election at the beginning of next May. By the ordinary legislative calendar, the National Assembly adjouns from the end of October until early in January, and then goes into recess again at the end of Aoril until after the election. The president might call for special sessions during the recesses.

There are well known corny tricks that legislatures play, and also an electorate that has been aroused and polarized by this proposal. In next month’s scramble before the recess, might the deputies pull a “madrugonazo,” pulling the proposal off of the table without prior notice and racing it into law at, say, two in the morning? Rules requiring passage on first reading by a committee and then on second and third readings by the legislature as a whole would seem to prevent this, but those procedural barriers have been hopped over before.

However, would a ruling party that already faces the history of Panamanian voters usually throwing the incumbent president’s party out of power want to inflame the electorate by passing such an unpopular and consequential measure by such means?

To estimate the answer to that question, it helps to set aside the traditional rules of discipline that Panamanian political parties have and look at the Democratic Revolutionary Party as other than monolithic. Some obvious starting points are the son of the party’s founder and a former president of Panama himself, Martín Torrijos, running for president on another party’s ticket, and a PRD legislator running for president as an independent and for mayor of San Miguelito as a Martinelista. Or to look at it from another angle, see the former PRD mayor of Panama City and the party’s 2014 presidential standard bearer, Juan Carlos Navarro, among the leading voices against the mining colony proposal.

That’s not the end of the calculations, though. There are surely many down-the-ticket PRD elected officials counting Vice President Gaby Carrizo as a clownish smiley-faced loser in general election in which they might hold onto their own public jobs. Or if bribery of one sort or another comes into play, that although this stint in government office might end, they would be paid well or otherwise be taken care off to live happily ever after.

The problem with a bribery scenario is that it can only be kept relatively secret if the vote in the National Assembly chamber would be close to begin with. If the trend is for the plan to go down to defeat in a rout, the number of bribes that would have to be paid would be so high that there could be no secret, not even a short-term one, about the corrupted process.

Is the PRD willing to disintegrate, to be decimated in next May’s elections, in one last blaze of infamy? Stranger things have happened but it seems unlikely. The mining deal looks like a goner.

However, the most astute and energetic mining opponents seem unwilling to passively accept that as a given reality. Some of them have greater goals in mind. All of them are jaded from having been deceived too many times about too many things.

Insurgent presidential candidate Ricardo Lombana sees the opponents’ knees wobble.
He’s going for the knockout punch.

Former Panama City vice mayor Raisa Banfield, a salient figure in the movement against the mine, questions the numbers thrown out by First Quantum and argues that “the jobs are just a facade.” Especially since the comptroller’s office would have those figures but is withholding them.

The Panamá Vale Más Sin Minería coalition, on its Twitter feed, argues that “Withdrawal is not rejection. Neither is suspension rejection. There is nothing to renegotiate. There is a court judgement to carry out. Close the Cobre Panama project and ban metal mining throughout Panama!”

CIAM, the environmentalist law firm, warns that “The mining contract has NOT been rejected. It remains before the National Assembly.”

The calls for almost daily anti-mining street demonstrations have been wearying and gradually less fruitful for those opposed to the proposed concession to First Quantum. Meanwhile, however, throughout Panamanian society groups large and small, staid and militant, of a wide variety, have been talking about and pronouncing positions on the proposal.

Perhaps the most weighty was a September 24 order from a meeting of community leaders in the Ngabe-Bugle Comarca. The pronouncement, in light of the well-known indigenous resistance to plans to strip-mine Cerro Colorado for copper a few years back, may have drawn chuckles from the more foolish legislators who support the mining colony. It’s surely taken as a shot across the bow for those of their colleagues with functional wits and memories. And for presidential candidates? That comarca, notwithstanding fractious intra-ethnic politics, a basic divide between the Ngabere-speaking majority and Buglere-speaking minority, different religious identities that are all at play, is historically THE swing region in Panamanian presidential politics.

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It may be time for a breather, but the grand coalition that opposes mining isn’t going away and shutting up.

So, is it a delay for the PRD government to regroup, come back with a divisive new draft and drive wedges into something like a national consensus against mining schemes? That may be the intent on one side of it, but it’s also an opportunity for the anti-mining forces to gather new energy and formulate new strategies and tactics to confront what may be coming next.

 

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STRI: Tortuga fósil vivió hace 6 millones de años cerca de Piña

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Actualmente, hay solo siete especies de tortugas marinas, dentro de ellas está el género Lepidochelys con dos especies que incluyen las comúnmente conocidas, tortuga olivácea y la tortuga lora. A pesar de ser de las tortugas marinas más habituales en gran parte del mar Caribe y otros lugares del mundo, poco se conoce sobre fósiles de este grupo de tortugas que puedan indicar aspectos de su evolución. Científicos trabajando en la playa cerca de Piña, provincia de Colón. Fotos aquí a través de STRI.

Descubren tortuga fósil que vivió hace 6 millones
de años en Panamá con posibles restos de ADN

por el Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales (STRI)

Un fósil encontrado en la costa Caribe de Panamá representa el mejor conocido hasta ahora de las tortugas Lepidochelys. Los restos del caparazón de la tortuga que vivió hace aproximadamente 6 millones de años fueron estudiados por un equipo de paleontólogos liderados por el Dr. Edwin Cadena de la Universidad del Rosario en Bogotá, Colombia quien es a su vez investigador asociado del Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales con sede en Panamá.

Además de lo interesante que es encontrar el registro más antiguo de las tortugas Lepidochelys, hay algo fascinante que descubrimos en los huesos fósiles de esta tortuga y es la preservación de células llamadas osteocitos y dentro de ellas estructuras similares al núcleo de la célula que reaccionan con una solución llamada DAPI indicando la presencia de restos de ADN en ellas. Algo, que solo se había reportado anteriormente en un fósil de dinosaurio en todo el registro fósil de vertebrados del planeta, puntualiza el Dr. Cadena. A su vez, esto indica que los vertebrados fósiles preservados en la costa Caribe de Panamá tienen una importancia enorme no solo para entender la biodiversidad pasada en el momento del surgimiento del Istmo de Panamá, sino también para entender la preservación de tejidos blandos y posibles constituyentes originales de los mismos como lo son proteínas y ADN, un campo emergente conocido como Paleontología Molecular.

Esta investigación fue producto de la cooperación que existe entre el Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales y la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad del Rosario, y fue publicada en la revista Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

 

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Fuente: Cadena E.-A., De Gracia, C., and Combita-Romero, D. A. 2023. A Late Miocene marine turtle from Panama that preserves osteocytes with potential DNA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

 

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Editorials: What to call this monstrosity? and Biden, the GOP and the Venes

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The black-and-blue kids of Transformative Thought and Action (Pensamiento y Acción Transformadora – PAT) proclaiming to the world from the pedestrian overpass at the university complex in Penonome. Photo by Eric Jackson.

What’s in a name?

What would an old hippie radical like the editor suggest?

Do NOT accept the First Quantum / PRD rhetorical style. Don’t say “el contrato minero.” Instead, say “la colonia minera.” Is it that the editor’s just this history major, or just this guy whose formative childhood was in the old Canal Zone context?

It’s a more accurate characterization of what’s at stake in the here and now.

Canada will not send an army general to be a colonial governor, like presidents of the United States used to appoint US Army Corps of Engineers major generals as Canal Zone governors. But like the Canal Zone or the 19th century Panama Railroad, there could be company police.

Let’s not worship the dictatorship’s 1972 constitution, but let’s do recognize that the mining colony proposal is illegal by its terms. Let’s not embrace xenophobia, but let’s also not cede any part of Panamanian sovereignty to a mining company, especially to a foreign one. Let no foreign government step in to proclaim ownership, nor lend its prestige and muscle to a company that claims ownership, with respect to the minerals found in Panamanian territory.

 

Scene from a failed policy, set to music. A USAID “reconciliation” and “re-integration” program of would-be asylum seekers of Venezuelan and Colombian origin who were sent back to Colombia. The notion that those fleeing Venezuela and those fleeing Colombia are similar and fungible populations, the denial that US economic warfare against Venezuela and historically US-backed death squad gangsters in Colombia are driving people to take terrible risks in Panama’s Darien province and other points along the route to the US border have led to delusional policies, which the Biden administration is only slowly correcting. USAID photo by Katherine Ko.

Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants in the USA

On September 21 the Biden administration offered nearly half a million Venezuelans who had been in the United States since July Temporary Protected Status. It will give those who accept the offer at least a year and a half of work permits, the ability to live more normal lives without the constant fear, the possibility of making themselves so very useful to the US economy that employers will make efforts to help them become permanent and productive Americans.

Xenophobes and white supremacists hate that. In the agricultural areas of states that are run by people like that, farmers have difficulty finding people who will plant, weed and harvest their crops. The stereotype is that the undocumented immigrant is a desperate criminal – and if denied the opportunity to work and make an honest living some of them might just get force into dishonest ways to survive.

Few Venezuelans who come to the USA will have it in them to be rich, famous and beloved like the soon-to-retire Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera. But on the whole Venes are better educated that most of their fellow Latin Americans and superior flan – quesillo in their dialect of Spanish – isn’t the only attractive aspect of their culture to become an enriching part of some other country’s way of life.

We all live on a finite planet with finite resources, but immigration has enriched the United States and the country has room for more of it.

It was US policy to strangle the Venezuelan economy because it didn’t like the socialist policies of Hugo Chávez and his successor, leading so many people to flee their once-prosperous homeland and come to the United States, where those who have become citizens have tended to be a predominantly conservative Republican voter bloc. But now we have right-wing GOP governors treating newly arrived Venezuelans very badly, shipping them off to mostly Democratic cities that are not prepared to receive them or house them.

Legalize them, protect and inform them of their rights, give them the chance to make their own way in a new country? President Biden and his party, just by such a show of ordinary decency, may in a few years see all of these newly naturalized citizens as the core of a blue Venezuelan-American electorate. It would be one more demonstration of the greater power of love than of hate in political life.

 

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Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

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Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

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ICRC, Disaster requires international help for burn and explosion victims

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Armenia/Azerbaijan: Ambulances, medical supplies are being sent to assist victims of explosion – more help needed

by the International Committee of the Red Cross / Red Crescent

Hundreds of burn victims of an explosion at a fuel depot are in urgent need of specialized medical care. Teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are delivering medical supplies and helping to arrange medical evacuation by ambulance.

Hospitals in the region were already over capacity even before the influx of patients from the explosion, making the situation for patients and medical staff extra-critical.

“This is an absolute tragedy for hundreds of people now suffering from horrific, painful burns,” said Ariane Bauer, the ICRC’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia. “The crisis is compounded by the fact that hospitals were already running over capacity and that heavy traffic makes it difficult to move ambulances and medical supplies in and out.”

The ICRC delivered dressing kits and a specialized burn dressing kit following the incident. An ICRC medical team is on site assisting with the medical response. More medical supplies necessary for the treatment of severe burn cases are in the process of being delivered.

The ICRC is working with decision makers in the region to find solutions to increase the number of medical evacuations.

Finding solutions to these urgent medical needs is in line with the obligation of all parties under international humanitarian law to ensure that the wounded and sick receive, with the least possible delay, the medical care required by their condition.

Even before the explosion, the ICRC had identified 60 critically wounded patients who needed to be evacuated from the central hospital. Twenty-three of those patients were evacuated on Sunday; plans to evacuate the others have been made more difficult by the critical needs from the explosion.

About the ICRC: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent organization with an exclusively humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the world affected by armed conflict and other violence, doing everything it can to protect their lives and dignity and to relieve their suffering, often alongside its Red Cross and Red Crescent partners.

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Fatima Sator, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 79 848 4908, fsator@icrc.org
Ilaha Huseynova, ICRC Baku, tel : +99450 316 00 24, ihuseynova@icrc.org
Zara Amatuni, ICRC Yerevan, tel: +374 99 011 360, zamatuni@icrc.org

 

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Yet another sign of a weak economy

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There are still a lot of empty billboards along the Pan-American Highway, partly because sales are slow, partly because businesses don’t care to deal with the owner of many of the billboards. Now that one of these outdoor ad spaces gets filled, what is promoted? Not sales to customers, but an attempt to recruit people into the world of multi-level marketing. Photo by Eric Jackson.
 

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ICARO: esta vez no son películas de chico conoce a chica

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De XIW (MIEDO) documental guatemalteco de 2022.

Películas sobre las realidades centroamericanas en el Festival ICARO

por Roberto Enrique King — GECU

El cine es entretenimiento y al mismo tiempo puede ser vehículo de expresión y de denuncia de las realidades de cada pueblo, y en el caso del cine centroamericano esto se hace verdad en las producciones que anualmente presenta en nuestro país el FESTIVAL DE CINE ICARO PANAMÁ, que en esta ocasión nos llega del lunes 2 al sábado 7 de octubre en el Cine Universitario y luego en Chiriquí y Bocas del Toro, organizado por el GECU de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión de la Universidad de Panamá en conjunto con la Fundación FAE, con el respaldo de la Dirección de Cine del Ministerio de Cultura y los auspicios de AECID y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, entre otras instancias, con funciones gratuitas.

Especialmente habría que prestar atención a filmes como DOMINGO Y LA NIEBLA, ficción de Costa Rica de Ariel Escalante, que abre el festival el lunes 2, en la que unos matones a sueldo atemorizan a un pueblo con el fin de sacar a los vecinos para poder construir una autopista que pase por sus terrenos; el martes 3 se destaca XIW (MIEDO), documental de Guatemala de Ameno Córdoba y Pepe Orozco, una potente referencia para la actualidad panameña, en la que grupos indígenas guatemaltecos se enfrentan al gobierno por la presencia de una gigantesca mina de níquel a cielo abierto que está acabando con sus vidas y su medio ambiente, con sobornos, muertos y represión de por medio.

El miércoles 4 resalta el también documental de Guatemala, EL SILENCIO DEL TOPO, de Anais Taracena, historia del llamado Schindler centroamericano, quien se infiltró en un alto cargo dentro de uno de los gobiernos más represivos de Guatemala y desde allí salvó la vida de decenas de disidentes, para luego revelar todo en un juicio de Estado; mientras que el jueves 5 el foco estará en la ficción de El Salvador, POLVO DE GALLO, de Julio López, que se ambienta en una ciudad centroamericana no definida administrada por “El Sistema”, que obliga a todas las mujeres en varios momentos de sus vidas a entrar en un complejo donde son sometidas y vejadas sexualmente, especialmente en el temido cuartito llamado Polvo de gallo.

El resto de las películas programadas, cortos y largos panameños, centroamericanos e internacionales, también nos presentan un abanico de temas de tremenda actualidad e importancia que hablan de un cine pertinente y preocupado por su entorno, su cultura y su historia. Toda la programación y actividades están registradas en www.festivalicaropanama.com

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De Domingo y La Niebla (drama costarricense de 2022)

6° FESTIVAL DE CINE ICARO PANAMÁ – OCTUBRE 2023
PANAMÁ: – CINE UNIVERSITARIO – LUNES 2 AL VIERNES 7
TANDAS: 3, 5 Y 7 PM
ENTRADA GRATIS
PROGRAMACIÓN SUJETA A CAMBIOS

● Muestra Itinerante de películas centroamericanas e internacionales ganadoras y nominadas en el 25° Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica ÍCARO – Guatemala 2022.
● Muestra de películas panameñas seleccionadas por un jurado para competir en el 26° Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica ÍCARO – Guatemala 2023

Lunes 2:

DOMINGO Y LA NIEBLA (Costa Rica 2022), ficción de Ariel Escalante, con Carlos Ureña, Sylvia Sossa,Esteban Brenes.
El pueblo en el que vive Domingo está amenazado por unos matones que un promotor contrató para expulsara sus vecinos y poder construir una autopista. Pero Domingo, quien además recibe la visita del fantasma de su mujer entre la niebla, se niega a salir y se comienzan a complicar las cosas.
Mejor Película C.A., Mejor Dirección, Mejor Actuación Masculina, Mejor Cinematografía y Mejor Sonido.
Duración total: 92’

Martes 3:

TÍRATE UN FREE (Panamá 2022), documental de Angel Corro.
Una pequeña comunidad de amantes del rap comienza a crecer desde las plazas y parques de Panamá. El rap improvisado y su amor por el hip-hop los une. Desde rapear en buses para buscar su sustento diario hasta representar al país en grandes escenarios, estos jóvenes solo buscan ser entendidos y aceptados por la
sociedad. Nominada a Mejor corto Documental C.A. (25’)

LA PROMESA (Costa Rica 2021), ficción de Alberto Amieva Leyva.
En un mundo aparentemente post apocalíptico, un grupo de mujeres y hombres huyen y se resguardan de algo que está afuera y los acecha. Encerrados sin agua ni comida tendrán que tomar decisiones extremas y encontrar la forma de salir para llegar a una ciudad donde al parecer aún quedan personas. Nominada a Mejor
Corto Ficción Centroamericano. (15’)

XIW (MIEDO) (Guatemala 2022), documental de Ameno Córdova y Pepe Orosco.
La resistencia Maya Q’eqchi; de El Estor, Izabal, lucha contra el monstruo del extractivismo y la destrucción que causa una mina. Pescadores, autoridades ancestrales, comunidades y el lago sagrado están siendo amenazados por la “mancha roja”. Contaminación, criminalización, muerte y el miedo están en el ambiente, pero el pueblo no se deja. Mejor Corto Documental C.A. (40’
Duración total: 80’

Miércoles 4:

MEMORIA VIVA: FEBE ELIZABETH VELÁSQUEZ (El Salvador 2021), animación de Gabriela Turcios y Daniel Portillo.
Historia de vida de la sindicalista Febe Elizabeth Velásquez, líder del movimiento obrero salvadoreño activo durante el conflicto armado de los años 1980.
Mejor Animación C.A. (7’)

CHECK ON A MATE (COMPROBAR UN MATE) (Honduras 2022), ficción de Salvador Aguilar.
Fred Brooks es un anciano olvidado hace mucho tiempo en un asilo de ancianos, que juega al ajedrez a travésde correspondencia postal con su viejo amigo Marcel, quien un día, de la nada, dejó de escribirle. Ahora Fred necesita descubrir por qué.
Mejor Corto Ficción C.A. (12’)

EL SILENCIO DEL TOPO (Guatemala 2021), documental de Anais Taracena.
A fines de los 70, el periodista Elías Barahona, alias El Topo, se infiltró en un alto cargo de uno de los gobiernos más represivos de Guatemala y desde su posición salvó la vida de decenas de disidentes. Logra escapar y luego acepta declarar en un juicio de Estado, en el que revela su doble vida y terribles y dolorosas verdades. La directora da voz al olvido y busca recuperar la memoria silenciada de su país.
Mejor LargoDocumental C.A. (90’)
Duración total: 109’

Jueves 5:

EL CLORO NO LIMPIA PECADOS (Costa Rica 2022), ficción de Mónica Murillo.
Dos amas de casa reciben una visita no deseada; mientras preparan una comida para sus invitados, podemos vislumbrar la historia de violencia doméstica con la que luchan en su interior.
Nominada a Mejor Corto Ficción C.A. (20’)

ATRÁPAME (Guatemala 2022), ficción de Miguel Salay.
Un hombre llega a su casa del trabajo y se encuentra una situación anómala que decide no enfrentar, y sale en su bicicleta a dar una vuelta por la ciudad, lo que se convierte en un periplo extraño y desgastante que lo trae de vuelta a su edificio un tanto fuera de sí.
Nominada a Mejor Corto Ficción C.A. (27’)

POLVO DE GALLO (El Salvador/México 2021), ficción de Julio López Fernández, con Paola Miranda,Egly Larreynaga, Alicia Chong.
En la capital de un país centroamericano es obligatorio que las mujeres ingresen a cuartos administrados por “El Sistema”, donde son sometidas a agresiones sexuales. Ninguna se salva de entrar y la habitación más temida es la famosa “Polvo de gallo”. El filme fue realizado junto a un colectivo de mujeres de cine y teatro.
Nominada a Mejor Film de ficción C.A., ganadora de Mejor Edición y Vestuario. (62’)
Duración total: 109’

Viernes 6:

PRELUDIO (Costa Rica 2021), experimental de Melania Porras, José García y Diego Alfaro.
(Preludio: Sustantivo 1. una acción o evento que sirve como introducción). Un cineasta, un arquitecto y una coreógrafa se juntan para crear esta especie de homenaje al mundo escénico y artístico en una sola toma.
Mejor Experimental C.A. (3’)

VIAJE A ALGUNA PARTE (España 2021), docudrama de Helena de Llanos.
La cineasta, nieta del actor, novelista y director Fernando Fernán Gómez, ahonda en la carrera profesional y la vida de Fernán Gómez y su mujer, Emma Cohen, y hace un viaje a un pasado cargado de recuerdos que conecta de forma irremediable con su presente. El título alude a El viaje a ninguna parte, película escrita, dirigida y actuada por su abuelo, sobre cómicos trashumantes.
Nominada a Mejor Largo DocumentalInternacional. (108’)
Duración total: 111’

Sábado 7:

PELÍCULAS PANAMEÑAS SELECCIONADAS PARA FESTIVAL ICARO INTERNACIONAL

3 pm

1989 (Panamá 2023), documental de Massiel Robles.
Un documental sobre la invasión a Panamá, realizado por jóvenes que no vivieron estos hechos, residentes de Santa Ana y El Chorrillo, barrios populares donde se dio el bombardeo más terrible de la historia de este país.
(13’)

RECUERDA (Panamá 2022), ficción de Alberto Serra, con Leo Witnitzer, Juliette Roy, Evjta Witnitzar.
Un hombre mayor coquetea con una mujer más joven, lo que resulta en una crisis existencial. Un día, un momento, un sentimiento pueden cambiarlo todo. Un cortometraje que deja sobre la mesa la pregunta: ¿Y si fuera yo? (7’)

CHUCHU Y EL GENERAL (Panamá 2022), documental de Joaquín Horna Dolande.
Chuchú Martínez -Doctor en filosofía y matemáticas, dramaturgo, poeta y aviador políglota – se une a laGuardia Nacional como recluta en 1974. Es designado como escolta personal del General Omar Torrijos, iniciando una amistad de casi una década, en los 70, que tiene su mejor momento con la negociación con
EE.UU. de los tratados del Canal de Panamá. (102’)
Duración total: 122’

5 pm

MAO LUCKY (Panamá 2022), animación de Luis Carlos Caballero.
Un gato de la suerte de cerámica da la bienvenida en una tienda a cada visitante moviendo su pata hacia arriba y hacia abajo. A la larga la patita sigue balanceándose, hasta que se rompe y se cae. El gato se frustra e intenta arreglarlo él mismo antes del día siguiente. (4’)

ESO NO RIMA, ficción de Roberto Villafañe, con Ash Olivera, Daniel Isaac, Freddy D’Elia.
Un difuso poeta quiere terminar y publicar su libro de poemas, y vive en un constante proceso creativo de escritura, inspirándose con todo lo que escucha y ve, lo que le ocasiona conflictos con su pragmática esposa que no le interesan estos temas. (16’)

EN EL AIRE (Panamá 2023), ficción de Roberto Thomas-Díaz, con Marisín Luzcando, Teresita Mans, Diana Mellado.
Tras 25 años como trabajadora doméstica, Edilsa enfrenta la realidad del desempleo en una era en donde todas las reglas parecen haber cambiado. Cuando conversa con sus patrones sobre sus cuotas del Seguro para poder jubilarse, resulta que nunca se las han pagado. (14’)

NACIÓN DE TITANES (Panamá 2022), documental de Joaquín Horna.
Un recorrido por la vida de los protagonistas de la época dorada de la lucha libre en Panamá, compartiendo los orígenes de este deporte, sus triunfos y derrotas, en un legado que enfrentará a su mayor rival, la prueba del tiempo. (95’)
Duración total: 129’

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“Consistency matters. It shouldn’t matter if it’s a Republican or a Democrat,” Ocasio-Cortéz asserted. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortéz speaks during an appearance on CBS “Face the Nation” on September 24, 2023. Photo: CBS News screen grab.

“Extremely Serious”—AOC becomes the first House progressive to call for Menendez resignation

by Brett Wilkins—Common Dreams

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortéz on Sunday became the first progressive House Democrat to call on Senator Bob Menendez to resign following the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair’s indictment last week on federal bribery charges.

Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were charged Friday with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes—including gold bars, cash, home mortgage payments, and a Mercedes-Benz—from businessmen in exchange for influence. The indictment also accuses Menendez of giving “sensitive US government information” to Egypt’s dictatorship.

Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Ocasio-Cortéz said that “the situation is quite unfortunate, but I do believe that it is in the best interest for Senator Menendez to resign in this moment.”

“Consistency matters. It shouldn’t matter whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat. The details in this indictment are extremely serious. They involve the nature of not just his, but all of our seats in Congress,” added Ocasio-Cortéz, who is the vice-ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

Asked for her reaction to Menendez’s assertion that some of his congressional colleagues “are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat,” Ocasio-Cortéz said: “As a Latina, there are absolutely ways in which there is systemic bias, but I think what is here in this indictment is quite clear. And I believe it is in the best interest to maintain the integrity of the seat.”

Ocasio-Cortéz joins a growing list of Democrats including Senator John Fetterman (PA) and Representatives Jeff Jackson (NC), Dean Phillips (MN), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Tom Malinowski (NJ), Frank Pallone (NJ), Mikie Sherill (NJ), Bill Pascrell (NJ), and Andy Kim (NJ) who are urging Menendez to resign.

On Saturday, Kim said he would run for Menendez’s Senate seat amid the senator’s refusal to resign.

“I feel compelled to run against him. Not something I expected to do, but NJ deserves better,” Kim wrote in a fundraising pitch on social media. “We cannot jeopardize the Senate or compromise our integrity.”

While defiantly declaring that he is “not going anywhere,” Menendez did step down from his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he had held since 2021.

Following her “Face the Nation” appearance, Ocasio-Cortéz flew to Missouri to stand in solidarity with striking United Auto Workers members. The congresswoman said the nation is facing “a crisis of inequality,” while hailing President Joe Biden’s planned trip to join Michigan UAW workers on the picket line Tuesday as “a historic event.”

“We have never seen in modern history a president show up to a picket line like this,” she said.

 

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What Western Hemisphere leaders are saying, part 3

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“It is widely acknowledged that the global political economy is broken and needs fixing, not by tinkering here or there, but through fundamental restructuring of a kind that endures for the benefit of all humanity, especially those who are disadvantaged, dispossessed or marginalized.” Ralph E. Gonsalves. UN photo.

What leaders in the Americas said at the United Nations General Assembly – Part 3

Barbados – Mia Amor Mottley

Haiti – Ariel Henry

Dominica – Charles Angelo Savarin

Trinidad & Tobago – Keith Rowley

Antigua & Barbuda – Gaston Alphonso Browne

Saint Lucia – Philip Joseph Pierre

Grenada – Dickon Mitchell

Saint Kitts & Nevis – Terrance Micheal Drew

Saint Vincent & the Grenadines – Ralph Gonsalves

Editor’s note: The links above are to the English side of the UN website, the videos of which are in English. You can go to the Spanish side and listen to the videos in Spanish.
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