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1 month ago

Nicaraguan lawmakers approve reform expanding Ortega’s power

CNN

Reuters — The Nicaraguan parliament, dominated by the ruling Sandinista Front, on Friday approved a constitutional reform that hands more power to President Daniel Ortega as well as the Central American nation’s police and military. The reform increases the president’s control over the media, extends the presidential term to six years from five, and changes the roles of vice president …

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1 month ago

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

LA Times

In this 2018 photo, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation. Ortega put forward another bill Wednesday that would make it …

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1 month ago

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation. Ortega put forward another bill Wednesday that would make it illegal for anyone to enforce sanctions from the United States or other foreign bodies “within Nicaraguan territory.” The …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

10 lively walking clubs to help you tour L.A. by foot — and make friends while doing it

LA Times

Walking is considered one of the healthiest ways to exercise, but let’s be honest: Unless you have a dog dragging you to the door or a friend pulling your arm, it’s easy to find reasons to stay on the couch. “Our little catchphrase is: ‘Making friends as an adult is hard, exploring SoCal is easy!’” Achilles International Los Angeles| Culver …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Donald Trump: I went to a pro-Trump Christian revival. It changed my understanding of Jan 6.

Slate

On a sweltering evening in the thumb pad of Michigan’s mitten, a self-described prophet promised 700 Christians under a crisp white tent that they were about to cheat death. Ahn, the California pastor, spoke at the main “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 5, calling it “the most important week in America’s history.” Another major NAR leader broadcast daily prayers …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Brazilian moms are leading the charge to secure CBD for sick kids

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — The 4-year-old boy struggled to balance while walking through the living room. To lessen and shorten his seizures, Murillo takes a steady dose of liquid cannabidiol or CBD, that Silva acquires for free through Sao Paulo state’s public health system. To lessen and shorten his seizures, Murillo takes a steady dose of CBD, that Silva acquires for …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

A week after an alleged coup attempt in Bolivia, confusion and conspiracy theories reign

Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia — A plan to stage a coup against Bolivia’s president was not what Gen. Tomás Peña y Lillo was expecting when he entered the military headquarters in La Paz last Wednesday. An armored vehicle and military police form outside the government palace in what President Luis Arce said was an attempted coup, at Plaza Murillo in La …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bolivia’s president lambasts accusations of a self-coup as 'lies' as his supporters rally

Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Luis Arce on Thursday angrily called accusations that he was behind an attempted coup against his government “lies,” saying the general who apparently led it acted on his own and vowing that he would face justice. Bolivian President Luis Arce raises a clenched fist surrounded by supporters and media, outside the government palace in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bolivian general arrested and accused of coup after dramatic showdown with president

CNN

CNN — A Bolivian general has been arrested and accused of mounting a coup against the government after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday. Justice Minister Ivan Lima denied Zúñiga’s claims, saying he “lies and tries to justify himself about a decision he took and over which he will have to answer to justice.” Bolivian President Luis Arce …

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6 months ago

BRICS ties eyed as multipolar trend emerges

China Daily

The significant interest of Bolivia and Nicaragua joining the BRICS group highlights the growing economic ties with the group's members, in particular with China, while reducing their dependency on Western economies, say experts. "The involvement of countries like Bolivia and Nicaragua in BRICS has the potential to rebalance economic influences and create a more multipolar global economy," said Gabriel Merino, …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

'I Sacrificed A lot For The Company,' Says A Laid Off Tesla Employee In A Viral LinkedIn Post

ABP News

Tesla Layoffs: A recent LinkedIn post by a former Tesla employee has ignited an online discussion about the extent to which employees should be expected to "sacrifice" for their employers. Nico Murillo, who was recently terminated from his position, shared details of his experiences, including showering at the factory, sleeping in the parking lot, and microwaving dinners in the break …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Nottingham Forest 0-2 Man City: Erling Haaland comes off the bench to net his 21st Premier League goal of the season after Josko Gvardiol's opener as Pep Guardiola's side keep the pressure on Arsenal

Daily Mail

Manchester City reeled Premier League leaders Arsenal back in with a 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest as the title race heads towards a thrilling finale. Victory leaves them a point behind Mikel Arteta's side with a game in hand and ensured Pep Guardiola's 300th Premier League match in charge of City ended in success. Erling Haaland came off the bench …

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9 months ago

Mother of Navy vet killed by L.A. police as he held a metal bar will receive $24 million

LA Times

The 32-year-old Navy veteran was holding a metal bar. But in August, a federal jury unanimously awarded Tammy Murillo $23.8 million and found that Officers Fred Sigman and Christopher Montague used excessive and unreasonable force in shooting her son. According to the district attorney’s account of the deadly encounter, Murillo was about 50 feet from Sigman when he rushed toward …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

How can the world stand by and watch the purge of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua?

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Ortega-Murillo regime’s “purge” of the Catholic Church …

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1 year ago

Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running ‘beauty queen coup’ plot

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government. The government of President Daniel Ortega briefly thought it had scored a rare public relations victory, calling her …

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1 year ago

Javier Milei wants to gut spending and ditch the peso, but will it save Argentina's economy?

ABC

Of all the eccentric qualities of Argentina's new president, the purported source of some of his political counsel is perhaps the most curious. Last weekend's vote was primarily of protest in anger at the current government and "not a endorsement of many of the policies that Milei has proposed, some of which are relatively extreme", according to Mark Jones, chair …

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1 year, 1 month ago

These Latines are normalizing alcohol-free spaces for la cultura

LA Times

A growing number of Latines are shifting the social pressure away from drinking while keeping the cultural aspects of Latine gatherings firmly in place. “My father passed away from alcoholism,” said Pablo Murillo, the founder of Bar Nuda, a Mexican-inspired alcohol-free pop-up in Los Angeles. “At family parties and parties in general, tequila is such a big part of Mexican …

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1 year, 3 months ago

In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded

Associated Press

SANTIAGO, Chile — Soon after she learned what happened, Helmut Kramer’s mother grabbed a pair of scissors and cut the priest out of photographs from her son’s baptism. “This wasn’t a crisis, this was a cultural break from the Catholic Church,” said Chilean historian Marcial Sánchez. Not long after the pope’s visit, Helmut Kramer joined other victims to launch “Red …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Tori Kelly’s husband says she is ‘smiling and feeling stronger’ after blood-clot scare

LA Times

Tori Kelly is recovering after she lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital with blood clots. Tori Kelly’s husband provided an update Wednesday on her condition after the singer reportedly lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital with blood clots this week. Basketball player André Murillo, who married Kelly in 2018, said on his Instagram story that the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Bolivian Catholic priest accused of abusing seminary students

Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia — A Bolivian priest has been detained on suspicion of abusing seminary students a decade ago in a case that emerged after news broke earlier this month of a pedophilia scandal involving a late Jesuit priest in the Andean country. Milton Murillo, a Catholic parish priest at the Church of San Roque in the southern region of …

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2 years ago

Megan Thee Stallion takes the stand in Tory Lanez trial with support from demonstrators

LA Times

Megan Thee Stallion arrives at court to testify in the trial of rapper Tory Lanez, whom she has accused of assault. “When people talk about Megan Thee Stallion getting shot, all the headlines are Megan Thee Stallion is on trial and I’m not on trial!” Pete said Tuesday that she was driving away from a party at makeup mogul Kylie …

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2 years, 1 month ago

LAFC defeats Philadelphia on penalty kicks to win MLS Cup title in thriller

LA Times

LAFC players celebrate after defeating the Philadelphia Union to win the MLS Cup at Banc of California Stadium on Saturday. A dream hatched eight years ago in a dark, stuffy film studio on Sunset Boulevard became reality Saturday in the late afternoon shadows at Banc of California Stadium, where LAFC won its first MLS Cup in the most improbable way, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Mexico arrests former top prosecutor over missing students case

Al Jazeera

Jesus Murillo Karam led the controversial investigation into the disappearances, which shocked the nation and caused international outrage. Mexico on Friday arrested a former top prosecutor who led the heavily criticised investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice. The former attorney general is considered the architect of the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Afro-Colombian politician tapped as ambassador to Washington

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled his homeland after being kidnapped by a paramilitary group has been tapped to become Colombia’s first Black ambassador to the United States. In a brief message posted on Twitter on Tuesday, leftist President elect Gustavo Petro wrote that Luis Gilberto Murillo would take Colombia’s most important …

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Nicaraguan lawmakers approve reform expanding Ortega’s power

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

10 lively walking clubs to help you tour L.A. by foot — and make friends while doing it

Donald Trump: I went to a pro-Trump Christian revival. It changed my understanding of Jan 6.

Brazilian moms are leading the charge to secure CBD for sick kids

A week after an alleged coup attempt in Bolivia, confusion and conspiracy theories reign

Bolivia’s president lambasts accusations of a self-coup as 'lies' as his supporters rally

Bolivian general arrested and accused of coup after dramatic showdown with president

BRICS ties eyed as multipolar trend emerges

'I Sacrificed A lot For The Company,' Says A Laid Off Tesla Employee In A Viral LinkedIn Post

Nottingham Forest 0-2 Man City: Erling Haaland comes off the bench to net his 21st Premier League goal of the season after Josko Gvardiol's opener as Pep Guardiola's side keep the pressure on Arsenal

Mother of Navy vet killed by L.A. police as he held a metal bar will receive $24 million

How can the world stand by and watch the purge of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua?

Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running ‘beauty queen coup’ plot

Javier Milei wants to gut spending and ditch the peso, but will it save Argentina's economy?

These Latines are normalizing alcohol-free spaces for la cultura

In Chile, justice eludes victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse years after the crisis exploded

Tori Kelly’s husband says she is ‘smiling and feeling stronger’ after blood-clot scare

Bolivian Catholic priest accused of abusing seminary students

Megan Thee Stallion takes the stand in Tory Lanez trial with support from demonstrators

LAFC defeats Philadelphia on penalty kicks to win MLS Cup title in thriller

Mexico arrests former top prosecutor over missing students case

Afro-Colombian politician tapped as ambassador to Washington