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Organisation des États américains, vers une suspension du Venezuela

OEA acordó iniciar proceso de suspensión de Venezuela
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/politica/oea-acordo-iniciar-proceso-suspension-venezuela_238769

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11 países se abstuvieron en la votación de la resolución planteada por la OEA para declarar ilegítima la reelección de Nicolás Maduro y la “alteración del orden constitucional” en Venezuela. 

Los países que se abstuvieron fueron Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad y Tobago, Uruguay, Antigua y Barbuda, Belice, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Haití y Nicaragua.

La resolución fue aprobada por 19 votos a favor de los 35 países miembros de la OEA. Entre los países a favor están Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana y Santa Lucía.

Bolivia, Dominica, San Vicente y Venezuela votaron en contra de la resolución.

Ahora se efectuará una Asamblea General Extraordinaria, en la que se hará la deliberación sobre la suspensión de Venezuela del organismo Interamericano.

Diaspora Blackness in the Caribbean: A Radical Resource
▻https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/diaspora-blackness-in-the-caribbean-a-radical-resource-55ccb65ad6de

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The following resources and media are not by any means exhaustive, but an attempt to hold Black millennials in the Western hemisphere accountable for developing a complex, internationalist analysis as Afro-descendants. Resources will be given on Puerto Rico, Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Jamaica, and Trinidad.

#Culture_noire #Caraïbe

Grandmaster Flash Beats Back Time - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/nyregion/grandmaster-flash-netflix-series-the-get-down-brings-attention-to-the-hip-h

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Grandmaster Flash might easily have missed the hip-hop revolution. Born in Barbados and transplanted to the South Bronx as a child, he began his adolescence far from the city, in a group home for foster children in rural upstate New York. By the time he returned to the borough’s Fort Apache section in 1971, things were changing fast. Music was getting more percussive; teenagers with spray cans were scrawling hieroglyphic names and full-fledged murals on subway cars.

He was Joseph Saddler then, a nerdy high school student who liked to take appliances apart to see how they worked. In a few short years, though, in the hardest-hit part of a hard-hit city, he helped to invent what many would agree was the most sweeping cultural movement of the last 40 years, and then he barely hung on to see it bloom.

#musique #rap #hiphop

Global Zika update : Incidence, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome | Outbreak News Today
▻http://outbreaknewstoday.com/global-zika-update-incidence-microcephaly-and-guillain-barre-synd

The World Health Organization (WHO) released their Zika Situation Report Friday, which is chock full of interesting information, ranging from the incidence of Zika virus to microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) data.

Between 2015 and 2016, 33 countries have reported autochthonous transmission- Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Maldives, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Tonga, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu and Venezuela.
Brazil has reported by far the most cases, in fact, the outbreak got so large they stopped counting cases. Best estimates from Brazil health officials say there has been [between] 497,593 and 1,482,701 cases of Zika virus since the outbreak began.

Dernier état de la situation de l’OMS, ici (actuellement, au 5/02/16)
▻http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/en

Virus Zika — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_Zika

Le virus Zika, abrégé ZIKV pour Zika Virus en anglais, est un arbovirus membre de la famille des Flaviviridae et du genre Flavivirus, responsable de la fièvre Zika chez l’Homme. Il tire son nom d’une forêt en Ouganda où il a été identifié pour la première fois en 1947. Répandu dans les régions tropicales d’Asie et d’Afrique, il est responsable en 2007 d’une épidémie sur les îles Yap, en Micronésie, où il infecte près des trois quarts des habitants de l’île. Il est, depuis cet épisode, considéré comme émergent à potentiel épidémique et gagnant régulièrement de nouvelles régions.

Transmis par la piqûre d’un moustique infecté, il peut entraîner un syndrome proche des autres arboviroses, avec fièvre, éruption cutanée, céphalée et douleurs articulaires, spontanément résolutif. C’est par ailleurs le seul arbovirus pour lequel une transmission sexuelle a été mise en évidence.

As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018 - The Washington Post
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MEXICO CITY — The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness.

What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries that are home to a certain type of mosquito has morphed into a potentially culture-shaping phenomenon in which the populations of several nations have been asked to delay procreation. The World Health Organization says at least 20 countries or territories in the region, including Barbados and Bolivia, Guadeloupe and Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Panama, have registered transmission of the virus.

#Corruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries
▻http://billmoyers.com/2015/11/27/corruption-is-just-as-endemic-in-america-as-in-developing-countries

.. ordinary citizens live in fear of venal police forces that suck them dry by charging fees for services, throwing them in jail when they can’t pay arbitrary fines or selling their court “debts” to private companies. Sometimes the police just take people’s life savings leaving them with no recourse whatsoever. Sometimes they steal and deal drugs on the side. Meanwhile, the country’s infrastructure crumbles. Bridges collapse, or take a quarter-century to fix after a natural disaster, or (despite millions spent) turn out not to be fixed at all. Many citizens regard their government at all levels with a weary combination of cynicism and contempt. Fundamentalist groups respond by calling for a return to religious values and the imposition of religious law.

What country is this? Could it be Nigeria or some other kleptocratic developing state? Or post-invasion Afghanistan where Ahmed Wali Karzai, CIA asset and brother of the U.S.-installed president Hamid Karzai, made many millions on the opium trade (which the U.S. was ostensibly trying to suppress), while his brother Mahmoud raked in millions more from the fraud-ridden Bank of Kabul? Or could it be Mexico, where the actions of both the government and drug cartels have created perhaps the world’s first narco-terrorist state?

In fact, everything in this list happened (and much of it is still happening) in the United States, the world leader — or so we like to think — in clean government. These days, however, according to the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International (TI), our country comes in only 17th in the least-corrupt sweepstakes, trailing European and Scandinavian countries as well as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In fact, TI considers us on a par with Caribbean island nations like Barbados and the Bahamas. In the U.S., TI says, “from fraud and embezzlement charges to the failure to uphold ethical standards, there are multiple cases of corruption at the federal, state and local level.”

And here’s a reasonable bet: it’s not going to get better any time soon and it could get a lot worse. When it comes to the growth of American corruption, one of TI’s key concerns is the how the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the pay-to-play floodgates of the political system, allowing Super PACs to pour billions of private and corporate money into it, sometimes in complete secrecy. #Citizens_United undammed the wealth of the super-rich and their enablers, allowing big donors like casino capitalist — a description that couldn’t be more literal — Sheldon Adelson to use their millions to influence government policy.

#Etats-Unis #corruption_légale #leadership

Twitter / GazaYBO : Voted against: Israel, Nauru, ...
►https://twitter.com/GazaYBO/status/274274944295268352

Voted against: Israel, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Panama, Canada, Czech Republic and the U.S.