International
The Keralty group announces that it can take action to recover the administration of Sanitas in Colombia
The group of Spanish origin Keralty, owner of the health provider (EPS) Sanitas, intervened on Tuesday by the Colombian Government, announced on Thursday that it is weighing the actions to be taken to recover the administration of the company because it considers the measure “arbitrary” and “illegal”.
“We strongly and forcefully reject the arbitrary intervention of our EPS because it is improvised, illegal, disproportionate and discriminatory,” Keralty says in a statement.
The group recalls that Sanitas has investments that support its technical reserves “for a value of more than 800 billion pesos” (about 193 million euros).
“We are analyzing the actions to be taken to stop the arbitrariness of the act of intervention, recovering the administration of EPS Sanitas for the benefit of our affiliates, collaborators and the country,” Keralty says in the statement.
The intervention for a period of one year was announced by the Superintendence of Health alleging the alleged insolvency of Sanitas, which has 5.8 million members in Colombia, and debts of more than two billion pesos (483 million euros today). But Keralty assures that the financial sustainability situation of the EPS is caused “largely by the same Government.”
That’s because it does not do “responsible analyses on issues such as the insufficiency of the UPC (Captation Payment Unit),” which is the annual value that is recognized by each of the members of the general security system, “the concentration of risk per member and the non-recognition of the accumulated debt.”
According to Keralty, those problems were alerted “opportunely” and in multiple scenarios to the Ministry of Health and other institutions, “without finding solutions,” and adds that last December Sanitas herself presented to the Superintendence of Health “an institutional reorganization plan on which there was no decision.”
As for the complaints about the service provided to users that the Government argues, Keralty assures that this indicator is “similar to the average of the sector” and not higher than the national average, as stated by the Superintendence of Health.
Keralty was born as a Sanitas International Organization 50 years ago in Spain, focusing its activity on the health sector and also has operations in Colombia, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
The statement adds that the intervention in Sanitas “may compromise the provision of the service to our 5.8 million affiliates and drastically changes the rules of the game for companies that bet on the country.”
In addition to Sanitas, the Colombian Government intervened on Wednesday by the New EPS, the largest company in the sector in the country, which has 10.9 million members.
These interventions have received harsh criticism from some sectors, which consider them an attempt by the Government to forcibly impose its health reform, after the bill presented to Congress definitively collapsed yesterday in the Seventh Committee of the Senate.
“What the same Congress is telling us is that the EPS are broken, now it’s up to us to solve it; what could be a quiet, orderly, trouble-free agreement, to make the transition, now it’s all at once,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said last night about the changes he seeks to make in the health sector.
International
Geert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
The leader of the Dutch extreme right, Geert Wilders, reached a “provisional” agreement on Wednesday to form a government with three other center-right parties, which he will now send to the Dutch Parliament for debate, although they have not yet agreed on behalf of the candidate for prime minister.
As announced by Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), there is already a “provisional” agreement with the other three center-right parties: the liberal VVD, the Christian Democrat NSC and the BBB farmers’ party, although there are still disagreements about pensions and “the discussion about who will lead that government will be resumed at a later date” because they have not yet decided on this point.
Wilders won the general elections on November 22, but had to resign his aspiration to the position of prime minister to unblock the dialogue with the other parties.
International
Diana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, arrived this Wednesday unexpectedly at the headquarters of the Public Ministry to be interrogated by the interim Attorney General, Juan Carlos Villena, as part of the preliminary investigation opened for the crimes of corruption and bribery by the so-called ‘Rolex case’.
Boluarte arrived at the tax headquarters, in the historic center of Lima, at 9:20 a.m. (14.20 GMT) sheltered by a large police security display and entered aboard an official van with dark moons.
As has happened on previous occasions, the ruler is not expected to offer subsequent statements about this interrogation.
International
The filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
Iranian filmmaker Mohamad Rasoulof, who fled his country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, will go to the Cannes Film Festival to present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’, his lawyer Babak Paknia told EFE.
“He (Rasoulof) will participate in Cannes,” Paknia said on Wednesday.
Rasoulof will present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’ at the French festival, which is about a judge who deals with the protests unleashed by the death of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini in 2022 after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil well.
Some actors of the film, however, will not be able to attend since the Iranian authorities do not allow them to leave the country, according to Paknia, who also stated that they have opened a new judicial case against the director for the film.
“They have opened a new case for this new film,” said Paknia, who did not explain the charges.
Rasoulof announced two days ago that he had fled his country to Europe after being sentenced to eight years in prison, lashes and the confiscation of property for the crime of “collusion with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country.”
The filmmaker, winner of the Golden Bear of the Berlinale with ‘The Life of Others’ in 2020, a film that deals with the death penalty in the country, has had numerous problems with the country’s authorities and has been sentenced to prison on three occasions.
He was last arrested in July 2022 for criticizing the repression of protests unleashed by the collapse of a building that caused dozens of deaths two years ago and eight months later he was released.
In recent weeks, Iranian courts have multiplied convictions against artists and academics who are critical of the Islamic Republic.
In one of the most noted cases, a revolutionary court sentenced rapper Tomaj Salehi to death for sedition, propaganda against the system and incitement to riots for supporting the protests unleashed by Amini’s death.
In those protests, young Iranians and women called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths and the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which eight demonstrators were executed, one of them in public.
Geert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
Diana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
The filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
Tec de Monterrey honors one of its students for his contribution to nanotechnology in medicine
Defense Minister commends salvadoran soldier for Central American Cross Country victory
Ecuador prison riot leaves at least 43 dead
-
International4 days agoFirst recipient of genetically modified pig kidney dies two months post-transplant
-
International5 days ago14 of the injured left by a train crash in Buenos Aires are still interned
-
International5 days agoDuque sees “despair” and “insecurity” in Petro’s attitude and proposes a “democratic debate”
-
International5 days agoDeath toll from storms in southern Brazil rise to 137
-
International5 days agoHaitian armed gangs mobilize before the arrival of the multinational force
-
International4 days agoDonald Trump faces former lawyer in court over Stormy Daniels payments
-
International21 hours agoBlinken announces in Kiev another $2 billion in military funding to Ukraine
-
International3 days agoFormer presidents condemn Maduro’s “disrespect” of asylum for opponents in Venezuela
-
International3 days agoThe UN confirms that a worker died in Gaza from a projectile that hit his vehicle
-
International21 hours agoRobert Fico, Slovak Prime Minister, in serious condition after being shot
-
International2 days agoAt least 4 dead and 64 injured when a fence collapsed over a gas station in India
-
International3 days agoCommissions of the Argentine Senate resume debate on key law for Javier Milei
-
International21 hours agoDiana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
-
International2 days agoPutin prepares for a long war with a change of defense minister
-
International3 days agoThe mother who decided to walk 1,300 kilometers in Chile to get an expensive medicine and save her son from a serious illness
-
International3 days agoTrump, portrayed by his former lawyer: Fixation for silencing porn actress and reluctant to pay
-
International2 days agoDefinitive green light in the EU to extend the suspension of tariffs on Ukraine for one more year
-
International2 days agoIsrael’s offensive is based on Yabalia and the Army orders the evacuation of more areas of Rafah
-
International3 days agoA Mexican-American artist denounces the deportations with a mural on the border
-
International5 days agoThe UN says it works with the de facto Afghan Government to assist in floods
-
International5 days agoThe FARC dissident ‘Iván Márquez’ reappears in a video after being presumed dead
-
International2 days agoDeath toll from floods in southern Brazil rise to 148
-
International2 days agoDesolation at the Mexican border in the face of the new restrictions on asylum in the United States
-
International21 hours agoSingapore closes the Lee era with the investiture of Lawrence Wong as prime minister
-
International21 hours agoGeert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
-
International21 hours agoAbel Martínez, an experienced Dominican politician who seeks the return to power of the LDP
-
International21 hours agoThe filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
-
International2 days agoTrump prioritized silence of Stormy Daniels “for the campaign, not for Melania,” according to his former lawyer
-
International2 days agoLópez Obrador denies that there will be more migrants deported to Mexico due to restrictions in the United States
-
International21 hours agoThe EU urges Georgia to withdraw the law on foreign agents that harms its rapprochement with the EU