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Correísmo again nominates Luisa González as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador

The Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, led by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), nominated Luisa González again this Saturday as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador for next February’s elections, in which the current head of State, Daniel Noboa, who beat González in last year’s ballot, will also participate.

At a convention in the coastal city of Guayaquil, González called for internal unity in his political movement and recalled that they have met with leftist groups in search of unity.

He commented that they have invited these political organizations to join “a homeland project, a project that has as its central axis the truth, justice, honesty, transparency, the commitments that are fulfilled and, in that unity, walk towards an Ecuador of change.”

González, who will have former Minister Diego Borja as a candidate for the Vice Presidency, referred to the need to work to combat insecurity in Ecuador, where violence has increased for about two years.

Correa, who participated in the convention through a videoconference by not being able to return to the country for being convicted in cases of corruption, asked the militancy for applause for his former vice president Jorge Glas, who is imprisoned in the highest security prison in the country in the context of a case that investigates alleged corruption and having yet to finish serving the sentence of two other cases, also of corruption.

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“Martyr of the Citizen Revolution, an honest man, the great absentee,” Correa said about Glas, who was transferred to prison last April after the Police captured him at the Embassy of Mexico in Quito, the same day that Mexico granted him diplomatic asylum, which Ecuador considers illegal because it does not correspond to people convicted of common crimes.

Correa insisted on Glas’s innocence and his own and asserted that they must “recover the homeland” to which the governments following theirs “have delayed decades for development.”

After making an analysis of the situation, he lamented that “they have destroyed the institutionality of the country,” so he sees necessary “a constituent, because the institutionality is so damaged, the country is so taken by the worst, as long as they hated Correa, that so we win the elections, we will not be able to govern,” he said.

“We have to go to a Constituent Assembly and, of course, they will say that it is to seize justice. No, no, it’s to give justice to the people, power to the people,” he explained.

On security issues, he commented that now “organized crime has infiltrated the State, Armed Forces, National Police, Court of Justice, governments, politicians and politicians and that is why there is no real will to combat organized crime,” in his opinion.

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In January, the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared the “internal armed conflict” against criminal gangs, which he has come to call “terrorists,” and is based on the so-called Phoenix plan to combat insecurity, which continues to affect the nation.

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Trump signs order to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to halt federal funding for two public media outlets, PBS television and NPR radio, accusing them of being biased.

NPR and PBS are partially funded by American taxpayers but rely heavily on private donations.

Trump has long maintained a hostile relationship with most media outlets, which he has referred to as the “enemy of the people.”

An exception is the conservative Fox News channel, some of whose hosts have played important roles in the administration of the Republican magnate.

“National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),” Trump said.

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“Therefore, I direct the CPB board and all executive departments and agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS,” he added.

The Republican leader argued that “neither of these entities provides a fair, accurate, or impartial portrayal of current events to the taxpayer citizens.”

At the end of March, Donald Trump called on Congress to end public funding for these two “horrible and completely biased networks.”

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Man arrested after deliberately driving into seven children in Osaka

Japanese police arrested a man on Thursday after he rammed his car into a group of seven schoolchildren in an apparent deliberate attack in the city of Osaka.

The children, who were on their way home from school, sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital. All seven remained conscious, according to local authorities.

An Osaka police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the suspect is a 28-year-old man from Tokyo. The officer shared statements the man made after his arrest: “I was fed up with everything, so I decided to kill people by driving into several elementary school children,” the suspect reportedly said.

The man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

The injured children, aged between seven and eight, included a seven-year-old girl who suffered a fractured jaw. The six other children—all boys—suffered minor injuries such as bruises and scratches and were undergoing medical evaluation.

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Witnesses described the car as “zigzagging” before hitting the children. One witness told Nippon TV that a girl was “covered in blood” and the others appeared to have scratches.

Another witness said the driver, who was wearing a face mask, looked to be in shock when school staff pulled him from the vehicle.

Violent crimes are rare in Japan, though serious incidents do occur from time to time. In 2008, Tomohiro Kato drove a two-ton truck into pedestrians in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, then fatally stabbed several victims. Seven people were killed in that attack.

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Clashes erupt during may day protests across France amid calls for better wages

May Day protests in France were marked by a heavy police presence and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement in several cities.

In Paris, Lyon, and Nantes, thousands took to the streets to demand better wages, fairer working conditions, and to voice their dissatisfaction with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

While the majority of the demonstrations remained peaceful, isolated confrontations broke out in some areas. Protesters threw objects at the police, prompting the use of tear gas and resulting in several arrests.

Videos showing police crackdowns circulated widely on social media, drawing criticism from labor unions and human rights advocates, who denounced the authorities’ response to the protests.