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Duke’s Blues N BBQ leaving red caboose for new East Dundee location
Duke’s Blues N BBQ is moving from its iconic red caboose in downtown East Dundee to a new digs in the building that formerly housed Van’s Frozen Custard.
The move was necessitated by downtown redevelopment plans that include not only the land on which the caboose now sits but the proposed Heritage Station, a mixed-use development for the Railroad Street site on the former Doederlein Lumber Co. property.
East Dundee owns the custard shop building at 16 E. Main St., which it purchased for the future realignment of the Route 72/River Street intersection.
Terrance “Duke” Seward and his wife, Rhiannon, have operated the popular walk-up restaurant out of the village-owned caboose at 112 Railroad St. since 2016. It’s open from March to December and offers catering year-round.
The move will give the couple the opportunity to serve dine-in customers and not have to close for the winter, said Village Administrator Erika Storlie, who has been working with them to find an alternate location.
“Duke’s has a desire to open a brick-and-mortar location. He is very interested in leasing the former Van’s from the village,” Storlie told the East Dundee Village Board at its Monday’s night meeting. “It would be a good opportunity for him to test a brick-and-mortar option while he continues to look for a permanent place downtown.”
Van’s leased the space for seven years until its new owner decided to move to 818 W. Main St. in downtown West Dundee. It held a grand opening at the new location Dec. 6.
Storlie said she knows it’s not ideal to lease a property that may eventually be torn down, but it does give Duke’s the opportunity to try out a new restaurant concept while allowing the village to collect income from a building for which there are no concrete plans.
Seward said Wednesday that he found the new challenge “exciting.” He already has ideas for the new space, including a Friday fish fries, live music and an indoor smoker in addition to his existing outdoor smoker, he said.
“I think it’s good for Duke to have an indoor home. Customers always want to eat our food year-round,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a huge complement to the town. I think it’s going to be the next step we all kind of needed.”
Storlie said staff will develop a lease agreement, which will need to be approved by the village board.
Trustees told Storlie they want to keep the caboose to stay in town because it is tied so closely to downtown East Dundee.
“I really feel the caboose has been a kind of icon in the village that leads to the charge and character and history of the village and the downtown area,” Trustee Kathleen Mahony said.
Mahony suggested placing it somewhere along the Fox River Bike Trail or near Route 72. “I’d like it closer to the downtown area, but we are extending, potentially expanding the whole downtown district,” she said.
A new location can be determined at a later date, especially since construction on Heritage Station won’t start until next fall.
Gloria Casas is a freelance reporter for The Courier-News.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/10/dukes-bbq-dundee-moving-vans-custard/
Veterano jardinero Mike Yastrzemski firma contrato de 2 años con Bravos
ATLANTA (AP) — Los Bravos de Atlanta contrataron el miércoles al veterano jardinero Mike Yastrzemski por dos años, además de una opción del club para 2028.
Yastrzemski, de 35 años, bateó para .233 con 17 jonrones y 46 carreras impulsadas en 146 juegos el año pasado, en San Francisco y Kansas City.
El pelotero, quien pasó las primeras seis temporadas y media de su carrera con los Gigantes antes de ser enviado a los Reales en julio, ganará 9 millones de dólares en 2026 y 10 millones en 2027. Atlanta tiene una opción del club para 2028.
Yastrzemski devengará 7 millones si los Bravos ejercen la opción. Recibirá una compensación de 4 millones si no lo hacen.
El versátil Yastrzemski, nieto del miembro del Salón de la Fama Carl Yastrzemski, puede jugar en las tres posiciones del jardín y tiene un promedio de bateo de .238 en su carrera. Su mejor temporada fue la de 2020, acortada por la pandemia, cuando bateó .297 con diez jonrones en 54 juegos y terminó entre los diez primeros en la votación para el Jugador Más Valioso de la Liga Nacional.
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Lockport’s Veronica Bafia leads St. Xavier in scoring. But she also provides another boost. ‘Loudest clapper.’
St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia leads her team in scoring. But the sophomore forward from Lockport also leads the Cougars in another category that doesn’t show up on the stat sheet.
Coach Sidney Lovitsch gets a big kick out of that, too.
“She’s the loudest clapper of all the girls,” Lovitsch said. “During practice, when I’m turned around talking to the coaching staff and I hear that clapping for her teammates, I’m like, ‘That’s Veronica.’
“I turn around and it’s her. It’s ear-piercing. It’s actually very funny.”
There has been a lot of clapping lately for the 5-foot-9 Bafia. She tallied 16 points, four rebounds, three blocked shots and two steals in a 69-40 nonconference win over Aquinas at the Shannon Center in Chicago.
West Aurora graduate Brooklynn Johnson led St. Xavier (8-3) with 19 points and seven rebounds. Alaina Peetz, a freshman forward from Lockport who’s also on the softball roster, had 12 rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks against Aquinas (5-5).
St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia (3) drives to the basket against Aquinas during a nonconference game in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
The win served as a tune-up for Saturday’s huge CCAC showdown in Chicago against St. Francis (11-0, 6-0), which is ranked No. 1 in the country.
Bafia, meanwhile, is having a breakout season for the Cougars. After averaging 8.4 points as a freshman, she scored 31 points against Cleary in a 71-59 season-opening win.
“That felt good,” she said. It felt natural the way the game was moving. The opportunities were there.”
While maintaining a 31-point pace is basically beyond the realm, Bafia is still leading the Cougars with a 15.3 average.
St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia (3) shoots a free throw against Aquinas during a nonconference game in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
“I’m definitely more confident this year than I was last year,” she said. “I tried to get in the gym more and shoot more and worked on being an all-around player.”
“We worked hard with her and she also did a lot on her own,” Lovitsch said. “She worked on getting faster and stronger and having that mentality of taking that next step.”
That next step includes some leadership skills as well.
Assistant coach John Natanek, who’s in his second stint with the Cougars, worked with St. Xavier in 1999-2000 when the program got started under head coach Bob Hallberg.
St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia (3) drives the baseline against Aquinas during a nonconference game in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Natanek confirmed this is the youngest starting five the Cougars have had since that inaugural season with two freshmen, two sophomores and a senior getting the bulk of those starts.
That makes Bafia’s leadership — and her loud clapping — important.
“She’s a lot more vocal and she is taking that step that we encouraged her to take,” Lovitsch said of Bafia. “That’s a testament to what she’s trying to do here and how much she cares about this program and these players.”
Although they are a year apart, Peetz and Bafia played together quite a bit growing up.
“Veronica is super athletic and can go to the basket, and on defense, you can use her in almost any spot,” Peetz said. “She plays the same way as she did in high school — only better.”
St. Xavier’s Veronica Bafia (3) takes a 3-pointer against Aquinas during a nonconference game in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Last season, the Cougars finished 18-12 but lost to Indiana Northwest in the CCAC Tournament quarterfinals and figured their season was over.
In a surprise move, the NAIA committee picked five teams from the conference. The Cougars made it to the national opening round, losing to 73-69 in overtime to Marian Indiana.
This winter, the Cougars are seeking a return trip.
“We’re much smaller than we were last year,” Bafia said. “But that gives us an advantage because we’re running the floor a lot more than we did and it’s been good so far.
“If we keep playing like we’re playing and progressing more and more, I feel like it’s going to be a good rest of the season.”
Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
Netflix Docudrama Features Transgender Coal Miner “Fighting The Patriarchy”
Netflix Docudrama Features Transgender Coal Miner “Fighting The Patriarchy”
The film industry has really been scraping the bottom of the barrel over the past few years to find “inspirational” LGBT stories to appease their DEI overlords in Hollywood. Without a significant American audience the production of woke films is beginning to fade; no one wants to watch these movies. However, some distributors can’t help themselves as they search foreign markets to purchase far-left content and get their ideological fix.
The newest foreign art house slop making it’s way to Netflix audiences in the US this month is a movie called “Queen Of Coal”, originally titled “Miss Carbon” in Argentina where the flick was originally released. Pedro Pascal plays a role in the film (of course he does), and it’s set to hit Netflix on December 19th.
The story is a docudrama based on the true story of an 18-year-old man named Carlos Antonella Rodríguez who gets work as a coal miner in 2011. He then “transitions” over the course of a few years to become a transgender woman named “Carlita” (take note of the almost worshipful manner in which the trans character is portrayed).
Carlos is officially recognized as a woman under an Argentina law enacted on May 23, 2012. It was the world’s first legislation to allow legal gender recognition based on self-identification, without requiring medical interventions, psychological diagnoses, or judicial approval (this might be something that Javier Milei should look into). The man was then declared the “first woman coal miner” in Argentina’s history.
That’s right, a man dressed up as a woman defeated the patriarchy for all women because he is now legally considered a real woman in Argentina. In other words, this is a lot like Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) winning Glamour Magazine’s “woman of the year.”
Netflix describes the movie as:
Carlita, a trans woman, dreams of working in the coal mines but faces superstitions and a ban on female workers, forcing her to fight for her place and disrupt the system.
Some might wonder why anyone would “dream” of becoming a coal miner. No one does, but in Argentina in 2012 coal mining was considered a higher paying job ($1500 per month US). Carlos does not actually extract coal, he repairs machinery that helps in the mining of coal, but is technically considered a “coal miner”.
Some people might remember the explosive controversy over Netflix’s distribution of the 2020 film “Cuties” – A French movie featuring 11-year-old girls in a highly sexualized dance troupe. Critics accused the filmmakers of creating thinly veiled child pornography disguised as feminist empowerment. The film’s director is a female Muslim feminist from Senegal who grew up in a polygamous family. Around 10% of Senegalese Muslim marriages involve minors under the age of 15.
The foreign feature did not go over well with American audiences, except for leftist activists who widely defended the movie and even argued in favor of the child dance scenes. Much was revealed about the political left in 2020.
There has been a similar reaction with the announcement of Queen Of Coal: Audiences are laughing at the concept while rejecting the basic premise that a man can become a women and then be declared the “first woman coal miner”. It does not appear that the film will draw many viewers for Netflix, but it does showcase why Netflix’s attempted purchase of Warner Bros. is very bad for movie goers.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 12/10/2025 – 22:45
Jeannette Jara cierra su campaña en Santiago y se dice “convencida” de que ganará el balotaje
Por NAYARA BATSCHKE
SANTIAGO (AP) — La comunista Jeannette Jara, candidata del oficialismo en Chile, cerró el miércoles su campaña en Santiago a unos días del balotaje que decidirá el próximo presidente del país, en un acto en el que se dijo “convencida” de que ganará pese a que en los sondeos aparece en desventaja.
Jara, de 51 años, eligió la Plaza Matte de la comuna de Puente Alto, en el sur de la capital chilena, para que fuese el escenario de su último mitin en la Región Metropolitana, al que acudieron unas 15.000 personas, según sus asesores.
Primera comunista en encabezar una alianza única que une a los sectores de izquierda y centroizquierda, Jara volverá a medirse el domingo al ultraderechista José Antonio Kast, fundador del Partido Republicano, en una segunda vuelta después de que ninguno alcanzara la mayoría de votos para asegurar una victoria en la primera ronda.
Pese a que la candidata del oficialismo logró un 26,85% de los apoyos el 16 de noviembre, frente al 23,92% de Kast, todas las encuestas vaticinan una contundente victoria del republicano el 14 de diciembre, a quien achacan cerca del 60% de los apoyos válidos, frente a poco más del 40% que lograría Jara.
En su último acto en la capital, la otrora ministra del Trabajo en el gobierno del presidente saliente Gabriel Boric volvió a jactarse de los logros cosechados cuando encabezó la cartera, y elogió la reforma a las pensiones, la reducción de la jornada laboral y el alza paulatina del salario mínimo.
“Estoy aquí con mano firme y determinada para combatir el abuso, la delincuencia, la corrupción y la colusión”, aseveró Jara ante una multitud que la apoyaba con ovaciones, banderas, carteles y gorros.
Asimismo, prometió que gobernará “con los pies puestos en la tierra”, y aprovechó para cargar contra Kast, a quien acusó de esconderse “detrás de propuestas clandestinas que buscan que se retrocedan derechos”.
“Chile necesita certezas, necesita futuro, necesita esperanza. No retroceder. Certezas de que vamos a llegar bien a fin de mes”, afirmó.
La exministra también hizo hincapié en sus propuestas para combatir el crimen organizado, que incluyen la construcción de cinco nuevas cárceles y el levantamiento del secreto bancario para rastrear y liquidar la financiación ilegal de las bandas.
Aseguró que, de ganar ella los comicios, el narcotráfico “se encontrará con un Estado fuerte que lo desarme y lo encarcele”, y que durante los 100 primeros días de su gestión realizará 100 intervenciones policiales en barrios tomados por el crimen.
Jara también aprovechó para intentar atraer a los indecisos que aún no han decidido su voto para estos comicios, en los cuales la participación es totalmente obligatoria por primera vez.
“Quiero decirles que yo soy chilena, y bien chilena”, afirmó. “De esas que trabajan a diario y que sacan la familia y el país en adelante.. por eso es importante que quien gobierne nuestro país tenga una conexión con la realidad”.
Unos 15,6 millones de chilenos están convocados a las urnas el domingo tras una campaña marcada por el debate sobre la delincuencia y la migración irregular, temas que han opacado otros como las libertades individuales, los derechos reproductivos o los crímenes de la dictadura militar (1973-1990), los cuales predominaron en la campaña electoral de hace cuatro años.
Por ello, algunos de los simpatizantes de Jara han matizado que “ya no se trata de ser de derecha o izquierda”, sino de buscar una opción “más equitativa”.
“A todos nos tachan de comunista, pero ya no se trata de ser comunista, socialista o de derecha o de izquierda; se trata de algo más equitativo”, dijo a la AP la jubilada Mónica Vara. “No podemos votar por otra cosa que no sea por Jara, porque el otro (candidato) nos ofrece derogar muchos derechos (por los cuales) hemos luchado por muchos años”.
Thunder iguala el mejor inicio de 25 partidos en la NBA con paliza 138-89 sobre Suns
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander anotó 28 puntos, y el Thunder de Oklahoma City igualó el mejor inicio de 25 partidos de una temporada de la NBA al dominar a los Suns de Phoenix 138-89 en los cuartos de final de la Copa NBA el miércoles.
El récord de 24-1 del Thunder empata con el de los Warriors de Golden State de 2015-16, quienes ganaron sus primeros 24 juegos antes de finalmente perder.
Chet Holmgren añadió 24 unidades y ocho rebotes para el Thunder, que estableció una marca de franquicia con su 16ta victoria consecutiva. Avanzaron a las semifinales el sábado contra los Lakers de Los Ángeles o San Antonio.
Parecía que este podría ser un partido difícil para el Thunder. La victoria de Oklahoma City por 123-119 sobre los Suns en el grupo de la Copa NBA el 28 de noviembre fue su juego más reñido durante su racha de victorias.
Pero la estrella de Phoenix, Devin Booker, se perdió su tercer partido consecutivo debido a una distensión en la ingle derecha. Anotó 21 puntos en el enfrentamiento anterior y expresó en la rueda de prensa posterior que el “secreto ha salido a la luz” sobre la defensa líder de la liga del Thunder.
Parece que los Suns tienen más que aprender. Lanzaron un 39.3% desde el campo y anotaron su total de puntos más bajo de la temporada. Dillon Brooks lideró a los Suns con 16 unidades, pero solo encestó cuatro de 16 tiros. Fue la menor cantidad de puntos que Oklahoma City ha permitido esta temporada.
Jalen Williams encestó un triple al sonar la bocina del medio tiempo para darle al Thunder una ventaja de 74-48. Gilgeous-Alexander anotó 17 puntos en la primera mitad a pesar de solo intentar ocho tiros.
Gilgeous-Alexander llegó a 96 juegos seguidos con al menos 20 puntos. Alcanzó el total con una volcada en un contraataque que puso al Thunder arriba 84-50 con 9:15 restantes en el tercer cuarto.
El guardia de Phoenix, Grayson Allen, fue expulsado después de empujar a Holmgren y derribarlo al suelo.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Judge Halts Trump’s Deployment Of National Guard In Los Angeles
Judge Halts Trump’s Deployment Of National Guard In Los Angeles
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
A federal judge on Dec. 10 blocked President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to deal with civil unrest.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer rejected the Trump administration’s argument that protests against federal immigration authorities constituted a rebellion that warranted the president’s federalization of California National Guard troops.
Breyer had previously blocked the deployment. On Sept. 2, he found the federal government had violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
The federal government has argued that the sometimes-violent protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were interfering with the government’s ability to enforce federal immigration law.
Although the federal Posse Comitatus Act restricts the ability of the federal government to use military resources for domestic law enforcement, a president may take over, or federalize, state National Guard troops on an emergency basis in certain circumstances.
“The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances. Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one,” Breyer wrote in the court order.
“Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, Defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way—let alone significantly.”
The judge also rejected the administration’s argument that the court system has no authority to review a president’s takeover of state National Guard troops in an emergency situation.
Breyer wrote that it was “nonsensical to suggest that the law would permit a president to … send Guardsmen wherever he wanted for as long as he wanted.”
After California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued to block the deployment, the Trump administration took the position that “after a valid initial federalization, all subsequent re-federalizations are completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts,” the judge wrote.
“Defendants’ position is contrary to law,” and, coupled with the Trump administration’s deployment of California National Guard troops to other states, is “effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops,” the judge added.
Breyer stayed his preliminary injunction until noon on Dec. 15, presumably to give the federal government an opportunity to appeal.
Newsom hailed the ruling.
“Today’s ruling is abundantly clear – the federalization of the National Guard in California is illegal and must end,” the governor said in a statement.
“The President deployed these brave men and women against their own communities, removing them from essential public safety operations. We look forward to all National Guard servicemembers being returned to state service.”
The Epoch Times reached out to the Department of Justice for comment. No reply was received by publication time.
Separately, on Sept. 8 the Supreme Court stayed a lower court order restricting immigration stops in Southern California. Three justices dissented.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement started operations in the Los Angeles area on June 6. Local and state officials strongly criticized the effort, saying the federal government was overstepping its legal authority.
The high court order paused a temporary restraining order that Judge Maame Frimpong of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued on July 11 that limited the factors that law enforcement officials may use when making immigration-related stops and arrests.
Specifically, Frimpong barred the Department of Homeland Security from stopping or arresting individuals based exclusively on factors such as the language the person speaks or where the person works.
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed a concurring opinion.
“Apparent ethnicity alone” is not enough to establish the reasonable suspicion needed to justify an immigration stop, but it may be relevant to the issue,” he wrote.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 12/10/2025 – 22:20
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judge-halts-trumps-deployment-national-guard-los-angeles
House Armed Services Chairman Prepared To End Investigation After Viewing Double-Tap Boat Strike
House Armed Services Chairman Prepared To End Investigation After Viewing Double-Tap Boat Strike
Congress this week has been threatening to withhold travel funds for Pentagon leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to turn over videos of strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats off the coast of Latin America, amid the ongoing debate over their ‘legality’ of the actions.
The demand, which would significantly reduce Hegseth’s own travel budget, has been quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill. Congressional leaders called for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has expressed new frustration on Wednesday over Hegseth’s refusal to release a Sept. 2 video which shows strikes on men who survived the first round of a drone attack.
“I’m going to stay hopeful for a couple more days. But the idea that he’s going to try to simply drag this out until Congress breaks for the holidays is outrageous, and folks ought to be pretty damn pissed off,” said Warner.
Hegseth earlier said the request to release the video is still under review, and that his office is mulling it. While top national security officials have seen it, Warner said further that “There were other members of the administration in that briefing who understood that Congress has an oversight responsibility to see this video.”
The so-called Gang of Eight were allowed to view it in a closed session. These are the eight leaders within Congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters.
However, there are signs that Congressional leaders could back down, as CNN newly reports on Wednesday:
House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers is prepared to end his panel’s investigation into the September double-tap strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, a committee aide tells CNN.
Rogers received a classified briefing last week to view the video footage and is now pushing for the rest of his panel to be able to see the video.
The committee aide said, “The video and classified briefings from the Pentagon were sufficient to convince him this was a legal action. But he’s also been clear that we need a classified briefing where the rest of HASC’s members can see the video, and we expect that to happen next week.”
Some lawmakers have disagreed, calling it an appalling act and war crime, while others said the video showed the survivors trying to salvage the drugs…
Lawmakers were shocked and appalled Thursday after they were shown video footage of the September 2 double tap that killed two survivors of an airstrike in the Caribbean. https://t.co/tNPk6tioJ5 pic.twitter.com/LgWC183iJe
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) December 4, 2025
Some conservatives have decried the whole saga as but a carefully orchestrated plan of character assassination campaign targeting Hegseth.
But Trump has been sticking by him. The last word Hegseth gave on releasing the video was as follows: “We’ve got operators out there doing this right now, so whatever we were to decide to release, we would have to be very responsible about, so we’re reviewing that right now.”
Tyler Durden
Wed, 12/10/2025 – 21:55
Petro invita a Trump a Colombia para ver el combate al narco en ese país
Associated Press
BOGOTÁ (AP) — El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro invitó a Donald Trump a visitar el país para verificar los operativos contra el narcotráfico, luego de que el mandatario estadounidense le reclamara presunta falta de eficacia en su política antinarcóticos.
“Ya no espero que me inviten a Washington, sino que (Trump) venga a Colombia a ver la destrucción de laboratorios de cocaína”, declaró Petro en un consejo de ministros televisado, en el que aseguró que diariamente se destruyen 17 laboratorios de cocaína.
Horas antes, Trump habló de Petro cuando los periodistas le preguntaron si había mantenido conversaciones con él —así como lo hizo con los gobernantes de México y Venezuela, en medio de su campaña de presión para combatir el narcotráfico—, pero Trump descartó la idea y dijo que Petro ha sido “bastante hostil hacia Estados Unidos”.
“Más le vale que se dé cuenta o será el siguiente. Será el siguiente”, advirtió el mandatario estadounidense. “Espero que esté escuchando. Será el siguiente”.
Trump le ha reprochado a Colombia no mostrar suficientes resultados en la lucha antinarcóticos, y descertificó al país en esa materia por primera vez en tres décadas. Además, ha dicho que Petro es un “capo de la droga”, le retiró la visa y lo sancionó a él y a dos de sus familiares por presuntos vínculos con el narcotráfico, sin mostrar pruebas de ello.
Petro, el primer presidente izquierdista en Colombia, defendió su política antinarcóticos nuevamente e insistió en que ha “luchado durante dos décadas contra el narco” y lo ha combatido en su gobierno, especialmente con la incautación de cocaína y la destrucción de laboratorios.
El mandatario colombiano rechazó el despliegue militar estadounidense en el Caribe, y consideró que no es cierto que, al atacar con misiles a pequeñas embarcaciones, Washington esté luchando contra “narcoterroristas”, porque Petro cree que los que van a bordo son “gente pobre”, mientras que los grandes capos viven en el exterior con lujos.
Además rechazó las declaraciones de Trump en las ha dicho que en Colombia hay “fábricas de cocaína”. Petro aseguró que no se trata de edificios, sino de campamentos rudimentarios en la selva que se atacan con operaciones en tierra, no con misiles.
“Hemos destruido 18.000 laboratorios sin matar a una sola persona. No se necesita romper la soberanía de Colombia; somos los mayores interesados en limpiar nuestros mares de la cocaína, porque las mafias de la cocaína han asesinado al pueblo colombiano durante medio siglo”, aseguró Petro.
Las relaciones de Estados Unidos con Colombia —el mayor productor de cocaína del mundo— se han desmejorado desde que Trump volvió a la presidencia.
Petro ha sido crítico de la política migratoria de Trump, así como de su despliegue militar en el Caribe y los ataques letales a embarcaciones señaladas de llevar droga, los cuales ha calificado de “asesinatos”.
En los últimos días ha pedido a las autoridades colombianas investigar la causa de la muerte de personas encontradas sin vida en las playas de La Guajira, en el Caribe colombiano. Aparentemente, dichos individuos provendrían de República Dominicana, y Petro sospecha que podrían ser víctimas de los ataques estadounidenses.
Lamar Jackson se pierde otra práctica con Ravens, que se preparan para revancha ante Cincinnati
OWINGS MILLS, Maryland, EE.UU. (AP) — Lamar Jackson se perdió nuevamente la práctica con los Ravens el miércoles, días antes de que Baltimore dispute otro partido clave dentro de su división, el fin de semana en Cincinnati.
Esta vez, los Ravens lo catalogaron como un día de descanso para Jackson, quien se perdió tres duelos por una lesión en el tendón de la corva a principios de esta temporada y no ha estado del todo saludable —ni tan certero— desde su regreso.
Jackson lanzó cuatro pases de touchdown en su primer partido de regreso, en Miami el 30 de octubre. Luego, se mostró inteligente en una victoria como visitante sobre Minnesota, pero esa fue la última vez que tuvo una semana completa de práctica.
Se perdió la actividad del miércoles antes de un duelo contra los Browns y fue incluido en una lista de lesionados, por un problema de rodilla. El miércoles siguiente, fue un problema de tobillo el que lo marginó de la práctica antes de recibir a los Jets.
Baltimore venció a Cleveland y Nueva York, pero no se vio bien ofensivamente.
Los Ravens tuvieron una semana corta antes de recibir a Cincinnati un jueves por la noche. Jackson no en una simulación de entrenamiento el lunes. La razón esa vez fue una lesión en un dedo de un pie. Baltimore perdió y Jackson jugó quizá su peor juego de la temporada.
La semana pasada, Jackson practicó el miércoles pero estuvo limitado debido a un problema de tobillo. Se perdió la práctica del jueves antes de regresar el viernes. Dijo que esa semana lo habían pisado en una jugada.
Los Ravens perdieron ante Pittsburgh 27-22 el domingo, quedando un juego atrás en la carrera de la División Norte de la Conferencia Americana, aunque Jackson y la ofensiva finalmente se vieron un poco mejor en la segunda mitad. El equipo produjo 420 yardas totales.
Jackson dijo la semana pasada que veía estos días libres como días de descanso, y el entrenador John Harbaugh dijo el lunes que respeta el juicio del dos veces Jugador Más Valioso de la liga.
“Quieres que todos practiquen todos los días. Ese es tu objetivo como entrenador, pero la temporada es larga”, dijo Harbaugh. “Estos muchachos pasan por mucho, Lamar más que cualquiera. Tiene el balón en la mano en cada jugada. Así que, habrá momentos en los que simplemente no estará listo para practicar. Simplemente no será la mejor manera de hacerlo, y esa es una conversación entre Lamar y los entrenadores”.
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