Find out about other important news that you cannot stop reading and that mark the day this Friday, June 17, 2022
FIFA revealed 11 venues for the 2026 World Cup
This Thursday, the highest rector of FIFA soccer, presented the official venues for the United States-Canada-Mexico 2026 World Cup.
A total of 16 cities were chosen, the United States will have 11 venues, Canada two and Mexico ends with three.
USA: Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.
Mexico: Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey.
Canada: Toronto and Vancouver.
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Gustavo Petro’s campaign command assures that Rodolfo Hernández does not want to debate
Gustavo Petro’s campaign command went this Thursday afternoon to the headquarters of RTVC Sistema de Medios Públicos de Colombia to meet with the organizers of the presidential debate ordered by the Superior Court of Bogotá.
In a message and photo posted on Twitter, Alfonso Prada, campaign manager for the former mayor of Bogotá, warned that Rodolfo Hernández’s representatives did not attend the meeting “neither in person nor virtually.”
“Rodolfo Hernandez campaign delegates did not attend the meeting called by Gustavo Petro’s campaign on RTVC, in person or virtually, to organize the debate. We abide by judicial decisions that are also useful for Colombians. Hernandez does not want the debate. Just empty chairs,” he wrote.
Chilean police capture members of the Tren de Aragua gang
The Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) captured seven members of the dangerous Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, which operated in Arica, in the north of the country, official sources confirmed this Thursday.
The PDI explained that it is the Los Gallegos Clan, an arm of the Aragua Train suspected of migrant smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, homicide, drug trafficking and violation of the weapons law.
? Arica Anti-Narcotics Brigade carries out an operation in Cerro El Chuño, for the dismantling of a criminal gang linked to drug trafficking, weapons and homicide crimes. The defendants would belong to a cell of the Venezuelan group #TrenDeAragua. [Procedimiento en curso] pic.twitter.com/Fykg9ZDrEq
— PDI_Arica (@PDI_Arica) June 16, 2022
Duque assures that electoral results will be respected by all
The Colombian president, Iván Duque, assured this Thursday that the results of the elections next Sunday, in which his successor will be chosen between the leftist Gustavo Petro and the populist Rodolfo Hernández, will be respected by all, starting with himself and by the Military Forces.
“It is very important that we go out to vote this weekend with joy, with enthusiasm, without hatred, without pressure, without fear, that we always have the certainty that the verdict of the polls will always be respected by the entire nation, by the President, by the Armed Forces, by all institutions,” Duque told reporters.
The president assured that the “Democracy Plan” is underway to guarantee the freedom of Colombians to choose their successor and to enforce the results of the elections.
“In some regions there are some armed groups that have tried to intimidate, in others there are some that have tried to constrain the voter, but here the Democracy Plan has worked. It is underway, we have all our Army, all our Police deployed in the country to guarantee that freedom », he stressed.
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