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• Under President Daniel Ortega’s government, more than 5,000 civil society organizations have been forced to shut down and eliminate tax exemptions for Catholic and Evangelical churches.

Mexico City, Aug.23.– Nicaragua has shuttered an additional 151 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the local affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce, as part of an ongoing crackdown by President Daniel Ortega’s government.

The decision, announced by the Interior Ministry on Aug. 20, follows the revocation of the legal status of over 1,500 NGOs earlier this year. Most of the organizations affected in this latest round of closures are religious groups.

A summary of the most relevant facts and the historical truth.

Historians have shown that popular and official discussion of Taiwan as a part of China, and formal efforts to gain forceful control of Taiwan before WWII by the government of the Republic of China (ROC) and its ruling Nationalist Party, originated in the 1930s and early 1940s, within the context of anti-Japanese sentiment and war.

Under Japanese imperial rule, the island was known as Formosa. However. in more historical terms, a number of scholars have demonstrated the creation of distinctive Taiwanese identities during the years of Japanese rule. 

Taiwanese citizens created new identities by drawing on their cultural history, new labor and professional groups, widely disseminated concepts of self-determination and participatory politics, and contemporary cosmopolitanism—far from adhering to the goals of Japanese assimilation strategies. Through a variety of social and cultural actions, including demands for voting rights and an independent legislature for Taiwan inside the Japanese Empire, as well as demands for independence from Japan, they demonstrated their newfound awareness for self-determination.

Washington DC, July 21 (DPnet).– President Joe Biden has suspended his reelection campaign, sparking a political firestorm regarding who should replace him mere months before voters head to the ballot box. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president,” Biden wrote in a letter Sunday. “While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.”

Vice President Kamala Harris secured a commanding list of endorsements for her presidential nomination bid in the hours following President Joe Biden's announcement that he is stepping out of the 2024 race.

The list of endorsements included the chairs of all 50 state party chairs, convention delegates from at least four states, and some of the biggest names in the party, including the Clintons, the governors of California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and Democrat mega-donor Alex Soros.

Even with Biden's endorsement of Ms. Harris, the future of the party ticket is uncertain, and Democrats must now navigate an unprecedented shift late in the election year. Ms. Harris has announced her intention to “earn and win this nomination.”

The AMIA case is 30 years old: acquittals and cover-ups 

• Fugitives did not appear. 
• The US and Brazil expressed their commitment to help. 
• What is the scenario of the different judicial fronts in the open investigations linked to the attack?

Buenos Aires, July 18.– For some reason, round numbers always weigh more. 30 years ago, at 9:53 on that cold and sunny Monday, a truck bomb with more than 300 kilos of explosives was embedded in the Pasteur 633 building, in the heart of Once. The AMIA flew. He killed 85 people. Since then, the sense of Justice seems to fade with each anniversary.

Almost 500 thousand pages accumulate in the files. Added to this is intelligence material stored in boxes of papers and cassettes that could occupy two kilometers online.