A male red siskin bird takes flight in Vargas, Venezuela, on Oct. 24, 2018.AP Photo/Fernando Llano
Bird conservation. The red siskin, which looks like a canary with red and black plumage, was once found across tropical South America. But the bird’s numbers declined in recent decades as hunters sought its feathers for hats and other fashion accessories. In Guyana, Indigenous communities in the South Rupununi region have established a successful conservation zone where red siskins are now abundant.
Indigenous defenders monitor the forest for bird smugglers, who seek the high prices that red siskins can fetch on the black market. These wildlife defenders have also served as a first line of alert against forest fires, Mongabay reported.
At the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Sunday, a group comprising one athlete from each region of the world blew out the Olympic flame. Which country represented the Americas?
Argentina
Brazil
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Cuban wrestler Mijaín López is a five-time Olympic gold medalist. He was joined on stage by athletes representing the four other Olympic rings’ regions—Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania—as well as an athlete from the Refugee Olympic Team.
Then-Argentine President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez arrive at the Microsoft Theater for the opening ceremonies of the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 8, 2022.
Then-Argentine President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez arrive at the Microsoft Theater for the opening ceremonies of the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 8, 2022.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Argentina has been rocked by allegations that former President Alberto Fernández physically abused his ex-partner, Former Argentine First Lady Fabiola Yáñez, during his time in office. Yáñez’s claims became public after leaked images of her with a bruised face were published in the media in recent days.
On Wednesday, an Argentine prosecutor formally charged Fernández. Since the denunciations became public last week, Fernández has repeatedly denied hitting Yáñez. But Argentines across the political spectrum, including Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have spoken out in the former first lady’s defense.
The photos of Yáñez “not only show the beatings she took, but also reveal the most sordid and dark aspects of the human condition,” Kirchner wrote on X. “Misogyny, machismo, and hypocrisy, pillars of physical and verbal violence against women, have no political affiliation and crisscross all levels of society.”
Fernández, a Peronist, billed himself as a feminist president, creating a Ministry of Women, Genders, and Diversity and proposing and signing a law that legalized abortion in the country. Current Libertarian President Javier Milei was among the many people who suggested Fernández was a hypocrite. “A champion of feminism beating his wife,” Milei posted on X.
This isn’t the only scandal facing Fernández, who left office last December: Investigators reportedly found the photos of Yáñez while they were searching the phone of one of Fernández’s staffers to probe a separate corruption case.
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