National Liberation Army negotiator Israel Ramírez Pineda, also known as Pablo Beltrán, speaks during a press conference after signing an agreement to extend the guerrilla group’s cease-fire with the Colombian government in Havana on Feb. 6.Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images
Colombian cease-fire ends. Colombia’s military announced that it was restarting offensive operations against the rebel group National Liberation Army (ELN) this week after talks to renew a year-old cease-fire fell through. It was a step back for President Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” strategy of trying to cut deals with armed groups to reduce violence. Before talks collapsed, the ELN retracted a previous commitment to stop kidnappings.
The Petro administration is continuing to push total peace on other fronts, however. This week, Bogotá announced that it would reopen talks with the Gulf Clan, the largest armed group in the country. The government and the Gulf Clan tried negotiating a cease-fire early in Petro’s administration, but it too broke down.
Reelection restrictions. Dominican President Luis Abinader announced this week that he will introduce constitutional amendments that would block future presidents from extending the existing limit of two consecutive four-year terms. The Dominican Republic was run by a dictator for more than 30 years, and indefinite reelection was only outlawed in 1994.
Since the turn of the 21st century, politicians in countries including Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have all aimed to change limits to reelection.
Deep sea director. Brazilian oceanographer Leticia Carvalho was elected president of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) last week. The United Nations-mandated organization oversees talks on the governance and mining of deep-sea minerals. Carvalho is known for her pro-conservation stance.
The fight over leadership of the ISA was so high-stakes that a campaign allegedly backed by the incumbent sought to get Carvalho to drop her bid, the New York Times reported. She prevailed. Carvalho told FP’s Christina Lu that her fight to defend natural habitats in the face of powerful extractive interests comes from her background enforcing Brazilian environmental policy.
Which of the following groups has Petro not struck a deal with as a part of his total peace strategy?
Gulf Clan
Segunda Marquetalia
FARC-EMC
Zapatistas
The Zapatistas are in Mexico. Petro announced cease-fires with a whopping five armed groups after his inauguration.
Gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of the United States bow to Rebeca Andrade of Brazil after she won the gold medal in the women’s floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5.
Gymnasts Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of the United States bow to Rebeca Andrade of Brazil after she won the gold medal in the women’s floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 5.Elsa/Getty Images
Latin American gymnasts shined at this year’s Paris Olympics. They include Colombia’s Ángel Barajas, who became an overnight national hero after earning a silver medal on the men’s high bar. Barajas, 17, grew up in a single-parent household in Cúcuta. His performance was celebrated by figures from Colombian senators to media personalities.
The Brazilian women’s gymnastics team also earned a historic third-place finish in the team final, after the United States and Italy. The squad was led by superstar Rebeca Andrade, who came back from her third ACL injury to win the floor exercise final this week against the United States’ Simone Biles.
Andrade is the only gymnast who has come close to challenging Biles’s dominance of the sport in the past decade. Where Biles has earned gold, Andrade has often followed with silver. Most of the Olympic events adhered to this pattern: After the team final, Andrade won second place to Biles in both the all-around and vault finals.
“I’ve never had an athlete that close” in score, Biles said of Andrade after the all-around. “It definitely put me on my toes and brought out the best athlete in myself.”
On Monday, after both Biles and Andrade wobbled in their beam routines—failing to medal—they took to the floor exercise for the last event final of the Olympics. Although Biles’s difficulty score is higher than Andrade’s, she went out of bounds on numerous tumbling passes and earned a lower execution score than the Brazilian gymnast.
Andrade finally managed to get her gold with a 0.033-point win over Biles, becoming the most decorated Brazilian Olympian of all time.
Although Biles and Andrade have been competitors for years, their relationship is unusually positive. At the Olympics, they cheered each other on and frequently hugged. Biles so celebrated Andrade that she and fellow American gymnast Jordan Chiles bowed to her on the podium after Andrade earned her gold. The image has become a viral show of sportsmanship.
“Rebeca, she’s so amazing, she’s queen,” Biles said of the gesture. “It was just the right thing to do.”
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