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MEXICO CITY (AP)
Few of Mexico’s cultural traditions have been hit as hard by the corona-
virus pandemic as “lucha libre” wrestling. The death toll among wrestlers has risen dramatically and wrestling arenas are closed, throwing almost everyone out of work.
One enterprising band of aspiring young wrestlers, the three Olivares brothers in Mexico City’s Xochimilco borough, have put up an impromptu ring on one of the district’s famous “floating gardens.”
They plan to offer livestreamed online exhibitions for now — and when restrictions on live sports are lifted, to perform for tourists enjoy-ing the newly reopened canals that run through the floating fields.
They now make their living selling flowers that they grow on Xochimilco’s artificial islands — known as chinampas
— and peddle tacos and tortas elsewhere in the borough.
“We said: ‘Why not? We have the ring, we have the chinampa, we have every-thing,’” said the oldest brother, 25, who wrestles under the name “Ciclónico.” “So we decided to bring this beautiful sport
to this gorgeous landscape.”
With river boat tours of the floating gardens just reopen-ing — though public lucha libre matches before live audi-ences are still largely banned — the broth-ers are betting they can be part of the tourism rebirth.
Others wrestlers have already taken the sport online. Victor Gongora, who wrestles under the name “Herodes Jr.,” has been wres-tling in matches live-
streamed online for about $12, though people can pay as little as $3 to get tapes of the match after it’s over.
But he acknowledges that it’s not the same without the roaring, swearing crowds that are a key part of the rowdy events.
“It’s part of the culture of Mexico. Lucha libre in Mexico has always been something done in arenas full of people,” said Gongora. “It’s the preferable way.”
But until arenas reopen — Gongora says his first match with fans at 30% capacity will be held next week — bouts that are transmitted online by video streaming are a temporary fix. “It is a way to help out with the expenses, just enough to get by on,” he said.
Many less technologically savvy wres-tlers aren’t even that lucky.
“The majority of us come from very poor backgrounds, lower class families,” said the head of the Mexico City Boxing and Lucha Libre Commission, who wrestles under the name “Fantasma.”
“The savings they (the wrestlers) had are gone, they spent them already,” said Fantasma, who has helped arrange city support payments of about $75 per month for luchadores. “The situation is just critical, very, very bad.”
But it is not just the economic woes that are ravaging lucha libre.
There appears to have been a sharp upturn in deaths among wrestlers since the pandemic began in Mexico in March, though how many of those were due to COVID-19 is not certain.
LATIN AMERICA
Mexico lucha libre wrestlers struggle to survive amid virus
Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler “Ciclonico,” or Cyclonic, of the Olivares family, wears a mask to remain unidentifi ed as he works his land on Xochimilco’s famous fl oating
gardens on the outskirts of Mexico City, on Th ursday, August 20, 2020.
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LATIN AMERICA: Mexico
lucha libre wrestlers
struggle to survive amid
virus
STATE: 37 at SeaTac federal
detention center infected
with virus
LATIN AMERICA: Mexico’s
presidency loses some
sheen but survives
NORTHWEST: 1 killed
as Trump supporters,
protesters clash in Portland
POLITICS: Beyond
November: Republicans
already thinking ahead
IMMIGRATION: Judge
blocks asylum screening by
border protection agents
POLITICS: Democrats
accuse Trump of stoking
violence and racial tension
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SEATAC, Washington (AP)
The Federal Detention Center in
SeaTac says it has a cluster of
coronavirus infections among
inmates and staff.
As of Thursday, 31 inmates and six
staff members at the facility had tested
positive for the virus, according to the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, The Seattle
Times reported.
No deaths or hospitalizations have been
reported, according to prison and public
health officials.
“We tried like hell to keep it out,” said
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ricardo
Martinez. “We were successful for a long
time. But it’s there now, and it’s a serious
situation.”
Martinez said the infections likely
will keep local federal courts closed for
another month. They had been set to open
for limited trials and in-person hearings
after Sept. 8, when his latest shutdown
order expires.
The federal courthouses in Seattle and
Tacoma have been closed since early
March, resulting in trial
delays and in some defen-
dants being locked up for
months awaiting court
dates.
The first COVID-19
infection at the facility was
reported July 22 in a staff
member, according to a
prisons spokesperson. The
first inmate tested positive
on July 30.
Confirmed infections
didn’t increase rapidly until
the past couple of weeks,
according to Michael Fili-
povic, the federal public
defender for Western
Washington, who has been
tracking the outbreak.
“I am very concerned for the health and
safety, and actually the lives of our clients
that are in the federal detention center,”
Filipovic said. He said he’s also worried
for staff.
Eighteen inmates were exposed before
booking, while 10 were exposed during
the period when a staff member was
infectious, according to Sharon Bogan, a
spokesperson for Public Health – Seattle
& King County, who on Thursday did not
have information on the remaining cases.
“With the information we have cur-
rently, we do not believe there is spread
among the general population of inmates
within the facility,” Bogan said in an email.
The SeaTac deten-
tion center holds about
600 inmates, including
persons awaiting trial
on criminal charges, and
others who are serving
sentences.
In an email, Bureau
of Prisons spokesperson
Emery Nelson said the
prison system has taken
steps to minimize spread
of the virus, including
canceling visitations and
limiting transfers between
facilities.
Nationally, according
to the Bureau of Prisons,
116 people held in federal
prisons and detention centers have died
after contracting COVID-19, as has one
Bureau of Prisons staff member. An addi-
tional 10,400 inmates and nearly 900
staff have had infections but recovered.
That’s out of more than 140,000 persons
in custody and about 36,000 staff, the
bureau said.
STATE
37 at SeaTac federal detention center infected with virus
In this June 26, 2018 fi le photo, a guard is seen outside the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Washington.
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MEXICO CITY (AP)
For a president with a plunging
economy and the world’s fourth-
highest number of confirmed
COVID-19 deaths, Mexico’s Andrés
Manuel López Obrador isn’t doing so
badly.
In his second state-of-the-union
address Tuesday, López Obrador was
expected to tout his anti-corruption drive
and public works projects, which are his
two biggest obsessions, though few people
think either will end up accomplishing
much.
Surprisingly, he still gets 52% support
for a coronavirus policy that amounts
to little more than damage control with
as little testing as possible and almost
no contact tracing or mandatory lock-
downs. It focuses instead on expanding
the number of hospital beds.
“The handling of the pandemic has
been tremendously bad,” says Luis Miguel
Pérez Juárez, a political science professor
at the Monterrey Technological univer-
sity, calling it “a joke” that the president
almost never wears a mask.
The honeymoon for Mexi-
co’s “teflon” president is clearly
over and he longer has the near
sky-high approval ratings he
once had. But according to a
Reforma newspaper poll pub-
lished Monday, López Obrador
still has a 56% approval rating;
that’s down from a peak of 78% in
March 2019. The in-person poll
had a margin of error of 4 per-
centage points.
“Nobody has been able to hold
him to better accounting on the
real numbers” of coronavirus cases
which are much higher than official
figures because of a lack of testing, said
Federico Estevez, a political science pro-
fessor at the Autonomous Technological
Institute of Mexico.
“The people clearly recognize that
things aren’t going well, in the economy,
on the streets,” Estevez said, while noting
that López Obrador still has majority
support. “It doesn’t hurt him.”
Nor has López Obrador’s anti-crime
strategy been working; homicides are
stuck at around 3,000 per month in this
nation of almost 130 million inhabitants,
about the same level as seen during the
last two years. Drug cartels continue their
bloody turf battles, and cocaine flights
and fentanyl pill exports continue.
López Obrador hopes his main legacy
will be going after corrupt politicians who
stole hundreds of millions of dollars in
past administrations.
A lurid series of leaked
videos and testimony in
recent weeks has reinforced
what most Mexicans have
long thought — that former
administrations were full of
crooks — but they provide
little legally admissible evi-
dence. Most of the accusa-
tions, including videos of
politicians handling suitcases
full of cash, were made by
a former state oil company
director who himself hopes to
avoid prison.
López Obrador “is using it
very well, but the idea that this
will allow him to get to the bottom and
punish those responsible, I don’t see that
right now,” said Jose Antonio Crespo, a
political analyst at Mexico’s Center for
Economic Research and Training,
In fact, 58% of those surveyed in the
Reforma poll did not think the corruption
cases would lead to any concrete results,
while only 28% thought suspects would
go to jail.
LATIN AMERICA
Mexico’s presidency loses some sheen but survives
In this July 1, 2019 fi le photo, Mexico›s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arrives at a rally to celebrate the one-year anniversary of his election,
in Mexico City›s main square, the Zocalo.
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PORTLAND, Oregon (AP)
One person was shot and killed
late Saturday in Portland,
Oregon, as a large caravan of
President Donald Trump supporters and
Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in
the streets, police said.
It wasn’t clear if the shooting was linked
to fights that broke out as a caravan of
about 600 vehicles was confronted by pro-
testers in the city’s downtown.
An Associated Press freelance photog-
rapher heard three gunshots and then
observed police medics working on the
body of the victim, who appeared to be a
white man. The freelancer said the man
was wearing a hat bearing the insignia of
Patriot Prayer, a right-wing group whose
members have frequently clashed with
protesters in Portland in the past.
Police did not release any additional
details and were at the scene investigating
late Saturday.
“Portland Police officers heard sounds
of gunfire from the area of Southeast
3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street.
They responded and located a
victim with a gunshot wound to
the chest. Medical responded and
determined that the victim was
deceased,” the Portland Police
Bureau said in a statement.
Portland has been the site of
nightly protests for more than
three months since the police
killing of George Floyd in Min-
neapolis.
Many of them end in van-
dalism and violence, and hun-
dreds of demonstrators have
been arrested by local and federal
law enforcement since late May.
The caravan arrived downtown just as a
protest planned for Saturday was getting
underway. Police made several arrests
before the shooting and advised residents
to avoid the city core.
The chaotic scene came two days after
Trump invoked Portland as a liberal city
overrun with violence in a speech at the
Republican National Convention as part
of his “law and order” re-election cam-
paign theme. The caravan marked the
third Saturday in a row that Trump sup-
porters have rallied in the city.
Trump and other speakers at this week’s
convention evoked a violent, dystopian
future if Democratic presidential hopeful
Joe Biden wins in November and pointed
to Portland as a cautionary tale for what
would be in store for Americans.
The pro-Trump rally’s organizer, who
coordinated a similar caravan in Boise,
Idaho, earlier in the week, said in a video
posted on Twitter Saturday afternoon
that attendees should only carry
concealed weapons and the route
was being kept secret for safety
reasons.
The caravan had gathered
earlier in the day at a suburban
mall and drove as a group to the
heart of Portland. As they arrived
in the city, protesters attempted to
stop them by standing in the street
and blocking bridges.
Videos from the scene showed
sporadic fighting, as well as Trump
supporters firing paintball pellets
at opponents and using bear spray
as counter-protesters threw things
at the Trump caravan.
The shooting happened shortly before
9 p.m. Pacific, several hours after the
caravan began arriving in Portland.
The Black Lives Matter demonstrations
usually target police buildings and federal
buildings. Some protesters have called for
reductions in police budgets while the
city’s mayor and some in the Black com-
munity have decried the violence, saying
it’s counterproductive.
NORTHWEST
1 killed as Trump supporters, protesters clash in Portland
A man receives care aft er being shot on Saturday, August 29, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.
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WASHINGTON (AP)
Republicans last week are focused
squarely on their convention’s
star, President Donald Trump,
and securing his reelection in November.
But there’s also plenty of angling for what
— or who — comes next.
Beyond the speeches, the spin and
the stagecraft, the Republican National
Convention is casting light on the early
maneuvering that is already underway
to determine the future of the party after
Trump and who will emerge as its 2024
nominee.
The convention lineup includes a long
list of potential future candidates, most
notably Nikki Haley, the former South
Carolina governor and ambassador to
the United Nations, who spoke Monday
night.
Many are expecting a 2024 repeat of
2016, which drew a massive field of sena-
tors, governors and former party officials
— along with a reality TV star few took
seriously at the time.
This time, “Vice President Mike Pence
and Nikki Haley are, by far, the two
greatest fan favorites out there,” says
Scott Walker, the former governor of
Wisconsin and himself a 2016 can-
didate. “There’s others out there, but
nobody else is even close in that strato-
sphere.”
Much will depend on whether
Trump secures a second term. If he
loses, it could open the door to critics
like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a
moderate who voiced alarm at Trump’s
handling of the coronavirus and
recently wrote a book and launched a
new national advocacy group promot-
ing “bipartisan, common-sense solutions.”
On the other end of the spectrum is
Pence, who has spent years serving as
Trump’s most loyal solider. His allies are
keenly aware that the former Indiana
governor’s political future will hinge on
whether Trump wins in November, and
they have been laser-focused on that goal.
Pence has embarked on an aggressive
campaign schedule that has included 73
trips to more than two dozen states since
October. And he has been holding calls
with conservative groups like the Susan
B. Anthony List and Heritage Foundation,
in addition to sitting for a whopping 152
regional interviews.
If Trump does win in November, it is
unclear how another four years would
affect Pence’s standing and whether he has
the charisma or star power to carry the
president’s base on his own. One donor
has quipped that Pence carries all of
Trump’s baggage without carrying many
of Trump’s supporters.
At the same time, buzz has been growing
about Haley, the rare official who
managed to emerge from the
Trump administration with her
reputation intact and arguably
lifted. Since her departure, she
has been trying to keep a careful
balance, maintaining some inde-
pendence from the president
while not directly drawing his ire.
In her convention speech
Monday night, Haley gave an
unabashed endorsement of the
president while spending time
introducing herself to viewers.
“I am the proud daughter
of Indian immigrants. They came to
America and settled in a small Southern
town,” she said. “My father wore a turban.
My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl
in a black and white world.”
That background could make for a
compelling candidate at a moment when
the American electorate is getting younger
and more diverse. Haley also would be
able to make the case to voters that she has
the needed background as a chief execu-
tive and on national security.
POLITICS
Beyond November: Republicans already thinking ahead
Nikki Haley aft er fi nishing her speech at the Republican party convention from Washington on August 24, 2020.
IMMIGRATIONJudge blocks asylum screening by border
protection agentsSAN DIEGO, California (AP)
A federal judge on Monday
blocked U.S. Customs and
Border Protection employees
from conducting the initial screening for
people seeking asylum, dealing a setback to
one of the Trump administration’s efforts to
rein in asylum.
The nationwide injunction will likely
have little, if any, immediate impact because
the government has effectively suspended
asylum during the coronavirus pandemic,
citing public health concerns.
The Trump administration argued that
designated CBP employees are trained
comparably to asylum officers at U.S. Citi-
zenship and Immigration Services, another
agency within the Homeland Security
Department. U.S. District Judge Richard J.
Leon in Washington disagreed.
“Poppycock!” he wrote in a 22-page deci-
sion. “The training requirements cited in
the government’s declaration do not come
close to being ‘comparable’ to the training
requirements of full asylum officers.”
Leon, who was appointed by President
George W. Bush, said CBP employees get
two to five weeks of distance and in-person
training, while asylum officers get at least
nine weeks of formal training.
Leon also cast doubt on whether CBP,
a law enforcement agency that includes
the Border Patrol, could do screenings in
a non-adversarial manner, as regulations
require.
Representatives of the Homeland Secu-
rity and Justice Departments did not
respond to requests for comment. U.S. Cit-
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does not comment on pending litigation.
Lawyers for mothers and their children
from Mexico, Ecuador and Honduras who
failed the screening — known as a “cred-
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fear of persecution in their home country
— argued that CBP employees were not
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ing.
WASHINGTON (AP)
Democrats on Sunday accused
President Donald Trump of
trying to inflame racial ten-
sions and incite violence to benefit his
campaign as he praised supporters who
clashed with protesters in Portland,
Oregon, where one man died overnight,
and announced he will travel to Kenosha,
Wisconsin, amid anger over the shooting
of another Black man by police.
Trump unleashed a flurry of tweets and
retweets the day after a man identified as a
supporter of a right-wing group was shot
and killed in Portland, where a large
caravan of Trump supporters and Black
Lives Matter protesters clashed in the
city’s streets. Trump praised the caravan
participants as “GREAT PATRIOTS!” and
retweeted what appeared to be the dead
man’s name along with a message to “Rest
in peace.”
Trump also retweeted those who
blamed the city’s Democratic mayor for
the death.
“The people of Portland, like all other
cities & parts of our great Country, want
Law & Order,” Trump later tweeted. “The
Radical Left Democrat Mayors, like the
dummy running Portland, or the guy
right now in his basement unwilling to
lead or even speak out against crime, will
never be able to do it!”
Trump has throughout the summer
cast American cities as under siege by
violence and lawlessness, despite the fact
that most of the demonstrations against
racial injustice have been largely peace-
ful. With about nine weeks until Election
Day, some of his advisers see an aggressive
“law and order” message as the best way
for the president to turn voters against his
Democratic rival, Joe Biden, and regain
the support of suburban voters, particu-
larly women, who have abandoned him.
But Democrats accuse Trump of rooting
for unrest and trying to stoke further vio-
lence for political gain instead of seeking
to ratchet down tensions.
POLITICS
Democrats accuse Trump of stoking violence and racial tension