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2023-07-22 18:39:15

Las high temperatures in the United States caused the death of a Hispanic in Florida.

Ephraim Lopez He was working in extremely hot conditions.

On July 5th, the man from 29 years I was working on a farm in Homestead, where I grew guava and avocado.

The man was accompanied by a relative, both of whom were working on the farm.

Suddenly, Efraín commented that he began to feel bad, he said that he had a severe headache.

He was concerned regarding her discomfort and decided drink water to cool down, he also sought relief using ice.

With the above, López showed that he had improved and continued with his work tasks.

However, following a few moments the worker was found on the ground. People came to help him, but the man died at the scene.

People close to López, how his family and friends are convinced that his death is related to heat stroke, since he was exposed to the high temperatures of Florida, and because of the signs he presented before he fell to the ground.

Two Hispanics have died from the intense heat

In January of this year, unfortunately, a farm worker also died, he was a 28-year-old Mexican.

His death was recognized as a result of the heat wave. The young man died on his first day of work in a field of Parkland.

The Mexican presented some symptoms such as fatigue and leg pain. When they found him he was unconscious.

The previous deaths have concerned the Florida Farm Workers Association.

The organization demands that protection be provided to farm workers.

Even the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor has imposed penalties on employers who do not follow safety protocols to protect workers.

With information from Telemundo.

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2023-07-22 18:41:00

The United Nations (UN) said that the death of RIA Novosti military commander Rostislav Zhuravlev is regrettable. Stéphane Dujarric, representative of the Secretary General of the world organization, spoke regarding this.

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“We regret the death of another journalist in this war. We express our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues,” Dujarric said, according to RIA Novosti.

On the eve of Dujarric said that the organization condemns the use of cluster munitions by Ukraine, writes channel 360. The decision of US President Joe Biden to supply cluster weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine also caused criticism and disputes at home and abroad.

On July 22, as a result of a strike by cluster munitions, RIA Novosti military commander Rostislav Zhuravlev was killed. Moscow promised punish the guilty in the murder of military commander Zhuravlev, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

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2023-07-22 18:59:33

PLAYA DEL REY: Tamara moved into a trailer because she mightn’t pay her rent anymore. Beau did it following losing everything. As for Steven, he was tired of suffering crime in the only neighborhoods where he might still afford to live.

In California, the “trailers”, once hippie symbols of a free life or today new digital nomads, also testify to a much less glamorous social phenomenon: a housing crisis.

One of the US states with the highest per capita income, California, is also the one with the most homeless people. A third of the country’s homeless live in this state, which has 11% of the American population.

And with the housing crisis, many now have caravans, motorhomes, vans, mobile homes as their only roof, installed in sometimes improvised campsites in Los Angeles, where the authorities count around 75,000 homeless people, and cities around.

Rent close to $3,000

“It’s the only thing I can afford,” says Beau Beard, pointing to his trailer parked in a narrow alley a stone’s throw from the hubbub of touristy Venice Beach.

For him, California was synonymous with a new beginning following a 42-month stay in prison. But he quickly became disillusioned.

“Here, it is the most expensive price per m2 on the real estate market” in the United States, laments this 57-year-old man. In June, the average rent reached 2,950 dollars (2,650 euros) per month in Los Angeles.

In 2021, seven million Americans spent more than half of their income on housing, up 25% from 2007, according to a study by the National Alliance on Homelessness, an NGO.

When his fiancée told him they were expecting a child in 2020, Beau bought a trailer to shelter his little family.

But child protection services didn’t like it. And withdrew custody of their daughter shortly following birth, believing that their accommodation was not suitable. She will be three years old on July 29.

“We’re stuck. We don’t know what to do,” he says, sitting on the porch of his blue trailer, which not only deprives him of his daughter, but also of any help finding subsidized housing.

We are “in a gray area (…) and that puts us at the bottom of the list for housing requests”, he complains.

“outcasts”

His caravan is not alone on Jefferson Boulevard, which runs along the Ballona Ecological Reserve.

Here and there artistic installations, small gardens, chairs, tables line the caravans, a sign that some inhabitants have settled down.

But life is complicated, says Tamara Hernández, a makeup artist who left her apartment in Venice when the rent skyrocketed. In ten years, the rent for his studio has gone from 450 to 3,000 dollars.

Now, “to wash myself, you have to wait an hour to heat the water (…) It’s really hard here”, she says. And to the difficulties of everyday life is added the feeling of being pariahs. “I don’t know why people hate us. We’re good people.”

«Impossible»

Steven, who prefers not to give his last name, is employed in a supermarket.

He has lived here with his wife for two years. With their two salaries, they mightn’t afford more than a van, which they bought used for $6,000.

With prices rising by 6.5% in 2022 in the United States, the number of homeless people has increased in Los Angeles and other cities in the United States.

But in Los Angeles, the contrast is striking between the palaces of Hollywood and the homeless who sleep on the famous “Walk of Fame”, a famous avenue where the stars leave their footprints.

Steven, he dreams of other horizons.

“I’m saving to buy land, in Arkansas, or Missouri (…) I want to build a pond for fish and have a vegetable garden. Do you understand? But in California, that’s not likely to happen, it’s impossible.”

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2023-07-22 12:00:00

For several days, the Brussels low emission zone (“Lez” in international jargon for “Low Emission Zone”) did not work. Questioned by the opposition deputy Christophe De Beukelaer (Les Engagés), the Brussels Minister for the Environment, Alain Maron (Ecolo), confirmed in plenary session on behalf of Rudi Vervoort (PS), absent that day: “data export problems arose, from July 1, with regard to the Lez and the limited access areas of Ixelles and the City of Brussels. Everything has been back to normal since July 13 at noon.”

Since the start of the LEZ, diesel down, pollutants too

The exact circumstances are not yet known, but it would be a “temporary outage”, now resolved. “The system concerns several administrations and at least one private subcontractor. A technical report should be drawn up in collaboration with the institutions concerned.”

As a reminder, the Brussels Region, like other cities such as Ghent and Antwerp, has had a low-emissions zone since 2018. The most polluting vehicles are gradually banned. Diesel vehicles of Euro 4 and lower standards are currently prohibited, under penalty of a fine of €350. From 2025, Euro 5 Diesel cars will also be banned from the capital, as well as Euro 2 Petrol cars.

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