Bolivia: the shocking moment in which

several students fall from a fourth

floor at the University of El Alto
The students fell after a railing of the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) broke.
There are at least seven dead.

Bolivia: Students fell after a railing at the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) was
broken. There are at least seven dead.
The number of students killed increased to seven this Tuesday when they fell from
a fourth floor after a railing broke at the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) in
Bolivia, in a confusing incident that the authorities are investigating.
The young people attended an extraordinary student assembly, which was called by
the Student Center, a meeting that led to protests and shoves that caused the
railing to give way.
The commander of the Police, Jhonny Aguilera, confirmed that the number of
deceased students amounted to seven, four men and three women, and the ages
were between 19 and 27 years, and that a total of 11 people fell after the railing was
broken, one of them managed to fall to the third floor.
Regarding the investigation of the accident, Commander Aguilera pointed out "that
first the causes that motivated that meeting must be established," since this type of
assemblies is not allowed due to the pandemic.
Aguilera said that the videos provided by the university will be analyzed in which it
is seen how two women struggle and one of her falls and dies and indicated that in
the following hours the young woman who appears in the images who was rescued
by other students will be cited. "To listen and know what the versions have been" of
this event.
At the time of the accident, three students died from the impact and the other four
died in the hospitals to which they were transferred, where the injured remain with
a reserved prognosis.
In a statement, the Public University of El Alto regretted the "fortuitous accident"
and pointed out that the "fact is under investigation by the Bolivian Police", in
addition, the authorities of the educational center also "have instructed an internal
investigation."
From different sectors, it is questioned why more than 60 students were allowed to
crowd on a single floor, without the distancing and biosafety measures due to the
pandemic, and under what conditions the holding of said student assembly was
allowed.
In the building of the Business Administration career, the student assembly was
held in which financial issues were discussed with which there were some
disagreements that caused the students' claims and confrontations were presented.
In several videos that circulate on social networks, students are seen crowded
protesting in the corridors that lead to a room, where the assembly was held,
moments before one of the railings gave way and the eight young people fell from
the fourth floor.
Speaking to a local radio station, the UPEA administrator, Henry Huanca, pointed
out that there was an “assembly despite the fact that there is a resolution that
prohibits assemblies, but they allow this group of students to enter (...) there was
an assembly with clashes and between pushes they fell like seven companions ”.
The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, lamented the tragedy that occurred at the
Public University of El Alto and expressed his “heartfelt condolences to the people
of El Alto and the suffering families. We await the prompt clarification of the facts
”.
During the day, former presidents, different political and social leaders have also
expressed their solidarity with the families of the students and have demanded a
prompt investigation of this case.
Likewise, several candidates for the subnational elections next Sunday have
suspended their activities and campaign closings in "solidarity and respect" for the
lives that were lost at the Public University of El Alto (UPEA).

China and Russia's plan to build a space station on

the moon

China and Russia have announced plans to build a lunar space station.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos reported Tuesday signing an agreement with
the China National Space Administration to develop research facilities on the
Moon's surface, in orbit or both.
A statement from both countries' space agencies said it will also be made available
to other nations.
This comes as Russia prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its first manned
space flight.
Chen Lan, an analyst specializing in China's space program, told AFP news agency
that the project is a "big deal."
"It will be the biggest international space cooperation project for China, so it is
significant," he believes.
China is a relatively late entrant into the world of space exploration, but last
December its Chang'e-5 probe returned to Earth with material collected from the
Moon.
It was seen as a further demonstration of the country's growing space capabilities.
Russia, a pioneer in space exploration, has been overshadowed by China and the
United States in recent years.
Last year it lost its monopoly on carrying astronauts to the International Space
Station after the successful launch of SpaceX.
The United States has announced plans to return to the Moon in 2024.
The program, called Artemis, will have a man and a woman set foot on the lunar
surface in what would be the first human lunar landing since 1972.

Women's Day: riots at March 8 march leave at least

81 injured in Mexico City

The feminist march on the occasion of International Women's Day in Mexico City
on Monday left a balance of at least 81 women injured, mostly police officers,
according to data from the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) of the Mexican
capital.
Due to the altercations during the march, "62 policemen and 19 civilians were
injured, of which nine policemen and one civilian were taken to hospitals and their
medical report is stable", said the Undersecretary of Institutional Development of
the SSC, Marcela Figueroa, in an appearance before the press.
AS U.S.-CHINA POLICY SHIFTS, TOP OFFICIALS TO MEET IN ALASKA
President Biden is engineering a sharp shift in policy toward China, focused on
countering Beijing's coercive diplomacy and becoming more competitive in critical
technologies. The meeting is China's first opportunity to stand up to new U.S.
leadership.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in South Korea on Wednesday. Blinken
will meet with his Chinese counterpart in Anchorage on Thursday.
President Biden is engineering a sharp shift in policy toward China, focused on
rallying allies to counter Beijing's coercive diplomacy around the world and
ensuring that China does not gain a permanent advantage in critical technologies.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security
adviser, will test the new approach in what promises to be a tense first meeting
Thursday with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage. It's a meeting they delayed
until they could come up with the outlines of a common strategy with allies, notably
Japan, South Korea, India and Australia, and one they insisted had to take place on
U.S. soil.
At first glance, the Biden administration's policy shift appears to embrace much of
the Trump administration's conviction that the world's two largest powers are
veering dangerously toward confrontation, a clear change in tone from the Obama
years.
But the emerging strategy more directly repudiates the prevailing view of the past
quarter century that deep economic interdependence can be counted on to
moderate fundamental conflicts over issues such as China's military buildup, its
territorial ambitions and human rights.
It is focused again on competing more aggressively with Beijing on technologies
vital to long-term economic and military power, after concluding that President
Donald J. Trump's approach - a combination of costly tariffs, efforts to ban Huawei
and TikTok, and accusations about sending " China "to U.S. shores - had failed to
turn the tide for President Xi Jinping.
The result, as Mr. Sullivan put it during last year's campaign, is an approach that
"should put less emphasis on trying to slow China down and more emphasis on
trying to run faster ourselves" through greater government investment in research
and technologies such as semiconductors. Artificial intelligence and energy.
The meeting in Anchorage will also be a first demonstration of Beijing's
determination to stand up to the new administration and an opportunity for its
diplomats to deliver a litany of complaints about Washington's "perverse"
interference in China's affairs, as a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said. On
Wednesday.
The protest gathered around 20,000 people, according to the organization, and this
year was framed in a climate of growing tension between part of the feminist
movement and the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.