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Taliban troops are gaining ground in Afghanistan, even threatening to take over three major cities. Their advance has accelerated since the US troop withdrawal and has highlighted a problem: the danger faced by people who have worked for foreign troops, such as translators. Zia Ghafoori, his pregnant wife and his three young children landed in the United States from Kabul in September 2014. She had five visas as a reward for her 14 years of service as an interpreter with the US Special Forces in Afghanistan. But the benefits ended there. Zia signed up to join the US military as a performer in 2002. It was her first full-time job of hers. She was 18 years old. She was also carrying out a promise made to her mother six years earlier when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. As an elementary school student then, Zia saw the end of a carefree childhood, an easy exchange between school, soccer, and games with his seven siblings. Zia recalled the lively neighborhood of him transformed under a strict Islamic regime: indiscriminate beatings of men and women, a strange tranquility as families hid inside their houses. His sisters couldn't go to school. His older brother, then 20, was beaten and jailed after he was heard speaking the dialect of the Panjshir Valley, then the center of resistance against the Taliban. The beating left his feet and legs so swollen that he couldn't put on his boots, Zia said. The injuries were so severe that he could not walk. Within days, his parents decided they couldn't stay. The family fled their home in Kabul and moved to Peshawar, Pakistan. "I told my mom, 'When I grow up, I will fight these people,'" he said, referring to the Taliban. He learned English at school in Peshawar. His family remained in Pakistan until 2001, when the US began its invasion. "When I came back, I saw that a stable government was starting," Zia said. "I said it was okay, now we have hope." He returned to live in Afghanistan, married, and began teaching English at a local school. Within months of his return, a friend told him that Americans needed interpreters. They went the next day, he said. They showed up at the Kabul base asking for a job. "They were just hiring people who spoke English. I didn't know military words. They told me 'no problem.' He "loved" the job, he says, despite months-long tours away from home and the acute threat of serving on the front lines. He omitted the pleas of his wife and his family to leave, saying that he was devoted to his "brothers" in the US military, who had given him the nickname "Booyah." "We were the eye and the tongue of the military," Zia said. For Zia, working with the Green Berets (the US Army's special operations unit), this meant almost constant proximity to death and violence. In April 2008, he accompanied US forces in the Battle of Shok Valley. The fire lasted six hours. Minutes later, his best friend, another interpreter, died. The battle generated the most Silver Stars, the second highest decoration for valor, of any battle since Vietnam. Zia received a Purple Heart for her injuries. When she arrived in the United States, shrapnel from the day of the battle was still on her body. He applied for US visas that year under a new visa program created by Congress in 2008: the Special Immigrant Visa, designed specifically for Afghans and Iraqis who worked alongside US troops in both conflicts. Zia's visa took six years to be approved. Zia, who is an affable and soft-spoken man, called the process "disgusting." The delays were inexplicable, he alleges. "I don't know why it took so long, we were already in the US database," he said. "I don't know who could explain to the State Department what these guys have done for both countries." "I couldn't bring anything" Zia received visa approval via email in the summer of 2014, while on duty in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province. He felt "strange," he says, intimidated by the prospect of leaving Afghanistan behind. "I couldn't bring anything he had built." The Taliban forced him. His family had started receiving "night letters", handwritten threats from extremists aimed at discouraging cooperation with US forces. Three months after his approval, Zia and his family boarded a commercial plane bound for Nashville, Tennessee, overwhelmed by several bags of clothing and a $ 6,500 bill for the flight. When they landed, they found no support or safety net. Zia was surprised by the unfamiliarity of the situation. "I couldn't find any Afghans there," he says. Zia took his family into a hired taxi and drove to Manassas, Virginia, where he had heard that many Afghans lived. They stayed in a hotel while he tried to get his bearings, reaching out to organizations aimed at helping holders of special immigrant visas. After a few weeks, a volunteer called again and said that they had found his family a place to live and begin their lives. "He took me to a homeless shelter," Zia said. "I looked around and said 'this is not a place for my children to grow up.' They had nowhere to go, and Zia felt once again abandoned by the country he had promised to take care of. His children, too young to fully understand, were scared and confused. Every day they asked his father about the family and friends they had left behind and when they were going to return home. "This is your house" Desperate, Zia called his former captain and told her where he was. "He was so upset," Zia said. Days later, his captain arrived in Virginia and took him and his family back to his home in North Carolina. "He told Me, 'This is your house,'" Zia said. "As long as you want to live here, you can." "I'll never ever forget that." Zia was eventually able to move her family into an apartment of her own in Charlotte, where she worked in construction and later at a convenience store. North Carolina was not like the places she had heard from fellow Americans of hers, like New York, Washington, or Las Vegas. But she enjoyed the simple security of her new lives: the safe travel of her children to and from school and the freedom of her wife to go out and work. Her four children quickly became fluent in English and now the former interpreter is mocked for his language mistakes. Last year, Zia, his wife, and his three oldest children were sworn in as US citizens. His youngest son, six years old, was born in the United States and speaks with a slight southern accent. About two years ago the family moved into a modest log house on a quiet cul-de-sac. A large American flag hangs from a pole outside. "Nothing has changed" But Zia's view from Charlotte is clouded by the people left behind. In 2019, he launched the Interpreting Freedom Foundation, a charity aimed at helping interpreters with the visa process and resettlement in the US. She now she receives late-night calls from former interpreters and their families, desperate for a way out. Most are trapped in a complex bureaucratic process, bankrupt by a backlog of years. Complicating matters further: US evacuations are taking place outside of Kabul only, meaning Afghans living outside the capital will have to face a potentially fatal journey through Taliban-controlled territory. , rapidly expanding. Since the U.S. announced its withdrawal in April, the number of Taliban-controlled districts has tripled from 72 to 221, according to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, a Washington-based nonprofit. Maps showing how the Taliban have regained half of Afghanistan The US government has said that the Afghan government may collapse next year. Some of the provinces most at risk of falling into the hands of the Taliban, such as Kandahar and Helmand, were home to thousands of American soldiers and their local interpreters, who now face threats of capture or execution. The interpreters are in "mortal danger," said retired Col. Mike Jason. "This is not a mystery. They have been murdering our interpreters for more than a decade." Evidence of prior employment with the US military or documents required for a visa application amount to a "confession" in the eyes of the Taliban. "We are at a point where I don't know how they can get out," he said. The State Department has promised to speed up the process, whenever possible. But the lighthearted response has infuriated veterans and performers alike. "It is no surprise that we are leaving ... this is not something that was suddenly imposed on us," said Joe Kassabian, author and veteran of the US military in Afghanistan. "We should have planned ahead, and now we are acting like we have to do an emergency evacuation." For Zia, the US withdrawal reads like abandonment. It has been hard for him to see Afghanistan revert to the country it was when he first fled as a child. "The Taliban keep killing innocent people," he says. "Nothing has changed". What's more, he has struggled to understand how the Americans have sent their soldiers home, leaving their allies behind. He loves his adopted country, he says, but believes his politicians have betrayed him and others they served. "They are trying to wash their hands of us," he said.- Chelsea Bailey contributed research. Line Now you can receive notifications from BBC Mundo. 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Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah has made history by taking gold in the women's 100-meter dash. Fleeting, light, practically dominating from the start, Thompson-Herah also became the second fastest woman in history after completing the race in just 10.61 seconds. Only the American Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster with the world record of 10.49 of her achieved in Indianapolis, United States, in 1988. Griffith-Joyner was, until today, the Olympic record holder, with a time of 10.62. Thompson-Herah's 10.61 serves to break that record and revalidate the champion title that she won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She then completed the race in 10.71 seconds. The dominance of Jamaica Thompson Herah, 29, told reporters after her race that she felt "good and excited" after repeating her Olympic title in the 100-meter dash. She also had words for her fellow Jamaicans who completed the podium. "I am very happy for all three. It shows that in speed we continue to dominate in Jamaica." She now sets her sights even further and she hopes she can, one day, also reach the Griffith-Joyner world record. "I think I could have run faster if I hadn't started celebrating," she joked with reporters. The women of Jamaica have dominated the fastest test in athletics in the last four Olympics. Of the 12 medals up for grabs in Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo, only two silver slipped away. The men's 100m semi-finals and finals will be run on Sunday. Jamaica lights up the Games Chronicle of Tamara Gil, special envoy to Tokyo Shortly before 10 o'clock at night, the immense Olympic stadium in Tokyo turned off all its lights. Suddenly, a great spotlight illuminated a part of the track, pointing directly to the protagonists of the night: the athletes of the 100 meter sprint. A luxurious presentation for which it ended up becoming one of the most vibrant moments of these Olympic Games to date: the historic triumph of Elain Thompson-Herah and the battle with two of her compatriots. As Thompson-Herah threw herself to the ground almost in disbelief (shortly after, in the mixed zone, she would almost tearfully say that only a month ago she didn't think she could be here), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce showed a disappointed face: Fraser-Pryce's goal was to become the first woman with three golds in the Olympic 100m (she had won the event in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, as well as bronze in Rio 2016), but she took silver. Shericka Jackson completed the Jamaican podium and from there everything was flooded with the three colors of her flag. Thompson-Herah was asked what Usain Bolt would say. He put his hand on his chest, looked up at the sky and exclaimed, "All in all, girl!" In networks, the athletics legend had already spoken about the performance of his compatriots: "Total sweep." https://www.bbc.com/mundo/deportes-58040973

The formation of the new government of Peru started this Thursday with its share of controversy. On his first day as president, Pedro Castillo surprised with the appointment of Guido Bellido as prime minister and generated an intense debate about the direction that his government will take. The Purple Party, of which former President Francisco Sagasti is a member, demanded this Thursday that the Peruvian Congress "not give confidence to the cabinet" that Bellido will lead, a legislator belonging to the most radical wing of the Marxist-leaning Peru Libre party. "The Purple Party rejects the appointment of Mr. Guido Bellido as president of the Council of Ministers. The government team of President Pedro Castillo cannot be led by a person who does not believe in democracy, human rights and the fight against corruption and terrorism, "the liberal-leaning party said in a statement. Castillo introduced Bellido as head of the ministerial cabinet after participating in a symbolic act in the Pampa de La Quinua, near the city of Ayacucho, where in 1824 the battle that ended Spanish colonial rule in South America was fought. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-58022128

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This July 28 a new president takes office in Peru as the country celebrates 200 years of its independence. The Andean country is the last former Spanish colony in South America to celebrate its bicentennial. The other eight South American countries that emancipated themselves from the Spanish crown celebrated their bicentennials long before. Bolivia and Ecuador commemorated it in 2009. Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia and Chile, in 2010. And Paraguay and Uruguay, in 2011. It would be logical to conclude that the lag is due to Peru becoming independent a decade later than the other countries in the region, but it was not. In fact, the place that was the center of Spanish power in South America was not even the last territory in this region to form an independent state. How, then, do you explain that you are celebrating your bicentennial so long after your neighbors? And which was really the last South American country to achieve its independence? "First Libertarian Cry" The answer to the first question is that, while Peru is commemorating 200 years since General José de San Martín proclaimed independence, many of its South American neighbors chose to commemorate the bicentennial not of their emancipation, but of the beginning of the revolutions that they would eventually lead them to be free nations years later. This explains why Bolivia was the first country in the region to celebrate its bicentennial, on May 25, 2009, even though it will celebrate 200 years of independence on August 6, 2025. What then-President Evo Morales commemorated was the bicentennial of the so-called Chuquisaca Revolution, which is considered by many to be the "First Libertarian Cry of America" (although some maintain that it was actually in La Paz or Quito where the independence start was marked ). The Chuquisaca Revolution was a po[CENSORED]r uprising that occurred on May 25, 1809 in the city that is now Sucre and which in colonial times was part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. The Creoles removed the governor and formed a Governing Board, which was suppressed in 1810. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-57920378