Holguin International Airport “Frank País” has published through its official channels an important notice for Cuban and international travelers who use its terminal or who need last-minute information about a specific flight that operates through its facilities.

“We inform you that due to the replacement of the switchboard to modernize services, the number that will be available for international information will be 24 474630 for the next 72 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause,” they said on their social media.

As for the customs authorities of this terminal, they inform that the customs authorities inform the population by phone at 24481801 (at the department of legal affairs and for the population). It also has another channel of exchange to clarify doubts, through which

E-mail: [email protected].

This month, she also learned that Panamanian airline Copa Airlines is not scheduled to resume services to Holguín, at least for the rest of the year. Faced with several questions from users, the terminal itself indicated that “nothing is planned for the rest of the current year”.

MORE DETAILS ON FLIGHTS AT HOLGUÍN AIRPORT

Copa Airlines has several frequencies to Cuba, especially to Havana, with several daily connections, and others to Santa Clara Airport in the center of the island, with two frequencies per week. The company has ticket sales offices in these two provinces and also in Holguín, but in the latter it has not reactivated flights. It’s something travelers from this eastern province have been asking for.

At the beginning of September, they also stated from this airport in Holguin: “The airport has opening hours from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., but due to biosecurity protocol measures due to the pandemic, access to the terminal is at start time. of check-in and only reserved passengers”.

However, Holguín Airport is very active during those months of the year when international tourism tends to increase. For example, they have charter flights from Tampa and Miami several times a week. Air Century flights to Nicaragua with stopover in the Dominican Republic. Connections from Germany, Italy, Canada and Mexico.

For the first time, scientists have estimated how many ants live on the Earth’s surface based on 465 previous studies. The estimated total number of 20 quadrillion is about 2.5 million times greater than the number of humans – and is associated with several uncertainties, according to the research team in their study in the specialized journal “PNAS” a fluctuation range of more or less than 5 quadrillion ants. However, the actual number could be even higher as there are no valid estimates available for ants that live underground. For other habitats, the team led by researchers from the University of Hong Kong evaluated the available regional censuses and extrapolated them according to the total area of ​​the different habitat types.

More biomass than wild birds and mammals combined

So far, there have only been much rougher estimates, which have been extrapolated to Earth’s global land mass based on small investigations of areas in England, for example, says zoologist Patrick Schultheiss, who has since moved from the Asian metropolis to the University . from Würzburg. This estimate resulted in a number of a few quadrillion ants – which is at least similar to the current result in terms of magnitude. “We had no idea what the number could be – everything was surprising,” he says. The estimated biomass of ants is greater than that of wild birds and mammals combined and amounts to about 20% of the biomass of all humans.

“Our first concern was to find out if the density of ants is the same in different regions”, explains Schultheiss, explaining the team’s motivation – this allows drawing conclusions about the importance and integration of insects in different ecosystems. About 60% of ants that live above ground live in tropical forests; the number of ants per area is higher there than on the steppes, for example, but lower in parkland landscapes. It was already known that the number of ant species in the tropics is higher, says Schultheiss.

Still large gaps in knowledge

It is also important that with the review the team has determined for which regions of the world there are studies on the ant populations that occur in each case. There are many surveys for southern Africa, but not for the northernmost regions of the continent. In total, the team was able to draw on around 1,300 local censuses around the world. “We hope the study will encourage people to collect data,” says Schultheiss. Datasets on regional occurrences are extremely important and allow conclusions to be drawn about what ants can do.

“Filling in the remaining knowledge gaps is of utmost importance to obtain a comprehensive picture of insect diversity – and a global understanding of the world’s patterns of biodiversity and their drivers,” the team writes in their paper. “As a global community, we must focus our efforts on the regions, habitats and regional communities we know the least about – while we still can.”

the coffee farmer Vicentina Phocco Palero decided to grow coffee on a small piece of land in Alto Inambari, Puno. She found the solution to her financial situation as her husband worked in a mine and household expenses were increasing every day. For this reason, the Peruvian woman had no choice but to grow this product, but she never imagined that it would find international recognition.

In addition, the woman received the support of the UN, which allowed her to continue her project, since she did not have the necessary resources. She was even awarded the 2021 Midagri Medal for her contribution as an agricultural woman. Next, we’ll tell you how he started his coffee business.

Who is Vicentina Phocco Palero?

Born in downtown Aricato, Puno, Vicentina Phocco grew up in a low-income family, but her passion for coffee grew from a young age as her parents also devoted themselves to farming. She learned farming at the age of seven and began helping out on the family farm.

Years later she married Pablo Mamani, who worked a few days a week in a mine, but both realized that the income was insufficient to support their economic expenses. In 2004, Vicentina’s father-in-law gave them a small farm in Alto Inambari District, Sandia Province, Puno.

“My father-in-law gave us a small piece of land to grow our first coffee beans. My husband didn’t like working on the farm, but little by little he got used to it and we started growing coffee with the support of the United Nations. The following year we increased another hectare of land for our harvest,” he told Andina. Also, Vicentina remembered the hard work of planting this crop because they had to get up at 3am to reach their land. “It’s difficult to grow coffee, buy it, wash it, we don’t have time,” he added.

Vicentina Phocco started growing coffee at a young age. Photo: Juan Mercado Vega

International recognition for Vicentina Phocco

Vicentina Phocco’s project was on the brink of being canceled when her two eldest children died in a traffic accident on the Inambari highway. Sadness gripped her and she wanted nothing more to do with her harvest, but the coffee farmers at the Túpac Amaru Cooperative motivated her to continue harvesting.

In 2018, Phocco coffee received the World Award for Best Quality Coffee in the Small Producers category at the Global Specialty Coffee EXPO Seattle 2018 in the United States.

Vicentina Phocco started growing coffee on a small farm with her husband Pablo Mamani. Photo: Dayana Galvez Benites

Three years later, the entrepreneur received the Midagri Medal 2021, in addition to the recognition for her contribution to the competitiveness of peasant families in agriculture, awarded by then Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti.

The coffee and the efforts of Vicentina Phocco were made possible thanks to the work and support of the National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (Devida), the Municipality of Alto Inambari and the Central de Cooperativas Agrarias Cafetaleras de los Valles de Sandia (Cecovasa ), where there are the could channel sales of its product.

Vicentina Phocco received a Midagri Medal from Francisco Sagasti. Photo: Andina/Twitter

Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney has introduced her own version of Electoral Count Act reform legislation, which she says would prevent future attempts by former President Trump or others to try to “steal” a presidential election “.

The legislation, which follows a separate effort in the Senate, comes after experts found ambiguity in the 1887 law that sets out the procedures for certifying and counting electoral votes for the president.

Trump leaned into imprecise language in his repeated demands of former Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to accept votes counted and certified by states.

The coup effort was mentioned in Trump’s second impeachment as well as investigations by the House of Representatives’ January 6th Committee. There is an investigation by the Justice Department into the “fake” voting system.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., introduced legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which governs how Congress handles the Electoral College’s voting in presidential elections

“Our proposal seeks to uphold the rule of law for any future presidential election by ensuring that self-interested politicians cannot steal guarantees from the people that our government derives its power from the consent of the governed,” wrote Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D- Calif.), who serves with her on the Jan. 6 panel and was House impeachment manager.

Lawmakers cite former President Trump’s “deliberately false allegations of voter fraud” as well as the primary victories at the national, state and local levels of candidates who “also embrace these lies and other baseless conspiracy theories.”

“This raises the prospect of another attempt to steal a presidential election, perhaps with another attempt to corrupt Congress’ electoral process,” they write.

Legislation appears to be in the fast lane. The house rules committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, with a house vote scheduled for Wednesday.

The bill affirms that the vice president has “no authority or discretion to reject official state electoral lists, delay the count in any material manner, or make procedural decisions having such effect,” the two lawmakers write in a Wall Street Journal op -ed.

The bill references the 12th Amendment, which states: “The President of the Senate [the vice president] all documents will be opened in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives and then the votes will be counted. The person who has the most votes for President is President if that number is a majority of the total number of electors appointed.’

The bill is on a fast track, with a House vote expected this week

Ceremonial: The bill clarifies the “ceremonial” role of the vice president, who presides over the Senate and a joint vote-counting session

Cheney Cites “Prospect of Another Attempt to Steal a Presidential Election”

The bill states: “On January 6, 2021, a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the United States Capitol to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes, the Joseph R. Biden as the 46th appointed President of the United States’

Former President Trump attempted to overturn the election and “knew that this scheme would violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral Count Act of 1887,” write Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.)

The bill also states that a candidate must have “a good faith basis for the allegations of fact or law made.” Cheney writes that Trump continues to make “willfully false allegations of voter fraud.” His allies, including Rudy Giuliani and attorney Disney Powell, filed numerous election lawsuits that were dismissed out of court

The bill highlights the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol aimed at “preventing other future unlawful attempts to overthrow presidential elections and ensuring future peaceful transfers of presidential power.

The bill provides for the “limited deadline extension” for voter submissions – amid efforts by Trump allies to get Pence to send voters back to states beyond the Jan. 6 legal deadline for more despite dozens of previous defeats in court to have time for challenges .

The Role of the Vice President in the 12th Amendment

“The President of the Senate [the vice president] all documents will be opened in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives and then the votes will be counted. The person who has the most votes for President is President if that number is a majority of the total number of electors appointed.’

– 12th Amendment

The exceptions would be for a “catastrophic event” in the state that “prevented a substantial portion of the state’s electorate from casting a vote on such a day or resulted in the destruction of a substantial portion of the ballots already cast.” .

The numbers involved must be “sufficient to potentially affect that candidate’s ability to win the election in respect of one or more presidential electors.”

It’s also building in some financial incentives after a series of efforts to try to stall or void votes in states that have backed Joe Biden.

“If a court finds that someone filing a motion to delay proceedings did not have ‘a good faith basis for the allegations of fact or law made in the lawsuit,’ they could be awarded triple attorneys’ fees in the lawsuit .” according to the bill.

It would also require states to conduct elections under current rules before Election Day.

A Senate committee is scheduled to vote on its version of the bill on September 27.

Cheney lost her elementary school this summer and was relieved of her post as chair of the GOP conference after leading efforts to impeach Trump after the Capitol riot.