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San Mateo reviews options to increase housing

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San Mateo reviews options to increase housing
Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

The City of San Mateo provides three alternatives for land use that will aim to increase the number of homes in the county, and thus advance the General Plan 2040.

Alternatives A, B and C will be investigated by city staff to determine possible housing scenarios in 10 study areas in various neighborhoods, the council determined at its meeting Tuesday.

The council also discussed the San Mateo Regional Housing Needs Assignment (RHNA), which determines how many new homes the city must build to meet housing needs. 

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) assigns city housing numbers in eight-year cycles, which must be met through policies and programs. 

In that sense, San Mateo County is preparing to determine its sixth cycle, which runs from January 2023 to January 2031, where 7,081 homes will be determined.

The study areas have the potential to experience land use changes over the next 20 years, and include locations near transit sites or areas with old or vacant buildings. 

The other issue was about the three alternatives for land distribution and whether the city should adjust them. The land distribution alternatives look at what kind of land development will occur over the next 20 years in each study area that will change homes.

Amourence Lee, city councillor, was in favour of continuing with the current range of alternative scenarios, with the possibility of taking advantage of some components of the three options.

For his part, Councilman Joe Goethals, who originally wanted to place housing near train stations and transit corridors near El Camino Real instead of spreading it around the city, recommended that the city proceed with the range of three alternatives and does not believe that the city should open up the entire city for study areas. 

During the meeting, county residents requested the inclusion of other study areas in the General Plan and more housing units to help solve the shortage.

These are the 10 books you can't miss in 2021 (Part 1)

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These are the 10 books you can't miss in 2021 (Part 1)
Rober Diaz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

Lists are only useful to those who want to check that there is an up and a down, a left and a right; in real terms, lists are necessary to give a location to the readers, to establish differences and parallels between dissimilar things is not a modern invention, but all these generalizations - sooner or later - end up trivializing the object being analyzed because, outside the numbers that the lists leave, there remains the trail of impressions that varies according to the compiler where they are hidden.

Social networks, on the other hand, have given a new boost to everything that can be counted because it's easier to go to the list than someone suggests to look for yourself, although this would mean -ironically- going to other lists.

It is not uncommon for lists to flood the networks talking about the worst and the best, always segmenting and, at the same time, giving us a characteristic of our era: our generation is mediated by the numbersThe statistics and the short results.

The following list is anomalous and to say the least, arbitrary and he doesn't even talk about the 2021 booksIt's a list. with a few minor details and with opinions that only pay tribute to creating suspicions about the authors mentioned here.

1. The luminous novelby Mario Levrero. Random House.

I had not had the opportunity to read this novel in spite of its great fame and being considered one of the best of the 21st century.

It was published in 2005One year after the writer died and five years after he was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship -perhaps the only international recognition he received during his life- with which he made this Romance in which develops a diary where not much happensbut it's really all happening.

Levrero talks about his intimacy from a denaturalized sincerity that makes the reader believe that all the abnormality that constitutes his day-to-day life is, to say the least, normal.

You don't see that world where writers reflect moments full of great reflections and insightful diatribes. Here there's a man full of fears and insecurities who, in the good manner of a bard, is surviving little by little in a life that leaves him no great experiences nor great teachings, but which, on the other hand, is giving him entry into a world full of mystery and further experience almost dark and unnoticed from where Levrero manages to draw light.

The everyday talks about the most beautiful arts of the human being who not only lives, but, within the experience, intuits, discovers, within the simplest, the most beautiful. 

2. Hurricane seasonby Fernanda Melchior. Random House.

A literary event.

If some years ago Alvaro Enrigue's prose dazzled by his novel Sudden death and a few years earlier Xavier Velasco did it with his Guardian Devil, Melchior starts all over again.

The plot it's about a witch who may well be a transvestite - and who may not even be a witch - who is killed in the middle of a country that's falling apart.

The rawness of his story reminds us of the worst moments that Osvaldo Lamborginni achieves in his Tadeyswithout leaving out Daniel Sada, a teacher that Melchior neither rejects nor emulates, only puts him in the inkwell by remembering him, although with much appreciation, he owes him nothing; and that is Fernanda's literature is a renewal in Mexican literature because it may sound like various influences, and yet, when it is finished, it is known that what is narrated there - together with the way it is done - did not exist before.

It shows, as Borges once warned, that there are only two or three stories, the important thing is to say it differently. Fernanda Melchor has a unique form, her own voice, and she has raised an ampoule because she has not needed the big publicity apparatuses and, above all, from a nest of friends who had to pat him on the back and review him in their own way to succeed.

3. Our part at nightby Mariana Enriquez. Anagram.

The influence of this novel is already being felt in the corridors of the new generations of Latin American writers. Nothing more, nothing less, we are facing the rebirth of Terror literature -if it ever existed- from a perspective that we had not dimensioned before.

If Fernanda Melchor had shown the way where the new writers would parade, Enríquez achieves a novel that revolves around abnormal events.

A father and his son cross the Argentina of the dictator Videla. He's dying. and is guided by the visions he and his son have of spirits that come to them; a gift he has inherited from his offspring. He looks for a place to order it and the search places them in front of characters with the more than strange vicissitudes, loaded with mystery where secret societies and reinvented myths commune to advance something that we could no longer call Magic Realism but in another sense fantastic terror.

Enríquez has been talking about the myths of his Argentina, as well as explaining in relation to what and which mythologies it is that all these provincial narratives have fed their permanence in people's imaginary. Enríquez often gives interviews in pantheons, he has a disturbing personality. With this book he won the Herralde prize as best novel of 2019.

4. Empty housesby Brenda Navarro. Sixth Floor.

This novel has a sum of various pains and also floods the story it tells with its own uneasiness.

What do you stick to? The pain, and that's why, can be overwhelming and even intolerablebut, if you lost a child, how could you pass it on? It is precisely in this area, the expression of pain, suffocation and darkness, that he does not rest and, therefore, is revealing.

It does not shed its desire to exaggerate sensations nor does it give the reader any rest. The pain experienced inside that novel is equivalent to a kick in the shin. I insist that se requires nerves of steel to cope with the loss the character suffers because, as Fyodor Dostoyevsky would say: "The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the mourning, the closer God is..

Surely what Navarro lost was that God that Fyodor was talking about. 

5. Exhalationby Ted Chiang. Sixth floor.

Science Fiction has gone straight into a trunk where viewers they only look for it when they see the plots being made like moviesyet this place, many times, first comes the literature.

Ted Chiang is a computer engineer who, with only two books, has turned upside down the community that enjoys these kinds of stories, so acclaimed in the cinema, so despised in literature.

At ExhalationTed is not telling stories in future dystopias, but he is telling stories in future understands and examinesThe possibilities where our imagination could be stranded, in the spirit of a storyteller. He does not sentence and dictate, he constructs stories that lead the spectator to think and not biasedly but within the scope of the narrative that is the best place to convince without complicating the plots until they become impossible.

Chiang, was selected and discovered by filmmaker Dennis de Beneville to bring the story entitled The History of Your Life to the big screen with the name "Arrival" and soon became the most influential science fiction film of the decade according to list experts.

Power and control, constants in domestic violence

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Power and control, constants in domestic violence
Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

The quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to suffer from anxiety, depression, irritability and even violence, the latter of which, at the domestic level, has generated a large number of victims that, in some cases, have ended tragically.

What is domestic violence?

Domestic violence is the deliberate intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another, says the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCAV). 

Domestic violence can lead to physical injury, psychological trauma and, in severe cases, even death. The devastating physical, emotional and psychological consequences of domestic violence can span generations and last a lifetime.

However, says the nonprofit, the frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically; the only constant component of domestic violence is the constant efforts of one partner to maintain power and control over the other.

Because domestic violence has become another epidemic that plagues the U.S., it doesn't discriminate by age, economic status, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion or nationality, where, on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by their partner. 

This is equivalent to more than 10 million women and men in one year. While 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe physical violence from a partner, sexual violence from contact and/or harassment with impacts such as injury, fear, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc. 

Also, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence from a partner, this includes a variety of behaviors, for example, slapping, pushing, and in some cases, may not be considered "domestic violence.

It should be noted that on a typical day, more than 20,000 phone calls are made to domestic violence hotlines across the country, where the presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500 percent and women ages 18-24 are most commonly abused by their partner. 

In terms of rape cases, one in five women and one in 71 men in the United States have been raped in their lifetime. Almost half of women - 46.7% - and men - 44.9% - victims of rape were raped by someone they knew. 

On the other hand, a study of homicides among couples found that 20 percent of the victims were not the intimate partners themselves, but family members, as well as friends, neighbors, people who intervened, law enforcement officers or bystanders.

72 percent of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner, where 94 percent of the victims of these murders are women.

In terms of violence against children and domestic violence, one in 15 children is exposed to violence from their partner each year, and 90 percent of these children witness this violence. 

Economic, physical and mental impact of violence

Victims of intimate partner violence lose a total of eight million days of paid work each year, so the cost of intimate partner violence can be estimated at over $8 billion per year. 

Between 21% and 60% victims of intimate partner violence lose their jobs because of the abuse.

Between 2003 and 2008, 142 women were killed at their workplace by their abuser, 78 percent of the women killed in the workplace during this period.

Among the physical impacts of violence is that women abused by their intimate partners are more vulnerable to contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases due to forced intercourse or prolonged exposure to stress.

While among the impacts to mental health, studies suggest that there is a relationship between intimate partner violence, depression and suicidal behavior.

Physical, mental and sexual and reproductive health effects have also been linked to intimate partner violence, including teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, abortion, fetal death, intrauterine bleeding, nutritional deficiency, neurological disorders, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, among others.

Victims of domestic violence are also at greater risk of developing addictions to alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

Mental Health Care Needed for Children and Youth, Suicide Rate Rising in U.S.

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Mental Health Care Needed for Children and Youth, Suicide Rate Rising in U.S.
Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

Until 2019, suicide has become the second leading cause of death among children aged 10-19 in the United States, and the COVID-19 pandemic is not helping, so today, more than ever, it is necessary to ensure the mental health of this group, who daily face the ravages of a changing world.

In response, and in order to make it easier for people to spot the warning signs of possible suicide, one Anaheim family shared their story, where they narrate the loss of their 14-year-old son.

Californians Adriana and Rodney Moore never imagined that their 14-year-old son would take his own life. The young man was healthy, very social, active, loved animals and loved to play his saxophone, according to the NBC Bay Area.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything, isolation and distance learning led Rodney Moore Jr. to lower his grades. Slowly, he lost hope by not being able to return to the classroom this month.

"No other father should have to go through this," said Adriana, mother of Rodney Moore Jr. "He should never have to say goodbye to his children. You should go before your children.

"Every time we close our eyes, we see how we found him," he said.

Adriana recalled that her son constantly said, "I don't see the point. Nothing is going to get better."

For Rodney Jr.'s father, the things his son said made him think things were going in another direction, yet, he said, they never imagined that up to that point.

"Although the coronavirus didn't take my son's life directly, it took it indirectly, that's how I feel," said Mr. Rodney Moore.

The chief psychologist at Children's Hospital of Orange County told the media that she currently receives twice as many phone calls from families concerned about their children's mental health who have presented the same kind of warning signs.

For her part, psychologist Heather Huszti, from the same institution, highlighted signs that parents should pay special attention to, such as increasing irritability, stopping participating in activities they used to like, having problems concentrating, and even changes in eating and sleeping patterns.

The conversation should start before the signs move forward, because "sometimes when you ask children about friends, about others, it's an easier way to get into the subject," Huszti said.

Finally, Rodney's parents said they hope that sharing their story will help prevent another young man's death, and called on other parents not to hesitate to bring their children to a mental health expert at the first sign of danger.

New solar project increases Palo Alto's energy portfolio

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New solar project increases Palo Alto's energy portfolio

Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]

A new solar utility project will soon begin delivering clean, renewable energy to Palo Alto after it was announced that the Rosamond Central solar project in Kern County completed construction and went into commercial operation. 

The Palo Alto Public Utilities Department - CPAU - has contracted through a power purchase agreement with Clearway Energy Group, in partnership with East Bay Community Energy and Clean Power Alliance, to install panels that generate 192 megawatts (MW).

Thus, the Rosamond project will provide the CPAU with 26 MW of solar electricity from 2023.

Rosamond is the sixth large-scale solar project to be put into operation to provide renewable energy to Palo Alto, supplying 44 to 45 percent of the city's total electricity needs each year.

"The City of Palo Alto's Public Utilities department has been delivering 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity to our customers since 2013, and we are proud to do so while maintaining highly competitive rates compared to neighboring companies.

Dean Batchelor, director of public services.


He added that the new power purchase agreement enhances the city's ability to provide clean, renewable energy at an affordable price, "which supports our utility's mission and citywide climate action and sustainability goals.

According to CPAU, the city's electricity supply has been 100 percent carbon neutral since 2013 when it signed long-term contracts for clean energy resources, including solar, wind, hydro and landfill gas generation. 

Scheme breaker, glass ceiling breaker, Kamala Harris

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Scheme breaker, glass ceiling breaker, Kamala Harris

Opinion. Anna Lee Mraz Bartra. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]

The path carved out for an African-American woman and daughter of immigrants like Kamala Harris to be sworn in as vice president of the United States today was a path cemented by sweat, tears and blood; the product of a centuries-old, trans-generational struggle of thousands -millions- of women who, step by step, paved the way. 

"Neither the states of the United States nor the Federal government may deny any citizen the right to vote on account of his or her sex," says officially the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution that was achieved one hundred years ago, on August 26, 1920. 

On the road to equality, many women were arrested, booed, persecuted and judged by society. The movement, led by women, won the right to vote. 

However, it should be recalled that until 1965, black people, both women and men of low income, were denied this basic right on the basis of race.

While until recently it was said that women were not considered qualified to hold political office, today things seem to be changing. A lawyer, of Indian descent, a Baptist, married to a Jew, Harris makes clear not only her leadership and political skills that have propelled her to the position she is in today, but she is opening gaps for those who come after her. 

I have always thought that, not because she is a woman, a woman in a position of power will look after women's rights. The same goes for blackness, migration, poverty and other conditions of social disadvantage or vulnerability. Those who manage to get out of there and place themselves outside the structure from which they came can turn their backs on their fellow men and, worse still, close the door on them. There are plenty of examples of women who, in the past and present, have ridden the purple wave, the standard bearers of feminism, only to turn around at the first sign of change and leave their partners under the patriarchal yoke. 

However, Harris may recognize the struggle of women as their struggle as well:

"Much of the reason she wanted to be a prosecutor was to protect people like her [her best friend who had been abused by her own father] and change the system. In fact, a big part of my career has been to protect women and children. 

Kamala Harris

Harris is not only breaking new ground politically, but in the way he chose to lead his personal life as a second wife, without biological children and stepmother. Not having children, whether by choice or possibility, does not make you less of a woman and that is why she is another feminist baton today, because throughout history that role has been imposed on us women. 

That Kamala Harris has been sworn in today in front of the Capitol, a building that only last week was flooded with a wave of hate and white supremacists scared to death of losing the privileges they hold, is a victory. And the victories show that the struggle that has been going on for a hundred years is worthwhile. 

But this is no time to rest on our laurels, unfortunately the road that led Harris to the White House is still dirt road and not enough women are coming, not enough Black women, let alone Black women behind it. The fight is not over. 

"This doesn't reconcile our past, but it gives us hope for the future," said Catherine Flowers, a prominent Alabama environmental justice advocate, who confessed that her eyes filled with tears when Biden announced her campaign partner. "Black women have sustained the civil rights movement and the Democratic Party for decades, but we have rarely received any credit.

Catherine Flowers

It is a complex war, with uncertain horizons and unequal trenches in each country and in each area, which women have been fighting for centuries on at least three different fronts: power, identity and talent. 

All that remains is to continue to work and support women like Harris so that, as she said in her words:

"Even if I am the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," the vice president-elect said in her first address to the nation.  

Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris by Gage Skidmore

Biden came through: on his first day he presented a project to regularize 11 million undocumented immigrants

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Biden came through: on his first day he presented a project to regularize 11 million undocumented immigrants

Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]

After Joseph Biden was sworn in this morning as the 46th president of the United States, the new president kept his election promise where he promised that on the first day of his term he would introduce an immigration bill, which includes the possibility of some 11 million undocumented people obtaining legal residency.

After four years in which Donald Trump was very aggressive against immigrants, this Wednesday's announcement is a respite for thousands of people who for years have sought to remain in the country legally and without fear of being deported or having their families separated.

The details of the bill the Democrat sent to Congress on Wednesday are part of his commitment to "modernize" the immigration system towards the "U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. 

It should be noted that the initiative will have to be supported by the legislative chambers that are currently mostly made up of Democrats, which could speed up the process to make the law change a reality.

With the reform, about 11 million immigrants could get their "green card" as long as they meet certain requirements, including always having paid their taxes and not having a criminal record.

In addition to the beneficiaries are the "Dreamers", minors who arrived in the country as children of their parents, also undocumented, as well as those protected under the Temporary Protection Status (TPS), mostly Central Americans.

While immigrant farm workers will be able to apply for "immediate" legal residence, and three years later access citizenship. 

It is important to note that the bill states that the measure will only be for those immigrants who have been physically present in the United States on or before January 1, 2021. 

In addition, those who were deported during the Trump administration, beginning January 20, 2017, and who were physically present for at least three years before removal may apply for the same benefit for "family unity and other humanitarian purposes.

Family reunification will also be a guide in the bill, where importance will be given to LGBTQ+ family groups. 

The bill also includes a provision that prohibits "discrimination based on religion and limits presidential authority to issue future prohibitions" and increases diversity visas from 55,000 to 80,000. 

If passed, Biden's bill would become the largest immigration reform since the 1981-1989 administration of Ronald Reagan, who once legalized three million undocumented immigrants. 

Peninsula Clean Energy Goes All Out to Generate 100% Renewable Energy

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San Mateo's official electricity provider, Peninsula Clean Energy, recently agreed to purchase 245 megawatts of power from three California wind projects, actions that seek to advance the goal of becoming an emissions-free county by 2025.

Thus, the three contracts that Peninsula Clean Energy has signed, seek to provide reliable, fully renewable energy with a transitional approach that will allow a better and cleaner environment for the community.

"To reach our 100 percent renewable goal, we will need some significant contributions from wind energy," said Jan Pepper, executive director of Peninsula Clean Energy.

Among the plans signed, Shiloh, which will extend for seven years - 2030 - is an existing 150 MW wind project in Solano County with Avangrid Renewables, however, the current mandate reaches five years, ending in December 2023.

In the case of Voyager II, the project will run until 2028, with Shell Energy North America (USA), L.P., to generate half of the capacity and renewable energy generated by the existing ~ 130 MW wind project near Mojave.

The third project signed by the energy agency was Sky River, in which it is expected to renew power from an existing facility by replacing 157 existing turbines with 11 new ones for the Peninsula Clean Energy portion, to be completed in September of this year.

This will generate half of the expected 60MW over the next 20 years and will be provided by a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources near Bakersfield in Kern County.

These additional wind projects will complement solar generation, especially during the colder months and other seasons when solar energy is reduced.

"We are particularly pleased to have longer-term commitments in a highly competitive market for wind energy projects that will help us push the boundaries even further to provide our customers with clean, affordable energy," said Jan Pepper.

Matt Handel, senior vice president of NextEra Energy Resources, said he is pleased to be working with Peninsula Clean Energy to bring additional low-cost renewable energy to its customers and economic growth to California.

"Once construction of this upgrade is complete, our partners will enjoy an improved wind project that is more efficient and produces cost-effective energy," he added.

Presidency Biden, first 100 crucial days to win over the Latino community

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Presidency Biden, first 100 crucial days to win over the Latino community
Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

On January 20, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who was elected on the November 3, 2020 general election, opened a door for people in the Latino community. His challenge is to reconcile the American people. Achieving it within 100 days is an even greater challenge.

Joe Biden should focus on the promises made to the electorate that won him the election. These include the amendment to the 2nd amendment allowing access to weapons, the change of the US Court, police abuse, the right and recognition of LGBTTTIQ+ people - and other vulnerable minorities -, the payment of taxes by companies, international agreements on climate change are some of the goals the administration has to resolve in the coming years, but above all it has to resolve outstanding issues on migration.

And more recent issues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as foreign policy toward countries in dispute with Donald Trump, vaccination of the U.S. population, and restoration of the domestic economy to regain lost jobs; issues that end up affecting the Latino community.

The bipartisanship has caused the division of the United States and one of the first presidential actions expected with the arrival of Biden to the Oval Office of the White House, is to unite its population. "One country united" is the motto of the new administration that has the legacy of Donald Trump.

Biden's inauguration is overshadowed by the legacy of racism, xenophobia and hatred of the Latino community that has led to such unfortunate events in the history of the country that founded modern democracy as the far-right insurrection seen in the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill.

The first 100 days of President Biden's administration are complicated, as he will have to deal with a still tense electorate, also caused by Donald Trump, who was responsible, at all times, for delegitimizing the results and further exacerbating the bipartisan divide.

In the last days of his administration, we saw President Donald Trump overseeing the border fence who repeatedly stated that "Mexico would pay for it," which altered foreign relations with the southern neighbor. Biden will also have to supervise the construction of the border fence, given that it is a project that was initiated and implemented four years ago and that COVID-19 was unable to stop. One of Biden's powers that he would have once the presidential inauguration process is to stop and, at best, reverse the construction of the wall that divides Mexico from the United States.

The motto of the new administration, as we saw, will be carried out at home, not abroad; an important priority, no doubt. But it is also essential to control the issue of foreign relations with those countries with which Trump has found ways to discredit. To do this, Biden will have to show his people a good relationship between countries with trade agreements, including China and Mexico, the country of origin of millions of immigrants living in the United States.

One step in diplomacy can decrease the cases of racial violence in the country and reduce the xenophobic acts that intensified in the four years of Trumpism.

SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease -- and which Trump has referred to as "the Chinese virus" -- should not pose a major problem for the new administration with Joe Biden in office, as the vaccine and plan are already in place that calls for tens of thousands of doses per day, even less so with the strong message Biden offered a few days ago urging Americans to use the coverall; however, an economic downturn is coming around the world and the U.S. However, a worldwide economic recession is coming, and the US is no exception.

Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost due to the pandemic, many of them occupied by the migrant population of the Latino community.

If Joe Biden is interested in regaining confidence within the Latino community, he will have to continue with the discourse that the U.S. is an example of opportunity for all its inhabitants; both in the vaccination plan and in the country's economic recovery, he will have to be inclusive, mainly, with the essential workers who only the disease has stopped, and who have continued to be the pillar that has sustained the U.S. while restricting the mobility of most of the inhabitants.

Joe Biden's recognition of essential workers is an acknowledgement of the work of the Latino community, a recognition necessary to alleviate confrontations over xenophobia and racism.

On October 22, 2020, still Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared that he would send an immigration reform initiative to the U.S. Congress "that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship for those 11 million undocumented immigrants who contribute so much to the country. Manuel Ortiz points out that "similar words were expressed, at the time, by Barack Obama, but that the supposed immigration reform remained in promises".

Many international media, especially international media, have highlighted the decadent and inhumane facilities where hundreds of children are crowded together because of their immigration status. Many of them are the sons and daughters of undocumented parents who have been repatriated to their places of origin and who have divided entire families. This subhuman policy must be a priority and an example of change if Biden is to differentiate itself from the administration that preceded it.

Reunification-interior and exterior-is necessary to reverse the effects caused by Donald Trump; however, one hundred days are, at sight, insufficient this single goal if we add the diplomatic factor, the pandemic factor, the recovery of lost jobs for the Latino community and the application of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to essential workers, the Latino engine that saved the country on more than one occasion. One hundred days of the Biden administration to show that the Latino community is more visible than in any other crisis in modern U.S. history.

Twitter Reacts to Joe Biden's Investiture

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Cristian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

This morning, Joe Biden protested as the 46th president of the United States, preceded by the term of now ex-president Donald Trump, who lost the general election held on November 3 and consequently started an insurrection on the Capitol where Trump's supporters violently stormed into the polling station to ratify Biden's victory.

Before President Joe Biden's inauguration, the incoming president declared, "It's a new day in America.

US Vice President Kamala Harris was one of the first voices on Twitter to speak out on the issue, accompanied by a video that empowers generations of African descent, Latinos and others. "I'm here because of the women who came before me.

#BidenHarrisInauguration took the top spot in Twitter trends this morning to celebrate the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. However, other labels also quickly became a trend celebrating the departure of what media outlets such as CNN have called the "end of the era of domestic terrorism" with #ByeByeTrump, #TrumpsLastDay.

The Biden Inaugural Committee then tweeted: "@JoeBiden is the President of the United States".

Lady Gaga, the contemporary icon of Pop music, at her presentation of the National Anthem at the Capitol, said: "My intention is to acknowledge our past in order to heal our present; and passionate about a future where we work together with love. I will sing for the hearts of all the people who live on this earth. Respectfully and generously, Lady Gaga," she said.

Gavin Newsom, governor of the state of California, also joined the conversation, saying: "It is a hopeful and inspiring day in America. Our country is founded on our ideal of democracy and the peaceful transition of power. Today, history was made with President Joe Biden and California Vice President Kamala Harris. Now, let us come together to be the America we know we can be.

Other people on Twitter shared impressive images of how Kamala Harris is the first woman to take the position of vice president.

Jennifer Lopez, who also attended Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris' opening ceremony, tweeted: "What an honor it is to spend a few moments with these brave men and women. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. I will honor them today and every day. Tomorrow, I will sing for you and for all Americans.

Minutes after the inauguration event, President Joe Biden tweeted from the official US presidential account that had previously been in the hands of Donald Trump and which did not keep the tweets or followers he had accumulated:

Barack Obama, the first African-American president, congratulated Biden: "Congratulations to my friend, President @JoeBiden! It's your time."

Hillary Clinton, once a candidate for the U.S. presidency, spoke about the position of vice president now held by Kamala Harris: "I am delighted to think that what seems historic and surprising today - a woman who took over the vice presidency - will seem normal, obvious and evident to her granddaughters as they grow up. And they will be right.

Former President Bill Clinton said the ceremony "affirms our democracy and celebrates the best that America stands for.

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