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The author of the shooting that shook the United States on Tuesday, Salvador Ramos, bought two assault rifles on his 18th birthday.
Before heading to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and opening fire with a pistol and rifle, the young man had shot his grandmother.
The attack has left at least 21 dead, including 19 students, a teacher and the author of the massacre himself, who was shot dead by the police.
Late in the afternoon, after returning from his trip to Asia, President Joe Biden gave a speech to the nation in which, visibly moved, he condemned the massacre and spoke of his weariness with the inaction of Congress in the face of these repeating massacres: “When are we going to confront the
lobby
of weapons?” he asked himself.
So far this year, there have been more than 200 mass shootings in the US Until the one in Uvalde, the deadliest had been in Buffalo, where on May 14 a young white supremacist murdered 10 African Americans in a supermarket.
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Faithful of the church of San Antonio pray after the attack.
On video, statements by US President Joe Biden about the massacre. Photo: Reuters/Nuri Vallbona |
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Uziyah Garcia, one of the victims of the massacre
An image from last March of Uziyah Garcia, 8, one of the victims of the massacre at the Uvalde school in Texas.
The photo has been released by her grandfather, Manny Renfro, and collected by the AP agency.
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The UN regrets the "appalling" attack
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, lamented this Wednesday the "atrocious" armed attack perpetrated against a primary school in Uvalde, in the state of Texas.
“The Secretary General is deeply shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde.
It is particularly disheartening that the majority of the victims are children," said Guterres' spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.
"The Secretary General [of the UN] extends his heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and to the entire community," according to a brief statement published by the agency through its website.
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Sandy Hook, Parkland, Uvalde... : the sinister cadence of mass murders in schools
Although the installation of metal detectors and the adoption of other security measures such as video cameras or the search of backpacks have contributed to the decrease in the number of shootings in educational centers, the massacre that Salvador Ramos perpetrated this Tuesday in an institute Uvalde (Texas), which has left at least 19 children and two adults dead, bears the signature of a tragedy foretold.
Mass shootings have become a sinister cadence in schools, institutes and universities in the United States. Only in the month of last September two were registered, also in the State of Texas, after the total or partial closure of the centers by the pandemic temporarily stopped the bleeding.
On the last day of November, the trend resumed with a deadly attack in Oxford, Michigan,
when a 15-year-old student killed four classmates in high school.
The boy used a weapon that had been legally purchased by his father, and the authorities announced that from then on the parents or guardians would be charged and tried for the criminal actions of the minors in their care.
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Maria Antonia Sanchez-Vallejo
In the image, by
Jim Watson
for AFP, members of the March for Our Lives group, survivors of the Parkland shooting, in March 2018 at a march in Washington.
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Uvalde, a small community near the border with Mexico
Uvalde is a small and quiet community of 16,000 people in the center of the State of Texas, a few kilometers from the border with Mexico.
Robb Elementary School is located on a large piece of land in the middle of a neighborhood of single storey lower middle class houses.
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Gun control, a recurring (and frustrating) debate after every shooting in the US
Mass shootings are such a part of American life that they even have their own rules.
For it to count in the statistics, an event of these characteristics must cause the death of at least four people, not counting the shooter, and that these are not members of the same family.
So far this year, there have been about 200 mass shootings in the country.
Until this Tuesday, the most serious of 2022 had been that of Saturday, May 14 in Buffalo, when an 18-year-old white supremacist named Payton Gendron shot 13 people in a popular supermarket in the eastern city of the State of New York.
He killed 10 people, all African Americans.
That record has taken 10 days to break in the Texas town of Uvalde, where Salvador Ramos, also 18, has murdered at least 19 children, elementary school students, and two adults in a school.
Unlike Gendron, the shooter is dead, authorities have said.
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Iker Seisdedos
In the image, by
Chip Somodevilla
for AFP, a protest in March 2018 in front of the Capitol to demand greater gun control in the United States.
They placed 7,000 pairs of shoes to represent the number of children killed in mass school shootings since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.
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The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas, in pictures
The attack has left at least 21 victims, most of them children and also a teacher.
The shooter, who also died, was an 18-year-old who entered the school with a pistol and rifle.
In this image, by
Marco Bello
for Reuters, a woman cries outside the Sergeant Willie de Leon Civic Center.
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Biden: “When are we going to take on
the gun
lobby ?”
"When I became president, I hoped I wouldn't have to go through this again."
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, expressed his pain and regret this Tuesday afternoon for the attack on the Robb elementary school, in Uvalde, a town of 16,000 inhabitants of the State of Texas.
An 18-year-old has killed 21 people there, including 19 children and a teacher at the center, according to Texas State Police.
Biden has used his condolences to also send a clear message in favor of greater controls on the sale and use of firearms, pointing to industry lobbyists as responsible for preventing stronger regulation.
“Weapons manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons, which are the ones that bring them the most profit,” he said, adding: “For God's sake, when are we going to confront the gun lobby? ?”.
Biden has recalled other similar massacres that he has experienced in the past and has pointed out that 10 years have passed since he went to a school in Newtown (Connecticut) for a similar massacre, when he was vice president of the United States and 20 children were murdered in the school Sandy Hook Elementary.
By
Miguel Jimenez
In the image, by
Manuel Balce Ceneta
for AP, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, on Tuesday, upon his arrival at the White House after his trip to Asia.
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What do we know about the Uvalde massacre?
- The fatalities of the massacre are at least 21, including 19 children, students of the Robb elementary school in Uvalde, a municipality of about 16,000 inhabitants in southern Texas, about 130 kilometers from San Antonio.
- The author of the attack, perpetrated in the morning, has been identified as Salvador Ramos.
He was killed by the agents who intervened in the school.
He was 18 years old and, according to information provided by Democratic Senator Roland Gutiérrez and the State Police, bought two assault rifles on his birthday.
Before breaking into the school he shot his grandmother, who hours later was still in critical condition.
- Agents from the local police, the Texas Border Patrol and federal agencies such as the FBI intervened.
A senior official from the Department of Homeland Security has reported that the uniformed men stood between the attacker and the children to protect them.
- The president of the United States, Joe Biden, expressed his rejection, pain and weariness in a message to the nation.
“I am disgusted and fed up.
It is time to act”, emphasized the president, who also raised the underlying conflict that, in his opinion, is behind the unbridled episodes of violence in the country.
For God's sake, when are we going to take on the gun lobby?
- So far this year, there have been more than 200 mass shootings in the country.
Until the one in Uvalde, the deadliest had been the one in Buffalo, where on Saturday, May 14, a young white supremacist murdered 10 African-Americans in a supermarket.
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Between the attacker and the children to "save lives"
A senior official from the Department of Homeland Security, Marsha Espinosa, offered some details on Tuesday night about the attack on the Uvalde elementary school and the response of the security forces.
She has explained through her social networks that Border Patrol agents intervened after receiving the alert and that once they entered the school they were shot at by the attacker, identified as Salvador Ramos, who was behind a barricade .
These agents stood between the young man and the children to protect them and "save lives."
"At least one Border Patrol agent was injured during the shooting."
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"Enough! When are we going to do something?"
"Enough! When are we going to do something?"
Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State Warriors, explodes in this video released after the Uvalde massacre.
The San Francisco team was in Texas to face the Dallas Mavericks in a decisive game for the pass to the NBA finals.
The recording is an example of the tiredness of American society in the face of violence, embodied in a multitude of messages from public figures, starting with President Joe Biden.
That is, "we have to act."
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Prosecutor Garland calls to "end this senseless violence"
US Attorney General Merrick Garland has called the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde "unspeakable."
After recalling that the first response to the attack has corresponded, together with the local police, to the FBI agents and to the personnel of the Agency of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives (ATF, for its acronym in English), he has assured that "The Department of Justice is committed to offering all support" to enforce the law in Texas and in Uvalde.
"We join our fellow Americans in mourning this terrible loss and in their determination to end this senseless violence," he said.
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Biden calls for tougher gun regulations
Joe Biden has called in his speech for tougher regulations on gun ownership, a stance that has been blocked time and time again by Republican lawmakers.
"We know they work and that they have a positive impact," he said.
“Why do we let this continue to happen?
The idea that an 18 year old can walk into a store and buy two assault rifles is just plain wrong.
Why in God's name would he need assault rifles, if not to kill someone?
In addition, the president has assured that a majority of citizens support what he has called "common sense weapons regulations."
Biden was Barack Obama's vice president when the massacre in Aurora, Colorado, took place in 2012, and he was personally in charge of managing the crisis.
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Biden: "I'm disgusted and fed up, it's time to act"
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has offered a speech to the nation after half past eight in the afternoon, Eastern time, to condemn the massacre at the Uvalde elementary school and to support the families of the victims of the attack, which has left at least 20 dead, mostly children.
"Losing a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped out," said the president, who in the afternoon communicated with the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, to coordinate the operation after the attack.
"I am disgusted and fed up, it is time to act, and do not tell me that we cannot have an impact on politics after these killings," he emphasized.
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La policía de Uvalde: "Disparaba a todo aquel que estuviera en frente"
Un oficial de policía de Uvalde explica a los medios cómo se desarrollaron los acontecimientos. Primero, el asesino tuvo un altercado doméstico con su abuela y la disparó. En ese momento, las fuerzas de seguridad recibieron una llamada alertando de la presencia de un hombre con un arma. Sin embargo, el asesino entró a la escuela antes de que la policía pudiera intervenir y empezó a disparar "a toda persona que estuviera en frente suya". Nuestro compañero Luis Pablo Beauregard está en el lugar de la tragedia.
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El atacante compró dos rifles de asalto el día en que cumplió 18 años
Salvador Ramos, el joven identificado por la policía como autor de la matanza de la escuela primaria Robb de Uvalde, Texas, compró dos rifles de asalto el día de su 18 cumpleaños. Así lo ha relatado el senador Roland Gutiérrez a la cadena CNN. El atacante, nacido en Dakota del Norte, disparó a su abuela antes de irrumpir en el centro escolar dejando una veintena de muertos, en su mayoría niños.
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El líder republicano en el Senado se declara "horrorizado"
Mitch McConnell, líder republicano en el Senado, se ha declarado "horrorizado" y con "el corazón roto" por la matanza, que ha tachado de "asquerosa". "El país entero está rezando por los niños, las familias, los profesores y los elementos de emergencia en el lugar", ha escrito en Twitter. McConnell se ha opuesto constantemente a los intentos demócratas en el Congreso por endurecer los requisitos para la compra de armas y no ha dado indicaciones de que la matanza en Uvalde haya cambiado su opinión.
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Meta elimina la presunta cuenta de Instagram del atacante
Meta (Facebook) ha eliminado una cuenta de Instagram atribuida al atacante, Salvador Ramos, un joven de 18 años que estudiaba en un instituto de Uvalde. La compañía, que no ha confirmado si la cuenta estaba realmente relacionada con Ramos, se mantieen en contacto con la policía de la localidad. Los responsables del cuerpo de seguridad han ofrecido a las 18.30, hora local, una segunda conferencia de prensa en la que han anunciado que la escuela primaria Robb, escenario de la matanza, permanecerá cerrada hasta el jueves y ofrecerán más detalles en cuanto avance la investigación.
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Kamala Harris reacciona a la matanza: “Basta ya”
La vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos, Kamala Harris, ha afirmado este martes que los dirigentes del país deben de tener el coraje de actuar para poner fin a los tiroteos, tras la muerte de catorce niños y un profesor en una escuela de Texas. "Basta ya. Como nación, debemos tener el coraje de actuar y comprender el nexo de lo que constituye una política pública razonable y sensata", ha declarado en una intervención en la gala anual del Instituto Estadounidense del Pacífico Asiático para Estudios del Congreso. Visiblemente afectada, Harris ha apuntado que cada vez que pasa una tragedia como esta es descorazonador, pero, ha subrayado, esto no es nada comparado con el trance que pasan las familias de las víctimas. "Y, aun así, continúa ocurriendo", ha lamentado. EFE
24 May 2022 - 23:48 UTC
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El balance de las víctimas de la matanza de Uvalde sube a una veintena de muertos, en su mayoría niños
Sube el balance de las víctimas mortales de la matanza de Uvalde. Los Texas Rangers han informado de que el ataque a la escuela primaria ha dejado 18 niños y al menos dos adultos muertos. El atacante, de 18 años, también ha sido abatido por la policía, según ha asegurado el gobernador del estado, Greg Abbott. De acuerdo con la reconstrucción de los agentes, antes de irrumpir en la escuela primaria de Robb disparó a su abuela.
24 May 2022 - 23:41 UTC
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La líder demócrata Nancy Pelosi llama a aprobar nuevos límites a la posesión de armas
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has criticized the "empty words" of those who condemn the killings but oppose new gun regulations, referring to Republican politicians.
"It is time for everyone in Congress to listen to the will of the American people and come together to pass life-saving legislation, already passed in the House on a bipartisan basis," she said in a statement.
The legal changes, which propose tightening controls on gun buyers, are stalled in the Senate due to opposition from Republicans.
24 May 2022 - 23:27 UTC
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