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Con voce commossa il Vice Presidente, Nicolas Maduro, ha comunicato al popolo attraverso un discorso tenuto in Tv che Hugo Chavez è morto. A 58 anni, a causa di un grave cancro. Il Venezuela è sotto shock. Il rito funebre si terrà venerdì.

 Caracas – Una lotta contro il cancro durata quasi due anni, il Presidente venezuelano non ce l’ha fatta. È deceduto martedì a Caracas. Il Vice Presidente Nicolas Maduro ha annunciato la notizia  sul tardo pomeriggio (ora locale) su tutte le televisioni e stazioni radio.

Tra le lacrime Maduro ha detto che il Presidente Chavez è morto alle 16:25 all’Ospedale Militare di Caracas. Ha citato il cantautore venezuelano Alì Primera: “Coloro che muoiono per la vita, non possono definirsi morti”, spiegando che “è proibito piangere fin d’ora”. Con voce commossa, ha detto Maduro che “è un momento di profondo dolore”.

   Disperazione tra i venezuelani.

Alla luce della tragedia, ha rivolto un appello “a tutti gli uomini e donne affinché si preservino la pace e il rispetto per la Patria. Noi, tanto i civili quanto i militari, accogliamo la sua eredità, le sfide da lui intraprese, il suo progetto, unitamente a tutto il popolo porteremo con dignità la sua bandiera”.

Sono stati proclamati sette giorni di lutto nazionale in Venezuela, la camera ardente sarà aperta fino a venerdì, giorno in cui si terranno i funerali. Mercoledì la salma verrà portata all’Accademia Militare.

   Hugo Chavez.

Maduro esercita da subito la più alta carica di Stato, entro trenta giorni si terranno le nuove elezioni. “Saremo degni eredi di un Grande”, ha assicurato Maduro, che era stato scelto da Chavez come suo successore. Esercito e Polizia sono mobilitati, a “difesa e protezione del popolo”.

Capriles, leader dell’opposizione, ha rivolto in serata un appello all’unità, manifestando alla famiglia e ai sostenitori di Chavez il proprio cordoglio. “ In un momento così difficile dobbiamo mostrare profondo amore e rispetto per il nostro Paese”. Il portale notizie “Noticias24” ha riportato il titolo: “Hugo Chavez, il Cristo degli Eserciti in America Latina, è morto”.

  Manifestanti in corteo.

La folla venezuelana si è riversata nelle strade dando espressione al proprio dolore e organizzando cortei con motociclette. L’ospedale di Caracas, nel quale Chavez ha perso la battaglia contro il cancro, è diventato meta di pellegrinaggio, centinaia di persone si sono ritrovate martedì davanti all’edificio, piangendo insieme e lanciando appelli in coro: “Tutti siamo Chavez!”. Bandiere e cartelli di rifiuto agli “Chavistas” riportavano le parole “Chavez e la rivoluzione, la lotta continua!”

Nel frattempo, il Presidente degli Stati Uniti Obama si è espresso sottolineando l’interesse del suo Paese nella costruzione di una relazione proficua con il Venezuela. Obama aveva già spiegato lunedì che il sistema immunitario del Capo di Stato cinquantottenne si era indebolito al punto che un’infezione gli è stata fatale.

Chavez si era sottoposto l’11 Dicembre a Cuba al quarto intervento chirurgico, da allora erano state pubblicate soltanto un paio di foto che lo ritraevano nel letto d’ospedale.

Prima della partenza per Cuba, Chavez aveva designato Maduro come suo successore.

Pictures from the satellites to celebrate the Earth Day.

All the changing happening on our Earth are reported by satellites through their pictures: the occasion is the Earth Day on 22^nd April.

The main changing aspects are on the climate field as well as on human actions and natural events like inundations, earthquakes, tsunamis. Nasa together with Esa (European Space Agency) show us spectacular images that talk about the deep climate and territorial changing on our planet’s surface. There is a contribute from Italy too: one of the satellite, Cosmo SkyMed of the program of Asi (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) spread the image of the Amazon rainforest in the National Park of Yasuni, Ecuador. This small stripe of forest is the richest area in terms of biodiversity in all the world, with its over 2.200 different species of reptiles, amphibians and over 100.000 species of insects.

Glaciers on Cervino Mountain (on the border line between Italy and Switzerland) from 1960 up to 2005 (Source: Panopticon Gallery, Boston)

The photo gallery released by the American space agency, on the other hand, shows how the Earth has been changing through a comparison between past and present. For example, there are images of the impact by dams, in West Mali a dam has been radically transforming the landscape all over 30 years; in the same time, the rainforest in Baban Rafi (Niger) has been getting smaller and smaller, whereas in Uganda Kampala City has been growing up enormously.

Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 2004 up to 2007 (Source: NASA/JPL)

Between 1986 and 2002 a few sides of the glaciers in Patagonia got about 10 km smaller, and in 2010 an iceberg in Greenland, which was 4 times Manhattan large, detached from the main glacier called Petermann. Large areas of the planet are subjects to hard deforestations like in Bolivia, where between 1980’s and 2000 a big portion of the tropical forest east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was reduced to cropland. The images from the satellites show so clearly also the phenomenon of the water receding of Ciad lake, Africa: during the 1960’s this lake was the sixth among the biggest ones in the world, nowadays it is 20 times smaller.

Water reducing in Ciad Lake from 1973 up to 2002 (Source: U.S. Department of the Interior/ U.S. Geological Survey. Taken from the USGS Landsat Missions Gallery)

Multimedia Special: Titanic was considered as the pride of the shipbuilding industry, on board wealthy passengers were housed in the sumptuous luxury of all times. Here’s how the giant of the Seas sank in the Atlantic ocean.

At first glance, Titanic sinking is just one of the many other shipping accidents happened in the history. In the ranking of the worst sea disasters is not even listed among the top ten. In the next decades, bigger accidents actually happened, such as the Philippine ferry Doña Paz that sank with about 4000 passengers on board in 1987, or the ship Wilhelm Gustloff whose sinking caused death to over 9000 persons in 1945.

By that time, Titanic was something special: it was a microcosm of the earlier 1920’s with its superb technology, its big social differences and its unabashed display of wealth and elegance. Its sinking incident has become, therefore, a symbol of the fall of arrogance itself.

The first class housed, among the others, the four richest men of the world surrounded by the extreme luxury just like in Grand Hotel suites: fitness room, heated pool and a Turkish bath attached. A must was an electrical horse and camel.

By contrast, only a couple of decks carried emigrants off: they were the poorest people on board and they went on search of a better new future in America – most of whom never arrived in.

Nowadays, many experts and fans of Titanic explain the exact circumstances of its sinking: social researchers found something about the incident and this represents a unique example in terms of social norms. Actually, even at a step from death, people still kept their own social status. Engineers and scientists are still looking for the truth to come out.

The new astronomic theory

A constellation might have influenced r even determined the Titanic catastrophe.

In January 1912, Sun, Earth and Moon were exactly aligned and in the same time Earth and Moon were particularly close as they had never been in the previous 1400 years. A point, this, that influenced the water and, as Donald Olson from the Texas State University writes in “Sky & Telescope” (March 2012), the tidal forces would have been extraordinarily powerful. This caused that the iceberg in the Arctic Sea, that normally stop in the calm waters in front of Newfoundland and Labrador Islands, would be pushed further towards South. Finally, one of them came into collision with Titanic.

April 1912: industry is at the top levels, economy is experiencing a flourishing time and technology is moving giant steps forwards. Titanic is to the history a symbol of ostentation: it is not only the masterpiece of shipbuilding, but also a gem of luxury and prestige.

Like two of the three “Olympic” class ships, it was launched by Harland & Wolff in the current north Belfast.