Las Notis is a daily news column that gets you up to speed on the political, media + other goings-on in the United States, Latin America, and the diaspora—all in one quick digest.
Here’s your glimpse at what’s going on today:
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- President-elect Joe Biden is moving forward and unveiling his plans for the administration, despite the fact that Donald Trump refuses to concede the election and will press on with legal challenges to dispute his loss. So far, Biden has shared his coronavirus task force, which will be led by Vivek H. Murthy, who was the surgeon general during the Obama administration. [CBS]
- The drugmaker Pfizer announced that a vaccine it developed against the coronavirus is 90% effective, according to an early analysis. Mike Pence tweeted that the announcement was “thanks to the public-private partnership forged by” Donald Trump, but Pfizer quickly clarified that it was not part of the administration’s vaccine development program and took no money from the United States federal government. [NYT]
- After causing floods and damage in Central America and Cuba, Tropical Storm Eta has made landfall in Florida, where it’s expected to strengthen and cause more flooding and storm surges. Officials in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, as well as parts of the Keys, have ordered schools, beaches, and public transportation to close, while home parks and campgrounds have been evacuated. [BBC]
- Bolivia’s ousted former President Evo Morales has entered Bolivia almost a year after going into exile. He returned to the country after his party won election and he was met by hundreds of supporters at the border. [BBC]
- Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence after Donald Trump’s election loss to say on Facebook that he might not run for his own reelection because “there is an advance from the left” in South America. [Telesur]
- The NYC streetwear brand Supreme is being sold to VF Corp., the parent company of Vans and Timberland, in a deal currently valued at $2.1 billion. Supreme had previously been sold to the Carlyle Group for $500 million and nearly doubled the money on its investment. [WSJ]
- In a discussion about the “extreme hostility” her ideas have faced within her own party, AOC said that she has questioned remaining in politics and running for Senate one day. “I genuinely don’t know,” she replied. “I don’t even know if I want to be in politics. You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn’t even know if I was going to run for reelection this year. [HuffPo]
- Eva Longoria has apologized after saying in an interview that “you saw in Georgia what Black women have done but Latina women were the real heroines” of the election. 91% of Black women voted for Joe Biden. In a tweet, Longoria said, “My wording was not clear and I deeply regret that. There is such a history in our community of anti-Blackness in our community and I would never want to contribute to that, so let me be very clear: Black women have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party, something we have seen played out in this election as well as preBrazilian Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence after Donald Trump’s election loss to say on Facebook that he might not run for his own reelection because “there is an advance from the left” in South America. vious ones.” [THR]
