Bulletin 16 by Jose Daniel Zapata

Bulletin 16 by Jose Daniel Zapata https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn Student's News en-us 2019-04-04 14:06:41 UTC 2026-02-03 04:01:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Colombia Denies Entry To Over 200 Venezuelan Supporters Of Maduro josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349442852 Colombian authorities have banned over 200 Venezuelan officials and supporters of President Nicolas Maduro from entering the country amid the escalating political crisis in Venezuela, according to Christian Kruger, the head of Migración Colombia, the country’s immigration authority.
This decision had been taken as part of a deal reached by the Lima Group, of which Colombia is a member, aimed at countering the Venezuelan government, the official added
According to the report by La Republica on Wednesday, Kruger said the campaign against Venezuela currently included measures that had been tentatively agreed upon, while the scale of the sanctions might be increased.
La Republica added that Venezuelan national Ronald Ramirez was the first person denied entry to Colombia after he landed in the Barranquilla airport.
Maduro has repeatedly accused Colombia of plotting to overthrow him. On Wednesday, the Maduro suggested U.S. President Donald Trump had hired Colombian assassins to kill him.
Venezuela is currently facing a political crisis and large anti-government protests. Opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself as the country’s interim president, drawing support from the United States, Colombia and the rest of the Lima Group of countries – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru.
The UK, Germany, France, and Spain declared on Saturday their intention to recognize Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president if Venezuela does not announce presidential elections within eight days.
Maduro, who called Guaido a “US puppet” and saying Venezuela is “the victim of a US conspiracy”, referring to US Vice President Mike Pence promising Guaido “full American support” the day before he declared himself Venezuela’s new head of state.
Supporting Maduro are Russia and China, as well as, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey and Iran. have given Maduro’s government full support.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout/christchurch-workers-students-return-after-nz-mosque-shootings-idUSKCN1QY0WF

]]> 2019-04-08 11:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349442852 Medellin, the end of a fantasy? josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349445024 Medellin, the city that was once boasted as an example of transformation, registered an increase in homicides for the third consecutive year in 2018.
Mayor Federico Gutierrez appears to be losing control over the city’s public administration, with disastrous consequences for the municipal treasury, economic development and public security.
Homicides increased 7% in 2018 and are up 27% since 2015, the year that Medellin reached an all-time low in violence and Gutierrez was elected.

https://colombiareports.com/medellin-the-end-of-a-fantasy/

]]> 2019-04-08 12:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349445024 PM Ardern vows tough new gun laws after New Zealand shootings josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349499938 CHRISTCHURCH (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she would announce new gun laws within days, after a lone gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday. Tarrant was remanded without a plea and is due back in court on April 5 where police said he was likely to face more charges.
“Within 10 days of this horrific act of terrorism we will have announced reforms which will, I believe, make our community safer,” Ardern told a news conference after her cabinet reached in principle decisions on gun reform laws in the wake of New Zealand’s worst ever mass shooting.
In addition to the 50 killed, dozens were wounded at two mosques in the South Island city during Friday prayers.
The owner of gun shop Gun City, David Tipple, said the suspected gunman had legally bought four weapons and ammunition online from it between December 2017 and March 2018, but it did not sell him the high-powered weapon used in the massacre.
“The MSSA, military-style automatic, reportedly used by the alleged gunman was not purchased from Gun City. Gun City did not sell him an MSSA, only A-category firearms,” Tipple told a news conference in Christchurch.
Under New Zealand gun laws, A-category weapons can be semi-automatic but limited to seven shots. Live-streamed video of a gunman in one of the mosques showed a semi-automatic weapon with a large magazine.
Tipple said he supported Ardern’s decision to reform gun laws as the Christchurch shootings had raised legitimate concerns.
Ardern did not give details on new laws, but has said she supports a ban on semi-automatic weapons following the Christchurch shootings.
Australia introduced some of the world’s toughest gun laws after its worst mass killing, the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which a lone gunman killed 35 people using a semi-automatic AR-15 - the same weapon used in the Christchurch massacre.
Australia banned semi-automatic weapons, launched a gun amnesty in which tens of thousands of weapons were handed in, and made it much tougher to own them.
‘TIME TO ACT’
Ardern encouraged gun owners who were thinking of surrendering their weapons to do so.
“The clear lesson from history around the world is that to make our community safer, the time to act is now,” she said.
“I strongly believe that the vast majority of gun owners in New Zealand will agree with the sentiment that change needs to occur.”
New Zealand’s top online marketplace Trade Me Group said it was halting the sale of semi-automatic weapons in the wake of Friday’s attack.
New Zealand, a country of only 5 million people, has an estimated 1.5 million firearms.
Radio New Zealand said in a report based on police data secured through an Official Information Act request, that more than 99 percent of people who applied for a firearms license in 2017 were successful.
A New Zealand standard A-category firearm license is issued after a police and background check. Only firearm owners are licensed, not weapons, so there is no monitoring of how many weapons a person may possess.
Still, violent crime is rare in New Zealand and police do not usually carry guns.
Before Friday, New Zealand’s worst mass shooting was in 1990 when a man killed 13 men, women and children in a 24-hour rampage in the seaside village of Aramoana. He was killed by police
Ardern said an inquiry will be held into what authorities knew or should have known about Tarrant and the events leading up to the massacre, to see whether the attack could have been prevented.
There were 250 detectives and specialists across the country working on the investigation, said police.
Tarrant had declined to be represented by a lawyer but the court appointed duty lawyer Richard Peters to handle the case.
Peters told media Tarrant was lucid and understood the situation facing him.
“He was lucid,” Peters told Australian TV network Channel Nine. He seemed to appreciate what he was facing and why he was there.”
BURIAL FRUSTRATIONS
Ardern was the first person to sign a national condolence book that she opened in the capital, Wellington.
“On behalf of all New Zealanders, we grieve together. We are one. They are us,” she wrote.
The majority of victims were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The youngest was a boy of three, born in New Zealand to Somali refugee parents.
Six Pakistanis, five Indians and five Bangladeshis were killed, officials said.
Frustration was building among the families of victims as under Islam it is custom to conduct burials within 24 hours, but bodies will not be released until post mortems are carried out.
About 60 volunteers, some who have flown in from Australia, have gathered to help with the ritual cleansing of the victims before burial.
“It is a spiritual process, preparing the body to go into the next life,” said Taufan Mawardi, one the volunteers.
The two mosques involved in the shootings have been closed since the massacre, but are expected to reopen by Friday prayers after cleansing blessings were carried out.
Over the weekend, tens of thousands flocked to memorial vigils around New Zealand and a victim support website raised more than NZ$5.5 million ($3.8 million).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout/christchurch-workers-students-return-after-nz-mosque-shootings-idUSKCN1QY0WF

]]> 2019-04-08 13:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349499938 Pele admitted to hospital in Paris with 'tetanus crisis' josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349502675 Pele has been admitted to hospital in Paris, according to reports.
RMC Sport radio say the Brazilian legend had a 'tetanus crisis' - but the condition is not life-threatening.
Pele is said to have had a 'very high fever' and will be observed by doctors over the next few hours.
The World Cup winner was in the French capital after meeting PSG star Kylian Mbappe.
He reportedly felt ill during the night before being admitted to hospital.
Mbappe has been compared to Pele during his fledgling career so far, having already won the World Cup with France last year.
But he claims, despite hitting 103 goals so far, he will not be able to match Pele's much-disputed tally of 1,025.
"Even with the goals in playgrounds, goals on the PlayStation, I could never equal 1,250 (sic) goals," said the former Monaco forward.
"It's really a long way off. I'll try and get as close as I can, but I think I'll still be a long way off by the end of my career."
Pele played almost his entire career with Brazilian side Santos before a swansong with New York Cosmos in his later playing days.
He scored 77 goals in 92 appearances for his country, winning the World Cup on three occasions.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-pele-admitted-hospital-paris-14230932

]]> 2019-04-08 14:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349502675 Colombians await One Hundred Years of Solitude screen adaptation with joy and fear josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349998161 Like the cloud of yellow butterflies which follows one of the characters through the fantastical world of
One Hundreds Years of Solitude, the legacy of Gabriel García Márquez hovers restlessly over Colombia – a country which has often seemed poised between beauty and tragedy.
“It’s hard to overstate how important and masterful One Hundred Years of Solitude is,” said Andrés Camilo Ramírez, the young owner of Maestros Grandes, a secondhand bookstore in Bogotá. “There’s a richness to it, to its language and its characters, and we just have to hope they capture that in the adaptation.”

So when Netflix this week announced the first screen adaptation of García Márquez’s landmark novel, Ramírez – and many of his compatriots – met the news with a blend of trepidation and excitement.
Popular television and cinema out of Colombia usually foreground the country’s dark history of violence, focusing on drug traffickers like Pablo Escobar, who was the central character two seasons of Netflix’s Narcos. That show also prompted a degree of indignation thanks to its reliance on non-Colombians actors, who often butchered the country’s regional accents.
“Colombia is more than just war and drug lords,” Ramírez said, adding that having García Márquez’s sons serve as executive producers will help the production stay faithful to the novelist’s vision.
García Márquez – or Gabo as he is affectionately and more commonly known here – is a towering figure in Colombian culture. To find an English language equivalent, one would have to look as far back as Charles Dickens, whose literary esteem was matched by commercial success.
Libraries bear Gabo’s name, and his avuncular, mustachioed face features on the country’s 50,000 peso banknote, as well as works by Bogotá’s myriad graffiti artists.
“We are always looking to take advantage of him and his works,” said Yurika, a member of the collective Vertigo Graffiti, which has painted murals inspired by García Márquez across the country. “The wars, the peasant life, and the absurdity of Colombia, is all part of the richness of Gabo’s work and it serves as a reference and an inspiration for all of us.”
The author’s legacy expands beyond Colombia’s borders. After receiving the 1982 Nobel prize for literature – a first for a Colombian – he remarked to a journalist that the award committee “have taken into account the literature of the subcontinent and have awarded me as a way of awarding all of this literature”.
Juan Manuel Santos, the president who won Colombia’s second Nobel – the 2016 peace prize – canonised the author as “the greatest Colombian that ever lived” upon his death in 2014.
For many Colombians, the fantasies of One Hundred Years of Solitude capture deeper truths of the country’s often bloody history. The novel chronicles life in the fictitious Caribbean town Macondo, where seven generations of the Buendía family live through civil war, massacres and modernization yet eventually fade into oblivion.
“Macondo is much more real than many real life towns, and Colonel Aureliano Buendía – who never existed – is more real than almost all colonels,” said the Colombian author Héctor Abad in an interview.
Abad – himself a fêted novelist and memoirist – expressed some misgivings over the gargantuan task of faithfully adapting such a complex work. He pointed out that García Márquez contributed writing to dozens of Latin American film scripts, but despite being among his most loved and translated works, no film adaptation of 100 Years had previously been approved as he refused to sell the rights.
“García Márquez himself failed in adapting his books into scripts and films even though he loved cinema,” he said. “It is like adapting The Iliad: it is better to focus on one episode, for if you try to do the whole book, you will fail.”
Yet the expediency required for adaptation is perhaps something García Márquez would have understood, said Jaime Abello Banfi, a friend with whom he co-founded the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism, or FNPI, in Cartagena, a colonial city where the author’s career as a newspaper reporter began.
“One time we were in a meeting at the foundation and consultants were asking García Márquez to choose our strategy and he responded: ‘For me things are simpler – it can be what it can be, and it cannot be what it cannot be … the best that can happen is whatever happens’ – that is how he was,” Abello said. “People know of him as being incredibly creative but he was also always pragmatic, and always based in what he could observe.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/08/colombians-await-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-screen-adaptation-with-joy-and-fear

]]> 2019-04-09 15:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349998161 Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido stripped of parliamentary immunity josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349999632 The Venezuelan government has stripped president Nicolas Maduro's rival Juan Guaido of his parliamentary immunity, opening the door for his possible arrest and prosecution.
Mr Guaido, head of the opposition-controlled national assembly, declared himself president on January 23 and has been recognised as Venezuela’s legitimate leader by more than 50 countries.
Until now, Mr Maduro has given Mr Guaido a remarkably free rein, unwilling to risk antagonising supporters of the 35 year old – including the United States and neighbouring Colombia and Brazil.
On Tuesday, however, the constituent assembly – a pro-Maduro rival parliament to the national assembly – voted unanimously to strip Mr Guaido of his immunity, on the recommendation of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Mr Maduro’s allies argued that Mr Guaido should be prosecuted for violating an order banning him leaving the country while under investigation by the attorney general. He is also accused of inciting violence through street protests, and of receiving illicit funds from abroad.
Venezuela’s foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, on a visit to drum up support for Mr Maduro in Beirut and then Syria, warned on Wednesday that Mr Guaido was in breach of the constitution and the judiciary had to "take care" of it.
Mr Guaido, however, brushed off the threat.
“The regime believes that by attacking me, they will stop us,” he told supporters outside his house on Tuesday night. “There’s no way back in this process.”
He said that he knows he now runs the risk of being “kidnapped” by Mr Maduro’s allies. His chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, was snatched from his home at 2am on March 21, and is being held on terrorism charges.
Mr Maduro has so far stopped short of detaining Mr Guaido himself, but the youthful politician said he knew it was a possibility.
"We are aware of that," he said. "But we will not change our path."
The Trump administration has threatened the Maduro government with a strong response if Mr Guaido is harmed, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio - who has Mr Trump's ear on Venezuela policy - said nations should take any attempt by Mr Maduro's government to "abduct" him as a coup.
"And anyone who cooperates with this should be treated as a coup plotter and dealt with accordingly," said Mr Rubio.

However, Diosdado Cabello, the head of the constituent assembly and one of the most powerful men in Venezuela, accused the opposition of naively inviting a foreign invasion and of inciting a civil war.
"They don't care about the deaths," said Mr Cabello. "They don't have the slightest idea what the consequences of war are for a country."
Geoff Ramsey, a Venezuela researcher at the Washington Office on Latin America, said the Maduro government may be assessing its strength within the global community.
"This seems like an attempt to test the waters, weighing how the international community would react to detaining Guaido," he said.
"The government is reasserting its authority while also sending a clear signal to the opposition: we are in control."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuelan-opposition-leader-juan-guaido-143609595.html

]]> 2019-04-09 15:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/349999632 Amir Khan reveals daughters were reason he didn't retire after Canelo KO josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350000759 Before each training session at Virgil Hunter’s gym overlooking San Francisco Bay, Amir Khan makes the same call home
He FaceTimes his eldest daughter, four-year-old Lamaisha, to see how she is and to chat about her day at school.
Lamaisha and her 10-month-old sister Alayna are Khan’s inspiration and he says without them he would have quit as he struggled with his hand injury after his sickening KO by Canelo Alvarez.
But his desire for them to see him in the ring drove him on and he wants them to remember him in huge contests like his April 20 showdown with Terence Crawford at Madison Square Garden.
“I would have retired two years ago, but what motivated me was having children because I want them to know what their daddy is,” said Khan, who is back with Hunter for the first time since his illness.
“It’s given me a new freshness.
“With my hand problem, I wouldn’t have come back. I had the Canelo fight, made good money and that would have been it.
“But I thought of Lamaisha and I want her to remember something better than me getting knocked out by Canelo. I want her to remember a good time, not just hear about it.
“I want her to taste the thrill too. I want her to see me going to a big fight, seeing her at the hotel, giving her a little hug. I want her to remember all this when she grows up.”
Lamaisha is back home in Bolton being looked after by Khan’s family, while Alayna is with him and his wife Faryal in California.
This fight is very much a family affair and he arrives each day for training, minus any hangers-on, carrying his own kit bag, just how Hunter likes it.

Those calls home are bitter sweet for Khan and it kills him that he will have gone three months without seeing Lamaisha by the time she arrives in New York with Faryal’s parents before the fight.
“This is the first time I’ve been away from her for this long,” said the bearded Khan as he sat on the ring apron at Hunter’s Oakland gym. “That’s driving me on because everything I do, I do it for her and Alayna.
“It’s hard because they grow up so fast. Before I left she was saying a few words. Now she’s giving me whole sentences.
“She definitely understands who I am now because she came home from school and told me ‘I told my teacher my daddy is a world champion boxer’
“I’m like a superhero to her.”
Some pundits feel Khan will need superhero powers to beat undefeated welterweight king Crawford and the WBO champ is No 2 in the pound-for-pound rankings.
Khan, 32, feels that flatters the American because his CV is not that glittering for someone who has won world titles at three different weights.
“I know he’s in the pound-for-pound rankings, but I don’t think he’s fought anyone as skilful as me,” said the former unified light-welterweight champ
“I bring something to the table that he’s never faced. My resume is a lot better definitely. I’ve fought and beaten better opponents. I just feel he’s put on that pedestal and has been given that pound-for-pound status without really having proven himself.
“I like that because when I beat him, we’ll see if they class me as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters.”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/amir-khan-reveals-daughters-were-14217267

]]> 2019-04-09 15:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350000759 China to curb all types of fentanyl, following US demands josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350002122

China says it will crack down on all types of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, following a plea from the US.
All fentanyl-related substances will be added to China's list of controlled narcotic drugs from 1 May, officials said.
It follows a pledge Beijing made during US-China trade talks in December.
The powerful painkiller, much of it believed to be made in China, is said to be driving a huge rise in drug addiction in the US.
The number of deaths from painkillers such as fentanyl led to President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency in 2017.
China's production of the drug has long been a source of tension between the two countries.
"The US is concerned about all variants [of fentanyl] and it has all been resolved," Liu Yuejin, deputy director of China's narcotics control commission, told a news conference.

Mr Liu said the claim that China was the main source of fentanyl "lacked evidence", and instead blamed a history of abuse of prescription medicine in the US for fuelling demand.
"We believe that the United States itself is the main factor in the abuse of fentanyl there," he said.
"Some people link drug consumption with freedom, individuality, and liberation. If the US really wants to resolve the fentanyl substance problem they have more work to do domestically."
Fentanyl itself is already on China's list of controlled drugs. Expanding the list to all fentanyl-related substances is aimed at stopping smugglers from changing formulas to circumvent the law.
Fentanyl is estimated to be 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine and is usually only approved in the US for severe pain arising in cases like treatment for cancer.
The US says the synthetic drug is being sold on the internet and sent by post from China, fuelling the opioid crisis.
US authorities list all fentanyl-related products in the most dangerous class of drugs.
In 2017, the US announced the first ever indictments against two Chinese individuals for conspiracy "to distribute large quantities" of fentanyl as well as other opioids
The issue over fentanyl figured during a trade war between China and the US that erupted last year.
China's pledge to control the drug came during a post-G20 summit between the two countries in Buenos Aires in December.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47772484

]]> 2019-04-09 15:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350002122 Video'Living fossil' given new home josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350037481 This extremely rare Chinese giant salamander was rescued after an attempt to smuggle it into the UK.
The young animal has now been given a new home at ZSL London Zoo, where scientists hope to eventually establish a breeding programme.
The animals, which are the largest amphibians in the world, were once widespread across China.
But a recent survey found barely any of them left in the wild. Dr Helen Meredith of the Amphibian Survival Alliance and Synchronicity Earth told the BBC's Rebecca Morelle the illegal wildlife trade was placing tremendous pressure on the creatures.

Science & Environment. (2019). 'Living fossil' given new home. 03 of April, 2019, de BBC Sitio web: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-47751245/living-fossil-given-new-home-at-zsl-london-zoo

]]> 2019-04-09 17:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350037481 Chinese woman arrested by Secret Service at Trump's Mar-a-Lago josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350038066 (Reuters) - A Chinese woman who passed security checkpoints at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida carrying a thumb drive coded with “malicious” software was arrested on Saturday for entering a restricted property and making false statements to officials, according to a court filing.
Documents filed by the Secret Service on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida say that shortly after noon on Saturday, Yujing Zhang approached a Secret Service agent screening visitors to Mar-a-Lago seeking entrance to the club.
Zhang produced two Chinese passports displaying her photo and said she wanted to go to the pool. Secret Service officers could not initially find her name on an access list for the property, according to the Secret Service affidavit filed with the court.
A club manager said that a man named Zhang was a club member, and even though Yujing Zhang did not give a clear answer as to whether the man was her father, the Secret Service affidavit says resort officials allowed her on the property on the assumption she was related to a member.
Resort personnel became suspicious after Zhang appeared to have trouble explaining why she was visiting Mar-a-Lago, according to the affidavit.
Zhang initially said she was there for an event staged by a group called the United Nations Chinese American Association. But resort staff found no such event was scheduled, according to the court filing.
A receptionist then contacted Secret Service personnel who questioned Zhang and concluded she did not have “any legitimate documentation” authorizing her entry to Mar-a-Lago, according to the filing.
After detaining her, investigators found in Zhang’s possession four cellphones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive device and a thumb drive, the Secret Service court filing says. Initial examination of the thumb drive determined it contained “malicious malware,” the Secret Service said.
“While the Secret Service does not determine who is permitted to enter the club, our agents and officers conduct physical screenings to ensure no prohibited items are allowed onto the property,” the Secret Service said in a statement.
Responding to a question on the case, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday: “I have no understanding of the situation you mention.”
In a court filing on Tuesday, a public defender representing Zhang said she was invoking her right to remain silent.
A Justice Department spokeswoman had no comment on the arrest.

Mark Hosenball. (2019). Chinese woman arrested by Secret Service at Trump's Mar-a-Lago. 02 of April, 2019, de Reuters Sitio web: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intruder/chinese-woman-arrested-by-secret-service-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-idUSKCN1RE2HW

]]> 2019-04-09 17:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350038066 Chris Eubank Jr training with Amir Khan coach Virgil Hunter josedzb1 https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350038682 Chris Eubank Junior is training with Virgil Hunter and does not rule out working permanently with Amir Khan’s mentor.
Eubank has been at Hunter’s gym in Oakland, California, working alongside Khan since last Thursday and is keen to see if the American trainer can improve his fighting technique.
The IBO super-middleweight champ, who worked with Nate Vasquez for the first time for his win over James DeGale, has been criticised for not having a regular trainer and admits he could team up with Hunter.
Eubank, 29, said: "I’ve seen what Virgil has done over the years, but I wanted to see it up close in person and work with him a little bit, just to see how it is.
"It’s just exploring, Virgil’s not my new trainer. I’m just having a little dabble.
"It absolutely could turn into something, but you can never tell how life is going to turn out.
"Distance is definitely something I’m looking to improve on. I’ve had certain injuries that have forced me to focus on inside fighting.
“I'm now injury free so I want to get back to distance fighting and learning more about being on the outside. Virgil is a master of those things.
"Looking at his biggest success story, Andre Ward, I can see some similarities in our fight styles.
"He had all that success with him and I think that would transfer well to my style. That was another reason why I wanted to come and see what he’s about."
Hunter, 65, who is preparing Khan for his April 20 clash with Terence Crawford, claims he is open to working with Eubank in the US and has identified areas for improvement.
He felt he never got higher than "fourth gear" in his win over DeGale in February because he had overtrained and has told him his footwork could be better.
"I don’t know if we will end up working together," he said. "I don't know if I can spend two months in the UK training him, but I’ve told him I should be able to answer any questions he may have.
"When he came here I asked him what he wanted to improve and he said his jab. I thought his footwork needed to be worked on.
"Whoever taught him, taught him hands first, but it should be feet first.
"Right now he’s carpet bombing. You have to carpet bomb to soften guys up and then you drop your payload on them. But he’s not using his feet properly to get into position to drop his payload."

David Anderson. (2019). Chris Eubank Jr training with Amir Khan coach Virgil Hunter. 03 of April, 2019, de Mirror Sitio web: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/chris-eubank-jr-training-amir-14222329

]]> 2019-04-09 17:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/josedzb1/tevo3gxpu5rn/wish/350038682