Democracy Now Summary #6

Nadia Leon

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Democracy Now summary #6

March 28^th: One of the stories that is discussed on this episode of Democracy now is how there was a suicide bombing occurred in Afghanistan this weekend. The occurrence of the bombing  led to the result of 15 people killed and 28 others wounded. Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai refuses to let U.S. troop remain in Afghanistan after this year. To enforce this he has declined to sign an agreement to let U.S. troops do so. This, however, may change due to election for his replacement being early next month. On a previous episode of Democracy now there was the discussion of how many hunger strikes had been coming about. well at the immigration detention center another hunger strike started due to detainee not being happy with how they were living and their treatment there. Many detainees are refusing to eat, this has been going on for three weeks. The Obama administration is looking for a way to fix this problem due to all of the criticism that they have been receiving in regard to the many that have been separated from their families. Another interesting story that was covered on this episode was one concerning General Motors recalling 1.6M cars. So far 3.1 have been recalled within the last month. The defect of these cars has to do with ignition switches. It was found that some of the cars have faulty ignition switches that lead to the shutdown of the engine and also the airbags. There have already been incidences of death from this defect, which has made this recall that much more urgent. General Motors CEO Mary Barra made a statement which announced that they are doing what they can to fix the situation and that due to something going wrong within the process there have been “terrible” things occurring. She also states that they are going to use this incident to better the company and take more precaution.