Hello, everyone!<\/p>\n
Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas a mais um epis\u00f3dio da nossa nova s\u00e9rie de podcasts, o Fluency News<\/strong>! Aqui, voc\u00ea vai treinar a sua escuta e ficar por dentro do que est\u00e1 acontecendo no mundo, sempre com as tr\u00eas principais not\u00edcias da semana, tudo em ingl\u00eas! Ao longo do epis\u00f3dio, n\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m adicionamos explica\u00e7\u00f5es em portugu\u00eas das coisas que achamos que precisam de mais aten\u00e7\u00e3o, assim voc\u00ea n\u00e3o perde nenhum detalhe!<\/p>\n No epis\u00f3dio desta semana, falamos sobre a opera\u00e7\u00e3o Autumn Hope em Ohio, nos Estados Unidos, a maior opera\u00e7\u00e3o contra o tr\u00e1fico humano na hist\u00f3ria do pa\u00eds. N\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m falamos sobre o posicionamento de Jair Bolsonaro a respeito das vacinas e poss\u00edveis curas para a Covid-19, e sobre o projeto da nova constitui\u00e7\u00e3o no Chile. Por fim, n\u00f3s falamos sobre como uma livraria de Nova Iorque pediu por ajuda, e a recebeu.<\/em><\/p>\n N\u00f3s temos uma nova p\u00e1gina de dicas de ingl\u00eas no Instagram, v\u00e1 conferir! @fluencytvingles<\/strong><\/p>\n Toda semana temos um novo epis\u00f3dio do Fluency News, n\u00e3o deixe de escutar! See you!<\/p>\n This episode was written by Liv Pond.<\/p>\n U.S. Marshals find 45 missing children in operation “Autumn Hope” https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-marshals-recover-45-missing-children-operation-autumn-hope\/<\/a> \u2018An End to the Chapter of Dictatorship\u2019: Chileans Vote to Draft a New Constitution https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/25\/world\/americas\/chile-constitution-plebiscite.html<\/a> Brazil’s Bolsonaro says cure, not vaccine, way out of coronavirus crisis https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-bolsonaro\/brazils-bolsonaro-says-cure-not-vaccine-way-out-of-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN27B23G<\/a> The Strand Calls for Help, and Book Lovers Answer https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/26\/books\/the-strand-bookstore-nyc.html<\/a> Script<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n What is up, everyone! Welcome back to Fluency Academy\u2019s Fluency News, the podcast series that keeps you an informed citizen of the world while you train and improve your listening skills. I\u2019m Scott Lowe and I\u2019m thrilled to have you with me.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll showcase three of the most important or controversial stories of the week, and we\u2019ll talk after each story, giving you snippets of explanations in Portuguese, to make sure that you understand everything about what you listened to. I think that\u2019s pretty cool. And you can find the sources to all of our stories in the description, and a ton of free content at fluency.io<\/p>\n Well, let\u2019s jump right in, what do you say? <\/strong>Our first story today comes from Ohio, in the US, where law enforcers arrested over 170 people in an anti-trafficking operation.<\/p>\n Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said 50 law enforcement agencies across the state led an operation that has resulted in the rescue of more than 100 human trafficking survivors and 177 arrests. Yost said the operation, called Operation Autumn Hope, is believed to be the largest anti-human trafficking operation in the state\u2019s history. The Attorney General described human trafficking as \u201cmodern day slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe success of Operation Autumn Hope is measured not only in the number of arrests but in the lives that were rescued from this evil,\u201d Yost said. \u201cEvery agency on this team looks for the day when no person is bought and sold in Ohio. Don\u2019t buy sex in Ohio!\u201d The effort was carried out in various parts of the state and had four priorities: rescuing victims of human trafficking and referring them to social services, recovering missing and exploited children, catching those seeking to have sex with a minor and arresting male johns seeking to buy sex. The sting was part of a multi-jurisdictional operation, which included U.S. Marshals, Dayton Police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies across the state. During the operation, the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force, Columbus PACT Unit and the Cuyahoga County Human Trafficking Task Force rescued 109 human trafficking victims and referred them to social services, the Attorney General\u2019s Office said. Across southern Ohio, 76 missing and exploited children cases were cleared, including 45 by physical recovery by the U.S. Marshal\u2019s Service.<\/p>\n \u201cMy thanks to all personnel who have stepped up for this operation,\u201d said Peter C. Tobin, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio. \u201cThese are the same personnel who hunt down violent fugitives every day. I\u2019m incredibly proud of them and pleased that they were able to apply those same skills to finding missing children. I know Operation Autumn Hope has made a difference in a lot of young lives.\u201d In Central Ohio alone, the sting resulted in 50 arrests being made in just three days, investigators said. Guns also were recovered. Yost said human trafficking is not just limited to urban areas and said Ohio\u2019s status as the \u201ccrossroads of America\u201d plays a role as well.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a lot of home-grown human trafficking too,” Yost said. \u201cIt operates in the shadows.\u201d Last month, USMS announced that 25 missing and endangered children between the ages of 13 and 18 were recovered in a 20-day mission called “Operation Safety Net” in Ohio. And less than a week later, USMS announced eight missing children were rescued in a five-day rescue operation in the Indianapolis area and one person was arrested on charges including parental kidnapping.In August, USMS announced that 39 missing children had been recovered in Georgia over a two-week mission known as “Operation Not Forgotten.” The operation led to the rescue of 26 children and the safe location of 13 others.<\/p>\n Voc\u00ea sabe qual \u00e9 a diferen\u00e7a entre \u201cwhich\u201d, \u201cwho\u201d e \u201cthat\u201d, quando estamos explicando alguma coisa? Essas palavras podem ser usadas para fazer refer\u00eancia a algo que j\u00e1 foi dito, para evitar repeti\u00e7\u00e3o. Nesse caso, a diferen\u00e7a entre elas depender\u00e1 se estamos falando de uma coisa ou de uma pessoa. \u201cThat\u201d e \u201cwhich\u201d s\u00e3o utilizados para nos referirmos a coisas e \u201cwho\u201d, a pessoas. Nessa hist\u00f3ria, n\u00f3s temos exemplos com \u201cwhich\u201d e com \u201cwho\u201d. Eles s\u00e3o \u201cThe sting was part of a multi-jurisdictional operation, WHICH included the U.S Marshals\u201d e \u201cThese are the same personnel WHO hunt down violent\u2026\u201d.<\/em>Alright, that\u2019s great! It\u2019s always good to hear stories about police out there, saving lives, making a positive difference.<\/p>\n Our second story this week comes from Brazil! You asked for it, and we\u2019re delivering it!<\/strong> Today we\u2019re going to talk about Bolsonaro\u2019s positioning around the vaccines and possible cures for Covid-19. Brazil\u2019s Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday it would be easier and cheaper to invest in a cure for Covid-19 rather than a vaccine, in a clear sign the president is increasingly positioning himself against inoculation programs.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll give my personal opinion: Isn\u2019t it cheaper and easier to invest in a cure rather than a vaccine?\u201d Bolsonaro told supporters outside the presidential palace in Brasilia. Bolsonaro, who caught and recovered from Covid-19 in July, has repeatedly downplayed the gravity of the virus and continues to promote the antimalarial chloroquine as a cure despite mounting evidence it doesn\u2019t work. In Brazil, more than 150,000 people have died due to COVID-19, the world\u2019s second highest death toll behind the United States. Chloroquine was also heralded by U.S. President Donald Trump but has dropped far down the list of potential global treatments for the novel coronavirus as repeated scientific studies failed to find any significant evidence of its effectiveness.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m an example, I took chloroquine, others took invermectin, others took Annita,\u201d Bolsonaro said also referring to two broad-spectrum anti-parasite drugs. \u201cEverything indicates that everyone that took one of these three alternatives early on was cured,\u201d he added without providing any scientific evidence to support his statement. None of the drugs mentioned by Bolsonaro have been proven to work and none are authorized for the treatment of COVID-19 in Europe, for example. Bolsonaro\u2019s comments come as a political battle heats up between the president and Joao Doria, the governor of Sao Paulo – Brazil\u2019s most populous and economically advanced state.<\/p>\n Doria, who is widely expected to run against Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential elections, has positioned his state to get early access to China\u2019s Sinovac vaccine which he plans to roll out in a mass inoculation plan by mid-December. Bolsonaro last week said the federal government would not buy the Chinese vaccine, contradicting his own health minister who had said the drug would be part of the country\u2019s immunization plan.<\/p>\n Come on, government, get your stuff together.<\/strong>\u200d<\/em><\/p>\n Agora h\u00e1 pouco eu disse que \u201cnone of the drugs mentioned HAVE BEEN PROVEN to work\u201d. Esse have been proven \u00e9 uma estrutura muito usada na voz passiva. A voz passiva \u00e9 \u00fatil para alguns contextos nos quais o que realmente importa n\u00e3o \u00e9 quem fez a a\u00e7\u00e3o do verbo, mas quem recebeu a a\u00e7\u00e3o. Quando falamos em voz ativa e voz passiva, estamos nos referindo \u00e0 estrutura de frases, ou seja, \u00e0 ordem das palavras. Frases na active voice (voz ativa) s\u00e3o aquelas em que o sujeito que pratica a a\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia, j\u00e1 em frases na passive voice (voz passiva), o objeto que recebe a a\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 que est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia. Aqui, significa que a efic\u00e1cia dos medicamentos n\u00e3o foi comprovada, e \u00e9 essa parte que \u00e9 importante, n\u00e3o quem comprovou ou n\u00e3o a efic\u00e1cia, entende?<\/em>\u200d<\/p>\n What a mess, huh? If we expected the pandemic to bring out the best in people, I think we\u2019re all a bit disappointed.<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s visit Brazil\u2019s neighboring country, Chile.<\/strong>On Sunday, just over a year after massive protests swept the nation, Chileans voted to scrap the dictatorship-era constitution and write a new one \u2014 a process that could transform the politics of a country that has long been regarded as one of the most stable and prosperous in Latin America. With 100 percent of the ballots counted, voters approved the referendum in a landslide victory, and 78 percent voted in favor of a new Constitution.<\/p>\n \u201cThis plebiscite is not the end; it is the beginning of a path we should all undertake together,\u201d President Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era said in an address from the presidential palace. Until the protests last year, the idea of a new Constitution \u201cwasn\u2019t on anyone\u2019s agenda,\u201d said Luc\u00eda Dammert, a political scientist and board member of the research center Espacio P\u00fablico. \u201cThe fact we are now discussing a new Constitution is a victory of the social movement.\u201d The vote, originally scheduled for April, was postponed as Chile went on lockdown during the pandemic. Now, with most of the capital, Santiago, and other areas gradually opening up, voter turnout was high. Thousands of people flocked to the Plaza Italia in Santiago to celebrate on Sunday night, chanting, dancing, waving flags and setting off fireworks. Demonstrators unfurled banners addressed to Pinochet, with messages like \u201cGoodbye, General,\u201d and \u201cErasing your legacy will be our legacy.\u201d \u201cToday, citizenship and democracy have prevailed, and peace has prevailed over violence,\u201d Mr. Pi\u00f1era said. \u201cThis is a victory for all Chileans.\u201d On Sunday morning, Chileans turned out in droves to participate. Throughout the country, voters in masks ringed block after block in calm, orderly lines.<\/p>\n After transitioning to democracy in 1990, Chile\u2019s market-friendly business environment, framed in part by the Constitution, attracted foreign investment. The country grew consistently and saw poverty go down. But this came at the cost of an acute concentration of wealth and growing inequality. Last year, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America estimated that nearly a quarter of total income goes to 1 percent of Chile\u2019s population. To cover the high cost of living, Chileans are greatly indebted. The Central Bank found last year that on average nearly three-fourths of household income was used to pay debt. The public health care and education systems are in shambles, and meager pensions force most people of retirement age to continue working. Amalia G\u00f3mez, 66, barely gets by on a $125 monthly pension and picks up seamstress jobs to compensate. She and many others like her see a new Constitution as a path to better lives and a more equitable country for future generations.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy not, if we are a country rich in minerals, fish, agriculture?\u201d she said. \u201cWhy can\u2019t we use those resources to our benefit, for our education and health?\u201d Sunday\u2019s ballot asks voters whether they want a new Constitution, and who should draft it: a body of only newly elected representatives or a convention in which half of the delegates would be members of Congress. Voters overwhelmingly opted for a newly elected constitutional convention, without automatic inclusion of Congress members. Elections will be held in April to choose the delegates, among whom there must be gender parity. Political factions are still negotiating whether to reserve seats for Indigenous delegates. Chileans are now scheduled to vote in 2022 to approve or reject the Constitution the convention drafts.<\/p>\n \u200dA palavra \u201cwhether\u201d significa \u201cse\u201d. E pode ser usada como um sin\u00f4nimo da palavrinha \u201cIF\u201d. A diferen\u00e7a est\u00e1 na inten\u00e7\u00e3o da condi\u00e7\u00e3o. Como assim, Scott? Normalmente, usamos \u201cwhether\u201d entre duas op\u00e7\u00f5es, duas condi\u00e7\u00f5es, e o IF pode ser usado com mais frequencia. O \u201cwhether\u201d tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 mais formal, ent\u00e3o \u00e9 mais usado no mundo dos neg\u00f3cios e em not\u00edcias,<\/em><\/p>\n And now, in some great news! When New York\u2019s Strand bookstores asked for help, 25,000 online orders flooded in.<\/strong><\/p>\n One of New York\u2019s oldest bookstores pleaded for help from customers \u2014 and help poured in. Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the Strand Bookstores, took to Facebook and Twitter on Friday to say the business was \u201cunsustainable.\u201d Sales had slumped 70 percent since 2019 because of the pandemic, and the company\u2019s cash reserves were running low, she wrote. She asked patrons to \u201c#savethestrand\u201d with some early holiday shopping, noting that \u201cfor the first time in The Strand\u2019s 93 year history, we need to mobilize the community to buy from us so we can keep our doors open until there is a vaccine.\u201d The response was explosive: The store received more than 25,000 online orders over the weekend, causing the website to crash, Wyden told The Washington Post. It normally gets 300 orders a day.<\/p>\n One woman in the Bronx bought 197 books. A dozen customers asked Strand to design their home libraries. Wyden\u2019s 12-year-old daughter came in to pack books for online orders. In-store, Strand made $170,550 in sales on Saturday and Sunday, Wyden said. By comparison, it lost $316,000 in September. \u201cHow can I not love my book community for helping like this?\u201d she said in a phone interview. \u201cI really don\u2019t think that we\u2019re just a bookstore. I think we\u2019re a place of discovery and a community center. When I ask for help and they respond this fast, it\u2019s so heartwarming.\u201d She said in the interview that she hopes the store will survive through the end of the year, and then she\u2019ll reevaluate its future. Independent booksellers have struggled through the pandemic, with one store folding each week on average, the American Booksellers Association told the New York Times. Meanwhile, their top online rival, Amazon, continues to record sales and profit. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos also owns The Washington Post.)<\/p>\n Local businesses of all types \u2014 restaurants, event venues, clothing shops and bookstores \u2014 have made increasingly public appeals to lawmakers for economic relief, but also to loyal customers to save community institutions from financial ruin. Founded in 1927 by Benjamin Bass, a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant, with $300 in cash and a $300 loan, Strand grew into one of the largest independent book houses in New York. It is one of the only surviving bookstores from Fourth Avenue\u2019s famed \u201cBook Row.\u201d Fred Bass, the son of the founder, began working in the store at age 13, according to his New York Times obituary. Wyden, his daughter, worked at Strand through her childhood and officially became its owner in 2018. Wyden shut down Strand on March 16, as the coronavirus began to sweep through New York. It was impossible, she said, to keep any part of the business open, even for online shopping, without protective equipment for staff. She furloughed 188 of 217 employees, expecting to bring them back within weeks when health conditions improved.<\/p>\n \u201cI talked to other bookstore owners and HR people and accountants, and I was just scrambling to find out what this means,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was no \u2014 and there is no \u2014 end in sight for this pandemic. And we weren\u2019t sure who to furlough and who not to furlough. We all thought we\u2019d be back to normal in June.\u201d Strand reopened on June 22 after accepting a Paycheck Protection Program loan of between $1 million and $2 million, and brought back 30 employees. Wyden said she overestimated a sales rebound. She laid off 12 workers weeks later. Meanwhile, she bought at least $115,000 of stock in Amazon. The investment was disclosed because her husband is Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). The stock purchases enraged workers and members of Strand\u2019s union, who accused her of disguising the business\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s saying, \u2018There\u2019s no money, things are tough,\u2019 \u201d one worker told the Baffler magazine in September. \u201cBut no, she\u2019s spending her own money on an enormous stock buying binge, including Amazon, who is our competitor, who she has spoken out about publicly.\u201d Wyden said in an interview that Amazon was not a chief concern for Strand and that the loss of foot traffic because of the pandemic did far more harm. She said she bought the Amazon stock, along with holdings in other tech firms, to maintain her personal income. \u201cI was a small-business owner, and everything got shut down with my income,\u201d she said. \u201cNo website. No bookstores. I was just thinking that I should diversify my personal portfolio and invest in stocks that are performing. I have to keep my own resources going to keep the Strand going. Those are interconnected. We used up all the money that we put aside. \u201cI saw there was an economic opportunity. The stocks were very, very low, and I picked stocks as a businessperson that I thought would thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n At the store, however, business continued to struggle. Wyden had planned to spend 2020 building out Strand\u2019s rare-book room into an event space. The store hosted more than 400 events in 2019. Now that source of revenue was gone. Only 10 percent of its 2019 business, she estimated, came from the Web. She banked on another sales bump in September with back-to-school shopping and the city starting to reopen. It didn\u2019t happen. Needing a boost, she posted her letter to customers Friday morning. \u201cAs the 3rd generation owner,\u201d she wrote, \u201cI have tried to imagine what my dad and grandfather would do right now after they spent their entire lives \u2014 6 days a week \u2014 working at the store. I don\u2019t believe they would want me to give up without a fight and that\u2019s why I\u2019m writing you today.\u201d \u201cI not only feel right now the weight of my grandfather and my dad,\u201d she said in an interview, \u201cbut I also feel the weight of the 48 [original] book sellers on Fourth Avenue.\u201d\u200d<\/em><\/p>\n Como em todas not\u00edcias, algumas palavras chamam a aten\u00e7\u00e3o. Para expandir o seu vocabul\u00e1rio, \u00e9 importante estar em contato di\u00e1rio com o idioma. Aqui n\u00f3s temos algumas palavras que voc\u00ea pode n\u00e3o conhecer ainda. A palavra \u201cfurlough\u201d, por exemplo, significa \u201clicen\u00e7a\u201d, no sentido de se ausentar. \u201cPatrons\u201d s\u00e3o os patronos, n\u00e3o de Harry Potter, e sim com o significado de clientes. A palavra \u201cbanked\u201d significa \u201cdepositada\u201d, mas nessa not\u00edcia, quando eu disse que \u201cshe banked on another sales bump\u201d, esse banked significa que ela contava, dependia disso. \u201cThrive\u201d pode significar florescer, crescer, ou, como aqui, pode significar \u201cprosperar\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s hope that all small businesses and independent stores can pull through this pandemic. And that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to end today\u2019s episode. As always, feel free to give us feedback and tell us what you think of this series. Don\u2019t forget to check out fluency.io for more free content in five different languages. There\u2019s a new episode of Fluency News every week, and I\u2019ll be here waiting for you. 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\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/chile-vote-scrap-pinochet-constitution<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/inside-story\/2020\/10\/27\/a-new-era-for-chile\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-chile-constitution\/chile-embarks-on-path-to-drafting-new-constitution-after-referendum-idUSKBN27B1WP<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sputnik\/second-brazilian-company-to-produce-russias-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2782VS<\/a>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-54634518<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-54619730<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\u201cUntil now, the Constitution has divided us,\u201d he added. \u201cAs of today, we should all cooperate to make the new Constitution become one home for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n