#Rally de Argentina

[crosscountryrally]

Luciano Benavides gana la Etapa 2 del Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, Adrien van Beveren toma el liderato de la general

El piloto argentino Luciano Benavides sigue prendido en el inicio de la temporada del Mundial de Rally Raid FIM W2RC y después de ganar tres etapas en el Dakar 2023, consiguió su primer éxito del Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge al ganar la Etapa 2 de este evento en Emiratos Árabes. Luciano marcó un tiempo de 3 horas y 24 minutos para los 257 kilómetros de dunas que tuvo el día. Con ello superó por 1 minuto y 17 segundos a Nacho Cornejo y 1 minuto y 44 segundos a Skyler Howes. 

“Hoy fue un día muy agradable. Las dunas eran más lentas, más técnicas, pero así es como lo prefiero. El día fue agotador y el terreno demostró ser realmente físico, especialmente porque estaba presionando mucho de principio a fin. Sin embargo, todo valió la pena y pude obtener mi primera victoria de etapa de la carrera de este año. Mi ritmo fue bueno hoy y mi confianza es alta. Mañana abriré la pista, así que espero poder hacer un buen trabajo sin perder demasiado tiempo con los que están detrás. Descansaré un poco ahora y lo daré todo de nuevo mañana” declaró Luciano Benavides en el bivouac.

Con un quinto lugar, Adrien van Beveren es el nuevo líder de la general. El piloto francés tomó la tarea de abrir ruta temprano en el día y fue el que más bonificaciones acumuló en el día, lo que sin dudas lo apoyó a conseguir la posición de privilegio por delante de Pablo Quintanilla, que terminó noveno. Van Beveren tiene una ventaja de 1 minuto y 30 segundos sobre Quintanilla con Luciano Benavides tercero a 3:27. Después de dos sólidos días, Nacho Cornejo ha escalado a la cuarta posición de la general a 3 minutos y 28 segundos. Un segundo fue suficiente para que Benavides privara a Honda de un perfecto podio provisional.

Mañana están programados 266 kilómetros en rulo en torno a Qasr Al Sarab.

Clasificación General (Etapa 2 de 5)

Adrien van Beveren (Honda) 7:10:30

Pablo Quintanilla (Honda) +1:30

Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna) +3:27

Nacho Cornejo (Honda) +3:28

Ross Branch (Hero) +3:54

Toby Price (KTM) +3:59

Ricky Brabec (Honda) +5:07

Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) +5:49

Mason Klein (KTM) +11:30

Paolo Lucci (KTM) +28:55

Imagen: Prensa Husqvarna Motorcycles

[reasonsforhope]

— Recent giant anteater sightings in Rio Grande do Sul state indicate the species has returned to southern Brazil, where it had been considered extinct for more than a century.

— Experts concluded that the giant anteater ventured across the border from the Iberá Park in northeastern Argentina where a rewilding project has released around 110 individuals back into the habitat.

— The sightings emphasize the importance of rewilding projects, both to restore animal populations in specific regions and help ecosystems farther afield.

— Organizations across Brazil are working to protect and maintain current giant anteater populations, including rallying for safer highways to prevent wildlife-vehicle collisions that cause local extinctions.

Playing back hours of footage from a camera trap set in Espinilho State Park in the south of Brazil in August 2023, Fábio Mazim and his team banked on possible sightings of the maned wolf or the Pantanal deer and had their fingers crossed for a glimpse of a Pampas cat (Leopardus pajeros), one of the most threatened felines in the world.

What they didn’t expect to see was an animal long presumed extinct in the region. To their surprise, the unmistakable long snout and bushy tail of a giant anteater ambled into shot.

"We shouted and cried when we saw it,” the ecologist from the nonprofit Pró-Carnívoros Institute told Mongabay. “It took a few days to grasp the importance of this record. A sighting of a giant anteater was never, ever expected.”

Last seen alive in the southwest of the Rio Grande do Sul state in 1890, the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) has since been spotted 11 times since August 2023, although the scientists are unsure whether it’s the same one or different individuals. However, the sightings confirm one clear fact: The giant anteater is back.

It's a huge win for the environment. Giant anteaters play an important role in their ecosystems, helping to control insect numbers, create watering holes through digging and are prey for big cats such as jaguars and pumas.

The habitat of the giant anteater stretches from Central America toward the south cone of Latin America.

Its conservation status is “vulnerable,” although it is considered extinct in several countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala and Uruguay, as well as specific regions such as the states of Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Santa Catarina and (until now) Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and the Cordoba and Entre Rios regions in Argentina.

‍In the last six months, the giant anteater was spotted on camera 11 times in the Espinilho State Park in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It was the first time in 130 years that the species has been seen alive there.

Yet not only is it a triumph for conservationists to see these animals returning to Brazilian biomes, it’s also a surprising mark of success for a rewilding program about 150 kilometers (93 miles) away in neighboring Argentina.

‍Rewilding Argentina’s biomes

‍Iberá National Park in Corrientes province in northeastern Argentina is a 758,000-hectare (1.9 million-acre) expanse of protected land comprising a part of the Iberá wetlands with its swaths of grasslands, marshes, lagoons and forests. The region was once home to just a handful of giant anteaters after habitat loss, hunting and vehicle collisions decimated the population.

Since 2007, the NGO Rewilding Argentina, an offspring of the nonprofit Tompkins Conservation, has been reintroducing the species back to the area, most individuals being orphaned pups rescued from vehicle collisions or poaching.

So far, they have released 110 giant anteaters back into the wild. Nowadays, several generations inhabit the park, transforming it from “a place of massive defaunation to abundance,” Sebastián Di Martino, director of conservation for Rewilding Argentina, was quoted as saying in an official statement.

The project has been so successful that the giant anteaters appear to be venturing farther afield and moving to new territories beyond national borders, such as Espinilho State Park in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul region...

Experts now hope that a giant anteater population can reestablish itself naturally in Espinilho State Park without the need for human intervention.

“The giant anteater returning to Rio Grande do Sul shows the success of the work done in Argentina and how it’s viable, possible and important to do rewilding and fauna reintroduction projects,” Mazim said. “It is also an indication that the management of conservation units and also the agricultural areas of the ecosystems are working,” he added. “Because if large mammals are coming from one region and settling in another, it is because there is a support capacity for them. It is an indication of the health of the environment.”

-via GoodGoodGood, via May 25, 2024

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Bolsonaro’s Trump-loving son is being groomed for power in Brazil

As President ‘Lula’ da Silva recovers from surgery, Eduardo Bolsonaro hopes to steer his country back to the right in the place of his banned father

On Monday night, the president of Brazil began to feel unwell. Two months earlier, he had fallen in the bathroom of his official residence in Brasilia, the Alvorada Palace, hitting his head hard enough that stitches were required. But Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, had caused more damage than initially thought. After complaining about a worsening headache, last week he was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery on a suspected brain haemorrhage.

On Thursday, the left-wing politician was brought in for a second procedure to address bleeding on the surface of his brain, leaving the vice-president, Geraldo Alckmin, to carry out the functions of state. A day later, 79-year-old Lula left intensive care and is expected to be discharged on Monday or Tuesday.

Given the surgeries, and Lula’s status as Brazil’s oldest president, questions have begun to swirl about his future in politics and whether he will be fit enough to contest the next general election, just two years away. Meanwhile, the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is rumoured to be grooming his son, the congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, for the presidency. Bolsonaro Sr is banned by the Supreme Court from standing for re-election until 2030, after he was found to have abused his powers and spread “appalling lies” during the 2022 ballot, leading to an attempted insurrection by rioters in January last year. He has always denied any wrongdoing.

The former president retains an avid following, however. Driving along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Gabriel Luis, a taxi driver, pulled over and opened up his phone. On the screen was an image supposedly comparing a sparsely attended rally for Lula in the lead-up to the election with a packed-out parade in support of Bolsonaro. “This proves it,” said Luis, 57. “How can Lula have won the election? Clearly it was robbed. Bolsonaro should be the president.”

The scene is reminiscent of the US in 2020, when supporters of Donald Trump falsely claimed that the election was stolen by Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment.

Indeed, Trump looms large in the Bolsonaro story: the former president is often called the “Trump of the Tropics” due to his flamboyant use of social media, anti-immigrant stance and populist attacks on political correctness — and he has taken heart from Trump’s incredible political comeback.

“Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back too,” Bolsonaro told The Wall Street Journal last week, before Lula was admitted to hospital. He recently suggested that Trump could bring in economic sanctions against the Brazilian government to overturn the ban on him standing for re-election.

Members of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party also said the Trump administration could revoke the US visa of Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court judge who has been at the forefront of criminal investigations into Bolsonaro.

But Andreza de Souza Santos, director of King’s Brazil Institute at King’s College London, said: “Right now, it is not likely or possible that Jair Bolsonaro could stand again in 2026. It is unlikely that any tariffs imposed by the Trump administration would have the desired effect of reversing the ban on Bolsonaro.”

Instead, his son has been floated as a likely successor — by Bolsonaro Jr himself. “Plan A is [Jair] Bolsonaro. I can be Plan B,” the 40-year-old said during a speech to the conservative political action conference (CPac) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Thursday.

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[orfeolookback]

¡Hola!

¿Hay recursos que recomiendes para leer y aprender más sobre que esta occuriendo en argentina? He leido su post de fascismo en su país, y, como un estadounidense, quiero ayudar, pero no sé exactamente qué esta occuriendo en más detalle o qué puedo hacer para ayudar.

(puede responder en ingles o español, este mensaje es en español porque trato communicar más en español, lo siento si hay errores)

I'll answer in English since the post was in English. Thank you for reaching out!

Unlike many other crisis, we don't have a place for donations. You can help by organizing in your own country, being anti-capitalist and making sure the right doesn't spread elsewhere. If you live in the USA you can join strikes, rallies and protests, and anti fascist groups locally. Unionize. Demand rights. Reject US intervention. When Musk buys shit, boycott him, organize against him. Support Indigenous people's fight for Land Back and make sure no billionaire buys their land In your own country first. When you hear the people in power talking about Argentina (or any country!) as 'an important asset' make sure there's outrage.

I won't share sources that are easily digestible. If you really want to be educated, you can read about Operación Cóndor, read The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, watch 1985 (a movie about the last dictatorship's aftermath) and read through the comments of my post, lots of people linked articles. Most sources will be in Spanish.

If you really REALLY want to immediately support Argentina financially, support Argentinian businesses. If you commission artists often, consider us. If there's an Argentinian band you like, buy their stuff. I won't pretend like this will do much but a single dollar is 1000 Argentinian pesos, so you might change someone's month just with 10 dollars. I make a living through my art, personally.

Thank you for the interest, have a nice weekend

[motorsportverso]

Novidades rally de Erechim 2024

Hyundai: o atual campeão Fabrizio Zaldivar vai correr novamente com o I20 N Rally 2 em 2024

Toyota: o modelo GR Yaris Rally 2 que vem correndo etapas do WRC 2 e ERC Rally , estarápresente com o Paraguaio  Alejandro Galanti com a equipe da Toyota Gazzo Racing Paraguay.

Volksvaguen: Polo GTI R5 vem em grande numero com pilotos Paraguaios e o Brasileiro Adroaldo Weisheismeier (que esteve no rally dos Sertões com Toyota) e Armando Miranda.

Citroen: terá a estreia do C3 Rally 2, com o Boliviano Sebastiam Franco.

Skoda: Varios modelos Fabia Rally 2 Evo\R5 e o Miguel Zaldivar com o modelo novo Fabia RS Rally 2 que ele compete no WRC 2. , o 3x campeão do rally dos Sertões,Cristian Baugart  fará sua estreia no rally de velocidade com um Skoda Fabia R5.

Rally 3: a categoria rally 3 vai estrear no Brasil já que uma dupla da Bolivia vai correr com um Ford Fiesta Rally 3

Peugeot : 3 modelos do 208 Rally 4 de com duas duplas do Uruguai e uma da Argentina

Renault: a estreia do Clio RS Rally 4 com a dupla Brasileira Leandro Brustolin e Andrey Kapirsky

Copa UTV

A Copa UTV está de volta em 2024, com os modelos Can-am e Polaris , inclusive com o novo Maverick R , com a participação do campeão do rally dos Sertões nos UTVs , Rodrigo Varela.

Cross Country

Uma outra novidade foi a adesão do campeonato Brasileiro de Cross country nos carros e UTVS CBA. 

O Cross country fara as especiais junto com o velocidade menos o super prime.

[automundoarg]

Carlos Sainz ausente del Desafío Ruta 40

Pese a que pelea por el campeonato, desistió correr en la prueba que se realizará por caminos de las provincias de Córdoba, La Rioja y San Juan.

El español Carlos Sainz, último ganador del Rally Dakar, confirmó que no estará presente en el Desafío Ruta 40, cuarta fecha del Mundial de Rally Raid (W2RC) que se realizará del 1 al 7 de junio en la Argentina. La ausencia del Matador de la prueba que se realizará por caminos de las provincias de Córdoba, La Rioja y San Juan lo dejan prácticamente fuera de la lucha por el título. Sainz comenzó…

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.20 (before 1940)

1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark. 1521 – Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists. 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. 1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. 1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. 1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power. 1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta. 1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. 1824 – William Buckland formally announces the name Megalosaurus, the first scientifically validly named non-avian dinosaur species. 1835 – The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile. 1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war. 1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance. 1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. 1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time. 1905 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra. 1920 – An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori. 1931 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California. 1931 – An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune. 1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval. 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. 1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica. 1939 – Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi rally in United States history is convened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present.

[piquira]

Young fans really don’t know shit lol. Pique is nothing compared to the de la Rua stuff. If Antonio’s father being president when an entire country’s economy collapsed (and people literally died in the resulting rioting) did nothing to ruin her popularity in Argentina and Latin America generally than nothing is going to touch her. When she and Antonio first got together there was a huge feeding frenzy in the Latin American press. They were like Barbie and Ken. In any case, she’s as popular as ever in Spain, even with the tax garbage and the nasty breakup. Three #1 songs in a row.

For real!! I can’t say I followed in real time when the whole Argentina drama unfolded, but I remember watching a documentary where they discussed everything that went down, and the backlash was way more intense and dramatic during that time. Especially because Shakira’s career wasn’t completely solidified and most importantly, the drama revolved around politics. DLR president was exiled from the country and Shakira was rumored to have helped the family escape (my memory may be wrong here sorry) and so a lot of Argentina media outlets were pushing to boycott Shakira’s music at the time as a protest. Her fans rallied for her and supported her all the way, but the backlash from the media at the time was no joke. Looking back, it really could have damaged her reputation and career in Argentina, but luckily it didn’t. The debate on whether she should stop singing about her ex now, is baby drama compared to what she went through during the exile of her ex father in law😂. If anything, the consistent reports over the tax scandal is way more damaging to her reputation than any criticism of the session 53, petty tiktoks, etc. But here she is, stronger and more popular than ever so 💁🏼‍♀️

[mx-zone]

NEWS: FANTIC MOTO DESEMBARCA EN ARGENTINA.

NEWS: FANTIC MOTO DESEMBARCA EN ARGENTINA. Fantic Moto de Italia desembarca en Argentina de la mano de la firma Racing Experience SA, una empresa de la Familia ZEN y con más de 20 años de experiencia en la industria. En una primera etapa se comercializarán los modelos de MX, Enduro, rally y los emblemáticos modelos de la línea Caballero.Estaran disponibles en sus diversas motorizaciones, 125…

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

Lo tenía Ganado CARLOS SAINZ..solo tenía PARA GANAR EL MUNDIAL DE RALLYS que ir de PASEO y acabar el RALLY pero a 200 mts de la META en un sitio ENCHARCADO se les para el TOYOTA COROLLA [pequeña corona en LATIN] el coche más vendido de la historia..: "TRATA DE ARRANCARLO CARLO, POR DIOS..ME CAGO EN SU PUTA MADRE"

En cambio creo que TUVO SUERTE cuando se cayó por un PRECIPICIO abandonando el RALLY DAKAR [aunque disputado en SUDAMERICA en 2017] entre SAN SALVADOR de JUJUY [desde donde fui a TILCARA donde en su PUCARA grabó SODA STEREO el video de CUANDO PASE EL TEMBLOR ..te besare , será un buen momento..del CD NADA PERSONAL coincidiendo con el Gran TERREMOTO DE MEXICO del 85] a TUPIZA [BOLIVIA] donde me subí a SU SAGRADO CORAZON en una parada DE UNA HORA que hizo el TREN desde EL SALAR DE UYUNI hasta la FRONTERA con ARGENTINA [VILLAZON_LA QUIACA] y el cual casi PIERDO con TODAS MIS COSAS DENTRO pues tuve que SALIR CORRIENDO CUANDO COMIA al escuchar su SILBATO y menos mal que solo iba a 20 KM/HR por lo que tardo como 12 HR en hacer 250 KM..y lo atrape ya en MARCHA

[crosscountryrally]

Bahrain Raid Xtreme se saltará el Desafío Ruta 40 y surgen dudas de la continuidad del proyecto

Se ha conocido esta semana que Bahrain Raid Xtreme (Prodrive) no estará presente en el Desafío Ruta 40 en Argentina este mes de agosto y que se enfocará en el Rally de Marruecos como preparación al Dakar, con lo que Sebastien Loeb perderá la opción de luchar el título del Mundial de Rally Raid FIA W2RC con Nasser Al-Attiyah.

Según los reportes que vienen desde Francia y España, el auspicio de Bahrein ha terminado, lo que pone en duda la continuidad del proyecto hasta sumar un nuevo socio para Prodrive. Si bien el BRX Hunter ha mostrado competitividad, también ha tenido gran cantidad de problemas mecánicos y mala suerte en las tres ediciones del Dakar que ha disputado. Otro tanto ha sucedido en el Mundial, donde, por ejemplo, llegaban de líderes con Loeb al Sonora Rally en México hasta que un accidente los dejó fuera de carrera y bien lejos de Nasser.

Una posibilidad que se ha comenzado a escuchar es que Renault estaría en conversaciones con Prodrive para su proyecto bajo la insignia de Dacia. Todo indica que el año de lanzamiento para ese prototipo sería en 2025.

Imagen: Kin Marcin / Red Bull Content Pool

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Uh oh… Am I next?

Former U.S. President Donald Trump, running for the presidency once more, was the victim of an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last weekend. He escaped with a wounded right ear, and has later publicly appeared with it bandaged. 

Such violence is not unique to the U.S., though. Over the last couple of years, we have seen several, equally risky occurrences, including the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and attempts to assassinate former Argentina VP Cristina Kirchner, and Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and his running mate Karin Herrera. 

It doesn’t end there. In fact, it gets worse. Within the first half of 2024, Brazil has recorded 187 episodes of political violence. Notably, in the past, many political figures of high influence have suffered serious violence. You no doubt remember the life-threatening stabbing of former President Jair Bolsonaro during a 2018 campaign rally. And Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco was assassinated in 2018.

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[reporteambiental]

Los rallyes, aunque emocionantes, tienen un impacto ambiental significativo. Erosión del suelo, contaminación del aire y agua, y alteración de ecosistemas son algunos efectos. Medidas sostenibles son esenciales para mitigar estos daños y proteger el medio ambiente.

[motorsportverso]

Como está sendo a participação feminina no Dakar rally 2025

Nos carros a Cristina Guttierrez continua no rally por efeitos de pontuação para o Fia W2RC, a Espanhola Laia Sanz ja na primeira etapa mesmo terminando a Fia não liberou para seguir na competição porque o Century CR6 não estava seguro após a capotada na etapa 1, a ALIYYAH KOLOC está 54a posição. Nos UTVs Challenger a navegadora Argentina Valentina Pertagrini é lider , a pilota local Dania Akeel (até a etapa 5) erá 4a colocada na geral, Puck Klassen pilota vinda do Dakar Classic na 9a colocação, a Anett Quandt, está na 16a posição, a Navegadora Taye Perry estava na disputa da vitória más teve problemas na etapa 5, nos UTVs SSV, Sara `Price está na ultima posição muito atrás , mas ganhou a etapa 5. Nos caminhões A Holandêsa Anja Van Loon está na 10a posição na geral(até etapa 5) ,no Dakar clássic a navegadora Espanhola Lidia Rubia-Porsche 959 está na 3a posição (até etapa 5) a navegadora Mônica Manoumana em Nissan Terreno está na 6a posição na geral, na 10a posição a navegadora Espanhola Thabata Romon em um caminhão Mercedes 1844 K (até a etapa 5)a pilota Barbara Holicka está na 75a posição com um Citroen 2CV.

[automundoarg]

Nico Cavigliasso fue penalizado, pero manda en la Challenger tras la 48 Chrono Stage

La Etapa 2 del Rally Dakar 2025, la tan temida 48 Chrono Stage, puso a prueba la resistencia y estrategia de los competidores en Arabia Saudita. En la categoría Challenger, la dupla argentina conformada por Nicolás Cavigliasso y Valentina Pertegarini fue protagonista con su Taurus del Team BBR, aunque no sin contratiempos. La etapa, que constó de 947 kilómetros cronometrados y 45 de enlace,…

[rogerarroyave]

Rally de optimismo en Argentina