{"id":5140,"date":"2017-02-27T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/ross-confirmed-to-cabinet-but-white-house-refuses-to-release-his-answers-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:04","slug":"ross-confirmed-to-cabinet-but-white-house-refuses-to-release-his-answers-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/ross-confirmed-to-cabinet-but-white-house-refuses-to-release-his-answers-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross confirmado al gabinete, pero la Casa Blanca se niega a publicar sus respuestas sobre Rusia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 El Senado confirm\u00f3 al empresario multimillonario Wilbur Ross como secretario de Comercio el lunes por la noche despu\u00e9s de que dos miembros dem\u00f3cratas criticaron a la Casa Blanca por negarse a publicar la respuesta escrita de Ross a las preguntas sobre sus v\u00ednculos bancarios con los oligarcas de Rusia.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, de 79 a\u00f1os, es un multimillonario que ha transformado empresas de alto perfil en los sectores del acero, el carb\u00f3n, los textiles y las autopartes. La mayor parte de su vida ha sido dem\u00f3crata, y su nominaci\u00f3n atrajo el apoyo bipartidista. Se encontr\u00f3 con la oposici\u00f3n de algunos dem\u00f3cratas despu\u00e9s de las revelaciones de que su propiedad mayoritaria del Banco de Chipre lo convert\u00eda en un socio comercial de los oligarcas rusos vinculados a Putin.<\/p>\n<p>A pesar de esas preocupaciones, el Senado lo confirm\u00f3 con una votaci\u00f3n de 72-27.<\/p>\n<p>Pero eso fue solo despu\u00e9s de un fuerte ataque a la Casa Blanca por parte del senador Bill Nelson de Florida, el principal dem\u00f3crata en el comit\u00e9 de Comercio del Senado, quien vot\u00f3 por el multimillonario pero dijo en un discurso en la sala que la Casa Blanca no le hab\u00eda hecho ning\u00fan favor a Ross al neg\u00e1ndose a publicar sus respuestas a las preguntas sobre su relaci\u00f3n con los inversores rusos en el Banco de Chipre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSe negaron a proporcionarlos al Senado antes de la votaci\u00f3n de esta noche. Ahora bien, esto es a pesar de las repetidas llamadas telef\u00f3nicas a la Casa Blanca; tambi\u00e9n es a pesar de las repetidas llamadas telef\u00f3nicas que le hice al Sr. Ross para pedirle que sacara a la Casa Blanca de la moneda de diez centavos\u201d, dijo Nelson en un apasionado discurso antes de la votaci\u00f3n. \u201c\u00c9l me hab\u00eda dicho que completaba las respuestas. Hay alguien en la Casa Blanca que toma la decisi\u00f3n de que no quiere tener por escrito lo que el Sr. Ross me ha dicho verbalmente en una conversaci\u00f3n privada\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson dijo que votar\u00eda por Ross, residente de Palm Beach, Florida, porque es un elector y un hombre de negocios admirado. Pero, se\u00f1al\u00f3, la Casa Blanca perdi\u00f3 votos por Ross al no abordar las preguntas.<\/p>\n<p>El l\u00edder de la minor\u00eda del Senado, Charles Schumer, DN.Y., conden\u00f3 la violaci\u00f3n del protocolo como \u201cotro ejemplo de que esta administraci\u00f3n abandona la transparencia y trata de atascar a los nominados\u201d. Llam\u00f3 a la falta de publicaci\u00f3n de las preguntas \u201ctan t\u00edpico de esta administraci\u00f3n que obstruye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El senador dem\u00f3crata Jeff Merkley de Oreg\u00f3n dijo que la falta de respuesta a las preguntas deber\u00eda descalificar a Ross. \u201c\u2026 Los estadounidenses tienen derecho a conocer todos los conflictos de intereses que podr\u00edan afectar el juicio de un funcionario del Gabinete\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>La retenci\u00f3n de las respuestas por parte de la Casa Blanca solo se sum\u00f3 a una narrativa cada vez m\u00e1s amplia de los v\u00ednculos entre los funcionarios de la administraci\u00f3n Trump y Rusia, un pa\u00eds que las agencias de inteligencia de EE. UU. han determinado que intent\u00f3 entrometerse en las recientes elecciones estadounidenses. La Casa Blanca se neg\u00f3 a responder preguntas sobre Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Un grupo de inversi\u00f3n liderado por Ross adquiri\u00f3 una participaci\u00f3n mayoritaria en el banco vinculado a Rusia en septiembre de 2014, convirti\u00e9ndose en su vicepresidente. Informes&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article133217874.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">por McClatchy&nbsp;<\/a>y otras organizaciones de noticias mostraron que&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article135001434.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">la mayor parte interesada&nbsp;<\/a>en el Banco de Chipre, despu\u00e9s del grupo de Ross, estaba Viktor Vekselberg, uno de los empresarios m\u00e1s ricos de Rusia y aliado de Putin desde hace mucho tiempo. El vicepresidente anterior del banco fue Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, supuestamente un exagente de la KGB que se cree que es un socio de Putin desde hace mucho tiempo.<\/p>\n<p>Y antes de que el Banco de Chipre se viera envuelto en la crisis bancaria de esa naci\u00f3n en 2013, otro poderoso empresario ruso, Dmitry Ryvolovev, ten\u00eda una participaci\u00f3n del 10 por ciento en el banco chipriota. En 2008, en medio de la crisis financiera estadounidense y la ca\u00edda de los precios inmobiliarios,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article135243694.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryvolovev compr\u00f3 la mansi\u00f3n de Palm Beach de Donald Trump&nbsp;<\/a>por casi $100 millones, unos $60 millones m\u00e1s de lo que Trump hab\u00eda pagado por la propiedad de Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Seis senadores dem\u00f3cratas, encabezados por Bill Nelson de Florida, enviaron una carta a Ross el 16 de febrero con preguntas espec\u00edficas sobre Vekselberg y los contactos rusos con el Banco de Chipre. Nelson dijo en el pleno del Senado el lunes por la noche que hab\u00eda hablado dos veces con Ross y que el candidato de comercio hab\u00eda ofrecido explicaciones verbales. Nelson dijo que Ross le asegur\u00f3 que no conoc\u00eda ning\u00fan nexo entre los rusos, el banco de Chipre y las figuras de la campa\u00f1a de Trump, y sugiri\u00f3 que Ross se hab\u00eda reunido con Vekselberg una vez durante una hora, mucho antes de que Trump anunciara una candidatura electoral.<\/p>\n<p>Debido a que la nominaci\u00f3n estaba \u201cbajo la cuesti\u00f3n pendiente de la participaci\u00f3n ilegal de Rusia en una elecci\u00f3n estadounidense\u201d, Nelson dijo que busc\u00f3 garant\u00edas sobre los inversores rusos en el Banco de Chipre.<\/p>\n<p>Varias personas que trabajaron en la campa\u00f1a de Trump y se han unido a su administraci\u00f3n tienen v\u00ednculos controvertidos con Rusia. Su secretario de Estado, el ex director ejecutivo de ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, hizo negocios con Putin. El asesor de seguridad nacional de Trump, el teniente general Michael Flynn, fue despedido a principios de este mes por no informar completamente al vicepresidente Mike Pence sobre las conversaciones que tuvo con el embajador ruso antes del d\u00eda de la inauguraci\u00f3n sobre las sanciones.<\/p>\n<p>El director de campa\u00f1a, Paul Manafort, renunci\u00f3 a la campa\u00f1a el 19 de agosto pasado por sus v\u00ednculos comerciales con el expresidente ucraniano, que ahora vive en Rusia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&nbsp;&#8211; The Senate confirmed billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary Monday night after two Democratic members seared the White House for refusing to release Ross&rsquo;s written response to questions about his banking ties to Russia&rsquo;s oligarchs. 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