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Trump announces a coalition of ‘Latin Americans’ in his favor for the elections

Former President Donald Trump announced this Sunday, as part of his campaign this year for the Presidency, the coalition ‘Latin Americans for Trump’, made up of members of U.S. Latino communities. USA, such as Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Congressman Carlos Giménez.
The group, according to a statement, is made up of leaders of commerce, education, sports, faith, communications and elected officials, who will “work tirelessly” to spread Trump’s messages “of a strong economy, lower prices, a secure border and peace through force, at home and abroad.”
When Trump announced his first campaign in 2016, he did so with insults to Mexico, claiming that he was sending “drugs” and “rapists” to the United States and, this year, in his third presidential campaign, he compared immigrants to the character Hannibal Lecter, the murderer of the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991).
Comments like this meant that, in the 2020 elections, most of the counties with a large Latino population voted for the Democratic Party.
However, in some key states, such as Texas and Florida, Republicans registered a significant increase in votes in 2020 and, at the federal level, the percentage of Latinos who supported Trump was 38%, ten points more than in 2016, according to the Pew center.
“In 2024, we are going to win an even greater proportion of the Hispanic American vote, setting historical records for Republicans everywhere on the ballot,” Trump notes in the statement.
Rubio, senator from Florida, notes in the text that the former Republican president “understands the challenges faced by Hispanic Americans under the Biden Administration.”
“Having grown up in a Cuban home taught me the importance of family, faith and the value of honest work. With President Trump, Hispanics experienced the lowest unemployment rate in history, their small businesses prospered, prices were low and jobs abounded,” says Cruz, Texas senator.
International
Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.
“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.
“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.
Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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