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New York puts 282 detainees in pro-Palestinian university protests with “external agitators”

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, put this Wednesday in 282 detainees in pro-Palestinian university protests within that city during yesterday’s day and assured that among the demonstrators there were “external agitators.”

“Right now we have 282 arrests: 173 come from CUNY (the city’s public university) and 109 from Columbia,” Adams said on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Edward Cabán, commissioner of the New York Police Department.

However, the councilor did not offer “for the moment” the data on the number of individuals outside the campus after the eviction operation carried out last night mainly at Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests in U.S. higher education institutions.

The New York Police broke into the emblematic Hamilton Hall building (Columbia University), which had been vandalized and occupied hours earlier, in an eviction operation that, as Adams detailed today, included drones and a crane to enter the second floor of a construction that already had great symbolic value in the protests over the Vietnam War in 1968.

“(The take of the Hamilton Hall) was directed by individuals who are not affiliated with the university. There were people on campus who shouldn’t have been there. We saw a change in the tactics that were being used (…) This was led by external agitators,” said the New York city alk.

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According to Adams’ account, they understood that there were “external actors kidnapping the protests” and trying to “influence” the students so that the situation escalated after verifying that they were betting on “not-peaceful” methods such as “barricades, destruction of properties and dismantling of security cameras.”

“We regret that the protesters have chosen to aggravate the situation through their actions. After the University learned during the night that the Hamilton Hall was occupied, destroyed and blocked, we had no other option,” Columbia University had indicated before the operation, adding that, after the takeover, the resolution of the situation was in the hands of the police.

The students, whose camps deployed on campus were also evicted, did not offer resistance on Tuesday night and arrested them one by one to then transfer them to police stations on several buses.

“From anti-Semitism to Islamophobia (…) there is no place for hatred in this city (…) we always protect the right to protest but we must balance it with maintaining the security of students, the school and our city,” concluded Adams, who also pointed out that they will continue to work with the police and the university to prevent new settlements from occurring.

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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.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

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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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.

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