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On the outskirts of the courthouse, Trump’s followers deflate after the verdict

The followers of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) throughout the day maintained an aggressive attitude at the gates of the courthouse in New York and led several altercations with other protesters of the opposite sign. But curiously they deflated when the tycoon’s guilty verdict was known.

Throughout the day, the supporters and opponents had been arriving at a space that the Police had scrupulously separated with fences so that they did not mix, and at no time did they add up to more than a hundred people.

The police and journalists almost added up the same thing as them.

Mostly, white people came to the gates of the court, although some Asians, Latinos or blacks were seen. Traffic was cut off in the area throughout the day, and not only on the road, but also for pedestrians.

The character of the day, who already stole her fifteen minutes of glory yesterday, was a transsexual supporter of Trump who proudly showed her breasts and even used them to attack an ‘enemy’ to whom she put a breast in front of her, before destroying the sign that the other was carrying.

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In general, it was Trump’s supporters who were most encouraged and shouted more vehemently, but without ever reaching violence.

Among his most repeated screams were those of “fake news” or “we are going to deport you” – as if they were immigrants -, in addition to “Puta justicia”.

The police, for their part, treated them with a silk glove and dedicated themselves to asking them for calm.

When the guilt verdict was known, the tension did not grow, rather on the contrary: before the timid cheers of the ‘anti-Trump’, their supporters crouched down, and one of them even began to cry, declaring that “love is not a crime” – in reference to Trump’s sexual encounter, it is supposed – and proclaiming that he had nothing left but to “lock himself in his house.”

Another friend of his kept shouting that Trump “has already won the 2024 elections,” because, according to him, the verdict will give him votes.

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In front of them, the ‘anti-Trump’ shouted mainly “Enclock him up, lock him up.”

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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.”

International

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.