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Trump bets in Las Vegas on the Latin vote to give the definitive blow to Biden

Former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) bet on Sunday for Latino voters in an electoral rally in Las Vegas dedicated to this community in which he charged the migrants who are arriving by the southern border and of those who he said “are hurting” the economy of Latinos who already live in the United States.

Trump insisted that the situation on the southern border is “unsustainable” and accused President Joe Biden of having created a “crisis” and pointed out that the asylum restrictions announced by the president last Tuesday “mean nothing.”

“If Joe Biden wanted to sign an executive order to stop the invasion, all he should do is say: ‘Here I reinstitute all the border policies of someone named Donald Trump,’” the former president said in front of the attendees who met in Sunset Park at a temperature of about 38 degrees Celsius.

As he did since 2016, Trump used anti-immigrant rhetoric and criticized directly with the people who arrive at the southern border by assuring that they are hurting the “American Latins,” as he refers to the members of this community who have a legal status in the country.

He also falsely stated that migrants who enter irregularly “are taking 100 percent of the new jobs. “They are hurting our families, they are destroying our black population, they are destroying our Hispanic population, and they know that more they are destroying our unions,” the president said.

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Trump took advantage of today’s event to rename the campaign focused on the Hispanic and Latin community that went from being called Latinos for Trump to Latin American for Trump, the change was made to emphasize that Latinos are Americans, Jaime Florez, director of Hispanic communications of Trump’s campaign, told Efe.

Nevada has become an elusive state for Republicans since 2008, when former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) won the state comfortably, something that in 2020 cost Biden when he won by about 34,000 votes, or 2.4 percentage points in favor.

Érika Castro, organizer of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada fund, explained to EFE that the votes of the Latino community helped Biden win Nevada, considered a hinge state.

But the situation seems to be changing, for the moment, the polls are being decanted in Nevada in favor of Trump. According to the average of polls on the FiveThirtyEight website, it is five percentage points ahead, with 45% of the voting intentions.

A recent survey by the New York Times/Siena College showed that Trump is gaining support among Latinos with 36% who said he would vote for him compared to 26% who said he would vote for Biden.

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The young people of Nevada are also leaning in favor of Trump, an example of this are Puerto Ricans Gustavo and Elena, 24 and 26 years old, respectively, the brothers who resided in Nevada more than a decade ago believe that the former president represents “a good future” for the country, they told EFE.

The same arguments were expressed by Guatemalan Mary Gutiérrez, 50, who came from San Bernardino (California) with her family to attend Trump’s rally.

The immigrant told EFE that Trump’s defeat in 2020 prompted her to become a citizen and that the former president will count on her vote and that of her family. This morning the Gutiérrez family arrived at five in the morning to line up early and be able to secure a seat near the podium and express their support to close the border.

“Someone has to put this situation in order and I think that immigrants who come to not comply with the rules should be deported,” Gutiérrez said.

At the end of the speech, Gutiérrez said she was excited about the Republican’s promises to secure the border, lower taxes and revitalize the economy.

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Trump concluded his rally by inviting attendees to vote in the primaries that Nevada holds next Tuesday, June 11, in which he will surely be elected as the Republican candidate, despite the fact that the party’s statutes in this state specify that no convicted person can be elected as a candidate.

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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.